Black Mesa SUV

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Black Mesa SUV
General information
Affiliation	Black Mesa
Type	SUV
Health	N/A
Crew	1
Passengers	4
Used by	Black Mesa personnel Simmons Rosenberg Walter Bennet Barney Calhoun
Weapon(s)	N/A
Game information
Entity / spawn codes	N/A (brush)

 

The Black Mesa SUV is a vehicle used by the Black Mesa Personnel as an alternate transportation method to the Black Mesa Transit System. Since the Black Mesa Research Facility features a large road network that can be used to travel around the entire facility, SUVs are most likely a very useful and quicker option for above ground transport.

Appearances

Half-Life

In the Topside Motorpool visited during the chapter Surface Tension, two SUVs are stored for reparation in a garage. Later, Gordon sees SUVs being thrown at HECU soldiers by a Gargantua in an underground parking lot, before being attacked himself.

Half-Life: Opposing Force

In the chapter "The Package", Shephard gets into an underground parking lot inside an Ordinance Storage Facility where the Black Ops are setting up a bomb to destroy the facility and fighting Race X creatures. There he finds several damaged SUVs.

In Opposing Force, the SUV was slightly improved from the first version seen in Half-Life and parts of its interior, though very simple, can be seen.

Half-Life: Blue Shift

Abandoned SUV with its occupants killed.

In the Freight Yard area featured in the chapter Captive Freight, Barney Calhoun discovers an SUV with its occupants killed, its driver door open, and its lights blinking. Two SUVs can also be seen parked near the Freight Management Offices traversed with Rosenberg. Finally, at the very end of the game, Barney, Rosenberg, Walter and Simmons teleport out of the base and use a SUV to escape from the facility after reuniting at the Black Mesa South Access Tunnel.

In Blue Shift, the SUV was again slightly improved. Its interior can now be completely seen and it has realistic, transparent windows.

Half-Life: Decay

One SUV is seen in the Ordinance Storage Facility parking lot with a dead scientist that went through the windshield when he crashed the vehicle into a container.

In Decay, the SUV brush was finally replaced by an actual worldmodel.

Trivia

The Black Mesa SUV in Counter-Strike.

• The brush SUV license plate reads "Valve".
• A Black Mesa SUV can be found in the Counter-Strike map "de_piranesi".

Gallery

Half-Life

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  Lifted Black Mesa SUV in a garage of the Topside Motorpool.

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  A SUV being thrown at HECU soldiers by a Gargantua.

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  The same Gargantua kicking an SUV.

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  Black Mesa logo as seen on the brush SUVs.

Half-Life: Opposing Force

• 

  Crashed SUV.

• 

  Ditto.

• 

  SUV near a Shock Trooper.

Half-Life: Blue Shift

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  Abandoned SUV with its occupants killed.

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  Bennett, Simmons, Rosenberg and Calhoun on their way to freedom and safety outside the Black Mesa South Access Tunnel.

Half-Life: Decay

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  Scientist who went through the windshield when crashing.

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  Decay model, without windows (actually seen in-game).

List of appearances

• Half-Life (First appearance)
• Half-Life: Opposing Force
• Half-Life: Blue Shift
• Half-Life: Decay

External links

• Sport utility vehicle on Wikipedia