What’s going on with The Final of Us Half II multiplayer? Whereas it didn’t launch alongside the core single-player recreation, Naughty Canine has promised it’s coming. Sadly, past that, we all know virtually nothing about it. Properly, a brand new datamine may reveal what the studio has in thoughts, and sure, it looks like TLOU could be leaping aboard the battle royale bandwagon.
This information comes courtesy of YouTuber Speclizer, who speclizes (er, specializes) in datamining The Final of Us. Apparently, they managed to dig up an in-game map inside TLOU2, which exhibits a reasonably large battle-royale-style area. The unique TLOU’s Factions multiplayer mode occurred on smaller deathmatch-style maps, so this represents a serious change for Naughty Canine. You’ll be able to take a look at Speclizer’s video, under.
Curiously, it looks like Naughty Canine could also be going the Name of Responsibility route and constructing their battle royale map out of smaller particular person multiplayer maps. Along with the map prop, Speclizer additionally discovered full 3D belongings for a few of these areas, together with the Motel, Port, and Fuel Station. A few of these areas appear to be not less than partly lifted from the core single-player recreation. Quite a few different props have been additionally uncovered, together with a collar, hinting these rattling terrifying canines could also be added to multiplayer.
Now, earlier than you get too excited and/or offended, datamined belongings like these aren’t definitive proof of something. There’s an opportunity plans have modified. Possibly these have been simply experiments which have since been discarded. That stated, it does seem to be Naughty Canine was not less than toying with battle royale in some unspecified time in the future, and the studio has hinted they’ve massive ambitions for TLOU2 multiplayer. Right here’s what they needed to say again earlier than the launch of the core single-player recreation…
We wished to deal with multiplayer in The Final of Us Half II. As we’ve acknowledged, the single-player marketing campaign is much and away essentially the most bold venture Naughty Canine has ever undertaken. Likewise, as improvement started on the evolution of our Factions mode from The Final of Us Half I, the imaginative and prescient of the workforce grew past an extra mode that might be included with our huge single-player marketing campaign. Desirous to assist each visions, we made the tough selection that The Final of Us Half II wouldn’t embrace a web based mode.
Nonetheless, you’ll ultimately expertise the fruits of our workforce’s on-line ambition, however not as a part of The Final of Us Half II. When and the place it is going to be realized continues to be to be decided. However relaxation assured, we’re as massive a fan of Factions as the remainder of our neighborhood and are excited to share extra when it’s prepared.
The Final of Us Half II is out there on PS4 and playable through backward compatibility with some minor enhancements on PS5.
