These discussions always turn into a them and us argument, which is a shame. I wanted to remove SWAT, rebrand it as TFU to allow for some properly organised dynamic firefights in the Police Department, it's fantastic the work that is put in by TFU in training sessions and in their materials such as handbooks and other documents. People seem to think it was added to oppress the civilians of Paralake?
@Moon The Goon you seem to have two points, 1 being that TFU is overpowered and 2, TFU being unrealistic. I personally would disagree about them being overpowered, I've seen many a times TFU get steam rolled by civilians at raids and firefights, just as many teams I've seen it the other way around.
However I respect your point, we're awaiting the armour for TFU to be nerfed, hopefully this will make you feel better.
The PD have already submitted a bug report about the head armour still being there when they no longer have head armour:
https://github.com/syl0r/Perpheads-Issues/issues/544 - If we were that oppressive would we dare ask for it to be removed?
Secondly, about it being realistic; when I first suggested the idea of TFU, I basically used the Tactical Firearms Unit in the United Kingdom as inspiration for the idea. Every home office police force in the UK have a Tactical Firearms Unit (referred to differently in some forces) and they are authorized firearms officers whom will routinely patrol the force area with firearms, usually MP5/G36Cs and of course a sidearm. As any other Police Officer, they're still a resource so if they are nearby for any sort of call, they will be deployed to it, so Miss Miggins in Suburbs 4 reports someone shouting and screaming across the street, if armed units are the only resource near, they'll be sent.
If you're unsure, do some Googling and you'll see some interesting stuff. Now this is the UK, I'm sure you can now imagine what sort of units America have
Just a message to everyone on this thread as well, you raise great points (some of you) but you need to provide ways we can fix things? I'm sure you are all aware that we value feedback from all but simply saying TFU is OP won't help us! Also, this section of the forum is not monitered by Police Command Teams so I strongly suggest that feedback, including suggestions should be sent here:
https://perpheads.com/threads/pinned-give-us-feedback-your-voice-counts.18838/