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Prey (2017) |OT| Trust no one. Not even your shelf
- Thread starter Rexatality
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Ya I got WAY more stick drift after the patch. I didn't have input lag before 1.02. Can we uninstall the patch?
Stun gun works really nicely on phantoms.
Performance on my base PS4 is really bad right now, everytime I use the shotgun my framerate goes to shit
Man, and I waited for this patch to come out to buy the game. This perfomance issues are really taking me off this sometimes, and Im not one of those who is nitpicky with this stuff
Man, and I waited for this patch to come out to buy the game. This perfomance issues are really taking me off this sometimes, and Im not one of those who is nitpicky with this stuff
Comments like this make my wait until I get back to the US even harder. This is one of the only 2017 games I was interested in... having to wait an extra month is killer.
From everything I've read in the reviews and more importantly impressions from fans of the genre, it's exactly the type of game I want.
NumberThree
Member
I got in with three. You need to place them in the area marked on the floor. When I placed the first one the objective changed to say I need to find two more.
Bloodporne
Member
I don't know anything about the technical aspects of videogames but reading that a patch makes a game run shittier baffles the hell out of me. How does this actually happen?
The fact that drifting is still an issue is also baffling. I mean don't these people test this before it all goes back out and go 'there's still something wrong here?'. As a layman, the way this game's patches and performance issues, PS4 specifically, have been going down is pretty weird to me.
I'm writing for games too and honestly i don't understand how he does it. He mentioned like 16 hour days in the '90s and... He must still be doing that
noomi
Member
Fully modded and upgraded shotgun, with neuromods in security damage boosts = nothing can fuck with me anymore.
Most phantoms are now 2 hit kills.
Sadly a fully upgraded/modded gold pistol pretty much sucks. I've run 80% of the game with a shotgun in my hand. Haven't even really used 'nades or any other weapons
Most phantoms are now 2 hit kills.
Sadly a fully upgraded/modded gold pistol pretty much sucks. I've run 80% of the game with a shotgun in my hand. Haven't even really used 'nades or any other weapons
Pandora012
Member
I don't think you can uninstall unless you delete the game from your system and stop the patch. But I don't know if you can use your saves on the original unpatched game. Luckily, it's still waiting to install on my system. So I can keep playing the day 1 patch version.
Fully modded and upgraded shotgun, with neuromods in security damage boosts = nothing can fuck with me anymore.
Most phantoms are now 2 hit kills.
Sadly a fully upgraded/modded gold pistol pretty much sucks. I've run 80% of the game with a shotgun in my hand. Haven't even really used 'nades or any other weapons
Really? I always end up using EMP and the stun gun for the Techno guys. They are also able to shut down its groupies. I also use the Qbeam on the Weavers.
Are they in the loading zone?
Incendiary
Banned
For those who have finished the game - how hard is it to complete it without using Typhon powers? I just got to the Arboretum and so far I've only invested in Human Neuromods and am not having much trouble, so I'm thinking about going for that only-human then only-Typhon playthrough trophy.
Not very difficult, human neuromods are pretty good alone. The main concern is ammo, as you cannot rely on psi to deal damage.
Incendiary
Banned
Well I'm a compulsive collector, so ammo hasn't been a problem so far and I've been able to fabricate more supplies pretty easy. Just worried about later enemies being too tough for my current strategies. I may just try and go as long as possible without Typhon powers and just keep some Neuromods in reserve if I get stuck at an impasse.
I'm more worried about an only Typhon power playthrough. No extra inventory space...the horror!
noomi
Member
I'll usually open with psychoshock or electroshock and then just shotty the enemies down. The only troublemakers for me now are the
military bots
PuppetMaster
Member
I finished my first playthrough today. I only used human mods/powers. It was still pretty easy especially toward the end when you become a bit OP. I played on normal diff. Maybe its even easier with typhon stuff though.
I got the good ending I think too. So I was pleased. One of these days I will get around to a typhon only run. And then maybe the no powers run.
PuppetMaster
Member
Those are 1 hit kills from the stun gun if you get the sneak attack. 2 hits if not a sneak attack. This was on normal with my stun gun maxed out.
I can't believe they left their hacky input lag "fix" of making the deadzone on the sticks zero after actually fixing the input lag in the latest patch. I mean, they obviously did a lot of work to remove the input lag, how did they overlook the horrible drift issues they introduced in 1.01?
PuppetMaster
Member
You only need 3. You need to read the mission objective text.
psychotron
Member
Did they do a lot of work? They turned off vsync, which (I may be wrong) would help with input lag on it's own. Then they left the dead zone setting while making the frame rate choppy. Sounds like crap all around.
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
My wife saved this game for me. I was losing interest fast. then she sat on the sofa next to me and started getting invested. Normally I would explore, but she would google information for me, like passcodes and keycard locations. We had a lot of fun.
PuppetMaster
Member
Biggest improvement to me in the patch is the hacking minigame is WAAY easier!
Before the patch even completing lvl2 hacking was a real chore and I would fail often. Now even lvl4 is a breeze for me.
That's about where I'm at right now too and I'm loving this game. I think I'm at 14 to 15 hours played right now.
Holy shit this was spot on. Looking back it was pretty obvious that
It's a simulation. I just didn't think they would start that the game coming out of a simulation and then end the game the same way. I actually think it was really well done.
Equanimity
Member
You don't like exploration?
Anybody else got a glitch during
quest??
Earlier in the game, I repaired the
I have no idea what has happened to that item since as it's not in my inventory and I definitely didn't get rid of it. Anyway, the actual quest started for me now and the quest marker leads nowhere and is very random. I looked online and there is supposed to be an exterior satellite outside but there is nothing there for me and no quest marker leads there.
the Mixed Signals
Earlier in the game, I repaired the
moon door and got the transistor.
psychotron
Member
Yeah I can't even imagine how bad that must have been. I've only invested in Hacking Level 1 so far, as I've usually been able to find another way into rooms. I think I might up my repair skill though to another level or two.
PuppetMaster
Member
January the bot in one of his random lines of dialog straight up spoiled that it was
a simulation. While you are near him in your office, he says something like "3 weeks is the longest you have stayed in the simulation so far" and I was huh? Did he really drop that bomb
I think he was actually talking about
the neuromod tests in the Simulation Lab, the ones that you escaped in the beginning
old manatee
Banned
Fully modded and upgraded shotgun, with neuromods in security damage boosts = nothing can fuck with me anymore.
Most phantoms are now 2 hit kills.
Sadly a fully upgraded/modded gold pistol pretty much sucks. I've run 80% of the game with a shotgun in my hand. Haven't even really used 'nades or any other weapons
That's your problem. The pistol works great if you use the gloo gun, stun gun, or the correct grenade to stun an enemy first.
Just to add to this, this is now happening on a main story mission where a quest marker is leading nowhere. What's going on?
basic_text
Member
Is the
Loading Zone in the main room where the people aren't, or through the main door? I've been trying to carry the turrets through the room with the blue flames coming from the pipes and it's driving me mad!
Yeah I love the Pistol. It shoots so damn fast and rips through stuff fully upgraded + with the damage mods.
It was 4 things that got me questioning it (these are all early-game situations but they apparently spoil the end):
1.
If you fly out very far in space, you just die immediately of radiation. I did this because I wanted to see if space was a glass wall. Of course there's radiation in space but it's not this strong. It's almost like they just piled a bunch of radioactive waste behind the glass walls to keep you from getting to them. The reason I first suspected there was a glass wall is because the morality choices (do you save or murder the prisoner with mimics! Are you willing to sacrifice your life to save earth!) seemed very staged and artificial and reminded me of the stilted moral choices in the test chamber (the train and two tracks is a classic hypothetical in philosophy meant to interrogate Utilitarianism.) So it made me wonder if this was all just a test for personality drift.
2.
January puts too much emphasis on how you are human when she talks to the point that it's distractingly noticeable that she's trying to reinforce how she's a machine and you're human. For example, she says something like "...or we will all die. Well, when I say 'we' I mean you. I unlike you, of course, am not human."
3.
The emails between Morgan Yu and that other scientist and recordings talk about how they were considering doing the reverse; introducing human tissue into aliens. The last on the subject was Morgan promising she'd back her but they need to answer two questions: what is the test environment and who are the donors. Prisoners could not be used. And we were already told Morgan volunteered for the experiment she escaped from in the beginning, so it seemed natural that Morgan would volunteer herself for this.
4.
When you first take an alien power (or enter GUTS iirc) you get a flashback. Scientist: "What's happening?" Weird voice: "Don't let them do this to you." Scientist: "It's in shock". IT. They called you "it". You're not human. This was the real giveaway to me that cemented it. Not that I needed convincing after that but you also get a second flashback later that's even more obvious ("You aren't what they say you are" and lookin down to see tentacles and your human hand.)
I was a bit disappointed when I couldn't make it to the glass wall in space. If they let you fly out and tap on it, breaking it down to reveal all the scientists behind, I would've loved the game all the more. They could just have a scientist yell "restart the simulation!" and kick you back to loading screen lol.
I wonder, how many would've tried to fly out as far as they could and smash space? I doubt many would because people accept invisible walls in games without question, even in a game that plays with that concept of artificially limited space.
noomi
Member
Do the gloo gun and stun gun work as damage modifiers?
GwyndolinCinder
Member
Bleh how much is left if you've explored all the areas before Arboretum. I love the game, but i feel like this could end up going on forever.
I know if you gloo them up so they are immobile causes they take more damage.
Rexatality
Member
Yes. Gloo'ing a Mimic allows you to deal more damage into it. Stun Gun is very useful against corrupted operators
BTW, for those who are interested, here is the trauma system that was cut from the game:
https://www.reddit.com/r/prey/comments/6bmbn5/the_survival_mode_traumas_cut_from_the_game/
Morgan was stuck doing those tests for 3 weeks
ISee
Member
Took me 3 hours to explore and get through
. Didn't kill one single
NPC. Very cool area, enjoyed the careful planing and exploring a lot there.
the Crew Quarters
mind-controlled
Also entered the escape pod with the keycard from alex's room... Are looking Glass windows into other dimensions/possibilities?
There is no point in the glass wall in space because your simulation is more advanced and doesn't require any physical space, it's just some kind of headset. The name is even specified in the ending cutscenes, it's LGV3.5 or Looking Glass version 3.5. You can see the headset being taken off your head too. There is a prototype of this headset in the Calvino's apartment.
It's where the people are, ground floor, in front of a big door, loading bay B I think , there's an area marked on the floor where you need to put the turrets, you also don't technically need to fabricate any turrets, there's a few littered around the area
Ah! I guess that makes sense in explaining how you see yourself as human when you aren't.... still, I wanted to shatter space. That would've been an amazing moment.
That would've been an amazing moment.
that room made me lmao
Did you go into the magnetosphere? There is a dead body floating near the entrance to it. It's in the area of GUTS where the man and woman were having champagne and there are blobs of liquid floating around near a chair.
EDIT: depends on how you're oriented, the entrance is likely on the ceiling.
Pandora012
Member
I see a mimic.
Is it sad that I still got a jump scare in that room? Literally everything had a note except for the mimics....