SolidSnakex
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When you boot up the beta youll find weve included 2 playlists for you to try out: co-op and competitive. If youve got friends, weve made it easy to play together just hit the triangle button to see your PSN friends list and you can send them an invite, join their party, or just check out their profile. Keep in mind that for the beta, the party size is limited to 5 for competitive and 3 for co-op!
The competitive playlists contains 2 maps, with 2 game types available on each: Deathmatch and Plunder. Deathmatch is pretty similar to what youve come to expect out of team deathmatch in other games. Plunder is Naughty Dogs take on capture the flag. At the start of a round, weve placed a treasure in a neutral location on the map and the first team to bring it back to their capture chest scores a point three points to win. What takes this mode into the UNCHARTED universe? Easy; you can now throw the treasure quite a ways in any direction in some cases, youll HAVE to if you want to score a point.
The biggest thing to keep in mind while playing in competitive matches is to keep thinking three dimensionally. There are many, many different places to climb, hide, and shoot from above ground level. The best advice I can give: remember to look up. And keep moving if you stay in one place too long, you are likely to have your neck snapped from behind or even be pulled off the ledge you are perched on!
As for the cooperative playlist, weve put in a snippet of one of our co-op experiences. Our co-op setups are really rocking right now with three people playing as Drake, Sully, and Chloe as they fight their way through a war-torn city to recover a treasure worth a fortune. In this mode, teamwork is everything and running off alone is a sure way to get killed. Thankfully, in most cases except for, say, being blown up youre not out of the game. If youve been downed, you can be revived by one of the other players before your timer runs out! If everyone wipes, you start at the last checkpoint you passed, but be careful, if everyone wipes three times the match is over and you have to start over again. Oh, and keep an eye out on the combo meter on the upper right of the screen. Keep your combo meter increasing by getting kills, picking up treasures or completing objectives and youll get a multiplier to the points and cash youre accumulating. Enemy kills are worth different point amounts depending on what gun you used, so experiment to get the best results. Ill give you a hint, pistols are awesome.
A quick note on your rank and the Profile screen. You are ranked on the total amount of online cash you have earned. This includes both the co-op and competitive modes, so you can rank up either way. In competitive, you earn cash for defeating enemies, and earning medals. In co-op, you earn cash for your point score and by earning medals. You can see your rank both next to your name in the lobby and scoreboard, as well as in the Profile screen. In the Profile screen you can see your rank and how far until the next level, you can select Boosters to give yourself a leg up in competitive multiplayer, and select your player skins for competitive multiplayer. Remember to select your boosters before playing competitive multiplayer, and be aware that boosters do not apply in the co-op playlist.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/06/01/uncharted-2-among-thieves-multiplayer-beta-starts-june-3/