During the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic, many people had to stay in their homes and that led to having to find new ways to entertain themselves to stop thinking about real-world problems, as always, which led to the discovery of independent games. that had little or even no popularity, and among these games there is one that swept the world of online streaming and gaming videos, and this was the infamous Among Us, created by the InnerSloth studio.
Among Us is essentially a very simple game to start playing, similar to games like Mafia and Clue, where players have to guess or must deduce which of the playmates, or in most cases guess, is a partner. normal or is an assassin , operating with a simple voting system but adding tasks that must be completed by the players, or crew in this case, to win the game before the assassin, or impostor, kills everyone, hence the name « Among Us “which translates as” Among us. ”
Lag, the weakness of the Among Us game
Remember that the popularity of these games, as was the case with Among Us, came overnight, with a monthly base of at least a few thousand players to millions of active players daily, and that it is still increasing as there are many ways to download the game, even for free.
This led to server overload being a common problem, still being a big problem in many places and times. The game servers, despite being functional, could not keep up with the constant mass player count that the game enjoyed from its time of greatest popularity.
Since in the game only 3 different servers can be selected: “North America”, “Asia” and “Europe” leaving many players out of the reach of the servers and therefore affecting the performance for these players.
Possible reasons for lag
Although it is not possible to alter the connection of the servers, it is always possible to try to control how well the quality of the game can go.
It must be understood that the Lag can be due to the high amount of ping or more, which is basically the time in milliseconds that is required for the information to travel from the local server to the original server of the game or service, being a lower latency or Ping is preferable so that the time is shorter, the general consensus being a ping of less than 100ms .
Another reason why there may be lag is the physical lag of the device, either on the cell phone or on the computer, which can happen thanks to the lack of RAM memory that the device has or the internal memory overload, causing the fps, or the frames per second, are greatly reduced, so even if there is little ping there may be problems with the fps , or vice versa as well.
Fixing lag is easy
At the time of playing, the application is normally in English since the Spanish versions have not been as prioritized today as the English ones, so in order to understand what it says it is necessary to switch Among Us to the Spanish language .
Having already understood this, it is necessary to admit that, although the game can be better understood in Spanish, there is not much to do within it to solve the lag but to recognize the problems , it is necessary to understand if the lag is due to latency or memory .
Having resolved the doubt, it is necessary to select which direction to take, if it is a Latency problem the possible solutions are to connect to a better WiFi signal or to a server close to the user’s location , considering that for the Spanish country the server of « Europe »is the best option. Another option is to use a VPN to change the IP address and connect to a server located in any of the 3 regions.
When the failure is the system memory, it is preferable to free up the space of the device , either speed up the device and fix the RAM so that the fps improves while in turn it is a good option to free memory to improve the performance of the system.
