1up.com's Week of Prey Coverage

[ultra tree 85!]

ADM said:

and listen

Yes, it was very interesting, and cool to hear George talking.

[Acid]

Best bit was the bit at the end :P

[lonestar]

if only this stupid audio file would load. ie is unable to load it. in another case, i just activated active x elements, and it worked fine. ff even doesn't want to display the wmplayer.

[Gryph]

Very cool interview. You know, it would be awesome if you guys brought Rise of the Triad back. I don't know if it would fit well with today's game climate (whatever that means...) but I really loved everything about that game. Best weapons in a game EVER.

[Cerberus_e]

ADM said:

and listen

Yes, I listened while reading at the same time, which made it very easy to read

[tpz]

I was too, until I was unable to proceed listening at the second page.

[Joe Siegler]

tpz said:
I was too, until I was unable to proceed listening at the second page.

Load both pages at the same time.

Also, in regards to the DNF remarks George has at the end of this, please use the thread in the DNF forum for that. Thanks.

[tpz]

Hehe you are right. Ah well...

[hell-angel]

Nice read.

[Needle]

Part 3 is here.

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3147653

The "hot new screenshots" are neither hot nor new, though.

[Micki!]

That's nice...
It supports Dual cores...

[Kristian Joensen]

That was a very interesting read. Especially all the technical information.

[mysteryperfecta]

Needle said:
Part 3 is here.

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3147653

Best part yet. Very technical, though.

[Kristian Joensen]

It looks like that the PT is identical to the PT of the old Prey minus the fully destructable enviroments. But maybe we can see that in some mod(s) ?

[SyntaxN]

Kristian Joensen said:
It looks like that the PT is identical to the PT of the old Prey minus the fully destructable enviroments. But maybe we can see that in some mod(s) ?

Adding fully destructable environments would require more than just modding the existing code, imo someone has to rewrite big parts to make it possible.

[FireFly]

There's some really great news:

"We added a light-interaction shader system that allows us to do tons of cool effects." Put on your jargon caps for a moment and think glossier surfaces; parallax mapping for superlumpy organic surfaces; refraction for ray-traced effects; softer, more diffuse skin and lustrous hair; and several "membrane" enhancements for displaying thin, transparent surfaces more realistically. "We've also added postprocessing shaders that give us things such as contrast, saturation, tint, blur, and light bloom,"

"It's allowed us to use compressed normal maps even at high settings that look as good as the uncompressed normal maps," says McArthur. "Because of this, our medium-quality settings will look like Doom 3's high-quality textures, and our high-quality normal maps can have twice the resolution. It's been a huge gain for us."

It seems they're pushing the visual bar while keeping the same (or similar) minimum requirements,

[SyntaxN]

FireFly said:
There's some really great news:

"We added a light-interaction shader system that allows us to do tons of cool effects." Put on your jargon caps for a moment and think glossier surfaces; parallax mapping for superlumpy organic surfaces; refraction for ray-traced effects; softer, more diffuse skin and lustrous hair; and several "membrane" enhancements for displaying thin, transparent surfaces more realistically. "We've also added postprocessing shaders that give us things such as contrast, saturation, tint, blur, and light bloom,"

"It's allowed us to use compressed normal maps even at high settings that look as good as the uncompressed normal maps," says McArthur. "Because of this, our medium-quality settings will look like Doom 3's high-quality textures, and our high-quality normal maps can have twice the resolution. It's been a huge gain for us."

It seems they're pushing the visual bar while keeping the same (or similar) minimum requirements,

I like it that they added parallax mapping
The rest also sounds damn cool...

[Joe Siegler]

Needle said:
Part 3 is here.

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3147653

The "hot new screenshots" are neither hot nor new, though.

Just got an email from the guy at 1up who is writing all this:

BTW - the screens were a second behind the story. I saw someone had read the story before they had gone live. The new screens are now up. Sorry for the confusion.

Garnett Lee
Managing Editor
1UP.com

[Cerberus_e]

http://www.1up.com/do/slideshow?page...91&mId=2665524
First close look at those enemies that are confused with octabrains

http://www.1up.com/do/slideshow?page...91&mId=2665520
New weapon?

http://www.1up.com/do/slideshow?page...91&mId=2665521
Multiprey

[Micki!]

Love the new Screens..!

[ultra tree 85!]

Another great article. The screenshots were cool, too.

[Gabrobot]

I remember back in 2002 id showing off their physics engine and how it could physically simulate fast moving objects like bullets. I was rather disappointed they didn't use it in the final game, so I'm glad to see Prey bringing that back.

Also exciting to hear about the new interaction shader system (which I assume is one of the reasons the system requirements have been bumped up to a DX9-level card minimum).

[Kalki]

This part made me laugh.

"Again, this is all physically simulated so an object's mass determines how easily you can manipulate it. Some objects, and even creatures, are so massive that you can't budge them at all. They may even pull you around until you let go."

[Kalki]

Cerberus_e said:
http://www.1up.com/do/slideshow?page...91&mId=2665524
First close look at those enemies that are confused with octabrains

Those are the machines(like the matrix' squiddies) and I assume they're bigger. The creatures have green glowing eyes. Both share design similarities with octabrains.

http://www.1up.com/do/slideshow?page...91&mId=2665520
New weapon?

http://www.1up.com/do/slideshow?page...91&mId=2665521
Multiprey

Is that a flamethrower? Both seem like multiprey to me.

I'm afraid to stare too closely at this wall texture here.

[Micki!]

Kalki said:

I'm afraid to stare too closely at this wall texture here.

Hahaha..!
It's scary indeed..!

[hell-angel]

great stuff.

Nice read indeed.

BTW: The bow looks really sweet. I love the wood texture!
A level with a wood and stone setting would be a cool variety

[Halcyon]

http://www.1up.com/do/slideshow?page...=0&cId=2012691

Can't wait to play the game.

[Ronald McDonald]

Day 4 is up

[hell-angel]

Ronald McDonald said:
Day 4 is up

gonna read it right now.

[hell-angel]

Great movie.


"Hey chris, wanna do the George B. for us."

I am soooo looking forward to this game.

[Kristian Joensen]

Ronald McDonald said:
Day 4 is up

That was a great read. I couldn't get the movie to work though.

[Ronald McDonald]

Leech-gun

The movie pwnz, the acid luminates a bit when splatterd on enemies and walls 'n stuff. And it looks so high-details because the textures are so high-res
DOOM 3 and Quake 4 are butt-ugly compared to Prey

[Ronald McDonald]

Lets see if I can save target as:
mms://zdmedia.wmod.llnwd.net/a111/o1...er_320x180.wmv


EDIT: No But you can watch it fullscreen now

[Cerberus_e]

Developer interview part #1: singleplayer.
But what's interesting is that there is a lot of multiplayer in the video as well, as much as singleplayer. I saw the place where the multiprey screenshot comes from from wednesday
So I assume we'll get more singleplayer footage tomorrow in the multiplayer video

I didn't like this: "if you do good you're going to get less ammo".

There was a very cool part where you see an empty room, and as soon as you enter it the room spawns full of decals Invisible teleports?

I'll read the text later. It's enqueued on my "to read" list just like all other articles so far because I'm reading other things at the moment

I liked how the interviewer said: "Hey how do you adress the people that say: Look! Doom 3 engined corridor in space shooter #6"

Judging from the video, the combat lacked depth. While the rest of the features make up for it, and even more, I think combat is a very important aspect of a game together with the atmosphere. There was a part in slowmotion but I'm very confident it was to show off the bullet system and not a feature in th game. I hardly heard what they were saying because I'm on my old computer right now, and the maximum volume is REALLY silent.

hell-angel said:
"Hey chris, wanna do the George B. for us."

Well, now it's confirmed that the June 6 release date is made up by Human Head as well.

[Kristian Joensen]

Ehh, Cerb, people may misunderstand that. It was confirmed by Human Head not made up by Human Head. Some people might read your quote as the latter. While that is clearly not the case or your intent.

Edit:

I really liked the interview, Prey is looking might good

[Cerberus_e]

Haha, you're right, I didn't even think of that while writing.

[Parkar]

I just can't wait to experience this game. The game seems so fresh even though the action looks to be of the oldschool kind.

[Assault]

This latest update hardly has anything about the character, most of it is about game features. Although its a good update, I still wanted to read more about how character development is implemented in the game.
Gotta wait some more.

By the way, the spirit world you go to when you die, is it ike what they did in Soul Reaver?

[Micki!]

Assault said:

By the way, the spirit world you go to when you die, is it ike what they did in Soul Reaver?

Not quite...
In soul Reaver you were in some kind of alternative dimension...

In Prey you get tranfered to a whole new location, so it's different...
However, the regular Spirit-Walk feature could be compared with Soul Reaver's other dimension... Just, instead of fighting spirits instead of enemies, in Prey, you still fight against enemies, just in spirit-form...