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First post, by DosFreak

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Waited for the 1.03 patch because of the savegame issue and bought it since it looked like the scene is interested in keeping up with cracking it, for instance Baldman came through again today!

Game is pretty decent but way too easy so if you decide to play it then play it on the highest difficulty. I'm currently playing it on hard.

Way too many resources available. Enemies aren't very difficult to kill and there doesn't seem to be much point in using the environment to kill them.

Levels are sized decently but I'm still wondering why there needs to be a transition between areas in a 2017 game (consoles?). It isn't that big of a deal but it is annoying. Similar to Thief 3 but at least it makes sense in the game unlike Thief 3. Hey, mabye in 2030 those parts can be removed just like in the sneaky upgrade patch.

No performance issues with a 6700k, Nvidia 1080, 10 64bit and 32gb RAM on a SSD RAID array at 2560x1440 with max details.

So I went into my Steam folder to backup the game with the previously mentioned crack and it looks like Prey (2006) and Prey (2017) share the same folder.....Brilliant. I already have Prey backed up seperately anyway so I guess I'll pick through the folder and copy out all the new files, delete the old files, copy the folder, delete Prey (2006) from steam, check to make sure that the new Prey (2017) files aren't deleted and delete and re-add Prey (2017) to Steam to see if I deleted any files and then finally make a offline copy. I thought Steam was supposed to make things easy?

EDIT Ended up copying out 2 folders and 2 files into a Prey (2006) folder in steamapps and deleting Prey (2006) from Steam then went into Steam and had it verify integrity on Prey (2017)

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Reply 1 of 2, by DracoNihil

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DosFreak wrote:

So I went into my Steam folder to backup the game with the previously mentioned crack and it looks like Prey (2006) and Prey (2017) share the same folder.....Brilliant.

Are you serious!? Wow this just rekindles my hatred of people "rebooting" games using the same title without any sort of differentiation...

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Reply 2 of 2, by DonutKing

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I quite enjoyed the game, but yes, I found there was generally way too many resources available, so you could basically max out on neuromods.

It reminded me a lot of System Shock 2, one of my favorite games.
However I feel that Prey lacks the replay value that SS2 had, because with SS2 you could paly through and build a different character (marine, tech, psi, or combination) whereas with Prey you can pretty much max everything in a single play through. There's also not as many weapons which makes a pure combat char less attractive.

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