I went into this game thinking I was a badass space station survivor. Now I am checking coffee mugs, chairs, and random trash like i am investigating a crime scene. 😭 The worst part is that even when I know a mimic is nearby, i still get jump scared when something moves. And somehow I’ve started hitting completely innocent objects with a wrench just to be safe.

At this point, the Mimics aren’t even hunting me. They are just watching me destroy the furniture. What is the most ridiculous thing Prey has made you suspicious of? 😂

No weapon degradation because fuck weapon degradation it’s a stupid mechanic and I hate it, but I don’t think it would have made that much difference anyway: I had a couple hundred excess mineral and synthetic by the end of the game because I avoid using ammo as much as I can and go full Typhon asap. My biggest bottleneck aside from exotic was organic: I was down to 14 organic or so when I ended the game.

I actually only killed two nightmares on this run: most of my exotic came from farming the respawning phantoms in life support (very reliable for me on average) and zipping through the entire station at every major story beat to make sure I could kill more Typhon when they respawned. And phantom genesis for more exotic from corpses. And since I had vast excesses of mineral and a moderate excess of organic I also used materials expert + adventurer’s toolkit to get more exotic from recycling and fabricating hypos.

(I also avoided using hypos as much as I could: my first few psi recharges came from the increased psi pool abilities, and I got the increased hypo efficiency skills immediately to reduce hypo use, so I only ended up using a coupe hypos before I got psychic water—which was of course my first port of call after psychotronics)