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By arne | Twitter @arnemeyer | Saturday December 05 2009

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.

Behind the Scenes with the SCEA Music Department - PlayStation.blog
PlayStation.blog goes behind the scenes with the SCEA Music Department to shed some light on how music in games gets picked and made. This look has the SCEA Music team discuss several parts of working with us and making music for UNCHARTED 2, including working at Skywalker Sound to record the orchestral pieces. Our composer, Greg Edmonson also makes an appearance in the video which we’ve embedded below as well.

Reynolds, Lemarchand To Speak At DICE Summit - Gamasutra
Additional speakers were revealed for the DICE Summit 2010 in Las Vegas. Among them is our own Richard Lemarchand, one of two Lead Designers on UNCHARTED 2. The DICE Summit is scheduled to take place from February 17 to February 19, 2010.

Game Review Roundup Fall 09: Action-Adventure Games - Newsarama.com
Newsarama reviews UNCHARTED 2, calling it “This is the best, most complete, most well-rounded video game I’ve played on the current generation of consoles.”

Interview: Naughty Dog’s Arne Meyer Talks Uncharted 2 - Gamervision
Gamervision interviews me about UNCHARTED 2, asking some interesting questions about the development of the game and also about the evolution of the co-op mode.

Review: ‘Uncharted 2’ Finds Gaming Treasure - ABC News
ABC News reviews UNCHARTED 2, saying that “Despite Extremely Linear Nature, ‘Uncharted 2’ Shines From Combat to Engaging Story.”

Contrarian Corner: Uncharted 2 - IGN
As part of the regular Contrarian Corner column, Mike Thomsen takes a specifically critical view during his analysis of UNCHARTED 2. Contrarian Corner is a column that “doesn’t seek to discredit the original review, but to expand the spectrum of discussion on some of the most important games of each year. If you’re interested in joining that discussion, keep reading.”

Uncharted 2 for the PlayStation 3 is one of the best games ever - The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News weighs in (positively, if you couldn’t tell) with their review of UNCHARTED 2.

Games of the decade: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - Insult Swordfighting
Insult Swordfighting is one of my favorite blogs to read, if I’m looking for a slightly more academic view about video games and video gaming culture. You may know Insult Swordfighting for it’s “A New Taxonomy of Gamers” post that once made the internet rounds. This week, Mitch posted about UNCHARTED 2 as part of his “Games of the decade” series, which provides “subjective looks at my favorite games of the decade.”

System Mover Game of the Day:Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - VG Chartz
VG Chartz takes a look at UNCHARTED 2 to see if it ended up being a driver of PS3 system sales through their data, and also asked conducted a poll to see if their community felt our game was a PS3 system seller as well.

Stay Inside With These 10 Games - The New York Times
UNCHARTED 2 makes it into the New York Times list recommending their 10 games from this year to stay indoors and play.

Uncharted 2 “Family Night” 12/5/09 7PM EST - The Gamesmen
Five sites (TQcast, BMI, The Gamesmen, Evolved Gaming, and the Couch Mercenaries) combine forces to invite the community to play UNCHARTED 2 multiplayer with them this weekend as part of their “Family Night.” Their event will begin at 7PM EST and you can find PSN IDs from representatives from the various sites if you want to add them or look for them online.

Grab these best video game picks of ‘09 - USA Today
USA Today make their recommendations for the best games of 2009, breaking them down by genre. UNCHARTED 2 is listed as their “Best action/adventure” selection.

Saling The World: New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Modern Warfare 2 Top U.S. Charts - Gamasutra
Gamasutra’s weekly Saling the World column reveals that UNCHARTED 2 has risen back to the #2 top for their list of PS3 games in the US.

Experimental weekend & Plunder Only - NaughtyDog.com
This week we were bearers of some good news—the oft-requested “Plunder Only” playlist became a permanent addition to our Matchmaking playlist on Friday, December 4. In addition, we took this weekend to run a little test of lowering player health down to 65% across the board to see what our multiplayer community thought about it. Leave us feedback on this blog post and our home page poll. Don’t fret—player health will return back to normal when our Experimental Weekend ends on Monday.

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Posted by: Hajpero on 12-05-2009

I presonally hate this 65% health. Why? Because the game lost all it’s tactics. I guess it’s good only for deathmatches, but for objective games it’s just not accurate, I’m getting an impression that it’s a massacre! Anyone getting close to idol is getting killed by someone else hiding nearby. Please ND, do this an option, but don’t make everyone play on those settings. WE WANT 100% HEALTH!

Posted by: bambivirus on 12-05-2009

No, YOU want 100% health. Speak for yourself. I love the half health. It makes it so that you have to take cover and transition, instead of the people that use the stupid switching shoulders glitch where the barrel of your gun goes through the wall. I say, leave it on deathmatch, elimination and ranked, and have a half health playlist for plunder.

Posted by: bambivirus on 12-05-2009

Are you online right now? if so, shoot me a Friend request. i’m trying to create a party with this kid but for some reason he can’t figure out how to join. lol. what a noob. my name’s bambivirus. i’m a lvl 41. haven’t played in a while, so i’m still a low level.

Posted by: DaGreatOne91 on 12-07-2009

I agree with bambivirus. The half health is much better and makes the gameplay faster, team tactical, and more realistic. It didn’t make much sense to have to use almost a full clip to be able to kill a single person. I think its a good idea for ND to keep the health like this.

Posted by: iHalfAsian on 12-06-2009

Normal health was horrible...i dont see where you guys find tatics in it, with 65% heallth you have to think harder, you have to know where to go, you can take on 2-3people. 65% is perfect, the old health was horrible and ill probably end up playing another game if it returns...A playlist for it is the safe route and with the small amount of players playing atm im worried it will take awhile to find a game.

Posted by: bambivirus on 12-05-2009

you can play as eddy. you just have to get some code or something. i’ve seen people playing as him, though. i want the other guy though, not navvaro, the bad guy before him, the british dude. don’t remember his name, but he was bad-ass.

Posted by: bambivirus on 12-05-2009

Hmmmm, strange. it sounded exactly like Eddy to me. well then they should DEFINITELY make eddy playable in DLC. Eddy, roman, and the bad guy from “eye of indra” in a villians pack, and winter sully, Rika, and one of the villagers from tenzin’s village.

Posted by: JayLowe on 12-05-2009

arne - Can’t you ban U-CANT-HIDE_? Or reset his skill level? There’s a video of him on YouTube where he’s cheating by using a glitch on The Fort, and I have a video of him glitching on The Ice Cave. Send out a message, ND, and ban those who are caught cheating/glitching!

I don’t want to play with known glitchers/cheaters. But I can’t leave a game a known cheater is involved in, otherwise I’ll be the one who’s punished with a $40K fine, and not the cheater! And that’s just wrong and completely backwards.

Posted by: JayLowe on 12-05-2009

I wouldn’t mind, but even with glitching, U-CANT-HIDE_ is a really God awful player with terrible aim. Check out his stats on the Leaderboard, he’s in the top 100 for kills, I think, but he’s barely breaking even.

I guess he feels he has to cheat to compensate for his poor skills…

Posted by: bebe317 on 12-05-2009

I was playing Uncharted 2 with my friends and we think it would be awsome if naughty dog created a add on or new game(up to you)on the characters of Uncharted 2 like Chloe Frazer, Elana Fisher, Victor Sullivan, or any other characters point of view in Uncharted

Also can there be an update or add on to the multiplayer co-op missions.You guys are doing a great job. This is my favorite game and I hope you keep it up and make more Uncharted games.

Posted by: sulphury on 12-05-2009

Anyone who likes the 65%health is a complete n00b. They don’t have good aiming skills or maneuvers, so they rely on just shooting players behind their backs and of course the other player has no change of surviving cause he dies instantly...no skill

Posted by: bLOOdTyPeX on 12-05-2009

Exactly! With 100% health I can own a camper, it gives me just enough health to get close and do my “maneuvers”. Also you have a chance to kill a person attacking you from behind which is great.
With 65% health tactics of playing the game will change and not in a positive direction. Now 1 sniper and desert eagle hit can kill you so I can see people rushing to these weapons just like the Hammer, RPG and Shotguns and camp out.
If people enjoy the lower health give them a separate playlist. As for me I’m perfectly fine with the current health. Watching people drop like flies wasn’t so much fun today playing plunder.

Posted by: Park34 on 12-06-2009

You’re wrong, dude. Even with 100% health you’d die if someone finds your back, anyway.

Now I can make some precious kills with FAL from pretty far distancies. With 100% people used to manage hiding anywhere, and that was frustrating.

Nevertheless, I have to admit that Plunder must hold 100% health. As some people said, it’s a masacre now.

And yes ND, make some new DLC’s please lol! Although The Fort is a nice refort to the online game, there are only few maps on it, which can become repetitive when you’ve played more than 250-300 rounds. And new characters...sounds good for me!

Posted by: bLOOdTyPeX on 12-07-2009

Well that’s the thing how you approach someone, people usually try to melee me from behind and I drop a grenade and roll away. There are many scenarios like that… A lot of the time I do a pull down tricking the person if I’m caught from behind with just enough health left to survive. That’s what I mean all these tactics are no good anymore especially climbing sucks your just a sitting duck.

Posted by: iHalfAsian on 12-06-2009

Lol, your comment makes me laugh. You must be noob then if you cant handle it. Dude 65% takes more skill. I dont see the difference in aiming seriously it just takes less time to kill someone. With 100% health i can barely kill someone from far for the most part because they ran away and i couldnt kill more than one person at a time because i didnt have enough bullets in the clip for the 2nd person. Obviously you dont understand how to play, with less health you have to kknow where to go, when to take cover, when to check your back and so on. Right now my kdr is blasting through the roof because its my type of game. Try and face me and ill show you aiming bud...i dont rely on shooting people in the backs beside due its the same thing. Who ever potentially shoots first dies, even with the 100% hp.

Posted by: bLOOdTyPeX on 12-07-2009

I mean you are right the lower health means you die quicker but 65% health just made Sniper Rifle and Desert Eagle more powerful like we don’t have enough RPG, Hammer and Shotgun/Pistol spamming for cheap kills. This will just make people camp more all I’m saying. I still owned this weekend but felt people were dropping like flies and I didn’t get that hard earned kill feeling anymore. My K/D is pretty decent with 100% kill so what does that tell you? And their are far better people than me.

Posted by: decoythegreat on 12-05-2009

man wtf i cant get online with my level 49. so i created a new account and im already up to lvl 21 in like a 2 hr period. but my point is that i need a solution for this retarded shit it keeps saying unable to sync player data with my other char. so naughty dog do something about it plz. or shoot me an email to my ps3 on how to fix it. all the other ppl who have had this problem havent got a solution. check out the web. unch 2 unable to sync player data. man wtf is this. i never had this problem until the update so im thinking we need ta new update

Posted by: bLOOdTyPeX on 12-05-2009

I heard people saying they deleted there data and that solved the issue but don’t quote me on it.. and wow it took me about 70 hrs getting to level 48 I would be pissed to loose all my progress. I don’t even use any of the boosters just down the irons and extra grenade so I guess level really doesn’t matter but I want to play with badge of honor boosters which open too far down the road.

Posted by: ITALIAN210 on 12-05-2009

I HATED THE LESS HEATH AT FIRST, BUT AFTER A FEW GAMES I KNEW IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. THIS GAME IS A LITTLE REALISTIC AND LOADING A CLIP AND A HALF INTO A GUY WHILE HE IS RUNNING AND JUMPING AWAY IS VERY ANNOYING. NOW IT GIVEA YOU A MORE REAL FEEL AND ANYONE WHO DOESN’T AGREE CAN SUCK IT AND GO PLAY CALL OF DUTY! :::::KEEP THE HEALTH LIKE THIS::::: (ALSO KEEP THE PLUNDER ONLY GAMES, THIS GAME WILL BE KNOWN FOR THE RUSH OF ADRENALINE PLAYING A PLUNDER MATCH)

Posted by: bambivirus on 12-05-2009

Exactly. man, Some people take this stuff too seriously, though. People calling people retards and assholes because of a game preference or because they like an update, it get’s out of hand. games are made to have FUN. don’t ruin it. oh and plunder only is a permanent change, half health is only for the weekend at the moment. Hopefully they’ll make it permanent, too.

Posted by: M-Brother on 12-05-2009

Thanks for releasing Behind the Scenes videos 7-9 this week, I downloaded them today. If you get a chance to release BTS 10-12 another week I’d pick those up too.

Could you try re-implementing Deathmatch Variants back into the Deathmatch Playlist as an experiment? Deathmatch Variations is my favorite mode but I have yet to play a single match (looking in the Ranked Playlist) since the game was released.

Do you still receive our comment for this blog even if it doesn’t show up on the site publicly (because the page already has the maximum number of comments)? Also, we all love you ND!

Posted by: whitwhit on 12-05-2009

get rid of half the health all of you who say keep it obviously havent reached the roman numeral ranks, so when you reach this and use the booster to try to rank up your all ready at a disadvantage with invalid, glass jaw, and come get some. also when you ppl use Fals which i can guarantee theres at least to a match and get owned repeatedly over and over and die faster you will continue to complain and ask for even lower health, if you wanna keep this lower health than make a booster that only a high rank can obtain to counteract it if not than take it out. im surprised theres no body armor in the game.

Posted by: Dashedchris on 12-06-2009

i just want to add that there should be some kind of incentive in getting back the treasure as nobody realy bothers to play this game mode richt anyway at least give us some points or somithing, one thing more i dont like the half health as it only helps those people who camp or who have a bad connection.
i want to add this point to if you punch someone they die straight away i think that the weapons need to be more balanced out because emptying a full mag into someone and then have him turn around and shoot you once is just crazy…

Posted by: ttQuik on 12-06-2009

overall .. i like the 65% health, i like the fact that it makes the pistole and shotgun a bit more defeatable at closer range. I thought those 2 weapons were too dominating with 100% health, now the M4 and FAL’s seem more valuable with the reduced health. The one drawback i think the reduced health is it has shortened the amount of time it takes to play a match. Maybe making death matches 60 kills instead of 50 would help?

thanks for listening .. great game!

Posted by: Mosh_Pit on 12-06-2009

Crushing is just perfect, it’s basically making the game more “serious” and “realistic”. Don’t even need to implement the play list for crushing, just leave all game modes on crushing health, well that’s from my point of view. The new map is also very cool but needs little fixes. Other then that keep up the updates, you know us fan’s are always hungry for more. Who knows maybe we’ll see fat Santa climbing and running around in Uncharted 2 this year?

Posted by: Futurespect on 12-06-2009

Arne: What about those who suffer frequent connection errors due to BT’s copper wires, PSN and Uncharted’s netcode?

My info:

Filtered NTE5 faceplate, with a hardwired CAT5e straight to my Netgear router. Latest firmware.

PS3 is wired. MTU doesn’t fragment. Interleaving is enabled. PS3 has a reserved IP and is in the DMZ. SNR margin is at 12. My router doesn’t support DMT Tool, so I can’t raise the margin to 15.

All other games have acceptable reliability. Uncharted 2 fined me 200K in one evening recently, which has forced me to abandon it.

This penalty affects many, like me, with a long phone line and no cable alternative. There is nothing more that I or my ISP can do. They’ve confirmed this. BT only agree to repair lines that have obvious faults; not ones affected by the UK’s regular bad weather.

On a forum I visit there are three others who share my situation. If you continue to enforce the policy you’ll lose an unknown quantity of custom in future. If you can’t patch the netcode soon, I believe you’re making a major mistake in using penalties that hit genuine players.

Regards.

Posted by: Anghild on 12-07-2009

I have had a few disconnects and have never been penalized. I know this is going to upset you, but I’d rather have a few ‘genuine’ players get penalized than every second person disconnecting when a game is not going their way. Now that there is a leader board showing your win percentage it would be even worse.

Posted by: SuHawk75 on 12-07-2009

Sorry Anghild but there must be a way to discourage disconnects without punishing genuine players (and I’ll attest to Future as being a genuine unlucky case as I’ve played (aka lost plenty of U2 games with him).

And if the netcode cannot discriminate between those cases why does co-op penalise players who drop out? At the very least ND should get rid of the penalties for disconnections when playing custom or co-op matches

Posted by: Sasukekun on 12-07-2009

Not only that Suhawk, but the amount of disconnects that Future gets makes this extremely unfair on him.
We can just get into a game and he’ll drop for no reason what so ever.
Now, this can happen 8 times a night, at 40,000 a pop we’re talking a stupidly large number for a penalty here.
This is especially stupid in co-op games.

Future is a good guy and doesn’t deserve to be penalised in this way.
If it continues it could very well kill the community this game enjoys.

Posted by: Anghild on 12-08-2009

I understand the frustration. The first violation (disconnect) only stops you from getting into a game for 30 seconds. Maybe they should reset it to the initial penalty every hour. That would mean that he would only get penalized if he disconnects more than once an hour.

Unfortunately it’s a catch 22. It’s like everything else in the industry. The cheaters and pirates cause the legitimate players to suffer.

Future do have a point though, they should really look at the netcode.

Posted by: Dutch_Warrior09 on 12-06-2009

I really like the Crushing Health. Some people don’t like it so make it optional. But i never used the FAL or 92FS-9SS because always if i was close to kill someone that person managed to dive away.

Posted by: Park34 on 12-07-2009

Did the people who said “make another list for Crushing health” noticed that this thing would be a piece of shit?
Remember that in Uncharted 2 there’s not as much people playing online as other Shooter Games. If ND divide the variants more you all won’t find anyone to play for ages.

Posted by: TOSTADO8 on 12-07-2009

hola yo queria decir q esto de la mitat de la salut no me gusta para nada no es justo q llevo desde q salio el juego viciado por q creo q es el mejor juego q ha salido para ps3, soy nivel 58 y me parece injusto q tube q estar con el potenciador de invalidez desde el 52 y ahora q porfin tengo mi vida entera lo quereis quitar tampoco me gusta q llegue uno de nivel uno y te mate con tres disparos yo soy un jugador q solia matar de 15 para arriba y ahora mato uno y muero tambien no alcasa casi a matar a mas sin morir los combates se han vuelto aburridos lo guapo de juego era la habilidad de q si te disparaban alcanzabas hacer algo pero ahora no alcanzas ni a rodar y ya estas muerto despues tambien el cambio de conexiones q hay entre paises yo quier mio 100� mi salud por q si dejais la salud al 65% la mitat de los jugadores del uncharted dejaran de jugar un ejemplo la mayoria de con los q juego de mis amigos dejaran de jugar y es una pena reflexionar en eso , por q esto no es cod,killzone no es un juego realista en una guerra y si escribo mucho es por q no estoy deacuerdo adios y quitarlo ya no volvais hacer esto por favor .

Posted by: Park34 on 12-07-2009

Voy a corregirte algunas cosas.
De entrada, si usas el potenciador de “Inválido” es tu problema, nadie te ha obligado. Si eres nivel 58, por qué no usas la “Mandíbula de Cristal”? Habrá menos queja.

Seguidamente, no digas que la mitad de los jugadores si piraran porque la mayoría que se quejan son los que NO juegan duelos a muerte, si no los de otros modos de Competitvo, como el Saqueo. Perderá a unos cuantos y ganará a otros.

Y por último, no escribas en español aquí, o nadie te va a tomar en serio. Estás en una web americana de la cual no puedes esperar que se paren a leer tu mensaje si para empezar no está en su idioma!

Un saludo, siempre es agradable hablar con españoles.

Posted by: TOSTADO8 on 12-07-2009

hola eso de q se pueden hacer mas tacticas es mentira por que solo se pueden hacer si estas jugando en equipo ademas os mapas son my pequeños para utilizar tacticas de ataqu y de defensa yo pienso q alos q les a gustado lo de la salud son los malos jugadores o los q acaban de empezar osea niveles bajos a mi m molesta q venga uno de nivel 4,5,6,7,8,9,10 y me mate 100% de la salud es lo mejor quitarlo ya

Posted by: Anghild on 12-07-2009

65% Health is fun to play up to a point. It takes no skill what so ever to run at someone and kill them with blind fire. There is no need to ever pick up another weapon, and the shotgun is now obsolete. So is headshots, why even try and go for one if you can easily take someone out with two FAL bursts from across the map.

By all means make it an option in the DM playlist. So that one map offers DM standard and another DM crushing.

A permanent change will tear the community apart.

Posted by: Harrijet on 12-07-2009

Like he said, I agree totally. I know MANY who dislikes 65 % health and start playing other games instead. And just as you said, you can kill anyone easily with ANY weak weapon. Skills? NEVER!

Apermanent change is a great chance that people will loose interest!

Posted by: UnluckyNumber on 12-07-2009

Sorry, I might be a complete idiot...but how do you read ALL of the comments. Say like on the previous blog post, it says 500+ comments...but I can only read the ones on the first page. Are there links to additional pages of comments or something?

Posted by: Kotaepayne on 12-07-2009

Awesome!

Just when I was getting a little tired of Multiplayer uncharted 2 you go and reduce the health meter. Now I can see that this could be a problem for plunder but for death match its cool.

All of a sudden people are being forced to work as teams instead of playing the game by themselves. It has also improved the use of perks 101%, I hope you can find a way to incorporate this into death match permanently.
Many Thanks
A rejuvenated fan.

Posted by: Dutch_Warrior09 on 12-07-2009

Maybe an idea if you not make a Crushing play list but a hard playlist. Then you have 75/80% of your health and you CAN use your boosters.
But i don’t like the 100% health, because you almost can’t kill people with the 92FS-SS.
I wouldn’t leave the game if it will be 100% but i wouldn’t by far play the time as i play now.

Posted by: Waffled on 12-07-2009

Oh, My, GOd, I had to respond because I absolutely dominate with the 92fs if I’m backed into using it. I honestly know why though, its because I can actually track other players when aiming and 70% of the population are whiny bitches who want their enemies to die on the first few shots. The “it takes a whole clip to kill someone” argument is invalid because 1. Its not true, and 2. Its an indicator of their skill or lack thereof.

Don’t lower the health permanetly. Its the reason I don’t play MW, and the reason I won’t play this if it becomes permanent.

Posted by: Nakiro on 12-07-2009

Honestly I don’t care whether they raise or lower the health.. it’s same for both players, however once I get going, there’s no stopping me now, I’m getting 18-2 and 17-3 and stuff like that way more often.

There’s lots of glitches all over the place too, might have to look in to that.

Posted by: VulcanVillain on 12-07-2009

ND please check the link above to USA Today. I wanted to read the article, but IE is pulling up an adware page with a fake virus scan that is ridiculously difficult to close. The game is perfect but I don’t want to have to worry about adware, spyware, viruses, etc. if I want to click a link on your site.

Posted by: Waffled on 12-07-2009

65% Health means moving, and climbing are suicide. Way to break what constitutes 50% of your gameplay ND. Now everyone shoots each other like twice in the back and there are no more chances for players to overcome their attacker. Its like MW2, and that’s not a compliment.

Don’t listen to players that love killing an entire team with a few lucky fal shots. Their tactics consist of picking up a fal, killing the player with the grenade launcher and rocket launcher without effort and proceeding to decimate a team.

Posted by: korgon117 on 12-07-2009

Boy oh boy how I have missed the 100% health! 100% just simply is way more fun than 65%. Its just not as satisfying when u get a kill with 65%. REALISM DOESNT = FUN. Look at MW2 or Madden, both are realistic, both suck major b***s! PLEASE KEEP 100% ND, if you go with this NOOBISH 65% health, 1st I will cry, then I will put the game on my shelf to collect dust...then probably cry some more before I just go back to, dare I say it MGO ;(

Posted by: ShadowNtheNight on 12-07-2009

I’ve read some of these posts where people are saying that the lowered health ruins the strategy of it all. Have you not played the single player portion of the game? I mean, ducking covering, using the other players that are on your team to help you through the deathmatch levels are what fun multi-player is all about.

Having everyone run towards the most powerful guns so they can get there two shot kills or less is what takes the strategy out of the game, all you are trying to do then is try to find the fastest route to the shotgun, or the grenade launcher.

I am seriously considering to stop playing this now, I might have to spend more time on the co-op missions or something until there is an option to play otherwise, because quite honestly I wish I was never even teased with the option of lowered health, it has taken most the fun out the game for me without it.

Posted by: CaptainGillette on 12-08-2009

You said it right there - having everyone get two-shot kills or less IS what takes the strategy out of the game. Lowering the health just made *every* weapon easier to get a fast kill with. It meant no chance to counterfire, no time to cover, and no time to climb. It was so fast-paced that going for the high-power weapons was pointless because you were just going to get killed in a second anyway… it made more sense to just run around with the AK-47 and pistol so you could maximize the gameplay time between constant respawns. The 65% health was great for master players, but for intermediate players it was a massacre.

Posted by: Carnivius_Prime on 12-08-2009

Health reduction was great. I wouldn’t mind if that became permanent. Thanks also for the plunder playlist. Been wanting that since the beginning.

Anyways, my real reason for coming here today is this. Who do I e-mail to discuss a technical issue I’ve started having with Uncharted 2?

Posted by: liamb77 on 12-08-2009

I just came off uncharted as my connection went twice during two games. It was fine the first time but when it went again i lost 40 thousand dollars. Im sorry Naughty Dog but this has happened to me a few times now and its beggining to get on my nerves, i dont leave games my connection just goes, i really dont think that this is fair. Please fix this Naughty Dog, Liamb77

Posted by: CaptainGillette on 12-08-2009

Hey ND, here’s a comment NOT related to the health percentage! When the map is loading before a match, why not replace the current “tips” about how to pick up ammo and throw grenades with info about how to play that particular game type? I know the first time I went into Gold Rush I had no clue what it was going to be… I imagine there are a lot of ‘n00b’ players who could use some instruction, since there’s no description of the game modes that I can find anywhere in the booklet or the game menus.

Posted by: liamb77 on 12-08-2009

Hey naughty Dog, on christmas day can we get a treat like new dlc of a map or a character(perhaps christmas related or maybe not). That would be proper cool, and people will love you for it;). And by the way, i soo badly want you to get game of the year:)

Posted by: tylerthegr8 on 12-08-2009

anyone else getting patch “error syncing patches” today? i was playing just fine about an hour ago but now i cant connect to multiplayer. maybe a new patch fixing glitches is going to be released?

Posted by: gary-youmans on 12-08-2009

Hey ND, whe will love to have a play list for hafe life. Me got us used to it. I didn’t like it at first but know I do. yall are massin with my kills and deaths. If yall do something like this again go a head and make a playlist for yall’s updates. that would be nice lmao....

i think this is the best game . lol

Posted by: gary-youmans on 12-08-2009

Naughty Dog yall need to do something about the cap it is only $50,000. I’m level 52 (II) and i need more then $1,000,000 to go up a level I’ll hate to see what it is in the future up the cap. Or don’t have a cap. The cap is the only thing I hate about this game. By the way why didn’t yall have a online game of the year. I didn’t pick one because Uncharted 2 wasn’t there.

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