The hardest part about exploring Hestia Chambers is fighting your way inside. This is where Fontaine’s Home for the Poor is located and you can bet the Splicers in these parts aren’t about to see their meal ticket taken down by the likes of you!
The first step towards making a clean entry is to crouch down with the Crossbow and slowly inch your way towards the brass gate. Set your sights on the Turret on the balcony across the courtyard and send an Incendiary Bolt straight into it the second the gate opens. Switch to the Chemical Thrower, set it to Napalm, and head inside.
Grab the Audio Diary from the trunk on the right and head up the stairs to the second floor. Go through the door on either end of the walkway and search the large bunk room located on this floor. In the center of the room is another stairwell leading down to the boiler room. Descend the stairs and seek out the Automatic Hack Tool and Napalm then continue on to the third floor.
Head left when you reach the landing on the third floor and make your way through the massive bunk room on this floor. There are several Splicers still up and about in here. There aren’t too many items or invention components, but it’s worth checking out. The door on the far side of the room is blocked by rubble though, so you’ll have to return the way you came.
Both doors on the fourth floor landing are securely barred and locked, so there’s nothing for you to do here other than continue to the fifth floor. Once on the fifth floor, turn to the left and use the Shotgun to blast through the wooden boards nailed up across the doorway to the apartment. Drop through the hole in the floor to the fourth floor apartment below, kill the Splicer, and collect the First Aid Kits and other items located here. The only way out of this room, however, is to jump out the window so make sure you’re health is topped off before you leap—it’s a long way down to the third floor landing!
