if you say so...
but that's not the feeling i had reading what devs had said about it on several topics nor the way the game is presented everywhere on internet... =)
If the game was a mandatory PvPvE game, antags would be enforced on every match, starting one should be impossible without them if that was the case.
What the devs say is not law and can very well conflict with reality, as is the case here, evidence is what talks and that goes for all things related to creations and its creators, a writer can say his book is a serious drama, but if when reading it, it’s clearly apparent to anyone that it’s actually a comedy, no amount of statements on the part of the author will change it, same if the devs decided to say this game was a racing game, they could plaster that all over the games store pages, but it would still not make it so. Fact is arguably half the matches don’t have any PvP in them, give or take depending on the day.
Also when it comes to “the way the game is presented everywhere on internet” this game almost has none, only reason I even found this game was because it popped up in my steam discovery queue, and what is presented about it is very vague and doesn’t reflect the reality of it, in the games own steam page the term PvP or any variation of it is not presented even once, the closest thing you get is this reference to a 4 vs 1 campaing “Experience both sides of the story” that could mean a multitude of things and since it references story it could even allude to playing as an antag against AI…. there is no mention of forced invasions, or that the pvp that will exist is enforced completely at random (which given evidence of other games I’m guessing no one is going to expect forced pvp, since again not even dedicated PVP games enforce it), hell the “Popular user-defined tags” are action, free to play, MP, and adventure, and the developer defined tags are single player, MP, coop, cross-platform, etc, no "PVP", "player vs player" anywhere to be found…
complaining about seems a little strange to me...
“Complaining” is the only thing we can do, this is where you come to leave feedback… and considering the toxic nature of the current antagonist system, it is very much warranted, ppl can lose hours of their time, just to satisfy some random griefer, both because of lost rewards and lost gameplay time enjoyment.