5. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS [c05]

Running low on health, money, or ammo: Consider equipping wrench tonics for melee combat. The wrench is highly effective with the right tonics, and researching the Bouncer grants a permanent 50% increase to wrench damage. The Lurker tonic can also allow for stealth attacks for massive damage.

Splicers getting harder to kill: This is intentional as splicers gain more hitpoints and deal more damage later in BioShock. Adjust your strategy by using anti-personnel ammo and creative plasmid use.

Ammo missing after Peach Wilkins encounter: This is by design; you get your weapons back, but some ammo will be missing.

Finding Little Sisters: Check all Big Daddy patrol routes. Their spawn system is complicated, and they may not always be present. Refer to the Little Sister location list for more details.

Little Sister gone after dying/getting lost: Little Sisters despawn but will respawn (be brought back to life at a checkpoint after death) eventually. Keep checking the locations listed in the reference section.

Getting down the grated staircase in front of Sinclair Spirits (Fort Frolic): Enter Sinclair Spirits, press the button on the back of the counter to open a basement door. Loot the basement and kill the splicer disguised as a statue. Killing this splicer seems to trigger the grate to open. Once open, head down for loot, a gene tonic, and a splicer event.

Getting into the secret room near Arcadia level entrance: Use the Incinerate! plasmid on the unlit torch to the right of the door.

Getting secret Sander Cohen achievements: Do not kill Sander Cohen the first time you meet him. In Mercury Suites (Olympus Heights), his apartment is on the bottom floor. When he invites you, knock over the record player or attack the dancing splicers. Cohen will attack; kill him and take a photo of his corpse for the Irony achievement (10 GP). Go upstairs to his apartment to get the other achievement (10 GP) for entering his secret room. Loot his body for his muse box key and use it to unlock the box in Fort Frolic for extra loot.

Door combinations: Check the walkthrough section for specific door combinations. If not listed, try hacking the lock.

Weird symbols in Rolling Hills: These are related to the Saturnine, a cult of Houdini splicers. Listen to the audio diary "The Saturnine" in one of the caves for more information.

Item counts: There are 122 audio diaries, 20 plasmids, 53 gene tonics, 21 Little Sisters, 12 weapon upgrade machines, and 11 research categories.

Prolific Photographer achievement issues: You must also photograph security system elements: a security camera, a bot, and a turret.

Obtaining Tonics from Tenenbaum's rewards: Some tonics are only obtainable through Tenenbaum's reward packages for rescuing Little Sisters. You must go the "good" route to get these. Also, purchase available tonics from Gatherer's Garden machines and save ADAM.

Trusting Atlas/Tenenbaum: You must trust them; the game will not advance otherwise.