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Cellar Tips

  • 1 of 14: There are two ways to enter the cellar.
  • 2 of 14: One is to Electro-Bolt the door control on the cellar door that's behind the bar,
  • 3 of 14: The other is to go to the entry area and find the crawlway that starts near the SE corner.
  • 4 of 14: Since the crawlway route doesn't take any EVE like the cellar door does, I suggest going that way.
  • 5 of 14: When you come to a grating, bash it out with the wrench, then quickly switch to Electro Bolt and zap one of the splicers you see in the room ahead. (Or get some research camera shots first if you haven't already gotten all the leadhead splicer research bonuses.)
  • 6 of 14: After they're down, take your time in photographing the security camera and then bashing it.
  • 7 of 14: Look around to find some film and bandages in open barrels, and some buck and a frag grenade in the water in the SE corner. There's also a health station and several merlot bottles scattered about.
  • 8 of 14: Get up onto the dry floor to find the main cellar door, plus another door that leads into a room with a lot of big windows.
  • 9 of 14: Looking out the windows, you may actually see a big daddy wandering around outside! Good thing he's wearing that diving suit, huh?
  • 10 of 14: There doesn't appear to be much in this room except a searchable corpse and some film in an open desk drawer.
  • 11 of 14: Try examing the stacks of "Stephenson Stout" crates.
  • 12 of 14: There's a crouch-only hole behind some of the crates that you can go through to reach a secret room with a safe and a turret.
  • 13 of 14: Quickly zap and hack the turret, then let it help you shoot the splicer who appears just outside the secret room.
  • 14 of 14: After he's down, look around for frag grenades and other supplies, then hack open the safe to get an automatic hack tool, some prox mines, and some electric buck.