SCP: Secret Laboratory
- Brandon Fenters
- Oct 10, 2019
- 3 min read
Multiplayer games are usually pretty intense; games like CS:GO are notorious for having toxic communities that turn those that aren’t good competitive players away. But recently some multiplayer games have taken a turn towards the weird and niche. Today I’ll be talking about SCP: Secret Laboratory.
When you load into an SCP:SL lobby one of two things will happen, either you’ll hear a shocking majority of the server bullshitting about the same topic, or you’ll find a “DJ” playing user requested songs in the lobby. It’s almost like separating a populace from society and seeing what vocabulary and trends that they come up with in their seclusion. One match I was in I spent an entire match as a Chaos Agent talking other players into putting their weapons down, and that me and a compatriot were envoys of peace. We went on to be team killed by other Chaos members who saw our blatant disregard for “All things chaosey” to be treasonous.
Before I delve deeper into the meme culture that surrounds this game I should cover exactly what this game is. It’s basically a mosh pit where three different factions butt heads and try to come out on top. There are 5 types of characters. I’ll cover the NTF first.
The NTF (Or the Nine Tailed Fox) are a strike team that has a few objectives, to rescue the scientist and eliminate the SCPs (more on them later). They also have the task of killing the “D-Boys” though this rarely happens. Under the NTF umbrella are the Facility Guards, the Scientists, and the NTF.
Then there is Chaos; their job is just to break the D-Boys out of the facility, and to wipe out anyone that gets in their way, and the only characters on their side are the D-Boys, who really have no way to do anything unless they scavenge a weapon or a keycard.
And now for the fun part; SCP is an acronym that stands for Secure, Contain, Protect. It’s also what the entities are called that escape before each round. There are six SCPs that you can spawn as right out of the gate. Each of them have distinct positives and negatives to them. For instance; SCP-173 can move extremely fast and can kill an opponent with one touch, but it can’t move as long as someone is looking at it. As a testament to the community that plays this game, this horrifying SCP is lovingly called “Peanut”. But not all of the SCPs are as combat oriented, SCP-079 is a strategy based SCP. 079 is the computer, which can control pretty much any part of the facility, it can lock players in a room or open doors for other SCPs that wouldn’t open otherwise.
After touching on what this game technically is, it’s time to talk about what it actually it. In my experience you either want to spawn as a D-Boy or as an SCP. These roles leave the most room for your role playing experience. Whenever you spawn in as a D-Boy you can audibly hear the hype of the role. People crying out “D-BOYS” as loud as they can. Typically the same happens with the Chaos’ main character, except with the word Chaos.
Of course no one really plays the role that their given, occasionally an SCP, usually peanut, will be befriended by either a single D-Boy or a gaggle of D-Boys. And Peanut, another player character, becomes an attack dog for the D-Boys. All the while people run around either blasting memes from a soundboard or blaring music trying to be DJs.
This game is a huge dumpster fire, but it is fun. Despite the clear disconnect in how serious the game is supposed to be taken and how the community actually plays the game. As I stated before, it’s a super fun game, and on top of that, it's free! So be sure to check it out when you have the chance! Below I added a few screenshots from my memorable moments playing last night!
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