Let’s Play Black Mesa #06: Descending to Ascend
198This is a blind playthrough. Kindly avoid posting spoilers in the comments or solutions to puzzles either in this video or future ones so as not to spoil the experience for me or those that haven’t seen the game before.
Unfortunately for us, Black Mesa doesn’t have fire exits scattered through the facility that could be used to quickly escape the place and summon help. Part of this is no doubt to ensure that you can’t circumvent all the threats between you and safety but perhaps another reason is because it could have cost Black Mesa a lot of money to make so many staircases descend so far into the earth. They may be on the cutting edge of science – or were before the disaster we’re trying to survive – but they didn’t do they work they did out of altruism.
All that being said, you’d think that the creators of the facility would have taken a few more precautions for the possibility of a resonance cascade, though just what they could have done is something I can’t rightly answer. There’d be no way to know if any part of the facility would survive the fallout from such a catastrophe that you could make a bunker people should shelter in while help arrived or build an escape route to the surface. The fact that there were no procedures in place to deal with this event – none that anyone so far has mentioned, anyway – tells me that Black Mesa were probably just crossing their fingers and hoping it’d never happen.
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