Women are often objects or plot devices rather than characters in their own right when portrayed this way. In considering Outlast 2, Red Barrels. Outlast 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed survival horror game Outlast. Set in the same universe as the first game, but with different characters.

Is a first-person survival horror title set to take players on a wild ride through a rural area Arizona as they investigate the gruesome attempted murder of a pregnant woman found on the side of the road. It's not a story for the squeamish, as it's chock-full of blood and gore, and an intriguing mystery that involves some extremely bizarre happenings. The whole game is on the weird side, and the plot as explained below will help you make sense of it.If you're looking to make sense of it, we've got all the details you need here (via and personal experience) to understand what's going on in, and, though you don't need to have the story of the previous two games explained before heading into Outlast 2.Note: Major spoilers for the Outlast series will be found below.

Outlast: Plot summary and story explained. Mount Massive Asylum in Outlast.

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PolygonThe original Outlast found players taking up the role of investigative journalist Miles Upshur as he infiltrated the dilapidated, abandoned and brimming with deranged patients and the mutilated corpses of the staff that previously worked there. The hospital had been in the spotlight for the unethical treatment of patients, ignored and goaded on by the malevolent. Former patients, as Miles found out, were still roaming the hospital grounds and killing Murkoff employees, but Miles was forced to continue exploring to get to the bottom of things.Miles ended up discovering the schizoaffective priest, Father Martin Archimbaud. Father Martin claimed Miles was the 'apostle' and captured him, cutting him off from escaping the asylum and its deranged patients so he could show Miles who was really to blame for all the deaths and the asylum's remains. The real cause was a bizarre, enormous creature called the '.' Miles found out that the Walrider was actually created by Dr.

Rudolf Gustav Wernicke, a German scientist who was responsible for testing a form of dream therapy out on patients so he could connect a bunch of tiny nanites together into one single being. That's essentially what the Walrider itself is: controlled by a patient of Murkoff's experiments who was still alive, but in a comatose state. Miles hoped to take the patient, Billy, off life support to keep the Walrider from killing again, but was unsuccessful.

Eventually, the Walrider took control of Miles after killing him and began using him as its new host. This is where Outlast ends. Outlast: Whistleblower: Plot summary and story explained. Things are not well at Mount Massive Asylum in 'Outlast: Whistleblower.'

VG247Outlast: Whistleblower followed software engineer Waylon Park as he worked for Mount Massive Asylum by way of Murkoff. He was responsible for keeping the Morphogenic Engine, or the tool Dr. Wernicke used for lucid dreaming testing in comatose patients, running smoothly. He ended up being the person to send the email to Miles Upshur about the experiments and strange happenings at Mount Massive in the first place, detailing torture and other unethical treatments for patients at the hospital.Though Park had sent an anonymous email, he ended up being found out by his supervisor Jeremy Blaire. Blaire was about to force Park into the Morphogenic Engine as punishment, but in the furor with the Walrider destroying the Asylum, Park was able to escape the situation and recorded some important footage as he tried to escape the asylum. On his way out of the asylum, Park saw several grotesque goings-on, such as a patient named Eddie Gluskin, referred to as 'the Groom,' who wanted to create the 'perfect bride' by mutilating male patients' genitals.Park was almost up next for the Groom before escaping, and he eventually makes it out of the hospital alive to upload files that would destroy the Murkoff Corporation. The game ended with him sending the files away to bury Murkoff, despite the implication that it would more than likely destroy his life, as well as his family's.

Outlast 2: What happened to Lynn? Lynn Langerman of 'Outlast 2.' Brittany Vincent/MicOutlast 2 remains in the same universe as Outlast and Outlast: Whistleblower, but it follows different characters and a different plot line altogether. Players follow Blake Langermann, a cameraman who works alongside his journalist wife, Lynn Langermann. The pair are investigating the murder of a young pregnant woman who has yet to be identified. The Jane Doe victim investigation ends up with the pair crash-landing in their helicopter in the of the Sonoran desert in Arizona.

Blake is separated from Lynn and must find his way back to her, all the while exploring a village in a rural area where the residents are concerned that the end of days is finally upon them.While looking for Lynn, Blake finds the helicopter pilot skinned and impaled by a tree limb, which obviously didn't happen in the crash. This alerts Blake to the fact there's something clearly wrong happening where they've crash landed.

A fleet of hostile villagers encroach on Blake and try to kill him before he's reunited with Lynn, but unfortunately, the nightmare has only begun. Lynn has become entangled with the, who insists that Lynn is pregnant with Blake's child, who is supposedly the antichrist. Thus begins a manhunt to track down Lynn and kill her before the child can be born.The resulting clash between two cults, one with Christian beliefs and one with Christian beliefs with Satanic leanings, with Lynn being taken away from Blake and Blake being left to find her and continue to investigate the happenings. It turns out that the pregnant woman who was murdered was the prophet Knoth's daughter, sexually abused by Knoth and ended up pregnant.During his travels, Blake meets up with a midget archer named Laird and his partner named Nick, kidnapped by Laird, who has pronounced Blake the 'Scalled Messiah.' To become said Messiah Laird wants Blake to be 'rebirthed.' This involves Blake being nailed to a cross to be left to die.

Not long after, he begins hallucinating. By the end of the game, Blake's hallucinations have gotten worse by a wide margin, and though he's reunited with Lynn, she ends up birthing her child and dies not long after that. Prophet Knoth in 'Outlast 2.' Outlast 2 WikiaThe prophet Knoth suggests that Blake should crush the child's skull and then kills himself, leaving Blake with the child. We aren't given any insight into what happens with the child, or what's going on with Blake's hallucinations beyond the idea that he's possibly gone crazy, all the way this time.Thanks to the bright flashes of light throughout the game, part of Murkoff Corporation's brainwashing program, Blake and company have continued to be exposed to the light and have thus been given additional doses of the mind control program from Murkoff's microwave signal sent throughout the land. This idea can be corroborated with the documents found throughout the game. It's also possibly why all the cults murdered each other and took their own lives earlier in the game as well.

It's a rather bleak ending, but it's a thrill ride to reach that point.Now you can say with confidence that you know all about Outlast and its happenings. Make sure to let us know your own theories on what happened with Blake at the end of the game when you get there! More Outlast 2 news, updates, tips and tricksFor more on the latest entry in the Outlast series, check out the rest of what Mic has to offer. Here's a guide on the, and here's one with.

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Perverted Cult Leader “I watched my father f-ck your God to death!„ Val voicing her contempt about Knoth's actions.“I welcome our infant lord, naked, hiding nothing. I lay down this mask.

I show my true face. Your true face.„ Val before starting to hunt Blake.Val is one of the two main antagonists (along with ) in the 2017 video game Outlast 2.Val is a former deacon of the Testament of the New Ezekiel, Val eventually betrayed Knoth and decided to spite Knoth by bringing forth the apocalypse and assisting in the birth of the anti-christ. This led to a schism in the Testament and Val, leader of the defectors now known as, fled into the mines near Temple Gate with the rest of the Heretics. When a pregnant Lynn Langermann was found by the Testament and was believed to be carrying the anti-christ inside her, Val freed her from the Testament and brought her to the mines in order to make sure that she indeed birthed her baby.When Lynn's husband Blake invaded the mines to free Lynn, Val and their men tried to intervene but were presumably killed when Knoth's fanatics raided the mines.She was voiced by Claudia Besso. Contents Biography PastVal was the highest-ranking Deacon of the Testament of the New Ezekiel and a close confidant to. However, in contrast to Knoth Val eventually decided to forsake God and to actively worship the coming of the antichrist.

Val managed to round up several others who shared their beliefs and openly betrayed Knoth, founding the group that came to be known as the Heretics. Over the years, the Testament and the Heretics clashed openly multiple times. However, Knoth never found out where Val's main base was located; abandoned mines a few miles away from Temple Gate.Outlast 2Val and the Heretics are first encountered after Blake Langermann finds Lynn and escapes from the Testament. The Heretics capture Lynn, whose womb is rumored to house the Anti-Christ, and set up a ritual down in their mines to stage her birth. Blake follows the Heretics, until he gets captured and taken to Val.

Val shows him her 'true face' by smothering her naked body in mud and donning a large crown of thorns, distorting her appearance. Due to a tremor in the mines, Blake manages to escape, however, Val and the Heretics relentlessly chase him throughout the mines. Blake is eventually driven into a part of the mines that is half-way flooded. As electric cables are hanging in the water, Blake cannot use the exit but is forced to deactivate two levers in order to deactivate the electricity. While he does so, he is hunted by Val who is carrying a torch and is actively searching for Blake.Blake finally stumbles across the ritual where Lynn is kept, surrounded by the entire Heretic cult participating in a graphic blood orgy that Val forces him to participate in, raping him. The Testament manages to raid the mines due to being sold out by Josiah, they had a blood bath, and presumably kill every last Heretic including Val, ending and winning their civil war.PersonalityBefore her deviation from Temple Gate, Val was devout to Knoth's faith.

However, she felt a deep guilt for participating in the mass infanticide of the children of Temple Gate, many of whom Val raised and cared for as if they were her own. Though Knoth spoke that God would call to his followers that they were doing the right thing, Val heard nothing and was convinced that Knoth's God was a 'child's superstition' and that all her children had died for nothing.However, when Val was awoke by her wet dreams of murdering infants her faith in a new God was awoken.

She began to deeply hate Knoth for his misplaced faith in an unknown God, believing her God to be superior because he is no God at all, simply a voice that she can hear and desperately seeks to consummate her union with. Thus, Val has made it her life mission to insist in the birth of the antichrist, reveling in the destructive havoc that it will undoubtedly reap across the world.

Val sees nothing wrong with her actions, viewing it as the 'sharing of her love' and finds her God in 'every moment of ecstasy'. In her notes she boasts of her wet dreams of children being murdered, killing Knoth's followers and her visions of the antichrist.Val seems to be pansexual.

She preys on Blake any chance she gets, often licking, caressing and even raping him during their encounters. However, a note from a female cultist claim Val showed a sexual interest in her and she even licked Lynn's unconscious body after choking her out, showing she is not restricted by gender to share her love. In her note she asks her God to 'cut my skin, caress me and burn me' implying she is masochistic. Val also considers the destruction the antichrist will reap and the idea of murder to be arousing.Gallery.