The Last of Us Part II: Ancient multiplayer elements discovered by Dataminers

Game news The Last of Us Part II: Ancient multiplayer elements discovered by Dataminers

Published on 08/16/2021 8:59 PM

With the second part of its The Last of Us saga, Naughty Dog decided to focus solely on the story of the game in order to produce the greatest single player experience in its entire history. However, dataminers apparently got their hands on a handful of assets that will allow us to outline the outline of what the multiplayer of this second part could have been.

Unlike his older one The Last of Us Part II skipped the multiplayer and did not pursue the faction mode of the first episode. However, that doesn’t mean Naughty Dog didn’t think about adding a multiplayer component to this long-awaited sequel before changing his mind.

Recently, like our colleagues from VGC, a group of dataminers claimed they got their hands on old data on multiplayer drafts, not used in the final version of the game.

One of them, known as the Speclizer, recalls, among the remains of the multiplayer mode, a map that combines different locations in the game into a single area

. We find there the mention of Adler Park, Camalli to and the port of Camallito.

As for the specific elements of multiplayer gameplay, it argues that their collection allowed them to discover several things. Among the results, we note a listening mode device, a “collar” that suggests the inclusion of dogs in the multiplayer experience or other items such as backpacks and protective gear.

According to them, all elements suggest that Naughty Dog would have considered a time adding a battle royale mode to the multiplayer mode of The Last of Us Part II.

Remember the Naughty Dog teams, according to certain information discovered in June last year, are working on a standalone multiplayer experience with the same level of ambition they showed while working on The Last of Us Part II single player experience. Back in 2019, the studio sparked a desire to develop an online experience outside of The Last of Us that it can share with millions of players around the world and that shows its fan-shared affection for the Factions mode first game.