Hair of the Dog - Week of Jan 24, 2010

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We’ve got just the thing to cure your weekly gaming hangover… every Saturday morning, Hair of the Dog compiles a round-up of interesting Naughty Dog and UNCHARTED 2 links from around the web.

By arne | Twitter @arnemeyer | Saturday January 30 2010

We’ve got just the thing to cure your weekly gaming hangover… every Saturday morning, Hair of the Dog compiles a round-up of interesting Naughty Dog and UNCHARTED 2 links from around the web.

Most of the chatter online this week just covered our announcement last Friday regarding the release of the UNCHARTED 2 PSN Demo and the PlayStation Heroes Skin Pack, but we did find one thing that we didn’t write ourselves…

Kotaku’s 2009 Game of the Year - Kotaku
After much deliberation among the staff, and a good dose of healthy debate, Kotaku finally reveals their Game of the Year for 2009. We’re pleased as peach it’s UNCHARTED 2—I think we can officially say we’re the “must have game of 2009” now that we’ve got some 32 Game of the Year awards to our name.

Unleashed: The Art of Naughty Dog at the Gnomon Gallery - NaughtyDog.com
A bunch of the Dogs have been working hard trying to get this group show at the Gnomon Gallery underway and everything is all set. The show is booked and the artwork has been selected, now all that’s left is printing, mounting and hanging before the group show opens on March 6, 2010. Hope to see some of you there!

UNCHARTED 2 Title Update 1.04 – Jan 27, 2010 - NaughtyDog.com
The day before our PlayStation Heroes Skin Pack was released, we provided a small but potent update to UNCHARTED 2 in the form of Title Update 1.04. The sole purpose to this Title Update was to clear out all the “Error syncing player data” messages some of the players were getting that were preventing from playing our game online. This did come with a price we worked extremely hard to avoid—those players had to have their Levels rolled back to 1. Oh, and there was one more undocumented and unintentional addition to the Title Update—the ammo capacity of the Dragon Sniper was reduced from 10 shots to 6 shots.

UNCHARTED 2 PlayStation Heroes Skin Pack available TODAY - NaughtyDog.com
On the day the PlayStation Heroes Skin Pack was available on various PSN Stores around the world, we marked the occasion by releasing seven character renders of the the skins included in our first downloadable content pack.

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Posted by: All2000 on 01-31-2010

I don’t see the purpose of those skins!

Probably Later on we will get a spider man flying around…
Maybe some play girls skins to keep guys on and on and fix the 40K penalty…

Lame!

Why not move on to something that enhances game play, and reduces Repetitiveness and complains?

Thanks

Posted by: liamb77 on 01-30-2010

can i make a suggestion please?… can we have an update to increase the amount of money that we get in each game to the amount of money we earn?, i am level 56 and its getting really hard, i know it should be hard as i am a high level but i think doing this will even it out a bit but it will still be hard anyway. I just dont like playing a plunder game and knowing that 5 minutes through i have 50K and the next 10 mins or so will be useless.

Posted by: android92 on 01-30-2010

I think instead of punishing people for leaving an online game you should reward people for staying by having a money bonus at the end of the game. Also I think there shouldn’t be a limit on how much money we earn per game. Great game ND, I will be playing it again just as soon as I get my ps3 fixed.

Posted by: rajeshkota on 02-01-2010

yeah it happened to me twice. ‘ve left a game after i found a guy on my opposite side glitching. in the next game the game hanged up(i can’t do anything to start it again). so when i restarted the system i got a message that my skill level was decreased and i got 40k penalty. its a shame ND

Posted by: M-Brother on 01-30-2010

I would love to see some of the artwork after the art show ends!

The skins pack is cool, especially on the Villains side with an increased variety of character styles and tone.

ND, could you please figure out a solution for unnattended players in multiplayer? I see players that don’t move or act for entire matches, so that their account “earns” infinite money through plunder captures. It gives a specific side a distinct advantage to win, and occurs frequently.

Posted by: majora96 on 02-01-2010

yeah thats what I always do. It gives me the invalid kills that i need really bad. Anyway is that a hack or is it just a connection problem because sometimes when my connection is bad i stand still for about 5 seconds and i dont like it.

Posted by: DTS_MAN on 02-01-2010

this is a good point the although the system does not allow you to keep playing over 2 matches or something especially if there is no movement on controller. just boot idle players and allow people to join. simples

Posted by: DIOSITO_1997 on 02-01-2010

yea i was playing a plunger match only two players and he was like dead i had to play that whole match by my self, and i was gonna quit but then i would get ranked down like before only because my game froze

Posted by: majora96 on 02-01-2010

Same thing happened to me. Accept i just left the game to my whole team which were all standing still. I noticed that you will get the $40.000 taken away when atleast 1 person has left from the beginning of the game and is not shown as the gray writing. Its when it only has at least 1 name gone on your team.

Posted by: losPrests on 01-30-2010

I really want my main weapons ammo fixed. Aka the Sniper cmon ND dont let me down… Besides not many people are good with it.

Ps. I randomly get kiked from matches before and during in the middle of a match without touching my teamates. Its very strange. It just boots me and says you got kiked. And one time i was with a party of 5 waiting to find a match. And over the text chat my friends were talking about the where i was. And iwas like im here. Apparently they were in the middle of a match while i was waiting in the lobby with there names. I clicked to back out and as soon as i did. It said i was kiked. Please look into this.

Posted by: SonicPinhead on 01-30-2010

I’m not sure if this was a glitch patched, but in The Lost City. The Hero’s side has a glitch where you automatically die. In the pit where the Desert is, if you hang on the edge and switch hands while aiming, you automatically die. Is there a way to fix it?

Posted by: IRL_EOIN on 01-31-2010

suggestion for a gametype in next dlc. the game stars out with one person playing as a guardian or yeti and everyone else is against him/her. when the yeti or guardian is killed the person who killed him becomes the yeti and every one is against him. the person with the longest time as the yeti/guardian at the end of the game wins.

Posted by: JayLowe on 01-31-2010

Yeah, I’m not touching this game under my real account until everything’s fixed. There’s just no way I’m risking my Level 51 account, only to lose all of that work and effort to some shitty error that isn’t even my fault. If that ever happened, as good as your games are, I’d just disown you, I would be that annoyed.

I guess I’ll just sign up a new account and play under that one until you guys fix things.

Posted by: DIOSITO_1997 on 02-01-2010

yea that stupid error happened to my account. i had a lot of trophies , then i had to start everything again. then like 2or3 weeks later i checked the account and it worked but i was all the way down at 1 thats bull

Posted by: amandoplay3 on 01-31-2010

Hello, I’m amandoplay3.
I back my level 58 (VIII) and my money.
Only are two to restore data from backups, you ought to have.
Just before the errors.
Now I’m level 1.
With my money, then I will buy everything he had.
Thank you.

Posted by: puppet_expert on 01-31-2010

help me plz nauhty dog i was lvl 59 and now i am 1 man i never had de error sycing plz i had too work alot for my lvl 59 plz plz plz give me my lvl back i cryed all day i am 13years old and my father don’t let me play only on weekend plz i need it. :( my psn DI is puppet_expert plz plz plz plz plz i need your help

Posted by: DIOSITO_1997 on 02-01-2010

hey naughty dog i was playing this game online, and this girl was using this glitch. i sniped her, then ak47 her and threw 3 grenedes at her and nothing. she was invinsible and then i went up close to her and she just shooot a grenade in front of aher and killed me. and still she didnt fugen die. i hate fugen glitchers

Posted by: Matthijs_17 on 01-31-2010

well they don’t respond much but I’m sure they readed you’re post, if there are more persons with the same problem as you have, then they go fix it

ow and ND, why is the sniper rifle ammo decreased, I mean it makes sense to decrease the shotgun ammo since that’s the most used weapon, I can understand that it is to make glitching less attractive but, if you do this the sniper rifle is already not used much! and 6 bullets is way to few, that’s 3 kills (if no headshots), please fix the glithches, don’t try other solutions like this…

Posted by: ImByteme on 02-01-2010

they say sniper was an accident on last update.they admitted that but still released the update.hmmmm shouldn’t you test updates first so there are “no accidents” I know when i code i check it test then use it ..too bad they didn’t accidentally drop the ammo in the shotgun to stop the charge and kill..

Posted by: ImByteme on 01-31-2010

i see I’m not the only pissed off user .Maybe play COD til they fix this shit .another account not sure i want to waste time on it ..hard to believe with the glitches if they are glitches go unaddressed by a game that won so many awards ..makes you wonder if its all gone to their heads and pockets and cant be bothered with this ..lame.............

Posted by: theblaese on 01-31-2010

I love uncarted 2 but i have come across a few problems that have made me frustrated enough to not come back to the game. I beat the game on normal but to get a platinum i needed to unlock the crushing mode so then i beat it on hard. So my third time thru the game, this time on crushing, i beat it but did not recieve a trophy!! Y would this happen dear naught dog???!!!! also the team balancing for online is the most unfair thing ever!!. the teams r never fair. especially for regular deathmatch.

Posted by: Covi3rN-i- on 01-31-2010

OMG!! 32 awards !?
32 awards and fixed them connecting in 3 months?32 awards and hav’nt fix glitchs?32 awards AND REACH PLAYERS TO LVL1 TWO TIMES!!?
omg guyz ppl have to much work to do school and bad marks,for what?4 get my level up… Then u guys in few minutes fixd a lil proplem then reach our levels back!??
leaderboard Rank like 1st time played UC2…
is that true?
Guys.. I don’t mean spam u no ur game is amazing.. But i dont trust u when i work on ID then back everything like 1st time
ps: ND my FavDev

Posted by: Waluigi1506 on 02-01-2010

PLEASE REMOVE THE PENALTY FOR LEAVING A MATCH! I got in a Co-Op match (gold rush) with people who just cared about their own score and left me to do all the work… so angrily I wanted to quite but notice the penalty so I decide not to, then 2 more rounds later I NEED to leave so as a result I turned to team killing the other players. This isn’t just in Co-Op either, I’ve found myself and others team killing in competitive matches just so they get kicked, I only do this when I desperately need to leave but others do it if they’re simply on the losing team… so please Naughty Dog remove this feature that is slowly making me hate my favourite game.

Posted by: DTS_MAN on 02-01-2010

hey Arne i’m sure you have things in the pipeline to address the glitching when playing plunder but what do you think of combining plunder with execution rules. this way we use cover to avoid being outplayed and if someone throws it out the map nobody is any better off. Also any chance of a heroes weapon pack and i dont suppose we could have a mortar could we???

and can we please have some ropes to swing on in multiplayer.....

DTS MAN

Posted by: liamb77 on 02-01-2010

theblaese you need to more then just complete the game on crushing to get a platinum trophy, thats the hard part out of the way, but if you access the pause menu when your playing and go on medals, you will notice that some medals have a little trophie next to them, those are the ones you need to get to get a platinum, once you get all of them it will go, DING, and it will say platinum:),

Posted by: Jonsonactionzero on 02-01-2010

what the * shit sometimes i play mp an than i shoot my enemy 1 magazine in his head he turns and one shot ONE * SHOT kills me hahaha WTF is that or i shoot one and than one of my team shoot one shot on the same person and he gets the kill EVER what is this???????

Posted by: FISFERO on 02-01-2010

I LOVE THIS GAME, but what i really hate is when i shoot people for the longest time and they dont die!!! i swear i shoot them and and i ru8n out of ammo and still they dont DIE!!! but when i get shot like 3-4 times they kill me WTF!!!!! fix that problem please

Posted by: UnchartedFan12 on 02-01-2010

I think that the DLC skins for April might be The Dead Explorer,Doughtnut Lazarevic, Naughty Dog Drake probley Heist Chole Probley, and Sir Francis Drake these are the five skins that i think we might get in april does anyone argee with me on this or do you think i am wrong.

Posted by: VoltaOne on 02-01-2010

Hello, Naughty Dog.
I am a big fan of Uncharted 2. I did not get the first Uncharted, but after playing the Uncharted 2 beta, and hearing about how the 2nd Uncharted had a multiplayer, I decided to get it. Now, it is the best game in my collection.

I decided to post a comment for the first time, to let you guys know that there are people still glitching on the map known as “The Fort.” I realize that you are a busy game company, but please look into it when you can. It is not fair to the other people, when a glitcher can shoot anyone across the map,

Thank you very much.

Posted by: majora96 on 02-01-2010

Yes i agree but something weird happened to me. I was playing icecave and someone was down in the cave and I was way out of range over where they are 2 sniping areas to clime up to if you know where that is and the guy shoots me with a shotgun. This happened with the same guy to me like 3 times. It was really weird. Reply if that has happened to you.

Posted by: Vante1720 on 02-01-2010

i heard that there is a feb dlc that is supposed to contain 2 mp maps and 5 uncharted 1 skins. is this tru because im dyin for some new maps and especially new skins becuase i couldnt but the recent heroes skin pack. Arne please confirm and repond

Posted by: Vante1720 on 02-01-2010

@VoltaOne i experienced that glitch jus recently and i was mad because the player who was glitchin was a little kid. they were not playin fair so i had to put in work to at least try to win. out of 34 kills for my team i had 24. so naughtydog plz fix those glitches

Posted by: cBugatti on 02-01-2010

hey arne,
Not enough people, including myslef, know how to view/save/send replays in online. can u make a blog post or reply to tell me how to. it is starting to frustrate me.... other than that i love your game!

Posted by: anonimato333 on 02-01-2010

go to the replay, theres an option that says upload.then hit triangle to see the matches you´ve uploaded,select a match and it´ll give you the option to send to a friend. when they send u a video when u go to the replays there will be an option telling you to press L1 to download

Posted by: shosho1019 on 02-02-2010

i dont really get how a team of markting guys came up woth the idea of making a few skins after 3 months. the game needs new maps its boring to play same maps over and over we needed some maps not some shit skins that dont even talk. and from 5000 players that play the game online i wonder how many ppl will actualy buy it. i wont. so at 4.99 usd thay make 15 20 grand max if 3 or 4000 ppl buy it whats is that nothing. we need stuff that makes the game less boring new boosters. maps, game modes, u have a great game there to bad in march no ppl will be plaiyng it no more. gow and ff13 will take all players away.

Posted by: LintFree on 02-02-2010

This morning I had 2 connection errors in both of my matches, then I quit. It’s really starting to annoy me with all the Connection Errors that occur every day. The DLC can’t be used if no one can play.

I also agree with shosho1019, if you don’t get a major turn around and start getting the spotlight back on you, you will lose players, including myself, that will gladly play some of the other upcoming games in 2010. I don’t know what you guys are doing over there, maybe trying to increase the lifespan of Uncharted 2, but it isn’t working. Cut the BS and fix all the problems before we see come new DLC.

You guys say you are devoted to your fans, and I truly believed that for the first couple of months, but now it seems you have given up. Sure we like the goodies of DLC, but, once again, we can’t use it because of all the errors.

We know you read these posts, but why haven’t you responded to any of the complaints? All I see are the ones that Arne replies to are the one’s that praise you.

Posted by: gaarakgr on 02-02-2010

ND IF YOU DO THIS DLC LIKE THIS ONE I HAVE IN MIND IT WILL BE A BOOM 4 NEW MAPS(A JUNGLE MAP) 5 NEW SKIN ONE OF THEM (KRATOS FORM GOD OF WAR)AND (SNAKE FORM METAL GEAR SOLID) AND A NEW MULTI MODE DAMMM SO COOL LIKE FOR 12.99 OR 14.99 OMG A LOT OF PPL WOULD GO CRAZY BUYING IT.

Posted by: Sconnie_RFC on 02-02-2010

Thats it, so f*cked off now, everyone in my team standing around like twats not playing!!! and before you say well you still get your kills, yeh maybe so but it’s infuriating spawning with the folk not playing to have a grenade up my ass right away.
and 50k limit? thats balls, get that in a couple of minutes, then 6 million between levels? Pisstake

Posted by: Hndsmboi18 on 02-02-2010

HEY ND!!! AS I ALWAYS SAY I LOVE THE GAME, BUT THE FORT STIIILLL HAS A GLITCH!!! I WAS PLAYING YESTERDAY AND NOTICED THAT AS I WAS RUNNING AROUND (ABOVE AND UNDERGROUND) I WOULD BE GETTING SHOT AT. THEN I WOULD DIE FROM A SUPPOSED “PUNCH” BUT THERE WAS NO ONE AROUND ME WHATSOEVER!!! I DONT KNOW IF I SHOULD BE MAD AT THE GLITCH OR ALL THE CHEATERS BUT THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED OR THE CHEATERS NEED TO BE BANNED (THIS GUYS PSN IS JESPERHALD BY THE WAY). I KNOW THAT IM NOT THE FIRST ONE TO ADDRESS THIS BUT IT IS REALLY ANNOYING AND TAKE THE ENJOYMENT OUT OF SUCH A GREAT GAME!!! THE FORT IS SUCH A GREAT MAP AND I HOPE YOU GUYS CAN FIX THIS ASAP..THANK YOU!!!

Posted by: Harrijet on 02-03-2010

Ive experienced it to, its completely annoyoing. How could people even want to try a cheat/bug just to destroy for players who wants to enjoy a good game? Seriously, people should send a “cinema-game” to ND, and ND have them reduce their exp by HALF! Do something that scares them.

Requests im sure people want:
1. I would like to see all in your teams boosters they have:) Nothning that affects gameplay, but why not?
2. The new maps wil have unused weapons such crossbow, sullys revolver, MP40 Submachine Gun (you use it only in chp 10 “only one way out”.
3. When do get to spend our earned money in the game? New skins, boosters (BALANCED), taunts etc. Otherwise...why even have double cash weekend?:P
4...Speaking of double cash-weekend, soon its valentine´s day. Will you have something special for us:)?

Posted by: Vante1720 on 02-02-2010

@gaarakg i agree with your thoughts but how would we be able to buy maps. if sum players buy them and others don’t its impossible to play 2gether. say 4 instant if u get in a game and one player bought the map and the other 9 didnt. how will we play the new map if it gets selected. not possible. bottom line the next dlc should b free

Posted by: nicchae on 02-02-2010

Two things ND. I can give you my PSN log in email account address if you want.

1. Ranked Matches - I’ve gained rank 26 or somewhere near that borderline AFTER the reset patch you’ve provided several days ago. Well guess what - it’s down to “1” again since yesterday or day before. It’s not once but TWICE that my rank level has gone down to “1”

2. I’ve mentioned this before but I went on vacation to Hong Kong and purchased Uncharted 2 disc from there. Currently I am in South Korea. I tried downloading skin pack from American PSN store and Japan PSN account, but neither seems to work.

ND - I am going to forget about purchasing skin pack but I sure hell will not give up on the future multiplayer map pack. Please tell me what I need to do to make the future map pack work. (i.e. Do I need lose the Hong Kong game disc and buy South Korean version of the game and also the map pack from South Korea PSN account?)

Posted by: nicchae on 02-02-2010

Two things ND. I can give you my PSN log in email account address if you want.

Posted by: LintFree on 02-03-2010

Played this morning again and randomly got a $40k penalty. What really pissed me off was ANOTHER Connection Error that deducted me another $40. I the past 2 days I’ve had 8 connection errors with $160k lost in penalties. What the hell Naughty Dog? Can people in the US only play at certain times of the day? Multiplayer is so messed up I won’t bother buying DLC because I CAN’T EVEN PLAY THE FREAKING GAME. Naught Dog, you reputation and respect from others is dropping. You might want to fix it.

Posted by: LEROYJ on 02-03-2010

uhhh, you guys are acting really naughty right now. first you reset my level 50 to 1 and like a week later(right now) you guys do it again. getting pretty sick and tired of the problems. tell us whatsup with this?

every person on my friendslist has the same problem.

Gr. LEROYJ

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Hair of the Dog - Week of Jan 24, 2010

We’ve got just the thing to cure your weekly gaming hangover… every Saturday morning, Hair of the Dog compiles a round-up of interesting Naughty Dog and UNCHARTED 2 links from around the web.

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