A Prey patch in the works [update 1]

by Joystiq Staff { Aug 14th 2006 at 10:25AM }

3D Realms released news that patches are on the way for both the PC and 360 versions of their cool, but short first-person shooter Prey. If you're like us and finished Prey long ago and were left with nothing else to do but watch a horrid multiplayer slug along, this is great news.

While the single player side is a truly solid game, the multiplayer version of Prey -- at least on the 360 -- is a complete mess of epic proportions. Here are some fixes coming to the PC version:

Fixed a crash at startup on some machines
Fixed a crash on some machines when reading saved games
Fixed multiplayer weapon exploit

The studio announced its fixes for the console version as such: "[The] 360 patch for Prey which will address the network lag issues on the 360 as well as fix several bugs there as well." No date has been announced for the patch releases, but they promise to have them out "very, very soon."

[Update: Apparently "very soon" means today. If you start up Prey, an update will be waiting for you. We tested multiplayer to see if it was fixed and it wasn't. The game was still very laggy and close to unplayable. In fact, in one game we tried to get into, the game completely froze. Thanks for the tip, Grim]

Tags: Prey

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

T-Bag @ Aug 14th 2006 10:34AM

Wasn't this already posted?

Grim @ Aug 14th 2006 10:42AM

I can't wait for the 6 new multiprey characters.

Richard @ Aug 14th 2006 10:50AM

Way to put up news thats over a week old!

wupperbayer @ Aug 14th 2006 11:18AM

Well, once upon a time I used to play console games - among other things - because they didn't had any (or very, very few) bugs.

Seems these good times have gone.

SuicideNinja @ Aug 14th 2006 11:19AM

I couldn't play Prey multiplayer because I was so pissed that it WASN'T Aliens vs Predator 3.

Clyde @ Aug 14th 2006 11:30AM

Leave it to Microshaft to turn the gaming industry into their crappy PC industry. Bugs, patches, you name it! It's all so craptacular.

Grim @ Aug 14th 2006 11:37AM

Why in the world did you even think to blame Mircrosoft? The blame needs to be put on Venom and 3D Realms.

BI5H0P @ Aug 14th 2006 11:46AM

What ever happened to XNA? I thought the whole idea of that was for developers to pick up parts off the shelf that worked and implement them into their games? Hasn't someone already figured out the laggy on-line play problem? And why does this seem to keep happening from the beginning with COD2/PDZ all the way up until recently with Street Fighter II XBLA?

Shadowstorm @ Aug 14th 2006 11:55AM

I smell another fanboy.

(#5)

Hoffer @ Aug 14th 2006 11:58AM

I hope this patch comes this week. :) I should be getting it from Gamerang.com by Wednesday. It will probably take me a couple weeks to play through the single player part.

Pretty Obvious @ Aug 14th 2006 12:07PM

Are you people idiots? So, your unhappy that a game that is already damn good in single player cant be patched to improve the multiplayer?

Im sorry but there were countless games on older consoles back in the day that could have benefited greatly from a patch or two. Yeah, those days are over and amen to that.

Tobor @ Aug 14th 2006 12:38PM

Pretty Obvious nailed this one. Console games have always been buggy as hell, you just had to live with it. Framerate sucks? Oh well live with it. Cheap bug making a game impossible to finish? Too bad.

Living in a fairyland where console games were all polished, shiny and perfect "back in the day" is ridiculous.