Prey Walkthrough Ascent

September 12, 2016 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 7 minutes

This Prey walkthrough is divided into 22 total pages.

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Ascent

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 572
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 572

Start by turning around to find plasma and freeze ammo. Spirit Walk to turn off the beams and stop the leak.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 573
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 573

Harvesters are through the next door.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 574
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 574

Harvester guts. I like secondary fire from the Acid Gun or Auto Cannon for this fight. Alternately, you can try to run and call a shuttle from the pad to the left.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 575
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 575

Collect health and ammo from the catwalk.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 576
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 576

Use the dismembered hand to open the door on the right.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 577
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 577

Find an ammo locker to the right then grab some lightning or plasma for your Leech Gun to the left.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 578
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 578

Use this console to activate a portal in the previous room.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 579
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 579

Enter the room on the right and step onto this platform. Mother informs you that this Citadel is several hundred miles tall; you are at its base and Jen is at the top. Ammo as at your feet and health is behind you.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 580
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 580

Backtrack to find more harvesters.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 581
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 581

Call a shuttle and ride it to the portal upper-right.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 582
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 582

Discover that it's not really a portal at all, but a kind of shuttle elevator.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 583
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 583

Put down on this pad ahead. Be sure to keep an eye on the lasers -- you don't want the turrets firing on you as you exit the shuttle.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 584
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 584

Unfortunately there's no switch to disable the eye stalks. Fill up on lightning if you don't have some already, then trigger the turrets and destroy them.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 585
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 585

Listen in on this next Art Bell segment. Researcher Greta Caldwell theorizes that the current abductions are related to the disappearance of the ancient Anasazi.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 586
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 586

Use this console to unlock the ceiling hatch. (Note that a safer path is to Spirit Walk to this switch if you don't mind missing some goodies in this room.) A health spore, a freeze station and an ammunition locker are to the left. Rifle ammo is to the right.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 587
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 587

Call a shuttle and rise through the now-unlocked ceiling hatch.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 588
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 588

Quickly dodge the mines and other dangers to reach the next hatch, far above.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 589
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 589

Clear the debris blocking the next portal. Robots and turrets attempt to slow your progress. (If you die here, you'll return from deathwalk all the way back where you called the shuttle -- best to move quickly and avoid a fight.)

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 590
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 590

Fortunately, a landing pad is in the next room. Clear the area of threats before exiting the shuttle. Remember, you can hover over the pad to recharge the shuttle's exoskeleton integrity.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 591
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 591

Spirit Walk to grab this rifle ammo. Note the health spore ahead/left.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 592
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 592

More rifle ammo and another health spore are here. Use the console ahead to disable the alarm.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 593
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 593

Use the dismembered hand on this console to unlock the hatch ahead.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 594
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 594

Call a shuttle and fly through this pair of hatches.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 595
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 595

Find this large asteroid being mined. You need to land on the pad near the tower.

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Prey Walkthrough - Prey 596

Robots will try to stop you, but they spawn in finite numbers. Try taking them all out before landing.

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Prey Walkthrough - Prey 597

Follow this pipeline. Snipe the hunters that try to stop your progress.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 598
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 598

Activate this switch. A large crane upper-left comes to life.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 599
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 599

Call another shuttle and battle any robots that spawn, plus any determined hunters in shuttles. Stay close to the pad so you can repair.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 600
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 600

Watch the crane lifting large crates higher into the citadel.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 601
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 601

Here's where the process begins. Fortunately, there's a landing pad nearby.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 602
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 602

Defeat this hunter that spawns upon landing.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 603
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 603

Use this console to your left and unlock the hatch beyond.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 604
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 604

Defeat robots and shuttles then enter where indicated.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 605
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 605

Fly your shuttle into the box.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 606
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 606

Wait while the crane transports you farther into the Citadel. Mother checks in on your progress.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 607
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 607

Defeat the hunter, along with a nearby robot (plus another hunter that spawns) before landing. Note the health spores and Leech Gun ammo.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 608
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 608

Use this console.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 609
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 609

A new container is constructed and carried away. Ready your best harvester-stomping gun.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 610
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 610

Two harvesters spawn on your way to call a shuttle. You can either take them out on foot or hop into a shuttle to do battle.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 611
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 611

Hop in a shuttle then position it so that it will be enclosed by the next container.

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Prey Walkthrough - Prey 612

Wait while you are transported, then fly the shuttle up and out of the container when you see this sign and hear Tommy say, "I really should get out of here." Otherwise, the shuttle is destroyed.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 613
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 613

Defeat this hunter, his buddies and robots before landing on the pad. Find acid ammo through the portal on the right.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 614
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 614

Lots of health spores are in this area, including on the ceiling. Note the gravity switch ahead -- there's another on the ceiling if you look up, just outside this shot. Walk across and then shoot the gravity switch ahead to find yourself on the other side of this gap in the floor.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 615
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 615

Spirit Walk into the exhaust tunnel.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 616
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 616

Take out this hunter with your bow then use the console on the right to lower the force field and stop the exhaust.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 617
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 617

Return to your body, come through the tunnel then activate the console to let the exhaust and force field stop any turrets or robots on your tail.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 618
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 618

A health station is on the right, Leech Gun plasma and freeze ammo is on the left, and another Art Bell segment is straight ahead. Learn that the aliens move from planet to planet, taking food as they need it.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 619
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 619

Proceed through the door on the right.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 620
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 620

Note the ammo lockers on the right. Approach the door ahead with caution.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 621
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 621

Position yourself close enough to open the doors, but far enough away to avoid damage when you trigger the eye stalk controlling a wall mine just inside the door.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 622
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 622

Secondary fire from your Auto Cannon keeps this sleeping hound from waking up.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 623
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 623

Enter this room and defeat a pair of robots. Notice that the beams ahead are emanating from blue nodes.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 624
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 624

Shoot the nodes to terminate the beams.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 625
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 625

Once all the beams are stopped, the room goes dark. Spirit Walk to defeat these attacking wraiths.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 626
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 626

Backtrack through the dark corridors. A previously-locked door is now available. Ready your Leech Gun.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 627
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 627

Harvesters attack. Two lightning gun zaps will bring one down and this first harvester is the easiest to see.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 628
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 628

Use the rifle scope so you can see the rest. Rifle fire doesn't do much damage to the harvesters, however, so you'll need to switch to the Auto Cannon or acid gun.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 629
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 629

Once the harvesters are defeated, shoot this gravity switch.

Prey Walkthrough - Prey 630
Prey Walkthrough - Prey 630

Defeat a pair of turrets then drop through this blue portal to load the next level.

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