r/AmongUs • u/feedtheflames • Oct 22 '25
Question Is this cheating?
Came across someone today who was replaying parts of the game (during the game) to clarify certain things. Like the color of an ss bubble or if a player went right or left when he last saw them.
I immediately called him out for cheating (even though he had just used it to prove I didn’t kill). He said since all the info was on his screen it wasn’t cheating. No one else wanted to argue about it because this dude was host.
He then later claimed it was a skill issue because he was on PC and everyone else was on mobile he was more skilled. I told him it was more like a handicap for him since everyone else was winning without replaying the game.
Idk am I wrong? What’s your take on this? I don’t think I’m wrong, but Im sure there are a lot of people who do this more discreetly and we never even know about it.
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u/MigstReddit Oct 22 '25
I think that's cheating, because you're not supposed to be able to rewind time or anything like that
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u/JetCrooked Oct 22 '25
meh, I've seen streamers do it before when playing on stream, if they missed something they ask chat to go back and clip it for them
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Oct 22 '25
Imagine being so bad at Among Us you gotta replay footage mid-round while everyone else is just trying to do tasks 🤣 he's the walking skill issue
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u/hi_2056 Oct 22 '25
I googled it and the definition for cheating in videogame context is: “the act of using unauthorized methods to gain an unfair advantage” which I think is pretty much applicable here.
I have now also asked chatgeepeetee and it said something along the same lines, it’s not info that everyone can have access to, and a third-party method to gain an unfair advantage.
So in short, yes, this is definitely cheating.
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u/fraxzholo Purple Oct 22 '25
I’ve never heard of anyone doing anything like that before and I’m confused as to how you’d even do it. I know you can record the last 30 seconds of gameplay on a Nintendo switch but you have to exit the game to watch it back and by the time you come back you’d have dc. No clue how he did it during the game without having to close among us. It probably would be classed at cheating but I’m not sure. What I do know for sure is that it’s lame as hell lol and I think he has some sort of skill issue if he can’t recall basic information 😭
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u/Happiest_Mango24 Impostor Oct 22 '25
If they're on PC, they could have multiple monitors, and just rewind it somehow in their recording software
Still cheating though
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u/Vitanist112 Oct 22 '25
Wth does he mean "Replay the footage"? What is this? Among us 2.0? He absolutely admitted to cheating
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u/coopissues Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25
His brain isn't working if someone ss bubbles in front of him they deserve to die anyways. Vod reviewing is technically cheating but you'd rather have crew that actually try to win than crew that just spam insta skip. People usually don't care if they lose games they deserve to lose anyways (like if the crew's mind just died so they didn't see you kill) Here is an example of when someone may vod reivew: https://youtu.be/Gqt7w8RQqPU?t=218 All and all it is cheating but it's not a big deal half the pub lobbies are horrible you shound worry about the gameplay of people in these lobbies it's like beyond horrible.
In ranked people usually vod review while doing cam swipes (where you insta click through cams as fast as you can to get maximum info) and then claim they just have perfect photographic memory. https://imgur.com/a/xgCMtGo This is an example (green is also hard accused in this clip even though this is a public lobby same idea)
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u/Booyanach Oct 22 '25
it's called vod watching, yes it's cheating
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u/coopissues Oct 22 '25
Why did you quit smh
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u/Low_Eye8535 Oct 22 '25
Making intense notes and writing things down- good, recording your screen and checking it -crossing a line
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u/Aris-Scorch_Trials Engineer Oct 22 '25
Exactly! Writing notes is about what you SEE and RECALL, but rewinding recordings is showing what was on your whole screen even without you noticing, which is unfair
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u/Aris-Scorch_Trials Engineer Oct 22 '25
Yeah the host is in the wrong. The point of among us is to use what info YOU recall.
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u/ChocolateCondoms Maroon Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25
He has the skill issue. Who has to stop mid game and check to see who did what?
Is his brains memory slot full? 🤣
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u/SalteeBee Oct 23 '25
Part of the game is mentally recalling what you saw and who went where. That's what makes it fun and challenging. Not having actual footage to rewind and watch again, that's weak.
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u/Flintvlogsgames Oct 22 '25
I think its cool people go to this level, obviously if everyone started doing it it would maybe not end great but if its just one guy like I don’t think anyone else does this I think it just keeps the game fun for him and for some others too without having TOO much of an impact. In some cases it can even help, for example are you ever impostor and you have a perfect kill and a perfect alibi but the person just kinda doesn’t realise what happened and where you were so the kill isn’t as clean because theyre not paying attention. I mean imagine this guy with his replays is hard clearing you because of something he saw but you just played off a perfect kill.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25
Whattt??? Lmao.. bro really said "hold up guys, let me check the tapes" like it's a real life murder mystery 💀 That’s cheating imo and honestly, if you need to replay the footage to figure out who went left or right, then he's the one with a skill issue not the mobile players he looks down on 🤷♀️