The Last of Us: New Patch And Map Pack Available Now

October 21, 2013 Games News, Hot Topics, NX, Playstation 3, Sony
The Last of Us: New Patch And Map Pack Available Now

The Last of Us: New Patch And Map Pack Available Now. Abandoned Territories Map Pack and Patch 1.05 available now.

Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed The Last of Us gets its first batch DLC. Available now is the Abandoned Territories Map Pack which includes four new territories to play on. The four maps are as follows: Bookstore, Hometown, Bus Depot, and Suburbs. If you want to know what to expect with each map, here is a little blurb on each territory:
Bookstore– You might remember the bookstore in Pittsburgh. The bookstore is a very small map. This is one that might be pretty popular because it is very small and forces you to get into firefights.
Hometown
Bus Depot– Bus Depot takes us to Salt Lake City, Utah in a very iconic section of the game. Bus Depot might be the best looking map of them all. It’s a very vivid and pretty map to look at. Also, it’s a wide open map with not a lot of cover. Plus, you might find some friends in the distance.
Bus Depot
Hometown– Hometown is a real interesting one just because hometown is featured in Texas. What makes it interesting is because, as you might remember, the game starts off in Texas and you really couldn’t explore too much of it as all things went to hell really quick.
Suburbs
Suburbs– Last, but not least is the Suburbs which is a map that will feature a lot of strategy. This is a map that veterans will love as noobs will struggle at first. The Suburbs takes place during the “Sniper Fight” part of the story and as you might remember there was uneven terrain, wide open middle, a lot of sneaky areas on the sides with the houses. Suburbs has the makings of a really fun map to play on.
The new Abandoned Territories Map isn’t all though. Their is also a new patch, Patch 1.05 which features quite a bit of tweaks. Here is a video of the major changes:

If you want to see all changes with Patch 1.05; here’s the list:

MULTIPLAYER
Abandoned Territories Map Pack DLC

  • DLC playlist added for each game type.  This includes both the retail maps and the DLC maps, but the DLC maps should appear much more frequently in the vote.

Gameplay

  • Fixed an issue where players on the winning team would occasionally get fully crafted items or machetes from caches, while players on the losing team would get incorrect items.
  • Players should no longer get comeback weapons (pre-crafted molotovs / bombs / purchase weapons) when they are winning by more than a small margin.
  • Fixed the consistency of comeback weapons spawning – there should be less comeback weapons in close matches and more consistent spawning in severely unbalanced matches. Once a player receives comeback weapons, however, they will not receive them again until a certain amount of progress has occurred in the match.
  • 2×4 Spawning logic has been adjusted in Supply Raid and Interrogation:
    • Fixed a bug where it would occasionally be impossible for a player to receive a 2×4 in a game.
    • Reworked the initial 2×4 spawning logic to make the first 2×4 spawn a bit later to balance the escalation of the match.
    • Lowered the overall number of potential 2x4s that could spawn in a match by including weighting based on match progress.
  • The additional hit on modded melee weapons has been moved from Brawler Level 1 to Level 2, and the health gain from melee hits moved from Level 2 to 1.
  • Added a Parts bonus for late joiners, based on when you join a match in progress. This bridges the gap between players who started from the beginning of the game and might have a Parts advantage over the late joiner.
  • When late-joining beyond the first 2 minutes that match will no longer count towards any clan progress or missions.
  • Fixed an issue on Checkpoint and Lakeside that had locations where some items could not be picked up.
  • Made a fix to prevent players from being able to climb the tilted flag pole on the High School map.
  • Fixed an issue with level graphics dropping out on The Dam.

Interrogation Mode Fixes

  • Games no longer end in ties unless both teams are on the same section of the unlocking process.  If one team has more interrogations than the other, that team will win the match.
  • The additional parts bonus for winning by a large margin is only awarded when the lockbox is fully unlocked.  Otherwise only the standard win bonus is awarded.
  • Killcard now correctly describes whether your character was executed or interrogated.
  • Fire on the ground (from a Molotov) now damages the player when they attempt to unlock the lockbox and will properly interrupt the unlock process.
  • Sounds have been added to the Interrogation animation
  • Fixed a bug where the end-of-match music was not playing in Interrogation mode.

Technical Fixes

  • Intro speech should no longer occasionally be heard twice at the start of the game
  • A flashing exclamation mark will be shown on DLC option for when new items are added

SINGLE PLAYER

  • Tweaks to a couple of art assets in the game.

You can buy the Abandoned Territories Map Pack for $9.99 stand-alone or, if you’re looking for a great value, the map pack is included in the $19.99 The Last of Us Season Pass. Also, keep this in mind, The Season Pass will be available for a limited time only so be aware of that. You can pick that up via the PlayStation Store or at your local game retailer. Also, if you want to know what the season pass is, here are Naughty Dog’s DLC plans.

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