Defeat Scenarios

One of the possible Defeat Scenarios in Outward

Defeat Scenarios are a mechanic in Outward which trigger when the player is defeated, either through combat or other means. Instead of dying, time will move forward by a reasonable amount, and the player will wake up in one of many different possible outcomes.

The received scenario is more or less random, though it is influenced by the player's current location, quest progress and the circumstances of the defeat (ie. which enemy defeated the player).

Lost Items

There are various ways in which the player may lose items on death, both temporarily and permanently.

• Some enemies - generally humanoid ones - may steal valuable items such as silver, gold and gemstones from the player.
• If the player is sent to the town inn they will lose some silver to pay for their stay.
  • If the player has no silver on them, the stay at the Inn will be free.

Lost Backpacks

The player's bag should never be lost entirely on death, it will usually be somewhere nearby. Occasionally it may have washed up on a nearby shore, or bandits may place it in a different room to where you awake.

• The backpack indicator on the player's compass will guide them to where their bag is located, if the player is in the same map as the bag.
• At Vendavel Fortress and Montcalm Clan Fort, the player's backpack may have been placed in a Black Chest.

Hardcore Mode

Players who have chosen to play in Hardcore Mode when creating their character have a 20% chance of receiving a permanent death.

List of Scenarios

Scenario	Time Progression	Respawn Locations
Attacked by corrupted Ghosts	4-6 hours	Corrupted Tombs
Attacked by dweller	4-6 hours	The Vault of Stone
Attacked by Hyenas	3-6 hours	Hyena Burrow
Attacked by Veabers	23-73 hours	Antique Plateau
Awaken at Vigil Pylon	6-12 hours	Chersonese, Hallowed Marsh or Enmerkar Forest
Awaken in a garden	4-6 hours	Abrassar
Awaken in Old Levant	26-49 hours	Abrassar
Awaken to armor being stolen	6-8 hours	Hallowed Marsh
Awaken to food being stolen	4-6 hours	Hallowed Marsh
Battered and beaten in a mine	4-6 hours	The Eldest Brother, Oil Refinery
Beaten and bloody, but alive	4-47 hours	same location as defeat
Captured and released by Montcalm Tribe	8-12 hours	Chersonese
Captured by bandits in Dead Roots	4-6 hours	Dead Roots
Captured by Blood Mages	23-73 hours	Blood Mage Hideout
Captured by Burning Men	3-6 hours	Face of the Ancients
Captured by Calygreys	47-121 hours	Ark of the Exiled
Captured by Chersonese bandits	8-12 hours	Bandits' Prison
Captured by Ghosts	8-12 hours	Ghost Pass
Captured by Kazite bandits	23-73 hours	Antique Plateau
Captured by Sand Corsair bandits	6-12 hours	Sand Rose Cave
Captured by The Hive	8-12 hours	Forest Hives
Captured by Troglodytes	4-8 hours	Blister Burrow or Royal Manticore's Lair
Captured by Troglodytes (Antique Plateau)	23-73 hours	Troglodyte Warren
Captured by Vendavel bandits	8-12 hours	Vendavel Fortress
Captured by Wendigo	23-73 hours	Wendigo Lair
Captured by Wolfgang mercenaries	23-73 hours	Antique Plateau
Captured with Soroborean Caravanner	25-47 hours	Abandoned Living Quarters
Chained by Troglodytes	4-8 hours	Destroyed Test Chambers
Chased out of the Ziggurat	4-6 hours	Hallowed Marsh, Dark Ziggurat Interior
Collapsed onto a bedroll	24-28 hours	Stone Titan Caves
Crawled to safety in the Electric Lab	4-6 hours	Electric Lab
Dazed and delirious	4-6 hours	Corrupted Tombs
Defeated at Abandoned Docks	4-6 hours	Abandoned Docks
Defeated at Burnt Outpost	4-6 hours	Enmerkar Forest
Defeated by Blue Chamber scouts	4-6 hours	Ruined Outpost
Defeated by Blue Chamber thugs	4-6 hours	Flooded Cellar
Defeated by Butcher of Men	23-73 hours	Abandoned Storage
Defeated by Commander Mantis	4-6 hours	Enmerkar Forest
Defeated by Cyrene	9-13 days	Levant
Defeated by Ghosts in Corrupted Tombs	4-6 hours	Corrupted Tombs
Defeated by Highlord Cyr	4-6 hours	Hallowed Marsh
Defeated by Hive	3-6 hours	Enmerkar Forest or Forest Hives
Defeated by Immaculate	4-6 hours	Dead Tree
Defeated by Insects	3-6 hours	Abrassar, Ancient Hive, The Slide, Enmerkar Forest or Forest Hives
Defeated by Light Mender	4-6 hours	Spire of Light
Defeated by Medyse	23-97 hours	Sulphuric Caverns
Defeated by possessed Roland	4-6 hours	Necropolis
Defeated by Rebel Priests	4-6 hours	Hollowed Lotus
Defeated by Sagard Battleborn	9-13 days	Berg
Defeated by Scourge in Monsoon	9-13 days	Monsoon
Defeated by Wolfgang mercenaries	23-73 hours	Antique Plateau
Defeated during raid against the Prince	73-167 hours	Levant
Defeated in Calygrey Colosseum	23-49 hours	Calygrey Colosseum
Defeated in Gladiator's Arena	1-2 hours	New Sirocco
Defeated in Old Harmattan	23-73 hours	Old Harmattan
Defeated with Life Drain	no time	In Between
Dragged deeper into dungeon	23-49 hours	same location as defeat
Dragged into Hive Prison	6-12 hours	Hive Prison
Dragged into Reptillian Lair	4-6 hours	Reptilian Lair
Dragged off by golem	4-8 hours	Compromised Mana Transfer Station
Dragged off by stampeding animal	4-6 hours	Jade Quarry
Dragged off by Stekosaurs	3-6 hours	Steakosaur's Burrow or Reptilian Lair
Dragged off by Tuanosaurs	3-6 hours	Reptilian Lair
Dragged off to furnace by Golem	4-6 hours	Ancient Foundry
Escaped into corrupted cavern	2-3 hours	Ruined Warehouse
Escaped through The Hole	6-12 hours	Chersonese
Escaped with the Hunch	4-8 hours	Lost Golem Manufacturing Facility
Fallen down elevator shaft	4-8 hours	Crumbling Loading Docks
Fallen into chalcedony shards	12 hours	The Grotto of Chalcedony
Fallen into the Ancient Hive	4-6 hours	Ancient Hive
Fallen into the Scarlet Sanctuary	29-79 hours	Scarlet Sanctuary
Feasted on by Hive larvae	4-6 hours	The Slide
Forced into Calygrey Colosseum	23-73 hours	Calygrey Colosseum
Framed for attack on Berg	4-6 hours	Necropolis
Half cooked in the volcano	4-6 hours	The Eldest Brother
Imprisoned by the Montcalm Tribe	6-12 hours	Montcalm Clan Fort
Injected with Medyse egg	23-49 hours	Sulphuric Caverns
Lost in the Face of the Ancients	8-10 hours	Face of the Ancients
Mistaken for dead by Montcalm Tribe	6-12 hours	Chersonese
Nursed to health at the Berg house	9-13 days	Berg
Nursed to health at the Berg Inn	9-13 days	Berg
Nursed to health at the Cierzo Inn	9-13 days	Cierzo
Nursed to health at the Harmattan house	9-13 days	Harmattan
Nursed to health at the Harmattan Inn	9-13 days	Harmattan
Nursed to health at the Levant house	9-13 days	Levant
Nursed to health at the Levant Inn	9-13 days	Levant
Nursed to health at the Lighthouse	9-13 days	Cierzo
Nursed to health at the Monsoon house	9-13 days	Monsoon
Nursed to health at the Monsoon Inn	9-13 days	Monsoon
Paralyzed by Medyse	23-97 hours	Caldera or Sulphuric Caverns
Passed out cold	4-12 hours	same location as defeat, or exterior region
Pounced on by Myrmitaur	4-6 hours	Myrmitaur's Haven
Rescued by Ash Giants	23-73 hours	Giant's Sauna
Rescued by Holy Mission warrior	49-95 hours	Monsoon
Rescued by Levant mercenaries	49-95 hours	Levant
Resting on a tomb	4-6 hours	Necropolis
Returned to destroyed Lighthouse	1-2 hours	Cierzo (Destroyed)
Robbed by bandits	4-6 hours	Undercity Passage
Robbed by Marsh Bandits	23-73 hours	Hallowed Marsh
Saved by Adalbert the Hermit	8-12 hours	Hermit's House
Saved by Ancestral Ghosts	25-47 hours	Chersonese, Hallowed Marsh, Abrassar or Enmerkar Forest
Saved by Cierzo huntress	49-95 hours	Cierzo
Saved by Desy Laroche	23-73 hours	Corrupted Cave
Saved by Dorion Dumas	9-13 days	New Sirocco
Saved by Elatt	8-12 hours	Hallowed Marsh
Saved by Friendly Immaculate	8-12 hours	Immaculate's Camp
Saved by functioning Golem	23-73 hours	Antique Plateau
Saved by Gabriella Sullivan	4-6 hours	Berg
Saved by Gep	23-73 hours	Chersonese, Hallowed Marsh, Abrassar, Enmerkar Forest, Antique Plateau or Caldera
Saved by Gep (Caldera)	23-73 hours	Caldera
Saved by ghost at Cabal of Winds Temple	4-6 hours	Cabal of Wind Temple
Saved by hunter from Berg	49-95 hours	Berg
Saved by lone Watcher	6-12 hours	Conflux Mountain
Saved by malfunctioning Golem	23-73 hours	Antique Plateau
Saved by Silver-Nose	23-73 hours	Hallowed Marsh
Saved by Siroccan hunters	71-145 hours	New Sirocco
Saved by stranger at Slums	6-12 hours	Levant
Saved by stranger with ambraine	8-10 hours	Old Sirocco
Saved by unknown stranger	23-73 hours	Ziggurat Passage
Saved by Watchers	8-12 hours	Conflux Chambers
Saved by William	4-6 hours	Voltaic Hatchery, Jade Quarry, Spire of Light, Electric Lab, Forgotten Research Laboratory or Scarlet Sanctuary
Saved by Wolfgang mercenaries	23-73 hours	Antique Plateau
Saved by Yzan from shipwreck	25-47 hours	Cierzo
Stumbled into the Oasis	25-47 hours	Abrassar
Thrown off a cliff in Ancestor's Resting Place	4-6 hours	Ancestor's Resting Place
Thrown off a cliff in the Hatchery	2-3 hours	Voltaic Hatchery
Toyed with by Ash Giants	19-101 hours	Steam Bath Tunnels
Unharmed in New Sirocco	23-73 hours	New Sirocco
Used in Troglodyte ritual	8-12 hours	Royal Manticore's Lair

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