SCP: Secret Laboratory

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SCP: Secret Laboratory
SCP - Secret Laboratory Logo.jpg
Developer(s)Northwood Studios
Publisher(s)Northwood Studios
Director(s)Hubert Moszka
EngineUnity
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Genre(s)Multiplayer, horror, first-person shooter

SCP: Secret Laboratory is a first-person multiplayer video game based on the single-player game SCP – Containment Breach and collaborative fiction from the SCP Foundation wiki. The game was released independently.

Background[]

SCP: Secret Laboratory is based on the 2012 horror game SCP - Containment Breach, which in turn is based on the collaborative writing project of the SCP Foundation. The SCP Foundation is a fictional organization that captures and studies entities and objects that violate natural law (called SCPs).

Building on the stories from the website, SCP: Secret Laboratory takes place following a containment breach in a secretive underground facility known as Site-02.

Description[]

In SCP: Secret Laboratory, competing factions are pitted against each other in team-based combat. The players objective depends on their starting class and usually involves either escaping the facility with scavenged equipment (Class-D & Scientist) or working to recontain the various escaped SCPs (Facility Guard). Each faction wins the round by meeting a different set of conditions:

  • SCPs win the round by killing all Class-D personnel, scientists, and Mobile Task Force Personnel.
  • Class-D wins the round when at least one Class-D escapes, the Mobile Task Force Personnel are killed, and all scientists are killed.
  • The Mobile Task Force wins when at least one scientist escapes, all the SCPs are "contained" (i.e. killed), and no Class-D's escape.
  • A stalemate occurs when the Mobile Task Force retakes the facility, but a Class-D escapes or no scientists escape.

At regular intervals, players who have died or joined the game while it was in progress will re-spawn as squadrons of Mobile Task Force or Chaos Insurgents. The selection of team spawns is based on a ticket system, with each team having different objectives to gain more tickets.

The facility is randomly generated based on a number of preset layouts and separated into four floors: Light Containment Zone, Heavy Containment Zone, Entrance Zone, and Surface zone. After 15 Minutes, Light Containment Zone undergoes a "decontamination" process which fills the floor with gas, killing everyone and closing the floor.[1][2]

Voice Chat[]

The game features a proximity chat system which allows the various human classes to talk to each other across short distances, although MTF (known as Mobile Task Force) Units are given a radio which allows them to communicate over longer distances provided they are all on the same frequency. Spectators and SCPs are given their own private voice channels which will always work regardless of distance. 2 SCPs, SCP-939 and SCP-079, can use the proximity chat system to talk with nearby humans as well as in their exclusive voice channel.

Important Weapons[]

  • In the Surface Zone, there is a room where players can activate a nuclear warhead. Activating the nuclear warhead starts a 1:30 countdown. You can stop the nuclear warhead by disabling it in the warhead room, more commonly known as the nuke room, which is in Heavy Containment. When it reaches 10 seconds, you can no longer stop the warhead. Upon explosion, it will kill everyone inside the facility and the facility will be inaccessible.
  • The Micro High Intensity Discharge ("Micro") is an incredibly powerful weapon, and can be found in Heavy Containment. It has its own room, which requires an MTF Captain Keycard (2nd highest level keycard), Chaos Insurgency Hacking Device (shares 2nd highest level with the MTF Captain keycard), or O5 keycard (highest level keycard) to open. It does extremely high amounts of damage, and can kill an SCP in under a minute. Its ammunition is called "charge". A Micro-HID spawns with full charge. The more it is fired, the more charge is used. The Micro-HID has a short period of warm up time before firing, which balances out its very high levels of damage.

Release[]

Secret Laboratory was released to Steam in 2017.[3]

Reception[]

Kayla Fitzgerald, writing for Oxen Games, described Secret Laboratory as "the latest word in multiplayer action games."[2] She praised Secret Laboratory's gameplay, graphics, and sounds, but noted that the game suffered from issues with character balance, crashes, and difficulty connecting to servers.[2] Dean Clark, writing for , described the game as fun, but noted that it was difficult to join servers and to aim weapons within the game.[1] Both reviewers described Secret Laboratory as having great potential once the various identified issues are resolved.[1][2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Clark, Dean (2017). SCP Secret Laboratory First Impression: Great Game, If You Can Get it Working. Game Tyrant. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d Fitzgerald, Kayla. SCP: Secret Laboratory Review. Oxen Games. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  3. ^ "SCP: Secret Laboratory on Steam". store.steampowered.com. Retrieved 2021-07-28.

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