SCP - 096 Needs To Be Nerfed... And Here's Why (SCP Secret Laboratory / Scopophobia Update / Beta ) 

The reason they make it OP, is too make it close too realistic Next April fools they'll add a photo of 096's face and tape it onto 173

to make him more realistic you could make him literally indestructible.

"He jumps higher than the wall we used to measure him, making him impossible to shoot." SCP-096: *Literally took down a plane*

dude he's already feeling good now that he's powerful don't make him go into a deeper depression.

Everyone gangsta till the albino enderman screams

"His enrage range has gone increasingly overpowered" The dude who looked at 4 fucking pixels: *Bitch, what.*

Here's a fun fact: inorder for 096 to be enraged in the lore; it took 4 pixels. 4 pixels is all it took

Imagine if the devs watched this and I can just imagine them laughing while saying no

096's Arms: *Long as fuck being the reason why he can kill you as such far distance* Sim: Unacceptable

The only thing I don’t like is that if you look at his foot he still gets enraged which also isn’t lore accurate. But otherwise everything else is cool

"He gets triggered from the gate, how is that fair?" SCP-096: *Went on a rampage over four pixels of a photo*

The fact that in the canon he is 10× stronger, i dont blame the devs

“I can’t even shoot at him without him getting triggered because his range is too far” but he gets triggered when you shoot him? The range in that case wouldn’t matter

Making him taller was a great thing, first off its more realistic cuz in the lore he's like 2 metres, and it makes it easier to avoid his face when looking down

Fun fact about 096 : Scp 096 is one of the most old scps in the entire scp franchise, that is why it’s so popular, also because of its mechanic.

Its literally 096. Of course he is going to have high health.

I've been playing this game since 2017. And over the years the game lost its horror atmosphere. the new 096 makes the game more creepy again. when you hear his scream and you know you have to hide NOW is just awesome

"Bruh, just look at the ground" Peanut go brrrr

*looking at the thumbnail* - “shut up, stfu, I finally get to have fun”

He's actually good now, getting away from 096 is an achievement now, the scps overall are underpowered and he's super weak after his rage ends. Think it's fair imo.

I feel like you need a sacrifice to beat this SCP, A person can easily sacrifice and after he becomes docile again he can get destroyed by 3 MTF or 2 Chaos

The game developers made him more realistic to the documents

“Aoe effect” = area of effect effect

Me: looks at 096 back Also me: hmmm yes, the floor is made out of floor

i just want the old scream back :(

to the point he gets raged by just one spin, i just say one phrase: Four fucking pixels

Me and a mtf commander laughing while taking down 096 with a E-11 from full health

Northwood: *makes SCP-096 lore accurate* Simarded: UNACCEPTABLE

Simarded : Too OP SCP : SL hardcore player : Its called realistic

Lol just throw a grenade down he can't see grenades while enraged, either that or use a micro or have a group of people wait out his rage time then shoot him. The point isn't to face this SCP head on you need to be smart about it. The developers are upgrading each SCP including 096 because you are supposed to be scared of the SCPs, not the other way around.

He was made more realistic and less at the same time.

10 Minutes of Simarded ranting about how 096 needs to be less lore accurate

"You need to look at his face to trigger him!" Unless. . . You know, you only see his toes - or have some actual netplay where you can look at his face from behind. Just like the F2P spy can just walk at you and backstab your face without straving. The game is jank but fun. I love me my SCP.

What if, and just hear me out... *What if we buff everyone else as well? Even the D-bois* No one can be OP if everyone is OP.

Plot twist: The guy who walked past him look at him behind a corner for a split second and started running

This about covers what everyone thought about 096 when the update first came out. Over time though people have gotten over their fear and realized they just need to change their strategy when dealing with 096. When not enraged: looking down is all you need to do to guarantee your safety from him. Use this time to ready the micro if you have it. When enraged at you: Look for an elevator or just try to do as much damage as possible before you inevitably die. When enraged but not at you: Keep looking down and follow the sound of his screaming so you can be in position when he comes out of his rage. When he's just come out of his rage: Now's your chance so light em up with everything you got. If you have a team of people that are smart and use the same strategy he's pretty easy to deal with, though you might still die. When with 173: This is the most difficult possibility. It's possible to keep one in eyesight and the other not especially since 173 usually leads but difficult. Your best opportunity to take on one of them is one 096 flies into a rage since that usually separates them temporarily. If that's not happening for you because they're too smart and sticking together then the only option left is to confer with your team on which one you're killing first (I would recommend 173) and then just make sure someone stays alive because this is going to take a couple waves at least.

Some tips to kill 096 - Do it alone, so he doesnt get time or health buff - Use micro/grenades - Have an elevator near

"Everyone's scared of him now" It's a horror game, you're supposed to be scared to fight these monsters

I want to play SCP Secret Laboratory, play as 096, then run full tilt sprint at someone, and just do nothing. Just stand there and be friendly like a hoovy from TF2

I understand that he might be OP in the game but let's be serious for a sec. He had a lot of problems such as not being the exact height and other things. //I think that the fact that if someone looks at him it makes him angry for a longer time makes a lot of sense since it is *scopophobia* and that is a fear of people *watching* or *staring* at you. People with this disease can go into panic attacks and are fearful in general, SCP-096 is an example of being aggressive and being in distress (screaming). He looks more real and his body structure looks better than what he looked like before (that head was as huge as 2 pineapples ontop of eachother or 2 eggplants). He looked ridiculous and strange with large head, not only that but he wouldn't have been able to run due to having a huge head that would more than likely injure his spine and neck. Let's all appreciate it for a sec since it isn't too bad and it is a Beta after all which means they *might* change some things.//

The new 096 is more realistic when it comes to triggering, it doesn’t matter if you don’t even notice his face, he will slaughter you The scramblers that the guards used to hunt 096 cut out the face so quickly that the team didn’t even see his face, but it didn’t matter, and the distance increase makes sense because it took four pixel on a photo to trigger 096

My personal idea for balancing him is this: 1) More normal health, less armor from people looking. 2) Can only kill the ones that actually looked at him, and he INSTANTLY drops out of rage when the last one dies. 3) Infinite rage as long as there's someone that's seen him. Balanced by not being able to kill someone that hasn't looked at his face. And that's pretty much it. It follows the lore, isn't stupidly OP, takes advantage of the 'doesn't get enraged from the side or behind' mechanic, and still makes him a challenge to kill.

Him getting triggered by that far is cannon by the scp 096 story tho

Bro really said it was impossible to fight 96 lmfaoo

I love the part where you add friskys icon and i said "Theres another" looked down and saw a scp video from Kaif Lmao so many likes

I actually disagree, I like the update. Makes him way scarier.

2:58 how did he look at you? He was just chillin

"He gets enraged for fifteen seconds, plus five more for every person that looks at his face." SCP-096: *Literally doesn't stop until everyone who viewed his face is dead*

Tbh I like that he is sooo 'op'. He became a SCP who you are literally scared of

Imagine if they had photos of him in random rooms that would trigger his rage state like the stories.

"with this new ability that makes him go faster, he goes farther, that's so unfair"

can we just make it so that he can only attack the people who look at him. I’m tired of my teammates setting em off and then I get targeted

Do note that 096 if you even look at his face he gets enraged. Even in photo and video feed can get him triggered in the wiki. So it would make sense that he gets mad if you look at his face. If you where near him. Just dont look at his face and look down like in containment breach.

I've never actually looked 096 in the face in game and yet i still get detected by him, they should fix that shit

I know it’s very broken but it’s also much more accurate to his “lore”

Asian gamers: I dont have such weaknesses

I definitely agree. There have been many games where I randomly hear a 096, never even looked at him, and then I die by him. It is bull[DATA EXPUNGED]

I disagree with your points besides the fact you can see him from the other side of the earth and he gets enraged, that should be nerfed. However, I think 096 is really good and scary the way he is, though I wish the chances of him spawning would be lower than other scps (if that's already not in the game). If there was one thing they could do to nerf 096, it would be giving scramble gear to commanders and where you find normal scp items (Like the hat). The scramble gear would make it so you can look at scp 096 for way longer than usual before he becomes enraged. If it time needed to look was instant like it is, then I'd say you could look at him for 3-4 seconds. Enough time to deal some damage or run away, but not enough time to kill him while he's not enraged yet. The amount of time it can be used and the cooldown would probably be as the same as the hat scp. You would be easily be able to tell if your looking at 096 because of multiple black bars blocking his face. It would also give you night vision too.

The mimicry absolutely nullified SCP-096 with making him now 2 shot and cut his Hume shield in half when he gets enraged

"how is that fair that he can be triggered from the gate???" 096: *Triggered by literally 4 pixels in a photo*

If you shoot at him, he will get triggered. I think it's fair. It gives him a chance to fight back. But you're forgetting one thing that counters him no matter what........ The anticheat. Also four pixels... The short movie has that happen and they wanted to make him more lore friendly.

096 is the reason i love the game. 096 has such a unique gameplay, that allows the game to stay different from other games. I mean, the other spcs have that, too. But 096 is so much better now. The thing is: 096 now forces you to listen more to the game. Most of the time you can actually hear him from far away crying ore going after another person. If you hear him you can easily manage to avoid him.

They should add a containment feature like they have with Larry, make it so you need a certain card level to get into 096's chamber, and next to the dead guard in there they should add a photo of 096, so someone can sacrifice themselves by picking it up and holding it in their hand, left clicking will make you look at it, after looking at it no matter where 096 is he will go straight to his chamber and like the femur breaker there should be a special announcement made over the automated intercom or something to let everyone know someones containing 096, when 096 goes in and kills the person 096 should be locked in place for a set amount of time, the person who was with the sacrifice can then close the door and then that door will remain locked and indestructible and 096 will be contained if someone doesn't close the door then after the set amount of time 096 will just be able to walk out, so its a very time sensitive thing that would take coordination to pull off, not to mention if 096 is far away another scp can come over to 096's chamber to simply kill you so I think it would be pretty fair and balanced to warrant all the buffs 096 got. EDIT: I dont think this should interrupt 096's current enraged (if he is in one at the time of you looking at the photo) he should be able to continue moving freely in his current enraged state, after 096 calms down he then should become enraged again, running straight to his chamber.

It's even worse how you can still see him through the fog in the distance, even if you cannot see him behind the fog

Next update they'll take couple of photos of 096's face and stick it all over 173.... maybe in april fools, but bruh imagine that

I think the new 096 is good. It shouldn't be nerfed due to the fact that you shouldn't look at him. You actually have to use tactics to subdue him. Every scp other than 096 is literally just backpedaling while shots go off. SCP 096 Is unique to contain and they should buff more SCPs to make the SCPs more unique individually.

"Nerf SCP-096." 096 author: n0

I think they should make it so you have to actually *look at his face* to trigger him. Everything else is fine because it's accurate, but he gets angry when you look at his feet which is a big no-no.

Honestly we r just lucky every door doesnt have a picture of him....

The main problems with it (for me) it's how sensitive it is to trigger him, even if I am looking down, it's basically a curse for d boys and scientist since now it can open the machine room. The second problem comes from the fear from other players, since he gains 200 extra shield for every person that sees him and since trying to outrun him is pointless unless there are elevators nearby, the best way to win is to shoot at him as soon as possible but it obviously doesn't work if half of your team stays and the other half flees. I actually managed once to kill 096 alone as a security guard with 3 mags (and he was full health)

scp-096: I AM A PRO NOW scp-018: **laughing in the distance**

Old 096: *needs 4 second to get enraged* New 096: *tickle his toe and ur dead*

The reworked needed to happen in my opinion, old 096 late game was basically "Can I tank the MTF long enough to get going" if not you just die via firing squad. He had very linear game play and it showed how frustrating he could be to play after a certain point, especially against experienced players. The new 096 I think is a much better version for a number of reasons, 1. He gives the SCPs a tank/front line outside of 106 that can cover your glass cannons like the doc. 2. The artificial health makes it so that he can actually tank and lead pushes, this can be countered by hiding(since as long as you don't shoot or look at him in his rage state he can't see you) it solves the issue above where you would just get gunned down by the MTF while ramping up. It also forces the MTF to use their brain for once and not mindlessly rush through the EZ and Heavy and trigger a mass reaction from 096. 3. 096 is less tanky then the original with 500 base and 500 AH respectfully. 2-3 chaos or MTF can easily gun him down or at least almost kill him in the time it takes him to get going. Also if you have a grenade it can speed this up as it does like over half his HP. 4.There is more counter play to this version in my opinion given that when enraged anybody that didn't get a glimpse of his face will not longer be visible on his hud and of course his build-up and cool-down stages are where he is most vulnerable. 5. This is more fitting to his character and lore, like the mass reaction and chains of destruction from multiple people seeing him and he feels more like a threat. Experience players could abuse gates and wait-out his rage or just hid/jump to a place he couldn't get to (like 106's chamber) and in cool-down just kill him. This version can circumvent that to great success while still have defined counter-play. But I can see why he is frustrating to play against and I do agree that his range and ability to get triggered (like in one frame) should be looked at for the sake of balance. Also his ability to get triggered for so long should maybe be revised with a cap as you mentioned, a base 15 plus 2 for each kill capping at 25-30 would be good in my opinion; it would force the 096 player to be a little more strategic as he would have limited time. Overall the new version caters to a new play style both on the human teams and SCPs, if the MTF are dumb enough to open up on him and let him get a chain then you lose, but if your smart about it and maybe check corners or listen/be aware of the environment and forecast what could happen that it can be avoided.

Easy fix, make it lore friendly where if he gets enraged, he can only kill the person who enraged him and nobody else (unless they also look at him) and he doesn't stop until he's dead also keep the fact that he can see who ever looked at him through the walls also make it take longer to enrage him and make a cooldown for his charge ability

4:11 when 096 is "enraged" thats when he can attack you, however, it only takes him 1 second to enter his wind-up phase, in reality, it takes him about 7 seconds to beome enraged

thats the point of 096, every single thing you mentioned is pretty much the point

If you're argument is "Its part of his lore!" then here are the things we should add as "Part of the lore" 1: Door control system! The door control system would be a switch in the intercom room that turns off 079's ability to do anything with doors. SCP's would have to turn this on at the start of every match, and anyone could turn this on/off. 2: 096 is indestructible! Thats it, The foundation has no way of killing it so we're just going with the canon. 3: SCP's hate eachother! Cross testing is a great way to terminate Keter SCP's, so now you can kill eachother on the SCP team! 4: SCP 173 should emit its Blood and feces soup when walking around the facility. If you walk in this you move slower for 15 seconds. 5: SCP 106 has no-clip. SCP 106 can move through any surface now and can noclip to wherever he wants! 6: You no longer control a zombie! Zombies in the lore are aimless creatures so, when you become a zombie, you just die! 7: Pain killers wouldn't restore health. Painkillers just make the pain easier, they don't actually heal anything. 8: SCP's wouldn't be able to open doors that require keycards! If you have to get a keycard, why shouldn't they? 9: MTF wouldn't be able to pass through tesla gates. Tesla gates are meant to be dangerous parts of security, and MTF have to wait for someone to switch it off in the intercom room! I wonder why they haven't added these? Maybe its because they _aren't fun to play with_

096 still gets enraged way too fast and it takes literally nothing to trigger him, basically makes it OP as hell.

1:10 that makes sense because if u look at him u rage him like the normal fandom

I don’t think he needs to be nerfed. The point of SCPs (like in containment breach) they are meant to be overpowered. Your just supposed to use your knowledge and skill in the game to avoid triggering him.

Welp imma give my own opinion to each reason: 1) I mean... Yeah. It's gonna be a problem on the surface or in very specific layouts of zones. 2) Well imo that's the point. Get into trouble and get as many people to look at you and shred 'em all. If that many people look at you they deserve to die as they weren't smart enough about this. 3) Same as the above. You're not really supposed to fight him while he's raging or getting into rage, but instead when he's vulnerable when his rage ends 4) Well you can hear him and if you know there is one, you shouldn't be so careless. Yet agreed it should need that frame or two more to enrage him. 5) Again. Point of 096 is to avoid eye-contact till his rage ends. 7) Broken? You shouldn't be able to escape him if you're the lone guy that looked at him. It was kinda bullshit before where someone could very easly escape you and you couldn't do anything about it. 8) It *isn't* a big deal most of the time. Maybe only when someone jumps to some wonky spots liek HCZ near that armory or when aiming. Which shouldn't be a problem as a whole squad shouldn't fight him all at once. 9) As mentioned in 7 it felt so bullshit that someone could juke you infinitely during your rage without even really running away. _Not to add that range either way relies on internet connection and how laggy you are as I can say the same thing about all other SPC - their range being ridiculous.

"Nerf 096" "Alright we hear you loud and clear. Make the guns shred all scps"

1:10 hey, it's canonically accurate! 096 technically has infinite rage range, canonically. So yeah, at least it's true to the goddamn SCP, and not just an off brand version

1:38 I can not. I CAN'T HEAR THIS. the memories they are coming back SOMEONE HELP ME 😵 Edit: this video was a real challenge

At one point, he was so far away, he didn’t even render in my screen and he killed me

Well, it makes sense to make him overpowered right? I mean, in the SCP lore he was enraged from 4 pixels on a shot of a mountain.

I mean...at any range you will see his face and that's what counts...

Him gets mad at the trigger range the man that looked at 4 pixels compared to 1 frame

096 is actually avoidable, you just need to turn your volume to max

I personally think he doesn't need to be nerfed, his whole gig is being extremely OP. The only thing I would change is how long you need to look at him to trigger him. As for 'killing' him, if you catch him just after his rage, there is a cool down for animation. Where if you get a group of people to shoot at him, it's very easy to knock him down. P.S, the only other thing I'd change is the face he can kill people who haven't looked at him. Have a godamn wonderful day!! :)

I remember in the beta, You could kill 096 with only a logister, then they nerfed the logister’s damage against SCPs

I feel the way the original 096 triggered when you looked at his face was very unfair, like I mean you could look at his face then quickly look at the ground and you would be safe, where as the new 096 is more realistic and fits the way the 096 in the lore would work

That 100% kill rate really shines

that moment when scp 096 starts running like the police officer in cloudy with a chance of meatballs

person who looked at 4 pixels thousands of miles away from 096: what

You can get around him by listening him cry, they made it so that you can hear it from further away, and I feel like he’s balanced except that he gets enraged by looking at his foot

If he gets triggered and you look away you’ll be invisible to him as long as your not the one who triggers him

also in in scp secret lab he can kill anyone when he is in his rage state but in containment breach and on the wiki he can only kill the people who look at him

0:07 Uhh... Why is Frisky Here?