Outbreak
Last level	None
Next level:	Below Freezing Point
Game:	Resident Evil Outbreak
Date:	September 24, 1998
Player:	Character optional
Location:	J's Bar, Raccoon City
Enemies:	Zombies Crows Scissor Tails

Outbreak (発生, Hassei^?) is the first scenario of Resident Evil Outbreak. It begins in the bar room of J's Bar, and ends on Main Street.

Plot

While at J's Bar, a Zombie attacks Will the bartender, mortally wounding him. Then everyone inside the building tries to evacuate. Use the stairs and eventually reach the liquor room where the forklift is needed to continue. After going to the roof and jumping to the other building, you use the elevator to escape. After having exited the bar, you will meet up with the R.P.D. police. You will need to make a barricade out of the police cars and prevent the zombies from coming closer. After managing to open a door to escape, the officer will get killed, and with his Lighter, you ignite the leaked gasoline which eventually blows up an entire truck. Using the sewers, you get in front of the Apple Inn. You ride an armored vehicle and when you reach the bridge to Main Street and you must activate a bomb to kill all the zombies present.

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Opening cutscenes

Mid-game

Ending cutscenes

Walkthrough

J's Bar

Aside from Yoko, who can be found in the Women's Bathroom, each protagonist will begin the scenario in the bar. As the player, your initial objective is to obtain the Staff Room Key to unlock the Staff Room door at the back of the bar, which is located on the inside area of countertop (Easy/Normal) or on Will's cannibalized corpse once the zombies have broken down the door (Hard/Very Hard). To further delay the forced entry of your undead assailants, you can create a temporary barricade in front of the entrance by pushing the two barrels located near the windows of the bar. You are also given the option of carrying the mortally wounded Bob through the Staff Room door and the various areas beyond, the success of which will credit you with additional points.

After getting the key and unlocking the door, proceed upstairs. While upstairs you will find a Nail Gun that can be used to barricade a door, not allowing zombies to enter for a short amount of time. On easy mode, the Key with Blue Tag needed to unlock the next door is under the Newspaper. On hard mode, you need to get to a room and get it. After proceeding upstairs, you will reach the liquor room.

To continue your progress, you will need to use the forklift, which also needs a key. On easy mode, the key is inside a room in the liquor room. On hard mode however, you will need to get an Alcohol bottle and then go back downstairs to the same room you got the previous key from. There you will find a painting. Put the bottle there and a cabinet with the forklift key inside will unlock. Take the key, go back upstairs, and use the forklift. Climb the stairs and continue. If you had Bob with you, you will need to break the door down the stairs since he can't climb the ladder. Once you reach the roof, you will need to break down a metal fence. If you brought Bob with you to the rooftop and Mark Wilkins is still alive, a cutscene will play showing Bob committing suicide shooting himself to the head in order to avoid changing into a zombie (On Very Hard, Bob will instead change into a Zombie and attack you). Once you get to the metal fence, you will hear a police man saying that they will leave soon. Then a timer of 3 minutes starts. You will need to jump to the other side of the building. Be careful cause you might not jump at the right time and slide off. In order to not fall simply keep pressing the Square button. Then use the elevator and proceed downstairs. Be careful cause on hard mode a female zombie will be inside the elevator.

Evac point

Once outside, you will need to make a barricade using the police cars. On hard mode every zombie will be replaced by Scissor Tails. Watch out cause they are poisonous. After some time, the police officer will start using his Shotgun to break down a wooden door. Shooting the door will help. Once it's broken, he will tell you to proceed and will notice a truck containing gasoline. After seeing the truck, he will be killed, and the player first must go get his lighter (unless you already picked one from J's Bar), then use the valve to wet the enemies with gasoline and then use the lighter to kill them. After going down to use the sewers, the truck will blow up. Once you enter the sewers, you will find a ladder that you need to climb.

Fight or flight: Main Street

Once you climb the ladder to the top, you will find yourself in front of the Apple Inn. Go to another police man and gather there. You will use his vehicle to continue. Unfortunately, due to a barricade, you are forced to get off. Once you are outside you will find weapons like Handguns, Shotguns, and a Revolver in the back of the armored vehicle (On harder modes you will get less items). Grab them cause you might need them. Once you reach the bridge, you will see 3 police men trying to kill the zombies with a bomb. Two of them are killed. Now you have 2 options. The first one, which is the quickest and easiest, is to simply go back to the armored vehicle and talk to the police officer there to end the scenario (You need to have all your current living partners with you if playing with partners). The other is to go to the Main Street, fix the bomb, and detonate it. Either way, you complete the scenario.

Video Walkthrough (Easy)

Event checklist

Notes

• Outbreak is one of three scenarios (the others being Below Freezing Point and Flashback) in which the player has to die in order to get points for their death.
• Outbreak is also one of five scenarios (the others being Decisions, Decisions, Underbelly, Flashback, and End of the Road) to feature an alternate ending depending on the player's route.
• The developers made a side story saying that J's Bar was haunted by spirits which Cindy Lennox and Will were aware of and had seen before the Outbreak. They also stated that Cindy witnessed how bottles would fall on their own, and heard mysterious women screams coming from nowhere. During the outbreak, as survivors make their way to the bar's installations, they would see bottles falling on their own and hear mysterious screams. If a player presses the ad lib button, Cindy will make a comment about them. The mannequin with the blanket on it (looking like a ghost) was a nod to the story.
• During the Raccoon City scenario in Umbrella Chronicles many areas from Outbreak scenario are shown, like J's bar and the main street.

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