20 Basic Video Game Skills That Are Secretly Broken

20. Recycler Charge - Prey

In Prey, you play as a scientist trapped inside a moon base that has become overrun by a mysterious species of shapeshifting aliens called Typhon.

Your situation is obviously dire, but you have guns, psychic abilities, and plenty of special weapons to keep you alive. You might ask, however, which one is the strongest?

The answer: a hand-held recycling machine.

The recycler charge is a special grenade that turns everything within its blast radius into raw materials used in crafting. Although it's capable of killing enemies by turning them into resources, it's quite unreliable as a weapon due to its long activation time.

This said, its true power isn't lethality.

Because the grenade turns everything, from items to enemies and even friendly NPCs, into crafting materials, with perks that increase your resource yield, you can drag all items and corpses in an area into one spot and then detonate the recycler charge to get the equivalent of several recycler charges in materials.

This will not only allow you to be able to craft infinite amounts of recyclers in the fabricator but also gain so many materials that you will be able to craft every schematic in the game, including the really powerful ones, almost right away.

Behold the power of recycling!