BioShock

You can still boost this and Brass Balls if you like. Play through on easy (with Vitachambers off if you're also going for Brass Balls)(Brass Balls achievement is included in free DLC). Anyhoo, play on easy, and when you're on the last boss, AS SOON as you press A to take his ADAM the *final/fourth* time, press start and change the difficulty to hard, then press start to exit and watch the ending. Both should pop. You can keep loading the boss save if you screw this up somehow.

Seriously Good At This - 40
Complete the game on the hardest difficulty setting.

*Spoilers*

This achievement is really easy. You can play on the difficulty Easy until the final area where you fight Atlas. This method can be found on easily on the internet. I see there are 2 Guides for it here, but they aren't very detailed so I will write one in my own words. You can also get "Brass Balls" but you have to have the DLC. Make sure you read the IMPORTANT section (If going for "Brass Balls") and do the following:


1. Start a game on Easy, and play through (you can go for any achievements you want while you do) until you get to the very end of Proving Grounds (The second last area). You will be a Big Daddy and you will be with a Little Sister. When she climbs in the hole and give you her weapon to steal ADAM, you are at the end of the game.

Note: Do not switch the difficulty at any other time in the story, because it may affect you not getting the achievement. Read the comments below for more information.

2. This is only if you are going for "Brass Balls". Press Start and go to Options. At the very bottom disable Vita-Chambers (it would be wise to disable them in the very beginning of the game; read the IMPORTANT section for more information).

3. Go into the Elevator and you will Ascend. You will then be in a new area "Fontaine". This is where the Boss is. Fight him normally, draining his ADAM. You have to drain his ADAM four times.

3. When you go to click "A" to drain his last bar of ADAM (the 4th time) after you click "A", wait half a second and then click Start. Go to Options and turn the difficulty to Hard.

4. Now this is VERY important. When you turn it to hard, click START! Do not click B to return. Make sure you click Start.

5. After a few seconds you will go into a cut scene. At one point in the Cut-scene you should get the achievement. If you are going for Brass Balls that achievement should unlock too.

6. Wait for the whole cut scene to finish. If you don't have the achievement, load your game up from the last auto save and repeat steps 1-5. You will be coming out of the Elevator.


IMPORTANT: Make sure you do the following because if you don't you MAY not get the achievement "Brass Balls".

1. Don't Die in the game. This should be easy on Easy. Unless you disabled Vita-Chambers from the very beginning, you should be able to die and still get the achievement. But to be safe, try not to die.

2. Make sure you have the DLC and you are connected to xbox live (you need the update).

3. Make sure you Disable Vita-Chambers before going up the elevator. (Even the smartest people make mistakes)

4. Make sure you change the difficulty to "Hard" when you are Draining his last ADAM bar.

5. Make sure you press the START button after changing the difficulty. Do NOT press "B".


Credit goes to many people throughout the internet who have confirmed this, friends, and myself as well!

Enjoy the easy achievements!

Although some consider this to be hard it is actually an easy achievement considering you do have infinite lives. The only difficult part is the final boss as you will not respawn.

The reason this achievement is easier than it sounds is because of the vita-chambers. As long as you have vita-chambers turned on you will come back to life close to where you died. The only place you will not respawn is while fighting the final boss, which will prove to be a challenging fight.

I suggest starting the game on hard and playing through. If you feel you're up to it I would also suggest going for as many achievements as possible, on my playthrough I got 49 of 51 achievements, not including historian or Brass Balls.

So start it up on hard, and don't be afraid to die. Infinite lives makes a seemingly hard achievement all that much easier.

Although like I said, the final boss is quite a challenge as you will not revive, so here are some tips:

1) Make sure to have as much ammo and eve/health items as you can carry.

2) Don't hesitate to heal. If you have to die, at least go out fighting with no more medkits knowing you gave it your all.

3) Use the crossbow. It does massive damage and is very accurate (reload time is a bit long, but the damage is worth it.)

4) Learn the boss's patterns. Once you do you will be able to defend against them.

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER (I think)

5) Do NOT wait to drain his adam, he will come back down and start attacking again meaning you have to run through the sequence again. (I made this mistake and learned this first hand)

EDIT

6) Use the Electric gel on the first 2 sequences as it will make short work of the boss in these sections.
Tip courtesy of ballininthe803

Just finished this achievement and had a few bits to add.

1)Like Quarantine said, learn to use the crossbow throughout the game, with the weapons upgrade the bolts can be retrieved from the bodies. Head shots to most splicers are one shot kills.

2)With the dlc there is an Eve tonic that lowers the Eve cost to plasmids. Also, search everywhere and sometimes just blindly shoot Telekenesis around, you might get lucky.

Huge SPOILER:
3)Photograph the Spider Splicers as soon as possible, their fnal level bonus makes looting them worthwhile.

Endgame FONTAINE
During Proving Ground collect all the ammo and money you can, remember, the Little Sisters are expendable, the game doesn't end when you lose a set amount (I lost a few). After Proving Ground you will have an opportunity to buy or make what you need and you can always leave and come back until you get on the elevator. Once on his platform there is a Gene machine far around to the right, you'll need this.

Now for Fontaine, before you stick him with the Adam needle use the Gene kiosk, I found Electro Ball, Incinerate, Winter Blast, and Sonic Boom (from the dlc), helped.

Fontaine changes form after every syphon, 1st he's fire (use ice), then he's ice (guess where this is going?). Here's were Sonic Boom helped, After the first go around he'll bring in a bot, then some splicers and the Boom clears them away for a little.

Ok, conventional weapons: I set up a line of proxy mines, then used granades to take one "life". Next, I unloaded with the flame thrower. Also, what I found extremely usefull was antipersonnel machine gun rounds and armor piercing machine gun rounds (try to stay away from the pistol, loading time vs overall damage is bad).

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CREDIT TO
peterm123
Friday, December 30, 2011 @ 11:26:04 PM

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The glitch is
Play the game on any difficulty and just before you have to drain the ADAM for the last time press start and change difficulty to hard then press start to return to the game (do not press B)

then drain the ADAM
this will unlock the cheevos for hard mode and brass balls(if you did not use a vita chamber that is)

they will unlock after you awake during the last cutscene so dont freak out if they dont pop instantly

Just to let you know that Brass Balls and Seriously Good At This might be glitched for some regardless of what you do.

I went back and tried the change difficulty trick and it didn't work.
So i deleted everything including the game and reinstalled then downloaded the dlc and update and started on easy.
Completed the game then tried the trick again and nothing.

I then deleted everything again and played through on hard
Started on hard and had the vitachambers turned off plus I saved all the little and never entered the options menu again and nothing.
I have beaten fontain multiple times and nothing so for some people these two achievements are impossible to get.