DLC #87 - Uncharted 3 : Drake's Deception - Drake's Deception Map Pack

Double Trouble, dose two of Uncharted 3 DLC

Measured against the benchmark of the rest of the Uncharted 3 DLC packages, this actually proves to be one of the easier sets of trophies to complete, but still maintains a solid challenge throughout the whole list.

As standard, there are 10 new trophies along with this add-on, and, again, they're a bit of a pick and mix, with a variety spread across all modes.

There is a fairly large emphasis on accumulating medals across both the competitive and co-operative modes, with 7 of the trophies available for collecting certain medals, with a mixture of easy and tough tasks along the way.

There is also a typical insistence to set the unlock requirement to 50 medals, which can make some of the trophies time consuming, and in some places, also make them feel extremely grindy too. The skill element required in this particular grouping of trophies is lowered, but it definitely isn't without it's challenges in other ways;

Triumvirate - Kill the three end bosses in Chapter 5 (Harry Flynn, Eddy Raja and Zoran Lazarevic) within 20 seconds of each other on Crushing
Gladiator - Win 50 matches of TDM
Stealth Master - Get 50 Assassin Medals

The "Trimuvirate" trophy, is possibly the most skill dependant trophy in this list, and requires you to kill all 3 bosses in the final stage of the airstrip level in quick succession. You will need a strongly co-ordinated team, especially given the fact that all 3 bosses have an abundance of health on Crushing difficulty, and 20 seconds between each of them is a tough time constraint to try to comply with.

The Army of Three kickback is a must for this situation, which increases the damage of each players attacks, and it's best for each player to save their kickback and activate it during the boss battle, in order to maximise damage dealt by each player and allow you to take the bosses down quick enough to fulfil the requirements of the trophy. It can be done under normal circumstances, but you could easily struggle, and it's a much sounder tactic to just have your entire party equip Army of Three and activate the kickback one after the other, for a continuous streak of extra damage. If you can't do it successfully, you'll have to restart the whole level and get to the final battle in order to try again, which will become a nuisance if you find yourself doing it at least a handful of times.

The "Gladiator" trophy, is pretty self explanatory, and notching up 50 wins of Team Deathmatch will take some some time to get through. You're bound to lose a fair share of matches, but there are an assortment of other trophies spread across the various DLC packages, mostly related to accumulating medals in competitive Multiplayer, that you can work in tandem with whilst going for the 50 wins you'll need to unlock this trophy.

The "Stealth Master" trophy, takes first prize for the most tedious trophy in this set, with Assassin medals being awarded for every 3 stealth kills per game, and it's one big game of trial and error. A stealth kill is achieved via killing an opponent from behind when the blue ninja symbol appears above their character's head, and roaming around a map in a quest to get 3 of these per medal is tiresome and long. It's extremely tough to be stealthy in such a fast paced Multiplayer environment, and the fact you only get awarded 1 medal per 3 kills means you need to be prepared to play through entire matches without earning a single medal as a consequence.

Although you should need 150 kills to fulfil the requirements of this trophy, you do need to account for the fact that 5 stealth kills in 1 game, for example, will still only earn you 1 medal, and the 2 surplus kills that would go towards 6, and thus, 2 medals, will not carry through to your next game, so you could potentially earn alot of kills in vein that won't end up counting for anything. It turns into a very slow burner, and the progress tracker will tick over remotely for most people. You can try and play it out naturally as you go through other trophies in the game, but you will need to end up resorting to pure focus on attaining this trophy, because the opportunities to earn Assassin medals don't crop up frequently enough unless you actively go out looking for them.

It doesn't do much justice to say this is probably the easiest DLC package in the game, because the comparison is an extremely strong one, and it still presents a solid challenge in it's own right. There are alot of trophies related to earning medals, which work well with the amount of Team Deathmatch games you'll need to win because you can tackle both at the same time and make some good completion progress.

Assassin medals will require some special attention because they're so hard to come by naturally, and it's a trophy list that will still add it's fair share of hours onto the overall time estimate for all of the DLC trophies. Two down, but still a long way to go.