5 Best Prescriptions in The Outlast Trials

The Outlast Trials can be quite challenging and frustrating. However, it becomes easier and more enjoyable when you acquire prescriptions to upgrade your character and acquire special perks and abilities.

Unfortunately, you must buy all prescriptions in one tier to access the prescriptions in the next tier. While each prescription is important, players should be highly selective about which ones to unlock first. You wouldn't want to deplete the hard-earned Green Vouchers on prescriptions with fewer perks. Therefore, to help with your choices, we have highlighted  five prescriptions in different tiers of The Outlast Trials that are incredibly beneficial. These incredible selections can mean the difference between perishing and outlasting your challenges.

5. Instant Use

Items are handy in The Outlast Trials, offering benefits such as healing. Ordinarily, you must add an item to your inventory to interact with it. However, you have a limited inventory capacity, limiting your choice of items to interact with and often forcing you to forfeit some of your precious items to collect more. Fortunately, this isn’t a problem when you have the Instant Use prescription.

The Instant Use prescription enables you to interact with items without first adding them to your inventory. Instead, you only need to hold an item down to use it instantly. As such, you can use as many items as you want, even with a tight inventory. Conveniently, Instant Use is a Tier I prescription, and it is prudent to unlock it as early as possible.

Interestingly, the Expanded Inventory prescription also helps complement the Instant Use prescription. You may need to carry some items as backup, making the Instant Use prescription inefficient when your inventory slots are full. Fortunately, the Expanded Inventory prescription adds four more slots to your inventory, enabling you to carry more items.

4. Regeneration

Your survival in The Outlast Trials ultimately comes down to your health levels. Ordinarily, you can regenerate your health by picking up medicinal items. However, medicine isn’t always readily available. As such, getting the Regeneration prescription early on in the game is crucial. This Tier I prescription automatically regenerates a small portion of your health after a brief rest.

It is worth noting that you can increase the automatic health regeneration speed using the Advanced Regeneration prescription. Interestingly, you can also equip the Revitalize prescription to restore your health to full capacity using respawns or syringes when playing solo. Notably, both Advanced Regeneration and Revitalize prescriptions are Tier III and will take some time to acquire.

Healing items usually take up considerable space in your inventory if you don’t have the Instant Use prescription. However, when your health regenerates automatically, you can pick up fewer healing items and more offensive items, like rigs to boost your fighting chances.

3. Speed Boost

Running from your enemies is a core concept of The Outlast Trials gameplay. Unfortunately, some adversaries run faster than you, enabling them to catch up and cause damage. Fortunately, you can increase your running speed using the Speed Boost prescription, enabling you to maintain a safe distance between yourself and your enemies. Moreover, you can make your way around trials and achieve your objectives faster.

Sometimes, you need to carry large or heavy items when running away from pursuing enemies. While the Speed Boost prescription increases your speed, it is inefficient when carrying bulky items, which can slow you down. This is why it is also prudent to get the Heavy Training prescription, which increases your speed when carrying heavy loads. As such, you don’t have to choose between abandoning your loads or taking a hit from pursuing enemies.

2. Slide

Evading enemies in close proximity can be tricky. One of the best ways to evade imminent hits is by sliding past your enemies. This entails pressing the crouch button when running towards or away from your enemies. However, you need the Slide prescription to do it. Fortunately, you can purchase the Slide prescription early, as it is a Tier I prescription.

Interestingly, Slide isn’t the only prescription you need to evade your enemies and boost your survival. Other prescriptions with similar abilities include Door Basher and Run and Smash Doors.

Stopping to open doors gives your enemies time to catch up. Fortunately, the Run and Smash Doors prescription enables you to automatically open doors when running away from enemies, saving you valuable time and boosting your survivability. Moreover, it also enables you to crack locked doors.

Locked doors are essentially a dead end, which is why you also need the Door Basher prescription. This prescription enables you to break down locked doors in just two hits, saving you time and enabling you to create an escape pathway. Notably, it is especially handy when playing solo, as you don’t have allies to create escape pathways for you. Interestingly, you can break down locked doors faster by first cracking them using the Run and Smash Doors prescription. Overall, the three prescriptions can boost your survivability considerably and make the game easier to master.

1. Athlete

You lose some of your stamina every time you engage in physical activities like running, jumping, and climbing in The Outlast Trials. It is one of the most frustrating aspects of playing the game since you must always track how much stamina you expend and spend precious time on stamina regen delay. Notably, insufficient stamina slows you down, enabling enemies to catch up with you. Moreover, you can die if you deplete your stamina.

Stamina is essential to everything you do, making Athlete the most valuable prescription in the game. It increases your maximum stamina, enabling you to keep going. As such, you can run further and for longer periods, although your stamina is still limited.

In addition to the Athlete prescription, Endurance, Gymnast, and Breaching Technique prescriptions also help with your stamina levels in various ways. The Endurance prescription reduces your stamina consumption when running, giving you more time to pursue enemies. Similarly, the Gymnast prescription reduces stamina consumption when climbing or jumping. Finally, the Breaching Technique prescription ensures that you don’t deplete your stamina when bashing.

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