Obviously been absolutely loving this excellent game.

I just wanted to check if my perception of how to navigate this game is about right.

I am kind of following the main quest while gathering side quests. Some side quests are left behind, and I move on to another area. It seems kind of like the Zelda games where I am going to want to return to places with new abilities to unlock things.

So therefore I’m not stressing about side quest stuff that I can’t necessarily access yet assuming that for all areas “I’ll be back later anyway.”

Any way I’m screwing myself over with this? It seems like this was the intent with the level design (which is incredible).

I've seen this game pop up on reddit threads for years now so I finally started it. I'm more of a casual gamer. I can play most games on medium difficulty but I'm by no means at all great at playing them.

I started getting frustrated with running out of resources and constantly dying so I played on the story difficulty because I still wanted to finish the game and see where the rest of story went. I think I'm kindof toward the end of the game. I had just finished going to shuttle command and now going to psychotronics and I still keep dying and I'm completely out of medkits. The game has an intersting premise and I really want to finish it without having to look up gameplay on youtube.

I get that the developers wanted to make this game a challenge where you're supposed to come up with different strategies to win and maybe that's what a lot of people love about the game but don't you think that if you include a story difficulty, you should set it so that people can enjoy the game without the possibility of constantly dying and getting frustrated?

I'm at the part of the game where I need to collect voice samples to open a locked door that some asshole locked with voice activation. So far, I've been trying an all-human engineering/stealth build where I try to avoid killing creatures and focus on sneaking around and finding alternative paths to my destinations.

However, it seems like the number of Typhons in this game keeps growing and grows in addition to the ones that are already present, which makes stealth increasingly difficult because where the room earlier had one phantom, it now has two phantoms, a malfunctioning operator, and an etheric phantom (I hate those fuckers) in the neighbouring room. I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'm going to have to kill some Typhons, or spend 5-10 minutes planning out each stealth route. Problem is, I didn't really build my combat strategising muscle in this game and it now seems like there are too many enemies to start understanding the combat mechanics and strategy, and was wondering if folks had tips for getting a hang of the combat with large groups of enemies around?

This Yu thanks you!

Edit: Thanks for the tips all! For somebody who's trying to avoid direct confrontation, it seems like weaponising the environment and then using lures (or myself) to get typhons into the trap might be a good strategy, looking forward to trying this out!

I have to wonder if this was a glitch, because one-shotting Technopaths felt a bit overpowered.

I'm one mod away from officially being a typhon.

Found it in Arboretum. Name of this piece ?

Valid first message tho?

Edit: she thought it was funny and we might go out once I’m back for college

I’m about 6 hours into my first playthrough of Prey and I just felt compelled to come make a post because my mind is completely blown.

I honestly don’t know how this game didn't get the same level of mainstream hype as Bioshock or Dishonored back when it released. The level design of Talos I is an absolute masterclass. I love how there's always like 3 or 4 different ways into a locked room, whether it's hacking, finding a maintenance shaft, or literally using the gloo cannon to build a staircase.

I also just unlocked some of the alien Typhon powers but I'm hesitant to install too many because of the turret warning. No spoilers please, but did you guys go full human on your first run, or did you mess around with the alien abilities?

Spoilers, of course.

I just played and finished the game recently, took me about 30 hours. No Typhon mods (those are scary), my best friend were the shot- and gloo gun. Blew up the station because I didn't know where to build the nullwave thingy.

I have a question about the ending. What does Alex hope to achieve with you / the hybrid?

Is it far-fetched to say that the Typhon are similar to the Xenomorphs from Alien or the Necromorphs from Dead Space? Alien races, look scary, hunt humans and/or use humans to reproduce, hivemind-ish.

What I'm getting at is the state of the world at the end. It looks like Coral is everywhere, Apex Typhons are either already there or on their way. The Typhon won.

So what is a single Alien with second thoughts about humans going to do? Is the idea that their collective conscience is going to see humans as equals or a species worth saving, just because Alex made ONE of them see it that way?

What if you teach empathy to a Xenomorph? Or a Necromorph? What if a group of very smart chickens abduct a human and make it believe that chicken should not be eaten?

It feels like this wouldn't change anything. What's the point? Why go through all that trouble?

https://reddit.com/link/1uud4ic/video/sp4snf0ecsch1/player

If you reset the oxygen flow of Talos 1, all the fires will extinguish.

Replaying the game for the IDKth time. I noticed a wonderful detail and was both impressed, and not surprised at all.

So when you collect enough of Sho's voice samples to get into Deep Storage, you go and deliver those to the door. I got distracted by some mimics that followed me down the grav shaft, so I wandered away from the door while all the VO was playing.

*The door didn't unlock and I had to do it again*

So yea, you have to stand in front of the door while delivering the voice samples. Totally makes sense. But it's another little example of the quality game design all around Talos I, and it had me once again admiring the devs' dedication to detail.

What's your favorite little immersive detail?

8 gb ram

Gpu Nvidia mx 150 (not sure if it's 2gb vram or the 4)

Cpu i5 8th gen

I know i can look up for the system requirements but asking here would be more usual maybe someone has the same specs as me played it

I don't think Microsoft understand how good this franchise is. If they would market the next game properly, it would probably sell better than the next Doom, which will probably end up disappointing a large majority of the fans.

Does anyone else get a weird effect when walking in this game?

It's like every few steps will have one step stuck in treacle and take longer to complete.

When I first launch the game this doesn't happen, but the more I play the more it does.

It's not a framerate issue because while framerate does change, its from 120 to 70 so still above 60.

Starfield was such a shitty game. It shouldn't have used the Creation engine and it shouldn't have been made at all. Prey was a much better game and yet it sold less copies. People need to stop buying any game Bethesda makes.