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A recent rendition of the hallway at the beginning of the chapter.

Chapter Summary

After escaping the Anomalous Materials lab, Gordon enters an expansive wing of administrative offices. As he fights through the offices, he encounters a number of surviving personnel who tell him that soldiers have arrived to rescue them. Gordon must get topside to rendezvous with the rescue team. Gordon will eventually exit an elevator and end up in a corridor with a panicking scientist which will cue the beginning of We've Got Hostiles.

Office Complex is the fourth chapter in Black Mesa.

Gameplay

The office complex features headcrab zombies and vortigaunts as the primary enemy, and introduces the Ceiling Turret (of which there are only a small handful in the game). The chapter also contains a number of friendly NPCs who can assist the player. The SPAS-12 shotgun is introduced in the chapter as well.

Currently Office Complex has two load points [2].

Screenshots

Vortigaunts fighting in the middle of an office. Entering the hallway to the cafeteria. A picture of the Freezer room segment of the chapter. More The elevator shaft. Sometimes you will stumble upon a corpse of a dead office worker in addition to your average batch of scientists and security guards. [1] The turret at the foot of the first stairs. Recent rendition of the security booth.

Trivia

• The computers of the facility are powered by Windows 98, and their monitors have many screen variants [3] and animated screensavers. [4]
• Office Complex had over 150 physics props that had to be removed to allow the map to compile [5]

Redesign History

A very early shot of the starting hallway. Ditto. The flooded office. First render of the security booth. More One room of the office ambush area featuring a dead scientist on his chair. The freezer props. By Mark Foreman.