10(!) officers dead - really?

[Deatht1ny]

I'm on day 63 and sent 12 officers with a combined skill of over 3000 + a fully upgraded swat team + the paddy wagon to a smuggling operation at the harbour.

TEN of my people died - is that supposed to happen? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Deatht1ny]

.. and I'd already lost 5 on the day before that. 3/4 on a call I couldn't send any backup to and 2 because of drunk driving.

I still love the game, but it feels a lot like playing Lemmings right now.

[Deatht1ny]

I restarted the day and sent basically the same team (one good officer less, because she took the day off).
Offender caught, officers unharmed, civilians unarmed. Holy RNG.

This really seems like a bug.

[Xarian]

Were any of your officers tired?

I think there's a bug right now that a tired officer can randomly get almost your entire team killed.

I'm pretty sure I sent 3 officers ~1000 each + paddy wagon to that particular mission, and nothing else, without casualties.

[gary_danial]

It is pretty random, sometimes I guess RNG screwed you, I think there is probability if you bring officer with below 100 professionalism, the mission has less chance to be successful and chances somebody might died, usually those that are weakest in the team.

[DG Dobrev]

Yeah, it is a RNG problem. I had 7 officers die, (only my best one survived) after being backed by a 150% efficiency SWAT. And please don't tell me it's because of the 2x250 rooks...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=737701954

Honestly, in such a game, the RNGesus was a bad idea. Makes you lose even if you did everything right.

[Weappy]

With such a fantastic team you had only 1% of something going wrong. So it's some REALLY bad luck. Very-very bad luck =)

[DG Dobrev]

Well... That's XCOM, I mean "This is the police", baby...

NOTE: this was a mission without any choices. I didn't order my officers to let it hang and extinguish the fire the way we did as kids...

[DG Dobrev]

Originally posted by Gunther O'Dimwit:

well some missions need to be avoided I think... I never save scum and only ironman my games so the game is very painful for me since my mistakes tend to follow me

It is highly unlikely that you made a major mistake (unless you ordered your cops to drop their pants and pee on the fire to extinguish it). This is RNG. Even if you play well you can still lose people. TITP is not like XCOM where you get to position people and react of something goes wrong. It just does the dice rolling in the background and you are left with the result of it.

[dubesor]

game RNG is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ retarded and should not be % based. I lost 4 cops (sent 6 with swat) all in the 600+ range to a lone guy with a glass shard in a bar. Silly.

[RxNubs]

I just had a similar thing happen on the paddy wagon tutorial mission where the ice cream truck driver hits/kills a kid then hides in the ambulance. I sent my best officer (since the mission only had 1 officer slot and it wouldn't let me send SWAT). Best officer calls for backup so I sent next 4 best officers (all above 250 professionalism) because it still wouldn't let me send SWAT, the only option was a paddy wagon I couldn't possibly even have yet because this was the mission introducing the bloody thing as being something the police department lacked! Boom... All but my best officer died.

When ♥♥♥♥ like this happens in a game you can't help but lose absolutely all interest in playing it any further. Thankfully I have only played for a few hours so I will be asking for a refund from steam. This will be the VERY FIRST game I have asked for a refund for. So congrats to the devs on earning that honour, I guess. :/