‘The Last Of Us Part 2’ Still Has One More Trick Up Its Sleeve - Forbes

As we've stated, the single player campaign is far and away the most ambitious project Naughty Dog has ever undertaken.

Likewise, as development began on the evolution of our Factions mode from The Last of Us: Part I, the vision of the team grew beyond an additional mode that could be included with our enormous single player campaign.

The Last of Us’s original Factions multiplayer was a part of the craze of every single player game needing to have a multiplayer mode for a limited time, and while that often went poorly for many games where it seemed tacked-on, Factions actually developed quite a fanbase, and is thought of fondly by most players to this day.

It seems that Naughty Dog wants to build on that, and I would not be surprised to see a much larger investment in Factions this time around, especially judging by that statement they released almost a year ago.

I could foresee them doing the original Factions model with its different modes, but also something like a smaller scale battle royale concept, where players stalk each other on a map in the vein of PUBG style gameplay, perhaps.

In short, despite the silence, I would imagine that Naughty Dog is very much working on Factions as its next project