From Press Release:
Montréal, QC. May 28th, 2024—From one of the horror genre’s most influential developers, Red Barrels, comes the deadliest in-game event yet for The Outlast Trials, PRIME TIME. In this new update, players will face two of Outlast’s most frightening enemies at once. Mother Gooseberry and Sergeant Coyle pursue players attempting to complete the escape-room-like Trials in 4-player co-op. Keep a close eye on the environments during PRIME TIME for hints about upcoming Trials content. The Outlast Trials is available now on PC, PlayStation®, and Xbox®, and the new PRIME TIME event runs from May 28th to June 18th.
Prime Time Event
- Available May 28-June 18 at 10:00am EST.
- Both “Prime Assets,” Mother Gooseberry and Sergeant Coyle, threaten players in the Trials at once, doubling the danger players typically face in a Trial with powerful enemies that can disable their abilities and apply deadly damage-over-time effects.
- New Secondary Objective: Break the Trial televisions for additional rewards and a teaser for what’s to come in The Outlast Trials.
- Earn event tokens and exclusive event cosmetics.
- Locate new evidence documents in the Trial areas to uncover the secrets of the Prime Time program.
New Feature Updates
- Prime Asset Upgrade: Mother Gooseberry’s drill now causes bleeding.
- Bleeding: Damage over time. Can be stopped with Bandages.
- Prime Asset Upgrade: Coyle’s electric baton now disables rigs.
- New item: Bandages
- Balance Change: Large medicine spawn rate reduced; only found in locked containers.
The Outlast Trials is the third installment in Red Barrels’ critically acclaimed psychological horror series. In 4-player co-op, complete escape room-style puzzles while avoiding the victims of Murkoff’s experiments using a combination of stealth, speed, and teamwork. In a unique blend of survival horror and online escape room, The Outlast Trials challenges players with Aperture Science-style tests that Jigsaw himself would shudder at. Complete Trials, return to your cell, upgrade your therapies, and steel your nerves to face horrors beyond your imagination.
Set in 1959 at the height of the Cold War, human guinea pigs are involuntarily recruited to test advanced methods of mind control in their nightmare facility. Crush your morals and test your sanity on the path to rebirth as one of Murkoff’s Reagents while discovering the secret documents littered throughout the facility.
The Outlast Trials is now available digitally for PC, PlayStation®, and Xbox®.
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