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[Bartski]

Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let you leave… but will you be the same?​

SYNOPSIS​

Set in the era of the Cold War, human guinea pigs are involuntarily recruited by the good folks at the Murkoff Corporation to test advanced methods of brainwashing and mind control. In a world of distrust, fear, and violence, your morals will be challenged, your endurance tested, and your sanity crushed. All in the name of progress, science, and profit.​

SURVIVE: SOLO OR COOP​

You’re all prisoners of Murkoff trapped inside their facility. You can choose to complete the trials by yourself or you can tackle them in a team of 2, 3, or 4 players.
Coop is never forced when it comes to mandatory objectives but working together can be highly beneficial.
Whatever the number of players in your party, it’s about surviving and getting out.

Ultimately, your goal is to complete Murkoff's therapy and earn the right to be released back into society. In order to do so, you must complete the Trials and the MK-Challenges.
Trials are immersive story driven therapies that take a certain time to complete. Mk-Challenges are shorter therapies occurring in modified or redesigned section of an existing map.​

HIDE OR FLIGHT​

In pure Outlast fashion, the core gameplay involves avoiding enemies, hiding from them, and trying to run away. Murkoff will provide tools you can use to increase your stealth capabilities, create opportunities to flee, slow down enemies, and more. However, you will have to earn those tools and work hard to improve them.
The tools will allow you to

Stun enemies
Blind them
See through walls
Heal yourself and people around you.

Murkoff will ask you to perform disturbing tasks in each trials or mk-challenges. Only after completing those, will you be allowed to exit the Trials or the MK-Challenges.​

CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION​

Customize and create your own trial patient.
Your cell is your home while you complete the therapy, you can decorate it however you wish.
Choose your tools, upgrades, and perks to fit your playstyle.
Meet the Denizens of Murkoff’s Sinyala Facility in The Outlast Trials. Each one of them will try and help you get through the Trials in one piece! Think you’ll make it?

 

[The Fuzz damn you!]

“Experience the horror of isolation and powerlessness, now with your friends by your side to help and support you!”

I mean, it could be great, but why Outlast, of all things, as a multiplayer experience?

 

[Bartski]

“Experience the horror of isolation and powerlessness, now with your friends by your side to help and support you!”

I mean, it could be great, but why Outlast, of all things, as a multiplayer experience?

It's designed to play solo if you will. But it's better in co-op

 

[abstract alien]

I want to go in blind, but I wasn't the biggest fan of the direction they went in with the second outlast. I did love the first one and the DLC was great as well. Is this more like that, or something different altogether?

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

Oh wait I thought this was gonna be Outlas 3. So basically this is liek some L4D clone but in outlast universe....meh.

 

[Bartski]

So basically this is liek some L4D clone but in outlast universe....meh.

L4D clone? it's a co-op stealth game. You can play solo but that's the hard way.

 

[abstract alien]

Finally jumped in, and 20 minutes into single player have me STRESSED!

 

[Bartski]

Finally jumped in, and 20 minutes into single player have me STRESSED!

some trials seem very tough solo but all very doable, even on Program Ultra. I'm level 46 and done for now but I'll be back for their next big update

 

[abstract alien]

I just tried some coop, and it does feel like it was meant to be played this way. It definitely takes the edge off as far as horror and stress levels go, but the game does seem to "flow" better. It's amazing how creepy it gets if you are the only one left alive though, and now have a moral dilemma with an actual human to deal with lol

 

[Bartski]

A horror in solo, and peak comedy in co-op.




Despite some content shortcomings a fantastic game and insanely underrated. I may be joining the party back for some weeklies down the road, but after over 130 trials in, it's time to move on.

It's almost guaranteed to drop on gamepass/PS+ at some point soon, If you ever plan to pick it up on playstation and need some help just hit me up.

 

[Bartski]

Massive update coming 16th July.

Developer Red Barrels announced the first major update for The Outlast Trials, adding an all-new villain, the mother’s-milk-loving mobster: Franco Barbi.
For the first time in the Outlast trilogy, players will face a gun-wielding villain. Franco comes armed with a sawed-off shotgun that will strike Reagents from a distance, making the chase all the more challenging for players. Franco will find his victims in the new map “The Docks,” where the new Trials take place.

The Outlast Trials' new content will be available July 16, 2024 for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam / Epic Games Store).
This latest update introduces a new villain, a new map, a new game mode, a new player ability (Rig), several new Trials and MK-Challenges, difficulty options for players, overhauls to matchmaking, menu UI, daily and weekly tasks, and a new in-game economy.
Project Lupara is the first of a number of upcoming major updates for Red Barrels' growing live service game, which has sold over 2 million copies to date.
New Update Content & Features:

• New Prime Asset: Franco “Il Bambino” Barbi
  • The perverse son of New Orleans mafia don Salvatore Barbi. Franco is driven by craven entitlement, greed, and psychosexual violence fueled by his impotence and insecurities, a freakish ‘big baby’ obsessed with his ‘Pacifier’; the titular boom stick he sucks on when he’s not using it to blow someone to smithereens.
    
• New Map: “The Docks”
  • Enter “The Docks,” Franco’s drug manufacturing domain from which he infantilizes the world, dragging weak and powerful alike to his level. Solve its deadly puzzles and escape Franco’s tantrums to escape alive.
    
• New Trials & MK-Challenges:
  • Poison the Medicine: Reagents will come face-to-face with Franco in the new story Trial, “Poison the Medicine”, which will transport players to “The Docks,” a brand-new map and Barbi’s home turf.
  • Mansion Escape: Return to the final Trial, Farewell Mansion, for a completely new experience; Mansion Escapes now evolves in difficulty as you release Reagents. Witness an all-new Ending when you succeed.
  • Fuel the Release: Justice requires power, and power requires fuel. Carry the fuel, power the court, and secure your liberty.
  • Teach the Police Officer: Defining laws creates crime; replace the precinct’s training film with Murkoff’s reels and make future crimes your own.
    
• New Game Mode: Escalation Therapy
  • Reagents partake in a new rogue-lite game mode pitting them against a never-ending series of randomized Trials with variators until they succumb to a Permadeath and begin anew.
  • Reagents will begin with nothing and build their loadouts from Murkoff’s limited selection of upgrades.
  • The longer you can survive, the bigger the reward.
    
• New Player Ability:The Barricade
  • This Rig can be used to block paths, giving Reagents the time needed to complete their objectives while pursuers are forced to bash their way through or take the long way around.
    
• Introduction of Difficulty Options
  • Players can choose from four difficult settings: Introductory, Standard, Intense, and Psychosurgery.
    
• New Lobby Mini-Game:Stroop Effect Test
  • The stroop effect is the delayed reaction time people have when viewing conflicting stimuli; the Stroop Effect Test asks participants to correctly select the colour of a word, where the word spells the name of a different colour. For example, the word RED written in blue text, or the word BLUE written in yellow text.
    
• Introduction of Daily & Weekly Tasks:
  • Accomplishing tasks gives Reagents a sense of pride, and earns them various rewards.
    
• Introduction of Catalogs:
  • Behavioral Attire shapes your persona on the path to rebirth. Complete tasks. Earn Stamps. Become a better you.
  • Standard Catalog “A New You”: A collection of previously available and new cosmetics.
  • First Deluxe Catalog “Project Lupara”: A collection of brand new cosmetics to go along with this update.

New Limited Time Event:

• The Bambino Special Event will run for the first four weeks following the update.
• Franco Barbi appears in certain Trials and MK-Challenges, alongside Mother Gooseberry or Sergeant Coyle, and in Trials and MK-Challenges set in The Docks map.
• The event will have two parts (each split into two weeks) where Franco will appear in different Trials.

New DLC, “The Exotica Pack”:

• Travel the world from inside your cell! This new exclusive set includes four legendary outfits, E.S.O.P.s , cell items, cell posters, and player icons to customize your horrific journey. Available on July 16 for USD $19.99.

New MURKOFF COLLECTIONS Comic Book Chapter:

• Chapter 3 of the Murkoff Collections releases July 12, bringing with it the chilling backstory of our latest Prime Asset, Franco 'Il Bambino' Barbi.