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. Ones found in the world 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 Fleet Hall Theater
[edit] Alarm Expert 2
Effect: Four fewer alarm tiles when hacking
Location: In the Live Subject Testing area of Point Prometheus. It's 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. It is 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
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
Location: Available in a Gatherer's Garden vending machine in the Fort Frolic area
[edit] Prolific Inventor
Effect: Doubles the amount of items produced from a U-Invent
Location: Rewards 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 or 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 Turrets, Security Cameras, and Security Bots, 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 Twilight Fields funeral home in the Medical Pavilion
[edit] Security Expert 2
Effect: When hacking Turrets, Security Cameras, and Security Bots, 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 in the Fighting McDonagh's 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 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 Gatherer's Garden in Arcadia (after 1.1 patch 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 Gatherer's Garden in Hephaestus (after 1.1 patch and DLC for PC and Xbox 360 versions)
