# The Outlast Trials New Update | Deep Burn Limited-Time Event, New MK-Challenges & more - Product: The Outlast Trials (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/the-outlast-trials) - Vendor: Red Barrels - Date: 2025-09-09 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1304930/view/505087127536535584 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/the-outlast-trials/releases/2025-09-09-new-update-deep-burn-limited-time-event-new-mk-ch What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — New Limited-Time Event Deep Burn with fire sources, fire mines, flame throwers, and thick smog hazards - **added** — Deep Burn variator where The Pitcher Ex-Pop may appear during trials - **added** — Extinguish the fires variator requiring players to locate and use water cans to extinguish burning barrels - **added** — New Limited-Time Catalog Deep Burn with exclusive cosmetics available until October 7 at 10am ET - **added** — New MK-Challenge Traffick the Product - **added** — New MK-Challenge Disrupt the Neighborhood - **added** — Page 11 to the Deluxe Catalog Project Diarchy - **added** — New ping icons for enemies - **added** — Voice Disturbance variator now creates a disturbance audible to enemies when using quick communication ping - **changed** — Evidence Documents Menu revamped and organized into themes - **changed** — Escalation difficulty smoothed from level 1 to 20 - **changed** — Starting at trial 21, up to 8 variators can be active in Escalation Therapy - **changed** — Increased Otto and Arora chase speed on all difficulties - **changed** — Slightly decreased Nausea poison effect build up time - **changed** — Slightly increased vomiting duration - **changed** — Otto and Arora can now bash doors in the same amount of hits as other Prime Assets - **changed** — Taking another Nausea hit will now trigger vomiting right away - **changed** — Don't Make Noise variator now displays a visual effect on enemy eyes to illustrate impaired vision and increased noise detection - **fixed** — Bug where the Shared Intel upgrade of the X-Ray Rig wasn't working correctly - **fixed** — Prime Assets now react correctly to projectiles with Strong Arms amp by stumbling - **fixed** — Enemies no longer hear players talking while hidden in a hidespot - **security** — Nausea poison effect can now kill players instead of stopping at 1hp - **added** — It is now possible to cure Arora poison effect using antidotes and Heal Rig with Detox upgrade ##### Greetings Reagents, Prepare for a world in flames with the new Limited-Time Event **Deep Burn. **Face hellish Trials filled with fiery hazards like fire mines, flame throwers, and an increased presence of the Pitcher: Murkoff’s resident and unhinged pyromaniac. Along with the fiery new hazards introduced in Season 4.1, two new MK-Challenges will be available to all Reagents. In **Traffick the Product, **players invade the territory of sinister manbaby mafioso, Franco Barbi, in order to flood his streets with a new experimental opioid devised by Murkoff. Meanwhile, **Disrupt the Neighborhood **aims to break down the barriers that divide us, literally, to encourage intrusion from outsiders. After all, without any fences, we’re all free to be each other’s neighbor! ##### This update includes - New Limited-Time Event: DEEP BURN - New Limited-Time Catalog: DEEP BURN - New MK-Challenge: TRAFFICK THE PRODUCT - New MK-Challenge: DISRUPT THE NEIGHBORHOOD - Evidence Documents Menu Revamp - Many additions, fixes, and balancing changes ##### New Limited-Time Event: DEEP BURN Everything burns. To prepare Reagents for a future consumed by flame, we are initiating a therapy filled with burning sources. Avoid or burn! - **Deep Burn variator** - The trial is filled with fire sources, fire mines, flame throwers, and thick smog. The Pitcher Ex-Pop might also pay a visit. - **Extinguish the fires variator** - Locate and use water cans to extinguish the burning barrels scattered throughout the Trial. ##### New Limited-Time Catalog: DEEP BURN - A brand new Catalog is available for the duration of the Deep Burn Limited-Time event, **until October 7, at 10am ET.** - Players can spend their acquired event tokens in the Limited-Time Catalog to unlock exclusive cosmetics. - **Once the event ends, the catalog will be removed, and any unspent tokens will be lost, so make sure to spend your Deep Burn Tokens before October 7.** ##### New MK-Challenge: TRAFFICK THE PRODUCT There can be no health without profit. Encroach on Franco's territory, distribute Murkoff's experimental opioid, and take his people's money. Dependent consumers breed healthy economies. ##### New MK-Challenge: DISRUPT THE NEIGHBORHOOD Communities that erect their own gates determine their own boundaries. Remove the obstacles and invite intrusion. No fences make interesting neighbors. ##### Evidence Documents Revamp - Dive into the lore of Outlast Trials by reading through the many evidence documents found during your playthroughs. Now organized into themes. ##### Additions/Fixes/Balancing - Added Page 11 to the Deluxe Catalog Project Diarchy. - Escalation Therapy changes: - Escalation difficulty has been smoothed from level 1 to 20. - Starting at trial #21, up to 8 variators can be active. - Rebalanced Otto and Arora: - Increased Otto and Arora chase speed on all difficulties. - Slightly decreased Nausea (poison effect) build up time. - Slightly increased vomiting duration. - Nausea (poison effect) can now kill players (used to stop at 1hp). - Otto and Arora can now bash doors in the same amount of hits as other Prime Assets. - Taking another Nausea hit (Poison Flash or Trap) will now trigger vomiting right away. - It is now possible to cure Arora poison effect using antidotes and Heal Rig (with Detox upgrade). - Fixed a bug where the “Shared Intel” upgrade of the X-Ray Rig wasn’t working correctly. - Implemented new ping icons for enemies. - Prime Assets now react correctly to projectiles with Strong Arms amp (stumble). - Voice Disturbance variator: - Using a quick communication ping will now create a disturbance that can be heard by enemies (only when Voice Disturbance variator is active). - Enemies won’t hear players talking while hidden in a hidespot anymore. - Don’t Make Noise variator: - Enemies now display a visual effect on their eyes to illustrate that their vision is impaired but their noise detection is increased. - Other variou _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1304930/view/505087127536535584]_