Prompto Argentum/Gameplay

Prompto is a party member in Final Fantasy XV. He is not directly controllable in the main game, but is slated to have a DLC episode dedicated to him. He is a ranged fighter who wields firearms.

Party member
Prompto equips firearms as his primary arm, including handguns and shotguns. Prompto's secondary arm is machinery, which allows him to equip tools like Auto Crossbow and Bioblaster. He can co-opt moves with Noctis, such as pushing him out of harm's way and shooting enemies from either range or close-up. Prompto has the lowest HP of the party.

Prompto has five Techniques. He starts with Piercer that has Prompto will shoot a shot at the targeted enemy, piercing through them, and will strike any enemies in the bullet's line of fire. After the shot, Noctis can follow with another shot if the player hits the button prompt. This attack will lower the enemy's defense. Piercer costs a single tech bar.

Prompto's Starshell will illuminate the area and weaken daemons. It costs a single tech bar. He will then learn Recoil, which overloads machinery at an enemy to deal heavy damage. It costs two tech bars.

Another technique Prompto will learn is Gravisphere where he will launch an orb of gravity that will suck in enemies into a single area and provide continuous damage. This technique costs two tech bars.

Prompto's last technique is Trigger-Happy that costs three tech bars. Prompto shoots the enemy multiple times with two firearms before launching a single, powerful shot.

Prompto also has a non-damaging technique, Snapshot, that allows him to take photos during a battle, with a maximum of five savable shots per battle. This technique costs one tech bar. Regardless, Prompto will always take photos in battle randomly.

Accessories
Prompto can equip most accessories, but the Camera Strap is exclusive to him, allowing him to increase the number of photos he can take during a session between rests.

Enemy
Prompto can be fought during training sessions at campsites.

Photos


Whenever Prompto is in the party, he can take pictures with his camera. Photography is Prompto's leisure skill that levels up when he takes more photos are rests at camp sites and lodgings. When the party rests, the player gets a slideshow of the photos Prompto took that day, which can be saved to the player's menu and/or shared via social media. If the player shares the photos Prompto takes with the share option from the slideshow, the pictures will have a watermark. The other party members can comment on the photos as the player looks at them.

He can learn new filters from quests and from leveling up his skill. The player can set in the menu what filters and camera he can use. When driving around in the Regalia, Prompto sometimes asks to take a photo, and appeasing his request is a small quest. Sometimes during car rides, Prompto will ask Noctis of whom he wants him to take pictures of, and Noctis can answer himself, Gladiolus, Ignis, or "nothing". For the rest of the day, Prompto will photograph the person Noctis said he wanted more pictures of. Once Prompto masters his skill, the "nothing" option becomes the option to take photos of Prompto.

Vyv in Lestallum asks the player for photos, which Prompto will take. Some places, such as Galdin Quay, have a spot where the player can ask Prompto for a photo there. Gentiana and Carbuncle can appear randomly on the photos' background.

At the end of the game Noctis asks Prompto for a picture, which the player can choose from the photos they saved during their game. This image becomes the player's Certificate of Completion.

Downloadable content
Prompto will have his own downloadable episode where he will be directly controllable, unlike in the main game where he is Noctis's party member. Co-op multiplayer is also in the plans where players could play as him as well.

VR
As revealed at E3 2016, Prompto will be directly playable in first person by using. The available control schemes and whether this allows for 2-player co-op were not stated. However, the trailer emphasized the ability to target enemy weak points similar to his abilities in early development.