Playing an Impostor in sabotage the Crewmates by turning off lights or oxygen or shutting doors to trap them. When Impostors use sabotage, Crewmates can either choose to fix it, wait it out, or entirely ignore it. While sabotage is active, Crewmates won't be able to use the Emergency Meeting button, but if a body is discovered and reported, this can fix certain kinds of sabotage instantly.
Shutting doors is one of the most powerful forms of sabotage. Doors stay closed and locked for ten seconds, and shutting one door only resets the cooldown on non-door sabotage. This means multiple or all doors can be shut without incurring a cooldown time. Impostors can use this to cut players off from other Crewmates, lock several Crewmates into a room, and carry out kills quickly. Impostors can also shut doors and then carry out another form of sabotage, as both can be active at the same time. Here's how to close doors as an Impostor in Among Us.
How to Shut Doors in Among Us
Impostors can access the function to shut doors from the sabotage button at the bottom of the screen. This is the same place they will go if they want to perform another form of sabotage, like cutting the lights or oxygen or disrupting communications.
The sabotage button will pull up a map of the entire spaceship or outpost. On each room's door, players can see a red X. Clicking or tapping that red X will close and lock that specific door. By default, Impostors get a wider field of vision in the game (unless players choose to change this setting before starting a game), so they will theoretically be able to see where Crewmates are going and cut individuals from the group and trap them in a room with the Impostor, making for an easy kill.
Impostors should note that, unlike the other types of sabotage in the game, the door closing sabotage will not prevent Crewmates from using the Emergency Meeting button at the center of the map. Doors will also only stay closed for ten seconds, but, as long as another sabotage option has not been chosen, the Impostor can keep shutting doors. As soon as another sabotage is selected, cooldown will begin on doors.
Impostors can also now solve their own sabotage. Doors can be unlocked by resetting the correct four switches on the circuit breaker, and if the Impostor sets and then solves their own sabotage, it can help keep them above suspicion for a little while longer
Crewmates cannot close doors. They don't really need to, even if it might hinder the Impostors for a few seconds. Regardless, this is an option only available to Impostors.
Among Us is available for PC, iOS, and Android.
