BioShock - PC XB360/Quick Strategies

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Turn Down the Difficulty

The hard and even medium settings can be quite challenging. The simplest way to get past a hard fight is to simply turn down the difficulty setting. These setting can be changed during the game, without having to start over. It can also be changed back whenever you wish. The difficulty setting does not effect the storyline or ending.

Lure the Big Daddies into a Trap

Defeating a Big Daddy isn't easy. One good way to take them out is to lead them into a trap. Find and hack a bot turret or security camera. Then set up an area in the bot's field of view that has proximity mines (from the grenade launcher) and crossbow bolt traps. Then if you can find a security bot or two, hack them and deactivate them nearby.

Now find a Big Daddy. Shoot him once or twice and run back to your ambush area. Reactivate any security bots you have. This should do enough damage to the Big Daddy that you'll be able to take him out fairly easily.

Removing Tripwires

There are better ways to deal with electrical tripwires than walking through them and taking damage. You can blast them with explosives, if you have extra. Or you can use Telekinesis to throw objects at them, or pull them out. Although this requires Eve, it has the advantage of letting you place them where ever you like. The most cost efficient way to deal with tripwires is to shoot the tips with the revolver. Because the revolver isn't used much late in the game, ammo for it should be plentiful.

Opossum Splicers

Sometimes splicers play dead. If you see a splicer corpse that looks suspicious, put a bullet into him, just to be sure.

Kill or Rescue the Little Sisters

Early in the game you'll be faced with a choice to rescue the Little Sisters, or to harvest (and kill) them. If you harvest them, you'll gain more Adam immediately. If you rescue them, you'll get less at the time, but you'll get a bonus that makes up for it after every third sister you rescue.

If you rescue all of the little sisters, you'll get a different ending than if you kill all of them. The choice is up to you, but many players go through the game twice: once killing them and once saving them.

Extra Little Sister Glitch

Sometimes the game accidentally places an extra Little Sister in a level. If it does, and you rescue or harvest her, it causes a glitch at the end of the level. The game incorrectly tells you that you have one more Little Sister to find because the number of Little Sisters you've dealt with is different than the number that are supposed to be on that level. You can ignore this message; it doesn't affect the rest of the game in any way.

Door Codes

The codes to Kyburz's office and Fontaine's apartment must be found on audio diaries before they can be used.