1. Continue Your Tasks Diligently
Among Us ghost tips and tricks can be vital to securing a crewmate victory, even after your untimely demise, whether by the hands of an impostor‘s blade or a wrongful vote. As a crewmate ghost, one of the most important roles you can take on is continuing to work on your assigned tasks. While it may seem like your mission is over once you’re eliminated, your actions in the afterlife can still have a significant impact on the outcome of the game.
Completing tasks as a ghost is crucial for ensuring the survival of the living crewmates and their chances of winning the game. All ghosts, particularly crewmate ghosts, must focus on finishing their tasks in order for the crew to achieve victory by filling the taskbar.
In fact, if the living crew members fail to identify the impostors, completing tasks as a ghost becomes one of the primary ways to secure a crewmate victory. With each task you finish, you contribute to filling the taskbar, inching the crew closer to victory. As a ghost, your ability to move freely around the map and complete tasks quickly can make a major difference, especially if the living crewmates are struggling to find the impostors or have little time left to complete the tasks on their own. This can be a game-changer, as filling the taskbar is often the key to winning if the impostors aren’t caught in time.
It’s important to remember, however, that while you’re diligently working on your ghostly chores, there are still potential dangers. Skilled impostors are always looking for opportunities to manipulate the situation to their advantage. They might use the fact that ghosts continue to work on tasks as a distraction, creating confusion for the remaining crewmates.
Ghosts doing tasks can make it more challenging for living crewmates to differentiate between the actions of impostors and the progress made toward completing tasks. While you may be focused on helping the team, it’s essential to remain aware of how impostors might try to exploit this dynamic, particularly when the game nears its final stages. In the end, your contribution, though intangible in the physical sense, can be just as vital as the actions of the living players, and your efforts in the afterlife might be what ultimately secures a victory for the crew.
2. Be Observant and Share Information (Indirectly)
As a ghost, you have a unique advantage that can be crucial to the crewmates’ success. With unlimited vision of the map and the ability to travel through walls, you can easily track the movements of living players without being seen. While you’re no longer able to speak in meetings, your ability to observe interactions and activities around you is still valuable. Paying close attention to suspicious behavior or patterns among players can help guide the living crewmates in identifying the impostors. Even though direct communication with the living players is not possible during meetings, you can still contribute by mentally noting any suspicious actions or inconsistencies that may assist the remaining crewmates in their discussions.
While you cannot speak or provide direct information, your presence can still play a crucial role in helping others piece together important details. For instance, the way players behave around specific areas or tasks, or who they seem to be interacting with, could provide clues. By subtly guiding the living players through these observations, you can help them make informed decisions during meetings. However, it is important to be cautious about revealing too much too quickly.
Doing so could increase the risk of impostors taking advantage of the situation and eliminating more players. Instead, try to remain strategic in the way you observe and let your teammates pick up on subtle patterns and suspicious behavior that can lead them toward identifying the impostors.
3. Impostor Ghosts: Utilize Sabotage Strategically
As a ghost, even if you were an impostor in your past life, you still retain a significant amount of influence. Dead impostors can continue to activate sabotages, giving them a strategic advantage. As an impostor ghost, your best course of action is often to follow your living impostor teammates, providing support by interfering with crewmates and helping to cover up kills. Your ability to see the entire map and the movements of living players allows you to anticipate potential threats and take action.
For example, you can lock doors to trap crewmates or prevent them from reaching your teammate’s location when they are preparing to make a kill. Additionally, you can sabotage lights, creating confusion and limiting visibility, making it harder for crewmates to spot impostors or react quickly to threats.
While you can’t directly eliminate crewmates once you’re a ghost, using well-timed sabotages can create chaos and confusion, providing crucial distractions or isolating victims. Sabotages like lights, O2, communications, and reactor can be especially helpful in separating players, making them vulnerable to attacks. However, it’s important to remember that major sabotages have a cooldown, so you’ll need to be strategic and use them wisely. Timing is everything when it comes to sabotages, as improper use could waste valuable opportunities or alert crewmates to the impostors’ presence. By being thoughtful and precise in your actions, you can still play a crucial role in supporting your living impostor teammates and increasing their chances of success.
4. Be Mindful During Visual Tasks
As a crewmate ghost, even when completing tasks that have visible animations, it’s important to approach your duties with a great deal of caution. Although impostors cannot see the specific tasks you are working on, they can still exploit the animations that occur when certain tasks are being completed.
For example, on the Polus map, if you’re clearing asteroids in Weapons and an impostor happens to walk into the room, they could observe the visual animation of your task and then falsely claim to the remaining crewmates that they were the one completing the task. This could potentially confuse the living crew, allowing the impostor to create a false alibi for themselves, which could significantly hinder the crewmates’ ability to identify them. This creates a dangerous situation where the crewmates are misled, and the impostor is able to avoid suspicion.
To avoid falling into such a trap, crewmate ghosts should be mindful of their surroundings and try to complete tasks away from the areas where living crewmates are present. By staying out of sight of the living players, you minimize the chance of an impostor being able to falsely claim your task and use it to their advantage. This careful approach ensures that your task completion doesn’t inadvertently provide the impostors with an easy way to mislead others. It also helps to reduce confusion during meetings, as the living crew will have fewer opportunities to question whether someone else might have been performing the task.
Additionally, some tasks, especially those with animations, could raise suspicion among the crewmates if they see them being completed while other players are around. In these cases, even though you’re simply doing your duty to help the team, it’s important to remember that impostors might use these visual clues to manipulate the game. Being strategic about when and where you complete your tasks ensures that the task completion bar progresses without giving impostors the opportunity to exploit the situation. Ultimately, by taking a cautious and strategic approach to your ghostly duties, you can ensure that your contributions are genuinely helpful and do not provide any unintended assistance to the impostors.
5. Understand Your Limitations and Focus on Your Strengths
As a ghost, it’s important to understand the limitations and abilities you possess depending on your role. For crewmate ghosts, one key limitation is that you cannot resolve sabotages. Additionally, you cannot assist during critical emergencies, such as reactor meltdowns or oxygen depletion, which are typically activated by living impostors.
However, both crewmate and impostor ghosts have the ability to interact with certain features of the map, such as accessing security cameras. While using the cameras, the red light indicating camera activity will only appear if a living player is also viewing the security feed. This means that as a ghost, you can monitor the cameras without drawing attention to yourself unless a living crewmate is actively observing the footage.
Guardian Angel ghosts have a special role, distinct from the others, as they can protect living crewmates with a shield. This shield ability replaces the standard Haunt ability that other ghosts have. Guardian Angels can shield a crewmate from an impostor’s kill, providing critical protection and potentially turning the tide of the game in favor of the crew. By understanding your specific ghost abilities, whether you’re a regular crewmate ghost, an impostor ghost, or a Guardian Angel, you can make sure your actions benefit your team.
Even though you can no longer physically interact with the living in the same way, your presence can still provide invaluable assistance—whether through completing tasks, subtly influencing discussions, or strategically using sabotage abilities to create confusion. Recognizing what you can and cannot do allows you to focus on actions that can truly help your team, making your ghostly efforts a surprisingly important asset in the game’s outcome.
