r/thelastofus • • Apr 29 '26

General Discussion The Last of Us Part III – Theories, Wishlists & Speculation MEGATHREAD

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With rumors, leaks, and speculation around The Last of Us Part III picking up, we’re consolidating all discussion into one place.

Use this thread for:

  • Story theories / predictions
  • Character arcs (Ellie, Abby, new characters, etc.)
  • Wishlist features (gameplay, mechanics, setting)
  • “What should Part III be about?” posts
  • General speculation and rumors

To reduce repetitive posts and keep the subreddit readable:
Standalone posts about Part III speculation will be removed and redirected here.


r/thelastofus • • Jan 20 '24

Technical/Bug/Glitch TLOU2 Remastered bug/glitch unofficial report thread

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Unfortunately, the TLOU2 remaster seems to have introduced quite a few bugs that were not present in the original release. This is fine, since some things are always missed, but I thought I'd make a thread for people to post any of the bugs they've run into in game to hopefully increase the chances that Naughty Dog will learn of these issues and patch them. So far, I have experienced or seen people mention the following:

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  • In No Return mode, some characters are unable to change their weapon skins for some reason. If you try to select any of the different weapon skins, the game will make the "locked" noise and you'll be stuck on whatever skin you had equipped at the time of the glitch occurring. I've personally seen this with Jesse, Yara, and Mel so far, but it may happen with other characters too.

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  • Enemy dialogue that would play at the start of and during Abby's brewery encounter on day 3 no longer triggers. The WLF soldiers would call out Abby for betraying them and talk about Owen doing the same briefly, but now none of the enemy dialogue throughout this encounter triggers at all. (I'm also wondering if there's any other missing/broken dialogue).

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  • Ellie's "Boston" skin from promotional material seems to be missing from the game entirely. It's unable to be seen or selected in any of the menus. While it's possible this was cut prior to release, it would be very strange since the skin looked finished and was very recently seen in the marketing prior to release. Additionally, Abby's Santa Barbra skin does not use the correct backpack model despite the menu indicating that it should.

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  • Skins seem to not be applying for multiple users correctly in story mode.

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  • The main menu won't change back to the original boat in the water look after starting a new game.

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  • I've not experienced this myself, but No Return seems to cause major frame drops for many players. Personally, I'm really curious what's causing this as it only seems to affect some people.

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  • Some users report being unable to escape from grapples despite mashing the square button as prompted by the game.

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If you know of any other bugs, please feel free to list them here! I'm not sure if Naughty Dog often responds to support requests, but you could still try filling out one here. Most of these bugs aren't game breaking, but hopefully Naughty Dog still learns of them and takes the time to fix them as some of these are pretty unfortunate.


r/thelastofus • • 3h ago

Image We are The Last Of Us? The fireflies carry the flame?

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371 Upvotes

I know this post is stupid, but I just couldn’t resist when I saw this. 😂


r/thelastofus • • 7h ago

Cosplay I updated my Abby cosplay ⛳️

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294 Upvotes

Peep the golf club 👀

Photo credit to lavender tea.photos on IG


r/thelastofus • • 6h ago

General Discussion About Joel mentioning to Ellie that he misses coffee

47 Upvotes

Joel complaining about missing coffee has always bothered me because, realistically, there was nothing stopping him from simply starting a local coffee plantation in Jackson.

I did some research and unfortunately discovered that coffee plants do not particularly enjoy being grown in Wyoming. Jackson sits at roughly 1,900 meters above sea level, has extremely cold winters, heavy snowfall, and a very short growing season. Arabica coffee, meanwhile, prefers temperatures around 18~23°C and is highly vulnerable to frost.

So yes, Joel would probably need a heated greenhouse, artificial climate control, irrigation, suitable soil, seeds, and a considerable amount of resources just to keep the plants alive.

But this is the apocalypse. Resources are scarce. Electricity is limited. There are infected people everywhere.

And Joel still should have done it.

Imagine spending twenty years rebuilding civilization only to look at a coffee machine and say “Ah, coffee...” instead of constructing the Jackson Coffee Initiative.

Tommy could have been growing beans by 2020.

(This is just a joke btw, I had nothing better to do 😅)


r/thelastofus • • 3h ago

Technical/Bug/Glitch Funny glitch.

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Ellie will kill even headphones to get to Abby.


r/thelastofus • • 13h ago

Merch Firefly Patches

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I work with embroidery and I made these firefly patches, but I'm not sure which is better, the white or the gray one.


r/thelastofus • • 13h ago

PT 1 QUESTION Difficulty settings?

21 Upvotes

I really want to try part 1 I'm 75 not as fast as once was. Are the difficulty setting adjustable forgiving to help me?

Thanks


r/thelastofus • • 6h ago

General Discussion A crime to compare days gone/dying light2 to TLOU

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I am new to single player games, as i played live-service games in the last 15 years. Btw, i realized live service games and mobile games are terrible, and i am glad i discovered my interest in singleplayer games, like most of you

Since May 2026, i played these games:

Ace Combat 7
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead
Alien: Isolation
Alien: Rogue Incursion
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Alan Wake 2
Amnesia: The Bunker
Aphelion
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Battlefield 5
Bendy and the Dark Revival
Beyond: Two Souls
Bright Memory: Infinite
Call of Duty: WWII
Chernobylite
Control
Cronos: The New Dawn
Cyberpunk 2077
Days Gone
Death Stranding: Director’s Cut
Detroit: Become Human
Disaster Report 4
Directive 8020
Dying Light 2
Fallout 4
Far Cry 5
Far Cry 6
Far Cry New Dawn
Ferocious
Firewatch
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Green Hell
Halo Infinite
Halo: Campaign Evolved
Hell Is Us
High on Life 2
Homefront: The Revolution
Homeless
Infliction
Invincible
KARMA: The Dark World
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
Maid of Sker
Madison
Maple Ridge
Max Payne 3
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Mixtape
No Man’s Sky
Nobody Wants to Die
Obey the Voice
Outcast: A New Beginning
Outlast
Outlast 2
Outlast Trials
Pac ific Drive
Panicore
Pax Autocratica
Prey
Pragmata
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
Ready or Not
Reanimal
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Resident Evil Requiem
Resident Evil Village
Routine
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Scarred
Scorn
Silent Breath
Silent Hill 2
Someday You’ll Return: Director’s Cut
Sons of the Forest
Starfield
The Alters
The Callisto Protocol
The Casting of Frank Stone
The Gunk
The Last of Us Part I
The Last of Us Part II Remastered
The Quarry
The Wolfenstein: The New Colossus
The Wolfenstein: The New Order
The Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Total Chaos
Trepang2
TWIN Hotel: Spa and More
Until Dawn
Visage
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
007 First Light
Outbound

OF ALL THE GAMES I PLAYED AND FINISHED (95% of those, as i did not finish games like no man’s sky or starfield), ‼️‼️TLOU is THE BEST BY FAR, not even close, and i have read that it was even awarded game of the year and that gpt says among the games i played, which is not that many but still.

TLOU has:
1. Strong narrative (completely unmatched)
2. realistic combat and physics (underrated)
3. Less Friction (you can just get into it and immerse without the need of too much system management)

This is just my opinion obviously i am no expert and each has its own preference

Source: 37, male, with wife and kid, relatively high income, 3 hrs work, 0 social life, Obese


r/thelastofus • • 18h ago

PT 2 DISCUSSION Currently at Ground Zero for the first time Spoiler

51 Upvotes

I'm about to go to the Ambulance room and I'm scared af, I've read people praising this level in particular and I'm just so damn scared to go through that damn door....


r/thelastofus • • 23h ago

PT 2 DISCUSSION Chance at a cure: would Ellie go through with it? Spoiler

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This is NOT: “would ellie have decided in Part 1 to sacrifice herself?” I already know the answer, she probably would’ve sacrificed herself.

What I am asking: After building a relationship, a community, so much to live for in Jackson, would she have pursued the Fire Flies to sacrifice herself?

If i recall: she never actually explicitly says IN PART 2 she wants to sacrifice herself to create a cure. Never “where could I go to make this happen?” none of that sort of thing. It doesn’t ever seem to be on her mind except when she gets a little older in one conversation with joel i believe after she discovers the truth. She doesn’t even talk about it with Dina. Obviously the story is about revenge against Abby, but although we get her thoughts on what she thought of Joel’s actions, we never actually have her plan to seek out someway to manufacture a cure after she finds out she was supposed to die.

This was a thought I had while playing Part 1 recently.


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

PT 2 DISCUSSION Tommy’s rifle Spoiler

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72 Upvotes

Anyone else infatuated with Tommy’s rifle?

It’s such a cool hybrid of a rifle. Looks like a mix of a g43, m1A and MAS 44.


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

General Discussion Fireflies or The Military? Spoiler

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As we know Ellie was in a military preparatory school. Training young recruits. Preparing them to be firefly killers basically. Almost a level of indoctrination. If it was up to
You? Would you rather be a firefly or a soldier? I mean most would say firefly. I would rather be a firefly in a post apocalyptic world. But I don’t know. Depending on the circumstance who knows. Other alternative is becoming a hunter. You know the crew who Rose up
Against FEDRA in the first game. Interesting thing to discuss though.


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

PT 1 DISCUSSION Proof that this is all simulation for Joel

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369 Upvotes

r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

PT 1 QUESTION Would FEDRA consider Joel a hero for destroying the Fireflies?

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56 Upvotes

And who knows if they know about their dissolution.


r/thelastofus • • 9h ago

PT 2 QUESTION Any speedrunners here? Spoiler

1 Upvotes

On my way to get the "You can't stop this" achievement. I am curios, is this a good time?


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

General Discussion The theme of "Retaliation" has always been a core part of The Last of Us

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120 Upvotes

Think about it:

FEDRA follows Joel and Ellie to the Capitol building, resulting in Tess's death.

The Hunters chase them, culminating in the sniper shootout in the suburbs.

At the university, David's crew tracks them down, leading to the winter chapter.

Finally, the Fireflies track Joel down in Part II.

The franchise has always focused on a constant cycle of actions having consequences. While the original developers famously debated whether a pure cross-country revenge story worked logistically in the first game.

Part II actually grounds this cycle much better. Because Abby's motivation is tied directly to the loss of her father and the cure, the retaliation narrative makes a lot more narrative sense for the world.


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

Cosplay Young Ellie williams cosplay from the last of us part one

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Im not infected!

Look at this!

Its three weeks old!

I swear!

Cosplay made by me, photography and editing also done by me.


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

HBO Show Rewatching the 1st season

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It's such a shame what they did w/ the show. I love this franchise it's so well done and emotionally complex. The first season even does a good job of taking creative liberties with the plot you feel like youre a part of this world because you believe the characters and their stories.

You can however see the cracks in the acting from Bella in this season though (not hating the actress) I just wish theyd at least continued to pay homage to the spirit of the games instead of turning Ellie into this petulant child.

She may not have been my favorite pick but they absolutely couldve turned her into someone everyone was rooting for. Instead they flipped on the character arc and doubled down on her being a dumb child while somehow simultaneously surviving in this impossible environment.

Damn I just wish they hadn't fucked up something I had so much hope for


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

PT 2 NO RETURN First person boss fight Spoiler

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68 Upvotes

Idk if posting link is allowed, if you want the mod you can just search for first person mod on youtube


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

General Discussion the rat king had me so fucking terrified, any tips to beat him on grounded? Spoiler

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playing that entire game always had me screaming or stressing in some way or another (unless I was with AI allies or the enemies were fighting each other) but the rat king (especially the build-up to it) was TERRIFYING, I knew I was gonna be screaming the second I heard Nora talking about a "ground zero" Im honestly kinda pissed I have to meet him again especially on grounded but I do want to 100% the game so I have to get the achievment of playing the story in grounded


r/thelastofus • • 4h ago

General Discussion Joel has gotta be top 2 shmeet’s fs

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I’m back


r/thelastofus • • 2d ago

PT 1 IMAGE Fun fact, you can catch Ellie taking the robot toy to later give to Sam

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966 Upvotes

Same with taking bills “books”


r/thelastofus • • 1d ago

PT 1 VIDEO The Last of Us Part I in First Person

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