~Bioforge

BIOFORGE - Complete Walkthrough
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General tips:

*  Alternate two hand-to-hand attacks for best results.  I like 
Alt-7, Alt-9 or Alt-7, Ctrl-7.

*  Some enemies in the game cannot be defeated by blasters, but can 
be defeated in hand-to-hand.  A few special enemies cannot be killed 
by normal weapons at all, but must instead be disposed of by special 
means.  

*  If it looks like you should be able to climb into or onto 
something, keep trying (walk forward, don't run) and eventually 
you'll hit the right pixel.   (Except for the tunnel in the dig, 
which is sealed 'till you open it.)

*  If you see something that looks like a monitor, it probably is.  
Try to use it.


~PLOT SPOILERS BELOW!

Sorry about all the page breaks, but this is too short an adventure 
to spoil unnecessarily.  I've broken up important puzzles into 
multiple pieces, so if you think I'm being too cryptic, hit the 
space bar.


1.  Get out of your detention cell.
        Read the walkthrough at the back of the playguide.

2.  Get out of the cellblock.
        Use the fork on the electrical panel.  It's in Mr. Blue's 
        room.  (Go ahead and fight him.)

3.  Get out of the guardroom.
        Use the guardroom wall monitors to deactivate cell doors.  
Read Dane's logbook (in the cell across from yours) for a security 
code.  Press the red button on the guardroom wall.  Use the 
guardroom desk monitor to move the nursebot; have it pick up 
Cayman's severed arm and move it over to the palm reader by the 
door.  Now use the other desk monitor to reactivate Cayman's 
palm's clearance.  Stand on the plate by the palm reader to open 
the door.

4.  Evade the robot.
        It's a dumb robot.  Just sidestep instead of moving 
forward and you can go right by it into the cryochamber.  Later 
you'll blow it up from cover.

5.  Explore the lower tunnel.
        You need to lure the growling beast in the tunnel beneath 
the hatch so you can freeze it.  To do that, you need to send 
someone else down the tunnel.  The cyberraptor in Chamber 1 will 
do nicely. 

Drain some cryofluid to wake him up.  Go check on his stats in 
the monitor.  Knock him out with kicks and mid punches.  Make sure 
the hatch is closed.  When he wakes up, wait for him to come near 
the hatch, then knock him out so he collapses on top of it.  Now 
open it, drop him through, wait for the fighting to start, and 
freeze 'em both with cryofluid.  Go through and check out the 
right branch.

6.  Prevent those dropships full of marines from arriving.
        Take the elevator up to level 1.  You can take out the 
probes by shooting from behind the cover of the elevator door.  
Rough up the guard and he'll rev up the AA gun for you.  Blow up 
both dropships.  (save, attempt, fail, restore, attempt again...)

7.  Explore level three.
        Go to level three.  Take out the mecho from cover.  I 
recommend you cache your blaster somewhere else now.  Open the door 
on the left.  Enjoy.  Pick up a healing device, and (optional) a 
battery from Dane.  Check out the monitor.  Now go to the far room 
(retrieve your blaster first, if you cached it); defeat the marine; 
read his logbook and the wall monitors.  Get yourself encased in an 
envirosuit by the machine here.  In one corner of this room you'll 
find the Icarus monitors -- use them to descend to the hangar.
Get a bigger battery from the nose of the Icarus and drop your old 
one here -- you'll need it later.  Get the alien cube from the 
floor.

8.  Stabilize the reactor.
        The reactor guardbot only fires on humanoids.  Anything 
else would find it a real pushover.        

        Use the forklift bot from the room at the end of the hall to
dispose of the reactor guardbot.  (There's a forklift control monitor 
in that room).  Now you can enter the reactor (wearing your 
envirosuit).

        You can't defeat the alien in combat.  You do need to get rid 
of it before you can finish your job, though.

        Go pull one of the two pylon levers down.  Now that the alien 
is after you, run back to the landing and knock the bridge out from 
under it.  Now go back, pull the other pylon lver down and punch in 
the code you got from the control room's wall monitor to activate 
the power-down button on the reactor monitor.

9.  Explore the outside.
        The security bot is slow, so fire, run in a circle, fire, 
run in a circle and you'll be able to beat it.        

The airlock code you're looking for is in the logbook of the Marine 
back in the level three control room.  You are wearing your 
envirosuit, right?

"Positive O-Ring" = all lighted except the center.

Take the elevator down to the catwalk.  Run past the droids -- you're
too fast to track as long as you keep moving.

To make headway here, you need the right object and the right place.  
The object should be obvious.  The place is the stone blocks just 
below the first turn in the catwalk, not the much larger collection 
further on.

Use the alien cube to move across the stone blocks, arriving at the 
wreck.

Hang around in the dropship for a little bit...

... and use the device from the marine you punched out (not shot) to 
access the dropship missiles.  

Get Big'n'Ugly's attention.  When he goes over to
check it out, give him a second dose.

Using the missile lying on the beach yields a bomb.  Have you found 
any obstacles you'd like to blow up?

The bomb will burst open the sealed door on the catwalk if you drop 
it right next to the door.  You have to go by the route the alien 
beast was guarding, since you can't get back the way you came.  Yes, 
it can be done.

10.  Explore the dig.
        
Kill the small, floating alien.  Do something nice for 
Escher.

        Use a healing device on her!  Now go check out the writing on 
three walls of the Big Sphere Room reached from the large group of 
stone blocks.  Come back to the dig when you're done, and check out 
the other room.

        You can't kill the alien, but if you beat it up it will run 
off and do something interesting when you pursue it.

        Now pry open that cracked sarcophagus door and solve a small
puzzle to get a device to let you do what that alien did.  With the 
device in hand, use the tunnel... 

11.  Explore the Phyxx caverns.
        The central column monitor activates the tubes.  Which tube 
is determined by the sign in the center of the monitor (match it to 
the sign by the tube).

For now, hit the left, right, and bottom tiles in the monitor to 
activate the one really useful tube at this point.

Use your gun to give you momentum to put you through the other side 
of the zero-gravity chamber.

Another no-guns fight.  Read the writing on the pillars before you
head over to meet him.  And watch your step!

Use his toy to get through the force field at the far end of the 
room.

Go ahead, solve the puzzle on the monitor.  What?  You want a 
solution?  Well, try:

Green-Red-Blue-Red-Green-Red-Blue-Green-Blue-Green-Orange-Yellow
-Violet-Yellow-Orange-Blue-Yellow-Green-Yellow.

After that amusing conversation, go back to the central tube chamber 
and activate the other two lower tubes.  Now use the control device 
by the blinking tube.  Have fun and eliminate your opposition from 
afar.  (The same method won't work twice, though, so you'll need to 
do a different, obvious thing to dispatch the second.)

Raise the sphere.  Lower it to crush one marine.  Raise the sphere 
again.  Drop your gun, run over and grab the grenade and throw 
("fire") it back up the tube. 

Now go into the remaining tube to fix the gravity ring.

Step on the plates to rotate the highlighted segments into a single 
line.  Watch out for asteroids.

12.  Escape.
        Make sure your shield is on, then take the Big Sphere Room 
tube up to the surface; head for the Icarus.        

The Marine's logbook has the information you need to get in the door.

The battery Gen gave you will activate the Icarus if it's still 
three-fourths full.  Pick up your old one and use it on yourself to 
swap out Gen's battery, then step over to the nose of the Icarus.  
Insert Gen's battery and enjoy.

And if anyone found a medical code, please let me know...

