Test Chamber

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Introduction

"They're waiting for you, Gordon, in the test chamber." - Scientist, Half-Life

The giant chamber featured in the beginning of Half-Life, in which a resonance cascade erupted, turning events into the global catastrophe which Half-Life and Half-Life 2 is about.

Architecture

The architecture of the Test Chamber is in a style probably best described as "industrial scientific". Its central feature is the anti-Mass Spectrometer

Environment

Todo: Add content...See Black Mesa (Industrial), for example.

NPCs

There are no actual enemies in the chamber, but Xen creatures were seen being teleported in and out of there during the resonance cascade scenario.

References

An important artifact bound with the story of Half-Life

The Sample
The cause of Half-Life

Layout

The Test Chamber scene from the beginning of Half-Life 1, as seen in the introduction sequence of Half-Life 2, is part of the Source SDK at: ...\sourcesdk_content\hl2\mapsrc\sdk_d1_trainstation_01.vmf.