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Multiplayer

under bioshock 2 multiplayer on the tabs on the right can we include another labeled DLC where it take u to a stub withc linked to the metro and sinclair test packs ps. id do it myself i just dont know how to edit the tabs —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Danthemanglitcher (talk • contribs) 20:33, 2010 April 28. Please sign your posts with ~~~~!

It has been done. ~Gardimuer  ^{ ʈalk } 21:50, April 28, 2010 (UTC)

Shortcuts

Could we add more shortcuts to the main page? Right now we have only Characters, Enemies, Audio Diaries and Something in the Sea. I could think of a couple more to add such as Businesses, Weapons (Guns) and Plasmids. [[TECTONIUM]] 15:42, May 9, 2010 (UTC)

Topic

How about a subject titled "More About Big Daddies"

Bioshock 1 OST update

I updated Bishock 1 soundtrack page. Song "Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away)" by Django Reinhardt plays also in Bioshock 2 in Fontaine Futuristics (during the first ADAM collecting). You can check it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awYtv2aUG04 (1:10). I hope I helped. ;-) 78.98.145.38 18:46, July 29, 2010 (UTC)

Front Page Link

The link under 'BioShock 2' entitled 'Enemies' leads to the enemies from the first game. I'd rectify this, but I can't seem to find it in the main page's coding. Can somebody take a look at this? Thyunda 16:13, November 4, 2010 (UTC)

Corrected. Thanks.

BlueIsSupreme 05:59, November 5, 2010 (UTC)

Idea

I just had a graet idea what if we had a sectoin like we have Bioshock and Boshock 2 on the main page for future bioshock game iseas so thoes of us who like to discuss thoes things dont have to search so far.70.94.103.61 02:29, November 10, 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, this wiki focuses on canon. Game ideas and discussion are fine for blog posts, but we will not be making that part of the mainspace. If you have ideas, then the best place for it would be the blogs here, the 2K Forums, or possibly one of the BioShock fanfiction wikis. ~Gardimuer  ^{ ʈalk } 01:35, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

"Killed By" Section for Characters

You know how characters have the info such as "Date born", "Date of death" and "Arrived in Rapture"? What if we added another piece of information, "Killed By"? Just throwing that out there. XZippy 08:24, December 5, 2011 (UTC)

It's going to be hard finding the actual killers for each person. While for some it's fairly clear-cut (like Julie Langford and Peach Wilkins), for others not so much. For example, which Big Daddy killed Dr. Suchong? How can we be entirely sure Fontaine killed Diane McClintock? And then there's the case where the character's death depends on the player's actions (i.e., Sander Cohen, Grace Holloway, Sofia Lamb, etc.): do we count them as dead or not? --Willbachbakal 12:50, December 5, 2011 (UTC)

I agree with Willbachbakal. We would only be able to add that information to a few pages, and in most cases it wouldn't be useful. ~Gardimuer  ^{ ʈalk } 16:04, December 5, 2011 (UTC)

Audio Logs Missing

Hey, I noticed that the audio log section of this WIkia is missing several audio logs, and doesn't even MENTION them. I first noticed it in Bioshock 1 (Biggest one being " Saw Marsha Today"), but It has spread to Bioshock 2, Minerva's Den, and I beleive something in the see. I am unsure.. I found a more complete list on the 2K forums, complete with audio: http://forums.2kgames.com/showthread.php?26761-Bioshock-Audio-Diary-Library. I hope that this will aid in your collection, 'specially since this is probably one of the BIGGEST Wikis for Bioshock, we need it running at full.

If you need some help gathering sound-bytes for alot of Bioshock 2's audio logs (Most I notice are missing audio) I can do my best to help with that as well.

____) I also think it would benifit the wiki to have the radio transmissions here as well, possibly in the audio log section or in another section. There's alot of story in rapture, and alot MORE that is revealed through conversations between the characters as well as help us get a feel for the storyline in the storyline sections. All of these I am sure will only take time to gather and intigrate into an already well done wikia.

Comedianmasta 13:43, December 7, 2011 (UTC)

Actually, we do have that Audio Diary by Mariska Lutz: Saw Masha Today.

As for the Something in the Sea audio, you can easily check that by visiting the Something in the Sea websites if you are interested.

We also already have transcripts of most of the Radio Messages and Public Address Announcements.

If you have access to the unaltered audio files of BioShock 2 and its DLCs, please feel free to upload the ones that are missing. You just need to convert the files to OGG format before uploading. I can give you tips about how to access the files and convert them if you need help. ~Gardimuer  ^{ ʈalk } 20:32, December 7, 2011 (UTC)

I love this wikiMonster warrior 16:45, December 13, 2011 (UTC)

Worried

I hope S.O.P.A. doesn't shut this place down. This is where I get all my info for the games when I'm looking for stuff. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 98.144.41.16 (talk • contribs) 21:28, 2012 January 18 (UTC). Please remember to sign your posts with ~~~~.

Fortunately, I don't think there is much chance of SOPA passing in its current form. Regardless, BioShock Wiki will survive. ~Gardimuer  ^{ ʈalk } 22:47, January 18, 2012 (UTC)

COD trolls

some COD trolls messed with the background picture by putting a COD elite picture with a guy 169.199.155.65 18:39, January 30, 2012 (UTC)

The changing background image is part of Wikia's advertising. We don't like it, but there's nothing we can do about it. ~Gardimuer  ^{ ʈalk } 02:25, January 31, 2012 (UTC)

News

Not a whole lot of timely news gets published here - I'm willing to take on the News box on the right-hand side if someone can tell me how to make articles appear in that section. I've got something I planned to put in the News section on my page, if you think it needs improving let me know.

Schneezle (talk) 07:02, January 17, 2013 (UTC)

Well, some users have added some of the news to their blogs, and although it has showed up on the activity, it may not have been updated to the main page as accordingly without the proper tags. We do catch up on everything about the game's current developement, and most of the time, users have been updating the site articles with any new information about the game online, which we even check up the info if its as canon to the game. You might have to ask Willbachbakal about adding news, but for the most, its always in Blogs. Evans0305 (talk) 10:20, January 17, 2013 (UTC)

fall of rapture?

What is Bioshock 2 Fall of Rapture?  Needs an intro, never heard of it and can't find it on Google or Steam.

That's the BioShock 2 Multiplayer  Nbajammer  Talk  RW  KR  MH  Toku  Kikaider  UM  GZ  TokuFanon  BS  SH  FF  SO  18:42,4/16/2013 

Infinite's Frontpage thing

I have no idea how to edit this, but it's been bugging me that Infinite's frontpage thing still lists stuff like "Nostrums" which aren't in the final game, as well as outdated names for weapons, like "Semi-Automatic Rifle" and "Revolver", which should be "Carbine" and "Hand Cannon" respectively. It's only minor, but seeing as it's the first thing users see, I think these titles should be rectified. Also, it might make sense to replace Salstonstall with the Luteces under "Characters", take out "Weapon Slave", shorten "Bolt-Action Sniper Rifle" to "Sniper Rifle", etc. Thegreatvortigaunt (talk) 20:49, April 3, 2013 (UTC)

I can tell you that's a nightmare of coding, and I believe you need some special editor rights to modify it (maybe admins only, but not sure). But still thinking the same, it needs an update, that and the head titles for quick navigation, which also list the same old elements. I'll try and see who can modify it.

Pauolo (talk) 21:31, April 3, 2013 (UTC)

Everybody can modify it. You just have to find where it is. Anyways I've updated the slide to be more up to date and I've moved some stuff around. If you need to edit something you can edit it here.

Sgt frankieboy (talk) 18:18, April 8, 2013 (UTC)

Link Color

Can someone please change the color of the links in the box on the Main Page? They show up for me as gray on black and are very difficult to see. They used to be cyan in color like the rest of the page links.  Nbajammer  Talk  RW  KR  MH  Toku  Kikaider  UM  GZ  TokuFanon  BS  SH  FF  SO  18:42,4/16/2013 

They are still Cyan. It is probably your Browser. Sgt frankieboy (talk) 13:10, April 21, 2013 (UTC)

They only show as Cyan when I am not logged in. Once I log in, they are gray and are very difficult to see. This is true on every browser I've tried. Nbajammer  Talk  RW  KR  MH  Toku  Kikaider  UM  GZ  TokuFanon  BS  SH  FF  SO  20:01,4/21/2013 

Game Idea?

208.102.217.45 20:44, October 30, 2013 (UTC)DanTalkBioshock

Hello ive been thinking of a new Game for the Bioshock Under the sea series

BIOSHOCK 3 New Orgin

May not be a good name for the game but...Doing my best

So when you play the game a Intro comes on "what choice do you make?" "Fate,Kill, Or live" *BIOSHOCK THEME THE OCEAN ON HIS SHOULDERS PLAYS"

When you start the game their is the same difficulties and such and when you start the game up The screen darkens

And glows back up and Shows a selection of Storys...

You get to select a story to play on like

The ocean you espect (A Human Story)

Under the Darkness (A Daddy Story)

Shows like Shows (A Human Story)

Life Has Fallen (A daddy Story)

DLC :

(I hope these DLC's will really come IF this game is made)

Rongars Dept (Only one i have thought of ;-;)

Any ideas?

---

To make it cost effective  (to supply the player with multiple games), Alot of common assets (scenery, music, figures,effects,objects) will have to be shared.

A question migh be how long is each of these seperate games ??  How many hours of gameplay - how complex a plot - how much sandbox play to fill out a few hours.    You have just multiplied the effort needed which many players may only play parts of (the 'games' scenarios they like).   Each one would have to have sufficient length (a good example was Minervas Den which was fairly long/expanding for a DLC)

One hopes they get better (tools largely) to more cheaply generate/create the storyline plot elements and custom scripting to make the (good) cohesive stories and events .   Just about every game ive seen just has too few custom/unique missions (the ones with hard limitations that are more challenging/varying than typical sandbox generics) in its plotline even for the scale of the world they paid to create (its over too soon).

Testxyz (talk) 07:09, November 6, 2013 (UTC)

Why no Trivia?

why dont we have trivia on this wiki? everytime someone adds a trivia section, it gets taken down and its stated that the trivia is supposed to be in the Talk section. why is that so? I have allways seen the talk section as a sort of behind the sceans where we can talk about things, not a section for information that you can only viwe by clicking the talk button. when i first started to go to wiki pages i didnt even notise the talk section and i think that people dont bother even going there. what do you think? Shacob (talk) 06:14, December 29, 2013 (UTC)

This was a policy proposed about a year ago by User:Gardimuer, an Admin here. Look on most any popular Wiki and you'll find the Trivia sections are filled with information. Some of it is genuinely interesting, but a lot of it is useless trivia: general observations, speculation, inane facts, or stuff thet really belongs in the main body of the article, but someone either didn't know quite where to put it or didn't put in the effort.

That was the same here. It becomes really difficult to keep track of and sort out to the point where the sections became cluttered. She proposed we replace "Trivia" with "Behind the Scenes" sections, and a lot of users and the other Admins agreed. That wording usually dissuades casual users from putting in truly trivial info while useful stuff was integrated into the main body. That's why it is that way.

If you think your contribution really does belong in the page, you could make a case for it on the Talk Page of the article or make a blog post. Hope this helps.

Unownshipper (talk) 08:34, December 29, 2013 (UTC)

Yea that make seance. besides it would probably be like: Naledi Atkins is the only one of the female Multiplayer characters that wears pants. or some other annoying unnecessary fact. --Shacob (talk) 18:11, February 11, 2014 (UTC)

Exactly. You'd be surprised how similar some contributions were to stuff like that.

Unownshipper (talk) 04:24, February 12, 2014 (UTC)

Ok now I'm thankful that we don't have trivia; I just visited other wikias that use them and there are the most unnecessary pointless facts you can imagine. Shacob (talk) 18:13, August 24, 2014 (UTC)

I think it depends on how wikis were decided to be written internally. For some, trivia sections work pretty well for extra informations which can't be just included in the rest of the page without speculating. For others, well people just put in everything that comes to their mind even if that's not interesting at all. Luckily for the BioShock games there's no real trivia since we integrate any solid information on characters/locations/levels/etc... into their respective pages. As for the Dishonored wikia, I'd said the trivia sections are well enough handled, though they can be managed better. Pauolo (talk) 20:54, August 24, 2014 (UTC)

Very true.

Unownshipper (talk) 03:39, August 25, 2014 (UTC)

Well yes, the Dishonored Wikia (and probably many more) has done a great job with the Trivia section but there is one perticulare wikia that just add every small fact they can think of, ex: "This character is the second one to be beerfoot, the first one beeing this character." I don't want to say which Wikia I'm talking about to avoid any conflict but lets just say its in the top 15 of all Wikias.

Shacob (talk) 19:01, August 28, 2014 (UTC)

Corpses (& Masks)

I have already talked with Unnownshipper about adding a "mask" page and we came in to a conclusion to see if any one apposed. 

Now we see corpses all over rapture, some of them are splicers but there are 4 models in BioShock and BioShock 2 that are just corpses (2 male and 2 female). Should we make a page for them as well? there we could add info about significant corpses find in Rapture. (a whole list?) --Shacob (talk) 23:19, February 9, 2014 (UTC)

Why won't we make a general page for models instead? Though it would be quite some work for Infinite considering the way larger number of models compared to previous games, but I'd prefer that over than being morbid with a "Corpses" page. Also common Splicers are used for corpses around the games too.

However I wouldn't be against a page about masks, it would be easier to list them, even for Burial at Sea.

Pauolo (talk) 23:27, February 9, 2014 (UTC)

V For Vendetta

I resently watched the movie and i found alot of resemblance betwen the movie; V For Vendetta and BioShock. appereantly i wasn't the only one: see this link for some resemblance: http://kinesrra.livejournal.com/8824.html

I am I the only one on this wikia that has noticed this or am I just a slowpoke

Shacob (talk) 01:34, February 22, 2014 (UTC)

Booker doesnt have a Vendetta, but he is the one doing the slaughtering.

Does this mean there is a better parallel between Infinite and Madmax Beyond the Thunderdome  (echos of the MasterBlaster characters ???)

Featured Article?

May I ask if it isnt time to change the fetured article? It sais: "BioShock Infinite has launched!" and that was over a year ago?

Shacob (talk) 19:10, June 10, 2014 (UTC)

Pages that should be made.

Over the last months there has been discussions about making several pages and nothing has been done even doe there is valid reasons for them to exist.

Note: These names are just suggestions and if you have better ones, then tell us.

1.  Citizen of Rapture  For the ones seen in BioShock 2: Under the name; Rapture Citizen.

This page is needed to specific the non-Spliced characters (the non-insane) including the Partygoers (seen in the prologue for BioShock 2 and in a Dionysus Park flashback) and the citizen seen on Market and High Street. There is a page called Society in Rapture and I believe that there was intention to make it in to the needed page.

2. Sports in Rapture

A page for the Sport teams and sports in Rapture, there is not enough info to make one for every.

3. Newspapers in Rapture Under the name: Publications in Rapture.

A page for the many newspapers (and magazines (?)) found in Rapture, as with the sports; there is not enough info to make a page for ever one of them.

4. Bolts in Burial at Sea - Episode 2  Under the Bolt page. Strategy at Crossbow.

There is no need to make pages for every one of the ammo types and the pages should be combined. The question is; Should we make a separate page for them or combine them to the Bolt page.

5. BioShock IOS

The BioShock App needs a page, I would do it myself but I have a history of screwing up page names..

Shacob (talk) 11:45, June 16, 2014 (UTC)

Update.

Shacob (talk) 15:43, June 21, 2014 (UTC)

With the addition of this image, I recommend tha the Bolts from Burial at Sea be simply added to a subsection of the main "bolt" ammunition page.

Unownshipper (talk) 22:47, June 21, 2014 (UTC)

Update.

Shacob (talk) 14:27, June 26, 2014 (UTC)

Update

Shacob (talk) 21:37, July 3, 2014 (UTC)

Update!

Shacob (talk) 20:30, August 29, 2014 (UTC)