Kill Big Daddy with a wrench

So you're scared as hell when Big Daddy's yellow light turns red? You start running? Hiding?

Or did you ran out of big guns and weapons? Actually you'll only need a bit of electricity and a wrench... Great video from Gamevideos that shows killing a Big Daddy can be done without the heavy firework.

[TheMART]

Round peg, what a child you are. This is not in the news channel posted. It's posted in the video section.

Plus its good to see, for those playing the game. If your logic is right, after about 2 to 3 weeks after something is released, nothing may be released about it anymore.

So we should stop posting news on the PS3, on the Dreamcast for sure...
Dude your reports stink like rotten fish. Anyone else: approve please.

[marionz]

i just lay lots of trap bolts and lead him into them before unleashing the heat seeking missles, anyway it doesnt matter how you take down the big daddy i just want the d@mn texture pop up fixed! its not next gen to see the awefull pop up on signs etc, especially considering i saw a big daddy walking around with NO texture today, ps dont get the d@mn patch it sucks BAD

[Adamalicious]

Wow, I haven't seen a texture-less Big Daddy yet, but I've seen splicers and lots or corpses. I think the first nitro splicer that blew himself up in front of me blew his textures off. That was pretty confusing.

I do think there's too much texture pop-in, but it hasn't really affected the gameplay experience too much for me. I think that, when a game is this good, you see those kinds of glaring errors and it's just like WTF? How can they have such high standards with everything else and let something like that slide?

Patch would be OK with me, but I'm not holding my breath.

[ShiftyLookingCow]

its not a perfect kill, Mr Bubbles got stuck in the stairs

[SmokeyMcBear]

haha.. thats perfect.. everytime i try and get into this xboxkings website, firefox totally freezes up on me and I have to ctl-alt-del it to get out. I think my comp is trying to tell me something.

[Pete_Approved]

How can that happen. Mabey you should update your FF or try InternetExplorer 6 or 7!

[tplarkin7]

The video didn't load at all (I have Firefox 2.0). It was just a black box.

[XENOCIDE]

The first time I tried to load the video my firefox froze. After I got it up n' running again, it worked tho. N' I've never had this problem before when accessing kings through firefox. Seems to be an isolated issue.

[WilliamRLBaker]

its funny how you guys are only saying this because its themarts site.

I have no problems loading the site or watching the video in firefox.

[GameOn]

I really did enjoy planning out how to take a Big Daddy down, theres so many options.

[Crazyglues]

Wow that was cool, Ok I will admit when I see a bid daddy coming I start running, now I have tried a few things to try and kill them but I would have never thought of using the wrench...

This video was priceless.... I'm off to play some Bi0-shock right now and this time I got something for you Big Daddy... LoL

[FFVIIFan]

but that was def on easy. The same strategy works on hard, but it takes wayyyyyyyyy longer.

[socomnick]

I think that was on hard notice how he uses 2 plasmids and needs to juice up again . The Eve drains fast on hard

[FFVIIFan]

That's just the way the lightning plasmid works. I beat Bioshock on hard. The wrench does not do that much damage. Hell, you need a clean headshot with the grenade launcher to cause that much in one blow.

[johnnywit]

I found the easiest way to kill 2 big daddies is have them fight using the Hypnotize plasmid. Wait until the non-hypno daddy gets the other ones life low, then let loose with the machine gun. Follow the low life daddy until he gets a little sister and he is an easy kill for sure. That's how I roll. lol

[ShiftyLookingCow]

I havent played Bioshock for a long time because of school and spoiled ending(same happened with GeOW but I enjoyed it a month later), but I use a similar strategy, I follow Mr B and LS and then I use Enrage upon all Splicers esp Nitro who come by. Making two Mr Bs fight is a sight to watch. Also my second encounter somewhere near Fountaine Fisheries ended up being easy because of a glitch Rosie got stuck. I suspect same thing happened in this video

[jackie chann]

Well I guess it's pretty interesting...

[Pete_Approved]

And if you kill it, you get a secret achievement? :P That would be cool!

[Adamalicious]

I've found that a combination of proximity mines, frag grenades and armor piercing machine gun rounds in a fully upgraded machine gun make light work of the Big Daddies on Normal - haven't played Hard yet. But seriously, this way takes maybe 30 seconds to finish one off from when he starts attacking.

As far as the wrench goes - I'm using Wrench Jockey, Wrench Jockey 2, Sport Boost 2, and Wrench Lurker 2 - and the wrench is the only weapon I use against anything but Big Daddies.

[XENOCIDE]

I hate the wrench, between the awesome projectile weapons and plasmids, I have no time for such a boring, low damage weapon. My strategy is to have fun, I simply can't do that with a wrench, but that's just my opinion.

Seriously tho, ammo is RELATIVELY plentiful, and you have your plasmids to work with. I haven't beat the game yet (currently playing through on normal, working around school), but I find armor piercing rounds for any of the guns very effective, along with the...fire(?) shells for the shotgun. The only plasmids I use on 'em are the enrage n' electroshock, just to give me some time to think.

[Adamalicious]

If you stock up on Wrench related tonics the way that I have it does serious damage - more than anything except for the grenade launcher. The only major caveat is range, but getting in close is generally pretty easy because of the environment. I forgot to mention before that I also have the Bloodlust tonic which gives me health for inflicting damage with the wrench. Most of the time when I kill a splicer with the wrench I either lose no health or gain some health.

[AllroundGamer]

this is too funny how TheMART and KL PeeJee want to advertise their new website :D lame...

[WilliamRLBaker]

is that you dont realize thats allowed on this site.

[TheMART]

You're a pretty funny guy. N4G is about advertising every gamesite that is brought to this place... And yep Xboxkings just started public beta with news, soonish other channels will be implemented and we hope it'll grow out to have its own community.

What do you bring to this site besides posting your time away on comments? Try what we do dude, just try it.

WilliaRLBaker, nice comment there!

[Cat]

I think it's interesting that some reviewers have criticized Bioshock for this (that you can essentially get through the game by focusing on the wrench). more elaborate weapons are fun and certainly make things a bit easier, but if you can't use skill and ingenuity to beat a game with your primary weapon than I think that's bogus. if you use tonics to improve your wrench, it's a great close-range weapon.

[Adamalicious]

One of the things I really liked about Resistance was that your starting weapon remained useful the whole game. Same is true for Bioshock. I think that kind of thing shows well thought out design.

[BLACKJACK VII]

LOL, Try using your wrench on a Big Daddy on Normal or especially Hard.

I love the wrench, but it is not exactly the best weapon to fight a Big Daddy with, unless you play games on Easy. But then, what is the point ?

[sak500]

nice one mart. Taking on BDs is quite a task even with good weaponry but let me try with a wrench.

[Foo Skeptic]

That this game was hype, I told it before on another discussion, this game is very easy, great graphics right, but is a boring game with fool AI too, I am more than happy of haven´t bought this game and returning this to its owner tomorrow.