E2M4: Factory Farm

Probe the sinister mysteries and awful inhabitants that lie at the core of an industrial chicken farm. **Factory Farm** is the fourth mission in HROT The Degustation, which introduces two new enemies, one of whom is a tough miniboss, plus two new powerups.

# Walkthrough

The Player exits the mortuary shed at  Velhartice into a ventilation duct at **Factory Farm**, with the first secret immediately at hand. Proceed through the duct to where the floor of the duct becomes a grate. Walking on it will cause the duct to break, dropping you to the ground below.

Proceed up the stairs to the right, but pay attention, because an over-eager Miner is going to jump down to present you with an explosive delight, along with a Hazmat Suit, also here to welcome you. Above is a pipe system, where there a Brno Super Shotgun, just out of reach.

To the right there is a door that is closed. To the left is a hall that leads to a large open room with an Infested Rider, a valve, and an electrical panel high on the rear wall. There is also a sign that says **Workplace Safety — A Pillar of the Five-Year Plan** (**Bezpečnost práce pilíř pětiletky**). Shoot the panel and it will drop the Aluminum Key. Turning the valve will cause an explosion that blows open the previously closed door, prompting three Smaskous and a Hazmat Suit to complain to you personally.

Return to where the door was and find the Aluminum Key door, which opens to a storage room filled with jars of **Sulfuric Acid** (**Kyselina Sírová)**. The Rusted Key is at right, near the location of the second secret. Taking it will open a panel at the back with two Smaskous and a Kejdovec, plus a bag of Semi-Skimmed Milk.

Head back down the stairs and continue straight to an area where bars are blocking access to an irrigation tank. To the right is a Land Mine. To the left is an open doorway, where a Hazmat Suit is guarding the Rusted Key door. A couple of Sewer Rats are scurrying, looking for feed on the ground. There is also a Soviet Shotgun and a Medkit.

Behind the Rusted Key door are more Sewer Rats in a hallway filled with pipes and some stairs leading down around the corner. To the right there is a door that is closed. Down the stairs you will find an explosive barrel and some bullets, next to another open area covered by bars.

Through the bars you will see an electrical panel. Shooting it will open the door that was closed, as well as a panel immediately ahead of you to the right, unleashing a Miner and a Kejdovec to trap you in a box canyon.

Back up the steps, a second panel across from the door also opened, near the location of the third secret. It releases another Miner and Kejdovec to taunt the Player, as if one round of them was not enough, and a third Kejdovec and Hazmat Suit near the bars outside the Rusted key door.

Enter the door and follow the corridor around to where it ends at the irrigation tank, where you will find an explosive barrel and some Tasty Canned Poultry. On the other side of the tank is a broken ladder, well above the water line, which leads to a ventilation duct. Jump into the tank, where a couple of Becva are swimming around lazily.

Beneath the surface are two ventilation ducts. Break open one of them and follow it around to platform, which has a Submachine Gun. The platform has a ladder that leads to a ledge, where there is a valve being guarded by a Kejdovec, who has brought some Kifli to eat as a snack later.

To the right is a storage room, where you will find a Grenade, a Medkit, and some Tasty Canned Poultry. Return to the ledge and turn the valve, which will flood the irrigation tank, and the room you are in. Swim back to the tank, passing by the location of the fourth secret, and swim to the surface.

Now that the water level is higher you can reach the rungs of the ladder. Climb it and enter the ventilation duct, following it until you reach a ladder. Follow it around, past a sign that says **Corridor 7** (**Chodba 7**) until you reach a pipe that you can walk on.

You are now on the pipe system above the room where you met the Infested Rider, and a Smaskou is cleaning up the mess you made. The pipe you are on leads to two pipes that run left to right. follow the first pipe around until you reach its end, where you will find a Brno Super Shotgun.

Go back and follow the second pipe past a ventilation duct with some Kifli until you reach a second duct. Break it pen to enter a room with a **Fire Extinguisher** (**Hasící Přístroj**) and a Koruna in the middle of the floor. Take the Koruna and a corrugated wall will open, where an Infested Rider and a Smaskou are taking a break.

Around the corner is some Tasty Canned Poultry and a door that leads to a large storage room, where two Kejdovecs are receiving freight. There are two crates hanging by chains beneath a conveyer system. On the far wall is a button, which will move the crate at the back.

Hop up on some crates, then jump across to another stack of crates where you will find another Kifli. Jump onto the crate you moved, then onto a landing where you will find a second button. However, before you press it, you may want to take a look for the fifth secret.

Press the second button to move the second crate, then return to the first crate. Jump across to the second crate, and from there to a pipe in the corner. Follow the pipe through a duct until you reach a t-intersection. To the left you will find some Kifli. To the right is a ventilation duct, beyond which is a reason to run quickly.

The Player is now on an open field outside the poultry house, the door to which is closed, with nobody but four Hazmat Suits and a Skoda LT vz 35 to keep you company. LT vz 35 is the first new enemy of the map, and is not only quite durable, but deals a lot of damage from the cannon on the revolving turret, and the Grenades it throws.

When killed, LT vz 35 will drop a second Aluminum Key, the door for which is on a short tower at the end of the field. Turning the lock will open a panel to your immediate right, where there is another Infested Rider with a Medkit, guarding a switch.

Throw the switch and you open the door to the poultry house. Three Konfidents and an S.U.P. will appear to explain to you that stealing chickens is a serious offense.

Enter the poultry house and proceed until you reach the main poultry room, where there are a number of chickens pecking at the feed on the ground. At one end of the room is a Submachine Gun. At the other end, there are two explosive barrels and a closed door. Between them is the second new powerup, 2X.

Be ready to rumble when you take the 2X, because while it does double your fire rate, it also gobbles ammo, which can leave you in a precarious position. Once taken the closed door will open, and not only will you be joined by Kejovecs, Hazmat Suits, and Smaskous, you will also be introduced to the map's second new enemy, Headless Chicken.

Headless Chicken is a very annoying enemy that is persistent and can quickly lose you a lot of health. There are also a small flock of them and are coming straight for you, so you may want to consider them a priority target. Once dealt with, there is one final enemy, an Infested Rider, who insists that you leave the premises.

Go through the open door to a room where you will find the AЗ-5 button and some Tasty Canned Poultry. There is also a sign that says **Is Greeting Glorious May Days** (**Zdraví slavné májové dny**), near the entrance to the sixth secret.

**Previous:** E2M3: Velhartice

**Next:** E2M5: Kasperk Castle

# Secrets

### Secret 1

This impossible-to-miss secret appears immediately when the Player enters the map. Turn to the right, and note the change in texture in the wall of the duct. Interact with it to find a Wifebeater.

### Secret 2

In the storage room behind the Aluminum Key door, there is a switch high on the right wall next to the bars that block access to the pipes. Press it and a panel will open, leading to a ladder that takes you to a Pistol and some Tasty Canned Poultry.

### Secret 3

Once you open the door in the area past the Rusted Key door, there is a nook where the second Hazmat Suit and Kejdovec emerged. Interact with the left wall, where you will find a Lightning Gun.

### Secret 4

In the room where you turn the valve to raise the water level of the irrigation tank, there is an interactive panel immediately across from the ledge. Open it to find a Hussite Hand Cannon.

### Secret 5

In the storage room with the suspended ceiling crates, once you are on the landing with the second button, jump across to the second crate. Jump from the crate to the wall and interact with it to find a cache of Grenades.

### Secret 6

The last secret of the map is found behind the May Day sign. Break the sign, then blow open the cracked wall to find one Koruna.

# Lore

* The Workplace Safety warning reflects one of the critical aspects of Stalin's priority to industrialize the Soviet economy. A modern, industrial USSR would have economic independence from capitalist countries. However, the combination of poor safety standards and a largely illiterate population meant workplace accidents were commonplace. The state commissioned artists to create visual and often violent safety posters for the walls of factories. Bright colors and striking graphics were a common theme of the posters which were developed in the hopes of communicating to an often illiterate population. Safety posters advised workers to wear safety glasses, not to touch live wires, and to avoid putting fingers in front of blades.

* Kifli is a traditional yeast bread roll that is rolled and formed into a crescent before baking. It is a common type of bread roll throughout much of central Europe and nearby countries, where it is called by different names. It is thought to be the inspiration for the French croissant, which has a very similar shape but is made with a different type of dough. A common culinary myth claims that when Christian forces freed Buda from Ottoman occupation in 1686, the bakers of the town celebrated the victory the next day by selling freshly baked bread rolls made into a crescent shape. Another story claims that Kifli was invented in Vienna after or during the siege of the city by Ottoman Turks.

* Corridor 7: Alien Invasion is a first-person shooter video game developed by Capstone Software and published by IntraCorp and GameTek in 1994 for the MS-DOS platform. It was widely ignored because it was built on a modified version of the Wolfenstein 3D engine, which by then had been surpassed by the technically superior Doom engine. A sequel, Corridor 8: Galactic Wars, was in development using the Build engine, but Capstone Software went bankrupt in 1996.

* The enemy **LT vz 35** is modelled off a Czechoslovak light tank, Škoda LT vz.35. It had the formal designation Lehký tank vzor 35 (Light Tank Model 35), but was commonly referred to as the LT vz. 35 or LT-35. A total of 434 were built; of these, the Germans seized 244 when they occupied Bohemia-Moravia in March 1939 and the Slovaks acquired 52 when they declared independence from Czechoslovakia at the same time. Others were exported to Bulgaria and Romania. In German service, it saw combat during the early years of World War II, notably the Invasion of Poland, the Battle of France and the invasion of the Soviet Union before being retired or sold off in 1942. It was used for the remainder of the war by other countries and as a training tank in Bulgaria into the 1950s.

* The appearance of sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄) in the level is a common practice in industrial chicken farming, where it is used to reduce ammonia levels produced by chicken excrement. When applied directly to the soil base in a poultry house, sulfuric acid has proven to be effective in lowering the pH of the broiler house floor to 5.5. The acid treatment is applied only to bare soil after cleanout and before new bedding material is added. Typically, prior to application, strong ammonia odors are very noticeable, but immediately upon application, ammonia odors are no longer apparent.

# Gallery

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