History Fridge / Prey2017

** No, that's not how it happened. The game forces the player to ''play through'' the experiment where containment was originally breached, so you see how it happens (when you go through the phantom-creation process, and it creates a voltic phantom.) The voltic phantom shuts down all the security gates and immediately escapes. Furthermore, there's no record of voltic phantoms in your notes (indicating that as soon as they appeared, containment was breached and things went to hell before anyone could note down what they were or how to handle them.)

* Gee, that city in the intro looks quite a lot like San Francisco, looks like they finally finished gentrifying SoMa for better or worse. Then the end of the helicopter ride reveals that nope, it's not SF, those are mountains where the Pacific is supposed to be. Just the first in a long line of falsehoods.

** Of course, there is a more successful option, but Morgan can't do it. [[spoiler: A mimic, on the other hand...]]
** The first and third tests actually have a similar quality to them. The first test has you removing a number of boxes from a circle on the floor, and the third has you crossing the room and jumping over a barrier to press a button. [[spoiler: The first test is easily accomplished using the Kinetic Blast power that Phantoms possess, while the third test is effortless for someone with the Technopath's Remote Manipulation power. Judging by January's comment that Morgan had been given blank neuromods that day, it's likely that the tests were specifically designed with testing the Typhon neuromod abilities.]]
* The prologue has you get tested on, and then find out you lied to about your everyday life. [[spoiler:The last plot twist in the game is that the entire game is a simulation, a test, and you are really a mimic Typhon. In retrospect, the prologue was a test to see how you would react to the last reveal, put there by Alex.]]

* Why is Morgan a HeroicMime when controlled, even though the character has a voice in audio-logs and videos? [[spoiler: Because you're not Morgan, you're a Typhon that's being made to think it's Morgan, and Typhon aren't exactly native talkers.]]

* The [[spoiler:"Will Mitchell" imposter]] and Walter Dahl are the most antagonistic and vicious human beings you meet - but of course they are. They both [[spoiler:pretend to be harmless (a cook and a HR expert, respectively), just as the shapeshifting, predatory Typhon Mimics pretend to be harmless objects]].

* On a first playthrough, a player unaware of the fact that [[spoiler:they're in a Simulation Lab on Talos 1]] might think [[spoiler:The Typhon are already on Earth when a mimic attacks the doctor running the tests in the fake Transtar building.]] [[spoiler:They are.]]
* In the third act, why does [[spoiler:Dahl prefer Operators instead of people? Not just because they follow orders, because they're smaller, lighter, and don't need life support or pay. And most importantly, you can wipe their memory afterward. Perfect for a wetworks man.]]

* Nicole Hague, the lady who's the objective of the "With This Ring" side-quest, is found [[spoiler: as a Phantom, in the same hotel room as Talos's celebrity guest, the similarly afflicted Alejandro Peno. There's an overturned bottle of scotch on the floor. Kevin's wife was stepping out on him at the time of the outbreak.]]

** [[spoiler:Being a Typhon made to think that you are Morgan Yu, The neuromods just let you remember the Typhon powers you already have.]]
* If you are either really good at ambushing Telepaths before their Mind Controlled minions can explode on you or invest some mods and Psi into Mind Jack to free them individually, you can save a fair number of people who, for all intents and purposes, were dead men walking. If you go back to the areas they were in later, they'll be gone, but their tracking bracelets will list them as "Safe" - which not only implies that the computer knows that they were in distress before and aren't now, but also knows that they aren't in ANY more danger... wherever they've gone. How does this work? [[spoiler:Alex probably had them unload from the simulation and, quite proud of Morgan's forethought, added the "Safe" condition just to put their mind at ease.]]

* In the upgrade menu, you have three categories for human neuromods. Scientist, Engineer, and Security. At first glance, this doesn't seem to mean anything. These are just the skills most useful given your current situation. [[spoiler:However, take a look at the operators Alex has in the ending. Aside from Danielle, there's Chief Security Officer Elazar, Chief Systems Engineer Ilyushin, and Dr. Igwe, who's one of the top scientists aboard Talos One. Each one corrosponds to one of the human neuromod catagory, and may very well have been the "donor" for the data you've been sticking into your brain.]]

* In the twist ending, [[spoiler:all you have to do to get the good ending is not be [[YouBastard a total dick]]. To display the ''slightest'' bit of empathy. How desperate ''is'' Alex, that [[Film/TheAvengers2012 he would call on such a lost creature to defend Earth]]?]]
** [[spoiler:To be fair, the point of the experiment was to see if the Typhon could ever see us as more than a step to their survival by making them experience mirror neurons, and to that end, all he needs is the smallest amount of proof.]]
* Despite disagreeing about the exact methods for preventing it from happening, everyone agrees that if even a single Mimic reaches Earth, then humanity is doomed. Yet Morgan merrily slaughters their way through hundreds of Typhon over the course of the game, showing that humanity could stand a chance given enough neuromods, psychoscopes, and guns. Most players will likely chalk this up to OneManArmy GameplayAndStorySegregation and move on. [[spoiler: Except, as the epilogue shows, that didn't really happen. One man or woman ''wasn't'' enough to stop the Typhon. They ''did'' breach containment, they ''did'' reach Earth, and they ''did'' proceed to overrun the planet, to the point that mankind's only hope is getting the Typhon to want to coexist. The only reason Morgan is so successful in the game is because the simulation is programmed so the Typhon can't OneHitKill them like they can in real life. So much for the player being a badass.]]
* [[spoiler: Expanding on the above. Mimics are shown to be capable of killing grown humans in mere seconds just by hopping on their head, but why can't they do that to the player character? Because the Morgan you are playing is a Mimic themselves]]
* [[spoiler: The Typhon spread Coral throughout the entirety of Talos 1 to create a neural network to summon the [[BigBad Apex]]. The Coral is never stated to be their natural environment, or nest, or what-have-you. It's purely for the purpose of summoning. In TheStinger, the entire Earth is shown to be covered in Coral. What is the Apex trying to summon?]]

* [[spoiler: Expanding on the above. Mimics are shown to be capable of killing grown humans in mere seconds just by hoping on their head, but why can't they do that to the player character? Because the Morgan you are playing is a Mimic themselves]]

** If you take a closer look at the chopper, it's easy to notice that the front of the chopper doesn't even have enough space in front of the passenger area to contain a properly-sized cockpit.

** [[spoiler:Being a typhon made to think that you are morgan yu, The neuromods just let you remember the typhoon powers you already have.]]

* Everything you read about Neuromods tells you that you need to have a brain scan of someone with an ability to gain that ability, yet the player can just install any Neuromod in any category they want. GameplayAndStorySegregation? No, [[spoiler:Psychotronics' most recent project is Typhon neuromods. Normally, that just means taking Typhon abilities and putting them in humans, but what else can Typhon do? Take the form of whatever they want. New, upgraded neuromods can literally do whatever the person installing them wants.]]
** [[spoiler:Or, in a possible case of the twist ending bleeding through, the Typhon experiencing the simulation based on Morgan's memories just expects things to work that way.]]
** Actually, January mentions in a throwaway line that he/she uploaded the neuromod programming onto your transcribe. You are programming the neuromods on the fly and then injecting them into your brain.

* Gee, that city in the intro looks quite a lot like San Francisco, these skyscrapers in the Mission are a good look. Then the end of the helicopter ride reveals that nope, it's not SF, those are mountains where the Pacific is supposed to be. Just the first in a long line of falsehoods.

* In the upgrade menu, you have three categories for human neuromods. Scientist, Engineer, and Security. At first glance, this doesn't seem to mean anything. These are just the skills most useful give your current situation. [[spoiler:However, take a look at the operators Alex has in the ending. Aside from Danielle, there's Chief Security Officer Elazar, Chief Systems Engineer Ilyushin, and Dr. Igwe, who's one of the top scientists aboard Talos One. Each one corrosponds to one of the human neuromod catagory, and may very well have been the "donor" for the data you've been sticking into your brain.]]

* In the third act, why does [[spoiler:Dahl only bring Operators instead of people? Because they're smaller, lighter, and don't need life support or pay. And most importantly, you can wipe their memory afterward.]]

* [[spoiler: expanding on the above. Mimics are shown to be capable of killing grown humans in mere seconds just by hoping on their head, but why can't they do that to the player character? Because the Morgan you are playing is a Mimic themselves]]
* [[spoiler: The Typhon spread Coral throughout the entirety of Talos 1 to create a neural network to summon the [[BigBad Apex]]. The Coral is never stated to be their natural environment, or nest, or what-have-you, its purely for that purpose. In TheStinger, the entire Earth is shown to be covered in Coral. What is the Apex trying to summon?]]

* [[spoiler: The Typhon spread Coral throughout the entirety of Talos 1 to create a neural network to summon the [[BigBad Apex]]. The Coral is never stated to be their natural environment, or nest, or what-have-you, its purely for that purpose. In TheStinger, the entire Earth is shown to be covered in Coral. What is the Apex [[BiggerBad trying to summon?]]]]

* [[spoiler: The Typhon spread Coral throughout the entirety of Talos 1 to create a neural network to summon the [[BigBag Apex]]. The Coral is never stated to be their natural environment, or nest, or what-have-you, its purely for that purpose. In TheStinger, the entire Earth is shown to be covered in Coral. What is the Apex [[BiggerBad trying to summon?]]]]

--> 2 - Truly suppressed handguns use subsonic ammunition, which would be handy in, say, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything preventing hullbreaches]]. Security chief Elazar even notes it herself, that the guns allowed on a space station are "pop-guns" compared to anything she could use earthside.

* On a first playthrough, a player unaware of the fact that [[spoiler:they're in a Simulation Lab on Talos 1]] might think in [[spoiler:"Oh no! The Typhon are already on Earth" when a mimic attacks the doctor running the tests in the fake Transtar building. They are.]]

* On a first playthrough, a player unaware of the fact that [[spoiler:they're in a Simulation Lab on Talos 1]] might think in a panic that [[spoiler:the Typhon are already on Earth when the doctor running the tests in the fake Transtar building is attacked by a mimic.]] [[spoiler:They are.]]

* On a first playthrough, a player unaware of the fact that [[spoiler:they're in a Simulation Lab on Talos 1]] might think in a panic that [[spoiler:the Typhon are already on Earth when the doctor running the tests in the fake TranStar building is attacked by a mimic.]] [[spoiler:They are.]]

* [[spoiler: The Typhon spread Coral throughout the entirety of Talos 1 to create a neural network to summon the [[BigBag Apex]]. The Coral is never stated to be their natural environment, or nest, or what-have-you, its purely for that purpose. In TheStinger, the entire Earth is shown to be covered in Coral. What is the Apex [[BiggerBad trying to summon?]]