The Last of Us 2 Chapter 44: The Resort Walkthrough (Santa Barbara)

This walkthrough for Santa Barbara – Chapter 44: The Resort in The Last of Us 2 (TLOU Part II) will guide you through all objectives. It also includes Collectibles and other Items (Artifacts, Trading Cards, Journal Entries, Training Manuals, Workbenches, Safes, Coins, Weapons, Upgrade Parts, Skill Unlock Supplements).

For other Chapters see The Last of Us 2 Walkthrough.

Day: Santa Barbara
Chapter: The Resort

Collectibles:

• Artifacts: 2
• Trading Cards: 1
• Journal Entries: 1
• Workbench: 1

Deal with Rattlers

Note that you start this chapter with a new weapon in your inventory, the Silenced Submachine Gun. If you had acquired all weapons through the game prior to this one you will now earn the trophy High Caliber .

Right at the start fo this chapter you will have a group of enemies in front of you of the enemy faction Rattlers. There are four total that will be patrolling around this area. Two stick in the area in front of you looking around the cars, a third that will be back to the left patrolling around with a dog, then a final one past him walking along the edge of the house.

Search the inside of this first building for supplies, then make your way towards the second building. Watch for enemies as you get near as there will be more that wander out of it and start patrolling in front, along with more to the left and another dog. Watch for enemies here as there are ones that now start having helmets on, so they can’t do killed with one headshot from your guns.

When they’re dealt with go up the tracks to where you can find a green van with a Rattlers logo painted on it. Interact with it to get the final Journal Entry of the game.

Head to the left of this van into the building you saw the Rattlers come out of. In the left part of the building on the counter, you can find 13 Parts, as well as supplies spread throughout. Once you’re done searching you can go to the right of this building, then interact with the door on the train car to proceed.

Get Into the Compound

After watching the cutscene and dropping down, start heading to the left. Look in the corner of the building ledge to find a body with Artifact #1: Santa Barbara Slave Note stuck to a keg.

Turn around from that note, then crawl underneath the blue train car to get into the yard.  In this main yard there will be more Rattlers, along with an Infected they have attached to a chain. You can actually release this one by interacting with the bottom of it’s chain on the block, letting it run around and attack the Rattlers and do some of your work for you.

In this area there will be two normal enemies, then two of the enemies wearing armor and helmets. After they are dead one more will drop down and come investigate starting from behind the building in the middle. When they’re all dead, you can search this area for some more supplies. Hop up on the white container first, and you can find 9 Parts sitting on a cooler. From there drop down and go into the middle shop area where you can find 1 Part on the bench in the middle, as well as the Workbench for this chapter. If you have found all prior workbenches up to this point you will earn the trophy Prepared For the Worst .

Exit the right side of the shop and check the smaller villa building on the right. The bottom floor has some supplies, then climb up to the top floor where you can find another 12 Parts. When you’re ready to continue out of this area enter the large building through the front entrance.

Reach the Prisoner Area

Just inside the entrance to the main building look immediately right. On a small table beside a radio, you can find the Trading Card: Sparkthug. If you collected every trading card up to this point you will earn the trophy Master Set .

Squeeze through the nearby gap in the wall to get into the dark room, then climb up through the window on the opposite side. This next area has another sizeable number of enemies in it, along with another chained Infected you can unleash on the Rattlers. Watch for the guy on the immediate right with the helmet on (stealth kills will still work fine on these guys) then try to get over to where the chained Infected is and let it out.

Push around to the right side, then if you look in the pool there are two chained up Clickers that you can also let loose on the Rattlers, making your life even easier. Drop down into the grass behind them, then crawl near enough to the chain block to let them out without alerting them to you being behind there.

With them out and distracting the enemies, you want to be making your way into the building at the back of the area and up the circular flight of stairs. Take a right at the top of the stairs in the area with the beds, and look at the nightstand on the right. Here you can find Artifact #2: Rattler’s Letter Home. This is the final collectible of the game, and if you have acquired all Journal Entries and Artifacts up to this point you will earn the trophy Archivist .

Now on this top floor make your way to where the balcony is, then head left towards the large circular building. When you get close there is another large group of enemies that will come out and start hiding behind the tables, watching for you to move up. If the Infected from downstairs are still alive they can wander up here too if noise is made, though this group of enemies typically makes quick work of them.  This is the last combat encounter of the game though, so use anything you have left to get past the guys here.

Keep making your way to the back of this area around or through the enemies, then down the stairs and through the doors at the end.

Head to the Beach

After the cutscene, go through the doors at the end and start walking down the path. Once you hop the wall the chapter will end.

This finishes Chapter 44: The Resort in The Last of Us Part 2. Next is Chapter 45: The Beach.

For all other Chapter Walkthroughs, check out our full The Last of Us 2 Walkthrough.