Prey‘s fascinating sci-fi world is filled with unique weapons, terrifying creatures, and special human modifying abilities that aim to level the ledger. The Talos I in Prey has invented the Neuromod, which allows humans to enhance their skills and abilities beyond known capabilities.
Neuromods are extremely rare, and shouldn’t be used lightly. They are used to help upgrade your abilities, and while they aren’t a complete necessity — and you’ll earn a special Achievement if you don’t install any — it’s important that you activate the right ones at the right time, relative to your own playstyle.
So let’s take a look at Neuromods and abilities in Prey, starting off with some of the achievements and trophies available.
Know Thy Self
- Acquire A Human Ability
- 10/Bronze
Know Thine Enemy
- Acquire a Typhon power
- 10/Bronze
No Needles
- Complete the game without acquiring either a Typhon or human ability
- 90/Gold
Split Affinity
- Complete the game having acquired only Typhon powers, and a second time acquiring only human abilities
- 90/Gold
Human abilities in Prey are unlocked from the moment you acquire your very first Neuromod. Bring up the TranScribe (Y/Triangle) to see the abilities across the following skill trees: Scientist, Engineer, and Security.
Some abilities will be available right from the start, while others will require you have met certain prerequisites before being able to unlock them.
As for Typhon abilities, that’s where the action gets very interesting. You’ll need to first obtain the Psychoscope in Psychotronics before you can use these abilities. You’ll need to scan Typhons to actually be able to add certain abilities to the skill tree. Stay tuned and check out our Prey wiki for an updated guide on Typhon abilities.
Let’s take a look at achievements for Human and Typhon abilities.
Human Ability Achievements
Engineer
- Repair at least 20 objects
- 15/Bronze
Dead Calm
- Kill an enemy using Combat Focus
- 15/Bronze
Operator
- Hack at least 20 hackable objects
- 15/Bronze
Typhon Ability Achievements
A Different Side of Yu
- Scan the Phantom Shift duplicate with the Psychoscope
- 15/Bronze
Ball Lightning
- Use Electrostatic Burst to drop two Operators at once
- 15/Bronze
Deprogramming
- Use Mindjack to free a mind-controlled human
- 15/Bronze
Escape Velocity
- Blast an object from at least 20 meters away
- 15/Bronze
It’s Alive
- Create a Phantom using Phantom Genesis
- 15/Bronze
Mimesis
- Mimic a Mimic
- 15/Bronze
Shapeshifter
- Mimic 20 or more unique objects
- 15/Bronze
Tee One Up
- Kill an enemy while they are Lifted
- 15/Bronze
Thoughts Can Kill
- Kill a human use Psychoshock
- 15/Bronze
