Summary
The Last of UsPart 2can feature some challenging encounters, even without the game being on Grounded difficulty. The hardest areas inThe Last of UsPart 2feature plenty of fights with humans and infected alike for Abby and Ellie to try and navigate through. In some of these areas, players can either escape or fight their way until they are the last woman standing. Either way, death is assured for someone. Just hope it’s not the player.
Every shot counts inThe Last of Us 2’s best encounters, and these thrilling areas will surely keep players on their toes, with their fingers ready to twitch on the trigger of their arsenal of weapons. Intense gunfights andbreath-holding stealth sectionsmake for an extreme challenge to those who seek it, or even, to those who do not.
7Ferry
A Boat Filled With Dormant Infected
The second to last encounter in Abby’s Day 1 encounter sees her board a Ferry as she attempts to reach the Aquarium. On board, Abby will be able to find a bunch of bolts and a crossbow, which she can use to navigate through the halls of the infected that lurk within this crashed ferry, dormant, and awaiting a new prey to wake them from their entrapped Cordyceps slumber.
If players are no good at stealth or aiming theirnewly found crossbow, they are bound to wake and enrage the entire ferry of infected, causing a wild chase of angry runners and clickers. To make matters even worse, two shamblers await on board the ferry, and their explosive acidic spores cause absolute violence if players are not careful.
6Brewery
Armored W.L.F. Lurk Within A Flooded Brewery
Abby’s Seattle Day 3 chapter sees her discover the hardships of both the W.L.F. and the Scars. In an all-out war between the two, Abby is stuck in the middle, and in the Brewery encounter, she realizes that if she’s not with the W.L.F., then she’s their enemy. Abby must dreg through the knee-high waters of this ruined brewery, being careful of the encroaching dark and the many soldiers she once knew withan arsenal of guns.
Some of these soldiers have body armor and helmets to negate a quick death, and Abby must utilize her already short supply of ammunition from this encounter to either kill them all or escape. It’s a large brewery, and enemies are seemingly in every corner.
5Subway
Fight Both Human And Infected
Towards the end of Ellie’s Seattle Day 1, she and Dina will have to try and navigate and escape the Seattle subway station, which will take them through the facility and pump station, ending in an unwinnable chase of chaotic infected, desperate to chase down and kill both Ellie and Dina. The subway encounters are players’ firstdifficult bout against infected enemies and humans, all in one batch.
Players can play it smart by turning the infected and humans on each other by alerting the clickers that are dormant within. However, this could mean more trouble at the wrong time, as players are left with the survivors. This will also be Ellie’s first encounter with a shambler, and it can be rough.
4Infected Nest
Trapped In Darkness Against All Manners Of Infected
Falling into an Infected Nest in Abby’s Seattle Day 2, trouble is bound, and the overgrown remains of the hotel arefilled with infected and Cordyceps fungus, invading every surface from the floors to the walls. Deep within the walls, lies dormant and alive infected, and the dark makes them easy to miss, meaning Abby can get ambushed rather easily, and then overrun by the hordes that lurk within this darkness.
The array of clickers, runners, and stalkers is not the only threat to this large nest, as a few bloaters also lurk within, dormant and waiting for prey to rip to shreds in unbound rage. The Infected Nest is as scary as it is difficult, and players will be desperate to escape.
3Restaurant Holdout
A Survival Encounter With Non-Stop Infected
Abby’s first encounter with Lev and Yara is one of mistrust, as the trio of characters will find themselves trapped within an abandoned restaurant as they attempt to outrun the infected that chase them on the dangerous night of Abby’s Seattle Day 1 chapter. Within the restaurant holdout encounter, Lev and Yara have escaped, andAbby is left inside to fend for herself.
This encounter is all about survival, and players have no choice but to hold out, and wait for a rescue. The building will fill with runners, stalkers, clickers, and shamblers. Ammunition will be scarce, and players will have to do everything they can to stay alive as they wait for an escape.
2Seattle Hospital
A Small Army Of W.L.F., WIth Infected In The Basement
Within Ellie’s Seattle Day 2, her violent odyssey comes to blows with the W.L.F. at the Seattle hospital. At this hospital, the W.L.F. is everywhere. They have snipers perched in vantage points, dogs to sniff out intruders, and plenty of them with all sorts of guns, waiting for any threat to come up. Ellie is in for a hard time, but nothing will stop her from hunting those on her list that damaged her in the first place.
Inside the hospital, players are bound to find more W.L.F. members, but even worse, a gaggle of infected that are beneath the main floors. Within the hospital’s basement, the infected and W.L.F. await Ellie and any other intruder, making a tough battle between the infected and human.
1Resort
Home Of Armored Rattlers
In the Santa Barbara encounter, the last is arguably the hardest. When players first reach this area, they may have a sweet new weapon with the silenced submachine gun, but that certainly doesn’tmake the encounter any less challenging. Upon arriving, players will instantly see two rattlers teasing a runner, chained down. There’s some freedom of style here, and players can shoot the chains of the tied-up infected to cause some chaos.
Even with the chaos, the difficulty is assured, as the Rattlers certainly outnumber the runners and clickers. These Rattlers even have armored helmets and bulletproof vests, making a simple quick, and clean headshot with a bow or silenced weapon a difficulty. Players will need to navigate stealth to avoid overrun in this large resort.
