Outlast 2 game theorists5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() That's why we so often shuttle back and forth from the hallucinations to the real world like someone were flipping a switch. The flashbacks we get of Blake's trauma in Catholic school are him breaking with reality, bit by bit. Think of how Eddie Gluskin from Outlast 1 has his traumas magnified and expanded by the morphogenic engine, transforming him into an antagonist deadset on making a wife and building family. You're watching the footage 'objectively' as an 'outside observer' from the menu, as opposed to recording the footage while 'playing as Blake' and being 'inside his head' in-game.īlake has been driven insane by the signals Murkoff is sending from their mountain transmitter (as was the case with Knoth and the cultists), and by the end of the game has gone through a process similar to the morphogenic engine from the original Outlast. Something interesting for you to examine: rewatch Blake's recordings in the menu: he doesn't say the same things he did when he recorded the videos initially, after a certain point. (Which is what the player would think after playing it the first time.) But who knows for sure? We will most likely find out in a future DLC. So maybe this means the Blake ended up sleeping at the end instead of dying. The reason it is not a hallucination is because you are playing as Blake as a child and not an adult. The reason it is not a flashback is because when you find Jessica her neck is purple with a bruise and she has a grey face showing her basically "dead" and that definitely did not happen in Blake's childhood. But what does all of that mean? My theory is that instead of a flashback or hallucination it is a dream because at the start of the game you have a nightmare with Jessica in it and this may be a dream as well. The game ends with the two praying and Jessica saying Blake never let her go presumably meaning that it was not Blake's fault she died. The worlds ends which is likely just another hallucination and what we do next is play as Blake as a child and try to find Jessica. Knoth saw the baby however he was experiencing the signals aswell. Lynn says there is nothing there when the baby is born meaning that the baby was most likely just a hallucination from the towers. Lynn is taken to the mines and because of this the radio signals don't affect her and since Blake isn't underground he is experiencing all these signals that in turn make him lose all his sanity and by the end of the game the player doesn't know what is and what isn't real. The main theory which sounds the most plausible is that the radio towers that have been set up by the murkoff corporation have been interfering with the minds of all these people making them insane cultists and Lynn and Blake get in the middle of it. This is likely just an excuse for red barrels to create a DLC where it answers all the questions which believe me is what I want but still we should have had some closure. Why is the cult insane? What are those radio towers, why does Lynn say there is nothing there after the world ends? There are many other questions you probably have where most are only answered by interpretation and the one note you find that you never would unless you looked up where to find it on YouTube. Now, unless you paid perfect attention to the story and read all the notes and listened to and analyzed all the recordings chances are after the game ended you just said what the fuck and had a boatload of questions. You escape the mine, evade Marta, a deus ex machina happens and Marta dies then Lynn dies after her baby is born, Knoth kills him self, the world ends in what was most likely a hallucination and then we get some weird final cut scene with Jessica praying with Blake. Ending is good and intense but the only purpose it serves is to tie up some ends and it didn't really explain anything that happened.
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