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Overview:
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 5/10
- Offline: 46
- Online: 2 - Unobtainable due to server closure.
- Approximate time to : 20-25 hours.
- Minimum playthroughs: 2
- Missable trophies: 0
- Glitched trophies: 0
- Do cheats disable trophies?: No
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: No, except for the Charted! trophies
- Trophy breakdown: 36/
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Introduction:
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is an action/adventure 3rd person game. The puzzles are usually easy and it also has a lot of gunfights. The big difference from the first game in the series is the added online multiplayer. The online does not require any grinding as you only need to complete a round of competitive and cooperative multiplayer. The single-player will have you go through at least two playthroughs, one on hard and one on crushing difficulty, and most likely some chapter select to clean up the rest of the trophies. Look below for a step by step roadmap to platinum Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.
Walkthrough:
Step 1: Hard playthrough while focusing on weapon and combat trophies
Just play through the game on hard and enjoy it. If you're not to worried about a fresh playthrough, you could also use the treasure videos (see "Master Fortune Hunter") as you go along. If not, wait for step four to get the treasures. What you should think about while playing is the Combat trophies and Weapon trophies. Always try to use a gun that you have yet to get a trophy for. Most likely, you can forget about getting the "200 Kills: GAU - 19" during your two playthroughs, so I suggest you leave that one for "Step Five". Also try to kill 75 enemies in a row without dying for the "Survivor" trophy on this playthrough. For general tips on how to play this game, refer to the "Charted! - Crushing" trophy in the guide.
Step 2: Cleaning up combat trophies using chapter select
Now it's time to take a look at the combat trophies you didn't get in step one. Look at the trophy guide and you'll find the easiest and fastest way to get them using chapter select. Feel free to play on very easy.
Step 3: Online - Unobtainable due to server closure
There are only two online trophies in this game and they are both fast to get. Play one round of competitive multiplayer and one round of Co-op multiplayer and you have all the online trophies.
Step 4: Crushing playthrough while focusing on weapon trophies
Now it's time to tackle Crushing and the treasures if you didn't get them in Step 1. Also focus on any weapon related trophies you don't have yet. No reason to worry about it if you lack several of them as you can use chapter select to get the ones you don't get during this playthrough. For tips on how to cope with the crushing difficulty, refer to the "Charted! - Crushing" trophy in the guide.
Step 5: Weapon trophies using chapter select
When finishing crushing, you might still need one or more weapon trophies. 200 Kills with the GAU is easy to miss. Just buy any missing guns from the store along with infinite ammo and one shot kills. Then use chapter select to get the last weapon trophies. I recommend replaying the start of chapter 6 as it starts off with a big firefight.
[PST Would Like To Thank Pesico for this Road Map]
DLCs:
Road Map
Overview
+ Estimated trophy difficulty: 4/10 (if boosting - legit it's 10/10)
+ Drake's Fortune DLC: 12 (1 11
)
+ Siege DLC: 11 (1 10
)
+ Total DLC Online: 23 (2 21
)
+ Approximate time: 10-75 hours
+ Minimum number of playthroughs needed: Many, many, many matches
+ Missable trophies: None
+ Glitched: None
+ Cheats: None
+ Does difficulty affect trophies?: 3 co-op maps must be done on both Hard and Crushing.
Please refer to Pesico's Trophy Guide for more details on the trophies.
If you are playing legit and want to find lots of randoms, make sure you have your matchmaking set to "Default" (not "DLC").
Boosting: While it is possible to boost, it is hard to get setup. You will need ten boosters to fill out a room. Find boosting partners in this thread. In order to pair up, have two teams of five people each (a party of six will not be able to start). In order to boost with less possibility of randoms, turn DLC ON. Have the hosts of both parties be a similar rank for more chance of being paired. Both groups should join the appropriate match (Plunder/DM/Elimination). The host should back out if he finds a group of a smaller number of players, and then search again. If you do end up with randoms thou, your best bet is to quit the match and regroup.
While I did boost a lot of this, I find it more time-consuming to get a proper group together (and getting people to actually boost) than doing it legit. For some reason a lot of people join a boost and think it means a legit match.
Walkthrough:
Step 1: Plunder
You want to start with this, as it matches players players based on rank. You should get matched with lower ranked players, if enough are available. Your goal is for your TEAM to capture 200 treasures, and in the process you will likely accomplish what you need for the other two trophies listed in this section (50 objective wins and 10 protectorate medals). Be sure to clean up these other two trophies before moving on to Elimination and Death match.
While some of the misc MP medals can be earned here (such as Tricky and Triple threat), you are better off going for them specifically in Death match.
You should get these trophies while doing this step:
[Drake's Fortune] Plundered! Get 200 Captured Medals (Your TEAM needs to capture 200 treasures in plunder mode.)
[Drake's Fortune] Plays Well With Others Win 50 Objective Games (Your TEAM needs to win objectives, which includes plunder as well as any you find under the objective playlist.)
[Siege] You Run, I'll Shoot Get 10 Protectorate Medals (While a teammate carrying the treasure is being shot, kill the opponent doing the shooting. Do this 5 times in a plunder match to get 1 medal.)
Step 2: Elimination
Win 50 Elimination Games for [Drake's Fortune] Still Alive.
Step 3: Cold Blooded
Your main goal for this step is to get 2500 kills , which will obviously take a lot of time. While doing this, get all the rest of these trophies out of the way. If you are doing this with friends, have the lowest ranked player be the host, so that you all get paired with the lowest ranked opponents, which makes this grind a lot easier.
A few of the misc medals earned in other matches will also count towards this, but you are better off going for them specifically in Death match while grinding out the 2500 kills anyhow. Most of them must be done in death match to count thou, even when it doesn't say so in the trophy description. Note that "The Lab" is considered Deathmatch, and will therefore count for these trophies (you will usually get matched with the elite campers in the lab, so I strongly suggest standard DM).
You should get these trophies while doing this step:
[Drake's Fortune] Cold Blooded Get 2,500 Kills in Deathmatch or Elimination games
[Drake's Fortune] Wipe Them Out... Win 50 Deathmatch Games
[Drake's Fortune] Sneaky... Get 50 Stealth Kill (Best with lvl 34 "Walk Softly" booster)
[Drake's Fortune] Brass Knuckles Get 100 Melee Kills (best is to blindfire, then quickly hit them)
[Drake's Fortune] Tastes Like Chicken Get 20 BBQ Medals (use propane tanks, generators and jeeps - RPG kills do NOT count)
[Drake's Fortune] Rapid Fire Get 7 Tripled Medals in Deathmatch (kill three in a short time, grenade/BBQ/gun at a group)
[Siege] I'll Cover You Get 50 Defender Medals (kill an opponent that is shooting a teammate)
[Siege] Back at Ya Get 50 Retaliation Medals (The "Revenge" Booster is great for this)
[Siege] Kneel Before Z... Get 5 Put' Em Down Medals (easiest when a teammate just misses an opponent with explosive and they fall, quickly shoot them in the head with a pistol while they are still kneeling down)
[Siege] Speedy Get 10 First! Medals (At the start of the match, run straight to the center of the map and try to get the first kill)
[Siege] Fallen Angel Get 50 Afterlife Medals (The "Revenge" Booster is great for this)
[Siege] Not So Fast Get 20 Shut'Em Down Medals (Kill a player that is on a kill streak of 5 or more)
[Siege] Jack of All Trades Get 15 Triple Threat Medals (Get at least nine kills, with at least three kills per type of weapon: long guns, pistols, and explosive {Grenade, RPG, BBQ}.)
[Siege] Rock A Rhyme Get 100 Tricky Medals (pistol kill while hanging from a ledge.)
Step 4: Co-Op
There are two reasons you are doing this last. Firstly, you want to have purchased co-op upgrades, many of which are not available until you ranked up quite a bit. Secondly, you want to do the versus matches while you have a lower rank, and thus match with other lower ranked players - if you do co-op first, you will level up and then get paired with higher level players, which are often solid campers.
Buy as many of the co-op upgrades as you can, and then find two teammates in the co-op boosting partners thread.
First you will want to complete all three maps (Nepal Warzone, The Village and The Sanctuary) on Hard, and you will unlock crushing. Then you want to beat all three maps on Crushing. (The trophies do not "stack" difficulties, so you should do it this way.)
For Survival, Gold Rush and Siege - you can go to Custom match, pick co-op, and select the map of your personal preference. This also ensures you will get the match type you desire. (If you don't go into custom match, the server will generate two random match types and map choices for you to vote on.)
You should get these trophies while doing this step:
[Drake's Fortune] I Told You I Was Hardcore! Complete All 3 Co-op Objective Maps on Hard Difficulty
[Siege] You Can't Break Me Complete all three Co-op Objective maps on Crushing (Complete any co-op map on hard to unlock crushing)
[Drake's Fortune] Made It Finish Wave 10 in one Survival Game
[Drake's Fortune] Gold Digger Finish Wave 10 in one Gold Rush Game
[Siege] Under Siege Finish Wave 10 in one Siege Game
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