Prey
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ALL 52 Chipset Locations Guide (Video)
By Caedo Genesis
After a ton of trial, continuity breakage, several playthroughs, and help from the community, I’m proud to bring you the most complete list of 52 guaranteed chipsets in Prey that you'll ever find!
   
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Chipsets Guide, Tips & Timestamps
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[TIPS]
● Chipsets are mostly randomized in which bonuses they give, minus objective-based ones, like the one Alex gives you later to scan coral.
Since chipsets come from a pool, you have a chance of getting a chipset you already have. The effects don't stack either. (u/Golgotha82)

● Chipsets spawn when you first enter an area (Talos I Lobby, Psychotronics, Crew Quarters, etc...), if you don't mind losing a little progress, you can reload an earlier save before you entered and get a different result in what you loot! (u/xstivenx)

● Supply crates (red & white boxes) and nearly all safes (Fire alarm safes included) seem to have randomized loot, so if there's a chipset reportedly in one of these containers, you might, or might not get one! With this in mind though, there's potentially a lot of places chipsets can spawn randomly.

● I've been using the Prima strategy guide and my own exploration of the game to form this list. Neither of which are perfectly thorough! The contributions have been fantastic, thanks to all of you who have.

[CHIPSET LOCATIONS]

● Neuromod Division (1-3)
(1:02) 1F Simulation Debriefing - In Briefcase
(1:16) 1F Simulation Debriefing - In Safe (Code: 5150/Hacking I)
(1:28) 4F Fabrication - On Desk

● Talos I Lobby (4-8)
(2:09) 2F - Human Resources - On Desk
(2:32) 2F - I.T. Department (Code: 0913) - In Cabinet
(2:53) 2F - Morgan's Office; Pre-Order Bonus Locker - (Recycler Shielding) (u/moonCini)
(3:15) 2F - Morgan's Office; Walk up to Mikhaila Ilyushin
(3:24) 2F - Morgan's Office; Walk up to Dayo Igwe

● Hardware Labs (9-11)
(3:37) 3F - Atrium Duct - On Floor
(4:01) 1F - Demonstration Room - On Floor
(4:13) 2F - Machine Shop Moon Door (Repair III) - On Floor

● Exterior – First Visit (12-15)
(4:34) Exterior - Executive Cabins Breach - 313 Board Member Room - In Filing Cabinet
(4:56) Exterior - Habitation Pods Breach - Floating In Tamiko Hayashi's Pod
(5:07) Exterior - Grant Lockwood's Corpse (ID: 1129) (ARTX Propulsion Gen 2) (u/thisdrawing& u/Golgotha82)
(5:31) Exterior - Transtar Sign (5 m/s) - Emmanuel Mendez's Corpse (u/Kizmo2)

● Psychotronics (16-19)
(5:54) 1F - Maintenance Corridor - Janos Jozsef's Corpse (Mimic Detection Gen 1)
(6:22) 1F - Maintenance Corridor - In Wall-Mounted Supply Crate
(6:34) 1F - Looking Glass Station - On Shelf
(6:58) 2F - Live Exam - On Counter (Speedscan 001SI)

● G.U.T.S. (20-21)
(7:17) Research Lv - Magnetosphere Chamber - Anders Kline's Corpse (ARTX Propulsion Gen 1)
(7:43) Engineering Lv A - Cargo Airlock - In Grey Supply Crate

● Arboretum (22-25)
(8:14) 3F - Greenhouse - On Tool Bench - Suit
(8:36) 2F - Maintenance Behind Lobby Entry - On Cabinet - Scope
(8:44) 4F - Alex's Office - In Safe (Code is from December) - Scope
(9:15) 4F - Alex's Office - On Desk - "Before I Give You The Key" (Coral Scanner)

● Crew Quarters (26-34)
(9:32) 1F - Crew Cabins B; Bellamy's Cabin (Key in Psychotronics - Morgue) - On Desk
(9:58) 1F - Crew Cabins B; Thorstein's Cabin (Key in Hardware Labs - Thorstein's Office) - On Desk
(10:05) 1F - Crew Cabins B; Abigail Foy's Cabin "Treasure Hunt" (Game Master's Ire -OR- Adventurer's Toolkit Fabrication Plan)
(10:36) 1F - Crew Cabins A; Igwe's Cabin - On Shelf
(10:44) 1F - Crew Cabins A; Igwe's Cabin - Gustav Leitner Safe (Verified by u/cellphoneman)
(10:58) 1F - Kitchen Freezer - On Shelf
(11:03) 3F - Executive Suites; Morgan's Suite (Key in Morgan's Office) - On Shelf
(11:21) 3F - Executive Suites; Morgan's Suite (Key in Morgan's Office) - Stash Under Couch - In Briefcase
(11:24) 3F - Executive Suites; Alex's Suite (Key in Alex's Office Safe) - On Bed

● Deep Storage (35)
(11:36) 2F - Command Center - On Table

● Exterior - Second Time (36-37)
(11:53) Exterior - Cargo Bay A - Morgan's Office; Save Dayo Igwe during "This Side Up" and once he's in your office, sometime after restarting the reactor, you can do the "Gustav Leitner" side objective for him. (Coral Psi Extractor)
(12:39) Exterior - Cargo Bay A - Jessica Wiley's Corpse

● Cargo Bay (38)
(12:50) 1F - Staging Area - In Toolbox

● Life Support (39-43)
(13:15) 2F - Air Treatment Oxygen Control Room - Metal Shelf by Door (u/dolpiff)
(13:35) B2 - Escape Pod Hall - Under Floor
(13:49) B2 - Escape Pod Bay (SE) - Angela Diaz's Corpse
(13:57) B2 - Water Treatment Facility - Cynthia Dringus' Corpse
(14:23) B2 - Water Treatment Facility - Monitoring Station (u/shevchen)

● Power Plant (44-46)
(14:35) 1F - Monitoring - Duncan Krassikoff's Corpse
(14:55) B2 - Coolant Monitoring Station to Morgan's Office; Talk to Mikhaila Ilyushin after "Assisting Mikhalia Ilyushin" (Last Chance Core)
(15:23) B3 - Southern Duct

● Shuttle Bay (47-48)
(15:42) 1F - Escape Pod Bay; Broken Escape Pod - On Floor
(16:17) 3F - Mia Bayer's Office - On Desk

● The Bridge (49-52)
(16:29) 1F - Command Deck - Spencer Ogden's Corpse
(16:43) 2F - Captain's Loft - In Briefcase
(16:52) 1F - Briefing Room - Skye Braxton's Corpse
(17:03) B1 - Escape Pod Bay (NW) - In Briefcase
5 Comments
SRG_Oatz 7 Feb, 2024 @ 8:40pm 
tasty chips
VakarisJ 12 Mar, 2023 @ 4:00pm 
Moonpool in Hardware Labs doesn't necessarily need Repair III to access. You can also do it with Mimic Matter or the Crossbow. There is a tiny hole just to the side of the indestructible glass visor, overlooking the internal opening button.
The_furf_of_July 7 Feb, 2023 @ 1:23am 
Thanks for the chisps
kANKI 4 Apr, 2021 @ 4:35pm 
thanks!
ptr 29 Aug, 2018 @ 1:19pm 
Cool :smileboxx: