The Last of Us: Let's Play/Walkthrough Part 35 - Fireflies nowhere to be found! Joel impaled!
Channel: AloversGaming
Date: 2013-09-03

After opening the gate Joel and Ellie find the Fireflies lap. There they search the place for any Firefly members, but instead we find monkeys and an old recorder that speaks of the Fireflies leaving Colorado and heading to Saint Mary's hospital in Salt Lake City! Right after listening to the recorder Joel and Ellie get attacked by a group of raiders... which ends with Joel falling 15 feet onto a rebar/spike. It impales him in his side causing him to bleed out. Luckily Ellie manages to kill the raiders and get Joel onto the horse.. but soon afterwards he falls off onto the snow, becoming unresponsive to Ellie's calls. It then switches a few months forward to Winter where we're playing as Ellie... Joel nowhere to be found... 

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"The Last of Us" uses a third-person perspective and will take control of Joel, while Ellie will be controlled by the AI. The game will involve gun fighting and melee combat as well as a cover system. The player will fight off the Infected -- former humans -- and the Survivors -- humans that are not infected, but are hostile towards Joel and Ellie. A new gameplay mechanic is a feature the developers call "dynamic stealth", meaning that there are many different types of strategies and techniques that the player can use at any given time as they approach a new situation, to which enemies will react differently.
Naughty Dog has developed an AI system called "Balance of Power". This new system allows enemies to react realistically to any combat situation they are placed in by taking cover if they see the player, calling for help if they need it and even taking advantage of the player's weaknesses, such as when Joel runs out of ammunition or when he is being attacked by other enemies. The player's variety of abilities mean they have multiple ways of accomplishing the same objective - this is typified in the crafting gameplay ability which allows the player to gather various items in the world and combine them to make weapons or items, for example gathering alcohol and rags and choosing to create a healing pack or a Molotov cocktail. The player will need to craft items quickly and at a carefully chosen time, due to the action not pausing while crafting takes place.