Plunder

Plunder is a selectable multiplayer playlist in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End.

Overview

The main goal of plunder is to bring the treasure (a large idol) back to a treasure chest in your teams base. The game mode shares similarities with "Capture the Flag" from other online franchises. The treasure can be picked up by pressing when the player is beside it. It can be arc-thrown by holding L2 to aim, and releasing L2 to throw. While carrying the treasure, players can aim their pistol using L1 and can fire it with R1. The player moves much more slowly than they normally would when carrying the treasure. You can only use your secondary weapon while holding the treasure.

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

In a standard match, the first team to capture the treasure five times or the team with the highest score when the time runs out, wins.

When Title Update 1.09 was released, all plunder related medals were increased in value and all kill-related ones were decreased. This was to get people to stop playing plunder in order to get easy kills and focus on the objective of getting the treasure to their base. The Captured medal, for example, was only worth $2,000 before 1.09, but was raised to $4,000.

Playlists

Plunder appears in the following playlists:

Plunder. (Its own individual playlist)
Ranked
Objectives
All Competitive Modes

Medals

Name	Notes	Type	Reward
Captured Captured	Your team captured the Treasure. Awarded to all team mates.	Medal	$4000
Drop It Drop It	Defeat an opponent while they are carrying the Treasure in a match.	Medal	$1000
No Cigar	Defeat the Treasure carrier while they are about to score during a match.	Medal	$2000
Protectorate Protectorate	Defeat five enemies that were damaging the Treasure carrier during a match.	Medal	$2000
That Was Embarrassing That Was Embarrassing	Earn a shutout in a match (your team wins without the other team scoring), awarded on completion.	Medal	$10000
Tip Off	Be the first player to grab the Treasure in a match, awarded only once.	Medal	$1000
Plundered!	Get 200 Captured medals. Only awarded if the player has the Drake's Fortune Multiplayer Pack.	Trophy	Bronze Trophy
You Run, I'll Shoot	Get 10 Protectorate medals. Only awarded if the player has the Siege Expansion Pack.	Trophy	Bronze Trophy

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

The gamemode reappeared in Uncharted 3 multiplayer.

The gamemode is pretty much the same from Uncharted 2. The only different is look of the Idol.

U3 Idol — The treasure in *Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception*

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

The gamemode reappeared in Uncharted 4 multiplayer.

The main difference from the previous version of this gamemode is that you only need to capture the Idol three times to win the match (It was previous first to five). Also you can throw and climb with the Idol.

Trivia

The Uncharted 2: Among Thieves treasure also appears at the end of the Nepal Warzone (Co-op Objective).
The Idol in Uncharted 2 Among Thieves is a small version of the El Dorado statue from Drake's Fortune.