We’re listening…
The adjustments in Title Update 1.05 have been live in the multiplayer modes now for a week and we’ve been following what you’ve been saying very closely.
By arne | Twitter @arnemeyer | Tuesday February 23 2010
It’s been a week since we released Title Update 1.05 to our multiplayer community. Without a doubt, this has been our most talked about update to multiplayer to date and for good reason – there were a lot of additions and adjustments we made and not all of them were received well by everyone. This is something we’ve seen from your comments on our blog, on Facebook, in various forums, and via Twitter.
Our game designers have been discussing some further adjustments to what we introduced with Title Update 1.05; some of those we’ve been trying out during our daily playtesting sessions. We don’t have anything we can share yet, however we’ll be forthcoming as to the “what” and “when” regarding any future adjustments so you know what to expect.
We value our multiplayer community and your feedback quite a bit. As Richard mentioned during his session at the D.I.C.E. Summit last week, collaboration and iteration is an integral part of our development process. Including the voice of our community as part of this process is important to us as we continue supporting the multiplayer modes to UNCHARTED 2.
We’re listening.
Posted by: DTS_MAN on 02-24-2010
i play everyday too even when i really should catch up on some sleep! 
Its an awesome game.
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Posted by: CaptainGillette on 02-24-2010
First off, thanks for the blog post - a little shout to the fan base is always good to allay the fears of the rabble. I always knew you cared. 
As a diehard fan of the game (my wife often tells friends that I’m going to leave her for Nolan North one day), I have to say that the 1.05 update is neither “totally killing the game!!!”, nor is it “the best update evar!!!”. I really disliked it when it first hit the server, and although I am more accustomed to playing it now, I still would agree with my fellow players on several points. The game isn’t “worse”, as much as it is “markedly different than the game I loved”. It’s probably unnecessary and redundant for me to list reasons here, but just to echo the sentiments of others:
- New medals are mostly great. I’m not sure why you’d want to reward me for dying five times in a row, though. The main issue is that the added cash per round negates several boosters. ‘Deposit’ is practically moot because I can earn just as much or more without it, particularly when deaths come too frequently to get 5 captures like I used to. The honor badges have also been severely changed (half-loaded means less because fewer bullets are required for a kill, and half-health is practically suicide). The new center-screen medal placement is ok, but it’s hidden behind the scoreboard for post-death medal popups (which is most of them for me!) - the old corner placement was nice and unobtrusive.
- The increased weapon power is, for the most part, not awful. It has very much shifted my style of game play from “run and gun” to “run and hide”. I find myself engaging in fewer epic shootouts, and spending more time waiting to respawn. My k/d ratio hasn’t changed because I kill and die more in equal measures… it’s just a faster and more brutal game, which feels less about who’s the better shot or strategist and more about who saw who first and had the biggest gun.
- The new AFK kick is great (haven’t seen a single idle player since the update). Well done!
- The number of quitters seems to have been either unaffected or increased by the new penalties. High-rank players don’t give a hoot about losing cash and are happy to drop a match if they’re losing. I still would advocate a time-penalty over a cash penalty. Each quit would increase the amount of time you have to wait before joining a new match. This would be merely an inconvenience for the occasional disconnection, but a complete hindrance to the habitual quitter, making it more convenient to just stay in the game than to leave the team short.
- Auto-shoulder switch seems to be pretty much universally reviled. I can see why some might like it, but it definitely should be optional. It loses me the shot more often than not.
- If you decide to keep the sniper as a one-hit-anywhere weapon, then at least make the “Head Hunter” medal worth $1000 or more to reward those with better aim for trying, and maybe reduce the accuracy when not using the scope.
Very much looking forward to the new DLC! Keep listening, and keep up the good work. Every award is well-deserved.
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Posted by: daredevil666 on 02-24-2010
If this gets read id appreciate it :D
Ive been plaing UC2 now for several months online and am still hooked, 1.05 has made it quite abit more fun. I have a feww gripes 
The Glitch on the Fort which everyone knows is really annoying me, theres 2 glitches on The Ice Cave also, The Teaming system, I am lv48, enter a game with 4 level 50+ not in a group, 4 go on the other team -.- needs to be fixed 
and the respawn system is abit weird
Thanks :D:D
Daredevil666
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Posted by: littlelebanese on 02-24-2010
so i got tired of reading cause there are so many posts, but i thought i would put in my two cents.
i like the game both ways. i had more fun with more life but its still fun either way. the new update hasnt affected my k/d which usually sits in the 2.4 range. if i were to throw my main gripes they would be sniper rifle 1st off. if u are gonna make it so powerful then make it spwan less at least. on maps like village and fort where there are 2 of em people are constantly using them. i feel bad when i use the sniper cause that shit is seriously cheap.
auto aim sux enuf said.
and glitching is out of control. just yesterday i have seen a new glitch in ice cave, and in temple ive never seen, and with upped weapon damage it makes it that much harder to dodge when u know they are gltiching.
lastly i dont know why people thought shotguns were that annoying before or now. the only time the get me is when they sneak up from behind, in which case they could get u with any gun. heres a tip if u see a shotgunner aim and shoot while u back up and if u can aim u will get them easy( before and after update). and if they do come around a corner just grenade not that hard. u kill each other. anyways love the game regardless. now im gonna go kill some scrubs
Posted by: LightningBlade18 on 02-24-2010
Keep the multiplayer as it is PLEASE.
And give the U.S. RIKA RAJA and PINKERTON! plz
/naughtydog
/naughty_dog
/NaughtyDog
/naughty_dog
RSS
Posted by: SoLiDuS_187 on 02-24-2010
I dont like the new update. Its like ND wants everyone to camp. THEY need to make it its own playlist and change it to normal. That would be fair since this is not the game that 3 million people bought.
I can still do good but it bothers me that I have to change how I PLAY after 5 months and buying it at midnight to play the multiplayer. Mainly the fact is that they want me to stop and camp a little bit bothers me.
THE ENTIRE GAME, that won all these awards and got alot of people to buy for the multiplayer, WAS DESIGNED around the original amount of health.
For example, player movement speed, climbing speed, gernade damage radius, weapon locations, boosters, firing speed, the lag that has bullets hit you when your behind a wall and the LEVELS THEMSELVS all messed up by changing the health/weapon damage.
I voted for a seperate playlist because I was worried they would cchange WAY more than what was done on the “Experimental weekend.”
ALSO, AUTO SHOULDER SWITCH NEEDS TO GO. AT LEAST ENABLE US TO TURN IT OFF. Honestly, how can anyone of the talented people at ND think that was a good idea, especially after 5 months.
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: diosito1997 on 02-24-2010
STOOPKId410=== dude this is probably for u cuz u scared to still go out and fight for ur kills. and plus is more realistic and better now. its like sainy in real life you got shot once and you went down but not in the game. oh but with the coverin thing i agree it only happens at times thought!
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: rmac4323 on 02-24-2010
I agree I don’t camp I run around with several different guns… and If someone is shooting at me I duck dive and jump and they still get a head shot with the sniper or the FAL come on get real thats not skill
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: rmac4323 on 02-24-2010
can someone please fix the glitches...I mean come on I don’t know if you all have played agains bluerain and his little gang.. but come on a level 60 with team mates in the high 50’s and 60’s teaming up and using glitches… then we get penalized for leaving the cheaters… come on please fix it or set something up where we can report it
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: wsor1264 on 02-24-2010
I WANT EVAN, THE PREZ OF NAUGHTY DOG TO ADDRESS US ALL, HATERS AND NON HATERS OF 1.05. WE NEED THIS RESOLVED NOW EVAN.
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: wsor1264 on 02-24-2010
NO MORE WAITING. ITS ALREADY BEEN AN ETRNITY WAITING FOR THE GAME WE LOVE TO COME BACK. OR AT LEAST ITS OWN PLAYLIST. WE DONT BLAME YOU, WERE JUST UPSET AND MISS OUR GAME, PLEASE WE BEG
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: Maikeru-rei on 02-24-2010
Don’t exaggerate, it still takes some time to shoot someone down, you have time to take cover.
And playing carefully is not the same as camping, you can move around, only be more careful and think things through.
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: Meat_Pants on 02-24-2010
You really don’t know what you’re talking about pal. Judging by your stats you wouldn’t know proper strategy even if you claim you did. People keep continuing to say it takes strategy! It takes strategy! Those people don’t know what they’re talking about and the people responsible for testing and tweaking this game didn’t know what they we’re doing, it feels like they did this simply to make this game more inviting for the less-skilled (the general mass). What strategy is there when you can barely move any short distance before being picked off by a sniper. And if you do decided to move slowly and cautiously, you still get picked off because the damn game spawns people right in your blind side. There is absolutely no strategy now with these updates because scrubs can get more kills not because they are more skillful or devise better tactics, they camp and hide. It’s all now a matter of being at the right place at the right time. Before these updates, you would kill someone and immediately that would alert your enemy of your presence. Well think of it now, with less health what are the chances you can even get away after a kill. All it is now is a big mess of mindless kills. There is almost no time to take cover especially when your enemy has zeroed you in and you don’t know initially where it’s coming from. Believe me, you’ll get killed pretty quickly. Try actually playing the game before you mouth off stuff you don’t even know. I’m not some scrub like you who pretends he knows how to play this game. You clearly do not.
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: Origin720 on 02-24-2010
i have been playing uncharted since the beta and one thing i have big time noticed is the camping.this is not COD.haft of my freinds dont even play anymore b/c the game has changed so much.any many more will follow b/c the game has lost its fun.i play this game to run around and use skill and theres no skill in getting shot once by the faL (NOT A HEAD SHOT) a F&*^%$g foot shot.what the hell is that how r u supposed to get away from that.just change the health back to normal and make the run and gunning harder to kill players by ,and put less ammo in the hammer keep the sniper the way it is.and change little things b/c i can see alot of naughty dogs players taking there game back b/c the game has lost its fun
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: Origin720 on 02-25-2010
wsor1264 your right. me and all my freinds miss the game we first bought ,i would have never bought the game if i knew this is how it would end up. make little changes,but u start messin with the heath and the game is stupid. well online anyway
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: SAMASAURS0711 on 02-24-2010
U TELL THEM, FINALLY SOMEBODY WITH A BRAIN! FIGHTING WONT FIX ANYTHING!
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: SAMASAURS0711 on 02-24-2010
U TELL IM! FINALLY SOMEONE WITH A BRAIN! FIGHTING ABOUT THIS HERE WONT SOLVE ANYTHING! AND I HOPE THEY KNOW THAT THEY HAVE TO % STEALTHN KILLS THINGS NINJA AND COVERT OPS!
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: diosito1997 on 02-24-2010
yes i agree with you sama and noctural. Naughty Dog is just making the better an they are doing good at it to so STOP COMPLAINING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: stormsshadow on 02-24-2010
Am I really the only one who notices this!! Are you all freaking zombies or something. Love the game, but the issues above are totally killing the multiplayer. The fact that so few people are acknowledging this really sucks. Translation=naughty dog will do nothing to fix. Dont you people want these issues addressed???
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: xCaptainAmazing on 02-24-2010
I love the update. run and gun was so silly, and the fact that you actually have to use cover now is great. I would agree on balancing the sniper rifle though. It should probably still need two shots.
Fact is that it’s much better now since the games don’t take forever to finish. Despite what people are saying about camping (which is an issue regardless of health amount), the games do seem to move with a much better pace
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: Origin720 on 02-24-2010
run and gunning is silly ,but the health being the way is now is making ppl camp more and making ppl leave more too.which really sucks for the player left all alone against a team of high badges how is that fair .your left for dead,b/c the game has changed so much.example when i first started playing the game and my team left.i had a chance to come back somewhat. now u have a whole squad coming at.the health the way it was made the game so u could have a chance if things turned out that way its not COD its not suppost to be one shot kill its uncharted.its a game not real life ,leave the real life shooter games to COD,MAG,or any other game of its kind
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: DTS_MAN on 02-24-2010
Totally agree, i love this game now the update is in place.....the only people who complain are the level up lovers. Its not a camp fest, its more if your acurate you can get kills in. Simple.
ND please DO NOT CHANGE IT BACK...BUT PLEASE CHANGE THE AUTO SWITCH SHOUDLER THINGY-MA-JIG!
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: diosito1997 on 02-24-2010
This update just made the whole game much more better. and plus for all of you level up lovers. the point of the game is for you to have skill patience and stragety. please dont change the uupdate Naughty Dog.
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: Meat_Pants on 02-24-2010
Please elaborate what skill is required with this update. Even before this update, you could simply hide and camp and if you we’re good enough you could still get kills. However, with this update, it’s become a camper’s delight. The people who do not like this update aren’t necessarily going around running and gunning. I sure as hell didn’t. I took moved around cautiously but with this update, I’m better off standing in one spot with my back against a wall because people want to hide/camp because they know it’s easy now to kill people with the Fal or Sniper. You call that skill? The one’s who enjoy that are the ones who couldn’t get kills in the first place. But now all of the sudden they are better strategists? Please. I’m almost sure you were frustrated because it was too hard for you to get kills. Now with this update, you can hide in your comfort zone without sticking your neck out to get your kills. That’s not skill buddy and Naughty Dog overlooked the fact that it makes the gameplay unbalanced when one tactic is favorable over any other.
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: law952 on 02-24-2010
well i love update1.05,but there is about half who like it and half who don’t, why don’t have a health that meets in the middle of the new and old health try 80%, then there’s the best of both worlds, and then you don’t have to spend wasting time fixing a problem that doesn’t really need to be fixed, and more time on making more maps, yes there are new maps coming tomorrow, but there are many maps that could be used for multiplayer mode from uncharted 2 campain, like the train yard, Borneo jungle set,with the old ships in the middle and that could also be a co-op objective set, going through the jungle, then there’s so many maps on uncharted drake’s fortune, like the tanker on the final chapter, and the treasure room, and have the set piece, (when something happens on the multipalyer maps), have the treasure being lifted from the middle of the map.
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: sillydadda on 02-24-2010
All this update does is encourage camping and sniping with the FAL - BORING! Not a game of skill at all; the games just take an interminably long time and the game is now just tedious. I’m a level 60 and can snipe as well as anyone - in fact my ratio has gone up since the update (if you can’t beat em, join em!); it’s just not as good an online game as it was before.
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: Origin720 on 02-24-2010
agree sillydadda
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: BenHoppus on 02-24-2010
You are a * moron, go play MW2 you pussy.
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: diosito1997 on 02-24-2010
Moron, Pussy seriously BenFuppop
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lol lol ben
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: DarkKillzone2Cat on 02-24-2010
i do have mw2
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: SoLiDuS_187 on 02-24-2010
The didnt listen to me and the other half of people who said thed didnt like it or that it should be its own playslit(what I voted for).
Also not many people voted. Changing any game this much 5 months after release is going to piss people off. Especially that the changes they made were more drastic then the changes we voted on.
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: thedrizzle85 on 02-24-2010
don’t change it don’t change it! haha. i’m level 51 and lovin’ it, for all those that thing 1.5 only good for newbs. so please just leave it, maybe nerf down the irons a bit. lol
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: SoLiDuS_187 on 02-24-2010
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Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: diosito1997 on 02-24-2010
This update is awsome. althought this is my first time trying it because i was beating another game (MCLA) i still thinkthis new update is kool. now you really have to fight to stay alive, also its more realistic now since with less shots you die now. New update rocks!!
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: KokoLaBoy on 02-24-2010
1.05 is Fine. The game was getting too easy and predictable before. I wish they would allow more features in Survival and Gold Rush like Cinema review, Boosters and Skins.
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: Pat_on_your_back on 02-24-2010
@Everyone:
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=uncharteddf&thread;.id=114683&view=by_date_ascending&page=1
Read this post and you’ll see that what Naughty Dog changed in terms of weapon damage was decreasing the number of bullets required for a kill by 1(except for the micro 9mm, the 92fs 9mm, and the sniper). In most cases, that is a percentage decrease of 12-18%.
In fact, the 1.05 update effectively reduces the health to a point in between the normal health (100%) and the crushing health (65%). Other than that, they’ve removed the differentiation between leg damage and body damage, they’re now the same thing (shooting the leg = shooting the body).
Therefore, the effective health is now somewhere like 75-80% of the normal pre-update health, which isn’t the monumental difference many of you are making it out to be.
The big difference is in effective strategies for playing the game pre- and post-update. You can’t run-n-gun like Rambo anymore and expect to hold a K/D ratio at or above 1.0 ... you certainly don’t have to camp, but you have to be much more strategical about your movements around the map and at mid-far range, aiming is now more crucial than ever because 1 bullet makes a larger difference than before.
Also, now the sniper should be treated as a power weapon much like the RPG and Hammer, which is similar to many other online shooters. Honestly, it was quite useless and severely underused before the update. I prefered any rifle to the Sniper, even an AK. While ND admittedly may have gone a little too far with the sniper, it doesn’t take much time to get used to.
In two sittings of playing deathmatch after the update, I adapted to the new dynamic of the game and have been doing much better than before. I averaged a K/D of 1.5 before the update (~8500 kills, level 50), and now my K/D is probably around 2.0 since the update. I play deathmatch almost exclusively, so my numbers are from games exclusively focused on maximizing kills and minimizing deaths as opposed to objective or plunder games.
When I first played the beta a while back, I had to start from scratch to develop a strategy to dominate the game. Since the patch, I’ve done the same thing, but this time, the strategy is paying off more dramatically than before. I, for one, love the new challenge and support any further modifications Naughty Dog has in mind.
I love you guys! =)
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: killme07 on 02-24-2010
sounds like to me that people don’t like to have to actually hide now when they get shot cause I wouldn’t even get on and play mp before cause you got run over so bad by whoever picked up the shotgun first or the m23 now people actually have a fighting chance and the bullys don’t like it ha ha ha way to go ND!!! keep it up
Log in to reply to this commentPosted by: Omega1k on 02-24-2010
Update is great!
Log in to reply to this commentOnly got Uncharted 2 a month ago, but I’m loving it! I thought you guys did fantastic with the Jak and Daxter series, but the Uncharted games are just amazing!
Think that the Moss should get a little tweak though, someone always comes up behind me and kills me in one hit.
Posted by: GarrMan on 02-24-2010
I’m with you 100 percent man. I couldn’t agree more. You hit the nail right on the head. This game was rockin before 1.05. Now i die with a fal before i can even take cover. There are snipers everywhere now and i cant even step in an open field without dying. please change it back naughty dog
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