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Bioshock 2 Hints

Long Route to Pawn Shop Tips

  • 1 of 15: Return to the Fontaine Clinics building and go upstairs to where you hacked a security camera earlier.
  • 2 of 15: Go through the big wall hole to the right of it and look for a box of buck on the walkway where it turns left.
  • 3 of 15: Past the next wall hole, hack the ammo vending machine, then use the "Power to the People" weapon upgrade machine. (I suggest the drill damage increase.)
  • 4 of 15: To the left of the weapon upgrade machine, look for a corpse, a briefcase, and an auto-hack dart under a chair.
  • 5 of 15: Go up the stairs and kill the splicers who come out of the apartment on the right before searching it.
  • 6 of 15: Past the apartment, check the broken-up floor section for a first aid kit, then move on to a large splicer worship area.
  • 7 of 15: Shoot down the worshippers from a distance, then check to the left of the wall vent for an audio diary and two money clips.
  • 8 of 15: Go up the steps to the right of the wall vent and over to where a security camera is scanning.
  • 9 of 15: Look for a corpse and a remote hack dart in the camera's area, plus a box of buck on a large cement thing a bit to the NE.
  • 10 of 15: Go through the door west of that to find a camp area with three packs of armor-piercing rounds, a pack of heavy rivets, and a storage crate.
  • 11 of 15: Go down the stairs and through the door to get to the pawn shop's roof. Clear the roof of any splicers, then look in the room past the wall hole to the north for more.
  • 12 of 15: After they're down, go back onto the roof and see if there are any splicers on the ground that you can target.
  • 13 of 15: Return to the room past the wall hole and look for .50 caliber rounds on the window sill, and an audio diary on the cabinet to the right of the window.
  • 14 of 15: Search the luggage and steamer trunk near the bathroom entrance, then search the shoebox in the bathroom.
  • 15 of 15: Hack open the safe that's in the main room's north wall. After you loot it, kill the thuggish splicer who runs into the room.