Chapter 02: Insecurity
After a mishap at the tram station, Barney Calhoun arrives at Area 3 Security Facilities to begin his shift at Black Mesa, greeting (and pranking) many of his colleagues along the way. He dons his helmet, vest and sidearm before being assigned his first task of the day - helping scientists in Sector G restore function to an elevator. With the local trams out of service, he makes his way through the service tunnels of the rail system in order to reach his objective, witnessing many strange system crashes and failures along the way as a result of a highly unstable experiment in Sector C. After fixing the elevator, the entire facility is rocked by a Resonance Cascade in the Anomalous Materials lab, plunging Barney's elevator into chaos.
GAME INFORMATION:
ModDB page: www.moddb.com/mods/black-mesa...
Playlist with all completed chapters:
• Black Mesa: Blue Shift...
Notes:
- If Barney goes to the Armory clerk at 10:24 before putting on his armour, the clerk will not be amused and will tell Barney to suit up before he can get his sidearm
- The door leading to the stairs back up to the H-E Particle Labs will malfunction as soon as Barney gets back into the lobby of the Area 3 Security Facility, preventing him from going up until after he debriefs with the desk clerk (14:19)
- During the walk with Patrice to the main elevator in Sector G, Barney's walk speed will automatically slow down when he is close to her (24:28)
- The maintenance entrance to the elevator at 27:37 will be locked until a security guard passes through it after Barney first gets in the lift, preventing him from prematurely accessing the room
Trivia:
- Similar to what occurred in the Anomalous Materials lab in Freeman's story, the rest of Sector C seems to have also been hit with strange system crashes as a precursor to the Resonance Cascade
- The scientist will only be upset at Barney for dropping the hard drives at 3:03 if he tosses them over the railing - if Barney drops them onto the floor of the cafeteria he will not comment
- The scientist that reacts when Barney jumps from the second floor (3:53) will repeat his line if Barney repeats the move
- Similar to what was done in HL1 and BM, the lockers at 5:06 have the names of the BM:BS developers on them
- The locker for Otis' voice actor (Deibler, aka UnstoppableGiant) contains a donut
- Barney does not rack the slide of his Glock (10:46) until he gets to the range (11:34)
- In HL:BS, Barney was able to keep his gun equipped after obtaining it (10:46), which allowed him to destroy various objects in the facility (windows, vending machines, etc). In BM:BS this is no longer possible
- Otis is trying to reach his handgun with his left arm since his right arm is holding a donut (12:19). This same animation plays in HL:BS
- The same message screen at 17:11 can be found as Freeman enters the main lobby of Anomalous Materials
- If Barney throws away the screwdriver or drops it into the trash instead of handing it back to the guard at 18:00, he will remark "You're a sick bastard Calhoun" and resume his work - however he will then shortly get an electric shock as he doesn't have his tool anymore
- The G-man appears in the tram at 20:48. Strangely enough, it was said by the scientist at 18:33 that no trams were operational in that sector
- The entire storage facility area of Sector G was not present in HL:BS - in the first game Barney encounters the two scientists in the main elevator as soon as he crosses the bridge at 21:24
- If observed, the forklift driver at 24:51 will offload his crates, then eventually disembark from the lift and stand by the wall
- Having to fix the elevator by reintalling a detached plug was not in HL:BS - in the original game, Barney simply had to interact with the panel at 28:29
- The boosting of the Anti-Mass Spectrometer to 105% puts a huge strain on the entire energy grid of Black Mesa, as shown at 30:25
- From the scientists' dialogue at 30:35, and combined with similar comments made by a Lambda Complex scientist in Freeman's journey, it seems that the Anomalous Materials team was looked down upon by many of their other peers
- In HL:BS, a guard attempts to stop the train from derailing during the elevator sequence. In BM:BS, the guard is still present (can be seen at 32:38)
- During the elevator sequence, the train that derails is much longer than in HL:BS. As well, it is shown to have de-railed by colliding with a Loader, whereas in HL:BS it simply derailed due to running full speed off the end of the line
- Additional trivia can be found in the comments section (ran out of room in this description)
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Map 1: Area 3 Security
15:22 - Map 2: H-E Particle Labs
22:49 - Map 3: Sector G Hydro Electric