Prior to launch the makers of Prey promised full support for the PlayStation 4 Pro, but the enhancements seemed to be missing when the game arrived last month. Since then, the Bethesda and developer Arkane Studios have been wishy washy about PS4 Pro support, claiming the game already was Pro enhanced, and refusing to provide any details about future functionality. I suppose Arkane was too busy squashing bugs, like the one that corrupted save files or the other one that let people duplicate crafting materials, to worry about prettying up the game.
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Well, Prey has just released a new update, and, lo and behold, it quietly adds a bunch of new PS4 Pro features! Better textures, lighting, and general “improved visual fidelity” have all been added. The base version of Prey was a little rough-looking, so I’m sure these additions will be appreciated by PS4 Pro owners.
Here’s the full notes for Prey update 1.04:
PS4 Pro Support added for:
- Enable Screen-Space Reflections
- Higher quality shadows
- Improved texture appearance
- More texture memory (stable streaming)
- Anisotropy 16x (from 4x)
- Improved visual fidelity
- Less LOD usage
- Dynamic lights show up further
- Particles are allowed to draw more pixels per effect
- Particle refraction enabled
Other Fixes:
- Additional fixes for PS4 input drift
- Glooing Cook between objectives no longer breaks mission
- ‘Nightmare is Hunting You’ no longer plays after completing ‘Copy Protection’ without Typhon Neuromods installed
- Disgruntled Employee mission now properly completes if player finds Grant Lockwood prior to getting mission.
- Sarah Elazar will now give the code for Cargo Bay B if player has hostility from Phantoms
- Aaron Ingram will no longer flee and cower when released in Psychotronics
- Player can no longer lock themselves in the security pharmaceuticals office in Trauma
- Superfruit no longer appears shrunken and flat when fully grown.
- Adjusted timing on several cutscenes.
- Blank objective markers no longer persist above reticle
- Using key actions while controller prompts are shown will no longer cause a freeze.
- Tracking bracelets are now sent to Recycler with “Transfer all Junk”
Prey is available for PC, Xbox One, and PS4. You can check out WWG’s full review of the game, right here.
