Bethesda to Release Fix for Prey PC's Version Soon

Prey was released earlier this month, and praise for the game has been high from both fans and critics, who appreciate the vast distance its put between itself and the sub-par game it’s technically reworked from. Bethesda, it seems, really know how to make a gripping sci-fi shooter, but they’re having a bit harder time making a sci-fi shooter that doesn’t crash all the time on the PC. Indeed, if you decided to pick the game up for your Steam account, there’s a better than odd chance that you’ve encountered a game-breaking crash, which might have even corrupted your save file and ruined your progress.

That, my friends, is never fun. Not even when Infinite Darkness did it to horrify you.

Fortunately, Bethesda’s also not the kind of company who will let that thing slide (unless it’s a super funny glitch, like the abundant found in Skyrim), and in a recent post on the Prey PC Support subforum in their community page, Bethesda Community Administrator jurassica had this to say:

This week we’re looking to release a Steam Beta Update that should fix the crashes some of you are experiencing that may or may not have corrupted your saves. Included in this are a few other fixes we will share when we release the patch notes along with the beta when it is live. Once we know that the beta update is good to go, it will be released on console shortly after for everyone.

Until then, please keep sending your feedback and any issues you run into to me or on our forums. Thanks again for all of your support of Prey!

First of all, that is a damn good username. Second of all, it’s encouraging to see Bethesda jump on this so quickly, and refreshing, considering how many companies in the past have been fine to just leave that kind of thing alone. Still, there seems to be a growing number of these poor PC ports in recent days… are QA teams on strike or something?