Argent Facility

Doom (2016) missions
Mission 01: Rip & Tear Mission 02: Know Your Enemy Mission 03: Meltdown Mission 04: Beginning of the End Mission 05: Argent Tower Mission 06: Into the Fire Mission 07: Hell on Mars Mission 08: A Brighter Tomorrow Mission 09: Lazarus Mission 10: Titan's Realm Mission 11: The Crucible Mission 12: I Am VEGA Mission 13: The Well

The Argent Facility is the fourth level of Doom (2016). It contains filtration and processing devices for Argent energy, which is collected through the Argent Energy Tower. The fourth mission, Beginning of the End, takes place here. This mission uses the music track "Harbinger". The super shotgun is introduced in this level via a secret.

"Olivia Pierce, the cult leader of the UAC, is trying to open a gateway into their dimension. She wants to help bring about the end of this world, another lost soul, fallen under Hell's control. Olivia overclocked the Argent Tower, using it to drill a hole into the Hellscape and let Hell's army through. You need to shut down the Argent Tower before it breaks through into their world by disabling the energy filters located throughout the surface complex."

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Mission 04: Beginning of the End

To stop Olivia opening a portal between Mars and Hell, the Doom marine must disable three induction filters in the Argent Facility to cut the flow of power to the Argent Energy Tower, followed by the Argent processor. Although Samuel Hayden instructs the marine to carefully remove the filters, he instead destroys them to prevent them being used again, much to Hayden's consternation. After the marine destroys the final processor, VEGA reveals that Olivia has reached the tower and taken an accumulator from its base which can be tracked; the marine heads there at once to stop her.

Summary

A detailed walkthrough is available for this level.

Objectives

Shut down the Argent Tower

Disable the Argent filters (0/3)

Disable the Argent processor

Kill Olivia Pierce

Challenges

Walk the Path

Interact with a rune trial stone.

The first trial stone of the game is on the main path, and is essentially unmissable.

Bird's Eye View

Acquire the automap for the Argent Facility.

To find the automap station, enter the plasma room just before the second Argent filter and look for some wall fans on the first floor. Go past these fans to find a door that must be forced open; the automap station will be in front of you along with a heavy assault rifle.

To Be Knighted

Perform two "Death from Above" glory kills on Hell knights.

Special items

Item	Amount
Argent cells	1
Combat support drones	2
Praetor tokens	4
Rune trials	2
Secrets	5
Datapads	4

Areas / screenshots

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  Starting outdoor area.

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  The outdoor area near the main building. Two gore nests are visible.

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  The plasma pipe room.

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  Truck garage.

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  The marine prepares to stomp on an Argent filter.

Inspiration & development

According to developer Hugo Martin, the internal development name of this level was simply "Surface".

Trivia

• According to some strings from the final game, this level was supposed to be shown at E3 2015.
• According to other strings, the level's development name was Olympia Surface West.^{[citation needed]}