The new Fortnite season 5 theme has taken a lot of inspiration from outside sources to incorporate into its own game, such as the names for some of the new characters. Now it seems that some new changes in Fortnite may involve taking ideas from the popular hidden identity game Among Us with a new game mode.
For a limited time, the new Fortnite update has created a new game mode called "The Spy Within," which pits players against each other to figure out the identities of traitorous spies within the group. For the new Fortnite game mode, the agents' goal is to complete tasks and earn coins before the spies are able to kill all of them without being caught.
While Among Us wasn't the first game to create the mafia-style party game formula, it is arguably the most popular and influential hidden identity type game out right now. Besides that, there are still quite a few key similarities to The Spy Within and functions within Among Us.
One of the first biggest similarities is that if gamers notice a suspicious player, they are able to call a meeting to discuss with the group why they believe that player is the spy and vote them out. Not only that, but there are a total of ten agents with two spies in the game, similar to the maximum lobby size in Among Us having two imposters for ten crewmates, not counting the option for a third imposter.
However, Fortnite's The Spy Within does incorporate in-game voice proximity chat for meetings to discuss with other players, which is a nice change of pace from having to type on a keyboard for public lobbies in Among Us. Players will also be rewarded with new cosmetic items such as a festive holiday weapon skin, a new glider, and a skateboard with a spy-inspired design on it. The game mode will also change every few days to feature a new game variant created by community members KKSlider, DolphinDom, Blanky, Bunni_, Wert, MackJack, Ritual, and Snownymous.
It is hard to tell if Fortnite will be able to pull any players from Among Us to join this game mode instead, if that was ever even the intention in the first place. Among Us has made the jump to Switch and will soon come to the Xbox Game Pass, so it is probably the better business strategy to keep fans loyal to the game since a new and incredibly popular game is making the jump to consoles. Hopefully, fans will be able to enjoy The Spy Within mode for its own unique merits.
Fortnite is available on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: Polygon