Red Barrels has rolled out a fiery new update for The Outlast Trials as the Deep Burn Limited-Time Event makes its return. This seasonal event brings dangerous new hazards, including fire mines, flamethrowers, and the relentless Pitcher, creating a more intense and hazardous experience for Reagents. Players will also encounter new variators, such as extinguishing fires across Trials, adding extra layers of challenge and strategy. A limited-time catalog is also available during the event, offering exclusive cosmetics that can only be unlocked with event tokens before October 7.
Alongside the event, the update introduces two fresh MK-Challenges: Traffick the Product and Disrupt the Neighborhood, each expanding Murkoff’s twisted therapy trials with unique scenarios. In addition, the Evidence Documents menu has been revamped for easier lore exploration, and several balancing changes and bug fixes have been implemented, including adjustments to Escalation Therapy, Otto and Arora rebalancing, and variator improvements.
Full Patch Notes
- New Limited-Time Event: Deep Burn
- Trials filled with fire sources, fire mines, flamethrowers, and smog
- Pitcher Ex-Pop may appear during events
- Extinguish the fires variator with water cans to put out burning barrels
- New Limited-Time Catalog: Deep Burn
- Available until October 7 at 10 AM ET
- Unlock exclusive cosmetics with event tokens
- Unspent tokens are lost after the event ends
- New MK-Challenges
- Traffick the Product: Invade Franco Barbi’s territory to distribute Murkoff’s experimental opioid
- Disrupt the Neighborhood: Remove barriers and fences to encourage intrusion
- Evidence Documents Menu Revamp
- Documents now organized into themes for easier lore reading
- Additions, Fixes, and Balancing
- Added Page 11 to Deluxe Catalog Project Diarchy
- Escalation Therapy: Smoothed difficulty from levels 1–20; up to 8 variators active from Trial #21
- Otto and Arora Rebalance:
- Increased chase speed
- Faster Nausea build-up and longer vomiting duration
- Nausea can now kill players
- Can bash doors like other Prime Assets
- Poison effect curable with antidotes or Heal Rig upgrade
- Fixed X-Ray Rig “Shared Intel” bug
- New ping icons for enemies
- Prime Assets react properly to Strong Arms amp projectiles
- Voice Disturbance Variator: Quick pings create sound disturbances; enemies cannot hear hidden players
- Don’t Make Noise Variator: Enemies’ eyes show visual effect; noise detection increased
- Various bug fixes and improvements
The Outlast Trials is a first-person psychological survival horror game developed and published by Red Barrels. It is a prequel to the first two Outlast games and is set during the Cold War era. Players, known as Reagents, are forced into Murkoff’s brutal psychological and physical experiments. The game supports both single-player and up to four-player co-op multiplayer.
The game launched in early access for Microsoft Windows on May 18, 2023, and had its full release on March 5, 2024 for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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