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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 › Proving Grounds

North Wing

Follow the Little Sister through the Central Atrium and onward into the North Wing. Try to keep ahead of her and continue to hack the Security Cameras and Turrets, since the Spider Splicers in this area are hard to see against the darkened ceiling. If you have a lull in the action, try setting up a perimeter defense to better protect the Little Sister. String up a couple Trap Bolts or Proximity Mines to minimize the number of attackers you’ll have to face at once.

Elite Bouncer Attacks!

An Elite Bouncer comes crashing through the wall in one of the final museum exhibits before you exit the North Wing. It won’t attack the Little Sister, but it will bring its massive drill and melee attacks at you in a hurry. Back away and fire a series of Frag Grenades at it. Head inside the hole it made in the wall and search the area for weapons and ammo.

The Little Sister leads you back through the upper balcony of the Central Atrium and to the exit.

Safe

Contents: 12 Liquid Nitrogen, 8 Electric Buck, 5 Incendiary Bolts

Before following the Little Sister to the exit, head around the corner on the balcony and search the short corridor beyond the bronze gate. There is a safe in the corner of this otherwise vacant passageway.

Objective 2: Get the Adam Harvesting Tool

You will need the Adam Harvesting Tool that the Little Sister gave you to defeat Fontaine. Take it.

The Little Sister has returned to the ventilation hole up the steps but she has something for you. Take the Adam Harvesting Tool she’s holding out for you—you’ll need it to kill Fontaine.

Objective 3: Take the Elevator to Confront Fontaine!

The elevator at the end of the Proving Grounds takes you to Fontaine. Be prepared before you leave, since there is no way to return from this fight!

No Turning Back Now

It’s important to ready yourself for battle now because when you head up the elevator to fight Fontaine, there’s not going to be a chance to come back down. Use the U-Invent, El Ammo Bandito, and Circus of Values machines at this end of the Proving Grounds to top off all of your ammunition supplies, especially Antipersonnel Auto Rounds and Heat-Seeking RPGs. Additionally, use the Gene Bank to make sure that you have the Human Inferno, Electric Flesh, and Frozen Field tonics spliced. Similarly, make sure you are equipped with the Incinerate, Electro Bolt, and Winter Blast plasmids. Armored Shell and SportBoost are also worth installing if you haven’t already done so.

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