Successful HQ Defense causes Campaign Loss

[StandingRando]

Had my HQ attacked by an AI strike team early in a new campaign and successfully defended (eliminated all enemies, sustained no casualties, no stored items were touched). Upon exiting the mission I received the 'Lost Campaign' action token and cutscene.

[StandingRando]

After returning to the city map all of my quads had been disbanded though I appear to have been refunded the credit and the HQ was lost even though the building cert was still listed as active and all items were still there.

[Anakin Skinwalker]

Same thing happend to me. Also there's no CEO unit in map so i guess it's another major bug.

[RedShadow]

Happened to me and went to the discord chat: turns out my leader died during the action.
My issue was that I didn't know my leader was in there and I was missing an icon (a "C") near the unit which indicates this dude is my leader.

The game doesn't tell you your leader died if it happens.Actually the match should end if it happens since the campaign is "lost"...
Even when the match ends you just have "end mission" even though your leader died.

If you have the same graphical issue and can't see the "C" near the unit (we suspect it's because of the colorblind mode activated on my setup), you can still click on each pistol unit and look at the bottom right hand corner the description. One of them will show "Faction Leader".
Additionally, your faction leader doesn't walk and aim his gun like the other units: this guy has more swag and simply walk and doesn't low ready.

I suggest you guys load the mission again and carefully look if you can find your faction leader.

[Calypso]

Originally posted by DusTN:

Same thing happend to me. Also there's no CEO unit in map so i guess it's another major bug.

no u just bad

Mocking my friend aside, The same things happened to me too. I had to fired all my pistol soldier and replaced them all with SMG guy just so i can tell that the pistol guy is the CEO. (Not that pistol were any good to begin with)

[Anakin Skinwalker]

For me it really doesn't have CEO at the mission start, i tried to check every pistal unit there are no unit that describe as CEO. Is it about i have a lot of unit in HQ so it doesn't include CEO in mission and mission failed as CEO die?

[Anakin Skinwalker]

Also i found 2 units that has 'swag' movement, it's kinda weird.

[RedShadow]

Ahah okay then, that's another bug!

[Scratch |éire|]

Also encountered this.

One model of pistol vatform is different in appearance, maybe he's the CEO but not triggering a mission fail upon death?

[Cheshyr]

Sometimes the Faction leader is an SMG. But this does sound like a bug. Would you mind sending in a save file, per the bug reporting post?

[Scratch |éire|]

Went back and checked. Faction leader was a pistol unit just spawned in proximity so name was not visible. An F or L or something above his head would be a good idea.