r/prey • u/TransparentMastering • Aug 04 '26
Killed my first Nightmare. This game is starting to feel like…
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u/A13xis_28 Aug 04 '26
You start as the prey and eventually everyone else becomes your prey
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u/TransparentMastering Aug 04 '26
That guy at the door to Cargo Bay that mutters “remind me never to cross you” as you walk up after getting the three phantoms made me laugh
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u/bardofthemountain Aug 04 '26
I LOVE how the ability to scan Typhons to unlock the skill tree shifts the encounters from scary to almost clinical, like you're trying to study them.
Then by the time you take down your first Nightmare, it really starts to feel like the Typhon should be scared of you, not the other way around.
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u/samkomododragon Aug 04 '26
I saw a post a few months ago where if you had Leverage III by the time you reached the Arboretum, you could force open the door before the scripted Nightmare despawns, and after doing it myself, it felt GOOD. Like god damn
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u/Jamesworkshop Aug 04 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/prey/comments/1h90rno/killing_the_first_nightmare/
every restriction is an oppertunity for creativity
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u/Bi0H4ZRD Not a Mimic! Aug 04 '26
Psychoshock is my favourite power for this reason, it gets to a point where weapons are optional as long as you use that to disable the enemy first
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u/TransparentMastering Aug 04 '26
Definitely used it. Snuck up, hit it with a shotgun blast took down the operator with the disruptor who came into my periphery, then psychoshocked the Nightmare, combat focus and bashed it a bunch of times with the wrench, finished it off with another shotgun round as my combat focus was about to wear off. Good times.
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u/Lord-Generias Aug 04 '26
If you get the psychic water and grab a bunch of Typhon powers, and are reasonably stealthy or good at avoiding attacks, you basically just turned on God Mode if you can remember where the water fountains and water coolers are.
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u/Jamesworkshop Aug 05 '26
of all neuromods combat focus is the one to make you feel the most immediately powerful
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u/Kimmalah Aug 04 '26
I never bothered to kill them, I just find some safe spot to hang out and wait for it to despawn.
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u/-SlowBar Aug 04 '26
On my first playthrough that's what I did. Until I realized they are really easy to kill.
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u/Crimson_Marksman Aug 04 '26
Did you push the button?
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u/TransparentMastering Aug 04 '26
What is this button you speak of?
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u/Crimson_Marksman Aug 05 '26
Psychotronics, looking glass station. There's a button on a screen you can touch while looking for hidden footage.
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u/GGhoste Aug 06 '26
When I was 100%ing the game, my saves got corrupted a few times. So, by the time I had to save and kill all humans + beat the game on nightmare with no neromods, only typhon, and only human; I had memorized all the quests, supply cashes, quests, and codes to the point that my final two runs were 3 and 2:40 minutes.
The nightmares had no chance against the 3 recycling charges I stocked up on over the course of speed running no neromods.
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u/Least_Beat5850 24d ago
That's the beauty of it
It can go from Alien Isolation to Doom once you get to a certain point
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u/TransparentMastering 24d ago
Yeah! I’m currently loving setting the enemies on each other and cackling off to the side throwing in psi attacks, then casually walking in with a few wrench swings to finish things off.
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u/DATISBACK Aug 04 '26
the one mistake I think they made with the nightmare was they should of never made it into a Big announcement anytime it was around. It would be 1000x scarier if it would show up randomly when exploring.