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Prey (2017)

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ZerbanDaGreat said:
So it's like Human Revolution/Mankind Divided rules where I can pump hacking and repair ASAP and basically wind up with everything I want?
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I mean by the end of the game I had max hacking, repair, health, speed, strength, inventory space, weapon mods, and I could turn into a coffee cup and teleport. I was sprinting through Typhon-infested sections of the station like Usain Bolt, throwing refrigerators across rooms, hacked every door and safe I could find, and repaired half the goddamn station by myself. :V

I don't really think there are that many neuromods gated with hacking/repair opportunities compared to the king's ransom that the station just throws at you. The value of those skills is mostly in accessing alternate routes, repairing/buffing turrets, getting key codes from computers, and turning hostile Operators to your side.
 
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FUCK YOUUUUUU AUSTRALIA TAX, GREEN MAN GAMING HAD IT AT $60 USD AND GAVE ME 20% OFF ON TOP OF THAT

Except I still have Hollow Knight to finish.

... I may have made a mistake.

Time to drink away my regrets with prop champagne!
 
The sense of judgment radiating from January as I mass produce neuromods with my office fabber in front of her, by using Remote Manipulation from across the room, is palpable. :V
 
It's kinda wild how much of the station you can explore before you're "supposed" to get there. I spent some time floating around in the GUTS and managed to get inside the Shuttle Bay and the Cargo Bay, and I hadn't even gotten to the Arboretum yet.

And God, floating around outside the station is still probably my favorite part of the game.
 
Okay, so about the good ending . . .

So if you get the good ending it turns out that the whole Talos-1 Inicident was a simulated recreation of real events. You are a Typhon who has been implanted with human mirror neurons and the memories of Morgan Yu to create a hybrid being capable of briding the gap between species. You wake up to find yourself strapped down in a chair in front of Alex Yu who is making the final decision on whether to destroy you as a danger to earth or spare your life.

My question is, the Operators who advocate for you. Are they simply real people teleconferencing with Alex from other installations. Or are they like January, personality simulations of real people saved to an Operator's system?

I ask because, while I haven't finished the game, I haven't seen any way to save Danielle Sho from asphyxiation. But her Operator advocates for Morgan at the end. Which implies to me that these operators were probably playing the parts of their flesh and blood selves in the simulation.
 
Triggerhappy said:
Okay, so about the good ending . . .

So if you get the good ending it turns out that the whole Talos-1 Inicident was a simulated recreation of real events. You are a Typhon who has been implanted with human mirror neurons and the memories of Morgan Yu to create a hybrid being capable of briding the gap between species. You wake up to find yourself strapped down in a chair in front of Alex Yu who is making the final decision on whether to destroy you as a danger to earth or spare your life.

My question is, the Operators who advocate for you. Are they simply real people teleconferencing with Alex from other installations. Or are they like January, personality simulations of real people saved to an Operator's system?

I ask because, while I haven't finished the game, I haven't seen any way to save Danielle Sho from asphyxiation. But her Operator advocates for Morgan at the end. Which implies to me that these operators were probably playing the parts of their flesh and blood selves in the simulation.
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January mentions that Morgan created her personality with Transcribe recordings during the quest to unlock Deep Storage with Danielle's voice, so Alex could have done the same for all of the Operators even in the likely event they all died in the "real" Talos incursion. I think that's more likely than all four of them surviving Talos I when posthuman badass Morgan died.
 
Jace911 said:
January mentions that Morgan created her personality with Transcribe recordings during the quest to unlock Deep Storage with Danielle's voice, so Alex could have done the same for all of the Operators even in the likely event they all died in the "real" Talos incursion. I think that's more likely than all four of them surviving Talos I when posthuman badass Morgan died.
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January was talking about their voice not their personality. I would assume that if the others really were operators then they would possess similar simulated personalities. Otherwise there wouldn't have been much reason for Alex to ask their individual opinions.
 
Triggerhappy said:
January was talking about their voice not their personality. I would assume that if the others really were operators then they would possess similar simulated personalities. Otherwise there wouldn't have been much reason for Alex to ask their individual opinions.
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She says "that's how you made me" if I recall correctly, suggesting there was more than just her voice involved--and she clearly has a personality and opinions like they do.

I dunno, I like the idea that 4/5ths of the surviving humans on Earth are robot copies Alex made so he wouldn't be the only one left. It seems weird that Morgan wouldn't survive the Talos incursion, but all four of them would? And I mean, it's hardly infeasible that Alex could've reconstructed them from recordings and connectomes just like he did to Typhon!Morgan.
 
Jace911 said:
She says "that's how you made me" if I recall correctly, suggesting there was more than just her voice involved--and she clearly has a personality and opinions like they do.

I dunno, I like the idea that 4/5ths of the surviving humans on Earth are robot copies Alex made so he wouldn't be the only one left. It seems weird that Morgan wouldn't survive the Talos incursion, but all four of them would? And I mean, it's hardly infeasible that Alex could've reconstructed them from recordings and connectomes just like he did to Typhon!Morgan.
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The line was 'That's how you made my voice'. Implying that the voice recordings were just a superficial part of transcribing a personality.

Although I also like the idea of the operators as surrogates for their human selves. Possibly as a way for Alex to create alternate perspectives and opinions in the absence of actual human peers.

I know if I were in his position I'd probably do something similar for the sake of my own sanity if nothing else.
 
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Oh hey everyone:



Raphael Colantonio has given us the official lyrics to Semi Sacred Geometry.

so so fast, the sailing ship
the outer rim, the innocence
the lovely air
the wind it breathes
it comes
when do you follow, where do you lead
with a cut clean hand, a fire to feed
like the signs of the cosmic
the crush of the eye
it's just better in blood like the surest old sun
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So. While I'm loving the game's aesthetic so far. Am I the only person who kind of wishes that looking glass was installed into all of the exterior windows?

I would have loved the station to have this half broken down facade trying to give the impression of a building on Earth, failing because various panels have broken and are showing the outside starscape.
 
MJ12 Commando said:
I think I've encountered like... 5 total which were actually gated with Hacking or Repair rather than those making it super duper convenient instead.
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I've encountered at least 6 neuromods locked behind hacking specificaly in codeless safes in the beginning of the game. After the general acces door on the way to psychtronics there is an lv 2 safe containing 4 neuromods completly refunding lv 2 hackings cost and in the hardware labs hull breach there is a lv 3 safe containing 2 neuromods.

Also i Think the beams lab and the earliest Q-beam is gated behind repair. However I newer encountered anything requiring leverage that coulden't be gathered in atleast one other way. Like: recykler charges, terminal hacking, coffee mug shapeshift or Gloo parcuor.
 
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