SCP: Area-02 Team Guide

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Hello, and welcome to the SCP: Area-02 Team Guide.

If you are new to Area-02, use the quick selector below to find a role that sounds fun. Then open that team’s section for its objective, first steps, and important mechanics.

Controls: This guide uses keyboard and mouse labels such as E and M1 . On another device, follow the equivalent on-screen prompt.
Access: Some teams require a game pass. Mobile Task Force NU-7 can also be unlocked for free by reaching level 16 on Security Department.
Game mechanics may change over time. If an in-game prompt differs from this guide, follow the current prompt. We will do our best to update this as time goes on.

Choose a Team

Want a flexible starting role? Try Class-D .

Want to support other players? Try Scientific , Medical , or Engineering and Technical .

Want frontline combat? Try Security , Chaos Insurgency , or Mobile Task Force .

Want procedure, protection, or leadership? Try Intelligence Agency , Internal Security , Alpha-1 , Facility Executive , or Overseer Council .

Want to play as an anomaly? Try SCP-106 , SCP-096 , SCP-457 , or SCP-610 .

Open a section below to learn how that team works.

Foundation and Opposing Teams

Class-D (Free)

Your role: You are a test subject inside the Foundation. You can cooperate with staff, look for an escape route, or turn against the facility.

Your first steps

  1. Decide how you want to play: wait for testing, visit Medical, attempt an escape, or seek out the Chaos Insurgency.
  2. If a scientist authorizes you, follow their directions into the facility for testing.
  3. If you choose to escape, find exits throughout the facility and find the Chaos Insurgency spawn to become one of them.
  4. If you reach the Chaos Insurgency, take up arms and help fight the Foundation.

Choose this team if: You want a flexible role with several possible paths instead of one fixed objective.

Scientific Department (Free)

Your role: You conduct tests on anomalies using Class-D personnel as test subjects.

Your first steps

  1. Go to the Class-D confinement zone.
  2. Equip the Authorize tool and click a Class-D player. Authorization allows them to enter the facility without being terminated by Security.
  3. Escort the authorized Class-D player to the anomaly you want to study.
  4. Run your test, observe what happens, and then return the Class-D player to confinement or terminate them.

Key mechanic: Coordinate with Security when you need an escort or the route is unsafe.

Choose this team if: You enjoy structured roleplay, experiments, and leading other players through an objective.

Medical Department (Free)

Your role: You keep Foundation personnel healthy through checkups and direct healing.

Your first steps

  1. Choose between running medical checkups or supporting active operations as a combat medic.
  2. For a Class-D checkup, authorize the player and escort them to the medical bay.
  3. To heal an injured player, equip your med kit and hold M1 while targeting them.
  4. Equip your tablet to find an approximate location of players that need help, if you are level 6+ you can use the building plan to place a bandage box containing x2 bandages for site personnel to take from to heal.

Trauma Team: Serves as the foundation’s rapid-response emergency medical unit and specializes in life-saving care capable of healing critical injuries. This team is unlocked when you reach level 16 in the Medical Department.

Includes:

  • Bandage box (x2) which allows personnel to take bandages for healing (also available on MD level 6+)
  • Health emitter (x1) which allows personnel within its radius to be healed at a fast rate

Choose this team if: You prefer a support role and want to help other teams stay in the fight.

Technical Department (Free)

Your role: You repair and maintain the facility’s power, doors, and overall structural integrity.

Your first steps

  1. Equip the Hammer after spawning. It is your main repair tool.
  2. Look for damaged water pipes, generators, doors, and holes blasted into walls by the Chaos Insurgency.
  3. For pipes, generators, and SCP-409 air ducts, hold E while holding the Hammer.
  4. For damaged walls, strike the wall repeatedly with the Hammer until it is repaired.
  5. Utilize your mop and sponge to clean up the facility’s puddles and graffiti.

Note: Doors are health based.

Key mechanics

  • Water pipes support the Mobile Task Force water cannons and the facility sprinkler system.
  • Generators provide power to their sector, so repairing them can restore important systems.

Choose this team if: You like objective-based support work and keeping the facility operational during emergencies.

Security Department (Free)

Your role: You protect personnel, escort tests, control riots, and fight the Chaos Insurgency on the front line.

Your first steps

  1. Check the facility’s current situation and move where Security is needed most.
  2. Escort Scientific and Medical personnel when they move Class-D players through the facility.
  3. Respond to Class-D riots and Chaos Insurgency raids.
  4. Stay near teammates and protect support personnel instead of chasing every fight alone.

Key mechanic: Reach level 16 on Security Department to unlock Mobile Task Force NU-7 for free.

Choose this team if: You want direct combat with clear defensive and escort responsibilities.

Chaos Insurgency (Free)

Your role: You raid Area-02, disrupt Foundation operations, and use breached anomalies to create wider chaos. Each role in the team grants stronger fire power up to explosives to break into the facility.

Your first steps

  1. Leave the mine spawn and choose an entry route.
  2. Use Sector 1 for a quieter approach, or blast through the Class-D confinement wall for a direct assault.
  3. Once inside, fight facility combat teams, interfere with operations such as destroying doors or destroying generators turning off power in a sector, or recruit breached anomalies to increase the disruption.
  4. Work with other Insurgency players when possible. A coordinated raid is harder for the Foundation to contain.

Choose this team if: You want an aggressive opposing-team role with both stealth and direct-assault options.

Game Pass and Unlockable Teams

Mobile Task Force (Game Pass or NU-7 Unlock)

Your role: You join an elite unit with equipment and abilities built around a specific containment or combat specialty.

Your first steps

  1. Choose the task force that matches the current threat.
  2. Read your loadout and immunity before moving out.
  3. Support containment efforts and use your specialization where it matters most.
  4. Attempt to re-contain anomalies to the best of your ability using your tools and immunities to ensure personnel remain safe.

Task forces

  • NU-7 (Hammer Down): Stronger weaponry than standard Security and additional firepower during major threats. You have a bag which can be used to re-contain SCP-096 and water cannon to combat SCP-457
  • B-7 (Maz Hatters): Immunity to infectious anomalies.
  • E-11 (Nine-Tailed Fox): Has a sonic resonator to combat SCP-939 (accessible via building tool), a cage to re-contain SCP-173, a bag to re-contain SCP-096 and a water cannon to combat SCP-457.
  • E-9 (Fire Eaters): Immunity to SCP-457 and access to a flamethrower for infected entities.
  • Tau-5 (Samsara): Immunity to infectious anomalies plus SCRAMBLE goggles that protect against SCP-096 as well as a cage to re-contain SCP-173 along with fall damage immunity.

Choose this team if: You want specialized combat tools and a stronger focus on major containment emergencies in addition to heavier firepower and immunities to anomalies.

Intelligence Agency (Game Pass)

Your role: You gather anomaly intelligence and support the Mobile Task Forces and Scientific Department in the field.

Your first steps

  1. Assess the facility’s active threats and move where information or support is needed.
  2. Use your scramble goggles against SCP-096 to operate in areas that may be dangerous to unprotected teams.
  3. Coordinate what you learn with containment and research teams.
  4. You can participate in a Foundation Personnel or Chaos Insurgency interrogation.

Key mechanic: You spawn with SCRAMBLE goggles , which protects you from SCP-096.

Choose this team if: You prefer situational awareness and field support over a single fixed task.

Internal Security Department (Game Pass)

Your role: You run facility checkpoints, control sector access, and detain trespassers and perform counter-espionage. You are the main combatant against the Chaos Insurgency team.

Your first steps

  1. Report to a checkpoint between sectors and interact with the scanner in front of you to open or close the door.
  2. Sit in a checkpoint chair to open the metal shutter in front of you.
  3. Ask approaching personnel to show their clearance card.
  4. If their clearance is high enough, press E to open the checkpoint door.
  5. If someone enters an area above their clearance, track the player marked Trespassing , use your taser, and arrest them with handcuffs.

Key mechanic: An arrested trespasser is demoted to Class-D.

Choose this team if: You enjoy a policing role built around access control, detainment, and following procedure.

Alpha-1 (Game Pass)

Your role: You serve as the Overseer Council’s (O5s) personal protection unit and carry out high-priority operations.

Your first steps

  1. Leave the room beside the Overseer Council offices and locate an Overseer to protect.
  2. If you cannot find one, equip the O5 Tracker and click to activate it.
  3. Follow the green display to locate highlighted Overseers through walls.
  4. Stay close, watch likely attack routes, and respond immediately to threats.

Key mechanic: You earn an additional XP point for each minute spent guarding an Overseer.

Choose this team if: You like close protection, high-priority targets, and reacting quickly to threats.

Facility Executive (Game Pass)

Your role: You coordinate direct facility-wide operations using the control room and tablet as well as upgrade the facility with coins earned from completed quests.

Your first steps

  1. Spawn on the Control Room mezzanine and review the current facility situation.
  2. Use the Control Room systems or your tablet to activate the appropriate alarms.
  3. Use your tablet to view cameras and make server-wide announcements.
  4. Give short, useful directions that help departments respond together.
  5. Complete quests from the board in the control room and purchase upgrades for the facility.

Key mechanic: Your tablet provides remote access to alarms, cameras, and announcements.

Choose this team if: You prefer coordination and decision-making over staying on the front line and having facility wide reach.

Overseer Council (Game Pass)

Your role: You direct the Foundation at the highest level, oversee specific departments, and may authorize the Alpha Warhead during a severe breach.

Your first steps

  1. Spawn in the Overseer offices and assess the facility’s condition.
  2. Coordinate your specific department and work with Facility Executives and Alpha-1.
  3. If at least three SCPs from Sector 4 are breached, open the Warhead tab on your tablet. A majority of the active O5s must choose to arm it.
  4. After the vote succeeds, go to the warhead silo and press the large red activation button.

Key mechanics

  • You carry a .357 Magnum and FAMAS in addition to the tools provided by your assigned department.
  • The Alpha Warhead is a last-resort response, not a routine option.
  • You have a tablet capable of the same capabilities as the Facility Executive team.

Choose this team if: You want the highest authority role, department oversight, and high-impact decisions such as arming the nuclear warheads.

Playable SCPs

Keter Class

SCP-106 The Old Man (Game Pass)

Your role: You hunt personnel through the facility using speed, teleportation, corrosion, and the pocket dimension.

Your first steps

  1. Leave your containment cell at the front of Sector 4 and begin hunting personnel.
  2. Use your increased movement speed and medium-range forward teleport to close gaps.
  3. Attack a target to send them into your pocket dimension.
  4. Use your ability to move through doors to bypass lockdowns and continue the chase.

Choose this SCP if: You want a direct hunter role built around pursuit and bypassing facility defenses.

SCP-096 The Shy Guy (Game Pass)

Your role: You roam passively until someone sees your face, which triggers your rage state.

Your first steps

  1. Leave your containment cell at the back of Sector 4 and move through the facility.
  2. Until someone looks at your face, your role is mostly passive.
  3. When someone sees your face, wait through the sobbing phase and then use the rage state to pursue that target.

Note: You can sit down to heal, but this leaves you vulnerable for re-containment.

Choose this SCP if: You want a reactive role with a calm phase and an explosive chase phase.

SCP-939 With Many Voices (Game Pass)

Your role: Stalk your prey by their sounds as the blind SCP-939.

Your first steps

  1. Leave your containment cell in the middle of Sector 3 and begin hunting down personnel.
  2. Use your outcry ability to locate nearby players.
  3. Use your attack to deal high damage to a nearby target.
  4. For targets that are further away, use your lunge ability to move quickly towards them in a straight line.

Choose this SCP if: You want a stealthy hunter role built around tracking players by sound, ambushing targets, and quickly closing the distance during a chase.

Infectious:

SCP-457 The Burning Man (Game Pass)

Your role: You are a fire-based anomaly whose health drains over time and whose strength grows by igniting oil barrels.

Your first steps

  1. Leave your containment cell in Sector 3 and watch the progress bar at the bottom of the screen.
  2. Search the facility for orange oil barrels.
  3. Hold E on a barrel for a few seconds to restore some health and advance your progress bar.
  4. Keep feeding the fire to reach the bar’s milestones and unlock your full potential.

Choose this SCP if: You enjoy a roaming power-growth loop where staying supplied is part of the challenge.

SCP-610 The Flesh That Hates (Game Pass)

Your role: You spread an infection through the facility and use one of three forms to support the horde.

Your first steps

  1. After infection, you spawn as one of three SCP-610 variants, each with an equal one-in-three chance.
  2. Use your form’s strength to help the infected group overwhelm personnel.
  3. Stay near other infected players when possible so the variants can cover one another’s weaknesses.

Variants

  • SCP-610-1 (The Tank): A large, high-health form built to absorb damage for the horde.
  • SCP-610-2 (The Thrower): A tall ranged form that throws flesh projectiles to scatter enemies and pressure narrow corridors.
  • SCP-610-3 (The Spider): A small, extremely fast form that can move quickly and avoid gunfire.

Choose this SCP if: You want infection-based team play with a different role depending on the form you receive.

SCP-049 The Plague Doctor (Game Pass)

Your role: Cure the pestilence as SCP-049, creating your own army of zombies.

Your first steps

  1. Leave your containment cell within Sector 3 and begin searching for personnel.
  2. Attack them. Once you hit them once, they will become zombies, and will aid you in spreading your medicine.
  3. After one kill, you will unlock the gas cloud ability. This produces a cloud where you are standing that will damage players.
  4. After two kills, you will unlock the swift attack ability. This increases zombie walk speed.
  5. After three kills, you unlock the Medicine ability which can be used to heal all zombies.

Choose this SCP if: You enjoy a roaming power-growth loop where staying supplied is part of the challenge.

Safe:

SCP-999 The Tickle Monster (Game Pass)

Your role: Roam the facility and give everyone healing hugs as the adorable SCP-999, the Tickle Monster.

Your first steps

  1. Leave your cell
  2. Find injured personnel
  3. Give them hugs to heal them and be silly!

Choose this SCP if: You enjoy being silly and want to give people a dose of happiness, joy, and heal them at the same time!

SCP-131 Eye Pods (Game Pass)

Your role: Wander around the facility pointing out key threats, or stare people down for fun!

Your first steps

  1. Wander outside of your cell.
  2. Look for threats around the facility.
  3. When looking at a threat such as Chaos Insurgency, press Q on keyboard or equivalent key to make an alert for facility personnel.

Choose this SCP if: You want passive gameplay helping point out threats, or simply enjoy making others uncomfortable and stare at them!

Quick Reference

  • Interact: Hold or press E when prompted.
  • Use a held tool: Click or hold M1 when the guide or on-screen prompt calls for it.
  • Not sure what to do? Check your team’s role above, look at the current facility situation, and work with nearby teammates toward that objective.

You do not need to memorize the entire facility before you begin. Pick one team, learn its first three to five actions, and follow the players doing the same job. Once that loop feels natural, try a team with more responsibility.

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