X-10 laboratory

The Brain Scorcher's control room.
== Transitions ==
To get to the X-10-Sarcophagus and Sarcophagus-X-10 transition, you will need to complete Freeman's quest on getting the Brain Scorcher documents.
== Notes ==
This location will probably be your first encounter with sentient anomalies.
* Sentient Fruit Punches have the hitbox and AI of a tushkano. After killing, they will separate into 4 plasma balls that behave like mosquitoes and have a similar hitbox. Use grenades if aiming at them is too hard. Shooting them from above (e.g. on the staircase) also works well.
* Sentient Burners also have the hitbox of a tushkano, despite having a huge fireball floating over it, which makes it extremely confusing. To kill it, aim at the invisible tushkano at the floor under the fireball, not at the fireball itself.
== Bugs ==
* Bone props inside the Brain Scorcher switch room will sometimes keep duplicating due to a positioning error, causing a huge framerate drop. If you encounter this and see something like "fix position for object physic_destroyable_object_[randomnumber]", you hit this bug. It's a rare bug from vanilla Shadow of Chernobyl, and there's no known fix to it, although waiting a couple of minutes can at least help the framerate to a more manageable one or even return to your intended framerate.
** To replicate the glitch, here is an affected savefile along with the respective logfile.
*In addition, anomalous clots will clump up at the beginning of X-10 (near the first gauss turret in the first hallway), causing a framerate drop, albeit less than the bone prop duplication bug. The solution to this is to throw a grenade at the clump.
== Interactive map ==
The X-10 is one of the few locations without the map layer in the game.