The Outlast Trials - Explained [Season 1]

[@GamingHarryYT]

If you're looking for an updated video on the New Ending, the New Documents + Program Geister, you can find it here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6DUgH6Eq7Sblck If you want the WINTER update, then that one is here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXqtn5yLfbGsqJI

[@DarkDragon1889]

The fact that so much of this game is based off of real-life events is both impressive on the devs' part and horrifying from a moral standpoint.

[@ismaelgingles9409]

Agreed 👍

[@liastorm795]

Very horrid 😢

[@ImBatman-dk8eh]

Agreed, MkUltra apparently contributed to the mental state of the Unabomber

[@liastorm795]

@@ImBatman-dk8eh That’s crazy! I feel a lot of these attacks are because of that.

[@boombozling2633]

i wonder how many of these programs are still secret and how horrid they are

[@twindrill2852]

Leland Coyle being one of the most depraved humans in Outlast imaginable but still getting a free pass on life due to his "charisma" has to be one of the most depressingly realistic aspects of this story.

[@aesthetics7649]

He’s one of those characters that has an awesome design but a personality that makes you question liking them I really like Coyle’s design and themeing so I made a alternate version of him in my head with a more palatable depravity and yes that is a thing because some horrible things make other horrible things look not as bad (mostly in fiction) so I can enjoy him more because his personality is extremely yeesh

[@seanhall559]

Good job on this video man. The fact that you spent more than 70 hours on just gameplay alone for this video says a lot. Your doing great work with the videos that you make. I work a lot so I’m not able to take deep dives into games like you do, and you do a really good job at it. Anyways I know that most jobs are thankless now a days. So I just wanted to leave this gesture to remind you that a lot of people like your vid’s. Cheers mate

[@GamingHarryYT]

Thanks so much! Appreciate your support 🙏

[@Christpapi0]

Sean Hall’s comment is amazing and so true. Man it felt good to read that thank you on my behalf for supporting the creator

[@genichiroashina1]

Sean I am a fan of Harry and I want to thank you as well, I can't donate to him but glad people are appreciating his efforts cheers!

[@8johh]

50$ is crazy

[@alienlover7556]

​@@8johh it's not your money so I really think there's nothing for you to worry about 🙃

[@Pinkie277]

Does Harry ever sound happier than when hes talking Outlast? Excellent video, a briliant follow on for your other Outlast story explained!

[@craftingranger7552]

The reveal of the facility being seen in Outlast 2 made my jaw drop😮like dead ass im gaged from that. What a cool way to explain it.

[@genichiroashina1]

that perfect placement of mind-controlling sound effect as well 🤯

[@bruisedbug]

Timestamp?

[@kanikaprabhakar1349]

​@@bruisedbug 30:03

[@fecking_weirdo]

😊😊😊​@@genichiroashina1

[@HeisenbergFam]

Adding multiplayer in Outlast themed game is perfection, cranks up chaos to 110%

[@masta2137]

waltuh

[@gorddangit8463]

It’s cool but I feel like it makes the game less scary there’s something more frightening feeling completely alone having friends gives it a sense of comfort

[@ernestpennysworth5145]

I agree. I only wish it was a linear game like the rest of them. Not a lobby/ mission based game

[@cronkmma]

@@gorddangit8463 yea but when you do reborn trial it’s scary asf

[@gorddangit8463]

@@cronkmma reborn is the last solo trial lol

[@wizardwolf1020]

I kind of wonder if the grand finale of the Outlast series is finally bringing down Murkoff and giving justice to all that suffered because of it. One constant with each of these games and the comics/stories is that Murkoff always gets away with its atrocities and even though there are people opposing them, it often either doesn’t end well for them or they’re unable to do much damage, often both. So imagine the finale of the series being Murkoff finally being brought down and all the pain and suffering wasn’t in vain

[@mattmedrala1947]

I think things are more optimistic than they might initially seem, at least if the comics are considered. In them, Miles is shown to be an undead superhero who prioritizes Murkoff for his vengeance rather than random innocents, Waylon remains out of Murkoff's grasp, and Blake is implied to become a blind dreamer and to be hooked up to a morphogenic engine at a Murkoff facility, which will likely mean he will cause even more damage than Miles has. I agree that the final game will probably be an apocalyptic showdown between the leaders of Murkoff and a force of rebels led by the Walrider

[@8johh]

@@mattmedrala1947 i was with you till the last paragraph, outlast feels grounded in reality and i want it to stay like that

[@the69thply]

I think itd be cooler If murkoff achieves something so ridiculous the world blows up

[@liamzakhaev]

@@8johh It feels grounded in reality until you remember the whole point of murkoff's experiments was to create a nanobot cloud

[@mattmedrala1947]

​@@8johhDepends on what you consider 'grounded', I consider the series as campy and as silly as Metal Gear, especially with the original game's final boss being literally 'nanomachines, son!' A final game that's riffing off of Ozymandius' plan from Watchmen, with Murkoff intending to broadcast their madness signal on a global scale while the Walrider brings the apocalypse down on Murkoff's HQ, would make for an epic finale IMO.

[@WoofWitch]

Donald Ewen Cameron is also a big inspiration for this game series, his psychiatric experiments that he did with the CIA were full on torture with the goal of erasing the patient's personality via constant trauma so severe the patient would regress to childhood to escape it, so then a new one could be programmed. His work heavily inspired Milton Friedman in economics with his shock doctrine, and the millitary tactic of shock and awe, which were basically the idea of applying the technique to an entire population.

[@bison-kx8qq]

Bro explained the cold war better than most history teachers in the U.S can 💀

[@Roguestatus777]

Fr tho

[@Munki_]

In video that explains lore of such some odd horror Video game about very bad peoples putting mental unwell peoples in glass bubbles

[@cre3perboi]

​@@Munki_ Did bro just try to discreetly mention the first Outlast?

[@jryan2552]

I like the video, I like the guy, but his explanation of the Cold War is extremely and uncritically pro-American. I understand that at the end of the day outlast is just a video game franchise, but if we’re going to watch a lore video on a video game franchise that actually has a decent political and historical… Conscience?, I think it is owed more than a pro-American, whitewashed history of the Cold War.

[@GamingHarryYT]

@jryan2552 funny you say that. Some people have accused me of being ‘Anti-American’, and of spreading Communist propaganda in the other Outlast videos. Amazing how political leanings work… both sides did terrible stuff, I’m not ‘pro’ anything. I’m merely commenting on what happened during the Cold War.

[@AirAnimeAngel]

I just love Outlast worldbuilding in general. It feels both very grounded(given it`s based on so many real life events) and epic. Murkoff definitely could rival Umbrella in its cruelty,but I don`t know if it`ll ever really be brought down. On one hand I`d like that to happen but on the other,it feels too much like an idealistic and happy ending for series as morbid and dark as this.

[@ismaelgingles9409]

Questions why does murcoff call the test subjects reagents instead of variants 🤔 or are they different 🤔

[@Feenix102]

There are certainly elements of this that are similar to the real MKULTRA - the depatterning and psychic driving experiments done on women in a clinic in Canada run by Dr Ewen Cameron, for example. There was even a sleep room at the clinic, where they would knock people out with drugs and lock an American football helmet to their head, with speakers in it, to try to reprogram people. The process worked in as much as they could remove most of a person's personality - they would use electroshock, sometimes for hours at a time, to erase the personality. The difficulty was imprinting a new one through the use of the helmets in the sleep room, there was something about the subjects that was completely resistant. The stuff at the end with Castro is interesting too - there were several operations against Cuba, some of which were designed to poison Castro (they were going to put a poison in a milkshake that he got on a daily basis, but the pills froze and became useless). There was also an operation which was never carried out to enact the second coming of Christ - a submarine would approach the coast of Cuba and an operative would walk out of the sea dressed in a robe, pretending to be Christ himself! CIA at the time were pretty bonkers, lol.

[@mattmedrala1947]

Good point about the historical precedent in creating false prophets as a psy-op. Not only does Outlast allude to this with the entire Temple Gate/Knoth cult, but I think Murkoff's grand plan regarding their use of religion as a brainwashing tool is to eventually create a false apocalypse - they will cause mass chaos by using morphogenic broadcasts to make reagents turn berserk, while false 'prophets' will demand the survivors swear loyalty to them or suffer a fate worse than death.

[@Marukanitel]

It's the attempt to enact The Second Coming of Christ for me...

[@blankslate6964]

​@@Marukanitel If you don't already know it, look into the CIA using vampires in the Philippines

[@RafeShort]

At the time? I would say none of this stopped. And, they are doing this currently.

[@Feenix102]

@@Marukanitel Right?! Pretty bonkers. Saw it mentioned in a documentary years ago, - it was a part of Operation Mongoose, which was adjacent to MKULTRA I believe, rather than part of it. There were ties though.

[@adamgill9730]

To say it takes place many years before the main game, I like how it links all games together like how Sullivan Noth was a test subject for Murkoff I wonder what else is on the horizon, I can't wait

[@gisellehoppus]

That’s the preacher from the 2nd game yeah?

[@gimpscam9976]

What I love about this game (besides the game itself) is the fact it fills In previous gaps. Not any gap that needed to be filled but for instance, who was Sullivan knoth before? Why was he like this? As well as everyone else we’ve come across. Also the one that I mostly wanted to mention is 2’s flashes of light and sound. Now that it’s explained as a trigger and or mind influencing device it makes sense whenever it happens that Blake gets more and more insane each time. Not to mention, whenever the tower that makes the flash is destroyed. Blake watches the world get destroyed by the sun but in reality once that facility was destroyed, Blake’s mind was already so destroyed by it that he goes comatose. Without murkoff in his brain filling in the holes, he can’t function anymore. I can’t imagine how screwed half these people really are just from these trials.

[@GamingHarryYT]

Yeah exactly. And that explains why Lynn wasn’t affected that much mentally, because the heretics pretty much took her to the caves straight away, which was sheltered from the signals. At the end of Outlast 2, Lynn wasn’t seeing anything that Blake was seeing. Which is why she can’t see the ‘baby’ that Blake was holding.

[@Madam_Gloomi]

This guy is SO underrated-- he literally explains the lore of games in the most UNDERSTANDABLE way possible--unlike any other content creator who explains game lore---Harry is by far my favorite (that and superhorrorbro)

[@bluejellyfish4983]

Honestly the best thing about this story is I can’t tell what’s fiction and what’s reality. The whole thing sounds so morally evil that it must be fiction yet it actually happened in our history.

[@ZOMBIEGUNPOWDER]

I am SO grateful for stumbling across this channel over a year ago, and mad respect to the homie running this channel. so glad this is a video. I didn't feel like scroll through the outlast trials wiki to read the plot lmao. Keep up the good work !

[@studyaccountforschoo2793]

Harry your videos are such high quality, please keep up the amazing work man!

[@keitouniverse]

Thank you Harry for your hard work on this series! It must have been super frustrating trying to get all the documents, I can only imagine how many times you had replay through levels. Can't wait to binge watch this!

[@lykoslycan]

I am so fucking STOKED for this series! I will confess, I was worried Outlast Trials wouldn't ever get released. But then I was happily proved wrong AND THEN THE COMMUNITY POST THAT YOU WERE WORKING ON THIS ONE! I love how you explain videos and I eagerly await the next one 💜

[@solarianvoid-pi9428]

As a German, can I just say that your pronunciation of Gottlieb as “godly-ebb” is ADORABLE? Like, no shade, I know you are putting lots of effort into your videos, you’re really admirable and your love for the Outlast series shines through each time. And you are better than other KZbinrs about pronunciation of non-English names but I just think it’s adorable. However, compared to some other English content creators, I don’t need a transcript to understand you saying a German name

[@TerranPersoid725]

Red Barrels comparing project LATHE to Disneyland directly is pretty damn heavy. 😅

[@mattmedrala1947]

Interesting theory regarding Reagent 877 being Simon! Although I personally think he might be another character, either Martin or a potentially unseen one so far - Peacock was mentioned by Marion to have been working for Murkoff and only disappearing relatively recently after being caught whistleblowing (around 6 years prior to the Murkoff Account), presumably the moment when he became a Walrider prototype. My belief that 877 is Martin is because they have a religious connection and 1616 is most definitely Knoth (shoe salesman in Albuquerque who is horny, in debt, and has a fascination with putting metal to his eye.) I think the Skinner Man is an early precursor to the Inner Demon that the cult worship - there are fleshy red tendrils that surround them both, they manifest when people are experiencing psychotic breaks, and as pointed out the heretics' head adornments parallel the Skinner Man's head tendrils AND the Inner Demon's many tongues and arms. I also think that Loutermilch is a reagent and that he was 'triggered' by Murkoff during that fateful night with Blake and Jessica. The themes of the Fun Park and Orphanage tie in heavily with the themes of Blake's school (killing 'bad' children + religious schooling), so it's possible that Loutermilch internalized those teachings and his killer/abuser programming came into effect at St. Sybil. Another connection is the mystery behind Loutermilch's voice being heard in the recordings - it's possible that the 'god' he is addressing is actually Murkoff/Easterman, thanking him for his 'gifts'. Loutermilch's final recording is titled 'I Have Lots of Friends', which could IMO also link to him being tied to Murkoff. Once again, one of the most vile and loathsome characters in the franchise turns out to be the creation of an even greater evil.

[@BlueJayz474]

Good theory about Loutermilch

[@Kegotback]

Absolutely epic man

[@mattmedrala1947]

​@@BlueJayz474 Thanks! I'd been wondering about Loutermilch ever since Trials was announced, and it would be interesting if even this vile monster was another puppet of Murkoff just like Knoth. It's incredibly creepy IMO to think that there's a secret network of sociopaths who are hidden in mainstream society.

[@liastorm795]

@@mattmedrala1947 Definitely more fact than fiction!

[@tarsoul666]

Very good theory, the timeline of Loutermilch's age and the time wherein Sinyala was operational also seem to match, plus the detail of the telephone in St. Sybil and the use of trigger words. Loutermilch's psychology is also strangely childlike and delusional, he sees himself as a rival for Blake, competing with him for Jessica's "love" and is bitter, mocking in tone towards him, as opposed to preying on Jessica for his pleasure he actually seems to be much more emotionally involved and bizarrely infantile in behavior, not quite a typical pedophile. It's also worth noting that the Murkoff logo appears in the static in Blake's school recordings that feature Loutermilch speaking. Funny how Murkoff was able to ruin Blake's life so far in the past with such a distant connection assuming this is true, and he never had any idea. He even saw the place where it all started.

[@kingofravens215]

Can’t wait for season two the lore has been absolutely fascinating!

[@Sheran300]

waited for you to release this, i didnt want anyone else to tell me the story. Love your content

[@fezco_c3527]

Didn't have time to watch the full series on the second channel, been waiting for this. Good job as usual Mr. Harry, keep it up, most comprehensive coverage on youtube.

[@anglo-saxonconnor817]

I think I get what the outlast franchise is about. The themes are varied and general but they all have a common point in them. Trying to control or change minds which went wrong and backfired resulting in horror and calamity.

[@woobenstein]

This is a great break down of the trials! I love how thorough this is, and appreciate all the sources used. I've always loved the lore/world building of Outlast 1 + Whistleblower and remember when Trials came out, but I never really gave it much thought until recently. I think what pulled me in was how much more visceral and Bioshock-like the world was in this game. I'm glad I started looking into it more...god I love lore.

[@americanv5107]

The trials they added are creepy and Coyle and Gooseberry are terrifying and all, but I wish they had a different character for the 3rd trial at the mansion

[@ayodeledare8724]

I have been waiting for you. lol Your content is A+

[@billypps6449]

also in outlast 2 when you first encounter marta she talks about a spider-eyed lamb cool detail i guess

[@Hubythereal]

i love outlast and amnesia games, and the way you tell their lore in deep depths is next level. not talking about other stuff, not a huge load of self-advertising, just pure story to enjoy. keep it up💞

[@Knittingsteve]

I appreciate all your hard work on this video! The "Spider, Eye, Lamb" is very interesting!

[@russiangoose7053]

I've never played outlast and i stumbled on this video and I never had any idea the game was this deep and interesting and scary. Please make more of these!

[@TheTrailArchivist]

This just makes me love Outlast all over again. The way the story is so interconnected, the SPIDER EYE LAMB connection in the gospel! That’s such a cool detail to include to tie the story together!!!

[@Jartran72]

Thank you for this amazing video. i have not playes this one yet because multilplayer in horror defeats the whole purpose for me but I was interestes in the additions to the lore. I looked up other videos but they just summarized the gameplay events and a little about the enemies. THIS, EXACLY this is what I wanted to watch. Deep outlast breakdowns of people who looked at everything available and are able to present it in a clear and conscise way with fitting editing. Amazing video that scratched my outlast itch for now. Thank you so much.

[@benjaminweaver8760]

Really interesting stuff, the lore around this game series is so in depth I've always been very impressed with it. Another great video Harry!

[@prem_amrit]

13:00 good old Lovecraft refrence.

[@GamingHarryYT]

Yeah, was gonna include that in the video, but decided not to go off topic!

[@redisthecoolestcolour]

As always, Harry, I'm in awe. Extraordinary work. You make examine reality and fiction and smoothly connect them all in an entertaining way. Thank you!

[@master_beefmagoo2944]

I really appreciate you going into depth and putting in the work for these videos ❤

[@thesecondkate]

OH IM SO SO EXCITED FOR THIS. currently cooking dinner so I’ll watch this soon as I’m sat with food omg

[@King_Kenn]

Definitely gives a whole other perspective replaying outlast 2!

[@OurLordandSaviorSigmar]

Finally! I've been waiting for you to drop a new vid since forever. Thanks, Harry.

[@eafstudios6436]

At one point the scientist is quoted as saying, "the most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all of its contents." This comes straight out of the mystery and horror author H. P. Lovecraft and his thought and writing. In terms of their themes, the Outlast games have a lot of Lovecraftian influence even if it's not as on-the-nose as some others

[@mysideacc2770]

ddn't expect to finally learn some of the context behind the historic USSR vs USA animosity from a youtube vdeo explaining the outlast trials. anyway great vid as always!

[@liastorm795]

I fully enjoyed myself! It took me 3 hours to finish because I kept stopping and reading everything 😅😂 But it was great finding out the lore of the game.

[@starsjosephfrost]

historical fact at the end: Batista was elected in the late 1940s (1940- 1944) as the Cuban president but he led a coup in the 1950s (1952), this and his later on use of the military to suppress the people led to the cuban revolution which led to him been overthrown by the 26nd of July movement which yes, was been led by Castro. Something weird to note is that the coup by Batista felt off, he basically undid his own reforms that he made during his 1940 to 1944 presidency.

[@mistydayremainsofthejudgment]

Thank you so much for this. I’m obsessed with Outlast lore but it’s been hard for me to sit down and piece all the evidence together!

[@ashtonmcpherson390]

Never stop these amazing videos please

[@ismaelgingles9409]

I am looking forward to playing this when it comes out and season 2 i like how this outlast game feels more like a tv show with it being split into chapters 😀

[@jennvioletkennedy]

Omg I have waited soooooooooooooo long for this episode and have checked for it every single day am so excited

[@sepzai]

Absolute god-level content, watched countless of your videos. Keep up the great work!!

[@clearcomm]

I was checking youtube for an old Gaming Harry video to watch and instead he blessed us with a new one. thanks!!

[@thatguyspoon]

Hell yeah i was waiting for this, binged watched through your gameplay videos today and now i am excited for this one

[@dylansudol5506]

Been waiting for this video! LFG

[@thenixx996]

Love this video. So much thought and detail and linking with actual events is so clever. Thank you for making this video and spending over 70 hours getting this story!

[@adaniero78]

Oh my gosh I've literally been watching and checking yutube to see if you got this done yet ! I'm so excited I'm weird but thanks for doing these! That's one reason I play games is for the lore! 😊😊😊❤❤

[@paalco05yt54]

Thanks for this, i really needed to understand what was going on with this game as its different from the others

[@TheTrueStygian]

Harry!!! Yes! I watched your playthroughs of this. And here we go.

[@skullmaggot99]

Ive been waiting for this so long i love outlast and your out last videos are so good at explaining everything keep up the great work brother cant wait for more

[@samuelcarlson1012]

Thank you for all the work you did on this! I am beyond impressed!

[@blackzero7253]

This was a great video! Your videos have been popping up on my feed lately and theyve been a blast to watch! Id also love to see a deep dive on the Remnant From the Ashes series!

[@Alexis-8889]

The perfect place to come for game story explanations,another amazing story video! Great can't wait for more

[@mobr8230]

Finally here, i was looking for it today !!

[@ethanrodriguez4207]

Absolute legend for playing through this solo

[@LastArchangel01]

Excellent work Harry, great video and story telling as always. Keep up the great work.

[@benji1056]

For Program 1, I believe the Snitch is actually a part of the program, as he does have some dialogue in which he says he’s “better” and he asks if he can come out.

[@gromprogramador2606]

"Wife commits suicide by multiple shots in the head" wait, what??

[@mattmedrala1947]

Obvious murder with an even more obviously fake cover story.

[@OrroHelhammer]

Jeffrey epstein

[@themrfives]

That isn't even unrealistic. Some fucker got iced by the Clintons and it was "determined" to be a suicide even though he was shot multiple times in the back of the head.

[@Jahsizzl9]

Been waiting for this. Thanks

[@mylabenally3839]

I’ve been waiting for this one!!

[@Kegotback]

You got this down pack! Time to listen before bed you’re the best man. I know finding those documents were a pain in the ass.

[@rise9666]

I absolutely love how deep the Outlast Series goes

[@EtherealRE4]

Thank you so much for explaining the Cold War at the start! As dumb as it sounds, I'm 21 years old and our schools NEVER taught us about this (I assume because I'm British and the UK had nothing to do with it), so it was a nice new piece of history for me since I never got around to looking it up myself.

[@TheVudubob]

Uhhhhhhh the UK had plenty to do with the cold war bro... The entire James Bond franchise, while obviously fictional, is based heavily off of British Intelligence agencies fulfillment of various obligations to NATO and post WW2 covert operations across Europe and the rest of the world. Hell, even the establishment of the Palestinian occupation was largely to create a US/UK backed staging post for military assets to combat Soviet expansion into the middle east. Not trying to knock you for things you aren't aware of but its a fascinating part of history that you might want to look into more

[@OrroHelhammer]

Imagine not knowing your country's history, tragic

[@feels2635]

YESSSS! I've been waiting for this one! I'm so happy this video was posted, and it is so good!

[@nashsanadiki3104]

Awesome breakdown 😊 amazing how this franchise manages to bring new life and introduce new characters

[@Slevin_Kalevra]

34:55 That smoke effect was incredible.

[@Graham832]

Been waiting on this one for a while

[@Nizz966]

Outlast has one of the most realistic/ likely video game lore I’ve ever seen

[@SorryBones]

The lore documents about Easterman with Barbi’s gun is completely unhinged lmao 💀

[@josedorsaith5261]

Thr terrifying part about project artichoke and MKUltra is that they did find a way to manipulate minds.

[@thestorygiver6217]

I have literally never played any of these games but I cannot stop watching your lore vids on them for some reason. Good vids, glad the new one is here.

[@brtd8782]

your videos are really entertaining dude, keep up the great work!!

[@Melon_911]

As a history buff I have to say, goddamn you are the best history teacher I have ever seen

[@mihai-live]

When i started watching i didn't know what to expect, but a couple of minutes in the video i knew it! i went to the kitchen to fix myself some snacks :D. Brilliant script mate, you're awesome! The attention to detail is crazy! I was never a fan of Outlast Trials as its somehow copied off of RE7 Biohazard ( the extra bonus games ) imo, but i do love Red Barrel's crazy MURKOFF stories. Thank you again for your work, the effect your video had is that i may try to play this game after all ;). Stay safe.

[@RamenLlama]

Very well-made video! I like the Outlast series a lot, and loved Trials' Open Beta, but I'm not going to buy the game until they implement an Offline mode (if ever). So it was nice to be filled in of those crucial pieces of lore here. Thank you! Hope you're doing well.

[@zzz-jj6zh]

Was Coyle under MK Ultra prior to meeting Easterman? The military is known to do experiments on some soldiers. His wives died or separated from him 6 months, 3 times. 666

[@mattmedrala1947]

That's possible. On the same note, I think Gooseberry might have been an experiment by her father into mind controlling groups of kids.

[@trustfulkiller1832]

Please do the Bridge Curse 2! Loved watching u do the first one, especially since it was confusing to me. I do watch other videos💚

[@canadian_american84]

I must say you are very smart and manage to explain everything so that even my kids who had a hard time understanding teachers in schools.

[@slyguy993]

I've been really waiting for you to cover this. It's been many days since the early beta has released and I can't understand a thing.

[@samoa52snipez]

Dude you’re literally the best with these keep up the good work 🤙🏼

[@CanyonALynn]

Doesn't anyone else find it weird that the Skinner man seemingly follows Dr. Easterman around wherever he goes? First pops up in Asia then at the Sinyala facility. Almost like it's manifesting from him somehow...?

[@mattmedrala1947]

It's possible that Dr. Skinner is a phenomenon that predates Easterman and he simply happened to become the 'host' to it, much like how Billy Hope became the host for the Walrider. Good observation on Easterman projecting it though - Skinner is a mutual projection of Easterman's ego and the collective fear of the reagents. Later on, Easterman will serve as the voice of God to Knoth, and Skinner will become boosted by the mutual faith of Temple Gate into becoming that horrific demon that torments Blake.

[@CanyonALynn]

@mattmedrala1947 🤯 Holy... I think you just solved a piece of the puzzle!! ...So, the Skinner man, the Walrider, and McPervy Phantom from Outlast 2 are under the same class of phenomena happening in the Outlast Universe. Where enough trauma and psychosis manifests these 'entities'. Dr. Wernicke briefly manifested *something* back during the Holocaust due to the mass trauma happening in Germany at the time but couldn't produce the same results afterward. The patient/POW in Asia after the Korean War births the Skinner Man when Dr. Easterman interviews and drugs the patient, and the patient bases it off of Dr. Easterman. And when pulled by the CIA & Murkoff to create reagents at Sinyala, he *again* accidentally started to produce the Skinner Man in mass with all of the patients in Sinyala... causing Dr. Wernicke to remark that Dr. Easterman "has made the most fruitful mistake in modern science since penicillin" because Dr. Wernicke has been trying to reproduce what he did in Germany but was unsuccessful until now. Then, Dr. Wernicke copies Dr. Easterman's trauma inducing LATHE project with his own Project Walrider at Mount Massive, and combined with nanomachines/the Morphogenic Engine, makes that weird phenomenon successfully manifest artificially and physically via Billy Hope. (Billy shapes the phenomenon into the Walrider due to Dr. Wernicke sharing stories to Billy about Germanic folklore.) Then, finally, with Blake, Dr. Easterman's LATHE therapy was perfected into a tool to be distributed through radio waves to better inflict upon the masses, causing the same thing with the reagents to happen to the Temple Gate cultists. However, I believe each individual person at that town saw the entity differently and based upon their own trauma (i.e. What Knoth saw vs what Val saw vs what Blake saw.) Dude, this is mind-blowing! Thanks for sharing your interpretation as this may be what's happening in the story. 😁

[@v1v1d1ty]

YESS IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO FROM YOU

[@TheGwopboyzprodigy]

I had this play as background noise and 10% in I’m like “Wait, what the fuck am I watching?”

[@thesupremerat753]

spider eye lamb was so confusing to me in outlast 2, so seeing this here made my jaw drop

[@LynxNGB]

Just what i needed man been reading all the files and its interesting man. First game i really sat and read the docs and not jus picking them up and forgetting

[@Mrkabrat]

"The most merciful thing int th world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents" That's a direct quote from H.P Lovecraft's "Call of Chtulhu"

[@koizy_]

YES IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS LETS GO

[@Vande1103]

I mean a bit of a correction. The Soviets were allied with the axis powers until 1941 and only changed sides because the Germans betrayed them and invaded Russia

[@RevanHawkeVEVO]

I know I’m probably not the only one to mention this. But the first rebirth I got was the same one as you. The second was much quicker and was just a cutscene. My character was driving frantically for a moment before hitting another car, stopping outside a building, and when I looked down I noticed a bomb on my chest, counting down. It exploded, and then I made a new proxy.

[@pinkcatacombs]

31:46 I feel like these failed ex pops look crazy similar to the heretics in outlast 2. I’m not sure what that could mean or if it’s just an intentional aesthetic choice