PREY CORE BALANCE MOD - Version 1.2
No. Heavy Weapons are already smaller than they were in vanilla (3x2 instead of 4x2). Master Skill may reduce their size even further if it hasn't been reverted in v9.x.
I know about this mod, but it doesn't go far enough. Besides obvious balance issues there is a bigger problem of very boring late game content which must be addressed in order to improve Prey replayability. I liked the game a lot, but don't feel like going through killing same ten thousand little mimics, thousand human-sized mimics and a hundred of very-big-and-angry mimics. I'm not sure that such mod can be developed by Ash alone though.
Reverted in v9 onward.
They stack multiplicatively; Hazmat Suit reduces by 60% and Environmental Resistance reduces the remainder by another 30/45/60/80% for a total reduction of 72/78/84/92%.
I wholly agree, but unfortunately the modding tools for Prey are currently very limited. Some other Prey modders recently discovered that some of the game assets can be loaded into the CryEngine Editor, but the script files remain encrypted and uneditable, which breaks our ability to change or even view much in the editor without crashing. More might be possible with text edits than previously thought -- there's been some success in porting over Mooncrash assets to the base game, and apparently someone was able to nearly cobble together a flamethrower weapon using the Engineering Operator's welding torch attack, but you can see we're still just working by copypasting references to existing scripts. Prey needs more weapons, more enemies, and more thoughtful level and encounter design towards the end, and there are other major structural changes I'd like to have seen (e.g. the game should have opened up and turned nonlinear after the Arboretum, psychoscope should be available earlier). Maybe this stuff will become possible tin time, but there's a reason CORE BALANCE was as limited in scope as it was.
It does, somewhat by design. Speed Enhancement has always dominated its counterpart in Run Silent, and releasing its stranglehold on character builds is a good thing. In vanilla, it was a bad joke since you could use SE while crouching for total silence and speed matching your default run. GMDX fixes this interaction and offsets the imbalance by slightly nerfing SE and buffing base run speed, in addition to giving Run Silent a bit of fall damage protection. I doubled down on these concessions and gave Run Silent half of the Speed Enhancement's groundspeed bonus as well.
Agreed, it's a pointless and half-assed change. I would have understood it if the original soundtrack was DOS-era MIDI. Like, duh, update the soundtrack while you're at it. But DX's soundtrack isn't primitive enough to warrant it.
You probably missed one of your shots, and only hit one to the head. Default MIBs have 300 health, which means an Untrained Sniper Rifle headshot isn't enough to kill them on its own. 28 base damage x 8 for a headshot is only 224, will need a few more shots to put them down. Torso and legs have a x3 damage multiplier, arms are a x2 damage multiplier. As for your Stealth Pistol instakill, that's because there's a whopping x12 stealth damage bonus if you're behind a target within ~5ft. So 8 base damage x 12 stealth bonus x 8 headshot bonus is 768, which is more than enough.
