Is that how? I’ve been avoiding spoilers in case I end up playing it. I figured it was something like that as most speedruns use that kind of thing to remove giant portions of the game.
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I was kind of running cold on the game at first but I rapidly warmed to it once it opened up. I have always loved Art Deco but Prey seems to fuse it with a modern 70s vibe that I don’t find nearly as attractive as what Bioshock pulled off.
I started on normal, then after an hour restarted on hard and it’s definitely that. I really have to admire how they handled progression, and how it feels like they are not guiding you, or barely so. Several times I went my own way, only to find out that’s where they wanted me to go anyways. After the third time of that it was pretty disconcerting, very much a subtle ‘Would you kindly’ moment, the whole time thinking I had free will.
Is not just bad. When you learn more advanced levels … It don’t get easier, you get access to a longer version. They clearly did this last minute the night before release after a week without sleep.
Yeah, in the grand tradition of hacking minigames, this one sucks.
Anyone else get the No Show achievement? I was amused.
“I wonder if these helicopter blades will kill me…?” Yes, yes they will.
I didn’t say “bad”, I said “worst”! :)
Yeah, that’s what I’ve seen in videos. The first level of hacking isn’t so bad. They are only about 10 secs long, so it only takes me less than a minute to reload 4 times before I get it. I dread the longer ones and sort of wonder if I should even take hacking. It’s just far too painful. Wish I could fabricare some auto hack tools. ME Andromeda supplied you with Remnant decrption keys if you wanted to avoid their hacking mini-game which was bad enough. But this is just awful Who thought this would be fun.
I will say the best is Deus Ex because it had risk/reward and was sort of fun. You could go straight for solutions or you could try to hack other nodes for credits or XP. This version in Prey just sucks.
I did, yeah. It happened exactly as you said!
Because I literally can’t afford two games a month any more, I had to choose between this and Steel Division. Sorry, Prey, but I think that SD will have longer legs than you, nothing personal. I want to play System Shock 3 too :(
I had strangely assumed you came into this thread to explain why you picked Prey over the other game. Nice fake out?
I dropped in because once I wrap up ME:Andromeda I wanted to grab this next, but the news articles on PC save game issues is worrying - is this wide spread, or only a big deal because it happened to a reviewer? I don’t want to read to much of the thread, just in case of accidental spoilers.
What save game issue?
No, just to moan that I really want to play Prey, too, so I’m living vicariously through you lot. As long as you all don’t pull a SPOILERY MR. CHICK SPOILER IN THE TITLE thing, or something.
Is this where I put links to my review titled, “Prey: It’s You, You Were the Prey All Along, Stupid”?
I’ve been seeing it as a news headline on a few articles linked from Gamer’s Post, and when I came here and skimmed at least one person mentioned it but no one replied that I saw (with my brief glance). Sounds like some issues with the PC version being identified after several hours of playing.
And also,
Lastly, I saw a rash of posts talking about PC performance issues in a particular area of the game.
It is possible to fail the hacking minigame? Is it somehow harder with keyboard or something? I don’t think I ever failed one, even the level 4 ones, and it is over very quickly. Playing with controller.
As for bugs, I only had one where an item from my inventory disappeared randomly when moving between areas (loading screens). happened only once, and I noticed immediately because I lost my most upgraded shotgun. But when I reloaded and same thing happened again, I figured I would move it elsewhere in the inventory. That worked, on next reload, I only lost couple ammo rounds :)
hasn’t happened since. But I googled and some other people also had this issue.
I have had one crash after 13 hours.
Something seems odd with the quicksaves and autosaves. I haven’t lost anything but it saves multiple versions of them, and if you select a previous one rather than the most recent, then want to load it again, it seems to disappear. I think it may be sorting them different or trying to be smart about it, and causing me to shoot myself in the foot. I can get it working, but it’s never in the spot I think, even if I pay attention to the timestamps.
Yes, I failed my first level 2 which had a harder layout. Next try was considerably easier. The whole time I was thinking ‘I bet this would be much easier with an analog input.’
Well it’s from farther into the game than I am, so I can’t really comment. I have been issue free so far.
I dunno how often “Publisher got us a copy of the game that was supposed to fix the issue” happens with reviewers, but that made me cringe. Sounds almost like playing off of a separate branch of the game, but maybe not.
I’ve seen the same issue popping up in the Prey subreddit.
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This really deserves to be played on PC.
Secondly, we noted an issue in the Prey console demo where the PlayStation 4 version of the game suffered from significant input lag. Dual Shock 4 deadzones have been tightened up for the final game, but the core latency issue doesn’t seem to have been addressed, making for a laggy experience.
Xbox One improves matters here, but PC takes response to another level - and the fact that even a £100 graphics card can deliver a decent 60fps experience bodes well for a range of older GPUs also delivering a smoother, more playable experience. From a Digital Foundry perspective, we’re really enjoying this game right now, and we’ll be back soon with a deeper analysis encompassing all three platforms.
Most games run better on PC. 60fps is a biiiig deal.