Trust me, the multiplayer doesn't hinder was was the one the best story experiences of last gen imho (Outside of GTA V and Uncharted 2). Check out this gameplay and tell me what you think. The manhunt style gameplay of the last of us multiplayer is pretty crazy. These are top ten plays. If you've seen pubg it doesnt take much to see an expanded Last of us game accomplishing something similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJsAQ8Xe4BY

Even if it here to stay as a major multiplayer mode: The Last of Us 2 was not designed to be a multiplayer game.
Sony may want to squeeze a PUBG mode into TLoU2, but that game was designed to primarily be a story focused single player experience.

Naughty Dog is using their own, in-house engine for TLoU2, an engine which is likely built for and around: animation and visuals.
If Naughty Dog were to attempt to develop a PUBG mode in their engine, they would have to further develop their engine (taking time away from the core features) to include the features to make that possible; assuming it is possible.

The game is between 50-60% complete. Last of us 2 is more than likely going to have multiplayer. I was only proposing a battle royale style mode. It doesnt need to be as huge as pubg, but larger. Much in the vein of Uncharted 4,  Maps are about to get larger in the story and outside of the story. It would be awesome if they upped the ante. I was just saying that it would be nice to have a battle royale mode in the style of Last of Us. Honestly, I dont want to play the mess that is PUBG on consoles even when it drops on Playstation, but much like how people are taking to the style with Fortnite, I think it would be appealing in a way on Last of Us.

I've played both the single player and multiplayer of TLoU and I've seen rounds of PUBG, so I'm quite familiar with both of those games, which is why I feel having that sort of mode in TLoU doesn't seem like a fit to me. They seem like 2 different types of games.

Not in that resolution or framerate. Look how ugly pubg is, even on pc! Fortnite looks alright but it looks no where near as good as last of us...

If they can find a way though and add it to existing play lists, why not? Nothing wrong with choice.

Multiplayer is typically quite different to multiplayer too. Outside of controls, which given it's a cover based 3rd person shooter.... Should translate.

This just started making me think of every shooter with a battle royale mode....

Could you imagine Splatoon? That would be the most hectic fun thing ever, especially if it was around "Inkopolis City"

That would be interesting if it splatoon wasnt about covering as much ground with ink as possible. If you could just take out people that would be sick.

There is only one (out of 6) mode that requires "covering as much as possible". And in a battle royal setting, it would be interesting if everyone shot the same color of ink, so everyone could then use whatever is on the ground/walls of the buildings to swim, recover ink and hide.

when i started playing pubg for the first time it definitely feels like a tlou clone but after some time that feels disappear and i forgot about the vehicles in pubg.vehicles are really fun to drive in pubg with their janky animations and glitches.i think vehicles are not going to fit well in last of us mp because of their map size and structure.imo the game that needs a battle royal mode is days gone.it fits the atmosphere and settings perfectly and it also open world and it has vehicles.i agree with the micro-transaction in tlou .its a shame really but they are doing it because people are buying it.i read somewhere that  they made like 50 or 100 million$ from UC4 micro-transaction,thats  crazy amount of money.