Scientists are one of the four human classes in SCP: Secret Laboratory, which start their games in Light Containment Zone with the goal to escape to the Surface and survive while working with Facility Guards/MTF Teams.
Official SCP Wiki Information
Researchers are the scientific branch of the Foundation, drawn from the ranks of the smartest and best-trained research scientists from around the world. With specialists in every field imaginable, from chemistry and botany to more esoteric or specialized fields such as theoretical physics and xenobiology, the goal of the Foundation's research projects is to gain a better understanding of unexplained anomalies and how they operate.
In the Game
Scientists spawn on a one-to-two ratio to the other escaping class, the Class D, which means that at least two Class Ds have to be present for a single scientist to spawn in.
Scientists are the primary interest of the MTF and Facility Guards, with their primary goal is to escape the facility and avoid any other faction. If a Scientist escapes the facility, he will respawn as an MTF Scientist operative at the MTF spawn site.
Scientist always spawn in a random room in the Light Containment Zone, but are limited to where spawn locations place them. Scientists never spawn inside normal corridors, instead spawning next to the exit gates, outside the armory, inside SCP-372's containment chamber, or inside the toilets. All scientists spawn with a medkit and a Scientist Keycard.
While there cannot be a scientist victory, an MTF victory is won if a majority of scientists have escaped, all Chaos Insurgents and Class Ds have been terminated and all SCPs have been eliminated in some way (re-containment or termination).
Reserve Ammo
Scientists do not spawn with any ammunition.
Gallery
Trivia
- Scientists are one of four sources of medkits, the others being the Chaos Insurgency, Facility Guards and the armory near SCP-049's chamber.
- During the Halloween Event, Their bodies are invisible except for the hair and its moustache and their lab coat, and once they escape they're called "Ghost Frankers".
- In the April Fools 2018 update, the Scientist was renamed to Nerd.
- In the April Fools 2019 Event, the Scientist had its model change to have the part of the body turned inside-out from the torso up.
- The Scientist model was heavily inspired by the Angry Video Game Nerd, according to Hubert Moszka. Which is one of the reasons why they are nicknamed 'Nerd'. (AVGN's nickname)
- In the SCP:SL trailer, there appears to be a female scientist looting a cabinet that is seen at 0:16.