What happens if investigators take pictures and leave?

[vefme]

So far in the game I can't tell if there is any actual problem with investigators coming to your lair and taking pictures and leaving? Does it increase heat? Where?? On a region on the map?

So what? That doesn't really seem to affect anything?

[candyundfelix]

really to be honest, nothing you should worry about, only a little bit more heat. but that you gain on your own enough.
have try´d the 2 playthroughs.
1 kill/capture them = leading at soldiers coming randomly (maybe checking why nobody returns)
2 just let investor take their holiday pictures and leave (they dont do something else if not attacked) = nothing but a little heat, not even one soldier after a couple of ingame month with a build and fired doomsday

[vefme]

Yeah that's what it seems. They do nothing. There's no penalty for not stopping them. No reward for stopping them. With no incentive for defense seems to defeat the purpose of the whole game.

[Jack Trades]

Originally posted by vefme:

Yeah that's what it seems. They do nothing. There's no penalty for not stopping them. No reward for stopping them. With no incentive for defense seems to defeat the purpose of the whole game.

You...haven't played the game have you?
I barely played it and even I know that investigators generate more Heat which spawns a bigger wave from that same faction and that capturing agents rewards you with Intel or new recruits.

[vefme]

How much heat does it increase it by? It's effectively unnoticeable. I don't deny that it increases heat. It does (I think, can't prove it). But it doesn't mean much. What comes of it? FOJ sends an ineffective wave that doesn't stop anything or change the outcome of the game? You see what I'm saying?
There's ultimately no real incentive to stop investigators. Whether or not investigators are stopped is mostly cosmetic afaic.

[Dirt Farmer]

The more investigators that leave, the quicker that FOJ gets stronger. At least I believe its something like that. If the investigators leave and they all acquire enough total evidence, waves of soldiers will arrive and their Super Agents will start popping up on the map quicker.

[vefme]

and that capturing agents rewards you with Intel

Yeah, definitely see this. The little +1 intel when interrogating. It's the penalty for letting investigators take pictures that I haven't seen yet.

[vefme]

Originally posted by Dirt Farmer:

The more investigators that leave, the quicker that FOJ gets stronger. At least I believe its something like that. If the investigators leave and they all acquire enough total evidence, waves of soldiers will arrive and their Super Agents will start popping up on the map quicker.

Ah thanks. Maybe I haven't just gotten far enough yet.

[candyundfelix]

Originally posted by Dirt Farmer:

The more investigators that leave, the quicker that FOJ gets stronger. At least I believe its something like that. If the investigators leave and they all acquire enough total evidence, waves of soldiers will arrive and their Super Agents will start popping up on the map quicker.

they get only stronger with heat not with leaving or somthing else
wave of soldiers? really 88hours in this game, after my second play (-20 hours) i let everyone come take pictures and go guess what happens not one single soldier in 60hours realtime the only thing is building up heat but they only sent in another infestigators uh they stronger yeah but they do nothing if you do nothing to them

and let them come and go takes them waaay more time then just kill them whats leads to next wave. so maybe the time is shorter for next wave but they take ages to leave for trigger the next wave

[tzeneth]

The heat generated by suspicion is 1 for 1 but divided over all your networks of that type. Considering maximum heat is limited by networks, you can easily manage what you’re dealing with by managing networks. Which means you can’t get soldiers purely from heat for a majority of the game or all of it (besides quests) if you plan correctly.

The maximum suspicion an investigator generates is 5 times their level.

[Gentoo]

If you fail to stop the investigator from taking photos and getting away, they post them on facebook and on other social media sites and you will be embarrassed!

[candyundfelix]

Originally posted by tzeneth:

The heat generated by suspicion is 1 for 1 but divided over all your networks of that type. Considering maximum heat is limited by networks, you can easily manage what you’re dealing with by managing networks. Which means you can’t get soldiers purely from heat for a majority of the game or all of it (besides quests) if you plan correctly.

The maximum suspicion an investigator generates is 5 times their level.

tech 4 all networks on 4 the whole world. max 1k heat on a 5 territory faction. not 1 single solder, not thief´s, no saboteur´s.
And i even try to get them for the entry under progression, dont know the word (where the little pictures are, treasure, minions etc)
the only ones i get is the support from the superagents but they seems do not count for the entry´s

[ImHelping]

I'm still trying to figure out if there is any benefit to "SOME of them died, but SOME of the agents went home alive with no evidence!", or if you are still suffering overall on retaliation logic because every death is counted against you so either send them all home alive or don't bother caring about their lives awkward design.

[Mandemon]

Originally posted by vefme:

and that capturing agents rewards you with Intel

Yeah, definitely see this. The little +1 intel when interrogating. It's the penalty for letting investigators take pictures that I haven't seen yet.

It scales with agent quality. Poor agents give +1 intel. Excelent give +4, which you if you capture whole squad is total of 12-20 intel, nothing to scoff at.

[leopagne]

Originally posted by Gentoo:

If you fail to stop the investigator from taking photos and getting away, they post them on facebook and on other social media sites and you will be embarrassed!

Somehow I think a megalomaniac would actually be proud to showcase their lair on social media 😎😋

[happyscrub]

the only thing I think it does is lower the timer for more agents to appear. I see no heat increases.