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Prey (2017) |OT| Trust no one. Not even your shelf
- Thread starter Rexatality
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Them moments when I was lacking/very low on ammo, so I try hitting some of the harder enemies that I have to fight with the wrench and praying simultaneously without losing much of med and suit kits.
Also if you tap the sort button multiple times it sorts by item type and rarity, you don't need to play item Tetris unless you want to.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
the_batman
Banned
For those with issues with the audio balance, crashing issues, and/or corrupt save issues...
They released a beta patch for the game through Steam. Just opt into the beta and it will download roughly 500MB. It fixed my issues with the game crashing repeatedly in the last half. The only problem I noticed with this patch is that now some of the audio is far too loud. I had to lower both effects volume and dialogue volume by a bit. Keep in mind that if you opt out of the beta, it may screw your saves over, so YMMV.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/480490/discussions/0/1334600128975623840/
They released a beta patch for the game through Steam. Just opt into the beta and it will download roughly 500MB. It fixed my issues with the game crashing repeatedly in the last half. The only problem I noticed with this patch is that now some of the audio is far too loud. I had to lower both effects volume and dialogue volume by a bit. Keep in mind that if you opt out of the beta, it may screw your saves over, so YMMV.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/480490/discussions/0/1334600128975623840/
the_batman
Banned
you should already be doing this for any game that lets you manually save, but make sure you have multiple saves.
i ran into a game breaking bug in the mission Shipping and Receiving. i completed the objectives but the NPC who gave me the mission would just stand there.
i ran into a game breaking bug in the mission Shipping and Receiving. i completed the objectives but the NPC who gave me the mission would just stand there.
GHG
Member
To be honest for any game like this where you can permanently fuck yourself you should have several save files. I've used all 20 slots in this and just rotate them. Relying on auto saves is a fools game.
I couldn't imagine playing something like Skyrim or The Witcher 3 without multiple saves as well.
the_batman
Banned
aren't there supposed to be way more
Nightmare
lol, same thing happened to me.
If you're doing no PSI skills, then you will be going all out with speed and craziness at some point. All those things they listed are in the human skill tree and take no PSI.
Fully upgraded mobility, leverage, and combat focus makes you feel like a god.
I just had a side quest I've already finished, pop up a complete message and then immediately a fail message and the quest text changed in the log.
Late game side quest:
Stupid bugs
Late game side quest:
Help Luther Glass
The quest was a trap by military operators and Luther has been dead the entire game.
Stupid bugs
matrix-cat
Member
Yeah, that exact thing happened to me. It seems like it fails as soon as you enter the
Shuttle Bay
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
I saw Shawn Elliott mention on Twitter that you can morph into a toilet roll and
Has anyone tried this?
go down the toilets in Psychotronics.
Has anyone tried this?
Went back to a previous save right after completing the quest. I stayed in the area and it eventually failed. Doesn't seem to be related to loading into a new area.
Indrid Cold
Unconfirmed Member
Only a few hrs in but only bug so far was the
in the room with the safe and the chem element puzzle spawning outside the magic repairing glass. Hope he didn't drop anything important.
phantom
Impetuous Imp
Member
I'm at the point where I'm going to sit and wait for a patch which will hopefully fix the lost items bug. This is getting ridiculous. It's not just happening around the arboretum or the elevator - I'm getting it when I try to go outside from anywhere now. I'm tired of saving every two minutes, scrutinizing my inventory constantly, reloading saves and shuffling items around in the hope that it takes something non-essential.
It doesn't always take items from the first row, it appears - now my first row is empty, 2nd is full of food, so the game proceeds to take a full stack of items from my third row. I reloaded my save from an hour and a half prior in order to reclaim the weapon and ammo I lost, but since then I've lost all my rad medication, a full stack of spare parts, and a full stack of suit repair kits. Reloading a save and shuffling a non-essential item into the same slot only means that it takes from a *different* slot. There's no way to work around it unless I feel like reloading constantly until it takes something I don't mind losing.
Now I'm realizing this has probably happened to me a lot before and I just didn't realize it. There were a lot of times where I could have sworn I had a lot more of something than I did but chalked it up to not paying enough attention.
I just don't think I'm willing to play the game like this. I hope they find a way to fix it.
It doesn't always take items from the first row, it appears - now my first row is empty, 2nd is full of food, so the game proceeds to take a full stack of items from my third row. I reloaded my save from an hour and a half prior in order to reclaim the weapon and ammo I lost, but since then I've lost all my rad medication, a full stack of spare parts, and a full stack of suit repair kits. Reloading a save and shuffling a non-essential item into the same slot only means that it takes from a *different* slot. There's no way to work around it unless I feel like reloading constantly until it takes something I don't mind losing.
Now I'm realizing this has probably happened to me a lot before and I just didn't realize it. There were a lot of times where I could have sworn I had a lot more of something than I did but chalked it up to not paying enough attention.
I just don't think I'm willing to play the game like this. I hope they find a way to fix it.
Graphically it's really good. Not amazing, but really good. Better than many games, functions exactly as it should. Doesn't have great faces, though.
Weird flashlight complaint. A) it's not like that's technically easy, B) the flashlight is fired straight out of your vision so you can't really see the shadows anyway, IIRC?
Yeah, audio seems even more fucked now. Had to google how to get the reactor room keycard because I didn't hear what the gal was trying to tell me because I left a turret by the door and he was yammering about going rambo or something, lulz
I put this over in the review thread:
I've only experienced two weird bugs where the game randomly gets rid of an item from my inventory and I only realized it was gone like 15 minutes later. First time was my fully upgraded stun gun, and I thought oh maybe I was dumb and recycled it, but later it was all of my med kits which I would never recycle or split, so yeah. That's on PS4.
Giving this game a 4/10 is beyond moronic. I haven't even completed it at the 25 hour mark so far and I already want a sequel it's been so damn good.
Right now my list of games in order of greatest to least great Ive played and completed this year:
Horizon
Persona 5
Nier
Resident Evil 7
I'm about 99% sure Prey will take over that Horizon spot depending on the ending. This game oozes atmosphere and does world building that only the souls franchise has been able to capitalize on. Quests are done quite intelligently and obstacles can be overcome in multiple ways. This game is a work of love, and the designers went well and beyond to make every piece of its world and how you interact in it be immersive and fun.
4/10? 4 out of 10? My God. Go throw that number at Skyrim and Fallout then if you are the high hero of bugs. Those games get a pass everytime for all the shit they have wrong with them, but Prey has one that is fixed almost immediately and nope, 4/10? Ridiculous.
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I couldn't say enough good things about this game, its characters, its design, the enemies, the soundtrack, etc. Everything just captivates me in all the right ways like the first Bioshock did. The two things like above that I mentioned this game does at 11/10 is atmosphere and world building. Other developers need to take note that you can have a large fleshed out world for a player to explore, brimming with quests and things to collect/find, and NOT have a shitty open world to do so.
I will most likely complete it today between the 25-30 hour mark, and hopefully all the side quests with it. As long as the ending is ace, then yeah this is my GOTY.
Playing on PS4 Pro if anyone cares, and I don't have any issues aiming and shooting. Just messed with the sensitivity and turned it up 1 notch and presto all was good.
I've only experienced two weird bugs where the game randomly gets rid of an item from my inventory and I only realized it was gone like 15 minutes later. First time was my fully upgraded stun gun, and I thought oh maybe I was dumb and recycled it, but later it was all of my med kits which I would never recycle or split, so yeah. That's on PS4.
Giving this game a 4/10 is beyond moronic. I haven't even completed it at the 25 hour mark so far and I already want a sequel it's been so damn good.
Right now my list of games in order of greatest to least great Ive played and completed this year:
Horizon
Persona 5
Nier
Resident Evil 7
I'm about 99% sure Prey will take over that Horizon spot depending on the ending. This game oozes atmosphere and does world building that only the souls franchise has been able to capitalize on. Quests are done quite intelligently and obstacles can be overcome in multiple ways. This game is a work of love, and the designers went well and beyond to make every piece of its world and how you interact in it be immersive and fun.
4/10? 4 out of 10? My God. Go throw that number at Skyrim and Fallout then if you are the high hero of bugs. Those games get a pass everytime for all the shit they have wrong with them, but Prey has one that is fixed almost immediately and nope, 4/10? Ridiculous.
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I couldn't say enough good things about this game, its characters, its design, the enemies, the soundtrack, etc. Everything just captivates me in all the right ways like the first Bioshock did. The two things like above that I mentioned this game does at 11/10 is atmosphere and world building. Other developers need to take note that you can have a large fleshed out world for a player to explore, brimming with quests and things to collect/find, and NOT have a shitty open world to do so.
I will most likely complete it today between the 25-30 hour mark, and hopefully all the side quests with it. As long as the ending is ace, then yeah this is my GOTY.
Playing on PS4 Pro if anyone cares, and I don't have any issues aiming and shooting. Just messed with the sensitivity and turned it up 1 notch and presto all was good.
v0mitg0d
Member
For those asking in the stream last night, as promised, here is a guide to that rare side mission involving the wedding ring. I tried to be as thorough as possible:
https://youtu.be/7vCOoVe8v4Q
Also, more people asking about the Golden Gun so here ya go:
https://youtu.be/d1n6xkrxm0o
Damn this game is so good!!
https://youtu.be/7vCOoVe8v4Q
Also, more people asking about the Golden Gun so here ya go:
https://youtu.be/d1n6xkrxm0o
Damn this game is so good!!
Pandora012
Member
Can't wait until Friday, I'll be able to pick up Prey again.
Bloodporne
Member
So they fixed the sound from the demo only to fuck up the sound in the retail version only to fuck it up in a different way yet again in the subsequent patch.
I can't wrap my brain around this as someone who used to do album mixing and mastering haha...
Moff
Member
I can understand the frustration but that's just silly.
bonesmccoy
Banned
Ooof. That's a harsh score, but damn if I wouldn't be equally as frustrated if that happened to me.
I wonder if the reviewer will update it post-patch.
I wonder if the reviewer will update it post-patch.
MosquitoSmasher
Member
Jeez I think I'm a little lost right now.
I have the quests Detour and The Blackbox Project enabled and this should be on GUTS. Yet here I am right now in the Life support area. I'm completely going the wrong way aren't I? And there seen to be many more rooms here too.
I have the quests Detour and The Blackbox Project enabled and this should be on GUTS. Yet here I am right now in the Life support area. I'm completely going the wrong way aren't I? And there seen to be many more rooms here too.
Pandora012
Member
Yeah, I think there is 2 in the lobby. Haven't found any others. Looks like the workers at Transtar didn't mind stealing from the company.
Rexatality
Member
Nightmare fix?
psychotron
Member
So I keep seeing terminals with crew members I need to find. I can only select one at a time and I can't seem to get to any of them due to lack of keycards or whatever. Is this something I can just come back later and chip away at, or will it basically solve itself through natural story progression for the most part?
MosquitoSmasher
Member
Yeah I am in that GUTS area but it seems big. I went into the cargo bay area but that's clearly the wrong way.
But I feel like I'm going in circles now. I am trying to find Josh Dalton for the Blackbox Project quest. I see the waypoint but I can't seem to get there. Is he located via Arboretum?
Dalton is behind the big gray pipe you see. There's an area you can squeeze past it.
v0mitg0d
Member
Yes, there are several security stations sprinkled around the game where you can access these people/bodies. You can trigger some side objectives like The Love's Gift by finding some bodies:
https://youtu.be/7F7-y6d65e4
There's also some people/bodies that trigger rare objectives that you must do before entering an area like the one regarding the
wedding ring
https://youtu.be/7vCOoVe8v4Q
I discovered that one basically by mistake. Wondering how many people will miss it.
Guessing a lot.
MosquitoSmasher
Member
And this is in the zero gravity zone?
Yep, it's in the GUTS. It's closer to the fork where you see the signs to go various places and further from the arboretum, if that helps.
Coriolanus
Banned
I like how there's two named phantoms that can spawn in that suite. One male. One Female. Oh gee, i wonder what happened.