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Contents

  • Bioshock
    • One Man’s Vision…
    • About This Guide
    • Residents of Rapture
      • The Rapture Elite
      • Splicers
      • The Adam Gatherers
      • Rapture Security
    • Life Underwater
      • Gameplay Fundamentals
      • Beyond the Basics
    • Arm Yourself
      • Weapons Guide
    • Evolve Today!
      • Overview
      • Plasmids
      • Gene Tonics
    • U-Invent
      • Inventions and Components
    • Walkthrough
      • Introduction
      • Welcome to Rapture
        • Overview
        • Whereabouts Unknown
        • Bathysphere Station
        • Lounge
        • Elevators
        • Kashmir Restaurant
        • Footlight Theatre
      • Medical Pavilion
        • Overview
        • Foyer (First Visit)
        • Emergency Access
        • Foyer (Second Visit)
        • Surgery Foyer (First Visit)
        • Eternal Flame Crematorium
        • Twilight Fields
        • Kure All
        • Painless Dental
        • Dandy Dental
        • Surgery Foyer (Second Visit)
        • Surgery
        • Lounge
        • Foyer (Third Visit)
      • Neptune’s Bounty
        • Overview
        • Bathysphere Station
        • Lower Wharf
        • Fontaine Fisheries (First Visit)
        • Upper Wharf
        • Wharfmaster’s Office
        • Jet Postal
        • Fighting Mcdonagh
        • Fontaine Fisheries (Second Visit)
        • Relinquish Your Weapons
        • Freezer Top Floor
        • Freezer Bottom Floor
      • Smuggler’s Hideout
        • Overview
        • Flooded Cave
        • Control Room
        • Submarine Bay
      • Arcadia
        • Overview
        • Tea Garden
        • Arcadia Glens
        • Rolling Hills
        • Waterfall Grottos
        • Research Laboratories
        • Langford’s Office
        • Tree Farm
      • Farmer’s Market
        • Overview
        • Market
        • Silverwing Apiary
        • Worley Winery
      • Restoring Arcadia
        • Overview
        • Langford’s Office
        • Research Laboratories
      • Fort Frolic
        • Overview
        • Bathysphere Station
        • Go to Fleet Hall
        • Fleet Hall Theatre
        • Photograph the Dead Pianist
        • Atrium (First Visit)
        • Cohen’s Collection
        • Frozen Tunnel
        • Poseidon Plaza (First Visit)
        • Atrium (Second Visit)
        • Poseidon Plaza (Second Visit)
        • Eve’s Garden
        • Atrium (Third Visit)
      • Hephaestus
        • Overview
        • Bathysphere Station
        • Central Control
        • Hephaestus Core (First Visit)
        • Heat Loss Monitoring
        • Hephaestus Core (Second Visit)
        • Search The Workshops
        • Kyburz’s Office
        • Geothermal Control
      • Rapture Central Control
        • Overview
        • Control Room
        • Ryan’s Office
      • Olympus Heights
        • Overview
        • Tenenbaum’s Safehouse
        • Olympus Heights
        • Mercury Suites
        • Tenenbaum’s Apartment
        • Fontaine’s Apartment
      • Apollo Square
        • Overview
        • Apollo Square Streets
        • Artemis Suites
        • Dr. Suchong’s Clinic
        • Apollo Square
        • Hestia Chambers
        • Atlas’s Headquarters
      • Point Prometheus
        • Overview
        • Atrium
        • Little Wonders
        • Optimized Eugenics
        • Mendel Family Library
        • Failsafe Armored Escorts
      • Proving Grounds
        • Overview
        • Museum Lobby
        • South Wing
        • North Wing
      • Fontaine
        • Overview
        • Fontaine’s Lair
    • Achievement & Trophy Guide
      • Game Completion Series
      • Crafting Series
      • Plasmid Mastery Series
      • Weapon Upgrade Series
      • Research Series
      • Hacking Series
      • Special Series
    • Challenge Rooms
      • The "I" in Team
      • A Shocking Turn of Events
      • Worlds of Hurt
      • Achievements and Trophies
  • Bioshock 2
    • Introduction
    • Residents of Rapture
      • Subject Delta
      • The Rapture Elite
      • Splicers
      • The Protector/Gatherer Program
      • Rapture Security
    • Into the Dive Suit
      • Gameplay Fundamentals
      • Exploring Rapture
      • Protector in Combat
      • Beyond the Basics
      • Machines of Rapture
    • Big Daddy Weaponry
      • Bullet Supply
      • Weapons Guide
    • Evolve Today!
      • Gatherer’s Garden
      • Plasmids
      • Gene Tonics
    • Walkthrough
      • Adonis Luxury Resort
        • Overview
        • Lobby
        • Adonis Baths
        • Bridge Courtyard
        • Grand Foyer
        • Demeter’s Banquet Hall
      • Atlantic Express Depot
        • Overview
        • Airlock
        • Train Workshop 6A
        • Drafting Room
        • Train Workshop 6B
        • Switching Hub
        • Train Station
      • Ryan Amusements
        • Overview
        • Train Station
        • Museum Entrance
        • Rapture Museum
        • El Dorado
        • Back to the Museum
        • Journey to the Surface (Part 1)
        • Journey to the Surface (Part 2)
        • Hall of the Future
        • Melting The Ice
      • Pauper’s Drop
        • Overview
        • Train Station
        • Fishbowl Diner
        • Town Square
        • Market
        • Limbo Room
        • Sinclair Deluxe Tenements
        • Grace’s Apartment
      • Siren Alley
        • Overview
        • Little Eden Plaza
        • Maintenance Area
        • The Pink Pearl
        • Back to the Maintenance Area
        • Plaza Hedone
        • Pump Station Access (First Visit)
        • Pump Station No. 5
        • Pump Control Substation 5
        • Pump Station Access (Second Visit)
      • Dionysus Park
        • Overview
        • Basement Storage
        • The Promenade
        • Triton Cinema
        • Imago Fine Arts
        • J. Fischer Gallery
        • Lamb’s Garden
        • Train Station
      • Fontaine Futuristics
        • Overview
        • Train Station
        • Lobby
        • Security
        • Frank Fontaine’s Plasmid Spectacular Theater
        • Frank Fontaine’s Office
        • Lab Airlock
        • Fontaine’s Plasmid Research & Development
        • ADAM Research Laboratory
        • Live Test Facility
        • ADAM Research Lab
        • Hidden Elevator
      • Outer Persephone
        • Overview
        • Therapy Entrance
        • Main Atrium
        • Lamb’s Office
        • Cell Blocks
      • Inner Persephone
        • Overview
        • Docking Platform (First Visit)
        • Security Office
        • Holding Wing (First Visit)
        • Cell Blocks
        • Holding Wing (Second Visit)
        • Therapy Wing
        • Infirmary Wing
        • Pediatric Ward
        • Docking Platform (Second Visit)
        • Story Conclusions
    • Protector Trials
      • The Rules of Engagement
      • General Tips
      • The Adonis Baths
      • Atlantic Express Train Upkeep
      • Pauper’s Drop Market
      • Simon Wales’ Church
      • Folly of Dionysus
      • Persephone Cellblock F
      • Bonuses, Achievements, and Trophies
    • Minerva’s Den
      • New Discoveries
      • Find Charles Milton Porter
      • Restore Power to Minerva’s Den
      • Get to Porter’s Office
      • Take the Operations Punchcard
      • Head for Operations
      • Find the Gravity Well Plasmid
      • Find a Bathysphere Signal Beacon
      • Hack the Signal Beacon
      • Get to Computer Core Access
      • Reset the Climate Control Turbine
      • Print Out The Thinker’s Code
      • Defeat Reed Wahl
      • Achievements and Trophies
    • Achievement & Trophy Guide
      • Story Progression
      • Variable Endings
      • Hooked on ADAM
      • Power to the People!
      • Hackers Wanted
      • Smile for the Camera!
      • My Daddy Can Beat Up Your Daddy!
      • Something Special
  • Bioshock Infinite
    • Foreword
    • About This Guide
    • Detective Training
      • Gameplay Fundamentals
      • Catalogue for 1912
      • Elizabeth
      • Sights and Sounds of Columbia
    • Guns of Liberty
      • Overview
    • Vigors
      • Overview
      • Possession
      • Devil’s Kiss
      • Murder of Crows
      • Bucking Bronco
      • Shock Jockey
      • Charge
      • Undertow
      • Return to Sender
    • Gear
      • Columbia Chronicles
      • Randomized Gear
      • Guaranteed Gear
      • Build Examples
    • Walkthrough
      • In the Name of the Prophet
        • Introduction
        • Lighthouse
      • A Day at the Fair
        • Town Center
        • Comstock Center Rooftops
        • Monument Island Gateway
      • Bring Us the Girl
        • Monument Tower
        • Battleship Bay
        • Soldier’s Field
        • Hall of Heroes
      • Guns for the Lady
        • Finkton Docks
        • Finkton Proper
        • Shantytown
        • The Factory
      • Family Reunion
        • Emporia
        • Downtown Emporia
      • Flight of the Songbird
        • Comstock House
        • Hand of the Prophet
        • Hangar Bay
    • Enemies of the People
      • Soldiers (Founders and Vox)
      • Automatons (Turrets)
      • Mosquito
      • Zealot of the Lady
      • Fireman
      • Motorized Patriot
      • Beast
      • Handyman
      • Siren
      • Boys of Silence
    • Achievement & Trophy Guide
      • Introduction
      • Story Achievements
      • Combat Achievements
      • Upgrades and Collectibles
    • Clash in the Clouds
      • Battle Prep
      • The OPS Zeal
      • Duke and Dimwit Theater
      • Raven’s Dome
      • Emporia Arcade
      • Achievements and Trophies
    • Burial at Sea, Episode 1
      • Overview
      • Market Street
      • High Street
      • Cohen’s
      • Fontaine Station
      • Fontaine’s Department Store
      • Housewares
      • Achievements and Trophies
    • Burial at Sea, Episode 2
      • Introduction
      • Toy Department
      • Ryan the Lion Preparatory Academy
      • Bathyspheres DeLuxe
      • Columbia
      • Return to Rapture
      • Suchong’s Free Clinic
      • Achievements and Trophies
  • Credits
    • Legal

BioShock: The Collection Guide › Bioshock › Walkthrough › Neptune’s Bounty

Wharfmaster’s Office

The upper level offices are the most secure area in all of Neptune’s Bounty and you really need to pay attention to the location of Security Cameras and RPG Turrets here if you want to get out alive. Before you can inspect the office on the left-hand side, or the prisoner cells in the center of the area, you need to loop around to the right where the security system is in place.

Although several Leadhead Splicers may come to attack, it’s not worth hacking the Turrets in this case. Instead, zap them with the Electro Bolt to stun them, then quickly blow them apart with the Shotgun. Better yet, use the Electric Buck ammo for the Shotgun to do it all in one step.

Listen closely for the side-to-side motion of the Security Camera and beware the panning of the red security light. Use Armor-Piercing rounds to eliminate it quickly. Eliminate or hack the three Turrets near the jail cells (one is to the right upon entering and the other two are at the far end of the floor, near the camera). Once you have secured the area, crawl through the ventilation grate near the locked office door to search the office for items. There’s a Security Camera inside, but the Bot Control Shutdown panel is also inside the room near the desk if you need it.

Safe

Contents: 3 Antipersonnel Pistol Rounds, 2 Heat-Seeking RPGs, 33 Dollars

Crawl through the ventilation opening to enter the locked office on the left-hand side of the Upper Wharf. The safe is in this room near the desk. It is fairly simple to hack and well worth the effort.

When done raiding the security office, continue on towards the main Wharfmaster’s Office. Crawl through the hole in the floor towards the Gene Bank and Vita-Chamber. The Research Camera is around the corner to the right on the desk.

Objective 3: Photograph 3 Spider Splicers

Use the Research Camera to take a photo of three Spider Splicers (the ones who crawl on the ceilings). If you do this for Peach he’ll let you into Fontaine Fisheries so you can locate the hidden submarine.

Attention Shutterbugs!

The Research Camera is a weapon of sorts, but not in the traditional sense. Instead of damaging the enemy, the Research Camera is used to capture the enemy on film. Depending on the quality of the photo, taking an enemy’s picture can gain you up to three specific Research Bonuses that make your battles against that species of enemy much easier.

Each photo you take of an enemy helps to increase your research level for that enemy, but not all photos are created equal. Photos are awarded letter grades ranging from C to A based on the clarity of the subject, how close you are to it, and whether or not you catch it in action. You can also earn bonuses for capturing multiple enemies in a single photo or taking the shot while the enemy is attacking. Similarly, a photo of a duplicate enemy (not species, but individual) will result in a penalty and corresponding drop in your photo grade.

Although you have to monitor your Film levels just like ammunition, it’s a good idea to keep the Research Camera at the ready at all times. This way you’ll be able to quickly grab a photo of an enemy before you have to battle it. Continue taking photos of each enemy type until you’ve fully researched them all!

The Research Camera comes with enough Film to take 12 shots, but don’t worry about running out, since you’ll be able to buy more Film in no time. Start your photography career by taking a picture of the Spider Splicer in the neighboring room. Wait for it to approach the window and be sure to get as much of its body as you can. That’s one, now you need to find and photograph two other Spider Splicers to complete Peach’s request.

An explosion rips through the wall in the Wharfmaster’s Office and provides you with a shortcut back to the Upper Wharf, not to mention a way over the gate below. Pick up the Security Bullseye plasmid and immediately put it to use against the Splicer standing in front of the Security Camera down below. Take a photo of the Security Bot that comes out to battle it, then drop off the ledge on the right to access the area that was otherwise gated off. Go south through the hallway to Jet Postal.

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