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The Security Complex[1] is a location and chapter cut from Half-Life. It was meant to be the third chapter in the game. A playable version can be found in the Half-Life Alpha.
Contents
Overview
This chapter is set in a large warehouse setting. The level begins in a corridor built around a silo. The door to the silo is locked, so the player must navigate into the storage areas, avoiding an active Automatic Turret and solving a puzzle to safely get through the air ducts, to reach a control room on the surface. A large battle was to take place between human and alien forces on the visible landing field outside. From here, the controls can be used to shut down the Automatic Turret and unlock the silo door at the beginning of the chapter, allowing the player to return to that point and continue into the silo.[1]
Fate
The chapter was cut following Half-Life's significant reworking in late 1997. While the chapter's general premise eventually evolved into "We've Got Hostiles", none of the levels would later be reused in any Half-Life game.
Behind the scenes
The player can interact with many props such as crates and drawers in the levels. In the map c1a3b, there is a desk drawer with a developer note only visible in a level editor that states flash grenade in here. The flash grenade is not present in any build of Half-Life.
Gallery
Alpha
The entrance on the west.
The entrance to Silo D-002.
Behind the door.
Catwalk to the second floor.
The unused elevator on the east.
Marine patrolling the area.
The security checkpoint.
The airlock.
The security room.
The vending machines.
The vent puzzle.
Generic storage room.
An early Bullsquid under a ladder.
Automatic Turret protecting the elevator to the surface.
The ventilation system.
The ventilation system.
Ditto.
Ditto.
The flooded storage room.
From another angle.
The computer center.
The control room.
The landing field.
Pre-release
Crates near an elevator.
The entrance to the silo.
Holding a pistol.
HECU Marines in action.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Inside the airlock.
Early Houndeye design.
Ditto.
The flooded storage room.
Ditto.
Ditto.
The computer center.
The control room.
The landing field.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Scientist getting upset over a beverage machine.
Marines ambushing a room.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Half-Life Alpha Walkthrough (
WalkThru.doc) (September 4, 1997)
External links
Half-Life trailer from 1997 on YouTube - Features footage at 00:18, 00:26, 00:38, 01:17- Half-Life: Preliminary Findings - Introduction on YouTube - Features footage at 00:19, 00:23
- Half-Life: Preliminary Findings - Ken Birdwell interview on YouTube - Features footage at 00:24
- OGR - Monster of the Week preview from 1997 on YouTube
- Half-Life trailer from GameStar magazine on YouTube - Features footage at 01:05
- Half-Life Alpha developer playthrough on YouTube - Recorded from the included demo files.
