Engineering Tonics
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Engineering Tonics improve the player's hacking ability and interaction with machines. The player can change his equipped tonics at a Gene Bank. Those found in the world of Rapture glow in their bottles like Plasmids and other Tonics, and Engineering Tonics glow a deep gold in color.
[edit] BioShock
[edit] Alarm Expert
Effect: Two fewer Alarm Tiles when hacking
Location: In Fort Frolic on the right hand balcony in the Fleet Hall Theater
[edit] Alarm Expert 2
Effect: Four fewer Alarm Tiles when hacking
Location: In the Live Subject Testing area of Point Prometheus, on a filing cabinet.
[edit] Clever Inventor
Effect: Inventing items requires one fewer of each component, to a minimum of one.
Location: On the desk in Dr. Suchong's apartment in Olympus Heights.
[edit] Focused Hacker
Effect: Two fewer Overload Tiles when hacking.
Location: In the entrance to Fontaine Fisheries in Neptune's Bounty, frozen in ice near the Pneumo Tube.
[edit] Focused Hacker 2
Effect: Four fewer Overload Tiles when hacking.
Location: In Apollo Square, the fourth floor of the Hestia suites, on a desk in the corner of the room near the safe.
[edit] Hacking Expert
Effect: One fewer alarm tile and one fewer overload tile when hacking.
Location: On the desk inside the entrance to the Research Laboratories in Arcadia.
[edit] Hacking Expert 2
Effect: Two fewer alarm tiles and two fewer overload tiles when hacking.
Location: Available at a Gatherer's Garden vending machine in Fort Frolic and onwards.
[edit] Prolific Inventor
Effect: Doubles the amount of items produced from a U-Invent machine.
Location: Reward for the rescue of eighteen Little Sisters.
[edit] Safecracker
Effect: When hacking safes and combination locks, there are two fewer Alarm and Overload Tiles, one fewer Acceleration Tile, and three added Deceleration Tiles. The flow speed is also reduced by a half second per tile.
Location: In the second gift for rescuing six Little Sisters.
[edit] Safecracker 2
Effect: When hacking safes and combination locks, there are four fewer Alarm and Overload Tiles, two fewer Acceleration Tiles, six added Deceleration Tiles, and the flow speed is also reduced by one second per tile.
Location: It can be found in the autopsy lab of Little Wonders in Point Prometheus, on one of the tables next to a pheromone sample.
[edit] Security Expert
Effect: When hacking Security Devices, it removes up to two Alarm and Overload Tiles, one Acceleration tile, adds one Deceleration tile, and the flow speed is also reduced by a half second per tile.
Location: Found in the Twilight Fields Funeral Homes morgue in the Medical Pavilion.
[edit] Security Expert 2
Effect: When hacking Security Devices, it removes up to four Alarm and Overload Tiles, two Acceleration Tiles, adds three Deceleration Tiles, and the flow speed is also reduced by one second per tile.
Location: Complete the second level of research for Security Bots.
[edit] Shorten Alarms
Effect: Reduces the length of hostile security alarms by twenty seconds.
Location: Found in room #7 of Fighting McDonagh's tavern in Neptune's Bounty.
[edit] Shorten Alarms 2
Effect: Reduces the length of hostile security alarms by forty seconds.
Location: Found in the the Core of Hephaestus.
[edit] Speedy Hacker
Effect: While hacking, it reduces the flow speed by one and a half seconds per tile.
Location: Found in Painless Dental in the Medical Pavilion.
[edit] Speedy Hacker 2
Effect: While hacking, it reduces the flow speed by three seconds per tile.
Location: First available for purchase from Gatherer's Garden in Olympus Heights.
[edit] Vending Expert
Effect: Provides a slight reduction to prices in vending machines.
Location: First available for purchase from a Gatherer's Garden in Arcadia (after patch 1.1 and DLC for PC and Xbox 360 versions).
[edit] Vending Expert 2
Effect: Provides a substantial reduction to prices in vending machines
Location: First available for purchase from a Gatherer's Garden in Hephaestus (after patch 1.1 and DLC for PC and Xbox 360 versions).
