Prey

They tell you what that stuff is in game. It's a pretty big plot point.

>>388610256
This. I honestly forgot what it was called but it was like a neural network for the typhon. They went pretty into detail about that stuff, how did you miss it?

Anyway, great game, underrated gem and will be played 15-20 years from now as a "retro" classic like SS 2, mark my words. Good gameplay, good music, great atmosphere, and engaging story.

My personal GOTY. Maybe the best SciFi game I've ever played.

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>>388610708
I believe they mention it being the collective consciousness of the victims which they weave I to the "coral" which the apex(?) consumes.

>>388610005
Way better than the Bioshock games, I'd say it's on par with SS2 but the final hour or so of the game was the worst for me, I enjoyed the game so much but at that point I just wanted it to end which was a shame.

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>>388611381
Same.
Dealing with all the military Drones was annoying.

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>Backtracking out the ass
>Enemy variety is garbage
>Combat is as simple as it could be
>Usage of typhon abilities is highly discouraged for no actual reason


At least the exploration aspect is nice.

Solid 6/10

>>388611381
This, partially.

The station eater and sudden loss of gravity were kind of cool. The game was a bit too relaxed 'till the drones and this stuff.

Even with the sale no one cares about this shit, serves it right.

>>388610005
>same year as BotW launches a new Nintendo platform
>no advertising
The actual GOTY will be ignored, sadly.

>>388612453
The advertising was terrible, most people couldn't even tell what kind of game it was before release.

>>388613364
It's still being advertised as WHOAH NASTY ALIENS DUD TIME TO RIP EM APART WHOOOSHHHH

>>388610005
Feel like the good ending should've been a lot more difficult to get. I'm a do-gooding pussy faggot so I got the most empathetic cheevo right off the bat but apparently you have to try real fucking hard to get the bad ending.

>>388611657
>Usage of typhon abilities is highly discouraged
By January, who should've already given multiple reasons for you to distrust.
Nightmare is not a threat.

>>388613787
That's the point, it just shows how carefully crafted the simulation that Alex built is.

>>388613532
I thought it was being marketed as so spooky mimics r scary

Alex did nothing wrong.

>>388614693
He actually didn't do anything wrong though.

>>388614693
>I played the demo now look at me post about this game!

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>>388614515
Yeah, it's a bit of both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCD1wxgTYFs
And
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNHZ9WAertc
Based on trailers I would say that it's just a horror shooter.
Compare that to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3__6BknDHc
>Guns shown, but emphasis on dialogue and the setting.

Could've done a better job for sure.

>>388610005
If it had better enemies it would be the uncontested best immersive sim, the level design is extremely impressive.

>>388614945
I know where this term came from and everything but it still boggles me
when I here immersive sim I think something like the sims but first person or something, not system shock derived stuff

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>>388610005
Too bad about the ending but very good game.

>not just escaping the station and abandonning everyone

>>388615198
>Not getting max empathy but then choosing to kill alex after you're set free

So no one actually blew up the station right? That just seemed like a super retarded "solution" from the very start.

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I had some serious gripes with the games after i was finished with it
>All turrets and military operators get broken when you leave the area
>Psi pool upgrades are human upgrades so making your alien abilites more effective is impossible on a pure aylmao run
>All the choices, quick saves, touch decicions i did and didnt make didnt even matter because no matter what the earth is destroyed because it was all a simulation of Morgans memories
>Only consistant way to kill weavers is Q-Beam
>btw Good luck trying to fight military operators without hack 4 fucko
>Never found a use for the quest item wedding ring
>Had to re-load capturing dahl because he kept clipping through the window and into the fan outside
>Full damage upgraded shotgun was far too powerful and ammo far to easy to come across
>Had to bump up the difficulty in the middle of my run
All in all i had a good time with the game tho

>>388610005
I tried the demo, it was fun but didn't bought it cause it doesn't have bosses

>>388615387
>Only consistant way to kill weavers is Q-Beam

Well I just popped their shield with the pistol and then blew them the fuck out with kinetic blast

>>388615387
>All the choices, quick saves, touch decicions i did and didnt make didnt even matter because no matter what the earth is destroyed because it was all a simulation of Morgans memories

It defined who you were. The story of Earth and the space station is irrelevant, just like a bunch of labeled choices are irrelevant and the ending is mostly defined by stuff like going out of your way to help someone.

>>388615387
Even on nightmare the shotgun makes the game a fucking joke.

>Find it in the first hub area of the game
>Never use anything else
>Don't level typhoid abilities because of story reasons

Absolutely shit combat design just GEEZ.

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>>388615387
Weavers just die from a couple pistol bullets.
I beat the game on nightmare with no mod and that's how I killed every single one, few bullets to remove the shield, few more to kill them.

>>388615698
Because you chose to play it the shooty bang bang way, it's not a shooter.

>>388615321
I did. Purge xenos no matter what. Also killed all the humans in the game and made sure I died as well.

>>388615875
>Play in the optimal way
>It's wrong because ???

Right' o fucko, maybe make the enemies so that not doing the same thing ad infinitum isn't the best way to deal with them, hmm..??

>>388615875
It's actually much more fun to play it like a shooter (time slow and murder) just so you can explore and look around in relative peace. Stealth is gay.

>pick up transcribe
>sometimes it auto-plays
>sometimes you have to hold a button to play it
>sometimes it just goes into your audio files without any option to play it
>list of audio files in inventory doesn't have any indication of what you've already listened to
why

>>388611657
The variety is pretty decent I don't really get this complaint.

>>388616213
I had a bug mid game where every audio I picked up would default to playing the nightmare summon song, even though nightmares are weak as fuck. So I had to look through that list everytime.

>>388611657
>backtracking out the ass
>atleast the exploration is nice

not even trying

I think this is the closest we may ever get to a wh40k first person game that isn't dogshit.

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>>388616386
How is this hard to understand?
Exploring the station is nice
BACKTRACKING TO ALREADY EXPLORED AREAS IS NOT NICE

Are you fucking retarded?

>>388616268
>Mime
>Standing mime w small variations
>Floaty big mime w turrets, humans or floaty explodies.
>Turret
>Floaty bot

Whoah geez what a huge list of enemies good thing they are all weak to the shotgun/wrench combo.

>>388616268
>electrtic phantom
>normal phantom
>fire phantom
>psychic phantom

wow much variety

>>388616096
That's assuming stealth and shooting are the only two ways of playing the game.
I killed almost everything by luring them into hazards and turrets, and then finishing them with the wrench. I bet most people didn't even use the typhon lures.

>>388610005
The game was interesting and enjoyable for me to proceed until all airlocks got closed again.

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>Close to the end of the game
>Doing pure human run
>Weighed down by loads of Typhon jizz which is useless because I don't need neuromods anymore

>>388616498
you either like the area or you dont, not my fault you cant commit to an opinion because of hormones or whatever

>>388616510
I didn't use any grenades pretty much ever. Every problem was easy to solve with moderate application of gun.

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>>388616609
Yeah I love areas that I've already picked for loot, done the sidequests and read the audio files etc.

Those are the best.

You're baiting me, right? Fucking retard.

>>388616716
yes i am sorry

For real though i do know what you mean actually, but at the same time its like having a really cool house but you hate going to the kitchen everyday, seems like an opinion Notch would have or something, and thats not a good thing

I was fully expecting the space around the station being smashed through and turning out to be looking glass.

Ending was still ok, but could have been better.

>>388615387
turrets are fucking useless
>upgrade and setup 3 outside the greenhouse
>turn on the sprinklers so the telepath floats into their path
>they don't see anything 3 feet above them
>the telepath throws a few blasts at them and knock them all over

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>hear dog noises
>wut
>mfw i see the nightmare

>>388617028
>Come back to an area I've set a bunch of turrets at
>All the turrets are smashed without killing a single Typhon

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>>388616797
But Notch would love to go to the kitchen, he's as fat as they come.

And I wouldn't actually mind if the reason was something reasonable like
>Crew quarters have hive or something dude go get it or face more trouble later on!!

Which would give me a soft incentive to go there, as I'd either have to go deal with it or be assaulted by improved/increased alien activity

Instead of absolutely asinine things like
>Hey I know you saved me from a floating container in space and that we're all going towards impending demise and it's more dangerous than ever but hey I really would love it if you could go to the other side of the station to grab me something to remember my wife by that'd be great haha ;) by the way I teleported here through four telepaths and one weaver but don't tell anyone shhh


Literally have to go all the way back there to press q and pick new object then walk all the way back because there's nothing else to do there and holy shit just thinking about it makes me absolutely livid.

>>388616498
Those "small variants" you're so quick to disregard have great significance in how you approach combat with them.
You also didn't mention the mind controlled humans.
>>388616504
It's a decent amount of variety. What more do you want?

>>388617105
and what about those ones in GUTS?
i repaired them to kill the weaver nearby but no matter what you do, they deploy in the worst direction possible and don't even fire off a shot before they're destroyed

>>388610005
I wonder who could be behind this post...............................

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>>388610005
Do you think there's a posibility for Story DLC like Dishonored?
What would it be anyway?

>>388617317
>mimes just run away from you
>you can just shoot phantoms in the face until they die their abilities are irrelevant

go away todd

>>388617362
I doubt it, Prey was a pretty big flop.

>>388617317
Oh yeah I forgot
Humans:
>Explode when you get near wow literally the best way to deal with them is to not deal with them lamo
Also:
>Great significance
>Can I wrench it first before shooting?

>>388617415
They fucked up the marketing for it pretty badly. I only just played it, because none of what i had seen of it had led me to believe it was a system shock like game.

What a coincidence that every game bethesda has released after implementing their release day embargo has all had huge issues at launch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpKM0S37Ujo

Also a major offender
>Can only make one item at a time

TIME

TO DIE

>>388617640
What problems did D44M have?

>>388617717
Doom 3 fans.

>>388617717
being shit

>>388617748
At least both Classic and Doom 3 marines are in Quake Champions.

I liked it, I really did, but I feel like it should've been fleshed out a bit.
The whole setting and general aesthetics are top notch, though.

>>388617782
how did it perform tho?

>>388617837
Disappointing early sales, picked up once people realized it was great.

>>388617891
I meant like framerate.

>>388617837
Ran flawlessly on ultra, on my pretty old rig:
i7 2600k 4,0 GHz
16 GB RAM DDR4
EVGA 970 GTX

>>388615387
>Only consistant way to kill weavers is Q-Beam

I just threw nullwave grenades at them and gave them a few shotgun blasts.

>>388618186
>16GB
>i7
>970
>pretty old

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>see nightmare for the first time while I'm coming out from the little tunnel from the main lift into the Arboretum
>Jesus what the fuck is that
>it's not doing anything though. Just looking at me in the tunnel and glitched so that it isn't shooting its homing projectiles
>set up the two turrets in front of him and free kill it

Cool game but it's pretty buggy. This kind of thing happened a few times with different enemies.

>>388618316
I think that happened to me when I first encountered a Nightmare in the lobby.
It attacked at first, but when I used slow time and shotgun, it stopped attacking.
I just assumed at the time that it was afraid of me.

>>388618225
It's not 2014 anymore grandpa.

>>388618225
The 2600K is six years old now, and the 970 is three years old.

>>388618316
The nightmare is a joke anyway.
>Can easily avoid it
>Dies to circlestrafe like most enemies anyway

Sometimes you get 1shotted, but that's life I guess.

>>388618316
>Load into crew quarters
>Nightmare standing right in front of me
Such a bullshit moment.

>>388617362
The creator "left" the studio, so doubtful, and if it happened, i doubt it would be anywhere as good

>Talking to Dr. Igwe in my office
>*trumpeting noises*, oh a Nightmare, I'll deal with him after this dialogue
>January's broken parts fly across my vision and Igwe starts running around the office
>Turn around
>Nightmare standing in my office

Always lock the door to your office.

>>388617483
In every way, yeah.
>Make people angry by using the title of an older game for literally no fucking reason
>Don't market it as a spiritual sequel to system shock

What the FUCK did they think would happen? Absolute fucking idiots.

>>388618662
that happened to me as well.
didn't know how to lock the office door so i just locked him in the room across the corridor.

>>388618732
Bethesda treated the game as an investment to keep the IP. As far as I know, if you've recently acquired an IP you have to use it in order to show intention of use. It's why Sony made those new Spiderman movies a few years ago.
Otherwise the people you bought it from/licensed it from can successfully challenge you in court.

>>388618790
Keypad on the outside, and there's a button on the inside that activates/deactivates the lock.

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>Cant upgrade PSI pool and shit without losing out on the alien ending

>>388619043
You what? PSI cap is a blue upgrade.

>>388619043
Pretty sure the ending is the same except for one bit of dialog.

>>388619139
No i meant that i cant make my alien powers more effective without leveling human traits
>>388619174
Is it really just a little dialogue thing? Shit that sucks if so

>>388619236
Yeah, the thing that matters the most is your empathy level.

>>388619043

Wrong as fuck. Your choices leading up to the ending are almost entirely inconsequential, so do whatever the fuck you want.

>>388619292
Actually you need mid/high empathy for the ending with a choice.

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>>388619292
Thanks alot boys
Ya'll saved me several hours of worrying

>>388618863
Yeah, what a really stupid move.

Fucking Bethesda.

>>388619292
And that's really bullshit as well, fucking game nudges you towards there being big consequences for taking typhoid upgrades and WHOOP IT'S FUCKING