The ability to pull an enemy off of them and the ability to administer first aid can both be overpowered if not injected into the game correct, but Trials manages to find a good balance in these mechanics.

There are multiple ways to help your fellow test subjects. In the first Outlast games, you’re a lone, helpless survivor… in Trials, you’re a group of helpless survivors. I think the set design was critical to maintaining the feel of an outlast game while introducing multiplayer, but more than that, they nailed the mechanics. Comms are optional, as the game gives you an alternate way to communicate if you want to at all. Spawning into a trial with up to four players, I quickly realized that the aspect of multiplayer doesn’t dilute the experience one bit. The multiplayer experience in Trials is excellent. Not having enough to join your lobby, not having enough to play missions… the beta seems to have open, public lobbies, which is absolutely helpful in finding teammates (and probably essential in such an early beta). Despite this being the third Outlast game, developer Red Barrels has said in the past that it is not Outlast 3, a direct sequel that it plans to make eventually.A common problem in multiplayer games is, simply put, not having enough friends. The original Outlast was first released in 2013 on the PlayStation 4 with Outlast 2 coming out a few years later on 2017. Red Barrels announced The Outlast Trials, the third game in the series, in 2019.

The Cold War-era game’s main story can be played in cooperative mode with up to four players as all attempt to survive a series of brutal and strange experiments, after being kidnapped by a mysterious entity called the Murkoff Corporation. The Outlast Trials brings co-op multiplayer to the series for the first time. The studio didn’t explain how players will be able to get into the beta test, which appears to be for the Windows PC version of the game through Steam, but told fans to stay tuned. Outlast fans will get a taste of The Outlast Trials from Oct. Developer Red Barrels announced an upcoming beta - but sadly no full release date for its new cooperative horror game - during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live presentation on Tuesday. The latest title in the Outlast horror series will be playable this Halloween, but only in closed beta form.

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