remove the technopath from the game

[[They/Them] ChesseTheWasp]

WTF boss fight, i've died 40 times fithing this boss, it out dps-es you way too fast, has 2 adds that deal massive dps, takes no damage from the shotgun or the wrench, and uses an emp to stop you from using the gloo gun which is the only weapon that does damage agianst it. did anyone even play test this boss

[nimue]

if you use the tactic of "shoot, shoot and shoot again", then of course it will most likely not work. because Prey is not an ordinary shooter and encourages other approaches to the destruction of opponents. combine weapons and abilities.
what kind of technopath is it exactly? from the elevator lobby? from a water treatment plant? from the reactor room? from the neutromode department? the situation and interior are important, use this, look for explosive gas cylinders, for example. block the enemy's abilities with the appropriate grenade or psyshock, turn turrets/bots against him with the lord of machines, call your phantom for help (don't do it in the elevator lobby).

[nimue]

and it's not a boss, but quite an ordinary opponent. :DD

[[They/Them] ChesseTheWasp]

Originally posted by держу пиво:

if you use the tactic of "shoot, shoot and shoot again", then of course it will most likely not work. because Prey is not an ordinary shooter and encourages other approaches to the destruction of opponents. combine weapons and abilities.
what kind of technopath is it exactly? from the elevator lobby? from a water treatment plant? from the reactor room? from the neutromode department? the situation and interior are important, use this, look for explosive gas cylinders, for example. block the enemy's abilities with the appropriate grenade or psyshock, turn turrets/bots against him with the lord of machines, call your phantom for help (don't do it in the elevator lobby).

the game made me use up one time consumables to take down the boss i had to stun it with an emp, gloo it, and then use up a recycler. need to improve my max hp and hp regen, and wrench damage so i can tank this boss next time i see it

[Lar Dass]

Gloo gun - it falls due to the weight - massive health drop - repeat (bonus damage if you shotgun it when it falls)

[bulletshowerr]

Shotgun is only for close range, that is your biggest fault. Second is shotgun need to be upgraded and neuromod equiped for more damageblast.

Use gloogun or stungun to disable the technopad for a short time, shoot at it with close range and run away, hide or move away from the attacks and then repeat the first few steps.

Or use golden pistol or Q-beam so you dont need to get close to it.

Remember this isnt Doom where you need to pump many bullets in each enemy.

[Savage Sloth]

I insist on immediately removing the L-block from Tetris, which came out in 1989. Has anyone tested this at all? It is impossible to use this block in the game.

[HomelessCylon101]

Stun gun does good damage and also stuns it long enough to hit with another shot.

[Breach]

One thing important about Prey is that you rarely if ever want to take enemies head on. You need to assess the tactical situation, consider the environment, basically try to surprise and disable your enemies. Combat in Prey is often more about planning than execution.

For the Technopath there are a number of good strategies - is he high up? Use GLOO to freeze him and the drop alone sometimes kills him. Otherwise - use nullwave close in, with the shotgun, or best strategy - use the stun gun - then a few shotgun shots, then stun gun again - he can't touch you. Upgraded stun gun alone is often enough to take him out easily. Does he have turrets with him? Then start with an EMP. Etc.

Q-Beam also works, but it's more risky as it makes you move slower and in open spaces that's not good as it doesn't prevent him from "casting" his electricity orbs.

[Majestic 12]

If you think Technopath is hard you are going to love getting swarmed by Military Operators in late game, each one having like half of Techopath's health bar.

[Young Freak]

I had the same opinion a week ago or so, but I got it killed with Kinectic Blast spam (the way I handle things most of the time ). Funny enough while in a space encounter I even managed to kill 2 of these with a wrench and gloo.
The game feels frustrating actually, all the stats are just screaming "RPG" and forcing you to play "smart-meta gaymer style" with ridiculously (most of the time) executed combos.
Also it was hard to read Technopath attacks since they are clearly EMP but for some reason insta killing you (but I didn't experience that in space tho). Stun gun wasn't working, EMP grenades too. Well, EMP grenades actually work, but it took time for me to find a visual response to that, which turned out to be some kind of particle that appears close to its eye.
Well, yeah, unfortunately this is simple as it is - collect info ("Z"), and use only those types of weapons that are applied to the current enemy.
Arkane games always have specific and questionable "combat". But maybe that’s the key to their elitist status as a developer.
I'm really forcing myself to keep playing the game right now, I'm not reading anything aside from the main story and don't have much initiative to explore freely rather than gathering resources like in a loot game. Maybe it is too much and It's just me slowly degenerating.

[Ratch]

Use this chipset if you have it -- EMP SHIELDING (*) 19.4GHZ - Decreases the effects of EMP damage on your suit and weapons.

Technos are annoying, but they're also the only enemy who actually puts up a fight. The rest of the cast are 1-4 shot squishies (with a shotgun).

[clarkeveritas]

There are counters and tactics against everything- it's just a matter of which upgrades you picked. Even if you don't use a lot of typhon abilities there are a lot of cool items that can disable enemies. That was one of the things I really liked about Prey was that no matter how powerful an enemy there are usually a few ways to deal with them. There were items I never used in my first run or two that I found out later were AMAZING against certain enemies.

It's been too long to give specific advice against specific enemies but if it's the enemy with turrets attached to it- there are ways to disable turrets and ways to disable typhon abilities. You can even use certain items to draw enemies away or into traps. That's the cool thing about immersive sims like this and Dishonored and Deus Ex- they give you enough tools to do anything if you are creative enough with what they give you.

[meh]

A well placed reclyer grenade placed on the wall, or hit dead centre in low gravity environments does enormous damage, saving on q-beam ammo

[ULTRA]

Pretty sure there's like 4 EMP grenades for every technopath in the game also

[Blackout4711]

Originally posted by PsyPlex:

I insist on immediately removing the L-block from Tetris, which came out in 1989. Has anyone tested this at all? It is impossible to use this block in the game.

Diabolically similar energy to OP