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Anthony McGlynn

Behold, the glorious and "very broken" Last of Us 2 multiplayer mod that modders built in a cave with a box of scraps after Naughty Dog canceled Factions plans

Ellie in The Last of Us 2.

One of the great disappointments of The Last of Us Part 2 was the lack of multiplayer. Factions injected more life into the first, and offered an alternative way to play if hacking through Cordyceps was stressing you out. Almost six full years after release, modders are righting Naughty Dog’s wrong for the follow-up, and fans are in awe.

The modder Speclizer revealed they were toying with the idea of bringing unofficially multiplayer to The Last of Us 2 just last week. A dab hand at constructing such things, having made several other modifications for Joel and Ellie’s zombie-infested misadventures and the God of War games, they emerged with a working model only days later.

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