Bioshock 2

[Kekvit Irae]

So far, Bioshock 2 is pretty much the same as the original, but with more enhancements. This is a good thing, unlike what happened with Mass Effect 2.

Playing a Big Daddy is pretty nice, and the new Little Sisters mechanic for harvesting ADAM is more tactical. When you take down a LS's Big Daddy, you can choose to either rescue them or harvest them (just like in the original). Only this time, when you choose to rescue them, you don't get any ADAM immediately. Instead, you put them on your shoulder, and go searching for special corpses for the LS to harvest. The Little Sister harvesting a corpse will spawn a horde of splicers, which you will need to fight to protect the girl. Once this is done, you can either choose to take her directly to the LS vents we all know and love from the original game, or gather from another corpse (and fight another horde). You'll get a smaller amount of ADAM if you choose to go directly to the vents. Once the second one is harvested, then you need to find a vent to deposit the girl in. At this point, you can once again choose to either rescue them (gaining little ADAM but you'll be rewarded just like the original game) or harvest them for the full amount she collected from the two corpses. Once again, a long-term goal oriented player will choose rescuing Little Sisters.

This gives four options as opposed to the original's two...
1. Rescue the girl and take them to the vents for little ADAM but rewards down the line.
2. Harvest the girl for moderate ADAM.
3. Rescue the girl and gather from corpses, then rescue at the vent for moderate ADAM for rewards down the line.
4. Rescue the girl and gather corpses, then harvest at the vent for maximum ADAM.

[frogbeastegg]

How do they explain a Big Daddy harvesting Little Sisters? Did his rage at years of playing baby sitter break his conditioning?

[Kekvit Irae]

How do they explain a Big Daddy harvesting Little Sisters? Did his rage at years of playing baby sitter break his conditioning?

I haven't advanced that far into the game, so they don't give an explination except "someone woke you from your 10 year coma, and now you have free will."

On a side note, I did find an easter egg. Schrodinger's Cat! Poor thing was encased in ice.

List of changes from Bioshock 1:

• 1. The weapons are generally the same, even though they look different. The crossbow is now the spear gun, the wrench is now the Big Daddy drill, the Tommy gun is now a minigun, etc. The rivet gun is the new weapon to the arsenal, which acts both as a handgun and a trap setter (much like the crossbow in BS1).
  2. The drill has a secondary and tertiary effect. The secondary attack is spin up the drill to do constant damage (but requires fuel). The tertiary attack is my favorite; it's the signature Big Daddy Bouncer charge.
  3. The camera has been replaced with a camcorder. Instead of getting close to a target and snapping away as fast as you can, you point it at a target (range is no longer a factor) and attacks and combos add to the research score. The effect stays on for about 15 to 20 seconds or so, so you can switch to your weapons. Simply attacking won't do you any good; you need to do some cool things to get a high score (such as shocking an enemy and hitting it with your drill).
  4. Multiplayer takes place in 1958, before Sofia incited the riots that caused Rapture to fail. You get to see Rapture as it was before all the destruction. Also, being good enough in multiplayer means you get additional tonics and stuff in single player, so all the more reason to try multiplayer.
  5. You now have a hacking tool. This "weapon" allows you to hack at range, at the cost of ammo. One of its secondary ammunition is an auto-hack, which will automatically hack your target without fail.
  6. Hacking is different too. Instead of playing a game of Pipe Dream, the mini game is now an arrow sliding back and forth on a bar. Stopping it at a green bar means a success and you advance to the next stage of the hacking mini game (there are several stages usually). Hitting a white area damages you, but nothing else. Hitting an orange bar means you triggered an alarm. Red means you get damaged AND trigger the alarm. Hitting all blue bars means whatever you hacked gives you an additional benefit. If you hacked a turret, the turret's damage is upgraded. If you hack a healing station, you get a health kit for free.
  7. Plasmids are changed. You still get the basic types, but they change functionality when you upgrade them. Example: Cyclone Trap 1 allows you to set the whirlwinds we all know and love from BS1, Cyclone Trap 2 allows you to charge the trap up with a second plasmid for an extra effect, and Cyclone 3 allows you to set them on walls and ceilings for devious "pinball" cyclone traps.
  8. During certain underwater levels, you can find the infamous sea slugs. These are worth 10 ADAM each.
  9. New enemies. Brute Splicers are like Big Daddies without the cool weapons (but with the health and the damage). The Big Sisters are the female version of Big Daddies, and will constantly be a thorn in your side throughout the game.
  10. New tonics. This is pretty much a given, but one tonic I REALLY like is Water of Life. With this equipped, standing under a waterfall or in a pool will slowly regenerate your health and eve.
  11. Delta is able to use any of his weapons in one hand and plasmids in the other without switching out. This is a MUCH welcome change from BS1.
  12. Tonics no longer have catagories. No longer will you be restricted to just five combat tonics; as long as you have the slot upgrades, you can have whatever combination you want. You can hold a maximum of 18 tonics.

[TinCow]

How do they explain a Big Daddy harvesting Little Sisters? Did his rage at years of playing baby sitter break his conditioning?

You don't harvest Little Sisters, they gather Adam for you from dead bodies. You carry them around and protect them while they do their work.

[frogbeastegg]

You don't harvest Little Sisters, they gather Adam for you from dead bodies. You carry them around and protect them while they do their work.

:cough: Don't look now but

This gives four options as opposed to the original's two...
1. Rescue the girl and take them to the vents for little ADAM but rewards down the line.
2. Harvest the girl for moderate ADAM.
3. Rescue the girl and gather from corpses, then rescue at the vent for moderate ADAM for rewards down the line.
4. Rescue the girl and gather corpses, then harvest at the vent for maximum ADAM.

[TinCow]

Yeah, just got to that point. If you're looking for an explanation, it seems to be that you're an 'unusual' prototype Big Daddy that's different from the rest.

[Kekvit Irae]

*sigh*
I've already run into a game-breaking (for me) bug. My Natural Camouflage tonic stopped working during Gil's "show". And it's still not working, despite me being in the final area of the game.

[Kekvit Irae]

Ok, the problem solved itself by entering Persephone. But still, that's a huge bug for a good portion of game time.

And on the subject of the Persephone area...

HOLY MOTHER OF CRAP!

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You get to play a Little Sister! Gathering ADAM and vent-running and everything! And jeez, it's creepy since you now get to see the world through the eyes of a brainwashed girl. Everything is so pristine and perfect... white pillows on the floors, red curtains on the walls, the "angels" are beautiful women sleeping soundly instead of horrible Splicer corpses... and your vision occasionally comes back to normal for a few seconds, slowly letting you absorb the full mind of what's going on inside their heads.