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Bioshock Hints
Core Area Tips
1 of 20: Look around near the top of the stairs for a health station to hack.
2 of 20: In a nearby alcove, you'll find a first aid kit on top of one machine, and a canister of napalm next to another machine.
3 of 20: Move down to the other end of the walkway to find a searchable corpse and some other supplies near a Vita-Chamber.
4 of 20: Looking over the railing near that, you should be able to see a security camera down below. However, don't shoot it out -- it'll be useful to hack later.
5 of 20: Look on top of the pillar that the camera is mounted on to find some machine gun ammo that you can pull in with Telekinesis.
6 of 20: Go down the stairs and kill any splicers that are close by, then look on a nearby desk to find a machine gun and some ammo.
7 of 20: The security camera is just a bit south of that, but before you hack it, you may have to deal with one of those tough new machine gun splicers.
8 of 20: Quickly dispose of the splicer by freezing him solid and shattering him with the machine gun, then hack the camera before it can sound an alarm. (NOTE: You'll have to get directly underneath the camera and jump up in order to be able to do the hack.)
9 of 20: Search the camera's alcove for supplies, then move on down to the south end of that walkway to find a crossbow next to a corpse.
10 of 20: After quicksaving, get your crossbow out and crouch down, then slowly move over to the railing. There's a houdini splicer messing with the vending machine down on the floor below.
11 of 20: Shoot him quickly before he sees you and vanishes. If you don't get him in time, quickrestore and try again. (Note that if you go over to the right side of the railing and then edge back a bit, you can see and shoot the houdini without him seeing you.)
12 of 20: From the railing, turn around and look for a safe with some buck and a prox grenade next to it. (It's in a small alcove to the right of the nearby machine.)
13 of 20: Take the stairs down to where you shot the houdini, but don't try to buy anything from the vending machine.
14 of 20: Go down the short walkway to the right of the messed-up vending machine to find a corpse and an automatic hack tool, then go around to the NE and find the stairs that lead down.
15 of 20: Kill the spider splicer down there, then look around for various items, including a working vending machine and some electric gel ammo on top of one of the other machines.
16 of 20: Return to the grenade-dropping vending machine, then go up the stairs to the west to reach a spot with a Gatherer's Garden machine and a "Power to the People" weapon upgrade machine.
17 of 20: Look around that area for a few scattered items, then head on north past the Geothermal Control doors.
18 of 20: Look on top of a large boulder just north of those doors to find a canister of napalm.
19 of 20: Go NE from there to find some liquid nitro on the floor between two machines, then go east to find yourself back where you started.
20 of 20: Now's as good a time as any to finish off the big daddy who's wandering around the core area, since there's a Vita-Chamber right nearby, as well as a Gatherer's Garden machine where you can spend your newly acquired ADAM.
