News Liste The Outlast Trials

Greetings Reagents,

Roles

• [p]REAGENT: Complete Trials with a risk of being invaded by player Imposters. All your items and Rigs work against the Imposters. Your goal is to survive and complete the Trial.[/p][/*]
• [p]IMPOSTER: Invade Trials as an Imposter and kill the Reagents. You perfectly mimic the appearance of a Reagent present in the Trial. Your goal is to kill all the Reagents before they finish the Trial.[/p][/*]

Access to Invasion

Imposter Deployment

• [p]The number of deployed Imposters scales with the number of Reagents in the Trial:[/p][list]
• [p]1–2 Reagents = 1 Imposter deployed at once.[/p][/*]
• [p]3–4 Reagents = 2 Imposters deployed at once.[/p][/*]

Progression and Difficulty

• [p]1-10 matches: Minimal pool of Trials (~3).[/p][/*]
• [p]11-50 matches: Limited pool of Trials (~20).[/p][/*]
• [p]50+ matches: All Trials (40+) and Specialist Ex-Pops are deployed during the Trials.[/p][/*]

Matchmaking

• [p]When playing as an Imposter, matchmaking prioritizes invading Reagents playing Trials from the Invasion program.[/p][/*]

• [p]If none are available, it expands to invading Trials from other programs (Genesis, Events, or Routine Therapies).[/p][/*]
• [p]You can also directly invade friends in Trials via the friends list (requires Therapy Level 30 and privacy settings enabled).[/p][/*]
• [p]Imposters cannot invade players in Escalation Therapy or Trial Maker.[/p][/*]
• [p]Invasion matchmaking will use your current group. Be sure to assemble your team beforehand by using the Group Finder.[/p][/*]
• [p]Global Invasion will Unlocked at Therapy Level 30: Any Trial you play (Genesis, Limited-Time Event, Routine Therapies) can be invaded by Imposters.[/p][list]
• [p]When reaching Level 30, you’ll be prompted to enable or disable this feature.[/p][/*]
• [p]You can always change this setting in the PRIVACY SETTINGS screen.[/p][/*]

Imposter Chems

• [p]Imitate: Carry a fake item to pretend you are a true Reagent.[/p][/*]
• [p]Slash: Reduce cooldown after a successful slash.[/p][/*]
• [p]Stab: Faster preparation to stab to kill. (charge time reduced)[/p][/*]
• [p]Stalk: Move faster while preparing a stab. (while charging)[/p][/*]
• [p]Brutalize: Complete stab faster with less struggle time.[/p][/*]
• [p]Retreat: Extend time to return to insertion gates.[/p][/*]
• [p]Lurk: Increase range of attack from within a hidespot.[/p][/*]
• [p]Pursuit: Increase running speed.[/p][/*]
• [p]Evasion: Press crouch while running to slide.[/p][/*]
• [p]Breach: Break through blocked doors with less hits, and it consumes no stamina.[/p][/*]
• [p]Vault: Climbs and jump-overs consume less stamina.[/p][/*]

Geister Limited-Time Event & More

• [p]Earn Event Tokens by completing Trials and Geister Tasks.[/p][/*]
• [p]Program Geister Variators are the same as last year:[/p][list]
• [p]EXTRACT ORGAN SAMPLES. Find deceased reagents and extract organ samples for analysis.[/p][/*]
• [p]HALLUCINATIONS? Side effects, trauma or something else?[/p][/*]
• [p]MORE IMPOSTERS. More NPC imposters in the Trial.[/p][/*]
• [p]NO PLAYER NAMES. Player names are hidden. (Intensive and Psychosurgery)[/p][/*]
• [p]ENRAGED ENEMIES. Enemies are on high alert! (Intensive and Psychosurgery)[/p][/*]

Other notable additions

• [p]This update will feature 2 new MK-Challenges: Beguile the Children (in Fun Park), and Investigate the Minotaur (in Shopping Mall).[/p][/*]
• [p]Easy Anti-Cheat will be introduced starting October 21st with this update in order to combat potential hacking or cheats in our game, especially given the new Invasion Experimental Therapy. We want to ensure a fair competitive environment for all our players.[/p][/*]

• [p]The Outlast Trials will introduce a new In-Game Store which includes:[/p][list]
• [p]Blackmarket: Explore a selection of brand-new outfits.[/p][/*]
• [p]Catalogs Collection: Browse Deluxe Catalogs and revisit those from past Limited-Time Events.[/p][list]
• [p]The unlock cost of past Event Catalogs available in the Store is adjusted based on your progress of that specific Catalog. For example, Catalogs will be priced lower if you already unlocked a portion of it when the Event was live.[/p][/*]
• [p]Event Catalogs will only be added to the Store a few months after their run ends in game. They will be free for the duration of the event, and will be purchasable once they are introduced in the Store.[/p][/*]

Twitch Drops Special Event

We want to thank all of our players for their constant support, and for all your excitement around this update. We cannot wait to see you all in the Sleep Room on October 21st!

- Team RB