Multiplayer Live Update - Uncharted 3

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Live updates have been made to Uncharted 3 multiplayer. Continue reading for full details.

By Eric-ND | Twitter @ericmonacelli | Thursday January 19 2012

We are able to make running live updates to certain aspects of Uncharted 3 multiplayer and have made the follow tweaks active today. You should see your version number read as 1.03.019 now.

- The FAL-SS weapon power has been changed. It now takes five bullets to the body to kill an opponent. It previously took four bullets. It will still take three bullets to the head to take down an enemy using the FAL-SS.

- Death planes on certain maps have been changed so that map exploits are no longer functional. In other words, we’ve removed hidden tricks that were allowing players to hide and take out opponents without the possibility of return fire.

We will continue to monitor our play tests and your feedback and adjust what we can with the end goal of making your gameplay experience more enjoyable. Let us know your thoughts and we’ll keep you updated with news as any future changes roll out. See you online!

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Posted by: sQuiiDx on 01-19-2012

Ugh....didn’t change anything. Still just as OP. That last bullet doesn’t change much. ROF is still too high. Why can’t all the guns just have an average of 7-9 shots? I’m glad y’all are working on it but it didn’t really do anything.

Posted by: cavs23456 on 01-20-2012

I agree, also when are they going to change the CO-OP ADVENTURE Treasure System or at least tell us how It works, I have play Monastery and London Underground 110 times combined and got 1/2 for Doughnut Drake and 0/2 for Sir Francis Drake Naughty Dog, Im tired of this please fix it or tell us how it WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Posted by: illness_One on 01-20-2012

Talking about 3bullets in the head I got shot 3x in the back I’m dead with the fall-ss...plus you don’t need to aim for the head I most kill or get killed by fal-ss from distance or blindfiring I still get a headshot without aiming for the head you guys should know what I’m talking about no need to aim the head with this gun cuz its mostly headshot with this gun

Posted by: mi_dude2 on 01-20-2012

6 bullets is a bit excessive.

You know that little puny 9mm pistol everyone starts out with? That’s a six bullet kill, put it in perspective.

But yeah, the Fal was defiantly over-powered, hopefully they nerfed it enough while not making it useless.

Posted by: Cion001 on 01-19-2012

Great job Eric, but is there any word on the progress of fixing the glitched treasure? No one has Doughnut Drake and a select few have Skelzor,. I’m all for making certain things rare but impossible is a different story.

Posted by: ts8lemonade on 01-19-2012

This is discouraging to be honest. One extra bullet is not going to do anything when it still only takes 3 headshot and the RoF remains the same. Part of the reason it can kill so ridiculously fast is because the recoil will often bounce it right to a headshot for a super-fast kill. One bullet of body damage is hardly anything when the gun retains all the stopping power, 3 kill headshot, recoil, and RoF.

Sigh, I guess it’s something. It’s just discouraging that this is how slow they want to go, one extra body bullet, and we have to what, test this out for how long before we come to the conclusion it’s not enough of a nerf? A week? Two? Then it takes them how long to update again? A month? So we can say that the FAL-SS is going to be balanced MAYBE by 2013? Get real.

I can already tell you it’s not enough. I doubt they would be able to change the RoF in a simple live update, that seems like it would have to be patched in. But one extra bullet to the body, while keeping headshot damage is just absurd.

Posted by: Connor_mufc_1985 on 01-19-2012

1 extra bullet isn’t going to change nothing lower rate of fire by 20~25% and that will fix it. But more importantly why isn’t their a level cap increase yet ? must be thousands of pissed off max rank players out there ? Just give us another 22 legacies if you want to be lazy about it ND Geez.

Posted by: BanyaKnoT on 01-19-2012

..........c’mon guys are you for real??? 1 MISERABLE bullet???? you think you are making a REAL CHANGE, please naughtydog, CHECK the weapon inGAME, its the most OVERPOWERED WEAPON BY FAR, BY FAR… Uncharted its supposed to be like a tranversal game, that you can climb, hide behind a rock or wall, this miserabl weapon doesnt give a chance for moving on the game, you are getting shot and 1 second later you are dead, you can´t react to anything with that weapon… PLEASE I BEG YOU, FIX IT FOR REAL, i know you read all of your fanbase critics, so please, fix it for real, AT LEAST 7 shots to body, and 5 to Head, PLUS slow down the rate of fire, THANK YOU.

Posted by: BanyaKnoT on 01-19-2012

i am a real Vet in the uncharted games, you can check it out, i been playing uncharted 2 since day 1… PLease just imagine REAL NOOBS, or new players in the game, they dont stand a chance of enjjoying the multiplayer like this… for me its a real pain playing like this, just imagine how it is for new people.... please fix it naughtydog, dont transform this awesome game in some CoD crap ver.

Posted by: meltron69 on 01-19-2012

Thanks Naughty Dog! Let´s see how this nerf plays out. I think it´s a good decision to adjust this weapon in small steps, instead of making it completely useless over night. Personally I only use FAL if I need to counter other FAL users, my favorite weapon is Elena´s G-Mal Great job on the new maps BTW. Keep up the good work. Add me on PSN-meltron69, if you want to play some Objective or Plunder, I am team player. Cheers

Posted by: FU_TimeWarner on 01-20-2012

This is what I suggest, might be a GREAT IDEA: Change the FAL back to a 4 body shot kill, 3 head shot kill BUT remove the Stopping power completely or reduce it drastically.

This will:
1) If you have the G-MAL or M9, you can still easily take down a FAL user with good straffing since you will be harder to hit.
2) If you just stand there and fire, the FAL user will be able to take you down easily (as it should)
3) People using the shotguns or Kal-7 will be viable against FAL users with no stopping power. This might bring some Kal7 users back from the dead.

Solves a lot of problems while bringing some other viable techniques into play.

Implement this and thank me later.

Posted by: dermiss on 01-20-2012

This will make no real difference when their is lag involved especially on the new maps but, its a step in the right direction though, can you do a live update for the glitched treasures and lower the co-op adventure drop rates if possible as they are near impossible to get and sometimes blank when you pick them up, doughnut drake is glitched one of the treasures is either blank or you get a team deathmatch treasure instead.

Posted by: Evan_TheRocker on 01-20-2012

1 more shot??

just 1 more shot???

Naughty dog, please show some respect with the people who buy your games, im not playing the U3 because of this OVERPOWERED WEAPON, its just unfair.

7 bullets or completely remove it from the game, its all we want, pls

Posted by: Olivier007 on 01-20-2012

I love how ND listens to these like 100 crybabies out there whilst hundreds of thousands of others think there’s absolutely nothing wrong about the FAL-SS. Of course the crybabies will be crying, they always do. But the others, which is a large majority, don’t comment because it’s good. Well i’m here for those people. ND, stop listening to this handful of noobs who can’t handle the FAL-SS. Instead, focus on the glitches in the game. The FAL-SS doesn’t need to be nerfed because there’s a reason you don’t get it until rank 50. IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE STRONGEST GUN BECAUSE OF THAT! Don’t blame the gun, blame the person using it. Cry about fleet foot if you want, but NOT about a gun that’s perfectly fine. It’s like quick boom, instead of crying about it, just use it yourself, problem solved!

Posted by: Bovrillor on 01-20-2012

... but if everyone has to resort to using the same setup because it’s ‘the best’, then the game becomes incredibly boring. There’d be no point in the other gear even existing because eventually everyone will have your precious FAL/QB combo. Why do you think good developers put so much work into balancing? Hint: it’s not so everyone can run around with identical loadouts.

Posted by: Olivier007 on 01-20-2012

now you got me wrong, i never said i use quick boom. i actually use cluster bomb / creepy crawler. and everybody is better with a different gun, i get killed by AK-47’s (guy’s rank 20-), M9’s, with or without RoF upgrade, and dragon snipers too all the time while shooting the FAL-SS, so there really is nothing to complain about

Posted by: TheBigAitch on 01-20-2012

The main issue is the combination of Fal + high level fleet foot, those who also use fleet foot are really not going to be affected by the extra bullet.

Bovrillor is right - the idea of “if you can’t beat them join them” shouldn’t be the solution, there’s plenty of times I get the drop on fal users (I generally use the m9) I start firing *first* and a lot of the time I lose (mostly to those also using fleet foot, not so much to those without it) now I understand straffing and rolling etc. I’m an above average player, and yet I consistently get owned by fal users irrespective of different tactics I may use. However conversely, those not using fals i consistently own more often than not. Therefore for there to be such a wide contrast of experience between the players i succeed or fail against there HAS to be an imbalance.

Having experimented with the fal - i know it’s not for me - however i DO think it would be a better solution to adjust it’s rof (and maybe stopping power) so that it ALSO affects those using it in combination with fleetfoot - that would be better. WIth the exception of short range weapons like the shotgun/arm micro and long range weapons like the sniper rifles all mid range weapons should take a *similar amount of TIME* to kill your opponent. this is essentially where the problem lies.

and in Olivier’s defense he has stopped using QB - hahaha, sorry olivier couldn’t resist! ;o)

remember kids SHOTGUNS ARE FOR NOOBS.

Posted by: Olivier007 on 01-20-2012

you just had to say it huh? well yeah i used quick boom for about a week or 2 before they patched that. i even combined it with explosive expert level 3, i don’t waste money on the paid booster though… i started out as a major cluster bomb fan because of its awesomeness in the beta (as did some others i’m sure), but i got tired of getting quick boom-ed in the back, so i started using it too. now i’m back to cluster bomb again, and as most people who played with me can say, its my team killing weapon LOL. its still awesome to clear out a room where the other team is camping.

Posted by: Bovrillor on 01-20-2012

Sounds like you’re having a similiar experience with it as I am.

I think in an ideal world, every gun would excel in one particular area - and most of them do, but the FAL overpowers every weapon but the dragon at every range. Even if you’re undamaged, and land a punch on a FAL user, they can pump 5 rounds into you before you can swing a second punch. That’s just absurd.

On top of that, the slightest amount of lag makes the FAL shots ‘cluster’ together and you basically get hit with one big ball of lead and insta-killed.

Yes, the FAL should be a precision weapon and powerful in the right hands… but again, it shouldn’t make everything obsolete or seem cheap. RoF nerf would solve the lag issues and give users of other guns time to act/react instead of just getting mown down 9 times out of 10.

I think I’m pretty much equally skilled with all the guns, but my kill rate literally doubles when I use the FAL. That’s a clear sign of a problem. On the bright side, the miniscule nerf has caused quite a few players to experiment with the other guns again. Today I saw lvl75 Triple-legacies using Gmals and M9s, I’ve not seen that in a long time.

Posted by: seanjizzie on 01-20-2012

G-MALs are just as bad. every weapon is lethal in the hands of a very good player this is why i don’t see any point to the complaints. assuming this game is not multiplayer and it’s the cpu using the FAL, people will not complain but instead find a way around it. The crushing mode you’ve got really tough enemies with cluster bombs, militia man etc but no one complains it’s too difficult because they still find a way to beat it. but if it’s another player, everyone starts whining!!!

Posted by: Patz_13 on 01-20-2012

I feel the same way seanjizzie. You said it right I play with the fal and I win just about every match with my friend using an M9 in 3 team detchmatch.He usually scores better than me even if we are playing against some fal users fact is - We are just good - I played with the g-mal when I legacied and I was Just as good maybe even better. And to Olivier007 You said it I don’t comment often because guess what - I don’t have a problem with the game play - I used to lose to the fal players so I got a fal and found out it was my best weapon. The whiners here make it seem like we never die because we are using the fal - That is NOT true. The m9 kills me regardless of what mod is on it . People just need to realize that they need to get good at the game I can play with the m9 or with the gmal or with the fal and still get a Riot starter. Just master your weapon and you can win - STOP WHINING before ND breaks the game 100%

Posted by: seanjizzie on 01-20-2012

At that incredibly boring point, people will then turn to the other guns… that’s how the game should be! there’s a new thing, it’s all hyped, then after the hype, you try other stuffs. don’t ruin the game before another one comes out (if ever there’ll be another Uncharted series)…

Posted by: seanjizzie on 01-20-2012

@ Olivier007.....Thumbs up!!!! my thoughts exactly… wish there more people like you on the forums maybe then ND would stop listening to all these whinings from ‘sore losers’. if i get killed over and over with a FAL-SS, i just pick it up myself and get good at it. I remember when I first used the FAL, i fell in love with it first because of it’s accuracy then even more cuz it’s single shots.
How can anyone ask a single shot gun to require 6-7 shots for a kill against another gun (M9) that hasmultpile shots??? before you get two shots out the M9 would have trebled your amount of bullets!
The FAL is a great gun, it would be a shame if ND does anymore to it, fair enough it’s good to know ND listens and actually pays attention and if that is the case, I hope they pay attention to the non-whiners too..

Posted by: MrRipley17 on 01-20-2012

ND can’t change the FAL-SS RoF. The one and only who can influence the RoF is the gamer. You can fire as fast as u can push R1. Now the question is, if this weapon is a power weapon. I think yes.
FU_TimeWarner wrote about variable Play techniques, i agree to him. Especially a big number of the High Levels play the same tactics because of the lost of variabilty.

Posted by: Bovrillor on 01-20-2012

Of course they can change it, they just need to treat it the same way pistols are handled, with a maximum trigger count per time unit.

In it’s current state, I concur that it’s a power weapon. It’s basically a more-versatile Mag5 since it does half the damage but fires more than twice as fast.

Posted by: law952 on 01-20-2012

I look forward to trying this out, but I’m getting really bored with this game its great, but I’m so bored of playing with just the duelshock, so after a few more coop plays I might just go back to killzone and play with the Playstation Move.
I’m sorry but I love playing with the move controller

Posted by: M-O-K-O-S-I-T-O on 01-20-2012

level cap increase PLEASE,, level cap increase PLEASE,, level cap increase PLEASE,, level cap increase PLEASE,,

“ ND make the FAL-SS like in Uncharted 2 Among Thieves!!! much better “

Posted by: Bovrillor on 01-20-2012

... and with a good few hours of nerfed FAL play under my belt, I can honestly say it’s changed very little. Put the damage back and nerf the RoF. It just makes every other gun obsolete, even the Hammer pales in comparison.

Posted by: PeteX19 on 01-20-2012

Alright so it’s pretty clear that this didn’t work so how many weeks and data collecting will ND have to get before the next live update?

The progress on this is painfully slow and I know as soon as the Fal-SS finally gets fixed the M9 ROF will start appearing everywhere.

I’ve brought a couple of new guys into this game and they’re getting destroyed. I’m amazed that this game actually has very few weapons compared to other games, yet is suffering the most from major balance issues.

Get it sorted Naughty Dog because this game will be a dinosaur the time you finally balance the weapons properly. Resident Evil, Max Payne and many other 3rd person shooters coming out this year are just waiting to take players away.

Posted by: CaptainNoah on 01-20-2012

The thing is with lag the way it is people are already pumping extra bullets into people because they can’t tell they’re dead. With that said it’s going to take a few more bullets to be a noticeable change.

Posted by: matt__YOITE on 01-20-2012

I would say that you guys make an awesome work, but I can’t. The FAL-SS is still definately Over Powered; If you guys want really to help the uncharted 3 community, please listen to us, and check it out by yourself. The FAL-SS ruin the Uncharted 3 MP. It’s just so unbalanced. Even if you guys add one more bullet, it make no difference because there’s no competition in a gun fight. The problem is that: if you definately want to nerf the FAL, adding a couple of other bullets or/and decreasing the Rate of Fire, I’m sure that people will get back to the M9 RoF, because it’s still an OP gun. People don’t talk so much about it, because everyone is too much concetrated on the FAL-SS. Just be ready (and please, make it fast.).

Posted by: seanjizzie on 01-20-2012

Instead of asking ND to add a couple of other bullets and/or decrease fire rate, why don’t you just say remove the gun completely? every gun in the game has to have an advantage of the other (FAL-SS - power, M9 - low recoil, KAL - fire rate), so what advantage use would the FAL be after it becomes what you just suggested?

Posted by: Bovrillor on 01-20-2012

Well, it would still be insanely accurate and flexible at almost any range, and offer pro players the opportunity for precision headshots. Decreasing the RoF would simply negate the ‘bullet spam’ that currently owns everything else and doesn’t really require much skill.

Posted by: seanjizzie on 01-20-2012

GOOD WORK NAUGHTY DOG!
I was scared you would ruin a great gun…
I suggest all these whiners should come together and make their own vidoe game, probably, call it CHARTED and implement all the opinions they keep throwing all around.
No video game is perfect, the whole fun of it is finding your way around those imperfections and beating the game nonetheless but what do we have whiners and people who are to lazy to even exert some of their brain power and figure out a way to beat FAL-SS users. one suggestion though, if you are constantly killed by an overpowered gun in the game “FAL-SS” look for that overpowered gun yourself, learn how to use it and kill other FAL users before they kill you, very simple. if not, there are options, like co-op, adventure etc that you won’t feel bad that another player somewhere is smarter, faster and more accurate than you…

Posted by: jsolares on 01-20-2012

well you can go back to the game and enjoy your last couple of days getting easy kills, after that you’ll probably leave for BF3 or COD since is not gonna be so easy to get a kill with the FAL enjoy your last couple of days

Posted by: gmoney0505 on 01-20-2012

Wow really ND. A 1 bullet difference with the high rate of fire the gun has. It needs to be about 8 shots in the body to kill someone and 4 in the head. Plus 99% of people who uses this gun has fleet floot gold moving like the flash which causes even more problems of that combination being overpowered. Fal needs more nerfing and fleet foot needs to be nerfed or completely taken out.

Posted by: Olivier007 on 01-20-2012

i agree with you on the fleet foot thing, i don’t use it myself, and i almost never can kill a guy with it, even with my FAL-SS. take fleet foot out, and other guns have a major increased probablity of winning again.

Posted by: illness_One on 01-20-2012

Are you nuts fleet foot is my life ...fleet foot..bargain..team safe..are the most important boosters in this game...know how to use fleet foot in this game you will be better at it...I tried to play without fleet foot the character was slow as *....if anybody don’t like fleet foot something is wrong with you

Posted by: Zer0900_ on 01-20-2012

This is absurd. This does not deserved to be tagged as an update, or even talked about. The weapon is too powerfull, end of, reduce the raf by 10% and take 5% off the recoil to prevent accidental headshots. Oh and one last thing, bring out a patch to make U3 play and look like U2, then I’ll be happy. U2 ftw, always will!

Posted by: Psyschock on 01-20-2012

Does it take 6 bullets now to kill someone with the FAL-SS in Hardcore mode? If not it doesn’t make any difference for me at all and the gun is still overpowered!
When will you fix the blank treasures glitches and the UNOBTAINABLE Doghnut Drake?

Posted by: cvanl3rd on 01-20-2012

Regardless if its 4 or 5 bullets, the fact is that with the rate of fire and stopping power being what they are it doesnt matter. Even if you yourself are using the FAL and Fleet Foot, if you run into a clan of try-hard, third legacy level 75s working s a team all using the FAL, youre lucky to even get off 1 shot. I am not good with the FAL and dont like to use it, nor do I have a desire to be because i feel it is a huge advantage to those who use it. I like my M9.

And as far as it being the last gun to be unlocked so it SHOULD be the most powerful, in my opinion, is dumb. By the time you get to level 50, you should be more experienced than a lower level player so why should you have an additional advantage of having a more powerful weapon. It turns people off to the game, in my opinion, and is the major reason for the amount of “rage quitters” in the game. (which by the way has no negative repercussions if you log off the PSN network) Its BS

The one thing I will agree with though is that you will NEVER make everyone happy. If the FAL is adjusted to a 5-7 shot kill, next people will be complaining that the G-Mal is too powerful. So ultimately, its a lose-lose situation.

Posted by: Patz_13 on 01-20-2012

Seems to me like everyone wants naughty dog to just remove the FAL - No matter how much you patch the game you are never going to make them happy. But I will however offer one final patch - remove fleet foot and it should be harder for us to kill people and people who CAN blindfire like m9 users will stand a HUGE chance against us. There problem should be solved then, if it isnt - well I will keep playing the game and the people who have a problem with it should just throw their CD in the garbage

Posted by: colbent on 01-20-2012

I’m not sure how your testing your changes, but maybe you guys should actually play the game with skilled FAL-SS users yourselves to see just how annoying and unfair it makes things. Please don’t follow the trend of other games by giving higher level players an advantage with an overpowered gun. I liked U2 because aside from power weapons, everything was pretty well balanced. How many weapon balancing complaints did you have for that game?

Posted by: Matt07chs on 01-20-2012

Balancing Complaints? Have you not played UC2 from day 1? There has been a lot… A LOT!

Bad players should stop complaining and learn how to play the game better.

And No, I’m not a FAL-SS user, I always go against them; and the gun is not, and I repeat, not overpowered now. That 1 extra bullet is a big help.

Posted by: devilboy3030 on 01-20-2012

what’s up w/ the GMAL now? seems like i was dieing from one or two burst last night. i appreciate the changes to the FAL, but could be better. and whats w/ making QUICK BOOM cost 10 medals?? it shouldnt cost the same as CLUSTERBOMB, seriously!!!

Posted by: Patz_13 on 01-20-2012

The gmal has always been like that - people simply switched to that instead of the fal because they knew it was going to get nerfed soon and yes - one round to the head kills you and 1.5 rounds to the body kills you as well

Posted by: Ctirad89 on 01-20-2012

I have a huge problem with the my internet connection. Really often on my tv screen show icon, that my internet connection is interrupt. It happens almost every day. It’s very frustrating! Will you fix it?

Posted by: Theturbodude on 01-20-2012

Jesus Christ. Why is everyone whinging?

The G-Mal is not overpowered, it’s a perfectly balanced weapon. It can TAKE 3-4 bursts if you MISS a few shots.

ND well done on this patch, but, I think the FAL needs a few more bullets. Perhaps make it 7? Overall, good job ND.

Posted by: cvanl3rd on 01-20-2012

I agree. I do not feel there is anything wrong with the G-Mal (and as I said before Im a M9 user not a G-Mal) I was simply pointing out that if the FAL is “fixed” people will just move on to complaining about something else, most likely the G-Mal.

Posted by: darthgrievous184 on 01-20-2012

You know what , It is an idea that came to my mind and I dont know what do you think, I love the soundtrack from the 2nd game, and I think that ND must release a DLC for U3 (but free), whit the soundtrack from the 2nd game

Posted by: illness_One on 01-20-2012

If any player is complaining about fleet foot something is wrong with you then...this booster allow you to avoid bullets and make the character move faster and smoother without fleet foot the character is heavy like a robot when you shooting and try to avoid bullets...if you don’t know how to use it and to kill an opponent just practice first before you play with it ...you don’t have to come up here and complain about it...fleet foot...bargain...team safe..are the best boosters in my opinion

Posted by: Edderick on 01-20-2012

Dear NaughtyDog,
Honestly the game has very high potential to be a great game. When I played the beta last July I was in amazed with how good the game was. The weapons were more balanced, the boosters were more balanced, and the health was perfect. Then you added a concept which in theory is a good idea, but in actuality made the game worse; the buddy system. The concept is to make people play together to stay alive longer, but in actuality everyone doing the same thing means more deaths. You also unbalanced the guns giving people that are already good with aiming and strafing a bigger edge with certain boosters and weapons. I honestly and done with this game and look forward to Operation Raccoon City in March as I believe it will take a lot of your followers away due to lack of weapons, over powering of certain weapons and boosters. I wish I could say I love the game as it is fun, but dieing over and over is not really much fun. I know I am by far from a grade A gamer, but I would expect more from a game. I am not the best at Battlefield 3, but at least I can get kills and have fun.

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