UNCHARTED 2 Title Update now up

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A required Title Update for UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves is now up. Details on what’s been changed and addressed after the jump.

By arne | Twitter @arnemeyer | Friday October 30 2009

As you may have spotted on the PlayStation.blog, the next time you start up UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves you will be required to download an update to the game. (Japan and Asia regions — your update will be available next week.)

Here’s the list of (most of) the changes we made. Some changes have been withheld to protect the innocent.

Addressed respawn points when the artifact goes out of bounds in the Plunder gametype
Dynamically adjust the win condition for fewer players during the course of a match
Added features to deter players from voluntarily leaving during a match
Added rate limit to “When a Chapter is Completed” Twitter event
Fixed a display issue during letterboxing
Fixed Danish Trophy description
Fixed screenshot utility in standard definition resolutions
Fixed the “Players Met” list not displaying recent players
Addressed a variety of Multiplayer connectivity issues

As we said before, there’s some more changes that were made that we didn’t list out, all in the name of improving the UNCHARTED 2 experience offline and online.

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Posted by: mercenary210 on 10-30-2009

With any luck we’ll be seeing a big update for the game soon. I love U2 multiplayer a lot but I’m really hoping to play as Eddy Raja and Roman as well as a map from the Istanbul museum, Tree of Life part of Shambhala and some location from U1.

Posted by: Kill_GiL on 10-30-2009

any word as to if you are going to update and allow more weapons to choose from in multiplayer mode? (single player has so many more weaps and it would be great to have a larger selection as well in multiplayer)

Posted by: iAMjacksID on 10-30-2009

I was thinking it would be nice to fix some controls. Mainly just make it where you pick up ammo when you press triangle and pick up weapons when you hold triangle. Also, when you push circle you roll and when you hold circle you take cover. Too many times I pick up a gun instead of ammo or take cover next to a grenade instead of rolling out of the way. Just a thought, no big deal.

Posted by: xBIGDOGGx on 10-30-2009

The covering like you said, when you roll, is the BIGGEST drawback of the game, I love the roll feature, but 8/10 times, I will take cover next to a grenade or directly in the line of fire, instead of rolling into a room or around a corner like I was trying to do.

Posted by: PancakeButt on 10-30-2009

This did not fix the major problem of CHARACTER FREEZING on competitive play modes. it works better at night less to none freezing but during the day its horrible making the game unplayable. this a big issue and i hope you resolve this. i don’t wanna hear we’re looking into this crap i wanna see things done not some skelzor and zombie skins.

Posted by: Kill_GiL on 10-30-2009

p.s. sry for the double post

Posted by: Kill_GiL on 10-30-2009

so far its missing the mp 40, the german pistol (i forgot the name of it), the crossbow and i think 2 more which i can not remember ill have to check again. it would add more variety to the game since its MOSTLY FAL and AK47 as main weapons. just an idea and im sure alot of ppl would love a few more weps in there from the single player if u did a poll or something.

Posted by: like18midgets on 10-30-2009

Yeah, I’ve been wondering about that too. The single player has the MP40, the PO8 (the german pistol lol) and the WES-44. The multiplayer doesn’t have any of these, which makes me sad, because I LOVE the MP40.

Posted by: Tox8ik on 10-30-2009

I like the update for sure, the penalty thing is great to detour people from quitting when the going gets tough… kinda sucks though when you get kicked out of Playstation account only to sign back in and have it say it detected that you didn’t finish your last game and take your moneys. :(

Posted by: clone555 on 10-30-2009

40k ??? That’s an awful lot of cash for someone who earns on average between 3 and 6 k per game… and it will take it even if it’s not my fault? Bad move guys.

ND really should have addressed other problems first before doing this. I played a game last night against 4 level 43’s and a level 28. On our team levels range from 8 to 20. Needless to say it was horrible. Seriously, not fun. I stayed till the bitter end.. 20 minutes and maybe $3k for the pleasure.

This is a common problem and I’ve seen lots of comments about it. If people are leaving games early it’s for a reason. Did you not think to understand why people are leaving games early? You dump them in a game way out of their league, then you fine them for not playing the turkey in a turkey shoot?

I love the game and I hate complaining about it, but when I have to wait 10 minutes for matchmaking to find a game, and then I see that… well it’s just very disappointing.

I don’t doubt your good intentions, and it’s great to see your supporting the game with updates, but please guys, think about it, and try again.

Posted by: JeroenSeerden on 10-30-2009

I’m not sure but there is in Singleplayer a weapon that isn’t in multiplayer. Maybe you can change that. I thought the name was MP490.
About the update; I like it a lot, i also like Skelzor and Dead Explorer. Only you can see the red eyes of Skelzor very clear. :l But it’s awesome!

Posted by: that-acmilan-guy on 10-30-2009

Hey arne, does this patch fix the multiplayer character freezing issues. What i came to realize, 1st match always goes smooth, from 2nd match things start to happen, 3rd match it freezes all the time.

Posted by: Tox8ik on 10-30-2009

Also I like Skelzor and the glowing eyes is cool and all but in multiplayer his eyes shouldn’t glow, guess the heart thing would be okay. basically you can see those bright red eyes from a mile away so sucks when you trying to hide and i can’t switch character since its halloween thing and all.

Posted by: Hamster_Bear on 10-30-2009

Ok, there is a serious problem with one aspect of the update. I understand the logic behind penalizing people who leave games, but I (and many other people) occasionally get a connection error while playing and get booted from the game involuntarily. This happened to me already since the update, and lo and behold, my rank went down and I was docked $40,000. This needs to be fixed ASAP!

Posted by: princess1213 on 10-30-2009

I think the $40000 penalty is too much for players leaving the game. If you get a friend invite and want to go play with them, or you get kicked from the psn that is not quite fair. There should be another way to discourage leaving just because you are doing badly but losing that much is just too crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(

Posted by: UrbanG_SHK on 10-30-2009

yo what the hell is goin on. i get into a game with super lag so i left nd lost 40Gs (thats fine) try to play again nd my PS3 froze i turned it back on nd it said i lost another 40Gs nd u levelled me down 5 levels!!!!!. now that aint my dam problem. i no u guys can and do record the games so will u plz check it out. my PSN is UrbanG_SHK nd the game was around 8PM GMT london time.
o nd to make things worse it happened AGAIN HYPER LAG so i probably dont even have a lvl now.
plz see if u can get my lvl back up i mean if it aint my falt it aint fair. i love the game but wont play a total joke.

Posted by: NotSoSilent on 10-30-2009

Killed the game. I get random disconnects and now each time my internet drops Im getting chared 40,000 cash. Out of the last 8 games that I have played I have LOST more cash then people have won. Thanks ND you just messed up a great online game.

Posted by: NotSoSilent on 10-30-2009

yea replying to my own comment but seems that everyone else is against such a harsh withdrawal if you get dropped from a game. Glad I got the trophies when it first came out time to sell the game cause the online is BROKEN with the team balancing and now the penalties for leaving.

Posted by: clone555 on 10-30-2009

That’s just crazy. I only have about 60K… double cash weekend or not, I think I’m just going to go back to single player until this is fixed. Try get that platinum… please fix it soon. I love this game!

Posted by: Ullyses1000 on 10-30-2009

Naughty Dog, the players met still won’t work for me. It’s not just me but a friend of mine has this aswell. The last players I met are from Street Fighter 4 back in April or something and that friend of mine’s last players met are COD4 players.

Interestingly though my gf’s players met works fine (she plays Uncharted 2 multiplayer on my PS3 with her own account). She has never met any players before since I created the account for her just for LittleBigPlanet, which she only played in Single Player and now she’s into Uncharted 2’s multiplayer.

I really hope this helps you guys to isolate and fix the problems. Uncharted 2’s multiplayer is the first PS3 multiplayer game that I have played so intensively ever. So I really want that players met fixed so to meet new people and play together like in Gears and Halo.

Posted by: pro_ballin2132 on 10-30-2009

Naughty Dog, you are awesome. I wish all developers supported their games as well as you do. It is clear that you guys are really proud of your online component (as you should be) and it really shows when you are making great updates such as this. Thanks a bunch and keep up the good work. Uncharted 2 has been my favorite game of all time since October 13.

Posted by: BigBoss93 on 10-30-2009

love everything except “Added features to deter players from voluntarily leaving during a match”. Seriously? I lose money just cause I didn’t want to play a game and left 5 seconds in? Could you make it so we could leave before the game starts so people do lose money? Please and thanks, otherwise the update is great.

Posted by: NaseerKU on 10-30-2009

naughtydog IM realy love and fan of yor works ....

UNCHARTED 2 IS THE MOST AWSOME GEAM IN ONLINE & SINGL PLEYR.

ALL WHO WORKS ON UNCHARTED 2 I SEE TO HIM : you guy’s are freaken’ awesome.Thanks for everything.

Posted by: Ravonic on 10-30-2009

Now if I just could get twitter to work. I know the login is exactly right because my laptop is sitting right here and I used the same exact details to log in. My email has an underscore in it though, and when I look at the display after I input my login it shows a space instead of an underscore. I think the game might be accidentally parsing it out.

Posted by: ent-root on 10-30-2009

While it can be annoying to wait through a round where you are getting pulverized, I absolutely love the penalty. I’m tired of people popping out midgame regardless of us winning or losing, it makes me smile to know they are getting what they deserve.

To those with connection issues sorry, but you are in the minority here, get a better connection :(?

Posted by: clone555 on 10-30-2009

The penalty is not a fix. It’s a poor solution to problems ND have been unable to fix.

Match making is broken. It stacks high ranked players against low ranked players, and so people leave. They lose out because they had a bad game. You lose out because they left and ruined your game. It’s lose-lose and the fine doesn’t fix it, it just forces people to continue in games they are not enjoying. And on top of that it fines people for having bad connections.

People are still complaining about their players freezing up. I saw this a lot in the beta. I have only seen it once since the launch. But when it happens the game is unplayable.

There are also fundamental design flaws in the game. For example, the decision to not allow players to join a game in progress. It wouldn’t be such a big problem if players could be added after the game starts.

I think the fine is a good idea, but putting it in place before addressing these fundamental problems is a cop out.

Posted by: FIsForFunkU on 10-30-2009

ND, PLEASE READ:
I have NEVER played a game where winning doesn’t benefit the winning team in some way. I know you get money based on how many captures and kills you make, but I’ve never seen a game without some type of winning team benefit. Hell, even Warhawk gives the winning team an extra 50 points…

Posted by: Sodan-1 on 10-30-2009

I too get very annoyed with people who leave games early, sometimes leaving two players to take on a team of five. But such a penalty is too extreme. My PS3 has frozen three times while playing Uncharted 2 and my connection is the best I can get where I live. I’m not good enough to be able to afford to lose $40K everytime technology lets me down. Instead of penalising those who leave early, why not let other players join after a match has started in order to balance teams out.

I must be the only one who wants less weapons in multiplayer. I’ve lost track of the amount of times I’ve got the drop on someone only to get killed because they float around special weapon spawn points. The M32 and RPG-7 are far too powerful compared to the standard AK and 92FS. I don’t want to rely on getting to the big guns first all the time.

Posted by: Borss36 on 10-30-2009

It’s funny that now that there’s a penalty for quitting, all of a sudden there’s an epidemic of people getting “randomly” disconnected. you people are too much. Ignore these lying quitters ND. We will all be better off without these losers.

Posted by: MADGAME on 10-30-2009

Seems like every post is about suggestions so here’s mine. I’d love a borneo map...specifically in the resting tomb of marco polo’s crew with all the skeletons. It could be real dark so stealth would be encouraged...flash from weapon fire would give away your position.

Also what about a 2 or 3 players as demon yeti versus 7 or 8 players as heroes with limited weaponry. The Yeti players could climb fast and throw stuff...seems like there’s a lot of potential there.

Also, it would be cool to play as any hero skin in co-op modes.

Anyway...thanks for making the game of the year!!

Posted by: jimiclapton on 10-30-2009

Nice to see the continued support guys, keep it up! I have one gripe with the update though. In order to accept a party invite I have to quit the current match, but this gives me a 30 second penalty and if it happens again, it’s a 90 second penalty and a $40,000 fine. Please find a way around this Naughty Dog, I shouldn’t be punished for playing with friends.

Posted by: SweetReggie on 10-30-2009

You’re not forced to play. Disconnect all you want! Now there’s just a penalty.

I personally appreciate the disconnect penalty, though I would have figured it’d be around $5,000 or $10,000. I’ve been disconnected a couple times, and a couple times I’ve quit in a blind rage because I was getting destroyed so badly, but at least 90 percent of the time the games go perfectly smoothly, so I’ll come out ahead in the long run. And if I do end up quitting, I’ll have to think long and hard about it, which is what I should do anyway.

Posted by: Vertimus on 10-30-2009

Hey ND,

I was enjoying the multiplayer so much with a buddy of mine, but the patch seemingly made us unable to party up right after downloading. I always see him as “playing single player” even though he’s in lobby. Nothing happens after we accept each other’s invite. Any idea what went wrong here? Thanks in advance!

Posted by: くれのすけ on 10-30-2009

Same thing that’s happening with me. I’m playing the Japanese version and my brother’s on the NA version. Since the Japanese and Asian patches aren’t going up until next week, we’re essentially playing different versions of the game and will have to wait a week before we can play the game together again. Incredibly frustrating.

Posted by: deeve682 on 10-30-2009

I’ll add my 2 cents…

I never had any issues until this patch. My issues are not on my end so-to-say, but instead with my ability to connect to friends who I have played with flawlessly before the patch. Now our sessions are dropped or interrupted, and a friend of mine had 3 shut downs while we were playing matches today.

The DC penalty is a good idea for those that VOLUNTARILY leave, but for those that are DC’d beyond their control, such as a shut down or freeze, the system should be able to recognize a time-out. Even programs as simple as mIRC (or other IRC programs) can recognized timed vs quit.

I love this game, but it seems the major bugs have yet to be tackled. Also my players met updated with one new name from U2, and no others. I was playing multi all day.

Finally, why is there no co-op map where you are assaulting a moving train?

Posted by: deeve682 on 10-30-2009

**************EDIT****************
The main fix we have had to be able to party up again after being split is either log out and back in (to the PSN or to the multiplayer menu ingame).

It has even become necessary to redo the network settings after a crash or shut down.

Posted by: MrChamp6190 on 10-30-2009

Worst update ever. Go ahead, spend months and months making a game of the year title and release patches that kills the game completely. I’d love to see your hard work die from the horrible patches you make. Lemme guess the next update, can’t leave game no matter what.

Posted by: SpartanRon on 10-30-2009

DISCONNECT PENALTY IS RIDICULOUS! ESPECIALLY NOW BECAUSE I CAN’T EVEN LEAVE A GAME TO ACCEPT A PARTY INVITE. AND WHAT ABOUT WHEN I GET A CONNECTION ERROR. SHOULD ONLY BE IF IT’S V O L U N T A R Y. C’MON!

SHOULD BE ABLE TO VIEW STATS IN GAME. HOW HARD IS THAT?

TEAM BALANCING IS HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE!

SOMETIMES IT TAKES FOREVER TO FIND PLAYERS...AND MY CONNECTION IS FINE.

FIX THESE ISSUES...PLEASE!

Posted by: SpartanRon on 10-30-2009

i feel like i need to say this again.....

PLEASE FIX 40K PENALTY. YOU GUYS JUST SHOT YOURSELVES IN THE FOOT.

TEAM BALANCING IS HORRIBLE. JUST PLAYED A MATCH. I WAS THE HIGHEST RANK ON THE TEAM (39), WITH A COUPLE SINGLE DIGIT RANKS. WE PLAYED A TEAM WITH 3 40-RANKS & A RANK 50.

NOT FUN AT ALL. I MEAN, GIMME A BREAK.

GREAT GREAT GREAT GAME...BUT MAJOR ADJUSTMENTS NEED TO BE MADE. PLEASE!

Posted by: jimiclapton on 10-31-2009

Agreed, there are some massive balancing issues that need to be fixed, it seems there is no team balancing system at all in this game. So many times it’s me and a bunch of level 5’s versus a bunch of level 30’s/40’s. And NO-ONE is in a party. Maybe people would leave less if the teams were always fair.

I’d like to say that this is a GREAT game, but unfair teams can ruin the experience.

Posted by: ExileDownUnder on 10-30-2009

just need to ask a question guys.
i dont get a lot of time to play so when i do i’d like to have a good time.

lately i’ve been playing online and have had enemies kill me and my teamates in 3 shots or so with AK47s. i was told by my local game store that they have a code for a special code they got when they pre-ordered. well, i pre-ordered and i got no such code.
truth be told, i dont really want the code, i just want a fun and fair game, where i can enjoy myself and not have myself and my teamates die in 10 seconds flat from a team of ak47s.

one of the good points of this game was that it catered for all kinds of gamers. u could sign in and have a good game where a level 5 could kill a level 30, take a few shots to die unless shot by a powerfull weapon that someone picked up, not spawn with a special weapon and own everyone regardles of skill. if i want to die instantly i can play 1st person games and not uncharted. i can put up with the occasional unkillable “players” but this is just annoying.

i was also told that the code is unavailable in oz and that people are buying the code from others online which is why there are so many more players having those weapons

any coments would be much appreciated
kudos on a fantastic game with great replay value
and thanks for reading

cheers

Posted by: SuperMarioPsycho on 10-31-2009

Naughty Dog their is a HUGE problem with the quit deterrent system. Today i was attempting to host a three player COOP objective match. The game (server) crashed 3-5 times. We had to quit because the game would boot out one player after the match started due to server failure. However after logging on later today I received a “notice” that because I was forced to quit a COOP game because the server was messed up (it kicked me out three times and we had to quit out three other times because the player “ghosted” in), a sweet little notice that I was being docked 40k and reduced a level. I can understand using tha tas a detterent to prevent abuse so games are even keel, but punishing players because of server problems? Thats an oversight with an unfair consequence against your customers/supporters. I’m appalled and demand that the 40k and LEVEL is returned to me.

Posted by: lego123 on 10-31-2009

That penalty was just plain wrong approach from ND’s part, since this is actually worse than it was before. And 40k is just ridiculous. There would have been so many better solutions for the problem. Atleast on my part every time I have “quitted “ a game, it has been due to laggy servers and psn signing out by itself and such.

Posted by: Bomberman65 on 10-31-2009

Great just great. I now cant find a game at all. I just keeps going through searching for optimum game, searching for close game, searching for any game. It just keeps going through those all the time. It was working fine this afternoon now nothing. This is ridiculous. I also recon to just drop the cash loss to $10,000.

Posted by: Richmund on 10-31-2009

I’ve actually noticed that since the update it’s been way faster to find a game. Before this I used to just get my laptop and sit there messing around whilst it was finding a game as it literally took that long. Now I can just sit down and play uncharted without the ridiculously long wait. GREAT JOB!!

Posted by: Richmund on 10-31-2009

was just reading the above comments about the 40k penalty and I’m appalled. Has it ever occurred to you that sometimes you have to stop playing uncharted in the middle of a game? In that situation am I just meant to leave my character standing there and not quit out? That won’t help my team mates at all and it’s just stupid. Why not reward players for not quitting rather than punish them for quitting? For example: go 10 games in a row you get 10k? With rewards building up over time the more games you go without quitting.

Posted by: OldSnake11 on 10-31-2009

two things i am 13 years old i enjoy playing uncharted 2 multiplayer but on school nights sometimes my parents tell me to go to bed so if im in the middle of a game what i am supposed to do ignore my parents? and i frequently get conection errors that i cannot do anything about because it is the best i can get for my area. think about this a multiplayer shouldnt be demanding you play it you should be able to just pick it up and play some of us actually have lives outside our bedrooms what if i have stuff to do am i just supposed to stand there until the game ends? a better solution to ending up with 1 on 5 battles is to let players join after a game has started then it would balance out i lost 3 levels because i have a really bad connection i dont really care anout the cash because im not high enough level to buy what i want anyway but i cant get to that level if you keep docking me my levels my account is oldsnake11 and i demand my 3 levels be returned any who agree and hate the new patch can add me as a friend until this patch is deleted and my levels returned i am going to stop playing uncharted multiplayer which is a shame because i used to enjoy before you made this piece of BS sorry this is so long it just really annoyed me
-Oldsnake11

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UNCHARTED 2 Title Update now up

A required Title Update for UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves is now up. Details on what’s been changed and addressed after the jump.

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