Argent Facility (Destroyed)

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 destroyed Argent Facility is the seventh level of Doom (2016), to which the Doom Slayer returns after escaping from the Kadingir Sanctum. It includes a mixture of previously-visited areas of the Argent Facility as well as some new locations. The seventh mission, Hell on Mars, so named as the open portal to Hell is now unleashing a constant stream of more powerful demons, takes place here.

"You fought your way out of Hell and managed to return, but now the demons have staked their claim on Mars. You must find a way to shut down the Hell portal Olivia created."

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Mission 07: Hell on Mars

After escaping from Hell and returning to the now-destroyed Argent Facility, the Doom Slayer learns from Samuel Hayden that the portal Olivia created cannot be shut down from this end; VEGA is trying to access Olivia's files, and the Slayer is directed to a nearby computer room where more information will be available. The Slayer locates the terminal and finds that Olivia has been studying an artifact which bears his mark; this item is kept in her private laboratory in the Lazarus facility near the Advanced Research Complex, which is about 80 kilometers away. Although VEGA can supply power to a nearby tram to take the Slayer there, he will require a corporate clearance card to access it; the Slayer is directed to a security station where the card can be obtained. At the security station the Slayer finds that a pinky has eaten the employee holding the card he needs, and follows an echo recording of it through another part of the facility until he finds the pinky's corpse still holding the card. With this card, the Slayer is able to reach the tram station and board a tram to the Advanced Research Complex.

Summary

A detailed walkthrough is available for this level.

Objectives

Go to the Lazarus Facility

Go to the security station

Retrieve the yellow access key

Go to the Advanced Research Complex

Challenges

Skeet Shoot

Kill a revenant while it is in mid-air.

The Gauss cannon's Siege Mode mod can kill a revenant in one shot.

Close Encounters

Kill five demons with the chainsaw.

Save the chainsaw for smaller demons as they require less fuel to kill.

Knowledge is Power

Acquire three data logs.

Check the "Other items" section of the walkthrough for information on finding the datapads.

Special items

Item	Amount
Argent cells	1
Combat support drones	1
Praetor tokens	4
Rune trials	2
Secrets	6
Datapads	5

Areas / screenshots

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  The computer room.

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  The flaming exterior of the facility.

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  The security station entrance.

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  Crane room.

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  The tram station.

Inspiration & development

Game director Hugo Martin has mentioned^{[citation needed]} that Doom (2016) originally included the swimming physics that were later used in Doom Eternal, and that they were originally intended for use in an area cut from this level. Areas of the Argent Facility that were previously filled with ice from cryonic cooling systems were intended to have melted, flooding the area completely. While inaccessible in the final game, those areas still have signage indicating that they are closed due to flooding.

Also according to Martin, the internal development name of this level was "Surface Returns".

Trivia

• The game files for this level have the same names as the non-destroyed version, but with the prefix 2.