The Last of Us Part II is getting Grounded mode.
The Last of Us Part II is getting Grounded mode.
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The Last of Us Part II gets Grounded mode and Permadeath

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Naughty Dog has issued an update for The Last of Us Part II that enables new game modes such as Grounded mode and Permadeath. Both of these modes make The Last of Us Part II very hard to play, and that will make some players very happy. Not me. I’ll have to move on to something else, as I have done recently. And you all know why.

Grounded mode is not a piece of cake. It triples the damage an enemy does to you. It removes the Listen Mode that enables you to track the whereabouts of nearby enemies. It removes the heads-up display, and it makes the already-scarce supplies even more scarce in the postapocalyptic world.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.