Waste Processing Area 3
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200-, during the Black Mesa Incident |
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- "X-Ray Zulu, are you there? We need backup in the waste sector. It's some sort of worm creature. Tower and Eddy are down, and I've lost contact with the rest of the squad! We need backup now! Now, damn it, now!"
- ― HECU Marine[src]
The Waste Processing Area 3 is a Black Mesa Research Facility location featured in Half-Life and its expansion Opposing Force.
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Appearances[edit]
Half-Life[edit]
In Half-Life, Gordon has to go through the area to enter the Lambda Bunker in the chapter Surface Tension. After being chased by a Gargantua in a parking area, he finds a Tactical Map and must use it to call in air strikes to destroy the entrance to the bunker in order to progress. The device was originally placed here by a HECU Marine named Cooper, now dead.
Half-Life: Opposing Force[edit]
In Opposing Force, a lower section of the facility is visited in the chapter Pit Worm's Nest. Shephard has to activate a bridge in order to progress, but there is a large alien creature Pit Worm blocking its path. He must flood the room with toxic waste to defeat the creature. The area is accessed through an air duct in the Biodome Complex.
Behind the scenes[edit]
- The Pit Worm obstacle is similar, albeit less challenging, to the Tentacle puzzle in the Half-Life chapter Blast Pit, in that the player cannot simply use his weapons to defeat the creature, but must use the surrounding environment.
- The two garbage compactors featured in Opposing Force are directly designed after the Death Star's garbage compactor seen in the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
- The valve and the gearbox to be activated are obvious references to Valve Software and Gearbox Software, left there as Easter eggs.
Gallery[edit]
Half-Life[edit]
The area.
The Gargantua trying to break down the facility gate.
An Alien Trampoline and a deceased security guard at the entrance of the facility.
The Tactical Map.
The fallen electric pole creates a makeshift bridge.
Half-Life: Opposing Force[edit]
A trash compactor.
Radioactive leak near the entrance.
Dead HECU Marines.
One of the two Star Wars garbage compactors.
The steam vent lever.
The pressure valve.
The steam is released.
Bottom of the basin, showing that the Pit Worm came from the ground.
The Pit Worm standing lower in the basin.
Near the primary pump gearbox.
The primary pump gearbox emergency override button.
The gearbox and the valve shown to be activated.
The toxic waste starts spreading in the water, the Pit Worm wondering what is happening.
The Pit Worm sinks into the toxic waste.
Shephard summons the moving bridge to leave the area.
List of appearances[edit]
- Half-Life (First appearance)
- Half-Life: Opposing Force
| Preceded by Topside Motorpool |
Half-Life story arc journey | Succeeded by Sector F |
| Preceded by Sector E |
Half-Life: Opposing Force story arc journey | Succeeded by Sector G |
