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Atrium Securing Tips

  • 1 of 14: Start by going through one of the east doors in the atrium.
  • 2 of 14: You'll be in a short hall leading to the ground-level entrance to the Little Wonders Educational Facility.
  • 3 of 14: There's an electric pipe splicer playing dead just to the right of the facility doors, but don't rouse him yet. First, look up at the hall's upper walkway.
  • 4 of 14: You should see a splicer up there with her hacked security bot.
  • 5 of 14: The ideal thing to do with her is hit her in the head with a crossbow bolt before she leaves the upper walkway through a door.
  • 6 of 14: If she makes it out the door, stand and wait for her to come through a door and into your hallway, then shoot her in the head.
  • 7 of 14: After she's down, get out your wrench and go whack the play-dead splicer by the facility doors a couple of times to get him up.
  • 8 of 14: After your bots shoot him down for you, go back to the atrium and make sure there are no splicers in it or its north and south side rooms. (One usually appears as you explore the south room.)
  • 9 of 14: Go up the stairs that are to the right of the big door Fontaine escaped through, ready to freeze and shatter a play-dead splicer at the top of the stairs. (Or whack her with the wrench and let your bots shoot her.)
  • 10 of 14: Go through the door at the east end of that little hall and get out Electro Bolt or Winter Blast.
  • 11 of 14: Move to where you can see the turret below the "Failsafe Armored Escort" sign, then run toward it and freeze it so you can hack it.
  • 12 of 14: With Electro Bolt or Winter Blast still in hand, go over to the nearby Little Wonders door.
  • 13 of 14: When you go through it, immediately freeze the camera that's on the ceiling ahead of you, then shoot it to pieces.
  • 14 of 14: Run through the upper and lower atrium areas again to make sure no other splicers have shown up. If not, you can consider the place secure.