r/OutlastTrials

Variator: FAMISHED REAGENTS

>“Murkoff has decided that, if you say you don’t need his support and love, then you won’t get it. No more food in the sleep room. You fight to feed.”

You have a Hunger meter of 3 bars, which slowly drains throughout the trial. It drains faster if you run, jump or do anything that requires stamina. Find Meat Chunks throughout the environment, which you can store and eat at any time to refill a bar of Hunger, making noise in the process. You have four stages:-

• Full 3 bars: you aren’t hungry and nothing’s wrong with you.
• 2 bars: you run out of stamina faster.
• 1 bar: your vision gets hazy as actions take longer, your stamina decreases even more and healing items aren’t as effective.
• 0 bars: you lose other player names as your objective text is replaced with ‘FEED.’ You cannot run and you begin taking damage in small, but frequent chips. If you get near another player, there’s a chance that your reagent will suddenly grab and begin biting into their neck, dealing 1 bar of damage with bleeding to them in exchange for 1 bar of Hunger.

Famished Imposters: this event includes Invasion as Imposters also get a Hunger meter. Same as reagents, it drains slowly and messes with you the lower it gets, but unlike reagents — you must consume them while they’re incapacitated or dead to refill your Hunger meter. Imposters also stay out longer during this event.

Variator: ERASE GRAFFITI 

>“Amelia is the reason for this famine. Prove that you want her gone. Prove that you want your food back.”

Around the trial are Water and Soap Buckets equal to the number of players. Bring these Buckets to Amelia Graffiti (3 or 4 depending on whether it’s multiplayer or single player) and scrub them away.

Shuttle Hallucinations (for DtG)

You see a vision of child mannequins praying around a Liliya mannequin, interrupted by that mannequin snapping its head towards you. You also see a nun mannequin hold a gilded skull up to your face and a corpse spilling jewels from its open gut cavity. The hallucinations end with Liliya straddling you as she slits your throat.

MK: DESECRATE THE GRAVES (with Liliya)

>“You are the collector. tradition is the incorporeal shackle, imposed by the dragons of outdated faith, that denies us profit. Commit the taboo, rob the graves and deliver the goods to the auctioneer and we will let you out.”

1. Infiltrate the Orphanage (Graveyard): you spawn in a receiving vault and immediately find 4 Portable Black Lights and 4 Liliya mannequins — one of which is shone in UV light, revealing a number and pyramid symbol on it in separate locations — with a code-locked box in the middle of the corpse-filled room. Scan each of the Liliya mannequins to find each digit and the order they go in to input into the code box, which opens to reveal a jewel-encrusted skull.
2. Take the Skull to the Auctioneer: the gate opens and you find another gate in a dark room with ‘THE LIGHT GUIDES YOU’ written on a nearby sign. Shine your Black Light into one of the sensors adjacent to the light-activated gate to open it temporarily and make it out of the receiving vault, where you find a suited mannequin next to an expensive car with its trunk open. “What an interesting finding. Bring me more and I’ll give you HALF of whatever I can sell it for.”
3. Bring the Rest of the Grave Goods to the Auctioneer: throughout the pitch-dark graveyard by the church, there are 3 more locked boxes surrounded by Liliya mannequins, which you must scan to find the codes to open the box before bringing the gilded skulls back to the Auctioneer. Along the way, there also more light-sensitive gates that’ll only open when you shine your Black Light at them or when an Ex-pop walks through. 
4. Exit the Trial.

MK: SMEAR THE CAMPAIGNS

>“You are hatred. You bare righteous prejudice against the fork tongued squawkers who’d open up their legs to depravity in exchange for the useless currency of fame. Liquify the banners of those who would tarnish your nation and we will let you out.”

1. Infiltrate the Shopping Mall (West Plaza): you spawn behind the Department Store, like in ItM, and make your way into the West Plaza, where an Avellanos mannequin — next to a shop with a banner displaying a smiling man with ‘VOTE FOR GRAHAM’ on it behind a desk with an Acid Gun attached to it — directs you to enter the basement boiler room. 
2. Deface the Campaign Banner: in the boiler room, you find a valve labelled ‘FLOOR 1’, which you turn to build up water pressure before running back to the shop by Avellanos to get the Acid Gun working and melt the banner.
3. Deface the Rest of the Banners: the rest of the West Plaza opens up to 3 floors; each with two Acid Gun and banner locations on them (including the one you just destroyed). Each of the banner shops has a camera above its gate that closes if it sees you. Locate the other valves labelled ‘FLOOR 2’ and ‘FLOOR 3’ in the basement to get the respective Acid Guns working and use them to coat the political banners with acid. 
4. Exit the Trial.

Wanted to check the number of players online bc of the current 90% sale and god DAMN seeing that amount is insane! Welcome to the therapy yall!

It’s been HIM the whole time!

Back again with another idea. I watched Little shop of Horrors and fell in love with the movie, so I wanted to make a tribute skin to it. Creating the botanist idea was easy, but trying to come up with a recolor/ redesign was tricky. I didn’t want to just do another plant so I went with a fish monger. Both wear gloves and aprons so I figured ‘close enough’.
At first I thought shark head, but I went with a dolphin for several reasons. 1- the shark one has been done before (in Overwatch) 2- doing it to a dolphin feels more cruel, which fit better for Murkoff. 3- the dolphin face feels more creepy to me personally, there’s more intelligence behind those eyes.
The barbed wire idea was to mimic thorns or fishing line, and the divers helmet is more bronze in the fish skin, while the copper rust would be more green due to the oxidation, which fits the color scheme of the botanist skin. The peg leg is just for added detail, but I put in a spring to give it more texture.
Lmk what you all think, would you wear this?

It’s so weird when I play Outlast Trials and try to search for a random group with the Imposter setting turned on. I literally can’t find a single match. There are so many people who have invasions turned off in their settings, which essentially makes this whole mess even more annoying. That’s another piece of the puzzle as to why you can’t even find matches as an Imposter in the first place. The whole system just sucks. Then, by some kind of magic, the moment I turn it off, I instantly find people. This really makes me think that the vast majority of players, especially casual players like me, simply don’t play the Imposter mode.

I also don’t really understand the concept behind it. You have an Imposter game mode, but then there’s also a setting that lets you turn it on or off, and sometimes you can even have multiple Imposters at once. I just don’t understand how this system is supposed to even work it's just so confusing to me.

The worst part is that whenever I actually manage to find a game, I end up being matched with people who are Prestige 80 or 99. So not only do I already have to deal with the Ex-Pops, the Prime Asset, and the objectives, but I also have to deal with these absolute top-tier sweat players. If you don’t play this game every single day and know every corner of every map, it just doesn’t feel practical.

And honestly, where is the fun in the Imposter mode? I genuinely don’t understand it. You barely have anything you can do against the Imposter, which makes the whole thing feel more like an Annoyance+ mode than an actual fun alternative way to play. Like I was saying, it reduces the chances of actually being able to enjoy the mode because it feels designed primarily for hardcore players.

And that’s without even mentioning the ranking system and the long queue times. Almost every time I try to play with random people and there’s an Imposter, someone ends up leaving the game. It feels like nobody wants to deal with the extra Imposter bullshit when the game is already complicated enough by default.

I’ve never understood why they felt the need to force this gimmick into the game. To me, this is easily one of the worst parts of Outlast Trials. The game could honestly just stay as a PvE experience without the Imposter mode. If anything, the Imposter system just breaks the immersion, makes the community more toxic, and turns the Trials into something that feels more frustrating and annoying than fun. And I know we aren't forced to play imposter. I just wanted to share my thoughts on it. Keep that in mind just in case someone wants to jump me just because I say I don't like this concept

The first pic is the pre-kiln firing. The other two are the finished products. Time to be Easterman’s How High for real.

I know that this has happened for plenty of games, but there was genuinely some really awesome stuff there (honest to god one of the most consistently high quality mod pages I have ever seen, Darkest Dungeon tier, whoever the fuck GamerImpostor24 was they were a champ) and I kinda wanted to try importing something stupid

But I was genuinely distraught upon hearing they'd discontinued modding barely a month earlier, especially for something as bullshit as "people were using it to cheat", I would choose to be perma-banned from Leaderboards and Invasions in a heartbeat if I could assemble a shitty umamusume mod and run around as my goat Goldship, even if the current horse outfits are 'adequate'

I saw a few comments on steam and on reddit about sending tickets and feedback to see if it could get overturned, and I will be doing that, but I assume that hope is gone and we'll just have to live with it

Godd who even PLAYS Invasion, it just sounds like the regular trials but with additional random bullshit

I know it’s crazy to ask but I like to think within the lore the sinyala facility houses at least 1 freak maniac that derives joy and fulfillment from it and freaks out the more “sane” reagents. Is this backed by any lore docs or is it purely head cannon.