BioShock 2
68 Achievements
1,400
47-59h
Master Protector
Got through a Gather with no damage and no one getting to the Little Sister.
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How to unlock the Master Protector achievement in BioShock 2 - Definitive Guide
Once the sister is just about done run out there and pick her up.
Another add. In Dionysus Park. Another fantastic spot to make an easy attempt on this. There is a section on the map thats blocked off by ice, IMAGO FINE ARTS. In this area there are several security cameras and turrets. The body is in the back of this room and there is only one entrance. Hack all the cameras and turrets, blue lines if you can, it'll help, and for good measure throw down some turrets. Since this is later in the game, you have access to more stuff, ie cyclone trap, rivet traps, speargun trap wires, turrets, proximity mines, lay these things out to your hearts content. Now for your part, there is a room you can retreat to behind the body. Head back there, and just for added security put some traps around the doors, sometimes splicers will get through here and pester you or head to the sister through the back of your defenses. After that just use common sense, freeze or electrocute people to keep them from hitting you and save beforehand incase you screw up. Just remember you need incinerate on you to get into this area, it is blocked off by ice.
Oh, and I dropped the difficulty down to "easy" to get the achievement (since I'm not going for the "hard" achievement this playthrough). =P
Splicers can only come in through two doors, so lay trap bolts all over. There's Trap ammo on the table and there's an ammo machine. Keep in mind that you can't place more than 24, and that annoyingly, the game removes some bolts that you placed if you reload a savegame (which you'll do a lot).
Now the toughest part for me was not getting hit myself. The little sister was ignored by the enemies 75% of the time, so I didn't really have to worry too much there. To protect yourself, the best place is hidding behing the vita chamber at the back of the room, so you can see the door with the barrel in the corner. Reason for this is there's only one spot where leadheads can shoot at you. You're best to place most trap bolts at the left, since you won't have this angle covered.
So put down the girl, run to the hiding spot. The traps, turret and bot should do all the work until about 1/3 of the way, then you'll need to start paying attention and dispatch of enemies quickly (Heavy Rivets or Anti-Personel MG, I prefered the Rivets). Use the explosive barrel in the corner at the right moment (about 2/3 of the way) to take out multiple enemies. If you see leadhead splicers targetting you, or melee splicers come close, zap them immediately with Electrobolt, the turret or bot might take care of them, or just land a headshot.
Luck is really a factor here, I tried for about 15 times and got it when I was just about to give up. Enemies seem to ignore you in favor of the security systems, but you can have bad luck with a splicer jumping from behind the corner or a lucky pistol hit, or when a splicer decides to attack the girl (though you can stop theam easily).
You'll get the achievement when you pick the girl up once it's over.
Remember to make a save after you kill every few splicers so if you or your little sister take damage you don't have to start again.
as stated in comments easier done on easy
if you vote negative on this solution please state why the achievement pop in the video
It's easiest if you're saving all the little sister's, because after saving the second in Dionysus Park, you'll get a tonic that makes gathering faster. You also need to have fully researched the Houdini Splicer to get the Natural Camoflague tonic (may need to run around Dionysus Park for a while to find enough Houdini Splicers to research). I also had Cyclone Trap 3 (Cyclone Trap 2 should suffice). I also had all of the tonics that help your machines equipped.
I hacked all the bots in Imago Fine Arts, and had 2 bots with me as well. I laid out 3 Cyclone Lightning Traps on the floor, placed lots of proximity mines, trap rivets and trap spears. I forgot to place the mini-turrets on my attempt, but should have.
Once all the traps are laid out, set the little sister down for the gather, and stop moving (you can probably crouch right next to her, but I stood back). After not moving for a few seconds, you'll be invisible so the splicers won't even try to attack you, so as long as the traps and machines can take out the attackers you'll get this.
There is only one way into this room and there is a longish way from the door to the corpse. So what i did was use every trap rivet , trap spear, proximity mine and mini turret i had and trapped from the door to the body.
Set the difficulty down to easy if you are playing on a harder setting.
there are area's at the back you can lurk out of site of enemies in so do not come out form there, you will have a clear line of sight to the little sister should any enemies make it through. Once she's done run out and grab her.
Just watch out for hudini's that might teleport in behind her on the desk. Mine it too !!!!!!! :D
NOTE: do NOT save game if you changed your difficulty down to easy
BTW if you can't get in the room, it's on the top floor you go through a hole in the wall...
I recommend using the machine gun, as the fire and the turrets attack will quickly strip the health as well with your added fire. You could also use the Handyman plasmid to keep the turret in tip-top shape at the cost of some EVE, but it's usually worth it, especially if you have a rocket turret to aid you.
The enemies will either come from the left and right sides, and no Brute Splicers or Spider Splicers came (thought I do play on Normal difficulty) so it wasn't very hard. If it seems like they aren't coming on the left, be sure to swing to the right, and vice-versa. Saving before you put the sister down helps, too.
I had traps all over the balcony outside the bedroom and in the stairs in the other room along with turrets outside the bedroom and one in front of the stairs. I camped the corner behind the bed and shot every spider splicer coming. Winter Blast helped a lot sincer turrets would shatter them if I didn't.
The body is directly outside the door, between the turret which you should hack blue, and a Circus of Values. At this point in the game I was wielding Electro Bolt 2 bolstered by the Electric Flesh tonic, as well as the Handyman tonic found in this level which lets you repair hacked bots and turrets. I did this with the turret and one hacked bot, though two would be even better. I didn't even use mini-turrets, so I imagine it would be even easier with them added to the mix.
Beforehand, I had hacked the camera outside the entrance to Little Sisters Orphange which overlooks a large area below the gather spot. Hacking this is preferable to destroying it. You can hack it red first to get your bots, then hack it blue. Or you can hack it blue and enemies will spawn in this area to trigger bots that you can hack.
With the team assembled and fully repaired, save your game before you start the gather, before you lay down trap rivets. (If you save with traps laid down, reloading that save will make some of your traps disappear.)
Lay trap rivets on the landing to the right of the Circus of Values, on the stairs to the right of that landing, in the area to the left of the Circus of Values and up those back stairs, and of course a buttload around the body you're about to harvest.
Start gathering ADAM and duck back into the room with the diary. The bot(s), turret and traps will take care of almost everything for you. My bot ended up covering anyone coming from the right, and it had support from the turret which has line-of-sight in both directions. I kept inside the room with the door open, looking diagonally toward the stairs to the left of the Circus of Values. I mostly stayed in cover but toward the end of the sequence with most traps expended, if I saw someone on the stairs I zapped them with Electro Bolt but didn't bother shooting any weapon. The turret finished off everyone I zapped.
When the gathering is complete, make sure it's clear and that you hear no enemies nearby, as it would be a shame to catch a bullet while picking her up. The achievement unlocks not when the ADAM bar is full, but when you pick her up.
EDIT: Though I didn't realize it at the time I wrote this solution, this is the spot Deeke was describing. He just wasn't very detailed on its exact location.
After you pick up the first Little Sister in Ryan Amusements and have her lead you to the first corpse, set up some trap rivets around the stairwells, walls, and corridors that surround the area. Now save the game.
Put the Little Sister down and have her start harvesting. Look to the stairwell on your right and snipe the guy coming down the stairs in the head with the Rivet Gun. Look around to make sure the coast is clear, then save again, IN A NEW SLOT!
I'm sure you're getting the idea by now... during the Splicer encounter, each time you feel like the coast is clear for a moment and you nor the Sister have taken any damage, save in a new slot. Load your newest slot each time you or the Sister get hit. Rinse and repeat till the encounter is over and you pop the achievement.
Why do I ask you to make a new save slot at each point? Because, if you screw up during a save and get into a situation where you immediately get shot in the face every time you load, you can just go back to the next most recent save you made, fixing your mistake. If you get through the entire encounter and it doesn't pop, then you can go back to your first slot and try again.
This way you get the Master Protector achievement done early in the game and don't have to worry about it later. Additionally, most of the Splicers in this encounter are the Thuggish kind and easily dispatched. There were only about two Leadheads when I did it. By the way, this save/load method also applies to the Big Sister fight, and the Grand Daddy achievement.
You will need some marginal level of skill in getting headshots with the Rivet Gun against Thuggish Splicers, but that really isn't too hard. I was able to do it on Hard, and I'm not all that good at FPS.
Easy Glitch:
1.Choose To Gather Adam From A Body Which Is Very Near A GENE BANK.(Where You Can Change Your Plasmids I Guess)
2.Just After You Drop The Little Sister For Gathering Adam, QUICKLY RUSH TO THE GENE BANK, Don't Enter Yet.
3.Do The SCOUT GLITCH
That Is Equip Scout, Use It And Enter GENE BANK within milliseconds and then exit the gene bank and electro bolt yourself.
4.You Are Now Invincible.
5.Make Sure No One Touches The Little Sister.
Remember hide in the corner this will reduce the odds of the splicers shooting you from range like they can in other gathering missions.
Once in there you will need the cyclone traps and the grenade launcher and that is it. Thats all I used simply spam the floor with traps and rocket any splicers you see before they shoot you. The security systems will do the rest for you!
Oh and for the love of god play on EASY MODE!
The location I did this was after I collected the second Little Sister. The body used to gather was right in front of the Gatherer's Garden. I put one mini turret down and just hid in the alcove where the Garden is. Only a few splicers came, and my turret distracted them enough for me to quickly mow them down with anti personal rounds on the machine gun. It's important to note that I was using the tonic that allows for quicker gathering time. If you wanted, you could probably set up even more mini turrets, proximity mines, and trap rivets/trap spears if you felt it was necessary. And lastly, you could even use the one tonic that makes you invisible while standing still, as you watch your mini turrets or security bots (if you have them) do all the work for you.
Hope I helped, happy hunting!
This maybe be a little difficult until you find the right spot. While making your way through Ryan Amusements and enter "Journey to the Surface", you will have to harvest ADAM from a body in a open room. You can hack the turret and place Rivet Traps on the floor and around the doorways. Once you have everything setup, place the sister down to collect ADAM. You can now back up into the corner and pick off splicers as they flood the room.
As long as you watch out for any splicers with guns and let the turret do all the work you should earn this without any issues.
To unlock this achievement you will need to get through a 'Gather' without taking any damage and without any of the attacking Splicers interrupting your Little Sister. This can be tricky and certainly more difficult on harder difficulties.
Save your game before attempting this, then if you get hit or your Little Sister does, you can reload your save to try again.
My own strategy was as follows. On the Pauper's Drop mission there is a corpse you can gather from at the bottom of the hotel area (The Sinclair Deluxe Tenements) that you gain access to after bashing your way through some rubble. It will be in front of the ammo vending machine on the left. Now using your Rivet Gun set trap rivets in the hallway that you came through, use plenty of them, and on both sets of stairs leading up, i put 2 rows of traps on each set of stairs, 2 rows in the hallway you came from then shot my last remaining Trap Rivets randomly in the hallway. Now when you're ready, be sure to have a gun with a decent amount of ammo and EVE so you can use your pasmids. Set the Little Sister down to start Gathering then back up under the stairs that are closest to the corpse. Make sure you have a clear sight of the Little Sister and use Incinerate/whichever gun you're most comfortable with and any Splicers that manage to get through your traps can be dealt with easily.
I found this to be by far the easiest area to defend during a Gather.
This maybe be a little difficult until you find the right spot. While making your way through Ryan Amusements and enter "Journey to the Surface", you will have to harvest ADAM from a body in a open room. You can hack the turret and place Rivet Traps on the floor and around the doorways. Once you have everything setup, place the sister down to collect ADAM. You can now back up into the corner and pick off splicers as they flood the room.
As long as you watch out for any splicers with guns and let the turret do all the work you should earn this without any issues.
This maybe be a little difficult until you find the right spot. While making your way through Ryan Amusements and enter "Journey to the Surface", you will have to harvest ADAM from a body in a open room. You can hack the turret and place Rivet Traps on the floor and around the doorways. Once you have everything setup, place the sister down to collect ADAM. You can now back up into the corner and pick off splicers as they flood the room.
As long as you watch out for any splicers with guns and let the turret do all the work you should earn this without any issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzRUhREgpY0
P.S. Don't forget to hack the turret and lay down mines