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Third Spider Splicer Tips

  • 1 of 11: When you first go through the door leading into McDonagh's, the spider splicer will be right in front of you.
  • 2 of 11: However, if you're not ready to quickly photograph him, he'll jump through a ceiling hole and crawl out of sight. Read on if this happens to you.
  • 3 of 11: Finish off the other splicers who are just inside McDonagh's, then check the vending machine in the NW corner of the entry room. It sells film, regular buck for the shotgun, and frag grenades.
  • 4 of 11: Go up the stairs and through a couple of doorways to reach a large bar area.
  • 5 of 11: Kill the splicers there, then find the stairs and go up them to find a couple more splicers to kill, including a nitro splicer.
  • 6 of 11: NOTE: If don't mind getting shot up and maybe killed a couple of times, you can get lots of good photos here, and get your leadhead splicer research bonus in particular way up.
  • 7 of 11: After they're all dead, go over to the door with a 5 above it and enter the room beyond.
  • 8 of 11: Immediately turn around and look up on the ceiling of the hall you just came through.
  • 9 of 11: The spider splicer will be there, ready to attack.
  • 10 of 11: If you don't have a security bot with you, quickly bring out your grenade launcher and hit the spider splicer with a frag grenade as soon as he drops to the floor.
  • 11 of 11: Run up to him and take a photo or two, then back off and kill him with the shotgun (or the machine gun equipped with antipersonnel ammo).