Outlast 2 released at the end of last month, a sequel to one of the horror hits of 2013 – a good year for Youtubers playing horror games. The second game took the series out of the asylum and into north Arizona and mostly got positive reviews. Of course, despite this there were some complaints about the difficulty and so developers Red Barrels have addressed this in a patch released yesterday.

One of the main complaints about the difficulty level had to do with the speed at which the batteries used in your camera were consumed. Much like the last game, Outlast 2 has a style of ‘found footage’ gameplay, and seeing through the camera especially while using the night-vision capabilities will use up battery life and once they run down you need to change out those batteries so you can see in the dark again. Battery conservation is one of the mechanics but a lot of players felt that Outlast 2’s camera just chewed through the batteries at a fair rate. The patch sees that the camera’s microphone will now no longer use extra batteries so you’ll be able to locate enemies through the walls now without having to be worried about using too much power.

On the game’s Steam community page the devs said that the patch “introduces some minor adjustments to the game’s difficulty in key areas and moments. On Normal difficulty this will offer players a more appropriately balanced experience while still maintaining higher levels of challenge on Hard and Nightmare difficulties.”

The full patch notes can be found here.

Well, Digmbot predicted that there might be reasons why there was no PC demo for Prey and already a fairly game-breaking bug has been discovered and abused in the game. It’s not one that most players will really mind though.

Prey has only just been released, and the glitch allows players to basically duplicate resources over and over giving them a virtually unlimited supply of crafting resources. The glitch makes use of the in-game material recyclers to reproduce the items placed within many times over.

To reach those recyclers, a player only has to progress around an hour into the game and upon reaching the main character Morgan Yu’s office you will gain access to the material recycler, or at least it will become useable. You then fill the recycler with already recycled items and by then dividing it into at least four piles of things, you can effectively copy everything.

It probably won’t be there for long though, so get in while the getting’s good. Or you know, just don’t cheat. But as someone who abused a similar glitch way back in the early Pokemon days, who I am to tell you not to use this one?

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