#scp cb

[wolfclaw666]

rough draft of my take on scp 173's design teehee (plus the refs below that inspired said design)

[roddy-scribbles]

Shout out to the drafts I've never posted,, because I forget once I stop looking at them,,, this has probably been collecting dust for a year almost,,,, But anywhooooo, 173!! I love this guy, and doing a redesign for him was something I've wanted to do for forever, but I wasn't sure how to go about it because I adore the original design (shout out to Izumi Kato's work <3), and it was hard to imagine 173 any other way...

But after some brainstorming, I ended up with this?? New and improved 173, now with more breakage, distinct fingers, and more legs(???) I know he's not anywhere as scary as the original, but that wasn't really my goal; this is more of a personal redesign for fun/that appeals to me <3 I can't help it, he's so silly and goofy, and he looks like a peanut,, how could I make him anything but cutesy? I used colors from Krylon's catalogue since that's the brand of paint mentioned in his story, I gave him some visible rebar since that's also mentioned in the text, and made his eyes stoplight colored! Cause he's got a sorta redlight-greenlight thing going on already (How clever and original of me-)

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[leafstem]

'well fuck that'

another from our drawing myself [a fictive] into things that have happened in my cb playthroughs

[scp-confessions-dpt]

Okay, SO. Riddle me this: WHOSE genius-level, Nobel Prize–winning idea was it to—first of all—put a VENT in the room that’s supposed to CONTAIN 173 during a breach? Like yes, let’s give the murder statue an AIR DUCT. Brilliant.

SECOND: why is HEAVY CONTAINMENT basically RIGHT NEXT TO THE ENTRANCE while LIGHT CONTAINMENT is shoved down into the geological core of the facility? Why is the “light” area the deepest, most cursed pit of this entire operation? Who labeled this map.

And WHY. ARE THERE. VENTS. IN 173’S ROOM. HMMM???

Why does the neck-snapping statue that kills you if you blink have ONE (1) blast door, ZERO security, and NO keycard clearance between it and the rest of humanity—yet the laptop with an attitude gets TWO blast doors and LEVEL 5 clearance like it’s guarding national secrets? Okay. In a CAGE no less. Yeah, 173 has a nice open room, so lovely and the LAPTOP IS THE ONE IN A CAGE?!?!

NOW. 049’s containment. Why are there TWO elevators separated by ONE DNA door? Why is the DNA door in the middle like some kind of weird moral test? Why wouldn’t you put DNA doors on BOTH sides so either elevator leads into a secure mini hallway? Why did they overcomplicate the simplest concept known to man.

And WHY is there a LEVEL 4 KEYCARD sitting in his room. WHO PUT THAT THERE. WHO APPROVED THAT. YOU DON'T EVEN NEED A KEYCARD TO GET DOWN THERE!!

Also—where is 939’s containment actually supposed to be? Because clearly it’s not in use. Those things are just speedrunning laps in the basement like it’s their personal gym.

AND EXPLAIN TO ME how 682 escaped when its room is in HEAVY CONTAINMENT, surrounded by gas valves, reinforced walls, pressure seals, like the whole nine yards—except, oh wait, HEAVY CONTAINMENT IS BASICALLY ON THE WAY TO THE LOBBY. Of course the lizard just WALKED OUT.

It’s ALMOST like—bear with me—HEAVY CONTAINMENT SHOULD BE DEEPER IN THE FACILITY instead of being tasked to "contain" a FUCKING BLUE KEY.

Honestly? At this point the entire design team needs to be interviewed for SCP classification, because what the hell is this community-getaway-camp ass facility layout.

Oh yeah. The average Site layout is a mess, ESPECIALLY Site-██

[altair-the-heretic]

I watched a video last night about scp containment breach's health system. (I loved that game as a teenager.) more first person horror games ought to take a lesson from how it displays the player's health. instead of an actual health bar or a blood splatter overlay, it makes you start limping as you take damage. lose enough blood and your vision blurs. eventually you begin to faint and are forced to crawl. in a combat-focused game where every movement needs precision, this would be very annoying, but in a slow-paced horror game, it's immersive!

(no one should copy the actual damage calculations though, they're jank as fuck and make no sense)

[nepmaxxing]

over a decade has passed and still no sound design in horror games has surpassed the cacophony of carnage that kicks off SCP: Containment Breach

(ignore the other alarm at the end, i don't know why that's there)

how do i love thee? let me count the ways.

-the whole ordeal opens immediately with an announcement stating that several entities have breached containment. assuming the player has gone through the intro, they will have just seen SCP-173 perform a hit and run. the announcement makes it clear that the peanut is not the only thing that's loose. everything is loose.

-the music is constant, but also very simple. it's essentially one note being held the whole time. it stops there from being gaps in the sound where the other sound effects aren't enough to maintain the intensity, but it also doesn't draw attention to itself.

-there is a very real sense of commotion outside the immediate area. sounds are muffled, distant, but distinct enough to communicate struggle.

-many of the game's antagonists have their own auditory language. if you've heard sound effects from this game, you probably recognize some of them within this intro. you have SCP-106 laughing as well as the bending of metal heard when he passes through walls. you have what may be the concrete sliding sound SCP-173 makes when he moves. you can very faintly hear screams that sound like SCP-096.

-there is a lot of screaming here. there is not a lot of screaming in the rest of the game. you don't know how big this facility is or how many people were in it to begin with, but you can tell from the contrast in volume that 90% of them died within the first minute of the breach. if you weren't already aware of the danger you're in, this will let you know. it is a miracle that you even survived the initial massacre.

-if you followed the reasonable instinct to haul ass as soon as alarms started blaring, then you will likely have walked into another cutscene with people talking while this is all going on, which of course is only going to further overwhelm you.

-50 seconds in, when you think things are finally calming down, you are slapped right across the face with a roar from SCP-682. this is the louder than anything else you have heard so far and it even makes the screen shake. the earlier sounds established themselves as being distant from the player, so now hearing something this clearly tells you that it is very loud and that its source is something very big. as if everything else wasn't already bad enough.

also want to mention the commotion ambience. these sound effects will play randomly during the game and everything i said about the intro also applies to them. and because i think it warrants repeating: i love how so many of the sound effects here are tied to specific SCPs. containment breach has all-around fantastic sound design.

[copperstars]

Fucked up looking dog

[glitterhoof]

i get so weak in the knees