Naughty Dog has been busy working on a DLC & a significant update for their post-apocalyptic third-person survival action-adventure, The Last of Us.
The upcoming patch 1.03 for the game will bring in a number of gameplay tweaks, improvements and an entirely new multiplayer mode called “Interrogation”.
“Interrogation, is an objective game mode where both factions attempt to interrogate the opposing forces during the match, in an effort to unlock the enemy lockbox.”
Patch 1.03 changelog:
Single-Player Fixes
- Fixes for “It’s me” and “By any means” cinematics in the Cutscene Viewer.
Multiplayer Addition
- New game mode — Interrogation
Interrogation is a 4v4, two-part objective game mode where rival factions vie to find and open the other faction’s lockbox, stealing the supplies inside. Each team must first achieve five interrogations of players on the other team.
Players can get interrogations by shivving an enemy, or getting an enemy into the down state, then pressing triangle while next to them. Once your team collects five interrogations the location of the enemy’s lockbox will be revealed.
Your team must attempt to open the lockbox before the other team can collect five interrogations and open your lockbox first. Whichever team opens the opposing team’s lockbox first wins.
Multiplayer Fixes
- Revive range has increased slightly (about 1 meter). It’s more difficult to crawl out of range when a teammate is reviving you now.
- Players can prevent opponents from finishing Executions/Interrogations so that the opponent does not receive Parts for the special Execution/Interrogation. The downed player will still lose their life, but this makes preventing Executions/Interrogations more helpful to your team, as you prevent the other team from gaining Parts.
- Matchmaking update: players should find opponents around their level of experience more often, and teams should be balanced more evenly.
- Item cache locations adjusted for balance on University, High School, Lakeside, and Downtown.
- Starting cameras adjusted so they show your player with greater frequency.
- Item cache disbursement tweaked so additional items are given out more fairly.
- Winning a Survivors match by a count of 4 rounds to 0 now means your team will get more bonus parts for winning the match by that margin. This applies for games with scores of 4-1, 4-2, etc. as well. Rewards are tiered by how dominant your team is. This system is in place for Interrogation mode as well.
Patch 1.03 rolls out tomorrow for free across all regions, You can report issues here.
*Live Update for Multiplayer*
The update will be deployed today (Sep 5th) before 7pm PST, check out the changes below:
- Explosion Expert
Level 1 – reduced to 20% for explosives, 10% for Molotovs
Level 2 – reduced to 40% for explosives, 20% for Molotovs
- Hunting Rifle
Base Weapon – 10% increase in scope-in speed, 8% increase in reload speed.
Upgrade 1 – 8% increase in scope-in speed
- Flamethrower
Killing efficiency has been increased.
The level 2 upgrade Hunting Rifle, and reload speed of upgrade 1 are unchanged.
Anything you were expecting to be changed or fixed?
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This is exciting. I’ve been a fan of the multiplayer gameplay for sometime. Hopefully this comes out real soon.
Finally! The matchmaking is fixed, yay!
But the big thing is of course the new mode. It sounds just as interesting and innovative as the originals. Good job, ND :P
It’s fun to have the new objective mode. But I wouldn’t call the original modes innovative/original. They are just Team Deathmatch and Elimination.
I was thinking more of the Multiplayer-mode itself :P
I got SO EXCITED that this was going to be co-op. No such luck. Come on, ND, throw me a bone :(
instead they throw ya a d***o XD
Finally you are awarding the players for winning a 4-0 match on survivor!
i was hoping they could fix the bug where melee weapons swing and miss at an opponent that’s right in front of you
What about putting back in the gore executions for the rest of Europe? It’s a real shitty deal the rest of us have to have our versions censored just because of one country and something that could be easily remedied with a patch.
It feels like we got less stuff because of it.
What about an “Extermination”? I want a new mode for multi-player where the Infected will take part as well. It would add more suspense to the multiplayer mode.
THIS!!
I swong 3 times with upgraded mele weapon just to get beat to the ground by his fists
It’s about damn time Naughty Dog fixed the Multiplayer Balancing.
It would be nice to see a horde mode (with the actual clickers, runners and bloaters too), also if in that horde mode you could play as Joel, Ellie, Tommy, Tess, Bill, well, everybody who made appearance in the single player mode.
While someone else slides in 10 feet away with a melee 2X4 with spike.
Agreed
I think it’s time Molotovs weren’t instant kill. If nail bombs are only a down, so should Molotovs. Campaign DLC would be cool if we got to see Joel’s adventure between the Outbreak and “20 Years Later”. I’d like to know what happened between him and Tommy. What about Joel’s struggle to survive as a hunter? How did he end up meeting Tess and working with her? What was it like to watch the evolution of Infected over time? To witness the world’s first Clicker’s? And then the first bloaters Bloaters?
Pretty average Multiplayer, You guys need to patch a lot of things.
My favorite is when i swing at someone scaling a wall, then they swing a second later and i get killed. Or how about when i swing a nail bat and i view the kill animation with the sounds and everything, but the other guy lives and i get killed with a 9mm.
“Anything you were expecting to be changed or fixed?”
Yeah, actually.. Remove the censorship of the european version. Or atleast give an option of turning it on or off for people offended by “gore”. Since its basicly one country in the entire europe that has these kind of censorship laws; Germany (Could probably be one more but meh theres almost 30 member states in the EU). Yet the rest of us have the same version as them.. Would love to get what i paid for, the full game..
What about an co-op mod…. With zombies in multiplayer… All the people wants to fight zombies with friends…. I was really disapointed when i cannot play with my friend in single player
There is a problem with melee weapons: When you try to attack with a stick or a knife on any stairs, you can not.
And I think they could add take the enemy as a human shield when it is to revive, like in Gears of War, or like in the single player
the fucking bow is way OP (and i suck with it.) if it takes 4-6 bullets to down someone, how does it make sense that an arrow KILLS you in 2 shots? AAAAAND you can retrieve arrows 90% of the time? i don’t usually call for nerfs, but that’s just silly.