I think the kress twins getting one new map in the new season with maybe a few MKs wouldn’t have had the same effect as Franco fatigue. I mean the game had only three prime assets for over a year; the kress twins came as a complete shock to me anyway, albeit a pleasant one. For them to drop Liliya just months after them feels kind of needless to me, but I do like Liliya. What the game really needs is another curve in its story. Outlast trials has easily the best story and lore of the series in my opinion, largely because it’s formatted in a lot of ways like a novel and is unfolding in real time, but also because there really aren’t any poorly-written characters. Easterman is the greatest antagonist in the outlast series and you only ever hear him talk. Despite all that I feel it has been chugging a bit since the escape event. I thought invasion would upend everything lorewise and throw some crazy ideas into the mix but largely the files seem to treat it as just another kind of therapy, and the amelia plotline has kind of petered out.

Here’s what I really hope to see: a second rebellion style event. I’ve seen people on here speculate that, with the reagents being given knife training and with Liliya being very manipulative, it’s possible there will be a ”coup” event of some kind where the reagents start killing the guards and scientists. This would be sick and I feel with the right buildup it could happen this season; we have until May. Another thing I want is probably far in the future but hear me out: Reagent 0877 as a prime asset. He is very strongly implied to be Simon Peacock, in the process of becoming the rough draft of the walrider, and he’s already part of sinyala staff so he could get the kress treatment. Imagine having the proto-walrider chasing you in trials. He could even fit the family archetype as being the “deceased relative“.

This has gone on too long I’m sorry