The Huntress Boltcaster doesn't degrade (aww) I did some testing, and here's what I found:Ī 100% condition Shotgun can fire 200 rounds before breakingĪ 100% condition Pistol can fire 500 rounds before breakingĪ 100% condition GLOO gun can fire 500 rounds before breaking (each clip is 42 rounds, for reference, this is actually damn quick if you use the GLOO a lot to freeze enemies)Ī 100% condition Disruptor Stun Gun can discharge 5000% before breaking (recall each shot takes 25% so this is really 200 shots) However, I'm a little concerned that it won't pan out to be quite as meaningful as I thought.

Hence, a significant amount of weapon potency is locked behind multiple investment in Engineer skills, great to balance out the power of maxed out Alien Neuromod trees. Since I'm going for a scientist/psi build instead, I'm relying on found/crafted weapons and have come to accept that weapon mods are a temporary rather than permanent investment, perfectly fitting with the upgrade cap on all weapon modifications without Gunsmith/Lab Tech. Since you're probably going to be using Spare Parts more often overall, this also encourages you to acquire the Dismantle skill to retrieve Spare Parts from destroyed operators and from breaking down equipment. Thus, if you want to spec into the Gunsmith and/or Lab Tech skills, you must also spec into Repair. For example, you can avoid the Repair skill by finding new copies of weapons lying around the station or by crafting them yourself, but this means you'll lose any modifications you've made to your weapons. Weapon degradation also leads to significantly more build depth by tying the game systems together. This in turn encouraged me to experiment with explosive gas canisters in the early game, and the combat system was much made much more engaging as a result. Limited weapon durability had an immediate impact - none of the weapons I could find lying around were in particularly good condition, so I couldn't rely on crafting tons of pistol and shotgun ammo to spam my way to victory and had to be more strategic about combat. So when I tuned into the Bethesda E3 conference, saw the Prey logo, and Arkane stated that the new Survival Mode, I was super excited and redownloaded the game right away. Ever since they mentioned optionally reinstating some of these features in free update for the game, I've been eagerly awaiting news for a Survival Mode.

I later bought and played the game, and while I found it engaging enough, it was a far cry from the tense and challenging experience I craved from a successor to System Shock 2. Prior the release of Prey, I was very upset to hear that several hardcore systems had been disabled due to having been judged to be too hardcore for mainstream audiences.

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