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Looks like Factions will be bigger than imagined.
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Naughty Dog multiplayer team building out an ambitious project – full reveal coming when it's ready
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Looks like Factions will be bigger than imagined.
between this and TLOU1 remake I wonder how long it will be before we see a brand new game from ND (whether it be a new IP or TLOU3)
It's "The Last of Us" of Last of Us expansions.
No wait, hold on...
But in all seriousness, it is interesting how much effort they're putting into this project considering the studio has never been known for its multiplayer offerings.
No wait, hold on...
But in all seriousness, it is interesting how much effort they're putting into this project considering the studio has never been known for its multiplayer offerings.
Two things could possibly be happening. Either they're adding a battle royale or they're making it open-world similar in design like Red Dead Online.
I'm fully assuming that this multiplayer game is likely 2-3 years away and is definitely earlier on than most of us expect lol
15 months since the game launched and it's still early enough that they won't tell us anything about it other than it still exists.
I can only imagine it's going to be very different from the original multiplayer. I personally hope it's not too different as I loved factions and would have been very happy with more of that (with TLoU2 gameplay!) but I guess they want to do something more than that... seemingly much more?
I can only imagine it's going to be very different from the original multiplayer. I personally hope it's not too different as I loved factions and would have been very happy with more of that (with TLoU2 gameplay!) but I guess they want to do something more than that... seemingly much more?
As long as it's MP that has infected in it cool, I loved Last of Us MP but it should've had a mode or something that had infected in it.
If what they're working on doesn't have some kind of horde mode then that'll be disappointing.
If what they're working on doesn't have some kind of horde mode then that'll be disappointing.
There was that datamine of assets that looked like they were for a battle Royale game, so you're not exactly wrong.
I love that they're seemingly going big for this. I'm a bit nervous though that they're maybe going too big and it's gonna be dead in 6 months at the expense of the biggest F2P fare - when maybe a simple factions facelift might've sufficed.
Yeah glad they are going more ambitious with this.
While tlou mp was cool, I'd be disappointed if it was just that again,but now with new maps.
While tlou mp was cool, I'd be disappointed if it was just that again,but now with new maps.
Feels like something out of Rockstart they are working on. They must be doing a huge multiplayer world and building on modes around it.
What if it's something like the original DayZ mod? I mean BR came out of that but more about survival in the wild. There might be 100 or so players in the server. You can keep playing and can either work with others or make *ahem* Factions to survive longer. Enemy AI roams the map and need to avade the hoards (Days Gone like zombie groups) going into random areas. They could stumble into your camp or I a middle of a fire fight.
Something tells me they have found a neat way to expand BR and the IP going forward. There is no way they are investing all this time for a simple BR or Factions mode.
What if it's something like the original DayZ mod? I mean BR came out of that but more about survival in the wild. There might be 100 or so players in the server. You can keep playing and can either work with others or make *ahem* Factions to survive longer. Enemy AI roams the map and need to avade the hoards (Days Gone like zombie groups) going into random areas. They could stumble into your camp or I a middle of a fire fight.
Something tells me they have found a neat way to expand BR and the IP going forward. There is no way they are investing all this time for a simple BR or Factions mode.
We might see it next year? Maybe? It's difficult to say since we know so little about the state of the game other than it's a full-fledged project. Very excited to see what it is though.
The longer this takes the less excited I am. Over a year since the game launched and nothing to show for it, not even scope of what they want to do.
Yeah I'm starting to think they just started from scratch after Part II launched, probably 2023 at the earliest and I'm starting to fear it's gonna be a very long wait until Naughty Dog's next brand new Single Player game.
It could be but I wouldn't take this to mean the game is 3 years away, multiplayer games don't normally get revealed years in advance like a typical Naughty Dog game.
Part of me wonders when this comes out, will it release on PS4, PS5 and PC? And if it happens to be very popular, will a huge chunk of ND more than those in the multiplayer team be permanently assigned to it to maintain it and add new content, while ND's new single player games take longer to come out unless they expand more.
I doubt it will be on PS4 esp if it sounds like this is probably something that won't be out til at least a conservative estimate of 2024 based on it being way larger of a move for them it sounds like to me. They prob expanded scope a lot. Maybe we get to see it late next year or 2023. Maybe it does make it to PC as well though.
If i had to guess, theyre using factions to get used to acquainted with next gen (ps5) development, much like they did with TLOU remaster back on PS4. While I suspect the game is cross gen, theyll want to gain enough experience, technique, and engine maturity to jump yo the next game. Course it theyve likely got a skeleton crew working on that.
Shared online world like Destiny seems suited for TLoU. You can have the town settlement serve as the hub world where you get mission, form parties etc like in Destiny, Then go out to open world, explore, find loot and some instanced dungeon etc
What, them saying the exact same quote (even linking directly to it) from two years ago didn't give you enough?
God, I'm steaming over this update. Making people wait all day just for someone's blog post that gives no real updates and then calling it a "celebration."
So, no updates on multiplayer. Nothing about a PS5 port. Just a picture from the show and some clothes. Insulting, honestly.
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Yep this is what I am thinking - I believe we have already heard that ND is looking to tell stories in MP, so that would be a natural gameplay structure.
they know they have to the infected in there ... imagine coming across someone else while you're both sneaking around a bunch of clickers, and you're in like an abandoned mall with panes of glass everywhere.
i say ps5 exclusive if its a 2023 title with maybe a pc release later. If it came out this year or first half of 2022 i'd say it would be cross gen
Overdramatic too much? Stop acting so entitled, they are working on the game and never promised to give any big update today.
This is what TLOU Day always is though… not sure why you expected any of those big-ticket items.