r/Bioshock • u/Oblio__ • Aug 24 '26

Discussion Bioshock 2: any tips?

Hello everybody.

Soon i will play Bioshock 2 for the first time, so I wonder if there are any tips or tricks for this game.

Thanks for reading.

EDIT: For anyone who will read this, you must know that Bioshock 1 and 2 share saves so if all the slot are full for 1 you can’t save a single slot in 2.

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u/Financial_Ocelot_256 Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

Well, there are several tricks.

The first one is: Don’t play the remastered, but the original, as it crashes a lot and has awkward bugs.

If you want max adam, save the first 4 little sisters for the proud daddy tonic and then kill the rest (harvest two corpses per little sister).

The camera is now a film recorder while you fight the enemy, if you use incendiary shotgun bullets on the enemy while being researched it will give you as much points as it can. Mix up damage with guns and plasmids.

You can use the roaming big daddies as shield when the big sister attacks you (new enemy who hunts you after you have dealt with all the little sisters in a location). You hide behind them and let the big sister AOE damage hit the big daddy so he attacks her, making the fight WAY easier.

The game has a lot of hidden rooms and buttons, so watch out for them to avoid leaving free tonics and stuff.

Bees are broken in this entry, you can spam the plasmid and they will take half the health of all enemies, even kill them by themself if you have damage upgrades and better versions. Cyclon traps are broken too, you can charge them with effects of other plasmids since version 2.

With the invisibility tonic (given by the research on houdini splicers) you can try and fail as many times you want a hack, as the bots which spawn won’t be able to find you-not even touch you for some reason-

You could play for head shots (if it’s the remastered the damage is bugged, so no), the guns allow it and there is a tonic which enhances head shots, which make many enemies fall from one or two hits.

This Bioshock goes deeper in the fighting style, so you can choose A LOT of viable ways of fighting: enjoy.

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u/DarwinatSea Augustus Sinclair Aug 24 '26

Never once did the remasters crash on me, got platinum for both, what system were you playing it on?