Prey - Arboretum

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This post is part of our series of tips for Prey by Arkane Studios. It's not meant to be a comprehensive walkthrough filled with boring common-sense or easily-discovered points of interest, but things that might be tricky or that are easily overlooked.

Alex's Escape Shuttle

  • Alex calls you if you initiate the launch but you can still Cancel. This dialog is actually quite intriguing and mysterious. When you first meet Sarah Elazar and also if you have the chance to speak with Dayo Igwe, they also say curious things.
  • Make sure you save a game first before you go through with a Launch. There's one additional dialog if you do and it's also very intriguing.
  • Once you have secured the key and it becomes possible to complete this quest, January still does not recognize this as a possibility of leaving Talos I, either for yourself or the other survivors you help.

Alex's Office

  • You can get up to the dwelling quite easily without using the Grav Shaft.
  • Alex Yu give you the Grav Shaft code and his terminal password much later on in the main quest.
  • His terminal has a Utility to extend a ladder to the Escape Shuttle but you can jump your way up.
  • If you resolved Dahl's Ultimatum in an alternate way (see our tips on Life Support or the Shuttle Bay), you get an alternate quest step that ends here. From the cliff across the Office building you can watch how it plays out (slide 7, big spoiler obviously).
    • If you accidentally alert Dahl and he comes after you, hide and he will reset his position back to hacking the door. The countdown will start again, and you get another chance to watch what happens if you don't interrupt him.

Crew Quarters entrance

  • Security Booth
    • Depending on how the fight goes to clear the lobby area, a Speaker may still be blocking one of the small windows at the Security Booth. This happens to be the correct height to prop you up to shoot a Huntress Boltcaster inside and unlock the door (slide 1). Put it laying down right against the booth.
  • Electric Junction nearby (Slide 2)
    • Climb up the cliff opposite to find some goodies (slide 3). You can GLOO your way up or position the Leverage III Cargo to climb up onto the awning first.
    • Follow the cliff edge and you can be in line of sight to two Phantoms you can lure all the way to the Junction. Once you shoot them with the Silenced Pistol to get their attention, follow the cliff edge to walk them over (slide 4).
    • The cliff on the Junction side gets you under the house on the hill and to "The Golden Gun" quest.
Greenhouse
  • If you activate the Sprinklers, the Telepath flies up to the ceiling above the sprinklers.
  • For the "Save Rani" quest, there is a step to speak with her later. If you leave the Arboretum and come back, that can trigger her having come out of unconsciousness. She'll be where you first arrived in the Arboretum, and give you the code for Storage Closet AR01 (on the map as "Weapons Locker").
Storage Room A2
  • The keycard is under the only (?) movable Rock in the Arboretum at Ellie Gold.
Baseball Pitch
  • There's a baseball pitching setup in the Northeast corner (slides 5 and 6).

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