Amongst Us VR: Launch date, trailers, gameplay, and extra

Amongst Us VR will launch someday in the course of the 2022 vacation season. That is not very particular however would usually imply someplace within the November or December months.

Amongst Us VR is, and this must be no shock, a VR-exclusive title. To play it, you’ll need one of many following headsets: the Meta Quest, Ps VR, or Steam-compatible VR headset (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, or Valve Index). It’s attainable different VR gadgets will get it sooner or later, however, for now, these are your choices to get behind the visor of a crewmate or imposter.

The trailer opens on a yellow bean crew mate wandering by way of a hallway earlier than chopping to a first-person perspective. They method a panel and begin the duty utilizing new VR movement controls. Because it hundreds, they overhear two different crewmates passing by, turning their heads to catch a glimpse of them speaking.

The trailer cuts to a gathering the place all of the crew mates are standing round a desk, arguing and flailing their disembodied arms whereas Yellow merely spins his fingers attempting to look harmless. The scene cuts with everybody else staring immediately at yellow.

The cycle repeats of yellow doing a activity, two others going by, and one getting killed, and an more and more smaller assembly is held with suspicion pointed immediately at an oblivious yellow. It lastly involves a head as pink approaches and bites the highest half of yellow off, leaving her or him as a ghost.

Identical to Amongst Us, Amongst Us VR will not have a story of its personal, however as an alternative shall be all in regards to the narratives you and your pals create in every particular person match.

Amongst Us VR shall be constructed on the identical core mechanics of the unique recreation however clearly tweaked for VR. As a crew mate, you’ll nonetheless be working across the Skeld, finishing duties, attempting to not die, and holding conferences to try to decide who the imposter(s) is.

The shift to first-person and utilizing movement controls would be the greatest adjustments. We see within the trailer that your subject of view shall be way more restricted than it was within the authentic recreation the place you performed from a third-person perspective. Nevertheless, now you can additionally extra simply look away out of your activity simply by turning your head. All of the duties we have seen contain interacting with panels through movement controls, which can in all probability really feel way more novel to do than it appears on video.

Imposters will nonetheless be capable to sneak by way of vents and sabotage duties to sow discord among the many crew mates.

Lastly, it is possible for you to to do little hand gestures throughout conferences to try to level out imposters or throw the suspicion off your self. It will not assist a lot if you happen to’ve been caught outright, however it’ll give extra life and character to essentially the most social a part of the sport.

Identical to the primary recreation, Amongst Us VR is completely a multiplayer recreation. It should help wherever between 4 and 10 gamers, with a number of imposters based mostly in your settings.