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Bunnie

Apr 8 @ 3:41pm

The Escape Trial was super underwhelming, thoughts? (SPOILERS)

Maybe I just expected more difficulty, but the new Escape Trial was extremely boring & underwhelming. Does it get any harder the more you play it like the Rebirth/Farewell Trial? I didn't even realize the Big Grunt was Henrietta until someone else said so online. I guess it was anxiety inducing for like 3 minutes. But it had no challenge at all, no queues for solo players, and void of any tangible missions within said trial/event. Pretty disappointing coming from Red Barrel.

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Tabbs

Apr 8 @ 3:48pm

It was such a let down. The new map had so much potential- and it was over so fast. Why make us wait for this today? I'm hoping that they have something else up their sleeves, as they probs just lost a lot of long time players.

oogalord

Apr 8 @ 4:02pm

I really liked it and I don't mind the short length but I am hoping there's going to be a way to up the difficulty. I wanna run the Psychosurgery version of the map but it's not clear if it's going to be a regular trial mission or if it's going to be a new option instead of the Rebirth mission. I know they're going to make changes to Rebirth.

Ћ Abomination Jones has The Outlast Trials

Apr 8 @ 4:03pm

I was figuring it'd be harder to do on repeat tries, but it was the same. Got 5 tokens instead of 25.

Bunnie

Apr 8 @ 4:04pm

Originally posted by Tabbs:
It was such a let down. The new map had so much potential- and it was over so fast. Why make us wait for this today? I'm hoping that they have something else up their sleeves, as they probs just lost a lot of long time players.

Idk if they lost players over this, however retention has always and will always be an issue for online games, but it was a major letdown nonetheless. I'm hoping I'm dumb and I just didn't understand the mechanics or missed things?

Bunnie

Apr 8 @ 4:05pm

Originally posted by oogalord:
I really liked it and I don't mind the short length but I am hoping there's going to be a way to up the difficulty. I wanna run the Psychosurgery version of the map but it's not clear if it's going to be a regular trial mission or if it's going to be a new option instead of the Rebirth mission. I know they're going to make changes to Rebirth.

I feel like it had such potential but it was half-baked in my opinion. It needed more meat. More Ex-Pops, and like you said it needs a difficulty opinion OR gets harder like Rebirths.

zodi_kid

Apr 8 @ 4:13pm

I really enjoyed it. As it was more narrative-driven, I was on edge the whole time, expecting something nasty to happen at any moment.

That said, I totally see a higher difficulty. There could be people who tried to follow Amelia's plan, but got stuck and trapped, lost and forgotten in the tunnels, and they had to resort to cannibalism to survive. When they see your reagents, they try to hunt them down as a prey for some fresh meat.

SadisticSouls has The Outlast Trials

Apr 8 @ 4:52pm

It was incredibly boring as well as short...

R A Z E R

Apr 8 @ 4:58pm

I fully agree that it was underwhelming...

Last edited by R A Z E R; Apr 8 @ 7:39pm

a bat

Apr 8 @ 5:07pm

Don't bother talking about it on the discord tho, they just shut you down :3

SomberTwilight has The Outlast Trials

Apr 8 @ 7:04pm

Originally posted by a bat:
Don't bother talking about it on the discord tho, they just shut you down :3

yeah, the people in the discord guzzle the ♥♥♥ of the devs. This was a garbage update and people who claim it was good are high on copium

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⛧NecromancerBree⛧ has The Outlast Trials

Apr 9 @ 5:08am

No absolutely agree, very underwhelming.

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{|Octavian|} has The Outlast Trials

Apr 9 @ 5:14am

When you see it purely as a narrative driven event, it actually feels well done, which I think is what they were going for.

It being part 2 of this event definitely set it high in expectations, but we have season 3 in just 2 weeks.

Last edited by {|Octavian|}; Apr 9 @ 2:52pm

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croteam

Apr 9 @ 5:24am

Originally posted by SomberTwilight:
Originally posted by a bat:
Don't bother talking about it on the discord tho, they just shut you down :3
yeah, the people in the discord guzzle the ♥♥♥ of the devs. This was a garbage update and people who claim it was good are high on copium

want your clown award?

Last edited by croteam; Apr 9 @ 6:40am

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Farron Keep has The Outlast Trials

Apr 9 @ 6:08am

It was super short. LIke i get why no expops were there. I saw like 1 reagent sitting on the floor. They couldve made him an enemy. Didnt feel any sort of threat at all in the game. Since this was the dump/bioharzard area of the facility they couldve done something with the hallucination chemicals thats in the mines and had some skinnerman stuff going on. Hopefully the map doesnt go to waste and we get future trials there

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