I feel like they gave us so many hints that the baby was never real, but a shared delusion. The fact that Lynn knew the baby was a "she" when she had never had an ultrasound. The umbilical cord not needing to be cut, and of course the fact that Lynn's last words were "there's nothing there." Supposedly the baby was Jessica being "reborn" in Blake's eyes.
If anybody wants to know, this is how the story is explained: It's all connected to the Walrider Project in Mount Massive Asylum. There is a document in Whistleblower describing how entire female employees were suffering from what seemed to be as a phantom pregnancy. Truth is, it was basically turning female employees insane and seeing things and the Morphogenic Engine was causing some disturbance to female wombs (intense pain, stomach swollen). So Murkoff had entire female employees removed from Mount Massive Asylum. There is also Outlast comic that explains this more in detail. Jump to the sequel, we can tell that the entire town is already affected by Murkoff's project, as the villagers were turning into psychos, and Lynn and Blake were already affected by the time their helicopter crashed. I mean think about it. Blake's monologue implies that they haven't had sex for months yet she is suddenly pregnant, even yet, she gives birth overnight. That is scientifically impossible and defies laws of nature. This explains that Lynn was under the influence of Murkoff's brainwave (or something equivalent, as we already know that Murkoff had an outpost nearby the village and was most likely testing on villagers without their knowing). The baby was most likely Blake and Lynn's imagination. Knoth also saw the baby, but we all know that these three people were already affected by Murkoff's broadcasting mind control. Remember that we are playing from Blake's point of view. Blood rain? Locusts? These are just Blake's hallucinations. By the way, we also know that whatever Murkoff was testing, it has to do with broadcasting electronic bursts, since a powerful ultrasonic frequency wave can jam electronics (hence why the helicopter malfunctioned in the beginning) and can even kill birds and small creatures (look up Electronic pest control). So the flash of lights that Blake kept seeing and making him hallucinate also has to do with that. I'm guessing the DLC will explain the ending in more detail. But my theory is that the Murkoff is erasing the trace of the project by wiping out the entire village. And really quick about Jessica: Jessica was a childhood friend of Blake, she was apparently in love with him and had an abusive father. The teacher raped her and told Blake to go home (we see this scene in the game). After the rape Jessica either fell down the stairs while trying to escape or she got pushed down by the priest, whatever of this 2 options happened: the teacher hang Jessicas dead body and made it look like suicide. Apparently everyone believed it, since she was a problematic child with problematic parents. Blake was the only one who knew the truth but he was too scared to tell anyone and then forgot probably because it was to traumatic for him. In the village he remember his trauma and re-lives it.
So in the end, when jessica and blake are praying. Is it her way of thanking him in a sense? And she goes up to heaven and shit? EDIT: Also are you saying that the baby lynn had wasn't real, and murkoff had something to do with everything? *Cues X-Files theme*
xShiningAlicex What a brain you have... I can believe what you said.. you forgot to mention that moment when Lynn was dying.. She looked at Blake while he was holding the baby and she said ''There is nothing there'', which support your theory. The baby was just an imagination to Blake and Knoth. Lynn may have been pured of what ever Murkoff broadcasted a moment before she dies.
The-EXpertStreet B-Racer yesss I am pretty sure the pregnancy theory is legit because of her saying “its nothing there“ - also the first thing I was noticing about the birth is that the baby didnt have an umbilical cord and also it didnt look like a real birth (her stomach stayed big). You should look up “phantom pregnancy“ it actually does exist and it is possible that the woman dies afterwards because of the pain and stress.
If I cared about your comment, i'd be replying :D could be a way of her saying thank you, indeed. That would be insanely sweet tbh. I sadly think tho that it might be another way of showing us that religion can fuck people up and it already fucked them up in their childhood (the priest who raped Jessica, Jessicas religious family, the religious people in the village who all killed themselves in the end).. it might also be a way to explain why Blake remembers.. he obviously had a trauma when he was a kid and tried to forget the whole situation. He doesnt even remember clearly who Jessica is and he finds out once again with us together and re-lives his past. I think he might be reliving it because he is being confronted with fucked up religion in the village and maybe remembers the bad sides and bad people that religion brings with it.
The actual explanation for the Sun exploding, is that the Walrider destroyed the radio towers emitting the signal, which is why all the cultists killed themselves. It's what Knoth meant when he said that God has gone silent.
I just wish they would have explained this, in game because it gives no hints at all that murcoff or the walrider had anything to do with the radio light in the sky
In the original Outlast Whistleblower DLC there's a document which states that side effects of their experiments include phantom pregnancies, miscarriages and death.
I remembered that. The document that mentions it is called "Gender Selection in Mount Massive Contracters" and some references to it also show up in the document "Miscarried Profits".
It's good to see even in some metal songs or horror movies/Games those examples, meybe they are explicite or disturbing but they maybe are just an example of what they think about it in a way that clarify you that u have to do something, for an example if i will watch a scene with a stalker and maybe seeing his behavior i would think that it's not good to be a stalker, they are disturbing and have a lack of trust
@@Dragzilla66 out of millions yes. It's been blown out of proportion I think... That's like saying one type of jam isnt tasty so they're all terrible 😂
Mary G You realize it's actually obvious and said in game that Blake and Lynn are straight right? You're trying to insert a transgender character into a horror game as the villain. Not really a good image for trans people huh? Also we don't even know what Val is so trying to say she is trans is forcing that role upon her.
Mary G Val was crazy, everyone can see that. She didn't know what she was doing because she was crazy. I mean, the people who think non binary is a thing are crazy and people who think there's more than two genders are crazy, but a character in a video game is just crazy and not whatever shit you want to try and name her as.
Yes, this would be fantastic! Especially if it showed the transition from a “normal” cult into Murkoff-corrupted-apocalyptic-murder-cult and how that all happened
Did anyone else notice that in the first game, Chris Walker was the first enemy to be introduced, and then killed at the end of it, and in this game, Marta was the first enemy introduced and was also killed at the end?
Carol Habicht Actually no, deep within the lore of outlast 2 it is found out that that the Murkoff corporation had broadcasting facility's near were the game takes place. Apparently the signals from the broadcasting facility turned everyone coco and they started hallucinating. Even Blake himself starts hallucinating about Jessica.
Yep murkoff broadcasting microwaves to make people go crazy ,it send people back to a tramatism in their past (jessica for blake) , and at the end , blake see the baby as the priest do ( they are full brainwashed) but there is no baby ( no shadow ) thats why lynn say"there is nothing here" the scenario is very complete when u study all message and tape , and when you do connection with outlast 1
@snake paintt That's exactly what I was thinking. I was like there is no baby cause Lynn said there was nothing there. I was like that is a weird thing to say out of nowhere. Makes me think she prolly just died from all the injuries she had and whatnot.
Mark, So, here's what happened to Jessica:Father Loutermilch was indeed abusing her and did push her down the flight of stairs, the fall didn't kill her however. Blake escapes the school with Jess (he references this in one of his last recordings "We got out, it was just starting to snow, we'll find an adult and tell everything that happened" Father Loutermilch denied all that happened and pressured Blake into keeping his mouth shut and not testifying against him. Which is what Blake did, he kept silent. That is why he is wracked with guilt and keeps repeating "none of this is my fault" Jessica couldn't stand living with what happened and father Loutermilch getting away with it so she hung herself. Apparantly Blake found her when she hanged herself, this however would have been helpful if they had actually shown it in the game. As to what happens at the end, let me clarify that, just as in the first Outlast, NOTHING SUPERNATURAL ACTUALLY HAPPENS. In the first game the Walrider was not supernatural, it had something to do with nightmare inducing hypnosis and nanobots (the walrider) I don't remember 100%, but it was "scientific" not supernatural. All the events happening in Outlast 2 have been caused by Murkoff corp. as well, 1 hint being a document referencing Jennifer (Jenny) Roland, a Murkoff corp. Pathologist referenced in a lot of documents found in the first Outlast game + in the white noise recordings you make while having the school hallucinations it sometimes shows one or two frames displaying the Murkoff logo, so they are 100% involved. So, I believe Mark is very close to the true story of Outlast 2, being that the microwave relay tower induces hallucinations and is another Murkoff project/experiment on the human Psyche, combine this with a bunch of religious nutjob factions and you get a neat little effect named MASS HYSTERIA. I believe there was already a highly religious community there of which Knoth was the local (extremist) priest before Murkoff set up base in the area. At the start of the project the microwaves cause Knoth to receive the words of God to write down his gospel, I believe this idea has actually been purposfully implanted in Knoth's mind by Murkoff, exploiting and expanding on the already fanatic religious ideals of the community. The extreme way in which Knoth takes advantage of his powerful position within the community (demanding to "lay" with young girls and a lot of the town's women, then demanding the murder of the children thus conceived) caused a division between Knoth and one of his dearest followers: Val. Val was in custody of over 40 children, mostly orphans (you can find this in one of the documents) meaning she always had a lot of love for children, causing her to denounce Knoth's ways and flee Temple Gate with all of the children, thus forming the group known as the Heretics (this also explains why all the members in the heretics group are rather short, they are all rather young, except Val of course, who is very tall. The reason they seem to be almost feral might be caused by the fact they were so young, their brains not having been fully grown yet, when they became influenced by Murkoff's microwave brainwashing). A large percentage of the people within Knoth's community alse become afflicted by boils, sores and general decay, this could be caused by several things but I believe it might be related to pollution in the water or something (Ethan's daughter died because of Mercury poisoning, so there is definitly something going on with the water or something like that), EDIT: They are also stricken with several STD's from Knoth's rampant sexual behavior. this causing a third group to form, known as the Scalled. The scalled are loyal to Knoth however. So When Blake and Lynn enter the Temple Gate area, they as well are being exposed to the microwave signals (which scramble your brains), from then on out the only thing Blake hears all the time is religious talk about the end of days, the Rapture, the conceiving of the Antichrist, the spider-eyed lamb, this causes him to also become a victim of the mass hysteria which is happening, some halucinations are also catholic in nature such as the bloody rain... As you progress further into the game, the school halucinations become more and more frequent. This being caused by more and more exposure to the microwave signal. Whilst halucinating Blake actually keeps moving as in a "sleepwalking state" (this is also referenced in the documents) which is why he always "wakes up" in another area. In the end, when Lynn "gives birth to the baby" it is highly likely she is dying from her injuries (she was VERY bloody even before going into labor) + stress induced trauma. That MIGHT be why she stated "There is nothing there" as there is no actual child, this might however refer to nothing being there when you are dying (no afterlife), Seeing as Lynn and Blake were raised catholically. In the first Outlast game there is a document which literally explains that they could not have female inmates partake in the project and research being done at Mount Massive Asylum and none of the female staff could physically enter the underground labs because the Morphogenic engine caused pseudocyesis, better known as FALSE PREGNANCIES!!!! In the end Papa Knoth had all of his followers commit mass suicide by means of Cyanide ingestion because he believed he had failed in his calling to stop the antichrist from being born, I do not believe there actually was a baby but then again, mass hysteria/hallucinations. After Knoth kills himself, Blake finds all the suicide victims and then watches the sun expand/explode. I believe this symbolizes either A: The Microwave relay emits another flash, frying Blake's brains, causing his sanity to break and leaving nothing behind but his last memory of the event that has haunted his subconcience for his entire life. or B: (and I strongly believe this is what actually happens) Murkoff just levels the entire compound to the ground by bombing it all to hell, just to cover it up, all the "subjects" are dead so they might want to sever ties with the whole area and leave no trace of their influence there. I know Red Barrels could have explained this all more, but I for one do not mind an open ending when it is actually possible to decipher the meaning by tying knots together and researching a bit. Possibly they will release DLC to further explain everything but that would be just a cashgrab. They didn't explain what happened to Miles in the Whistleblower DLC, they just expanded on the story. Which I am fine with. If they only make the ending messy so they could sell extra DLC, it would be scummy of them. But I highly doubt it. Sorry for the long post. :) EDIT: A year after posting this (and because this comment still gets replied to) I've decided to cut the text up into paragraphs as some people (rightfully so) have critiqued me on this. I hope this makes your reading experience more enjoyable.
Wow, good work!! Everything makes so much more sense now. Just wanted to point out that the baby DOES NOT HAVE A SHADOW (best seen at 35:25) - so yeah, it's not real. But thank you!!
As people theorize There may have been day times but we were hallucinating during it. But if so then Tf we didn't eat we didn't shit. I guess that's possible too when you are literally trying to survive from horrible death you would not get hungry and weakness won't be noticed since we'd be pumping all energy for survival.
@@अण्वायुवरीवर्त It’s not that complicated, we can just assume that the game has a 1:1 time scale. If you beat the game in less the 7 hours than it’s reasonable to assume that it’s all happening in one night
This entire playthrough was 7, maybe 8 hours long at most. That could fit within even a summer night, considering it goes sunset to sunrise. Batman Arkham Knight _is_ temporally impossible, though.
Hello Mark. You missed really important document which explains much of the situation. You were right about some kind of signal blowing peoples mind. It was a Murkoff Corporation experiment. We can find a piece of paper on the left side of lake. Furthermore, you got all requirements that reveals Jessica's story. (She didn't hang herself, but the priest killed her). If you didn't trigger this requirement, Jessica would have a hang mark on her neck in the ending scene. Priest put her in the noose, to blame Blake and probably others. So you did good :) There is much more secrets of course. Thanks a lot for your playthrough. I'm watching you couple of yeras. I learned a lot (english language) from you. I have an English Matura exam in my high school on next Tuesday so I can test myself. You better be carefull :p Greetings from Poland
I think the Jessica thing is a given. like, no matter what, you will find out her story. my issue is with what Patrick said; why did Jessica have rope burns in Jack's ending, but not Mark's? and I guess her neck was clean in Pewds' ending too (I haven't finished his yet. just going by what others have said).
Klimek ☢ Games :O I was wondering why I saw her with a bruise on her neck in one playthroughs but not in others! But what actually "unlocks" Jessica's full ending that it shows the difference? I think it was Jacksepticeye that I saw that she had the bruise mark
Thanks for support :) I did a small research and I could not find any explanation of "neck mark". I think it is related to "school" part of the game (Blake's memories probably triggered by the signal), but it is kind of Blake's knowledge of the truth. He finds out all the lies during memories flashbacks and if we miss something, the lie is still alive, so we can see a mark on Jessica's Neck, which means that Blake thinks Jessica hanged herself. It is matter of time. I am sure the answers will be revealed soon or maybe are already there ;)
The face Mark pulls from when Knoth starts speaking (around 37:00) to the end of his monologue is just the face of a broken man who's been through too much shit to deal with this.
From Outlast 1 Note is called " from under the mountain" "Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Whoever finds my corpse- trust no one and tell everyone. I am not crazy. I know, I know, only crazy people say that. But I am as sane as this world allows, with a camera full of evidence. Don't call it a gospel. Call it a mockery of reason, let the world know it is Murkoff's fault. Bury these bastards with my mutilated dead body." Could this game be a prequel and this note be left by Blake before he died? Could Murkoff made everyone kill themselves because they wanted the land they were on?
Plus, it's confirmed by Red Barrels that Outlast 2 takes place after Outlast 1. And since Murkoff is still around... Miles became the Walrider for nothing and Waylon did practically nothing with the footage. GOOD JOB, GUYS!
CPC TV that's what I was saying before, the Murkoff corporation has something to do with all this insane shit that's going on, that factory by the mines is no coincidence
Nah, what I meant was that that giving birth scene was relatively tame compared to some other parts of the game and those parts didn't make me feel sick for some reason.
It's common for the miracle of life to often make one die inside a little. And what parts of this game were actually worse exactly? Everything seemed tame except the medieval stretcher you never got a good look at.
I found it kind of funny by how unrealistic it was but hey, video game so what? personally the scalled bothered me the most but that's because I'm kind of squeamish and paranoid over stds.
If you look close enough you can see it. I think they messed up on the shading or something. It's possible there's no child and good observation by the way.
Mark, it wasnt real, you are right. Its all Murkoff, their base can be seen near the lake, as well as the scientists note about the tower making some radio waves that make people crazy and believing to everything they hear. Same effect is given by the morphogenic engine used in Outlast 1. Also in Whistleblower DLC we can find notes about fantom birth happening to women in the Murkoff facilities, that's why Lynn sad there's nothing there, because she wasnt pregnant at all and the baby we see is the halucination of our main character being affected by the Murkoff towers. Also, Jessica didnt hang herself, she tripped over the stair and broke her neck, running away from the bold teacher, that tried to molest or rape her, then he tried to hang the girl, so it seemed like a suicide, that's why Blake always sees her like that. Because the only thing he saw, was her dead hanged body. But eventually he figured out it was the teacher. As he sad, it wasnt his fault. That's basicly it, this is the main theory answering major questions. Upvote for Mark to see
Elegon Frontine thats right but in outlast 1 when you where in the cinema the where telling you about this kind of village ( outlast 2) where they killed people to rice ? revive god. and thr doctor that that also in murcoff outlast 1 sorry of the grammar.
"Could you stop running out of breath every 2 inches!?" Sure, he's only been beaten, stabbed, slashed fallen down large inclines, in a helicopter crash, was crucified, and to top it all you're trying to wade through waist deep water.
Check the shadow of Blake's hands at 35:26. He's holding NOTHING. There is no baby. Edit: Aaaaand I'm adding an edit three years later. I realize NOW that this ties into information found by Park in Whistleblower -- a memo references why there aren't any women at Mount Massive, either on the Murkoff side or among the inmates. The Walrider engine caused multiple female staffers to develop accelerated fictitious pregnancies -- and half of them died while "delivering" these non-existent children. So if Murkoff is behind the events in Outlast 2 (and they might be, since another Whistleblower memo talks about how they've got MORE subjects who were able to use the engine as effectively as Billy Hope did), then it would make sense that Lynn was yet another victim of the fictitious -- and fatal -- accelerated pregnancies.
Colby Patrick Well, given how fucked up this cult was, I wouldn’t be surprised if they brutally raped her and shoved shit up in her to make her appear distended. Keep in mind she had blood down her thighs as they were running, before she “gave birth.” She probably died from trauma.
Tamara, Redguard, lvl. 30 there is no baby as it was all an experiment from murkoff and it made lynn thinks eh was pregnant like the women in the origami outlast
@@colbypatrick8910 She dies from a phantom pregnancy, resulting from the effects of the weird bright light. The pain killed her, and when she says "nothing's there, personally, I think she's referring to the "baby" because in Blake's shadow, his hands are empty.
OKAY, SO AT 35:25 LYNN SAYS," there is nothing there," RIGHT? LOOK ON THE FLOOR WHERE THE SHADOW OF BLAKES HANDS ARE, THERE IS NO BABY IN HIS HANDS! LYNN WAS RIGHT! THERE IS NO BABY
At 35:25 when lynn says "there's nothing there". There is no shadow of a baby in Blake's hands. This is Proving that theory of Hallucinations to be true, and that most of the events in this game were all hallucination caused by the Murkoff corporation. this can also explain where they were getting gas and electricity from(possibly used to go directly to their tower). Also if you didn't catch this for extra reassurance....there was no umbilical cord to cut.
well Knoth was under the same Murkoff transmission like Blake, but for Lynn, who was underground for most of the game(were the radiowaves couldn't reach)
Kamron Groves also if you remember from the first game murkoff was doing phantom pregnancy experiments and the results were women giving birth to their own organs and dying
i do see where your coming from, but remember he was hallucinating...so why would he see the organs if he was under Murkoff's effect, and it's still a small possibility that the Baby was real, but you CAN'T deny that the Murkoff Corp had a hand in this.
Wow, in addition to the shortest pregnancy ever, she also got the world's fastest delivery ever- I imagine many women would be envious of that if not for the whole DYING thing afterwards XP
@@colbypatrick8910 (I haven't played the game, so I am by NO means an expert on it. I've just read the comments and watched Markiplier.) Spoilers. But when the baby is born and the guy goes to stand by his girlfriend you see his shadow on the floor - and see that he is holding nothing. His girl is also saying as she dies that there is nothing there.
The true key to the ending was Lynn's last words... "There's nothing there..." Blake is too far gone, so the baby is a reality to him because of that light, and as you say Mark, something psychologically messed with him too. No one will like this, but please try so Mark could see it? Oh, and Happy Birthday to my friend Lauren!!
John Rotolo My only question is why does Lynn think she's pregnant though? Blake got hit by the light way more times than she did, she got dragged down into the mines. And what kills her then? I'm not trying to dispute anything I'm genuinely curious xD
Believe me Sabrina, I'm just as curious as you and the rest of the community! I think, personally, that Lynn was exposed enough to be tricked into having a child, but when she was in the mines (since it's almost implied that she'd there early on after you try to reconnect with her) that something was deathly wrong with her. I believe the stress from possibly being beaten and or tortured down there could have been the cause, or the stuff, which could have been internal organs, which came right out of her vagina... as gross as that sounds lol. But I do believe this is the notion that Red Barrel was going when they made the end. But then again, it's all speculation xD
Remember from Outlast Whistleblower where they mention that due to the Walrider experiments, female patients experienced "phantom pregnancies" that eventually caused them to die? I'm betting it was something along the same lines because the Murkoff corporation is still doing what they're doing, especially around Temple Gate. At least, if the supplementary materials are to be believed, anyway. Hopefully this helps!
@Skywolf666 I do recall that now! indeed some old insight 🤓Hopefully, if there is a DLC to this one, we might be able to experience what happens there or what happened while Blake was running around like a madman. Or maybe it was all an experiment...
"There's nothing there..." So, like, the baby wasn't there? Is that why "something's wrong"? Oh! So the entire game was nothing more than a candid illusion~?
It all has to do with Murkoff. The light was their experiment and, if you remember from Outlast 1, all of the female patients were moved because they thought they were pregnant. This relates to Lynn. Lynn was never pregnant. The baby was never born. All of it was just Murkoff's experiment.
There was no baby, hence the lack of umbilical cord and shadows. Blake and Knoth hallucinated it because of the white lights that the Murkoff facility was firing, all the other villagers would've hallucinated the same baby too most probably, if they survived. The bright lights were part of an experiment by the Murkoff Corporation basically just for the shits and giggles, and Blake turns insane by the end of the game because of all the shit he goes through and the white lights that causes his hallucinations. The sun consuming the world was another hallucination as well, or another light similar to the ones Murkoff had been firing beforehand. Obviously, the game goes through the stages of the apocalypse and the last stage of the apocalypse is that the sun consumes the world. If you want a conclusion to what happens to Blake after the end of the game, here's what it says on the wiki, which was taken from Outlast: The Murkoff Account: _"Several hours after the massacre at Temple Gate, Pauline Glick and several other Murkoff agents investigate the aftermath. Two agents in Hazmat suits discover a man still breathing, albeit in a catatonic state, and drag him out of a small shed. Pauline quickly realizes that the man is in fact Blake, and immediately orders the agents to take him away for brutal questioning. Notably, Lynn's child is nowhere to be found."_ Yeah, very depressing end to the Langermanns.
39:43 Me and my choir class actually sang this song. It was two or three months ago, but still. And no, I'm not from England, I am from Indiana and am in 8th grade, we did this piece as a tribute to Mozart or something.
Templar Knight A bit of both. All the people aren't really experiencing "True" reality or it seems that way the very lest, but by your evidence of the mock pregnancy, their version of reality is atleasted being changed. Any sane person in this situation would begin to question what's real and isn't. Another thing that bothered me a tiny bit was the signs of the apocalypse. Even if it was all in their head or if was something else sane people would change.
I may have an answer to your problems, at the very least 1 I have a theory that you might consider pretty probable? 1) This is a CONFIRMED SEQUEL, right, so what if at THIS juncture, Murdock has gotten much further at perfecting their abilities to hypnotize and/or induce visions and the like - and the idea of "mass hysteria" is a thing, so if EVERYONE was being repeatedly influenced by the same person, they may end up drawing the same conclusions and having the same warped realities, because I'd like to point out in 1 that it's not like someone was talking over a loudspeaker to ALL of the patients, and on top of it ALL they WERE MENTAL PATIENTS which means, according to science as we know it, their brains probably aren't mapped out the same way as a "normal" (And I use that VERY loosely I'm not trying to be a dick and say mental patients are "abnormal") brain so they're less likely to end up HAVING the same delusions in the first place. I could be wrong on that, but it's my theory at the very least. Again, Mass Hysteria couldn't be a thing in Outlast 1 because not everyone present was on the same page like the people in 2 were. 2) I had an interesting internal realization that, at one point, you read a note where someone says he and some of his other buddies - followers of Papa Knoth - started meeting together in a hole they dug. And then, shockingly, those people seemed to slowly turn into Heretics, right? Hear me out here. What if, if you're not barraged by the light all the time, you gradually quit getting influenced? You're still getting microwaves frying your brain but the light isn't adding - who knows maybe the hypnotic suggestion or whatever else it was doing. So because of this, they gradually start to question Papa Knoth more. They start to think, hey, maybe the heretics have a point? Again bear with me here I know what you're thinking, "then what about the people in the mine shouldn't they be normal???" But see THEY'RE RIGHT NEXT TO the facility, right? So the microwaves would potentially be EXPONENTIALLY WORSE, and when they DO come above ground, the light flashes hit them again -- its part of why, I'd imagine, Blake ends up plagued through the whole thing despite going underground and clearly missing flashes from time to time. I'm sure if you miss ENOUGH eventually you can come back to a semblance of sanity, but the microwaves are still hitting you so you're not TOTALLY there yet, you know? And then at the mine if you're still going outside you're getting hit with the occasional light and massive amounts of microwaves. SO, my theory would be, that one singular guy, when he ditches Papa Knoth, maybe he spends a lot of his time inside/underground and it gave HIM a larger semblance of sanity than most. Or at least a better moral compass, because theoretically we still have to remember that a lot of these people are mostly just following the moral compass Papa Knoth is GIVING THEM rather than following their own, and I WOULD also like to point out that we're SAYING "everyone is experiencing the same delusions" BUT everyone would be experiencing differing levels of guilt, for sure, and it's very clear they were a cult BEFORE all of this and I just think the issue was amplified greatly, especially if Murdock was trying to figure out how to use people's guilt to control them. 3) Yes, there's the one document that explains things, but I do firmly believe they wanna leave heavier explanations for this in DLC, I'm SURE they wanted to ensure people would get the DLC when it came out BECAUSE they still had questions. Either that or they wanted to leave it open for a sequel, but I kind of don't see that - I see it more likely they're gonna give you DLC to answer some questions --- TECHNICALLY Whistleblower answered some questions from the first game, too, like remember at the end when you go to the room with all the life pods and there's one pod that's already dead and full of blood? More than likely that's the first guy you see get pulled in in Whistleblower when you're working on the computer in the "2 hrs earlier" sequence. LITTLE things like that. Like what the twins were up to while you were dickin' around in other places as Miles, for example. Or HOW IT ALL STARTED in the first place, really. THESE ARE JUST MY THEORIES, I'm just trying to bump ideas off just like everyone else because of course none of like... really.. ACTUALLY know.... except the developers I guess.... Unless THEY left it open for interpretation ANYWAY....
Really, mostly, I was taking other "theories" ("confirmed" or otherwise) that other people were suggesting and bouncing them around in my own head and working them back out. I wasn't doing much, honestly. Then again I guess you could say most youtubers "aren't doing much" xD; I was kind of wondering if I went with a RUclips channel what I should go with and I AM ALWAYS better at sussing out a storyline than most people are, or at least coming up with my own cool theories by extrapolating neat ideas my brain comes up with, but as much as I'd love to there's NO WAY I'd be able to do it with horror games. I just can't play them. It's why I started watching Mark in the first place, just can't do the games where you have no weapons and your only option is to run and hide. I can do things like Dead Space, but Amnesia, Outlast itself, or pretty much any other horror game where literally your only option is to run and/or hide, I just - I'm just incapable. I get WAY too worked up. Then again, that's probably also what would net me a huge fanbase so I'm probably missing a huge opportunity but I don't think I could manage it xDD;; I could definitely do it with other games though. Shoot me a few games you can think of and maybe I'll even do a LetsPlay of them (even if they're old) and do a storyline walk-through sorta thing or something, I could at least give it a try, it wouldn't hurt. Not that I have any recording programs set up for my computer just yet but I was hoping to do so at some point... Also I'd be one of those people that literally gets EVERY collectible item and stops to explore every corner of a room so uh. That one frustrating thing about Mark where he skims over notes that hold vital information wouldn't exist with me, fortunately xDDD;; Then again it would almost be equally frustrating to watch me wander through a room for the 20th time going "OKAY I GOT *EVERYTHING* IN HERE, RIGHT?"
@@idekbruh753 Well, a lot of people wanted a DLC 'cause they felt like it wasn't explained enough. But, two years after commenting this, I don't need a DLC, anymore.
Yeah it's a murkoff experiment. Involving emp waves. His wife says there's nothing there because she wasn't as exposed since she was 800 feet underground for a majority of the game.
Hey mark, If you start and stop the school videos the talking will continue without the static. It's someone talking that's been played in reverse. I missed the second tape but this is what I got from the videos I did get:-Jessica's suicide note-"Thank you lord for killing the child. Dear lord sweet Jesus forgive my sins and and accept my gratitude"-Hanged Jessica -"You removed the temptation beyond my flesh and made us able to resist"-A game of hang man-"I am weak but you are strong for me, and generous. You give me life"-Ruptures-"You shared my peace with the children, who may be able to take my meager talents and turn them into glory"-Roots and branches-"You let me share in her rugged path to adulthood. Those moments when a child learns those things everybody else already knows but doesn't talk about"-They're all going to laugh at you-"She was so ripe with possibility. So resilient, smiling, flirting. Never even aware of the power she had"-Pulse-"You killed her. You saw what she was. You knew the sin rested on her shoulders as much as on my own. You took her and I could not"-I have lots of friends-"You killed her. I never told a soul. I kept your secret from the secret. Thank you. Thank you. You never told a soul. You let the small sorrow of the suicide wash over the others at little tragedy for murder"They may not be 100% correct but this is what I heard. Hope it helps!
When the game started they were looking for a factory, because this pregnant woman was found with a strong dose of mercury within her. Mercury does damage the brain significantly. Maybe Blake and the others suffered from extrem mercury-posoining? (The other all have had syphillis as well)
Mercury used to be used as a cure for syphilis a long time ago, but they stopped using it because of the other effects like mercury poisoning. This could explain why they all took mercury.
Kylienne Wyd? There is another youtube artist who makes game/film theory videos called Game Theory. At the end of his videos, he always goes ' But hey, that's just a theory. A game theory.'
Is nobody gonna mention that Mark & Jack got two different endings? Sure the voice acting was the same, but Jack's ending showed Jessica with the rope burns around her neck and a pale, corpse-ish face, and Mark's ending had a Jessica without the marks and pale face.
Jack did get more recordings, but not sure if that's what triggers the other ending. From what i've read, people are still trying to figure out what exactly triggers the alternate (clean) ending.
My question is did Jack go back to save Jessica like Mark tried to? If not, then there might be the answer of the marks being around her neck. Just a thought.
I really want a Game Theory episode about this game, especially a thorough look at the consequences of all the physical shit Blake ended up going through. I really want to have MatPat going through the insanity of all those injuries and the hilarious ridiculousness of how he treated his wounds XD
I thought she was saying that in regards to there being no light or any afterlife or heaven as she was passing. Like saying "all there is is darkness."
Creepy fact warning At the very final scene with Jessica- you can see when she turns to look at you she does it in a very weird unnatural way which I think most people toss up to " weird animation or bad animation " or don't even notice it but actually it is completely intended. If you watch it in slow motion and pause it as she does it she is actually entering a " hanged " position for a brief moment with her neck stretched and her eyes looking up away lifeless.
Also The subtitles in this game are very important. Specifically: the colour of them. The colour of them represent who is speaking, certain colours associated to certain characters. White for Blake, Green for Lynn, Blue for Jessica, Red for Lautermilch, etc In the final cutscene when " Jessica " is calling for you, the subtitle is not in her colour until you see she is dead. The colour of the subtitle while she is calling for you is the same colour as the chalk used to write her name " Jessica" in her suicide note on the chalk board.
Wheel Everything is most certainly not explained, asshole. The microwave relay seemed to be blowing up at the end as evidenced by people starting to snap out of the delusion (Lynn saying "There's nothing there." Knoth saying "God has gone silent") So did it just get knocked out by a storm or by sabotage? Was there actually a massive explosion that killed Blake or did it just represent him falling completely into insanity? If I know anything about Red Barrel, it's that they'll release a DLC taking place at the microwave relay to fill in the gaps of the ending.
The face that priest pulled after seeing the look of fear in Jessica’s eyes was absolutely disgusting. A split second smile before a mask of concern passed once again over his face
PLEASE LIKE/UPVOTE SO MARK CAN SEE! SOME OF THESE ARE THEORIES SO PLEASE DONT HATE! THANK YOU! Mark, like other people said, the apocalypse wasn't real! At the part with the raft where Blake said he wouldn't dip a toe in the water, if you swim across there is a secret note that ties in the experiments with Murkoff! Also, at the end Lynn said "There's nothing there..." which a lot of people think means she saw through the control (she was in the mines for most of the time so she had a lot of exposure, but also she only got hit by the light once in the helicopter so maybe it had a hard time getting into her?) and saw the baby wasn't real, and she wasn't pregnant. Blake and Knoth see the child, and Blake sees the apocalypse, because their beliefs were amplified by all the exposure to the light. Another huge theory is that when something that isn't real is shown, it's based off of something that is real. So the blood rain, just normal rain. The locusts, possibly a strong wind, a precursor for the storm. The apocalypse, just a massive storm, or a haboob, which is a massive wall of dust that happens a lot in Arizona (believe me I live here). Finally, the "sun exploding" at the end is possibly the Murkoff factory exploding from all the destruction caused by the storm! PLEASE LIKE/UPVOTE SO MARK CAN SEE! SOME OF THESE ARE THEORIES SO PLEASE DONT HATE! THANK YOU!
ALSO PLEASE FEEL FREE TO TELL ME ALTERNATE THEORIES AND THAT IM WRONG! IF THIS GETS UPVOTED AND I GET TOLD MORE LIKELY THEORIES I WILL BE HAPPY TO EDIT!
Hitoru Matsumoto The baby doesn’t exist though, when it was born, Lynn said “There’s nothing there” there was no baby. Have you ever heard of a false pregnancy? It’s when the Uterus thinks there’s a baby in a woman, therefore she goes through the pregnancy stages. My dog once had a false pregnancy, it’s a real thing.
For those who dont understand Blake and Lynn having a baby in a shack in the storm after not finding a place is related to Mary and Joseph suddenly birthing Jesus in a stable even though Mary was a virgin
*SPOILERS AHEAD* After watching both of mark's playthroughs of outlast, W.B and outlast 2, I have noticed a formula on how Red Barrels seems to layout their game which can be broken down into three parts: Beginning: Wandering/fetch quests while being pursued primarily by default antagonist: Outlast: Chris Walker (Little Pig!) Outlast W.B: Canibal Sam/Chris Walker (Feed Me!) Outlast 2: Marta (Sinner!) Middle: Divulges from the main story by becoming its own story arc while being pursued by special antagonist: Outlast: Trager (Buddy!) Outlast W.B: Groom (Darling!) Outlast 2: Laird/Nick (The Prophet!) End: Here, Outlast W.B differs from the other two games, in Outlast and Outlast 2: Everything begins to wrap up, the overall objective is coming close to being met until a twist occurs. The protagonist then suffers a cruel twist of fate, END. With Outlast W.B we actually got a happy ending, which gives a point to everything we went through. Potential DLC: In Outlast W.B we play as Waylon Park, a software engineer who leaks info for the playable character of Outlast; Miles Upshur to find. With that in mind, for the Outlast 2 DLC we could possibly play as Anna Lee, the daughter of Ethan Lee and the only person who seemingly tried to escape from Temple Gate. Sure, we all would know that she dies at the end but it would allow the player to delve deeper into finding an explanation on what happened to the people at Temple Gate and why they all went insane. The Murkoff Corporation could even be brought in to tie the two games together.
Kyle Rubin outlast W B's ending is after outlast 1 the walrider is already Miles at that time that's why it shows Miles outfit whenever Waylon zooms in on the shadowy figure. So the info he posted to the world was after the events of his and Miles story.
Comments in a nutshell- 50%- Theories on Outlast 2 15%- Athiests claiming that they're glad that they aren't religious 30%- Theories countering other theories 4%- people liking Markiplier's Outlast 2 playthrough 1%- this comment
SUPER NINTEN he could've meant theese type of comments but theese people who comment this never do actuality anything to know this they are just like whores
You're right though Mark, none of it was real! Lynn even said it herself before she died, in her moment of clarity before she drew the last breath, she said "there's nothing there." There was no baby. He wasn't holding an actual baby. It was a doll. Just like all the other baby dolls all through out the village. You're right, there was nothing actually happening, just a bunch of hallucinations and chemical overdose. They did explain, you just have to understand the mindset that the main character is in. He has gone crazy. And in the main character going crazy, you as the player have gone insane with him. Even the heretics used psychedelics, blowing them in your face to amplify the chemical hallucinations caused by the mercury that was seeping in to the drinking water. We know this because of how the daughter from the beginning died. How much of a coincidence is it that your "baby" was a girl? The only reason he kept thinking of Jess was because he just so happened to dream of it prior to the crash. It could have been resolved, he could have told someone and the teacher may have been dealt with, they never tell us it wasn't resolved, just that he is overwhelmingly guilty of her death that he witnessed as a child. He felt guilty that he allowed himself to leave her in that room after she begged him to stay. He left only because an adult that was supposed to be trustworthy forced him to, but as a child having something tragic like that happen in front of you will haunt you forever. Lynn wouldn't hold this guilt because she wasn't there at the time. Don't forget what the monster in you waking dreams looked like. A being with a body made of sex-organs and many mouths. You saw flames and insects as well, but only because you had been reading all these religious papers that told you about them. Remember, the mind is a very complex and powerful manipulator. It used the information you already knew, the information you were gathering all throughout the village, and the information that everyone else was telling you, and turned your reality into their reality. Into a chemical hallucination caused by mercury and other chemical poisoning. Think about it, you were just fine until you started swimming in the water. Until you started trekking further into the forest, closer to the factory. Lynn was right. There were chemical spills that were harming local life and driving people crazy. The game gave a clear and coherent explanation, there is no question that none of this was real, but you get so caught up in how Blake lived it and how he perceived reality that you in turn start to believe that it is actually happening. But it's not. None of it. This game is so great because it not only shows you insanity, but makes you question your own sanity and beliefs as you play. You're left with Blake wondering into the woods, holding a "newborn," and watching the sun explode because his eyes can't take the light. He's become extremely light sensitive after being in a chemical hallucination for over 12 hours in the dark. Just remember, Outlast games are designed to play with your mind. The first one was showing how the mind can be completely lost in others. This Outlast is how the mind is lost in yourself. It's genius. Tell me what you think of my theory!
Savicurlly Wow, that's the best theory I've read. I like how you analysed both Outlasts and searched their meanings. It makes a lot of sense now. Thanks! 👍
You can find a note near the lake that is by a scientist who mentions and works for murkoff. He talks about some lady that works there too and something about the towers. I know that the towers cause people to go insane the closer you are to them and amplify your deepest darkest secrets/guilty feelings. I think after he saw the priest kill Jess, the priest pressured Blake into helping him stage Jess' suicide, which is why Blake keeps saying Jess' death was a suicide and extreme guilt that he left and covered up her death. This is supported by the song you can hear when mark is walking down the mine at 1:22 that sings "be careful little eyes what you see (x2) there's a father up above, and he's looking down with love, be careful little eyes what you see..." then he changes eyes to hands and see to do and before mark opens the door that cuts off the end of the song he changes hands with mouth and do with say. And when you have to run to the bathroom after seeing Jess dead on the stairs and going back towards the stairs after running from whatever's chasing you, you find Jess dangling from a noose, which supports that it was staged, even IF Blake had nothing to do the cover up. And since the light, from the murkoff towers, amplifies guilt, Blake is slowly going insane as he relives, probably, the most traumatic moment of his adolescence. He's so consumed by his guilt that he has to keep saying it wasn't HIS fault, he blames Jess's death all on himself even though the priest killed her and basically threatened Blake too. This is probably why he keeps confusing Lynn for Jess in his video diary things. He wants so badly to save Jess just to get rid of this terrible secret. He's also been blasted by that light, like four times right? It's affecting him much more than Lynn because 1) he has had more contact with it 2) he's outside and eventually is a whole lot closer to the towers than Lynn is and 3) Lynn is underground in the mines where she isn't really being affected. She could be going insane too, but not as much as Blake is throughout the game. So I think she might think she actually is pregnant, she did get hit with the first burst that brought down the helicopter, but not as far as Blake sees. Blake sees her at 9 months where as she could see herself as barely finding out she pregnant. So at the end where she "gives birth", she's still sane enough to know that "there's nothing there" as she says. As far as why everybody is insane, well they live close to the towers, so they went insane. That's why knoth thinks every child is the anti Christ and why he can see Blake's "child". And the heretics live closest to the towers, so they're the most insane and probably the first to turn insane, which is probably why they're called heretics. And then the monster in Blake's guilt-dream-visions is the priest, b/c he's a monster that raped and killed Jess (as a grown up he realized this). This is a theory I found, as well as added my own thoughts here and there. just thought I'd leave it here for all ya'll.
There's an answer for that in the first game. There's a note in Outlast that talks about how female patients and staff needed to be removed from the Wallrider program because even being near the morphogenic engine cause phantom pregnancies that ended in fatal hemorrhaging when the woman would have been full term.
the phenomenon that is affecting everyone one has different effects based on gender. it is common for women to believe and show symptoms of pregnancy when they are not. it is a side effect. The women in the town we're actually getting pregnant and killing off their children so they never noticed it.
Mark, you and Jack got very slightly different endings. In the last scene with Jessica, in Jack's video, Jessica had marks on her neck from the rope, but not in yours. It makes me wonder how many different endings there are.
Kathy Graves there are only two different endings, the ones with mark and the ones with jack. To trigger mark's ending, at the scene where you leave jessica with father loutermilch as soon as you hear jessica you need to quickly turn your way back to her and go to the stairs which was the place of the death of jessica. To trigger jack's ending also at the scene where you leave jessica with loutermilch as soon as you hear jessica screaming don't run your way towards her yet, you just stand where you at for like 5 or even 10 seconds then after that go to the stairs where the death of jessica happened.
@@vincethunder789 actually it depends upon the hanging posters with half alphabets if you find them all you will know what happened to jessica and get jacks ending and if you dont find all hangman letters than you will get marks ending simple
Spencer Whipp It's better if you paused the video at 42:01, but yeah; there isn't a shadow to the baby. Either that was just a graphic designer's mistake, or the baby is an illusion to Blake.
I personaly Love the singing at the end of the game when you leave the chapel, it gives a much more relieving, accomplishing feeling of beating the game and getting Blake through everything, except for the part where Murkoff levels the entire area... but hey, there's always DLC!
"Blake! I have _had it!_ You are putting down that GODDAMN CAMERA!!" "Lynn, you're going to be really glad we have all this footage of the family someday." "GAHHH--" I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.
Pseudocyesis is the rare occurrence where a mammal shows the signs of pregnancy WITHOUT being pregnant. This can include abdominal extension. When Lynn gives birth, she says "There's nothing there..."
Great point!!! and also one that links this game back to its predecessor. There were no female patients or female employees at Mount Massive Asylum because it was mentioned in one of the documents that the women's responses to the "treatments" were resulting in Pseudocyesis. With all the "suggestions" of Lynn being pregnant she and Blake, in conjunction with the radio-wave mind manipulation going on could have easily of been lead into a joint affliction of Pseudocyesis.
yes, as the standard, but in some cases, like plants, invertebrates, amphibians etc, they can reproduce with out any genetic contribution from a secondary partner, self cloning if you will. and also some swap genders, are both sex, change sex if the other is absent, IE the famous reference in Jurassic park. Biology is fascinating. Even mammals are no exception. psudo/sympathetic pregnancy can happen organically. You get a group of female animals and some become pregnant, sometimes you get the odd one who gets this and goes through all the symptoms of a pregnancy, but is not actually pregnant, but exhibit all the signs, increase in weight, lactation, but no baby. rare but even men get it when there female partner becomes pregnant. you also get a female who wants to be so bad, she can trigger her body to do this too.
CodeNameX001 I think she meant there is no God. when she was dying she saw no light and no heaven. she didn't have her eyes open long enough to even see the baby
That's because "there's nothing there" -Lynn at her dying moment. The baby isn't real. Murkoff Corporation from the last outlast had signals causing hallucination and psychological effects towards the town as an experiment.
From: j.blaire@murkoffcorp.us.com To: r.trager@murkoffcorp.us.com Subject: false pregnancies / real profits Rick, Fun hitting the greens last week, we should make the drive more often. Was reviewing some old test records from the early days of Project Walrider and something sparked my interest. Were you following the project back in 2010? Apparently we had issues with female employees experiencing psychosomatic pregnancies, something to do with how the Morphogenic Engine interacts with the immune system? (All Greek to me. Am I right?) It was more often fatal than not, and these were employees not patients, so a little harder to sweep under the rug. But... The Morphogenic Engine activity in these ladies' marrow was off the charts. And these are women who were never even exposed to additional hormone therapy. Now I don't know PPM from a kick in the teeth, but I can read a spreadsheet, and if the projected profits from PROJECT WALRIDER are half of what they say they are, I've just got one question: Why aren't we performing experiments on women? God knows mental illness is an equal opportunity affliction. Seems unethical to pass up on such a potential windfall. Sincerely, Jer
I really loved this playthrough. Mark really got immersed in this game and made me so. Also, I really appreciate the way he tried to focus more on the reasons of the happenings, instead of just "playing".
what if blake went insane from watching jessica die so he was taken to mount massive asylum and this entire game a hallucination caused by the morphogenic engine
Xelerate but even then, what's with the baby he supposedly had with Lynn ?? like I know he liked her and all, but shouldn't she be alive with him or something ? like even then he possessed more feelings for Jessica and then , what makes me more confused is that the baby was a girl !!
Noone ever said that the Anti-Christ would have a shadow in the first place. He may still be holding a baby, even if it's not the Anti-Christ, as well, but WE were affected by the mind control device.
While this game was good, I personally don’t think it was as great as the first Outlast (in terms of both storytelling and cohesiveness). It makes me sad that they’re not planning on doing a DLC because I think it could really benefit from it.
Agreed. While a good game, this doesn’t even come close to the masterpiece that is 1 and whistleblower. On a good note, Outlast trails is in production!
I agree. Although this game brought a very different experience, the storytelling on the first one was just more satisfying. As for this one I'm just left so confused
Just questions for thought -If Lynn was too deep in the mines to be affected by the visions why were the heretics affected? -if the electromagnetic wave was strong enough to take out a helicopter, wouldn't it be strong enough to take out a small camera? -why was Val's skin able to change? -why were some of the people in the town sane? Such as the guy who tried to help you in the beginning.
heavyflyingballoon - Maybe the heretics were affected because they had been hanging out there much longer than Lynn? :'D Kinda like with heavy metals: eating a fish with some traces of mercury in its system won't make you sick, but if you eat more of them you're bound to start showing symptoms, or like if you visit an area "poisoned" by nuclear radiation (Chernobyl, for an example), and stay there for maybe a couple of hours at max you'll be most likely just fine, but if you move there your risk of getting cancer and other radiation related sicknesses increases. - The camera is some freaky super camera? 😂 - I have no idea tbh. - Maybe he was somehow resistent to the mental effects? A bit like some people have the natural immunity against Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease (although okay, mental resistance isn't the same thing as immunity, but you know what I mean).
---Heretics were living underground, and they probably lost most of their sight and humanity. They only knew to eat and fk. Mines and heretics reminded me of that movie 'the Descent', it must me inspired by it, im almost 100% sure. ---Val is just a huge mystery, and I think the right question is how does he have "women parts" when he is a man (at one of Knoth's notes Val is reffered as a male) Hes probably trying to be a women, but for what reason ??? ---It was the storm that caused towers to override, and the light was so powerfull that made the helicopter crash, thus everything going to shitt from that moment (like in Outlast 1), also the storm at the ending when the sun "explodes" was probably just another powerfull light. ---Ethan, I dont think he is mentally stronger, theres a note that clarifies that some of the "villagers" were getting medicine (penicillin) from the "outside world" ,and couse of that they were immune to the light. ---The camera is just an Outlast classic, probably just irrelivant question about the camera, like if someone asked "how does the camera still work after constantly falling and going underwater"
The baby is not real.... There is no shadow and lynn says there "is nothing in your hands" stating it was all Blake's illusions from the microwave transmissions.... Godamm it Murkof corporation
Came back after all this time to rewatch and I gotta say, the ending is all the different knowing what actually happens; essentially, the big "Explosion" that Blake sees is actually just the sun rising, the hallucinations amplifying the sight to a magnitude to be akin to that of the apocalypse or a nuclear explosion, when in reality, Blake is simply seeing the sun rising, before falling into another state of delusion, seeing Jessica once more, before passing out promptly, being found by leftover Murkoff agents who went to investigate the aftermath, finding Blake and promptly taking him to be interrogated, but it was noted that there were no other survivors besides Blake, as he was found by himself in a shack, implying that there was no baby on sight...
No, if you read the murkoff account, which is the comic book for the outlast series, you would know that the walrider had taken a colony of ants as a host, and then destroyed one of the cell towers near temple gate. The explosion was more exaggerated under the affects of the morphogenic engine.
Possibly, I was also considering the prayer at the end, it could be showing that they just went there to pray and that's why they felt they did nothing wrong.. but also... my first thought was that- they prayed to the anti-christ - thus meaning the main character had a secondary goal the entire time..
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"You're so picky when you're about to birth the antichrist" that part killed me
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That whole part was hilarious, Marky was dropping some hilarious lines lmao
RickgotGaming me too!
RickgotGaming stfu mark rocks
why stfu?
I feel like they gave us so many hints that the baby was never real, but a shared delusion. The fact that Lynn knew the baby was a "she" when she had never had an ultrasound. The umbilical cord not needing to be cut, and of course the fact that Lynn's last words were "there's nothing there." Supposedly the baby was Jessica being "reborn" in Blake's eyes.
yeah same here
Also the fact that she popped that fucker out at Mach 10 speed.
Alex LMAO that too!!
And of course, the one day/ hours long pregnancy.
Well the baby is the freaking anti-Christ...
Can I have Blake's glasses? They never break or smudge even in blood rain.
And ash thunder snow. And they rarely fall off. Sign me up.
Jdogmcfrog yah i need them to i have blury eyes and broke 5 eye glasses this month
ok i think you could be just careless ellie gaming
Same, my glasses pale in comparison!
Layla Lockheart I
If anybody wants to know, this is how the story is explained: It's all connected to the Walrider Project in Mount Massive Asylum. There is a document in Whistleblower describing how entire female employees were suffering from what seemed to be as a phantom pregnancy. Truth is, it was basically turning female employees insane and seeing things and the Morphogenic Engine was causing some disturbance to female wombs (intense pain, stomach swollen). So Murkoff had entire female employees removed from Mount Massive Asylum. There is also Outlast comic that explains this more in detail.
Jump to the sequel, we can tell that the entire town is already affected by Murkoff's project, as the villagers were turning into psychos, and Lynn and Blake were already affected by the time their helicopter crashed. I mean think about it. Blake's monologue implies that they haven't had sex for months yet she is suddenly pregnant, even yet, she gives birth overnight. That is scientifically impossible and defies laws of nature.
This explains that Lynn was under the influence of Murkoff's brainwave (or something equivalent, as we already know that Murkoff had an outpost nearby the village and was most likely testing on villagers without their knowing). The baby was most likely Blake and Lynn's imagination. Knoth also saw the baby, but we all know that these three people were already affected by Murkoff's broadcasting mind control. Remember that we are playing from Blake's point of view. Blood rain? Locusts? These are just Blake's hallucinations.
By the way, we also know that whatever Murkoff was testing, it has to do with broadcasting electronic bursts, since a powerful ultrasonic frequency wave can jam electronics (hence why the helicopter malfunctioned in the beginning) and can even kill birds and small creatures (look up Electronic pest control). So the flash of lights that Blake kept seeing and making him hallucinate also has to do with that.
I'm guessing the DLC will explain the ending in more detail. But my theory is that the Murkoff is erasing the trace of the project by wiping out the entire village.
And really quick about Jessica: Jessica was a childhood friend of Blake, she was apparently in love with him and had an abusive father. The teacher raped her and told Blake to go home (we see this scene in the game). After the rape Jessica either fell down the stairs while trying to escape or she got pushed down by the priest, whatever of this 2 options happened: the teacher hang Jessicas dead body and made it look like suicide. Apparently everyone believed it, since she was a problematic child with problematic parents. Blake was the only one who knew the truth but he was too scared to tell anyone and then forgot probably because it was to traumatic for him. In the village he remember his trauma and re-lives it.
So in the end, when jessica and blake are praying. Is it her way of thanking him in a sense? And she goes up to heaven and shit?
EDIT: Also are you saying that the baby lynn had wasn't real, and murkoff had something to do with everything?
*Cues X-Files theme*
xShiningAlicex What a brain you have... I can believe what you said.. you forgot to mention that moment when Lynn was dying.. She looked at Blake while he was holding the baby and she said ''There is nothing there'', which support your theory. The baby was just an imagination to Blake and Knoth. Lynn may have been pured of what ever Murkoff broadcasted a moment before she dies.
The-EXpertStreet B-Racer yesss I am pretty sure the pregnancy theory is legit because of her saying “its nothing there“ - also the first thing I was noticing about the birth is that the baby didnt have an umbilical cord and also it didnt look like a real birth (her stomach stayed big). You should look up “phantom pregnancy“ it actually does exist and it is possible that the woman dies afterwards because of the pain and stress.
If I cared about your comment, i'd be replying :D could be a way of her saying thank you, indeed. That would be insanely sweet tbh. I sadly think tho that it might be another way of showing us that religion can fuck people up and it already fucked them up in their childhood (the priest who raped Jessica, Jessicas religious family, the religious people in the village who all killed themselves in the end).. it might also be a way to explain why Blake remembers.. he obviously had a trauma when he was a kid and tried to forget the whole situation. He doesnt even remember clearly who Jessica is and he finds out once again with us together and re-lives his past. I think he might be reliving it because he is being confronted with fucked up religion in the village and maybe remembers the bad sides and bad people that religion brings with it.
Sweet
I may not be a doctor or ever had a baby but I don't think babies are born with their umbilical cord already cut
It's rare but it's possible (my moms a nurse and she says some babies don't have them at all)
Because there was no actual baby (just a theory)
It was a hallucination
Just like how most babies aren't born with their umbilical cord cut, most babies aren't born the anti-christ
Cate Lynch well they arnt just normal for a few hours then they find out they having a baby then a few more hours they have its not right
The actual explanation for the Sun exploding, is that the Walrider destroyed the radio towers emitting the signal, which is why all the cultists killed themselves. It's what Knoth meant when he said that God has gone silent.
Good to know that miles is doing work as the new ant man
Nic the Clown lol!
I just wish they would have explained this, in game because it gives no hints at all that murcoff or the walrider had anything to do with the radio light in the sky
But why did everything blow up?
u deserve a medal doc
So if you guys go back to 35:25 you will see that in blakes shadow he's actually holding nothing. Just like Lynn said theres nothign there..
HaKU77 what the hell that's right !!!!
HaKU77 um I see the very badly renderd shadow of Ethan holding a baby so y'all need to get your eyes checked
If that's so YOU ARE A FUCKING GENIUS
Luca Veneziano ethan??? you played RE 7 way too much man
Hey your right, between that and what she says its obviously a hallucination.
In the first Outlast, there is actually a memo you pick up talking about some hypnotic experiments being tested in the mountains.
TELL ME
MR. SNOOKUMS no
@@PartyCrasher04 ARE YOU SURE
@zonescat WELL
@@PartyCrasher04 WHY ARE WE SCREAMING?!?!?!?
In the original Outlast Whistleblower DLC there's a document which states that side effects of their experiments include phantom pregnancies, miscarriages and death.
Ahhh, good point. :)
Derpyyy !!!
I remembered that.
The document that mentions it is called "Gender Selection in Mount Massive Contracters" and some references to it also show up in the document "Miscarried Profits".
are outlast 1 and 2 set in the same universe?
I'm pretty sure if you watch the first episode it mentions about the footage in the asylum i think
If you looks closely, the baby doesn't have a shadow at the ending. It make sense that Lynn said "There's nothing there..."
so glad someone else saw that
So she dies from nothing?
@@colbypatrick8910 technically yes but psychologically no
@Psychedelic Drug User well i don't throw out words if i don't know them ;)
@Psychedelic Drug User hahahah thank yaar couldn't have asked for a better characterization trait
In the Outlast games, time isn't money. Time is batteries.
LegendaryTeaCup but battery's cost money even if he didn't buy them someone did
LegendaryTeaCup you are my hero
LegendaryTeaCup Why are batteries left around anyway.
LegendaryTeaCup I'm going to do stop motion you guys got any ideas
LegendaryTeaCup Yup
jessica’s story breaks my heart every time. it’s awful to think that similar things happen in real life.
I know and Marks expression as to finally figuring out what's going on and how disgusted he was,honestly so was I.
Not saying it doesnt happen but playing off the "catholic priest pedo" stereotype is getting old and irritating...
It's good to see even in some metal songs or horror movies/Games those examples, meybe they are explicite or disturbing but they maybe are just an example of what they think about it in a way that clarify you that u have to do something, for an example if i will watch a scene with a stalker and maybe seeing his behavior i would think that it's not good to be a stalker, they are disturbing and have a lack of trust
@@Dragzilla66 out of millions yes. It's been blown out of proportion I think... That's like saying one type of jam isnt tasty so they're all terrible 😂
@@Dragzilla66 and there has always been untasty jams.
Papa Knoth vs. 1000 Degree Knife
ThatAsianGuy LOOOL
Gone Wrong, Gone Sexual, Nearly Arrested
that's good
Mary G You realize it's actually obvious and said in game that Blake and Lynn are straight right? You're trying to insert a transgender character into a horror game as the villain. Not really a good image for trans people huh? Also we don't even know what Val is so trying to say she is trans is forcing that role upon her.
Mary G Val was crazy, everyone can see that. She didn't know what she was doing because she was crazy. I mean, the people who think non binary is a thing are crazy and people who think there's more than two genders are crazy, but a character in a video game is just crazy and not whatever shit you want to try and name her as.
How many times did he bandage that one arm? Probably not as many as he goop juiced Ethan's in RE7.
The Dark Presence he just tried the 100 layer challenge
these comments made my day
I so thought the same thing!
He's a leper, he can withstand all damage on it!
let a man do his challenges, probably the only fun thing he had to do while he was there :p
Know what would be a great DLC? A prequel about the Jane Doe who escaped the community with her father’s help.
Kyle Campbell Fucking YES
dammmmm....nailed it .....yassssss🔥
Yes, this would be fantastic! Especially if it showed the transition from a “normal” cult into Murkoff-corrupted-apocalyptic-murder-cult and how that all happened
Isn't Jane Doe Val?
@@toastedpizza Um... No, she's Anne Bell, you know the person Ethan from earlier on the series mentioned?
Did anyone else notice that in the first game, Chris Walker was the first enemy to be introduced, and then killed at the end of it, and in this game, Marta was the first enemy introduced and was also killed at the end?
The giant motherfuckers are the best characters, lmao
Marta X Chris
Jarl Ralof the Warlord
Let’s be honest, a more realistic outcome would be “Marta V Chris”.
she wasnt the first that weird licking girl was
Thats basic video game/movie writing 🤦🏼♂️
Oh Mark, honey, the "fiery moon" is called the *sun*.
Carol Habicht wow
Carol Habicht Actually no, deep within the lore of outlast 2 it is found out that that the Murkoff corporation had broadcasting facility's near were the game takes place. Apparently the signals from the broadcasting facility turned everyone coco and they started hallucinating. Even Blake himself starts hallucinating about Jessica.
Yep murkoff broadcasting microwaves to make people go crazy ,it send people back to a tramatism in their past (jessica for blake) , and at the end , blake see the baby as the priest do ( they are full brainwashed) but there is no baby ( no shadow ) thats why lynn say"there is nothing here" the scenario is very complete when u study all message and tape , and when you do connection with outlast 1
@snake paintt That's exactly what I was thinking. I was like there is no baby cause Lynn said there was nothing there. I was like that is a weird thing to say out of nowhere. Makes me think she prolly just died from all the injuries she had and whatnot.
No, pretty sure it's a giant red cactus.
Mark, So, here's what happened to Jessica:Father Loutermilch was indeed abusing her and did push her down the flight of stairs, the fall didn't kill her however. Blake escapes the school with Jess (he references this in one of his last recordings "We got out, it was just starting to snow, we'll find an adult and tell everything that happened" Father Loutermilch denied all that happened and pressured Blake into keeping his mouth shut and not testifying against him. Which is what Blake did, he kept silent. That is why he is wracked with guilt and keeps repeating "none of this is my fault"
Jessica couldn't stand living with what happened and father Loutermilch getting away with it so she hung herself. Apparantly Blake found her when she hanged herself, this however would have been helpful if they had actually shown it in the game.
As to what happens at the end, let me clarify that, just as in the first Outlast, NOTHING SUPERNATURAL ACTUALLY HAPPENS. In the first game the Walrider was not supernatural, it had something to do with nightmare inducing hypnosis and nanobots (the walrider) I don't remember 100%, but it was "scientific" not supernatural. All the events happening in Outlast 2 have been caused by Murkoff corp. as well, 1 hint being a document referencing Jennifer (Jenny) Roland, a Murkoff corp. Pathologist referenced in a lot of documents found in the first Outlast game + in the white noise recordings you make while having the school hallucinations it sometimes shows one or two frames displaying the Murkoff logo, so they are 100% involved.
So, I believe Mark is very close to the true story of Outlast 2, being that the microwave relay tower induces hallucinations and is another Murkoff project/experiment on the human Psyche, combine this with a bunch of religious nutjob factions and you get a neat little effect named MASS HYSTERIA.
I believe there was already a highly religious community there of which Knoth was the local (extremist) priest before Murkoff set up base in the area.
At the start of the project the microwaves cause Knoth to receive the words of God to write down his gospel, I believe this idea has actually been purposfully implanted in Knoth's mind by Murkoff, exploiting and expanding on the already fanatic religious ideals of the community.
The extreme way in which Knoth takes advantage of his powerful position within the community (demanding to "lay" with young girls and a lot of the town's women, then demanding the murder of the children thus conceived) caused a division between Knoth and one of his dearest followers: Val.
Val was in custody of over 40 children, mostly orphans (you can find this in one of the documents) meaning she always had a lot of love for children, causing her to denounce Knoth's ways and flee Temple Gate with all of the children, thus forming the group known as the Heretics (this also explains why all the members in the heretics group are rather short, they are all rather young, except Val of course, who is very tall.
The reason they seem to be almost feral might be caused by the fact they were so young, their brains not having been fully grown yet, when they became influenced by Murkoff's microwave brainwashing).
A large percentage of the people within Knoth's community alse become afflicted by boils, sores and general decay, this could be caused by several things but I believe it might be related to pollution in the water or something (Ethan's daughter died because of Mercury poisoning, so there is definitly something going on with the water or something like that),
EDIT: They are also stricken with several STD's from Knoth's rampant sexual behavior.
this causing a third group to form, known as the Scalled.
The scalled are loyal to Knoth however. So When Blake and Lynn enter the Temple Gate area, they as well are being exposed to the microwave signals (which scramble your brains), from then on out the only thing Blake hears all the time is religious talk about the end of days, the Rapture, the conceiving of the Antichrist, the spider-eyed lamb, this causes him to also become a victim of the mass hysteria which is happening, some halucinations are also catholic in nature such as the bloody rain...
As you progress further into the game, the school halucinations become more and more frequent. This being caused by more and more exposure to the microwave signal.
Whilst halucinating Blake actually keeps moving as in a "sleepwalking state" (this is also referenced in the documents) which is why he always "wakes up" in another area.
In the end, when Lynn "gives birth to the baby" it is highly likely she is dying from her injuries (she was VERY bloody even before going into labor) + stress induced trauma.
That MIGHT be why she stated "There is nothing there" as there is no actual child, this might however refer to nothing being there when you are dying (no afterlife), Seeing as Lynn and Blake were raised catholically.
In the first Outlast game there is a document which literally explains that they could not have female inmates partake in the project and research being done at Mount Massive Asylum and none of the female staff could physically enter the underground labs because the Morphogenic engine caused pseudocyesis, better known as FALSE PREGNANCIES!!!!
In the end Papa Knoth had all of his followers commit mass suicide by means of Cyanide ingestion because he believed he had failed in his calling to stop the antichrist from being born, I do not believe there actually was a baby but then again, mass hysteria/hallucinations.
After Knoth kills himself, Blake finds all the suicide victims and then watches the sun expand/explode.
I believe this symbolizes either A: The Microwave relay emits another flash, frying Blake's brains, causing his sanity to break and leaving nothing behind but his last memory of the event that has haunted his subconcience for his entire life. or B: (and I strongly believe this is what actually happens) Murkoff just levels the entire compound to the ground by bombing it all to hell, just to cover it up, all the "subjects" are dead so they might want to sever ties with the whole area and leave no trace of their influence there.
I know Red Barrels could have explained this all more, but I for one do not mind an open ending when it is actually possible to decipher the meaning by tying knots together and researching a bit. Possibly they will release DLC to further explain everything but that would be just a cashgrab. They didn't explain what happened to Miles in the Whistleblower DLC, they just expanded on the story. Which I am fine with. If they only make the ending messy so they could sell extra DLC, it would be scummy of them. But I highly doubt it. Sorry for the long post. :)
EDIT: A year after posting this (and because this comment still gets replied to) I've decided to cut the text up into paragraphs as some people (rightfully so) have critiqued me on this.
I hope this makes your reading experience more enjoyable.
Kim Van Strydonck seems legit
Wow, good work!! Everything makes so much more sense now. Just wanted to point out that the baby DOES NOT HAVE A SHADOW (best seen at 35:25) - so yeah, it's not real. But thank you!!
Kim Van Strydonck well heres the thing,the walrider is supernatural BUT its only form is it controling the nanoswarm,but other then that your correct
Thank you so much for elaborating and explaining it all, makes so much more sense to me now
Kim Van Strydonck how does this only have seven likes?
Outlast 2, or I Can't See Shit: The Game
Linny Dee haha!
outlast 2 sucks!
best comment
Arrow8D my favorite thing in the world is shameless self promotion
just as entertaining as look at a wall!
JK
I love this
I can’t believe all that shit happened in one night.
Ikr
As people theorize
There may have been day times but we were hallucinating during it.
But if so then Tf we didn't eat we didn't shit. I guess that's possible too when you are literally trying to survive from horrible death you would not get hungry and weakness won't be noticed since we'd be pumping all energy for survival.
@@अण्वायुवरीवर्त It’s not that complicated, we can just assume that the game has a 1:1 time scale. If you beat the game in less the 7 hours than it’s reasonable to assume that it’s all happening in one night
@@officialslothmob wow then he's not a human lol
This entire playthrough was 7, maybe 8 hours long at most. That could fit within even a summer night, considering it goes sunset to sunrise. Batman Arkham Knight _is_ temporally impossible, though.
I just binged all of these in order. What am I doing with my life
Sydney Koch AHAHAH SAME ALL IN ONE DAY
Same lol
Literally the same. I haven't been scared or disgusted due to lack of sleep so... I am concerned with myself.
Same lmao😂... I work in 5 hours😭
Carter Pereira56 same lmao
Val: *in front of Blake*
Mark: *looks behind Blake and wonders where Val went*
i was watching in 240p and saw her...:D
+Mr. Knuckles
do u kno da wae?
Blake has probably had one of the worst nights in history
Lord Harambe 2 nights!
Fru1tSlasH HavINg a sex and a fucking Mercury poisoning . Thats unusual. Too unusual....
Still think Ethan's was worse.
Ak Sprkl His is up there
Lord Harambe I think Blake had a lot more to run from
I love the fury and disgust in Mark's voice when he is talking about the priest at 28:40. It shows you that Mark has a good soul.
right I felt the same way too. sick pervert.
I'm a Christian, and priests disgust me to no end. Especially catholic priests.
Hello Mark. You missed really important document which explains much of the situation. You were right about some kind of signal blowing peoples mind. It was a Murkoff Corporation experiment. We can find a piece of paper on the left side of lake. Furthermore, you got all requirements that reveals Jessica's story. (She didn't hang herself, but the priest killed her). If you didn't trigger this requirement, Jessica would have a hang mark on her neck in the ending scene. Priest put her in the noose, to blame Blake and probably others. So you did good :) There is much more secrets of course.
Thanks a lot for your playthrough. I'm watching you couple of yeras. I learned a lot (english language) from you. I have an English Matura exam in my high school on next Tuesday so I can test myself. You better be carefull :p Greetings from Poland
Klimek ☢ Games gl with the exam
I think the Jessica thing is a given. like, no matter what, you will find out her story.
my issue is with what Patrick said; why did Jessica have rope burns in Jack's ending, but not Mark's? and I guess her neck was clean in Pewds' ending too (I haven't finished his yet. just going by what others have said).
Klimek ☢ Games :O I was wondering why I saw her with a bruise on her neck in one playthroughs but not in others! But what actually "unlocks" Jessica's full ending that it shows the difference? I think it was Jacksepticeye that I saw that she had the bruise mark
Thanks for support :) I did a small research and I could not find any explanation of "neck mark". I think it is related to "school" part of the game (Blake's memories probably triggered by the signal), but it is kind of Blake's knowledge of the truth. He finds out all the lies during memories flashbacks and if we miss something, the lie is still alive, so we can see a mark on Jessica's Neck, which means that Blake thinks Jessica hanged herself.
It is matter of time. I am sure the answers will be revealed soon or maybe are already there ;)
Klimek ☢ Games good luck for your exam! your English was really good in this comment so I'm sure you'll do great!
That song at the end that the chorus was singing in the background was "Ave Verum Corpus" for whoever was wondering
He probably died in the crash and lived his own hell.
Jazs Well Hell must of lasted only a few hours then.
I like that exclamation,quick and easy
Ever seen Constantine, 2 minutes in hell is like 2 weeks
silent hill 1 much?
I hope
The face Mark pulls from when Knoth starts speaking (around 37:00) to the end of his monologue is just the face of a broken man who's been through too much shit to deal with this.
Shiloh Lily Probably Blake's face tbh
From Outlast 1
Note is called " from under the mountain"
"Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Whoever finds my corpse- trust no one and tell everyone. I am not crazy. I know, I know, only crazy people say that. But I am as sane as this world allows, with a camera full of evidence. Don't call it a gospel. Call it a mockery of reason, let the world know it is Murkoff's fault. Bury these bastards with my mutilated dead body."
Could this game be a prequel and this note be left by Blake before he died?
Could Murkoff made everyone kill themselves because they wanted the land they were on?
CPC TV d
Plus, it's confirmed by Red Barrels that Outlast 2 takes place after Outlast 1. And since Murkoff is still around... Miles became the Walrider for nothing and Waylon did practically nothing with the footage. GOOD JOB, GUYS!
Thanks for point that out, now I feel I played the first 2 games for nothing
The Comics on Red Barrels website do explain the story you're getting at here pretty well, redbarrelsgames.com/comic-books/
CPC TV that's what I was saying before, the Murkoff corporation has something to do with all this insane shit that's going on, that factory by the mines is no coincidence
Did you guys noticed Blake's shadow when he was holding out the baby to Lynn at the exact time she say's "There's nothing there"? O_O
Yup, he's holding nothing.
holy shit! no, I didn't!
I believe this was explained in Outlast 1 where they were doing some weird medical stuff that resulted in phantom births.
Holy shit mcnuggets... thanks for pointing that out to my blind ass...
35:20 for future reference
Fuck me, of all things in Outlast (1 & 2) who would have thought that birth scene would be the thing that would make me feel sick.
The GamingSideburns Well, you're easy to make feel sick, I've seen worse/better
Nah, what I meant was that that giving birth scene was relatively tame compared to some other parts of the game and those parts didn't make me feel sick for some reason.
It's common for the miracle of life to often make one die inside a little.
And what parts of this game were actually worse exactly? Everything seemed tame except the medieval stretcher you never got a good look at.
I found it kind of funny by how unrealistic it was but hey, video game so what? personally the scalled bothered me the most but that's because I'm kind of squeamish and paranoid over stds.
Same here. It was the first time in any Outlast anything that I actually had to look away.
Y’all are so smart when I played this game I literally just accepted that Lynn got pregnant and gave birth in a single day lmfao
LMAO SAME
OH MY GOD at 35:25 You can see the shadow of your character's hands AND THERE'S NO BABY
Sachi Game and then Lynn says "There's nothing there" (~:
If you look close enough you can see it. I think they messed up on the shading or something. It's possible there's no child and good observation by the way.
Sachi Game
where where where???
Sachi Game Lynn did say "there is nothing there"
Sachi Game oh my god I didn't not catch that holy mother of ducks
Mark, it wasnt real, you are right. Its all Murkoff, their base can be seen near the lake, as well as the scientists note about the tower making some radio waves that make people crazy and believing to everything they hear. Same effect is given by the morphogenic engine used in Outlast 1.
Also in Whistleblower DLC we can find notes about fantom birth happening to women in the Murkoff facilities, that's why Lynn sad there's nothing there, because she wasnt pregnant at all and the baby we see is the halucination of our main character being affected by the Murkoff towers.
Also, Jessica didnt hang herself, she tripped over the stair and broke her neck, running away from the bold teacher, that tried to molest or rape her, then he tried to hang the girl, so it seemed like a suicide, that's why Blake always sees her like that. Because the only thing he saw, was her dead hanged body. But eventually he figured out it was the teacher. As he sad, it wasnt his fault.
That's basicly it, this is the main theory answering major questions.
Upvote for Mark to see
Elegon Frontine THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING THE GAME FOR ME!!! I was completely confused out of my damned mind!
Elegon Frontine thats right but in outlast 1 when you where in the cinema the where telling you about this kind of village ( outlast 2) where they killed people to rice ? revive god. and thr doctor that that also in murcoff outlast 1
sorry of the grammar.
Why was she running away from the teacher?
That sounds 100% legit. I was thinking most of this myself👌
IvanAndGames she was getting molested by the teacher.
"You just stay over there and die horribly" -Markiplier 2017
Everyone but Mark: sees a sign that says "800 ft", and reads it as so
Mark: "Booft"
Lmao
I thought he said soft
"Could you stop running out of breath every 2 inches!?" Sure, he's only been beaten, stabbed, slashed fallen down large inclines, in a helicopter crash, was crucified, and to top it all you're trying to wade through waist deep water.
Randomguy 0011 ikr, Mark sometimes can be an idiot
bruhhhh everyone knows the bandages heal thoseee XD
Name Nope "Sometimes?" That's being generous
not to mention buried alive
Sounds like he needed some healing juice!
You'd think a community of Christians like this would learn to love thy neighbour more...
Apparently Knoth
TheAmazingDGM I hate you
Brilliant.
This pun is so good I can't even hate you for it
that was knoth what I was expecting when I read this comment.
Religion is cancerous, wake up and become Atheist.
*AND EVERYONE DIED!*
Game of Thrones confirmed
bum boda booooooooooooom
+Destructoid OH MY GOD YES!!
Grevier The End
Grevier except for the Americans OF COURSE!
Check the shadow of Blake's hands at 35:26. He's holding NOTHING. There is no baby.
Edit: Aaaaand I'm adding an edit three years later. I realize NOW that this ties into information found by Park in Whistleblower -- a memo references why there aren't any women at Mount Massive, either on the Murkoff side or among the inmates. The Walrider engine caused multiple female staffers to develop accelerated fictitious pregnancies -- and half of them died while "delivering" these non-existent children.
So if Murkoff is behind the events in Outlast 2 (and they might be, since another Whistleblower memo talks about how they've got MORE subjects who were able to use the engine as effectively as Billy Hope did), then it would make sense that Lynn was yet another victim of the fictitious -- and fatal -- accelerated pregnancies.
So Lynn dies from nothing?
Colby Patrick Well, given how fucked up this cult was, I wouldn’t be surprised if they brutally raped her and shoved shit up in her to make her appear distended. Keep in mind she had blood down her thighs as they were running, before she “gave birth.” She probably died from trauma.
@@colbypatrick8910 Lynn States it herself, her last words to blake are..."there is nothing there"
Tamara, Redguard, lvl. 30 there is no baby as it was all an experiment from murkoff and it made lynn thinks eh was pregnant like the women in the origami outlast
@@colbypatrick8910 She dies from a phantom pregnancy, resulting from the effects of the weird bright light. The pain killed her, and when she says "nothing's there, personally, I think she's referring to the "baby" because in Blake's shadow, his hands are empty.
OKAY, SO AT 35:25 LYNN SAYS," there is nothing there," RIGHT? LOOK ON THE FLOOR WHERE THE SHADOW OF BLAKES HANDS ARE, THERE IS NO BABY IN HIS HANDS! LYNN WAS RIGHT! THERE IS NO BABY
Hot& SpicyGaming It's all a hallucination or experiment on the village
Hot& SpicyGaming OMG there really isn't
Well, I saw a dim shadow there...
Hot& SpicyGaming pshaw, the anit-christ doesn't need some shadow....
How the heck do I see a shadow there?😂
At 35:25 when lynn says "there's nothing there". There is no shadow of a baby in Blake's hands. This is Proving that theory of Hallucinations to be true, and that most of the events in this game were all hallucination caused by the Murkoff corporation. this can also explain where they were getting gas and electricity from(possibly used to go directly to their tower). Also if you didn't catch this for extra reassurance....there was no umbilical cord to cut.
well Knoth was under the same Murkoff transmission like Blake, but for Lynn, who was underground for most of the game(were the radiowaves couldn't reach)
Kamron Groves also if you remember from the first game murkoff was doing phantom pregnancy experiments and the results were women giving birth to their own organs and dying
If it was a phanto pregnancy, Blake would probably be holding Lynn's organs. But seen as he isn't holding anything, I'm not so sure about that.
i do see where your coming from, but remember he was hallucinating...so why would he see the organs if he was under Murkoff's effect, and it's still a small possibility that the Baby was real, but you CAN'T deny that the Murkoff Corp had a hand in this.
Zekken Gaming Channel can also be lighting failure
Wow, in addition to the shortest pregnancy ever, she also got the world's fastest delivery ever- I imagine many women would be envious of that if not for the whole DYING thing afterwards XP
SabakunoHeather well, we don't know how long she was actually in "labor" for. We don't even know how long Blake was out while he was being raped.
You probably know this by now, but the baby is most certainly just a hallucination.
So she dies from nothing?
@@colbypatrick8910 (I haven't played the game, so I am by NO means an expert on it. I've just read the comments and watched Markiplier.)
Spoilers. But when the baby is born and the guy goes to stand by his girlfriend you see his shadow on the floor - and see that he is holding nothing. His girl is also saying as she dies that there is nothing there.
@@BioLivbanon Then how does she die?
Regular enemy: *Attacks with machete*
Me an intellectual enemy: *POCKET SAND*
I don’t like sand. It’s coarse, rough and irritating. And it gets everywhere.
so i see you are also a master of kevquando.
You're a fucking genius!!
If you look when hes holding the baby, his shadow shows nothing, thus providing more evidence to the baby not being real.
35:24
BraydenFilms is that why she said "there's nothing there"?
She even says "There's nothing there" right after that. eeeenteresting.
I'm not even sure if Lynn is actually dead.. ? Like what's with the whole "She's going to be okay. You have her. She'll get to grow up." at 40:45.
SweetSucculence she died it's a side affects from the morfogenic engine
The true key to the ending was Lynn's last words... "There's nothing there..." Blake is too far gone, so the baby is a reality to him because of that light, and as you say Mark, something psychologically messed with him too. No one will like this, but please try so Mark could see it? Oh, and Happy Birthday to my friend Lauren!!
John Rotolo My only question is why does Lynn think she's pregnant though? Blake got hit by the light way more times than she did, she got dragged down into the mines. And what kills her then? I'm not trying to dispute anything I'm genuinely curious xD
Believe me Sabrina, I'm just as curious as you and the rest of the community! I think, personally, that Lynn was exposed enough to be tricked into having a child, but when she was in the mines (since it's almost implied that she'd there early on after you try to reconnect with her) that something was deathly wrong with her. I believe the stress from possibly being beaten and or tortured down there could have been the cause, or the stuff, which could have been internal organs, which came right out of her vagina... as gross as that sounds lol. But I do believe this is the notion that Red Barrel was going when they made the end. But then again, it's all speculation xD
Remember from Outlast Whistleblower where they mention that due to the Walrider experiments, female patients experienced "phantom pregnancies" that eventually caused them to die? I'm betting it was something along the same lines because the Murkoff corporation is still doing what they're doing, especially around Temple Gate. At least, if the supplementary materials are to be believed, anyway. Hopefully this helps!
I ALLMOST decided to not like this due to you asking, but i'll make an exception just this one time.
@Skywolf666 I do recall that now! indeed some old insight 🤓Hopefully, if there is a DLC to this one, we might be able to experience what happens there or what happened while Blake was running around like a madman. Or maybe it was all an experiment...
sign reads *800ft*
Mark: booft!
this is why we love markiplier
Jack Littleford I think he read the "8 "as "B". 800ft -> Booft 😂
Jack Littleford it's Mark's sound effect
"There's nothing there..."
So, like, the baby wasn't there? Is that why "something's wrong"?
Oh! So the entire game was nothing more than a candid illusion~?
It all has to do with Murkoff. The light was their experiment and, if you remember from Outlast 1, all of the female patients were moved because they thought they were pregnant. This relates to Lynn. Lynn was never pregnant. The baby was never born. All of it was just Murkoff's experiment.
AnalDash No there was literally nothing there. In his shadow there’s nothing
this comment was posted 9 months ago, are you pregnant yet??
Anyone getting FNAF 4 vibes?
There was no baby, hence the lack of umbilical cord and shadows. Blake and Knoth hallucinated it because of the white lights that the Murkoff facility was firing, all the other villagers would've hallucinated the same baby too most probably, if they survived. The bright lights were part of an experiment by the Murkoff Corporation basically just for the shits and giggles, and Blake turns insane by the end of the game because of all the shit he goes through and the white lights that causes his hallucinations.
The sun consuming the world was another hallucination as well, or another light similar to the ones Murkoff had been firing beforehand. Obviously, the game goes through the stages of the apocalypse and the last stage of the apocalypse is that the sun consumes the world. If you want a conclusion to what happens to Blake after the end of the game, here's what it says on the wiki, which was taken from Outlast: The Murkoff Account:
_"Several hours after the massacre at Temple Gate, Pauline Glick and several other Murkoff agents investigate the aftermath. Two agents in Hazmat suits discover a man still breathing, albeit in a catatonic state, and drag him out of a small shed. Pauline quickly realizes that the man is in fact Blake, and immediately orders the agents to take him away for brutal questioning. Notably, Lynn's child is nowhere to be found."_
Yeah, very depressing end to the Langermanns.
35:25 the baby has no shadow
triston c loook at the floor dude, there's the shadow of the baby
triston c but the shadow is weird tho, its like a statue hahaha
No, if you look you just see his hands cupping nothing.
Thank you john trout I didnt see anything there
#notmyantichrist
39:43 Me and my choir class actually sang this song. It was two or three months ago, but still. And no, I'm not from England, I am from Indiana and am in 8th grade, we did this piece as a tribute to Mozart or something.
Forgot to add that I was in a public school
😂😂
Cwota What school? I'm from Indiana too!
Cwota #Indianaclub?
This game in two words:
Existential crisis
Templar Knight A bit of both. All the people aren't really experiencing "True" reality or it seems that way the very lest, but by your evidence of the mock pregnancy, their version of reality is atleasted being changed. Any sane person in this situation would begin to question what's real and isn't. Another thing that bothered me a tiny bit was the signs of the apocalypse. Even if it was all in their head or if was something else sane people would change.
I may have an answer to your problems, at the very least 1 I have a theory that you might consider pretty probable?
1) This is a CONFIRMED SEQUEL, right, so what if at THIS juncture, Murdock has gotten much further at perfecting their abilities to hypnotize and/or induce visions and the like - and the idea of "mass hysteria" is a thing, so if EVERYONE was being repeatedly influenced by the same person, they may end up drawing the same conclusions and having the same warped realities, because I'd like to point out in 1 that it's not like someone was talking over a loudspeaker to ALL of the patients, and on top of it ALL they WERE MENTAL PATIENTS which means, according to science as we know it, their brains probably aren't mapped out the same way as a "normal" (And I use that VERY loosely I'm not trying to be a dick and say mental patients are "abnormal") brain so they're less likely to end up HAVING the same delusions in the first place. I could be wrong on that, but it's my theory at the very least. Again, Mass Hysteria couldn't be a thing in Outlast 1 because not everyone present was on the same page like the people in 2 were.
2) I had an interesting internal realization that, at one point, you read a note where someone says he and some of his other buddies - followers of Papa Knoth - started meeting together in a hole they dug. And then, shockingly, those people seemed to slowly turn into Heretics, right? Hear me out here. What if, if you're not barraged by the light all the time, you gradually quit getting influenced? You're still getting microwaves frying your brain but the light isn't adding - who knows maybe the hypnotic suggestion or whatever else it was doing. So because of this, they gradually start to question Papa Knoth more. They start to think, hey, maybe the heretics have a point? Again bear with me here I know what you're thinking, "then what about the people in the mine shouldn't they be normal???" But see THEY'RE RIGHT NEXT TO the facility, right? So the microwaves would potentially be EXPONENTIALLY WORSE, and when they DO come above ground, the light flashes hit them again -- its part of why, I'd imagine, Blake ends up plagued through the whole thing despite going underground and clearly missing flashes from time to time. I'm sure if you miss ENOUGH eventually you can come back to a semblance of sanity, but the microwaves are still hitting you so you're not TOTALLY there yet, you know? And then at the mine if you're still going outside you're getting hit with the occasional light and massive amounts of microwaves. SO, my theory would be, that one singular guy, when he ditches Papa Knoth, maybe he spends a lot of his time inside/underground and it gave HIM a larger semblance of sanity than most. Or at least a better moral compass, because theoretically we still have to remember that a lot of these people are mostly just following the moral compass Papa Knoth is GIVING THEM rather than following their own, and I WOULD also like to point out that we're SAYING "everyone is experiencing the same delusions" BUT everyone would be experiencing differing levels of guilt, for sure, and it's very clear they were a cult BEFORE all of this and I just think the issue was amplified greatly, especially if Murdock was trying to figure out how to use people's guilt to control them.
3) Yes, there's the one document that explains things, but I do firmly believe they wanna leave heavier explanations for this in DLC, I'm SURE they wanted to ensure people would get the DLC when it came out BECAUSE they still had questions. Either that or they wanted to leave it open for a sequel, but I kind of don't see that - I see it more likely they're gonna give you DLC to answer some questions --- TECHNICALLY Whistleblower answered some questions from the first game, too, like remember at the end when you go to the room with all the life pods and there's one pod that's already dead and full of blood? More than likely that's the first guy you see get pulled in in Whistleblower when you're working on the computer in the "2 hrs earlier" sequence. LITTLE things like that. Like what the twins were up to while you were dickin' around in other places as Miles, for example. Or HOW IT ALL STARTED in the first place, really.
THESE ARE JUST MY THEORIES, I'm just trying to bump ideas off just like everyone else because of course none of like... really.. ACTUALLY know.... except the developers I guess.... Unless THEY left it open for interpretation ANYWAY....
Oh God! What have i done? Theories Galore!
Really, mostly, I was taking other "theories" ("confirmed" or otherwise) that other people were suggesting and bouncing them around in my own head and working them back out. I wasn't doing much, honestly. Then again I guess you could say most youtubers "aren't doing much" xD; I was kind of wondering if I went with a RUclips channel what I should go with and I AM ALWAYS better at sussing out a storyline than most people are, or at least coming up with my own cool theories by extrapolating neat ideas my brain comes up with, but as much as I'd love to there's NO WAY I'd be able to do it with horror games. I just can't play them. It's why I started watching Mark in the first place, just can't do the games where you have no weapons and your only option is to run and hide. I can do things like Dead Space, but Amnesia, Outlast itself, or pretty much any other horror game where literally your only option is to run and/or hide, I just - I'm just incapable. I get WAY too worked up. Then again, that's probably also what would net me a huge fanbase so I'm probably missing a huge opportunity but I don't think I could manage it xDD;;
I could definitely do it with other games though. Shoot me a few games you can think of and maybe I'll even do a LetsPlay of them (even if they're old) and do a storyline walk-through sorta thing or something, I could at least give it a try, it wouldn't hurt. Not that I have any recording programs set up for my computer just yet but I was hoping to do so at some point... Also I'd be one of those people that literally gets EVERY collectible item and stops to explore every corner of a room so uh. That one frustrating thing about Mark where he skims over notes that hold vital information wouldn't exist with me, fortunately xDDD;; Then again it would almost be equally frustrating to watch me wander through a room for the 20th time going "OKAY I GOT *EVERYTHING* IN HERE, RIGHT?"
And what really sucks is that Red Barrels had already confirmed that there won’t be any DLC’s for this...
But rather a new game. Outlast trials
@@jionmionskwisgaar1476 Yeah. Idk what to expect, but I'm still pretty hyped for it.
There isn't really a need for a DLC though
Outlast Trials will take place during the Cold War Era.
@@idekbruh753 Well, a lot of people wanted a DLC 'cause they felt like it wasn't explained enough. But, two years after commenting this, I don't need a DLC, anymore.
Me: Don't make the pregnant woman run!
2 minutes later
Me: DID YOU JUST DROP A PREGNANT WOMAN!!!!!!!!!!
Yes....yes he did (lol im sorry)
Desiree Horne turns out she wasnt even pregnant at all..the child didnt even exist
@@inzensitive Not to mention, my boy Blake had fucking Jesus hands
At 35:25 you can see in the shadow of Blake that there is no baby.
Yeah it's a murkoff experiment. Involving emp waves. His wife says there's nothing there because she wasn't as exposed since she was 800 feet underground for a majority of the game.
And pregnant Lynn is probably a creation of Blake's imagination :v because, how she could escape those heretic fucks? XD
Michael Foster other videos have spedrun this the day before it came out. Lots of other theories as well.
Catherine Brisson or it is Antichrist and has no shadow or it is just a miss of the game developers.
omg I see it that crazy
I like how this game had two stories playing out. One story playing in chronological order and the flashback story playing out in reverse.
Hey mark, If you start and stop the school videos the talking will continue without the static. It's someone talking that's been played in reverse. I missed the second tape but this is what I got from the videos I did get:-Jessica's suicide note-"Thank you lord for killing the child. Dear lord sweet Jesus forgive my sins and and accept my gratitude"-Hanged Jessica -"You removed the temptation beyond my flesh and made us able to resist"-A game of hang man-"I am weak but you are strong for me, and generous. You give me life"-Ruptures-"You shared my peace with the children, who may be able to take my meager talents and turn them into glory"-Roots and branches-"You let me share in her rugged path to adulthood. Those moments when a child learns those things everybody else already knows but doesn't talk about"-They're all going to laugh at you-"She was so ripe with possibility. So resilient, smiling, flirting. Never even aware of the power she had"-Pulse-"You killed her. You saw what she was. You knew the sin rested on her shoulders as much as on my own. You took her and I could not"-I have lots of friends-"You killed her. I never told a soul. I kept your secret from the secret. Thank you. Thank you. You never told a soul. You let the small sorrow of the suicide wash over the others at little tragedy for murder"They may not be 100% correct but this is what I heard. Hope it helps!
Justin Cummins you are doing god’s work
what,i didnt understand
@@sonGoku-uq4mc So in theschool scenes. They also talk in reverse u know
So it is Father Loudermilk speaking?
When the game started they were looking for a factory, because this pregnant woman was found with a strong dose of mercury within her.
Mercury does damage the brain significantly. Maybe Blake and the others suffered from extrem mercury-posoining? (The other all have had syphillis as well)
Mercury used to be used as a cure for syphilis a long time ago, but they stopped using it because of the other effects like mercury poisoning. This could explain why they all took mercury.
that's just a theory
A GAME THEORY
I noticed that too but Idk how it's said in wherever that quote is from
Literally went past all the comments looking for this.
I was like: MARKIE-MOO.
YOU'RE NOT MATPATTTTTTTTTT.-
jessipae bro it's from game theory and it's said pretty much the same
i'm really confused what's the background on this quote?
Kylienne Wyd? There is another youtube artist who makes game/film theory videos called Game Theory.
At the end of his videos, he always goes ' But hey, that's just a theory. A game theory.'
Is nobody gonna mention that Mark & Jack got two different endings? Sure the voice acting was the same, but Jack's ending showed Jessica with the rope burns around her neck and a pale, corpse-ish face, and Mark's ending had a Jessica without the marks and pale face.
ChasingErin Minx also had an ending with Jessica having marks on her neck.
ChasingErin Did jack get more recordings?
Jack did get more recordings, but not sure if that's what triggers the other ending. From what i've read, people are still trying to figure out what exactly triggers the alternate (clean) ending.
masi7 marks? ... markipliers? ......some pliers? ...... markiplier pliers comfermed?
My question is did Jack go back to save Jessica like Mark tried to? If not, then there might be the answer of the marks being around her neck. Just a thought.
Mark: But that's just a theory-
MatPat: *A GAME THEORY*
I really want a Game Theory episode about this game, especially a thorough look at the consequences of all the physical shit Blake ended up going through. I really want to have MatPat going through the insanity of all those injuries and the hilarious ridiculousness of how he treated his wounds XD
THE BABY IS NOT REAL!!! she just died because she was in pain, she even said "there's nothing there"
Inbred?
I thought she was saying that in regards to there being no light or any afterlife or heaven as she was passing. Like saying "all there is is darkness."
FireFalcon035 jeez that changes that
also didn't cut a umbilical cord and this is related to Outlast 1 where "phantom pregnancies" happened
But... Knoth acknowledged the baby.
Creepy fact warning
At the very final scene with Jessica- you can see when she turns to look at you she does it in a very weird unnatural way which I think most people toss up to " weird animation or bad animation " or don't even notice it but actually it is completely intended. If you watch it in slow motion and pause it as she does it she is actually entering a " hanged " position for a brief moment with her neck stretched and her eyes looking up away lifeless.
Also The subtitles in this game are very important. Specifically: the colour of them. The colour of them represent who is speaking, certain colours associated to certain characters. White for Blake, Green for Lynn, Blue for Jessica, Red for Lautermilch, etc
In the final cutscene when " Jessica " is calling for you, the subtitle is not in her colour until you see she is dead.
The colour of the subtitle while she is calling for you is the same colour as the chalk used to write her name
" Jessica" in her suicide note on the chalk board.
DYLΛN time ?
you're overthinking. that's just weird animation.
Dylan Joseph I went back to that scene with little Blake and Jess and that kinda yellow colour is the same subtitle colour as Blake as a child
Yes you're right it isn't a fact.
#AllWillBeExplainedInOutlast3
killeraj taylor OMG YES PLEASEEE
dan phil everything is explainable already
#AllisAlreadyExplained
#Dumbass
Wheel Everything is most certainly not explained, asshole. The microwave relay seemed to be blowing up at the end as evidenced by people starting to snap out of the delusion (Lynn saying "There's nothing there." Knoth saying "God has gone silent") So did it just get knocked out by a storm or by sabotage? Was there actually a massive explosion that killed Blake or did it just represent him falling completely into insanity? If I know anything about Red Barrel, it's that they'll release a DLC taking place at the microwave relay to fill in the gaps of the ending.
Hopefully in the DLC
The face that priest pulled after seeing the look of fear in Jessica’s eyes was absolutely disgusting. A split second smile before a mask of concern passed once again over his face
Poor guy went completely insane...
String quartet: *Starts playing*
Mark: WILL YOU SHUT UP
String quartet:
Mark:
String quartet:
*starts playing*
PLEASE LIKE/UPVOTE SO MARK CAN SEE! SOME OF THESE ARE THEORIES SO PLEASE DONT HATE! THANK YOU! Mark, like other people said, the apocalypse wasn't real! At the part with the raft where Blake said he wouldn't dip a toe in the water, if you swim across there is a secret note that ties in the experiments with Murkoff! Also, at the end Lynn said "There's nothing there..." which a lot of people think means she saw through the control (she was in the mines for most of the time so she had a lot of exposure, but also she only got hit by the light once in the helicopter so maybe it had a hard time getting into her?) and saw the baby wasn't real, and she wasn't pregnant. Blake and Knoth see the child, and Blake sees the apocalypse, because their beliefs were amplified by all the exposure to the light. Another huge theory is that when something that isn't real is shown, it's based off of something that is real. So the blood rain, just normal rain. The locusts, possibly a strong wind, a precursor for the storm. The apocalypse, just a massive storm, or a haboob, which is a massive wall of dust that happens a lot in Arizona (believe me I live here). Finally, the "sun exploding" at the end is possibly the Murkoff factory exploding from all the destruction caused by the storm! PLEASE LIKE/UPVOTE SO MARK CAN SEE! SOME OF THESE ARE THEORIES SO PLEASE DONT HATE! THANK YOU!
ALSO PLEASE FEEL FREE TO TELL ME ALTERNATE THEORIES AND THAT IM WRONG! IF THIS GETS UPVOTED AND I GET TOLD MORE LIKELY THEORIES I WILL BE HAPPY TO EDIT!
A comment should help too.
lightofshadows make that two
Colton Walker omg yes, I was look I for a comment that mentioned that Lynn said nothing was there, but man this is much more 👏👏👏👍👍👍
Colton Walker You damn right bro~ everything was caused by that light (illusions)
How much you wanna bet he names the baby Jessica.
*later in the vid*
Oh. Well I'm calling her jessica
the kid doesnt exist
@@dull_demon4717 That's merely a theory.
@@mossyrocks3967 I know, just saying.
(I didn't know it triple posted, srry bout that)
Hitoru Matsumoto
The baby doesn’t exist though, when it was born, Lynn said “There’s nothing there” there was no baby. Have you ever heard of a false pregnancy? It’s when the Uterus thinks there’s a baby in a woman, therefore she goes through the pregnancy stages. My dog once had a false pregnancy, it’s a real thing.
@@mossyrocks3967 a game theory
Best part of the whole video was Mark complaining and demanding to explain everything. I laughed so hard when he started pounding on the wall XD
I died laughing. And then yelled at my tv screen.... "You asked for it!" (He did.... in his ending comments after playing Outlast in 2013)
For those who dont understand Blake and Lynn having a baby in a shack in the storm after not finding a place is related to Mary and Joseph suddenly birthing Jesus in a stable even though Mary was a virgin
the fiery Sun is acting like the North Star for the people also
all of this is in reference to the birth of Jesus Christ
Devon Friedman but completely opposite.
I wonder how many Christians are here
Josh Odom lol
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
After watching both of mark's playthroughs of outlast, W.B and outlast 2, I have noticed a formula on how Red Barrels seems to layout their game which can be broken down into three parts:
Beginning: Wandering/fetch quests while being pursued primarily by default antagonist:
Outlast: Chris Walker (Little Pig!)
Outlast W.B: Canibal Sam/Chris Walker (Feed Me!)
Outlast 2: Marta (Sinner!)
Middle: Divulges from the main story by becoming its own story arc while being pursued by special antagonist:
Outlast: Trager (Buddy!)
Outlast W.B: Groom (Darling!)
Outlast 2: Laird/Nick (The Prophet!)
End: Here, Outlast W.B differs from the other two games, in Outlast and Outlast 2: Everything begins to wrap up, the overall objective is coming close to being met until a twist occurs. The protagonist then suffers a cruel twist of fate, END. With Outlast W.B we actually got a happy ending, which gives a point to everything we went through.
Potential DLC: In Outlast W.B we play as Waylon Park, a software engineer who leaks info for the playable character of Outlast; Miles Upshur to find. With that in mind, for the Outlast 2 DLC we could possibly play as Anna Lee, the daughter of Ethan Lee and the only person who seemingly tried to escape from Temple Gate. Sure, we all would know that she dies at the end but it would allow the player to delve deeper into finding an explanation on what happened to the people at Temple Gate and why they all went insane. The Murkoff Corporation could even be brought in to tie the two games together.
is it how they don't actually have any red barrels in them?
Kyle Rubin outlast W B's ending is after outlast 1 the walrider is already Miles at that time that's why it shows Miles outfit whenever Waylon zooms in on the shadowy figure. So the info he posted to the world was after the events of his and Miles story.
there are Outlast comics that explains a lot, plus he missed a document
Cody Ryan walrider sounds like those electric scooters for disabled people at walmart. (jk, I did actually watch Mark's playthrough)
I would love to see more unfolding of this story. Murkoff was mentioned in a document in Outlast 2 but I would like to see more of them.
40:15 - Mark: Burn me, just burn me alive!
41:16 - Sun: Your wish, is my command!
Comments in a nutshell-
50%- Theories on Outlast 2
15%- Athiests claiming that they're glad that they aren't religious
30%- Theories countering other theories
4%- people liking Markiplier's Outlast 2 playthrough
1%- this comment
if 1% is your comment that mean there is only 100 comments for it to make logical sence and there is WAY more then 100 comments BOOM!
SUPER NINTEN he could've meant theese type of comments but theese people who comment this never do actuality anything to know this they are just like whores
That only makes up 99% of comments
You forgot the ones that say "just watched all these in order lol"
+100% THAT Profile picture 🤣
Lol the 15% being extra af
You're right though Mark, none of it was real! Lynn even said it herself before she died, in her moment of clarity before she drew the last breath, she said "there's nothing there." There was no baby. He wasn't holding an actual baby. It was a doll. Just like all the other baby dolls all through out the village. You're right, there was nothing actually happening, just a bunch of hallucinations and chemical overdose. They did explain, you just have to understand the mindset that the main character is in. He has gone crazy. And in the main character going crazy, you as the player have gone insane with him. Even the heretics used psychedelics, blowing them in your face to amplify the chemical hallucinations caused by the mercury that was seeping in to the drinking water. We know this because of how the daughter from the beginning died. How much of a coincidence is it that your "baby" was a girl? The only reason he kept thinking of Jess was because he just so happened to dream of it prior to the crash. It could have been resolved, he could have told someone and the teacher may have been dealt with, they never tell us it wasn't resolved, just that he is overwhelmingly guilty of her death that he witnessed as a child. He felt guilty that he allowed himself to leave her in that room after she begged him to stay. He left only because an adult that was supposed to be trustworthy forced him to, but as a child having something tragic like that happen in front of you will haunt you forever. Lynn wouldn't hold this guilt because she wasn't there at the time.
Don't forget what the monster in you waking dreams looked like. A being with a body made of sex-organs and many mouths. You saw flames and insects as well, but only because you had been reading all these religious papers that told you about them. Remember, the mind is a very complex and powerful manipulator. It used the information you already knew, the information you were gathering all throughout the village, and the information that everyone else was telling you, and turned your reality into their reality. Into a chemical hallucination caused by mercury and other chemical poisoning. Think about it, you were just fine until you started swimming in the water. Until you started trekking further into the forest, closer to the factory. Lynn was right. There were chemical spills that were harming local life and driving people crazy. The game gave a clear and coherent explanation, there is no question that none of this was real, but you get so caught up in how Blake lived it and how he perceived reality that you in turn start to believe that it is actually happening. But it's not. None of it.
This game is so great because it not only shows you insanity, but makes you question your own sanity and beliefs as you play. You're left with Blake wondering into the woods, holding a "newborn," and watching the sun explode because his eyes can't take the light. He's become extremely light sensitive after being in a chemical hallucination for over 12 hours in the dark.
Just remember, Outlast games are designed to play with your mind. The first one was showing how the mind can be completely lost in others. This Outlast is how the mind is lost in yourself. It's genius. Tell me what you think of my theory!
Savicurlly if only we could write essays on Outlast instead of some fucking short English play/poem
-_- .....
Wow! Nice theory! I like what you said! Especially that Outlast is made to play with your mind. The first one did and this one, even more so.
Savicurlly I
Savicurlly Wow, that's the best theory I've read. I like how you analysed both Outlasts and searched their meanings. It makes a lot of sense now. Thanks! 👍
Savicurlly WOW. HANDS DOWN
And thats the moment.....
we want outlast 3...
UniversoKartoon '-' No... we really don't
UniversoKartoon '-' I agree. They make games so beautiful and we'll done that it's a treat to play it.
Jordan Tyo Ikr! It would just ruin the series if they forced new games out (*cough* just like assassin's creed, cod, halo etc.
N0VA he was talking to OP loser
lol it was just a joke.-.
Round of applause for Marta:
Record holder for most ironic video game death *EVER*
You can find a note near the lake that is by a scientist who mentions and works for murkoff. He talks about some lady that works there too and something about the towers.
I know that the towers cause people to go insane the closer you are to them and amplify your deepest darkest secrets/guilty feelings.
I think after he saw the priest kill Jess, the priest pressured Blake into helping him stage Jess' suicide, which is why Blake keeps saying Jess' death was a suicide and extreme guilt that he left and covered up her death. This is supported by the song you can hear when mark is walking down the mine at 1:22 that sings "be careful little eyes what you see (x2) there's a father up above, and he's looking down with love, be careful little eyes what you see..." then he changes eyes to hands and see to do and before mark opens the door that cuts off the end of the song he changes hands with mouth and do with say. And when you have to run to the bathroom after seeing Jess dead on the stairs and going back towards the stairs after running from whatever's chasing you, you find Jess dangling from a noose, which supports that it was staged, even IF Blake had nothing to do the cover up.
And since the light, from the murkoff towers, amplifies guilt, Blake is slowly going insane as he relives, probably, the most traumatic moment of his adolescence. He's so consumed by his guilt that he has to keep saying it wasn't HIS fault, he blames Jess's death all on himself even though the priest killed her and basically threatened Blake too. This is probably why he keeps confusing Lynn for Jess in his video diary things. He wants so badly to save Jess just to get rid of this terrible secret.
He's also been blasted by that light, like four times right? It's affecting him much more than Lynn because 1) he has had more contact with it 2) he's outside and eventually is a whole lot closer to the towers than Lynn is and 3) Lynn is underground in the mines where she isn't really being affected. She could be going insane too, but not as much as Blake is throughout the game. So I think she might think she actually is pregnant, she did get hit with the first burst that brought down the helicopter, but not as far as Blake sees. Blake sees her at 9 months where as she could see herself as barely finding out she pregnant. So at the end where she "gives birth", she's still sane enough to know that "there's nothing there" as she says.
As far as why everybody is insane, well they live close to the towers, so they went insane. That's why knoth thinks every child is the anti Christ and why he can see Blake's "child". And the heretics live closest to the towers, so they're the most insane and probably the first to turn insane, which is probably why they're called heretics.
And then the monster in Blake's guilt-dream-visions is the priest, b/c he's a monster that raped and killed Jess (as a grown up he realized this).
This is a theory I found, as well as added my own thoughts here and there. just thought I'd leave it here for all ya'll.
raika r omg that makes so much sense actually
woah
What I'm confused about is, since Lynn said there's nothing there, Insinuating the birth wasn't real, then why did she die?
There's an answer for that in the first game. There's a note in Outlast that talks about how female patients and staff needed to be removed from the Wallrider program because even being near the morphogenic engine cause phantom pregnancies that ended in fatal hemorrhaging when the woman would have been full term.
the phenomenon that is affecting everyone one has different effects based on gender. it is common for women to believe and show symptoms of pregnancy when they are not. it is a side effect. The women in the town we're actually getting pregnant and killing off their children so they never noticed it.
Mark, you and Jack got very slightly different endings. In the last scene with Jessica, in Jack's video, Jessica had marks on her neck from the rope, but not in yours. It makes me wonder how many different endings there are.
Kathy Graves there are only two different endings, the ones with mark and the ones with jack. To trigger mark's ending, at the scene where you leave jessica with father loutermilch as soon as you hear jessica you need to quickly turn your way back to her and go to the stairs which was the place of the death of jessica. To trigger jack's ending also at the scene where you leave jessica with loutermilch as soon as you hear jessica screaming don't run your way towards her yet, you just stand where you at for like 5 or even 10 seconds then after that go to the stairs where the death of jessica happened.
Kathy Graves i got the ending Jack got. I think it depends on how many recordings and stuff you get.
Kathy Graves Are the endings the exact same other than the marks on Jessica's neck?
@@vincethunder789 actually it depends upon the hanging posters with half alphabets if you find them all you will know what happened to jessica and get jacks ending and if you dont find all hangman letters than you will get marks ending simple
35:24 THE BABY HAS NO SHADOW!! All you see is the shadow from Blakes hands
You see it better at 35:25 on the floor BUT awesome find!!! Definitely didn't notice that at all.
Lynn even says "theres nothing there"
Spencer Whipp It's better if you paused the video at 42:01, but yeah; there isn't a shadow to the baby. Either that was just a graphic designer's mistake, or the baby is an illusion to Blake.
Markis2bi4 The baby is an illusion,no sane person can see it
The baby's shadow shows against Lynn's skin when it is being born, maybe because it is a fresh illusion or maybe because of dodgy shadow work x
31:03
"God loves you" (gets impaled by a cross) could've fooled me
THE BABY HAS NO SHADOW! D:
Natália because it's the antichrist duh 😂😂
that's because Blake was only imagining it because he was so insane
I think that's what happened because Lynn said before she died,"There's nothing there."
bebe?
BEBE!
DoubleM thats makes a lot of sense
It would make sense if the DLC is the point of view of Papa Knoth or Lynn. Mostly Lynn.
I'd pay for DLC where I can hang in a cave for a about 12 hours, watching my belly inflates, while dirty eelk people fuck each other around me.
I personaly Love the singing at the end of the game when you leave the chapel, it gives a much more relieving, accomplishing feeling of beating the game and getting Blake through everything, except for the part where Murkoff levels the entire area... but hey, there's always DLC!
"Blake! I have _had it!_ You are putting down that GODDAMN CAMERA!!"
"Lynn, you're going to be really glad we have all this footage of the family someday."
"GAHHH--"
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.
No need to apologize.
Pseudocyesis is the rare occurrence where a mammal shows the signs of pregnancy WITHOUT being pregnant. This can include abdominal extension.
When Lynn gives birth, she says "There's nothing there..."
Great point!!! and also one that links this game back to its predecessor. There were no female patients or female employees at Mount Massive Asylum because it was mentioned in one of the documents that the women's responses to the "treatments" were resulting in Pseudocyesis.
With all the "suggestions" of Lynn being pregnant she and Blake, in conjunction with the radio-wave mind manipulation going on could have easily of been lead into a joint affliction of Pseudocyesis.
CodeNameX001 But dont you need an egg cell to link with a sperm cell for one to get pregnant?
Alicia is an Otaku buuuut she wasn't pregnant. That was what that comment was explaining. It was a phantom pregnancy and there was no baby.
yes, as the standard, but in some cases, like plants, invertebrates, amphibians etc, they can reproduce with out any genetic contribution from a secondary partner, self cloning if you will. and also some swap genders, are both sex, change sex if the other is absent, IE the famous reference in Jurassic park. Biology is fascinating. Even mammals are no exception. psudo/sympathetic pregnancy can happen organically. You get a group of female animals and some become pregnant, sometimes you get the odd one who gets this and goes through all the symptoms of a pregnancy, but is not actually pregnant, but exhibit all the signs, increase in weight, lactation, but no baby. rare but even men get it when there female partner becomes pregnant. you also get a female who wants to be so bad, she can trigger her body to do this too.
CodeNameX001 I think she meant there is no God. when she was dying she saw no light and no heaven. she didn't have her eyes open long enough to even see the baby
just think, this whole situation could be solved if they had just sat down and had an ice cold Pepis
gabriel mcderp and a snickers
MMMH PEPIS
Oh boy, I do love myself a nice cold Pepis
gabriel mcderp 🅱epsi
When your in pain and you need relief from laber, scream out help and PEPIS MAN will save the day, PEPIS MAN saves all
When the baby is born there is no shadow of the baby 35:25
ethan wwoooww thats creepy
That's because "there's nothing there" -Lynn at her dying moment. The baby isn't real. Murkoff Corporation from the last outlast had signals causing hallucination and psychological effects towards the town as an experiment.
From: j.blaire@murkoffcorp.us.com
To: r.trager@murkoffcorp.us.com
Subject: false pregnancies / real profits
Rick,
Fun hitting the greens last week, we should make the drive more often.
Was reviewing some old test records from the early days of Project Walrider and something sparked my interest. Were you following the project back in 2010? Apparently we had issues with female employees experiencing psychosomatic pregnancies, something to do with how the Morphogenic Engine interacts with the immune system? (All Greek to me. Am I right?) It was more often fatal than not, and these were employees not patients, so a little harder to sweep under the rug. But...
The Morphogenic Engine activity in these ladies' marrow was off the charts. And these are women who were never even exposed to additional hormone therapy. Now I don't know PPM from a kick in the teeth, but I can read a spreadsheet, and if the projected profits from PROJECT WALRIDER are half of what they say they are, I've just got one question:
Why aren't we performing experiments on women? God knows mental illness is an equal opportunity affliction. Seems unethical to pass up on such a potential windfall.
Sincerely,
Jer
ethan
thank you so much for pointing that out I totally missed it and it makes the there is nothing there a line makes so much more sense
ethan ur right
I really loved this playthrough. Mark really got immersed in this game and made me so. Also, I really appreciate the way he tried to focus more on the reasons of the happenings, instead of just "playing".
"I'm not willing to believe that the Anti Christ came in and noogied everyone to death!!!"
XD "have a noogie for each of you till it kills you"
what if blake went insane from watching jessica die so he was taken to mount massive asylum and this entire game a hallucination caused by the morphogenic engine
Xelerate but even then, what's with the baby he supposedly had with Lynn ??
like I know he liked her and all, but shouldn't she be alive with him or something ?
like even then he possessed more feelings for Jessica and then , what makes me more confused is that the baby was a girl !!
Aigoo Jungkookie the baby isnt real, if you look at the shadow on the floor after lynn "gives birth" you can see he is cradling air
Noone ever said that the Anti-Christ would have a shadow in the first place. He may still be holding a baby, even if it's not the Anti-Christ, as well, but WE were affected by the mind control device.
Xelerate O_o
AJ Roberts i feel like that is a strong hint that there is no baby, you can clearly see him holding nothing
"There's nothing there."
THE BABY WASN'T REAL! IT'S CONFIRMED BY THE DEVS!
26:36 Lynn...you're.. Pariagnent.
No no no, she's pregananant.
no she's gregnent
Ted Flob I remember that meme. She is pregtenant.
Ted Flob the correct term is Pergante
Ted Flob pragnent
Ending that leaves you with more questions than answers you say? You know what means, don't you? *MORE OF THAT SWEET, SWEET DLC.*
There's no real question, we all know what happened. Comics explained it very thoroughly.
Ahhh. I love the smell of a warm DLC in the morning.
no
**Markimoo makes snide sarcastic remarks about his pregnant about-to-give-birth waifu**
Father of the Year Award goes to...
While this game was good, I personally don’t think it was as great as the first Outlast (in terms of both storytelling and cohesiveness). It makes me sad that they’re not planning on doing a DLC because I think it could really benefit from it.
LovePatchSour. They’re not? Oh my life has no meaning anymore
Agreed. While a good game, this doesn’t even come close to the masterpiece that is 1 and whistleblower. On a good note, Outlast trails is in production!
I feel the same 😭 😭😭
I agree. Although this game brought a very different experience, the storytelling on the first one was just more satisfying. As for this one I'm just left so confused
AND
Lynn and Blake:*relaxing*
Marta: what's that? Someone trying to relax? CAN'T HAVE THAT SHIT!!
Just questions for thought
-If Lynn was too deep in the mines to be affected by the visions why were the heretics affected?
-if the electromagnetic wave was strong enough to take out a helicopter, wouldn't it be strong enough to take out a small camera?
-why was Val's skin able to change?
-why were some of the people in the town sane? Such as the guy who tried to help you in the beginning.
heavyflyingballoon
- Maybe the heretics were affected because they had been hanging out there much longer than Lynn? :'D Kinda like with heavy metals: eating a fish with some traces of mercury in its system won't make you sick, but if you eat more of them you're bound to start showing symptoms, or like if you visit an area "poisoned" by nuclear radiation (Chernobyl, for an example), and stay there for maybe a couple of hours at max you'll be most likely just fine, but if you move there your risk of getting cancer and other radiation related sicknesses increases.
- The camera is some freaky super camera? 😂
- I have no idea tbh.
- Maybe he was somehow resistent to the mental effects? A bit like some people have the natural immunity against Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease (although okay, mental resistance isn't the same thing as immunity, but you know what I mean).
---Heretics were living underground, and they probably lost most of their sight and humanity. They only knew to eat and fk. Mines and heretics reminded me of that movie 'the Descent', it must me inspired by it, im almost 100% sure.
---Val is just a huge mystery, and I think the right question is how does he have "women parts" when he is a man (at one of Knoth's notes Val is reffered as a male) Hes probably trying to be a women, but for what reason ???
---It was the storm that caused towers to override, and the light was so powerfull that made the helicopter crash, thus everything going to shitt from that moment (like in Outlast 1), also the storm at the ending when the sun "explodes" was probably just another powerfull light.
---Ethan, I dont think he is mentally stronger, theres a note that clarifies that some of the "villagers" were getting medicine (penicillin) from the "outside world" ,and couse of that they were immune to the light.
---The camera is just an Outlast classic, probably just irrelivant question about the camera, like if someone asked "how does the camera still work after constantly falling and going underwater"
Nortmen100 Val probably wanted to birth the AntiChrist himself.
The baby is not real.... There is no shadow and lynn says there "is nothing in your hands" stating it was all Blake's illusions from the microwave transmissions.... Godamm it Murkof corporation
Harry R yeah that was interesting. I took it as she meant the baby had no soul. Basically the anti-Christ. I guess we'll see.
Harry R microwave
Came back after all this time to rewatch and I gotta say, the ending is all the different knowing what actually happens; essentially, the big "Explosion" that Blake sees is actually just the sun rising, the hallucinations amplifying the sight to a magnitude to be akin to that of the apocalypse or a nuclear explosion, when in reality, Blake is simply seeing the sun rising, before falling into another state of delusion, seeing Jessica once more, before passing out promptly, being found by leftover Murkoff agents who went to investigate the aftermath, finding Blake and promptly taking him to be interrogated, but it was noted that there were no other survivors besides Blake, as he was found by himself in a shack, implying that there was no baby on sight...
No, if you read the murkoff account, which is the comic book for the outlast series, you would know that the walrider had taken a colony of ants as a host, and then destroyed one of the cell towers near temple gate. The explosion was more exaggerated under the affects of the morphogenic engine.
Wait but what if the baby didn't even exist... because at the end Lynn said," there is nothing there." ????????
DefinitelynotAshlynn yes. it was an illusion. there was no shadow.
Hallucination*
Possibly, I was also considering the prayer at the end, it could be showing that they just went there to pray and that's why they felt they did nothing wrong.. but also... my first thought was that- they prayed to the anti-christ - thus meaning the main character had a secondary goal the entire time..