Because of this, Miles is fired from the company he works for under pressure from the U.S. When he returns to the United States, he publishes all this information in the media, which is deeply dissatisfying to the government. His story, according to a beta version of the game, is the following:Īs Miles goes off to war in Afghanistan, he records and documents the horrors of war and discovers privileged information. Waylon Park sends an e-mail to him at the beginning of the DLC whistleblowing the Mount Massive situation. Miles Upshur is the protagonist of Outlast, an investigative journalist known for saying what should not be said. What motivates Waylon in his accusation, and it goes on until the end of the DLC, is the will to do what is right. Waylon, in both narratives, is a nerd, does not have many physical abilities, is married to Lisa Park, and is the father of two sons. Later on, the Murkoff workforce learned that it was a psychological pregnancy and that the cause was the morphogenic motor, every woman working close to the engine would develop a false pregnancy. His boss, a woman named Michelle, was pregnant and had allegedly been abused by one of the doctors, Richard Trager. In the comic, his story is a little different. Waylon Park is the protagonist in the DLC, a software engineer working on a two-week job at Mount Massive. The DLC Whistleblower has a fascinating tie with the main campaign, and the relationships established between the characters, both antagonists and protagonists, are worth understanding. Besides two games and the DLC Whistleblower, Red Barrels, the publisher of the games, also produced a comic book, so the players and fans could get more info on the storylines and characters. An unfortunate, desperate, horrified set of eyes.The universe of Outlast games is large and rich. Whistleblower is a good example of DLC that truly adds to the experience of the original game, and any fan would do well to pick this up and explore Mount Massive from another pair of eyes. Sure, the gore is abundant but is used only as a peripheral detail to something that is much more twisted and unfortunate. The game also relies a lot less on “jump scares” and tends to feature moments of fear concerning the unknown terrors of the facility and the human psyche. There’s a lot of content within that is EXTREMELY graphic, to the point where a game like Soldier of Fortune looks like an episode of Fraggle Rock. This can lead to wandering around in the dark if you don’t keep a brisk pace or get stuck, but it effectively makes the experience more engaging and filled with desperation.īeing on the other side of things in the Outlast world shows you true derangement, and Red Barrels did a wonderful job using explicit gore, showing absolutely horrible cases of mutilation and experimentation. It does seem like the batteries drain much faster than before, which serves to make the player progress hastily and recklessly to ramp up the intensity considerably. Just like the vanilla game, the camera is your best friend in the world. Without giving too much away (with a title like Whistleblower!) Waylon soon finds things going very badly for him, and he will have to face horrors that Myles had only documented but not lived.Īfter becoming part of the experiment, which seems to involve brainwashing via image association, Waylon looses himself from his restraints and the adventure truly starts. It appears that Waylon is nothing more than a simple I.T. It quickly becomes apparent that the people currently utilizing Waylon’s expertise are not his immediate colleagues, but likely his employer’s somewhat darker sector. Soon he is called upon to fix a computer error in a testing chamber in what appears to be an underground complex. As you start, Waylon is shooting off an e-mail to Myles regarding the twisted facility. The events of Whistleblower run parallel to the main game, so a few key events and characters will be shared. With Outlast: Whistleblower we assume the role of Waylon Park, Myles’ initial contact who tipped him off to the happenings at Mount Massive. When last we visited Mount Massive we were in the sweaty loafers of Myles Upshur, recording the harrowing breakdown of the sanatorium while simultaneously becoming a product of the place.
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