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Bioshock 2 Hints

Vita-Chamber Tips

  • 1 of 8: Vita-Chambers are large, fancy devices that can resurrect you whenever you die anywhere in the game.
  • 2 of 8: If your health ever reaches zero for any reason, you'll be teleported to the nearest Vita-Chamber and brought back to life with half your max health.
  • 3 of 8: NOTE: "Nearest" means the closest discovered one to your point of death in the region you're in. Discovering a chamber just means entering the room it's in -- you don't have to go up to it, hit a button on it, or anything like that.
  • 4 of 8: Being resurrected in a Vita-Chamber doesn't cost you anything, and you do get half your health back. This fact can be used to make tough combats easier and less resource-consumptive.
  • 5 of 8: Instead of expending a lot of rare ammo or EVE in a hard fight, and using lots of first aid kits to stay alive, you can use cheap ammo (or melee attacks) until you're killed and revived in a Vita-Chamber.
  • 6 of 8: Leave the Vita-Chamber and run back to where the enemies are and do the same thing again. The enemies won't have healed (unless there's an unhacked health station they can use nearby), and you can eventually kill them without using much ammo or any first aid kits.
  • 7 of 8: That's a rather "extreme" way to handle combat, and it isn't usually recommended, especially if the nearest Vita-Chamber isn't close by. However, it can be very helpful in some cases, like when you're fighting a big daddy. Those things are *tough!*
  • 8 of 8: Or if you think using the Vita-Chambers makes the game too easy, you can turn them all off by going to the Gameplay Options menu and turning on the "Disable Vita-Chambers" option.