Invasion 2 to me at least feels like a chore, you can't easily go through and quickly get the cores and then boost for most of the rooms, you have to go through a ton of the rooms and then maybe even have missed it
You have to pay 4x as many tokens as last time for half the benefit, and the amount of time is still the same, only xp from the last 15 minutes
And idk if this is a bug, but xp from rros and stuff doesn't count towards the levels at least for me [Xbox], so even if I wanted to not bother with the cores and still get some of the levels, I'd be unable
On top of this most of the rooms require a friend or going to a public instance to even get into the room with the present, I am more of a solitary person, I like to keep the cores and the friend time separate and I don't like going into public rooms, but now I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place, and it doesn't feel so much like going into a nice cool room where you can look around and have fun anymore, it feels like going into a PvP or story game, and waiting for the story to get over itself just to get a present
I'm not saying these things were absent from invasion one, but they weren't so pronounced, and for me personally, this is what ruined invasion, I'm not saying it's bad objectively and no one can like it, but it is bad to me and I think a lot of people may share this sentiment
If you liked invasion 2 do not take it personally just because I didn't