
If one has to move a tile over several squares, use that time to glance back at what one has already done to look for errors.This maximizes the time one has to uncover more tiles. Rarely should the player move a tile anywhere except to the next square in the starting string of tiles.On the PC, the player can quick-save with F8 before attempting any hack.For example, if one is at the top, and there is a piece at the bottom, just go up once more to appear at the bottom. The minigame screen does wrap, so the player can quickly get to the opposite side.If the player sees the possibility that this may happen, put a random tile in the line of flow to block it before it hits an alarm. These are worse outcomes than just failing (an alarm will summon Security Bots to attack the player-however, this sometimes can be used to one's advantage, as described in the Security Bot article). If a winning solution cannot be found, make sure that the liquid will not come into contact with an overload or an alarm tile before it short circuits.

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If the player has a tonic in the Hacker's Delight line, they will get back some/most of the Health they lost on the failed manual attempt. Before wasting a hacking tool, try a manual hack first, even on maximum difficulty hacks. Sometimes a "medium" difficulty hack can be nearly impossible, while a red-zone hack will not be all that hard. The difficulty of the game changes depending on what the player is hacking, how far on they are in the game, what Engineering Tonics the player has equipped and if the device being hacked is frozen (freezing a hackable device significantly slows down the liquid). With a controller, the left analog stick or the directional pad moves the cursor, the A/X button either uncovers a tile or swaps the highlighted tile with the tile that is currently stored in the swap box and the Y/Triangle button greatly increases the flow rate (for when the player has finished solving the puzzle). With keyboard and mouse, clicking a tile uncovers it, dragging a tile over an uncovered tile swaps the two tiles, clicking the Increase Flow Speed button rapidly increases the rate the liquid flows through the puzzle and should only be used when the puzzle has been solved.

Turrets (shoots enemies who wander too close, including hostile Big Daddies).Security Cameras (will detect wandering enemies and send Security Bots after them Big Daddies are immune unless tagged with Security Bullseye).

Security Bots (they follow and fight for the player, max 2).Things that can be hacked in this manner are: Play a minigame using Straight Tiles and Elbow Tiles to make a path from start to end, similar to Pipe Dream.This may be done to gain access to a locked area, unlock safes, reduce prices at vending machines or turn a hostile Security Device to be friendly towards the player. Hacking is a method of interacting with various machines in BioShock, BioShock 2 and BioShock 2 Multiplayer. But that don't mean we ain't gonna hack it.” ― Pablo Navarro “ Sure, the boys in Ryan's lab can make it hack-proof.
