It essentially is gambling, but at least not with real life currency on loot crates. When the Gameplay Trailer came out, they made it clear you risk a lot during the night as the Task Force will be harsh. It shouldn't have been that surprising that the cops would be hard. Personally, I'm okay with this mechanic as it makes the nights a lot more intense and dangerous as it's supposed to be.
The initial reason I brought this up is mostly because I ended up stacking a lot of cash (300k so), and then wanted to go practice escaping the cops and hitting heat 5, but I felt I couldn’t really « practice » as while doing so (and failing at times), I’d lose pretty much all the money I just spent hours to do. Problem not being that cops are hard, more that after losing hundreds of thousands, you don’t feel like « bummer i’ll get it next time » but feel more like you wasted all that time racing during the « day ».
And after grinding for cash to buy stuff, losing it all kinda makes you wonder why you did spent all that tile grinding. I feel a lot of people seem to think I am bashing the game, I am not, I am loving that game, just wanted to open discussion about this mechanic which makes you feel you waste your time collecting bank.
Please don’t reply if your comment will mention players to stop crying or play something else, you’d be bringing nothing useful or interesting to the discussion and would be better off staying silent while we chat about our thoughts and work on improving the need for speed franchise for this or future titles.
I have resorted to leaving night time as soon as I get to heat lvl 2, if I stay around that long. I know I am losing out on Rep, but cops are way Overpowered right now
