Outlast, the release date of which varies for target platforms, is a video game in the genre of Survival horror. September 4, 2013 it was released for PC, February 5, 2014 - for PS4 and June 18 of the same year - for Xbox One. According to many reputable publications, Outlast became the best horror in 2013 . The passage of the game in full will be given below. The game is short, and therefore you can see the final credits after 6-7 hours of gameplay.
Outlast: game review
The game will tell us about the brave reporter Miles Absher, who decided to collect some material about the Mount Massive Psychiatric Hospital, which is not the most flattering rumor about. The process itself is quite linear and intuitive, but some points, frankly, make the player startle with his whole body. There are no weapons in the game, any threat is mortally dangerous, and of course everyone wants to live. The general atmosphere crushes and does not allow you to relax for a minute. After heavy and stuffy premonitions of bad events, you are almost always relieved to find tangible opponents, of whom there are not many in Outlast. There are also very few gameplay elements. Our protagonist has a camera on which he removes the necessary material, and ... that's it. The protagonist himself can run, climb, jump over obstacles, etc. Strangely enough, such a reduction in opportunities went to the game only to the advantage, because the feeling of one's own helplessness is very discouraging. It is worth mentioning that the camera has a built-in night vision device, and therefore the hero will not have to walk through the back streets in pitch darkness. Miles can also hide from enemies in lockers, under the bed, behind drawers and in other shelters. As for the minuses, the stealth mechanics are very lame in the game. Scripts are generally a sore subject, because monsters can instantly disappear from view, as well as appear. In general, Outlast, the review of which we conclude with a logical conclusion, will be an excellent gift for those gamers who love high-quality horror. Yes, there are some complaints about the plot and technical features, but the frightening atmosphere covers all these shortcomings. The latest current version of Outlast is Update 6 (1.0253650).
By the way, recently Philip Maureen, who is one of the key figures of the Red Barrels studio, announced Outlast 2, on which developers are already working hard. As was said, the team has a huge stock of interesting ideas that can be embodied in the creation of a new horror. Well, we think that Outlast 2 will turn out to be as beautiful as the debut part, which was warmly received by critics and gamers alike. There are no other details about the game yet. Waiting for the news!
Cheats on Outlast
- Invisibility cheat: My documents \ My Games \ Outlast \ OLGame \ Config => open OLGame.ini with Notepad => find the lines below in this file => replace the values of all the digits with "10" => save.
NormalSpeedValues = (PatrolSpeed = 120, InvestigateSpeed = 120, ChaseSpeed = 325)
DarknessSpeedValues = (PatrolSpeed = 120, InvestigateSpeed = 120, ChaseSpeed = 325)
- Cheat on Immortality: My documents \ My Games \ Outlast \ OLGame \ Config => find the OLEnemy.ini file and open it using Notepad => find the lines below and replace the values of all digits with "0" => save.
- Cheat on increasing batteries and their charge capacity: My documents \ My Games \ Outlast \ OLGame \ Config => open OLGame.ini with Notepad => find the lines and replace "150.0" with "999.0", "2" with "88" and "10" to "99" => save.
BatteryDuration = 150.0
DefaultNumBatteries = 2
MaxNumBatteries = 10
Here are such cheats on Outlast will help you in the passage, about which further.
Outlast: Whistleblower
Above we did a brief review on the original Outlast. Whistleblower was released on May 6, 2014 and received overall average critical ratings. The main character will be the programmer Waylon Park, settled in the Merkof Corporation. So he became an eyewitness of those terrible experiments on people that you could see in Outlast. The add-on did not bring any significant innovations to the gameplay, changing only the sound effects and animation. Nevertheless, the directing remained at its best, and therefore playing in the DLC is still scary. Veilon will also meet new colorful characters that will make you shudder at their mere sight. The add-on cannot boast of an excellent technical component, like the standard Outlast. The requirements for your PC for high graphics settings are as follows:
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.8 GHz or equivalent from AMD.
- Video card: nVidia GeForce GTX 460 / ATI Radeon HD 5770.
- RAM: 3 GB.
- Hard disk space: 5 GB.
- OS: Windows 7/8.
Penetration
This is the first mission available at Outlast. The passage implies more familiarization with the most important elements of the game than a full gameplay. The objective of the assignment is to inspect the Mount Massiv Psychiatric Hospital in search of interesting, exclusive materials.
As soon as we gain control over the character (reporter Miles Absher), you need to take a document, batteries, a video camera and an omnipresent informant from a nearby chair. Next we go to the trellised door and open it (LMB). Follow the front door, and then turn to the left side of the courtyard. There you will see another door with a break. Sit down and climb into it. You will see a ladder along which you need to climb and follow the scaffolding, jumping a hole and climbing a ledge, and after that - into the window of the second floor.
Inside the room, the light will go out, because of which you will have to turn on night vision mode on your camcorder. Next, go to the door, from where rays of light are visible. Turn off the night vision, because it takes away a considerable portion of the precious charge of the batteries. Leaving the room "A215" go to "A218". Walk along the corridor, squeezing between cabinets. In room "A216" you can find a battery in one of the drawers. In order to continue the game Outlast, you need to go into the room "A211", climb into the ventilation pipe and crawl in a straight line. Below you will see a runaway madman.
When you get out of the pipe, go to the library. At the entrance you will expect an unpleasant sight from a whole crowd of tormented people. One of them will be still alive. He will warn you about the dangers lurking in the walls of the hospital, after which he will advise him to leave this cursed place as soon as possible.
Go through the library, for which you will fall into the corridor, however, on the other side of the blockage. In the toilet you can find another battery. Go forward, squeezing through the bookcases. At that moment, you will be attacked by a huge psycho who will throw Miles through the window to the first floor. The passage of the game Outlast on the debut chapter ends.
Main hall
The purpose of the second chapter is to escape from the hospital. Miles has no keys, and you can open the door only in the security room. To enter it, we need to find a key card. To accomplish this task, you need to go to the computer room, which is located on the left. When you enter the room, head to the table in the corner. It will contain an important document. After you pick it up, go back to the corridor.
Next, go left, where you will see another crazy man who, fortunately, is not dangerous for us. Follow to the very end of the corridor, where turn left. There you will see several enemies from whom you need to quickly run away until they are behind. Return to the room, where open another door. There you will see a corpse, near which a key card will lie. Take it and read the document. Return to the place where you started the passage of the second chapter.
When you find yourself there, you need to turn left again, following the end of the corridor. There you will see the security room, into which you must enter and activate the computer. This concludes the adventures of Miles in the second chapter.
Basement
We continue through Outlast 1. The goal of this quest is to restart the generator in the basement. After our hero activates the computer, emergency lighting will light up in the guard room . At that moment, someone will begin to burst at the front door. We need to hide very quickly in a wardrobe. This person will be Chris Walker, who will inspect the entire room and leave with nothing. As soon as he disappears from the room, you need to get out of the locker and follow to the main hall, from where you go down the stairs to the basement.
Going down there, you need to climb through the breach, from where to go to the central room of the basement. There you will see a generator, to turn on which you need to start 2 gasoline pumps and a main switch. At this location there will be 2 side rooms, each of which has 1 fuel pump.
Outlast - the game is pretty scary, as you can see after another crazy nut knocks out one of the doors. He will immediately begin to look for you, and therefore you need to quickly go to the center, turn on the night vision device and go in the direction opposite to where the madman went. When you leave the room through a knocked door, the insane person will see you, and therefore it is necessary to run along the corridor, turning on the 1st turn to the left, on the 2nd turn to the right. Jump over the tables along the way. Having reached the last room, close the door behind you and turn on the switch. If the lunatic continues to haunt you, hide in a closet.
In the first and second rooms you will find the battery (on the shelves). Then return to the central room, where you start the generator, from which the light will turn on again. Then leave the basement, returning to the guard room. There, sit down at the computer again. At that moment, Miles will be attacked by some kind of nut. As you will learn later, his name is Father Martin. He will show us a video where something unprecedented kills the guards. At this climax, Outlast - the passage of chapter 3 - is completed.
Prison block
The objective of this quest is to get out of the block. Examine the chamber, then go to the closed door. After some time, it will be opened, and we can get out of the room, immediately heading left down the stairs. There you will see another insane person beating his head against the wall. Then turn left again and go up. After a short walk along the corridor, you will notice another breach in the wall, where we need it. As a result, you will find yourself in a disinfection chamber, where you will see a bloody trail. Follow it until you find yourself next to a psycho, leading his head along a bloodied wall. Next, you need to jump into the hole on the floor, and then go left. There you will hear the screams of a guy killing a person. Go to the open door, where a “surprise” awaits you - crazy with a bat. You will have to lure him out of the room, then enter it and activate the knife switch. Next, return to the disinfection room. At this point in Outlast, the passage of the fourth chapter ends.
Prison Block 2
The goal of the assignment is to get out through the shower. When you get into block "D", then continue to walk along the corridor until you see a naked psycho. The second imperceptibly creeps up behind. In order to be saved, you need to quickly get out through the broken window, then crawl along the ledge forward and climb into the last window. Next, run along the corridor and get out with the shower.
Turn into the corridor on the left, at the very end of which you will find the battery at the closed gateway. Go into the security room and activate the button on the panel. At this point, a hefty maniac will enter the gateway and begin to beat his whole body against the glass. Since the doors of the room are closed, you will have only one way to retreat - through the opened ventilation. Get out through it into the corridor. The insane person still breaks the door and begins to chase after you, and therefore constantly run forward. Sooner or later you will be thrown back by a blast wave in a window.
So, you got to the lower floor of block "C". There will be many corpses and pitch darkness. A madman will come down to you from the upper floors and start looking for you. One option is to hide under the bed. Or an alternative - hide under the stairs, bypassing the psycho. Having finished dealing with him, rise to the second floor. Go around the whole floor until you come across another amballa, from whom you need to quickly run away as far as possible, and then hide under the bed in the cell. When dealing with danger, run forward. In the corridor, turn left, squeezing through obstacles. Go right to the shower room. The door to it will be closed, and therefore crawl along the corridor through the grate and exit to the central room of block "D". There will be nothing in the center, which is why you must immediately climb to the second floor using a table. When you reach the target, they will attack you, however, by a lucky chance, we will be able to avoid skirmishes with the enemy. After this incident, go to the edge of the broken floor, jumping over the abyss.
Go up to the third floor, where the battery will be at the extreme camera. Go forward on the floor until you are attacked by a nut. Fight off him and go through another gap in the wall. One of the cameras found will have a hole in the floor. Jump into it and stay on the right side, following the bloody trail. Once you are on the lower floor of the shower room, find another hole in the floor and go down through it. At this point, the Outlast card will be replenished with another location - sewer.
Sewerage
The objective of this assignment is to find a way out of the sewer. As soon as you go down into it, you will have to go to the light that sparkles somewhere near the far corridor. Once you reach the fork, turn right, following the opening. There you will find circuit breakers releasing water. Activate them. After completing these steps, you need to look to the left, where there will be a plan with a mark that will indicate your future direction. The idea is clear enough, but not as simple as it seems at first glance. The thing is that we will have to turn on the levers under the close supervision of Chris (that same big guy), because of which everything will have to be done quietly and imperceptibly. When you complete all the above steps, return to the plan on the wall, turn left and go down the stairs. Turn left and go to the very end of the corridor, then turn left again. Here you will find another corridor along which you need to go to the dead end itself, and then turn right. There you will notice a staircase that you need to climb to the upper floors.
It will be very dark again. Walking through the tunnel, you will meet a guy with a flashlight who will tell you an entertaining story about a brutal doctor. Follow him. Follow the bloody trail to the men's compartment. Having come to the right place, look for a gap in the wall and go through it. There will be water everywhere, and so you have to look for a way out. After wandering around a bit, you will find a ventilation grill that you need to get to. Having entered the pipe, follow the rays of light, where you will find a way out. Here, get ready to run, because the crazy do not sleep. Looking up from the chase, go further down the corridor, and then climb the stairs. Next, you will need to get out of the men's department, which is not so easy to do. Go forward until you see the box. Move it and go through the slot, then turn right and go into the first door. When you enter the room, you will see a large hole in which you need to go down. So you will find yourself in the next corridor, along which you must go until our hero hears the heart-rending cries of some guy. Follow the source of this sound through the ventilation in the back room.
As a result, 2 people will chase after you, from whom we need to quickly make legs. Do not forget about various maneuvers (for example, pushing drawers to the doors) in order to slow down your enemies. Nevertheless, you won’t be able to escape, because at the very end of the journey Miles will be expected by a psycho-doctor who will tie the hero to a wheelchair and take him to the torture chamber. There they will interrogate us and cut off a finger on each hand, after which the doctor will go to other "clients". Next, we need to perform the actions shown on the screen. Leaving the room, you will see another crazy person bedridden. Seeing Miles, he immediately raises a heart-rending cry that will attract the attention of the doctor. At this moment, our protagonist needs to hide under the couch so that they will not find him. After waiting for the enemy to leave, get out of the shelter and run into the room on the left, where you will have to hide again. After some time, slowly go out into the corridor and go left, where you will need to remove the drawer and open the door. There follow towards the end of the corridor, jumping over obstacles. When the main doors open, you will need to quickly rush to the left. There, get through the window into the hall and look around, because somewhere there should be a key. That is what we need. As a result, we will fall into the next corridor, where we will meet Martin's father, who is hiding behind the door.
Your next task will be to meet with the priest on the street. However, in order to achieve this goal, you will have to go through several tests. The fact is that you have to wade through the fire. In principle, the task is quite simple, because all that is required of you is to look for areas with non-ignited furniture. Having passed the burnt hall, you need to get into the corridor, where you turn left and go through the boards. Next, go into the room on the right. All this time, Miles will be chased by an old acquaintance of the big guy Chris. Your further mission is to restore the water supply, which consists of 2 actions: luring a psycho and turning on levers. In the end, you activate the desired lever and resume the flow of water.
The yard
When you get out into the street, you will be waiting for pitch darkness and heavy rain with lightnings that will illuminate the area from time to time. Follow the road all the way to the fountain, where turn left and go into the lighted barn. There you will find the battery and key-access to the household unit. From the fountain, go right, where open the trellis door with the key you found earlier. When you leave on the other side of the building, our hero will have to climb the roof, after which he will go through several obstacles and go down, where it will be necessary to follow the trellised fence. Then walk around the yard until you reach the prison block. Crawl into the hole there. Follow to the illuminated area of the lower courtyard, where there will be a huge number of boxes. On them, climb onto the cornice, which will help you get to the right around the corner. Jump down to see the arbor. From it, follow the corridor on the left, from where dim light will be visible. There, Miles will meet Chris again, from whom he will have to quickly run away, running around the gazebo around and hiding in the breach of the wall.
Women's Division and Final
The further goal of our hero is to find Father Martin in the women's department. You won’t be able to get into the house immediately, so go to the garden, where you will find a wooden staircase set to the open window of the women's department. There we will encounter a priest. Head towards him very carefully, avoiding the lunatics.
At the end of the path you will be taken to an elevator, on which you will need to go up to the second floor. Get out of it and go upstairs. There you will notice a bloody trail that will lead us to 2 familiar perverts. Running away from them, Miles will lose his camera and fall into a huge hole on the floor. Of course, we will have to return for the precious material. Go down to the lower floor, where the camcorder itself is located, take it and take off as soon as possible, as there will be a chase after you. Go upstairs again and follow Father Martin. As a result of a short search, you will find a theater where you will need to climb into the director's room and continue to follow the bloody trail until you get to the church. At this moment, we will be shown a video where the priest is burned alive at the stake. Leave the church heading for the elevator, which will help you get to the laboratory on the lower level. Here you will be constantly attacked by spirits, but you need to get to the main unit of this very laboratory, where you will destroy all the engines. After that, you must run out through the open doors and enjoy (or vice versa) the final Outlast roller. The game ends here.