The Invasion thing just sucks really... (I'm a casual)
It’s so weird when I play Outlast Trials and try to search for a random group with the Imposter setting turned on. I literally can’t find a single match. There are so many people who have invasions turned off in their settings, which essentially makes this whole mess even more annoying. That’s another piece of the puzzle as to why you can’t even find matches as an Imposter in the first place. The whole system just sucks. Then, by some kind of magic, the moment I turn it off, I instantly find people. This really makes me think that the vast majority of players, especially casual players like me, simply don’t play the Imposter mode.
I also don’t really understand the concept behind it. You have an Imposter game mode, but then there’s also a setting that lets you turn it on or off, and sometimes you can even have multiple Imposters at once. I just don’t understand how this system is supposed to even work it's just so confusing to me.
The worst part is that whenever I actually manage to find a game, I end up being matched with people who are Prestige 80 or 99. So not only do I already have to deal with the Ex-Pops, the Prime Asset, and the objectives, but I also have to deal with these absolute top-tier sweat players. If you don’t play this game every single day and know every corner of every map, it just doesn’t feel practical.
And honestly, where is the fun in the Imposter mode? I genuinely don’t understand it. You barely have anything you can do against the Imposter, which makes the whole thing feel more like an Annoyance+ mode than an actual fun alternative way to play. Like I was saying, it reduces the chances of actually being able to enjoy the mode because it feels designed primarily for hardcore players.
And that’s without even mentioning the ranking system and the long queue times. Almost every time I try to play with random people and there’s an Imposter, someone ends up leaving the game. It feels like nobody wants to deal with the extra Imposter bullshit when the game is already complicated enough by default.
I’ve never understood why they felt the need to force this gimmick into the game. To me, this is easily one of the worst parts of Outlast Trials. The game could honestly just stay as a PvE experience without the Imposter mode. If anything, the Imposter system just breaks the immersion, makes the community more toxic, and turns the Trials into something that feels more frustrating and annoying than fun. And I know we aren't forced to play imposter. I just wanted to share my thoughts on it. Keep that in mind just in case someone wants to jump me just because I say I don't like this concept