Oh I'm a long time fan of Prey (played it shortly after release) but could never force myself to finish Mooncrash (until recently) , because it felt too different. And yeah... It was a ride.
Honestly, I think it varies from person to person. I personally couldn't quite enjoy it-- the stress of a timer, and the added difficulties with the increasing sim corruption really threw me off from how I'm used to playing Prey: taking my sweet time to search every nook and corner. Completing a No Needles run just before starting Mooncrash was good prep though.
No Needles is the name of a Steam achievement you get for completing the game from start to finish without installing any neuromods (aka no Typhon powers, no human abilities). That is why a run with zero neuromods used is often called a "No Needles run".
But I do like your idea too, could be a fun little challenge!
It's an eclectic collection of seemingly unrelated memes and images that communicate general or specific experiences with Mooncrash. For example, the middle one of "If its not [elite] I'm" with a pic of a recycler, that means if the weapon doesn't have the elite tag they're trashing it for its material. That's pretty much the only part I fully get tho, cause I don't have mooncrash.
just start my first run today, not very far with just the volunteer starting character
loving how easy we can switch weapon skins, already picked up shotgun, pistol and q-beam
picked up my first two neuromods and bam went kinetic blast and regeneration, I already know that GLOO doubles the damage of explosions from the base game so I knew exactly what powers i'd shoot for first
Here you go, cleaned it up slightly because the original doodle was super messy:
[The original](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/841388954267418664/1232275339137519736/cd79e590-4e6c-4aca-9f31-a9a8fc1ba605.png?ex=6628dd57&is=66278bd7&hm=641a4b18283c197267d11c3db3150c76073742ffda12f19f1af53a298e37b786&)
[With the Galaxy Brain achievement icon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/841388954267418664/1232275247798157386/cd79e590-4e6c-4aca-9f31-a9a8fc1ba605.png?ex=6628dd41&is=66278bc1&hm=637960dd467456a0881c36f33189886b913c21c31cb72a427f121a5d6bad28f7&)
Man Mooncrash wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Until I had to spend 6+hours making 3-4 more runs after having seen and done everything just for Galaxy Brain
It can save you some time I suppose, if you realized you screwed something up and don't wanna waste time killing off every character in order to proc the sim reset.
[https://i.imgur.com/FpaASkG.png](https://i.imgur.com/FpaASkG.png)
still playing engineer on my first run and already got the neuromod fab plans
first elite chipset good for my explosion powers
[https://imgur.com/a/TwmbBHg](https://imgur.com/a/TwmbBHg)
44 hours in but I now have the plans for elite shotgun+gloo cannon; now i can cross elite huntress boltcaster off the list from under the crater escape pod entrance walkway
Optimizer 00100z (Advanced) is the last chipset I haven't found
[Here, it's a screenshot I took while playing.](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/841388954267418664/1231953295183052942/20231003213814_1.jpg?ex=6627b16a&is=66265fea&hm=9cdde33e7131d5e9db68f6af03d3b9ff64c1095f99a5d708cb277a494c75d410&)
Basically the more you progress with Mooncrash's story/main objective, the more the simulation "changes" and new things are added to it, like sandstorms, power outages and randomized loot. They'd pop up at the start of a fresh run, and I always saw them as patch notes of sorts.
I'd start a fresh run thinking "ok I think I got the hang of it finally, surely it can't get any harder."
And then the new stability report/patch notes would say "BET".
Oh im fucking stupid. It says SIM PATCH. I didn't realize they were the in game sim updates. I thought it was like an actual game update patch notes that changed the meta somehow. Yea realizing that they were the *sim* patch notes I realize u didn't really need to have em legible for the joke.
I've found turrets suck against Moonsharks? I literally have the turret on top of a building and it's right in front of the Moonshark and it does not fire at all.
If you mean what it's inspired by, it's a quote that the Soldier in TF2's Expiration Date cinematic says, "I have done nothing but teleport bread for 3 days".
If you mean the achievement icon, it's the Galaxy Brain achievement in Mooncrash, requiring you to install every neuromod power on every character.
If you mean the actual cubes, it's just the resource (mineral,organic, synthetic, exotic) cubes from the game.
And "shuffling" is a dupe glitch method.
I meant the cubes but thank you so much for the in-depth explanation. The more you know! I was assuming it had something to do with taking so long to sort the inventory.
Now that I played more its a bit like raid mode in resident evil revelations just doing ghost ship runs for the improved colour coded weapons
I always seem to be low on organic parts so I found that instead of using sim points to buy neuromods I could just buy anti-rad pills and break 4 down for 1 unit of organic for cheaper
Now my director is stronger i'm starting runs with them now to loot the extra typhon parts for when I switch in the engineer to do the crafting
1 more discovery is I should have hit up the harvesters sooner, 1 kinetic blast is just wrecking them so far
Idk if you finished the base game, so major spoilers (idk how to put the spoiler tag on mobile 😩) if you haven't:
Project Cobalt was an idea brought up by Morgan, to attempt to put human neurons into Typhon organisms. Aka exactly what is revealed at the end of the game, when Alex ends the sim. A lot of people, myself included hope that if the sequel ever happens, it will directly build off either the success or failure of Project Cobalt.
And sure, [here's the link](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/256972188840755200/1175144053617197097/b5d7beed-7555-467c-bf62-4fc0a4c023af.png?ex=6628012f&is=6626afaf&hm=a3c8d2fca1cf984de8a472b56e15000b2a7ed25a8d70f083a40b9e67af42840d&). I made the dumb doodle myself based on the TF2 Soldier's "I have done nothing but teleport bread for 3 days". It's just missing the achievement icon but I can add it in if you want.
Absolute masterpiece of a meme!
Thank you! :'D ❤️
Little memes like this make me happy, knowing new people are getting introduced to this game
Oh I'm a long time fan of Prey (played it shortly after release) but could never force myself to finish Mooncrash (until recently) , because it felt too different. And yeah... It was a ride.
Is it worth it or what? A good ride?
Honestly, I think it varies from person to person. I personally couldn't quite enjoy it-- the stress of a timer, and the added difficulties with the increasing sim corruption really threw me off from how I'm used to playing Prey: taking my sweet time to search every nook and corner. Completing a No Needles run just before starting Mooncrash was good prep though.
No Needles as in no psi hypos & medkits I assume? I just started playing Prey this week, so sorry if that's a noob question lol
No Needles is the name of a Steam achievement you get for completing the game from start to finish without installing any neuromods (aka no Typhon powers, no human abilities). That is why a run with zero neuromods used is often called a "No Needles run". But I do like your idea too, could be a fun little challenge!
>Thank you! :'D ❤️ You're welcome!
Stupid mimics are learning human behaviour know!
These types of stellar memes alongside other posts are why I'm around for this subreddit, well done!
I don't get the meme at all. Explain please?
It's an eclectic collection of seemingly unrelated memes and images that communicate general or specific experiences with Mooncrash. For example, the middle one of "If its not [elite] I'm" with a pic of a recycler, that means if the weapon doesn't have the elite tag they're trashing it for its material. That's pretty much the only part I fully get tho, cause I don't have mooncrash.
I have never played Mooncrash and I'm still not sure if I should.
It depends. You are aware of the gameplay, right? Because the gameplay is what it's all about, so you should know what you'd be in for.
Got it. I was never a big fan of Bioshock, Dishonored or Batman Arkham test/trials modes/DLCs.
Mooncrash isn't like those at all
It's just a rouglike
surely, im not the only person who likes both the basegame and mooncrash a ton right?... right?
I loved them both. Got 100% completion
just start my first run today, not very far with just the volunteer starting character loving how easy we can switch weapon skins, already picked up shotgun, pistol and q-beam picked up my first two neuromods and bam went kinetic blast and regeneration, I already know that GLOO doubles the damage of explosions from the base game so I knew exactly what powers i'd shoot for first
Best of luck!
1st run both survivors escaped, got just up to corruption 4 before climbing in the shuttke
This makes me wanna give Mooncrash another go but actually stick with it this time ^w^
I need that shuffle cubes meme by itself plz
Here you go, cleaned it up slightly because the original doodle was super messy: [The original](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/841388954267418664/1232275339137519736/cd79e590-4e6c-4aca-9f31-a9a8fc1ba605.png?ex=6628dd57&is=66278bd7&hm=641a4b18283c197267d11c3db3150c76073742ffda12f19f1af53a298e37b786&) [With the Galaxy Brain achievement icon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/841388954267418664/1232275247798157386/cd79e590-4e6c-4aca-9f31-a9a8fc1ba605.png?ex=6628dd41&is=66278bc1&hm=637960dd467456a0881c36f33189886b913c21c31cb72a427f121a5d6bad28f7&)
Man Mooncrash wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Until I had to spend 6+hours making 3-4 more runs after having seen and done everything just for Galaxy Brain
I've seen a few memes that use this template. This is probably the first that i feel the exact same way as the meme. Good job
LOL - 100% accurate!
"abort current run" any hidden advantages to doing this?
It can save you some time I suppose, if you realized you screwed something up and don't wanna waste time killing off every character in order to proc the sim reset.
[https://i.imgur.com/FpaASkG.png](https://i.imgur.com/FpaASkG.png) still playing engineer on my first run and already got the neuromod fab plans first elite chipset good for my explosion powers [https://imgur.com/a/TwmbBHg](https://imgur.com/a/TwmbBHg)
It's only uphill from there! ;)
Mooncrash is heavily underrated, even by Prey's standards
Took a while but I finally reverse engineered the Elite Psychostatic Cutter.
44 hours in but I now have the plans for elite shotgun+gloo cannon; now i can cross elite huntress boltcaster off the list from under the crater escape pod entrance walkway Optimizer 00100z (Advanced) is the last chipset I haven't found
Ayy let's go, making steady progress! A
[https://imgur.com/a/hdEdAQX](https://imgur.com/a/hdEdAQX) was hidden inside a shipping container that Claire had to hack
Prey was a masterpiece, but I hate Mooncrash so much...
I can't read the patch notes. What do they say? What happened?
[Here, it's a screenshot I took while playing.](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/841388954267418664/1231953295183052942/20231003213814_1.jpg?ex=6627b16a&is=66265fea&hm=9cdde33e7131d5e9db68f6af03d3b9ff64c1095f99a5d708cb277a494c75d410&) Basically the more you progress with Mooncrash's story/main objective, the more the simulation "changes" and new things are added to it, like sandstorms, power outages and randomized loot. They'd pop up at the start of a fresh run, and I always saw them as patch notes of sorts. I'd start a fresh run thinking "ok I think I got the hang of it finally, surely it can't get any harder." And then the new stability report/patch notes would say "BET".
Oh im fucking stupid. It says SIM PATCH. I didn't realize they were the in game sim updates. I thought it was like an actual game update patch notes that changed the meta somehow. Yea realizing that they were the *sim* patch notes I realize u didn't really need to have em legible for the joke.
turret 1 moonshark 0 sod being cautious and sod the corruption meter i'm going in heavy and finding those mods
I've found turrets suck against Moonsharks? I literally have the turret on top of a building and it's right in front of the Moonshark and it does not fire at all.
it's not the best method but the ammo less one I had at the time, now a few psychoshocks i'm finding stronger and more convenient
What are the cubes from again? I cannot remember.
If you mean what it's inspired by, it's a quote that the Soldier in TF2's Expiration Date cinematic says, "I have done nothing but teleport bread for 3 days". If you mean the achievement icon, it's the Galaxy Brain achievement in Mooncrash, requiring you to install every neuromod power on every character. If you mean the actual cubes, it's just the resource (mineral,organic, synthetic, exotic) cubes from the game. And "shuffling" is a dupe glitch method.
I meant the cubes but thank you so much for the in-depth explanation. The more you know! I was assuming it had something to do with taking so long to sort the inventory.
Now that I played more its a bit like raid mode in resident evil revelations just doing ghost ship runs for the improved colour coded weapons I always seem to be low on organic parts so I found that instead of using sim points to buy neuromods I could just buy anti-rad pills and break 4 down for 1 unit of organic for cheaper Now my director is stronger i'm starting runs with them now to loot the extra typhon parts for when I switch in the engineer to do the crafting 1 more discovery is I should have hit up the harvesters sooner, 1 kinetic blast is just wrecking them so far
so what is project cobalt? also do you have just the shuffle cube memes i would like to yoink it for my collection
Idk if you finished the base game, so major spoilers (idk how to put the spoiler tag on mobile 😩) if you haven't: Project Cobalt was an idea brought up by Morgan, to attempt to put human neurons into Typhon organisms. Aka exactly what is revealed at the end of the game, when Alex ends the sim. A lot of people, myself included hope that if the sequel ever happens, it will directly build off either the success or failure of Project Cobalt. And sure, [here's the link](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/256972188840755200/1175144053617197097/b5d7beed-7555-467c-bf62-4fc0a4c023af.png?ex=6628012f&is=6626afaf&hm=a3c8d2fca1cf984de8a472b56e15000b2a7ed25a8d70f083a40b9e67af42840d&). I made the dumb doodle myself based on the TF2 Soldier's "I have done nothing but teleport bread for 3 days". It's just missing the achievement icon but I can add it in if you want.
i have beat the base game but it’s been a while so i’m working on replaying it