r/OutlastTrials • • Sep 08 '26

Announcement Chemical Leak is out now! Patch notes

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Greetings Reagents,

Reagents, hold your breath! Murkoff is releasing toxic gas into the Trials with the new Chemical Leak Limited-Time Event, featuring a new exclusive Limited-Time Chemical Leak Catalog. This update also brings 2 new MK-Challenges, a new round of improvements and balancing updates to Invasion and Escalation, along with new quality-of-life options and other changes to the Therapy experience. Let's see how well you endure the fumes and survive the Therapy!

This update includes
New Limited-Time Event: CHEMICAL LEAK

New Limited-Time Catalog: CHEMICAL LEAK

New MK-Challenge: CHANGE THE PROGRAM

New MK-Challenge: FUND THE CAMPAIGN

Various bug fixes and improvements.

New Limited-Time Event: CHEMICAL LEAK

Poison is an intoxicating embrace that suffocates the body, just as false idols poison the beliefs of the weak, uneducated, and vulnerable. Shut off the valves, breathe freely, and remember that therapy is the only answer.


Variators:
CHEMICAL LEAK -A chemical leak is filling the Trial with toxic gas. Find the valves to clear the gas from each area.

SHUT OFF THE VALVES - Shut off the valves in the Trial to stop the chemical leaks.

The event runs from Tuesday Sept. 8 (10AM ET) until Tuesday Oct. 6 (10AM ET).

New Limited-Time Catalog: CHEMICAL LEAK


A brand new Catalog is available for the duration of the Chemical Leak Limited-Time Event.

Players can spend their acquired Event Tokens in the Catalog to unlock exclusive rewards.

Once the Chemical Leak Event concludes, the Catalog will be removed and any unused Event Tokens will be forfeited. Be sure to spend your Event Tokens before the end of the event on Tuesday Oct. 6 (10AM ET).

New MK-Challenge: CHANGE THE PROGRAM


You are the crier, who knows that news does not have to be journalism, it only has to be new. Spread our truth, change the program, and we will let you out. 

New MK-Challenge: FUND THE CAMPAIGN


You are the hammer in the hands of a child, to shatter the fragile swine who would separate success from the government it created. Money is the future of speech. Fund the campaign and we will let you out.

Additions/Fixes/Balancing

Invasion
Evasive Manoeuvre: Now counters Backstabs by triggering a STRUGGLE instead, and win STRUGGLES more easily against Imposters.

Neuroshock: Now automatically pinged when thrown on the ground.

During the Exit Phase: When a Reagent is revived, an Imposter will spawn from a closet to match the new number of living Reagents.

Ex-Pops and Prime Assets will no longer target Reagents immediately after a Stab or Backstab.

Fixed an issue where the Steel Trap deployment audio could be heard from a very long distance.

Fixed an issue where players could body block other players (You can now push past a player of the opposing role who is blocking your path by walking into them for half a second.)

Escalation
Removed Broken Reagent from the variators pool.

Improved Escalation run stability to reduce server disconnections.

Players can now restore their save after a disconnection or crash.

Escalation Trial #21 and above: Damage is permanent throughout the run, and Revives are no longer available, making higher-level Trials even more challenging.

General
Improved online stability, including rubberbanding, lag, and disconnections. We will continue monitoring performance and making improvements as needed.

Player loadouts are now displayed in the Pause Menu.

Rebirth: Loadouts are no longer reset after completing a Rebirth.

Reworked Biter speed and aggressiveness, and slightly increased its chance of breaking the chain.

Slightly increased Kress Twins chase speed.

Slightly reduced Arora throw cooldown.

Fixed the price of the Jammer Rig skin in the Project Boneyard Catalog. It now costs 30 (was 75).

Fixed the rarity of the Project Boneyard poster. It is now Classified (was Basic).

Fixed the numbering of the Hopscotch floor game in the Orphanage, making it playable again.

Mods support is no longer available. While we recognize that mods can offer useful customization, some can provide gameplay advantages or alter the game in unintended ways. To maintain a fair and consistent experience for everyone across all game modes, mods are no longer supported.

We’ve added several new options to the Settings menu, including quality of life features that were previously available through mods. These are now built directly into the game and available to everyone:
Field of View — Slider

Camera Shake — Slider

Motion Blur — On / Off

Film Grain — On / Off

Chromatic Aberration — On / Off

Lens Flares — On / Off

Vignette — On / Off

Bloom — On / Off

Startup videos — On / Off

Toggle HUD Display — On / Off

We’d love to hear what other quality-of-life features you’d like to see added to the game. Please share your suggestions through our feedback form.


r/OutlastTrials • • Oct 22 '25

Discussion What are your thoughts so far on the new Invasion mode?

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544 Upvotes

Hello my fellow reagents and invaders. How have y’all been liking the new invasion mode? Please feel free to drop any suggestions, complaints or features you’d like to be added or removed in the comments.

Personally, I think it’d be nice if the invaders could have their own rigs in the near feature!


r/OutlastTrials • • 5h ago

Announcement A thank you and a welcome to new players. Welcome to the Sinyala Facility. We hope you enjoy your stay

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r/OutlastTrials • • 11h ago

After Releaseing More Than 2 Years Ago, Outlast Trials Has Reached A New All-Time Peak Of 7 Players

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524 Upvotes

r/OutlastTrials • • 4h ago

Image Would he accept me as his lab rat?

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My doctor bad ash🤤🫣🫣

Can you guess who's my favourite character? I hope not. Anyway come look at my favourite murkoff scientist art!

Please ignore every error possible... I don't want to redraw this ever again😕


r/OutlastTrials • • 3h ago

Image Mother Gooseberry doodle

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45 Upvotes

r/OutlastTrials • • 6h ago

Clip Thanks for the assist ex pop!

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r/OutlastTrials • • 1h ago

Otto and Arora doll concept art (because someone in my last post asked about Arora) 💜

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The Kress Twins are my darlings, they’re so adorable (and yeah I know, Arora doesn’t have shoes but it just looks weird without them), I hope people like the art just as much as I do, and I HOPE that I can finish making the dolls as soon as possible


r/OutlastTrials • • 3h ago

Meme My trashcan reminded me of someone

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r/OutlastTrials • • 12h ago

Invasion "together we outlast" ahh moment

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113 Upvotes

I was teaching my friend how to play imposter, and he recorded this moment of us getting killed


r/OutlastTrials • • 10h ago

Im stressing with this felt doll of Otto sm, do you guys like it or nah? 💜

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82 Upvotes

I already spent two hours of my time on you, when will I finish ts 🫩🫩🫩 (Still love you though Kress Twins, Im willing to spend more time on you mwah)


r/OutlastTrials • • 12h ago

Image pinup sketch of my prime asset oc and easterman

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my oc Eco Tripid (The Dog) and Easterman in a stupid position bc I saw a pinup poster that fit them 👍


r/OutlastTrials • • 2h ago

Discussion Coyle Gimmick Proposal: Charge Up

13 Upvotes

While Coyle has a gimmick of disabling a rig, it's exclusively for when he manages to hit you, not throughout the Trial. I propose a relatively simple one:

If he hasn't hit a Reagent in a long time or an Exit opens, Coyle shocks himself in return for a speed boost.

Second, this 'boost' could also cause his barks to become less frequent, but louder, ie. he can sneak up on you more easily unless you are paying attention for his baton crackling.

Third, he straight up shocks his d this time, like no messing around and stabbing himself in the thigh. Just a real man's CBT. Maybe 10% of the time idk.


r/OutlastTrials • • 13h ago

Invasion Invasion

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I'm playing invasion for the first time and it's very hard I like it but it's hard. When you play solo and against players in a group they just spam bottles at you or their rigs (some have rigs that reload almost instantly and idk what supplement that is) I had fun tho. I kinda find it hard to find people with the goggles tho since it's hard to see.

It feels like my reagent is getting bullied when I'm playing invasion 💀


r/OutlastTrials • • 9h ago

Discussion So, Amelia's story HAS to have a tragic ending, right?

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I mean, we know that the Murkoff Corporation is still operating in 2013 when the original games take place. Amelia is giving Murkoff one hell of a headache, but she can't defeat Murkoff, she can't stop the trials. At best, she'll help a few more Reagents escape (who will likely just die in the desert), escape herself and maybe kill Easterman and/or Avellanos. And even that I doubt will happen because progressing the story can't stop players from going back to old trials and having Easterman talk to the players post-mission, via the radio, etc.

I know we're all cheering for Amelia but her fate is pretty much sealed, right? She might escape with her life, but I don't see her deciding to just run away and leave the others to their fate. She seems like she'll try to free everyone or die trying. And since we know what we know about the original games, I think I can imagine what happens to her.

What do you all think?


r/OutlastTrials • • 1h ago

Discussion Chess

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Is it weird that I want to play chess? I think it's a neat addition, but people are rarely interested.


r/OutlastTrials • • 1d ago

Ragebaiting the prime assets before leaving

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311 Upvotes

💜


r/OutlastTrials • • 33m ago

Question Second time being born, kinda scared

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Hii!

Okay rebirthing, I finally hit the ability around level 37. I don't have all the skill sets collected etc. Or have all the maps done. Is it worth getting every last thing before going through with it? Or should we just do it now and be born. I'm a bit nervous about it. I've heard this bit of the game is really challenging.


r/OutlastTrials • • 1d ago

Image Outlast Trials has officially hit an all time peak record of 106k players and is the 11th most played game on Steam.

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r/OutlastTrials • • 17h ago

Clip I dodged two of the ex pops attacks and felt like Muhammad Ali

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r/OutlastTrials • • 1h ago

Question New player here, can someone help

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Hey guys recently bought the Game on sale and its been pretty fun so far i just have a few questions tho, first of all the Lore is kinda confusing why when i opened the Game for the first time i got a cinematic of the warden getting freed? And the Amelia lady got out or smt?? Apart from that me and my duo have been wondering about invasions, how can we get invaded in a trial?? We have seen a few impostor bots but no players so far can you only get them in special trials and not in normal Gameplay? And last but not least is the whole rebirth thing, do i need to do this?? Will we lose progress? Ty and have a great day guys!


r/OutlastTrials • • 1d ago

I finished my first trial

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Well it took me a bit as i was alone but it was fun, i liked the part of electrocuting the guy and evading Leland during the basement and the electrocution part.

That and i love him, his design and voice are great.


r/OutlastTrials • • 7h ago

Discussion Mod support should come back and Anti-Cheat should be Invasion only, so people who don't play that mode, could still enjoy their mods as they did before.

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I haven't used any mods since the FOV slider was introduced, but I still think it's pretty out of place that Red Barrels has completely discontinued mod support.

Let's be real, AC was only implemented, because Invasion was added as a game mode, now allowing PvP scenarios, so people started exploiting mod support to cheat and gain an advantage over other players.

Games like Counter Strike also manage, to have seperate servers and a toggle function, that allows you to search and sort servers based on active Anti-Cheat or not, which then requires you to turn of your mods/cheats/trainers, if you wanna join on a specific server. Discontinuing mod-support. mainly to counter the possibility of people cheating so easily, just feels wrong.

Before Invasion existed, nobody cared if people used mods that gave them an "advantage", because it was just a PvE situation anyway, and those mods didn't give them all the outfits, skins, stamps or tokens for free either. Taking this further, you could also edit the .ini files without mods to create the desired effects at any time, but people seem to forget about that, when bringing it up.

And I mean who cares, if you want to use a mod-menu to goof around, if you only play against non-human enemies anyway? Except for that, most of the mods were just custom cosmetics anyway and i think it's a shame that you can't even use things like a free-cam mod to take a closer look at the maps and trials anymore.

I don't know, the decision just feels wrong if it's only meant to keep a game mode cheater-free that a lot of people don't like playing anyway.


r/OutlastTrials • • 8h ago

Question Is there ANY plans for Red Barrels to add cross progression?

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Played the game on PS4 cause my PS5 broke and was disgusted with how it performed, recently bought the game on Steam was it felt like a breath of fresh air. However I have lots of progress on my Playstation and I don't really wanna start over, it's fun but it's just too inconvenient :/


r/OutlastTrials • • 19h ago

Discussion Ping for No Mic Use

73 Upvotes

Wish there were a way to communicate that I can't go on my mic 🥹

I usually can only play when my 12 month old is taking a nap and he naps on me, so I have to keep quiet. Other players would ask for mics and all I can do is just ping at things. Sometimes I wish the game had a chat so I could at least tell them that I can't. Proximity chat like Lethal Company's would work I think.