Introduction to Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection
Introduction to Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection
These are old titles on console, but new to PC. So if you plan on playing them on PC and have never played them on console, be forewarned there are some spoilers!
I've played these titles each at least a couple times through on Moderate and Hard, and just beat Uncharted 4 on the hardest mode last night. It's apropos they call that mode Crushing, as the definition of the word in the adjective context is, "causing overwhelming disappointment or embarrassment.", as per Oxford Languages. Even better to use Oxford's definition, as U 4 is about pirates.
Thankfully though, this port rather quickly received two much needed patches to fix stuttering problems and mouse polling rate issues. It was mostly the Uncharted 4 half that suffered the performance problems, but I'm happy to say last night's long session that kept me up until 3AM was pretty much stutter free. There was also times where the game froze before to buffer, but that seems gone too.
So I had mostly held off trying to capture it due to these issues, but saved a few of the tougher battles of Uncharted 4 last night. As of now, it appears the only lingering nit pick I have is the game's tendency to require rebuilding shaders at the main menu if you take even a little while to get back to playing it, which takes a good while. This supposedly minimizes or completely removes stutters.
It can be tempting to use the elite weapons, which have gold screen icons, but be forewarned it can be very hard to get them to full ammo before starting a battle, as few enemies carry them. Pretty much all 3 of these videos show this scenario, and the weapon swapping necessary because of it. The Barok .44 pistol can be very handy though, as it is capable of one shot-ing many enemies.
A few spoilers from this point on.
Avery's House Battle
This is a segment of a chapter called New Devon, where you finally find the mansion of Henry Avery, the pirate who's massive treasure you are searching for. I've seen a video of someone managing to do this whole battle with stealth, but on a lower difficulty where enemy marking is possible. Not being able to mark enemies had caused me blown stealth in many places, so I did not even try here.
Avery's Cave Battle
This is part of a chapter called Avery's Descent. It's a pretty cool slog through some dark caves with death traps and mummies rigged to explode. I was getting pretty hammered at the start of this battle a few times, but having 4 grenades, and just enough ammo to get the first wave, made it safe to advance. If I looked wary of advancing, it's because I'd forgotten how many enemies spawn and where.
Shipwreck Battle
This is part of a chapter called No Escape. I seriously thought about restarting the whole chapter to pick other weapons to get more ammo, but it turned out it was only my strategy that was flawed. You mainly need to save the snipers for last on the first part, which trigger the second wave that involves Brutes, and allows time to prepare . Once down, their guns make mopping up the third wave easy.
Soon I'll be playing the other title in this collection, The Lost Legacy, on Crushing as well. I plan to save at least a few battles from it too.
Noise ! Continue doing well.
I truly wish to enjoy this game, but several obstacles prevent me from doing so. I can't even watch some gameplay clips or read reviews to avoid any spoilers, especially at the start of the game.
I hope the developers had released UNCHARTED 4: A Thief’s End and UNCHARTED: The Lost Legacy as separate titles instead of bundling them together. That way, I could pick which Uncharted game to play with. Plus, it would save more on STEAM.
Although, I'm guessing the story of 'Lost Legacy' might be connected to Uncharted 4, even though it's just an expansion of the original game?
Well, in my opinion, both titles are definitely worth trying, and if they had been released individually, you’d likely pay more for the complete set. Wikipedia mentions "The Nathan Drake Collection," which is a remaster of the first three PS4 games, but it doesn’t reference the remastering of Uncharted 3 for PS5 you mentioned earlier. It seems the information about that specific remaster isn’t widely discussed.
The Lost Legacy has only a weak connection to A Thief's End. The main link is that Nadine Ross appears in both, though she plays a supporting role compared to Chloe Frazer. In The Lost Legacy, she’s more of a helpful character, whereas in A Thief's End she’s mainly an obstacle. Both games share some gameplay elements like stealth, rail-based segments, and the Jeep used throughout. Still, they’re distinct stories with different protagonists. Nate’s brother Sam is also central in The Lost Legacy but isn’t as prominent as Chloe. Another notable difference is the addition of lock-picking mechanics in The Lost Legacy, which mainly unlocks weapon crates and other items. The primary antagonist here is also quite different from Rafe Adler in A Thief's End.
In terms of gameplay, The Lost Legacy offers some fresh features compared to A Thief's End. If you remove the lengthy introductory chapters in A Thief's End that add little story value, the two games actually have a more comparable length when considering the core gameplay experience.
I just hope they’d release the first three games. In fact, I wish they’d bring Nate back and start making them again. Arguably better than the tomb raider titles. Great storytelling. But for crying out loud, put a field of view setting in!
I played all of these and beat them on PS3/PS4 except for Lost Legacy. Overall though, the PC port of Uncharted 4 looks great at the highest settings on PC at 1440p. Just wish they made better games like this still. These were actually enjoyable compared to the new releases.
The initial three titles were remastered for PS4 through The Nathan Drake Collection, making the transition to PC quite feasible. The main factor will be whether Sony finds sufficient profit from it.
Well, thanks for your input. That was helpful. I'm still thinking whether to buy this collection or not. Both the game are really good actually. I was hoping for a STEAM sale to happen, but I guess new AAA titles will hardly get a discounted price this early at the time of release.
Just a note, it seems I'm still encountering occasional crashes, but it's happening with The Lost Legacy. I'm still using the old 517.48 driver, though switching to the 522.25 version—created for Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection—might help. The stuttering has mostly disappeared, so it's running smoother now. I just finished beating The Lost Legacy on Crushing and am thinking about which missions to replay through Chapter Select to see some examples, similar to what I did in Uncharted 4. After that, I'll likely return to Spiderman and finish the game. It's been a while, so I'm hoping I won't feel too awkward at it.
Thanks for the heads-up.
By the way, on some OFF topic note, have you played the game OUTRIDERS ? What about Dying Light 2 ? When it comes to OUTRIDERS, this game is re-starting my PC randomly. This is the ONLY PC game which does this. It's random, and not fixed.
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No overheating, no PSU issues. Just nothing seriously wrong with my PC specs, but this is the only title crashing and rebooting PC. Kind of weird though !
I can play all other graphic demanding games like CRYSIS 3, METRO Exodus, Quantum Break (
awesome game btw
), Witcher 3, FAR CRY 6, DOOM 3, GODFALL, and just about every other AAA/AA game, for hours and hours, minimum 7-8 hours a day.
FWIW, I bought Outriders via the Xbox PC game pass subscription, so it's a LEGIT copy. But a quick google search says the Steam copy also restarts any PC as pointed out by some gamers. But the platform should not matter much. Can't figure out why this game is behaving weirdly though. This doesn't seem like a widespread issue, or is it ?
Anyways, back on topic. I have wishlisted UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection on STEAM. I just hope some of these stutters/crashes are resolved via patches till the time I buy this game.
I didn't care about the type of game Outriders is or how buggy it was when I heard about it. I do agree Quantum Break is better than I thought. I don't own Dying Light 2 either, which had its own bugs but has been fixed to at least resolve most issues. Gotham Knights is just a terrible mess. I read Digital Foundry's review and it said the game stutters even on a RTX 4090 because it doesn't use the CPU enough. Frame times can jump up to 50 ms. They say this is only an issue during the first playthrough, but it's caused by shader compilation. Still, it's not acceptable. WB Games Montreal has really fallen apart.