Ready or Not was not ready

[@christianalexander2019]

Love how the guy who tripped the bomb on the same side of the door only got stunned while your entire team just gets insta killed through the door AND wall

[@mudnarchist]

Lol I was coming down to comment this exact thing

[@Teimo]

Had the same thing happen to me in the mission where you breach a house out in woods. Was stacked up on the door and used the wand; saw the suspect approaching the door and thought "There's no way he'll just run into his own trap". How wrong I was.

[@radzio40k]

lmao seen this scene

[@asddw4998]

Bruh he didn't even drop the gun, holy shit

[@anatolystepanovichdyatlov1747]

It was his own bomb after all... of course he know exactly how it will explode and cause no harm to himself.

[@didster4918]

Still remember how on the kindergarten level my teammate went ahead, opened a door, said "Opening here, everything's clean", i went in and died

[@themoohawkman4067]

I’m very relieved to find out I’m not the only who thinks the full release is just early access stage 2

[@lucaballiano169]

Same here!

[@sagitta98]

You're not the one here. This is more like 0.9. And I still believe there's still something missing compared to what got revealed in their devlog. I believe RON supposed to have entry cut scene because there's a mocap footage of some teams riding a boat...

[@CT-hr9nk]

The game was way better before the update, all the best mods are broken now too.

[@mattyl18]

The first thing that annoyed me post-release was the amount of time they spent detailing a huge police station, making the pre-mission time so painfully long. Would have been fine if they spent this time bullet-proofing the AI, tactics and performance.

[@BreachBangBeer]

I remember back then when the timer was 60 seconds lol. The new PD is a mostly useless, boring space and feels dead even with those few NPCs they placed. I would've prefered a single briefing room, maybe a shooting range and the lockers or just a menu tbh.

[@mudnarchist]

@@BreachBangBeer The new police station would be much cooler if you could DO ANYTHING. The only room that you can actually kind of interact with is the evidence room. Cool lore in there, but not nearly enough, and it's impossible to tell which evidence boxes you can interact with.

[@Ju-jt8gc]

​@Taskicore Agreed. Especially the evidence boxes which doesn't show proper indication whether it's interactable or not unless you get closes to the boxes and got a prompt .

[@North_Dumpling]

1.0 should have been stable release, they even had both supporters and vanilla early access testers to help them shape RoN into a good final product yet it was rushed for no good reason with AI still not being fixed in hotfix, features missing etc. All because apparently on developer stream it was mentioned they are already working on another game! Why!? Also very and very erratic design decisions regarding the game development. Multiple maps and their versions got scrapped in favour of huge, detailed yet frustrating and non interactive PD building that could simply remain as just menu. List goes on.

[@BreachBangBeer]

They haven't released a test build for supporters since forever so it was not possible for us to provide any feedback. The last supporter-build was pre ADAM update. Yeah the campaign mode, the half assed mental health system, the perks for the SWAT officers and the useless giant PD where you unlock additional useless rooms are all so weird and feel not fleshed out at all. Its just there to be there.

[@ITR933]

the police station was actually so disappointing, i figured there'd be some cool stuff there or at least a menu that lets you bypass it. giant waste of time. the swat AI is objectively better but there's still some massive issues there, they have issues listening to commands, sometimes they'll walk into uncleared rooms to secure evidence, was really hoping the game would be more polished by now..

[@cagneybillingsley2165]

stop nitpicking like a redditor, it is running very well for most people who know what they're doing. the only problem is the aimbot ai, which is easily fixed by modding

[@North_Dumpling]

@@cagneybillingsley2165 Paying up to 100 bucks and expecting a stable 1.0 with promised features is apparently nitpicking now? Go enjoy your average goyslop product instead

[@Gunboy122]

@@BreachBangBeer The fucking lack of Supporter builds I think is a major red flag about their priorities as a developer and I'm 100% sure VOID *KNEW* that they were going to get dragged through the mud by the wider audience for such a shit release, but they didn't care, just needed the quick cash. If Supporters got their hands on the pre-"1.0" build, I guarantee to you that most of the awful problems, bugs and VOID's own shit decision-making would have been curbed because everyone would be saying "It's shit, don't fucking release this."

[@dedstring]

Ready or not has some of the most immersive visuals ive ever seen when taking gunfire, the way the screen distorts and chromatic aberration floods the screen is extremely immersive, no other game does this, and its one of the coolest effects in the game, yet Void isists on showing it off for a split second before having the Ai deck you in the face. Its an extremely immersive element to the game and it could be better utilized to scare the player or to be cinematic but they insist on 1 tapping the player at every possible second.

[@raultrashlord4404]

Had they just made a thematically linear singleplayer tactical game with player freedom in mind for mission execution, this game would be a cut above. It has simultaneously very effective environmental storytelling and obvious corner cutting. It just feels like they got too invested in making their lore that they began to slack off on making a mechanically deep game.

[@dedstring]

@@raultrashlord4404 and that's the sad thing cause I honestly dont care a lick about the story, I just wanted a new Swat game that felt good like the previous entries.

[@gahmoo]

Are the guys who put out the READY OR NOT 1.0 IS THE BEST THING EVER videos are being paid??? There's no way you can be THAT oblivious to how bad of a state the game is currently in. Either that or some insane levels of copium.

[@pleon13822]

Proof?

[@rustyshackleford1508]

It's sunk cost copium. Everyone around us is going collectively insane.

[@NeuroGuh]

@@pleon13822play the game

[@ilyakusenco8151]

Last couple big shooters we had is different CoDs, BF 2042, worst Halo ever, and a couple of bad remasters. At least RoN is a game. People are starved for at least semi-decent content.

[@Hustler_90210]

@@ilyakusenco8151 Literally this.... I've played a lot of milsims and this by far is the most fun I've had in awhile. Yes the bugs and AI are annoying but I enjoy how hard the game is. Last thing I would want is the game to be easy which would make it boring.

[@seven-sixtwo762]

I find the fact that they didn't let supporters play test it before shipping it out to everyone like they did with previous updates surprising honestly

[@bubbleman2002]

They knew everyone would ask them what the fuck they spent that year doing.

[@light819]

exactly, the knew they were in the wrong@@bubbleman2002

[@con5532]

holy shit dawg pulled out the irl comparisons to make a point what a chad

[@BreachBangBeer]

Some people told me the flashlight in this game is realistic and to get good so I felt the need to show how it actually works in the real world lol.

[@PeninsulaCity2024]

In regards to the suspect AI, it doesn't take much to fix it if you were able to edit the INI file yourself. And you would be shocked how intentionally unfair they made it for some missions.

[@Aceken23]

how so

[@Hazelomg]

they are pretty fair lol

[@gamblinggangster8548]

@@Aceken23the Ai script is literally based off of notepad++ practically and it’s super easy to alter and modders have already fixed the AI on nexus

[@Aceken23]

@@gamblinggangster8548 💀

[@ExpertContrarian]

That raises the question, why is it like this in the game?

[@spicydong317]

It's beyond insane that they had a YEAR without updates, and besides more "content", the core gameplay loop feels as bad as it did a year ago It's not SWAT where I carefully watch suspect animations and react to them, it's CoD where I either shoot or die

[@BreachBangBeer]

Sadly thats how it feels mostly. Some rounds play pretty fine and are fun but other times I get one tapped by methheads with pistols from 100m away as soon as I peek a corner like I play Counter Strike.

[@agebly6923]

I think saying that the core gameplay loop feels as bad as it did a year ago could be the dumbest thing to say to 1.0. It fundamentally changed the way you approach missions with the briefing; the swat AND suspect AI isn't even comparably to back then. I really don't get how you could come up with something like that. And there's no game that could give that SWAT feeling better than this? In fact you DO watch animations and you SHOULD react to them. If you're not doing that maybe it's your fault?

[@lukethegini5843]

@@agebly6923 The enemy ai is worse than it was a year ago though, on some maps.

[@reapthewhirlwind6915]

Well said with the swat and cod comparison. At no point do suspects give up, even if you are to their backs and yell at them to drop weapons they just turn around and shoot, in swat if you were behind a suspect and yelled at him chances are he's going to surrender because you are aimed at his back ready to shoot and he knows this.

[@reapthewhirlwind6915]

​@lukethegini5843 for instance greased palms the ai is gods there. I played this for a week and only got B highest rank, yet I got S on ides of March in 1 day.

[@samthespy]

Absolutely right, with 300hs on RoN it's really dissapointing that they decided to join the train of "release and fix months/years later". They got us waiting more than a year for an update and this is the state they decided to release it? Big f#cking L for Void on this one. - The performance is worse, there's no film grain option to turn that 💩off, you need to manually add some settings trough the .ini. - DLSS is broken, Bounce light is broken. - AI keeps shooting with perfect head/eye level trough the walls (Mindjot is the worse with this problem right now). This could've been a fantastic update for the early access but for a 1.0? I don't know what were they thinking. We are at the end of the year so probably by the end of January will be patched? My god. Really sad that this happened.

[@wutstrue]

That's what I was thinking. This is great for an update to early access, especially when you think about how much solo AI got updated. But 1.0? Hell no. If this was a console game and I bought it off a shelf I'd be pissed.

[@bubbleman2002]

January? No, you'll wait another year and then it still won't be fixed. Get real.

[@starstorm5338]

can you elaborate about the first point? which .ini specifically

[@CT-hr9nk]

Been nearly a year, still not fixed. Been with the game since it started, sad void turned out to be just a bunch of scumbags that don't care, thought they were different, we trusted them and they stabbed us in the back.

[@uncle3552]

The stress system is BS. You complete 2 missions and your whole team resigns because of stress. Not only that, but you cant play any mission you want anymore, you have to go through the campaign and unlock the missions. And they removed the gamemodes too. (Barricaded suspects, active shooter, bomb threat, etc.) The biggest issue is the suspect AI IMO. You would expect a kid from the hood robbing a gas station to surrender almost immediately upon seeing 5 swat officers breach the room they are in. Or AT LEAST not have the training and intelligence of Navy Seals. I cannot for the life of me get past ide's of march because of the same bullshit AI. Locking onto me through walls, aimbotting me before i realise im dead, and the most random trap placement. I was about to complete the mission after like 10 tries until i opened a goddamn bathroom door and a thermonuclear bomb trap went off and killed everyone. Maybe on missions like the club or hospital it is reasonable that the enemy has good accuracy and reaction time, since they are trained terrorists and all, but it is still absolute BS.

[@MKPwrz]

clear consise and straight to the point, nice job, im enjoying the game but these things cant go unnoticed and VOID should be held accountable for them so they can fix it

[@BreachBangBeer]

Thank you very much, glad you liked it. Maybe if the video gets shared often enough I'll have another chance to talk to the devs once more like 2 years ago after my SWAT 4 vs RoN video caught their attention :) Yeah, I really hope Ready or Not becomes an actual polished game with future updates.

[@slickyblicky1711]

Ready or not shills absolutely MOGGED by 1 simple video

[@swissarmyknight4306]

This game has soooo much unrealized potential. The question is now "will it ever realize this potential?"

[@Jammydodgers41]

Yeah the worse I find is the AI. Some levels are sometimes impossible. So many times I've been fired on but have no idea where from as they are shooting through walls/windows from a great distance sometimes. There's no such thing as a covert approach and element of surprise. Which most squads take advantage of irl. Especially with the AI now being able to flank you from different angles then track onto you through a wall.

[@jesterdewit478]

They’re not impossible people finish the game with all S, hard yea But not impossible

[@jesterdewit478]

Even I got a few Ss it just takes a few tries imagine if you did it first try now that would not be fun

[@bubbleman2002]

It doesn't help they added routes that AI can take that you can't, like gaps in walls, and tunnels, which makes them even more dangerous with their T-800 programming. Why fix the existing AI when you can add features so it spends less time in a combat ready state and hopefully people don't notice it's superhuman?

[@DSM-114]

The AI is just absolutely ridiculous and is what made me stop playing in the first place. It is to the point where I carry 5 flashbangs and let my teammate AI clear for me so I don't get one tapped by a crackhead with a pistol. Edit: You can complain "skill issue", but only if everybody had the time to play this game every hour of the day since 1.0 release, just like you people, I'm sure we'd be as good as you ;)

[@jamjam91171]

The problem with that is the AI teammates will just get one-tapped with a pistol, and they're so bad at throwing flashbangs that it renders them pretty much useless

[@Lemaxance]

nah just a skill issue my friend

[@m0gg83]

Actual skill issue. I've completed every mission with an S and completed ironman mode without losing a single officer. My only complaint with the game is that its too easy.

[@supernate760]

@@m0gg83🧢

[@supernate760]

The only issue with the game I have is the AI’s aimbot and wallhacks.

[@Bob-Car91]

i used to have my ai mates throw grenades through door slits, but now they just always open the door completely. makes throwing grenades through doors completely useless, except if you do it yourself which can be pretty annoying at times. also i hate how the ai can't clear rooms only partially. instead you tell them to clear the hallway of a apartment and they start to run through the entire thing getting shot from every room they just ran past without checking.

[@ichemosabe]

crowbcat vibes, great work man. I'm pretty disappointed with the outcome of 1.0 :( Hope they don't abandon it.

[@thatguythedude1563]

who wants to be compared to that sex offender

[@ExpertContrarian]

@@thatguythedude1563 what are you talking about? Edit: since they never responded I must conclude that they meant being against the censorship in RE4

[@bubbleman2002]

They already have your money lol

[@rudolphantler6309]

This is a time to be VERY ANGRY!!!!

[@gitanoerrante84]

What I miss is that the maps are alive, that is, that like in SWAT 4 there are police cordons, that you can see police, civilians, reporters, the maps are very empty

[@idkirdk5143]

it went into early access to early, most of its playerbase already bought the game and burnt it out so they felt they needed a big update-release to bring players back. they should of atleast released 1.0 to the supporters tho

[@alexmason5111]

Changing the Loadout for you fellow SWAT AI is possible if you change everything manually, it's a pain though because the presets do not work on them. Otherwise great video, I hope they focus on fixing the current bugs and adjusting AI based on Community Feedback.

[@BreachBangBeer]

I've tried that aswell and it also reset everytime. Maybe this was fixed in the hotfix? However I expect the presets to work on SWAT AI when a game launches for 50€ so it still bothers me. Anyways, thanks for the info and your feedback.

[@braincell4536]

@@BreachBangBeer The presets now work

[@BreachBangBeer]

@@braincell4536 Good to hear. If only the game would not crash for me whenever I start a single or multiplayer game since the hotfix.

[@ddd-sx7pw]

@@BreachBangBeertry dx12 version if you were on dx11

[@NateT3]

Coming back to this video again. Nothing changed. I haven't played the game for months and the DLC is crap LOL Feels bad for people that bought the DLC.

[@Azf12]

I always feel insane when I play this game and say it's not the SWAT successor other people have been praising it as. Especially in regards to the AI, it feels like there's a very good possibility I will die if I try to apprehend suspects non-lethally, and it doesn't help that many of the gadgets either don't work (flashbangs are notoriously unreliable if it doesn't have clear and direct LOS to the suspects, and even if it does work they're dead silent) or are basically useless. (Why's the Optiwand's FOV so low on the screen and why is it so restrictive?) It makes me appreciate that despite some clunkiness with SWAT 4, it is still a much more satisfying game to play, and doesn't require twitch shooter-like reflexes in all but the most extreme cases.

[@torttuli]

And yet they have the audacity to publish a DLC for 9,99€. Finish the core game first! But nooo they're gonna go all triple-A on us aren't they... I bet we're gonna see a Ready or Not battle pass or some other micro transaction crap... Sad.

[@AnonYmous-xw1jn]

They had all these recent videos and Steam announcements about improved AI but they still feel scuffed

[@corvus8752]

What's worst is that noone with bigger audience is pointing out how bad the state of the game actually is Everyone is just going with the hype because MUH LARP

[@tabrisss818]

What I find disappointing is the lack of the more human-like suspect A.I they teased around ADAM update where there would be a "Leader" for the suspects on each respective map and if that Leader was captured or killed the morale of the entire group would be affected. Not to mention the suspects from every faction seem to lack any morale in this update. Suspect morale was supposed to vary for reach faction and would be affected by how many of their comrades have been captured or killed or if you breached a certain room. Now every single suspect is just a human Sentry Turret that refuses to surrender. It's also pretty disappointing how robotic the SWAT team is in this game compared to SWAT 4. In 4 the Team would actually comment on certain things on each map or interact with one another. In this game you only get like one line of random dialog on the first three maps at best. They couldn't even make custom voice lines for map specific evidence instead just making your character say "Bagging Evidence" for everything. The School Map was also pretty disappointing compared to the Club and Hospital map.

[@agidotexe7167]

The swat team do make comments aboit things they see. on the beach house map one of my swat guys said ”poor lady” when you enter the sick moms room. On the spider one of the guys said ”sick motherfucker” when entering the room with the kid photos. Ive heard a bunch more aswell.

[@tabrisss818]

@@agidotexe7167 That's what I mean they only have that dialogue for very few maps. I haven't heard them say anything on the Club, School, Hospital, Farm, Postal, Hotel, and Border Maps.

[@agidotexe7167]

@@tabrisss818 i have heard lines on all maps

[@tabrisss818]

@@agidotexe7167 Do you want to take this shit outside?

[@agidotexe7167]

@@tabrisss818 u good bro?

[@simon_lifer]

At first I thought that I was the whiny and disappointed one but I am actually glad people starting to see it how I see it, so I am not alone in this. I am a day 1 supporter and I have played every update.

[@Ansible2]

I don't care if they do or don't fix these problems. They've lost my trust. The fact that they moved to 1.0 with so many core issues that have been known for so long, is just testament to Void's poor character at this point. Between the release, marketing, and things the staff have said on the supporter Discord. It's pretty clear to me that they care about the appearance of having a successful and popular game, more than they care about the actual overall quality of the product they have delivered.

[@somberlain8987]

Yea it's rough around the edges for sure. I like it, and have had a lot of fun playing. But I noticed on top of these types of issues, there is also some missing gameplay entirely. Such as there being no trailers to come take out civs, suspects, and downed officers. Also no reflections in mirrors is a bummer for me. Even SWAT 3 had reflective mirrors. Which is 24 years old.

[@M4SOPMODII]

I've straight up been killed by invisible suspects in MP. Like for example, I was the last one alive on my team (because the AI can 1 tap us with MP5s through heavy armor) and my friend could see a suspect in spectator mode but I couldn't see him and I died as a result because I couldn't see where I was being shot from.

[@BreachBangBeer]

I swear I had this too once when playing with a friend but sadly I had no recording of that.

[@Tanqooh]

Great Video, a lot of work went into this. I hope the devs see this after new year!

[@BreachBangBeer]

Would be great if they fix the issues and release an 1.0 worthy update.

[@shotsfiredandmissed9068]

they need to fix this fast, this isn't what they promised

[@Dr_Alan_Grant]

It’s nice seeing a video being honest about this game. It’s fun, but not a great experience.

[@humancookie]

Honestly crazy how after 1 year they released something this buggy. Some of the issues are so apparent I actually don't understand how they made it into the update. The new tutorial (before the hotfix, not sure if currently fixed) straight up broke the game when you tried following the command to 'split' the squad. I can't even save my loadout without it not remembering or only saving half my changes. Crazy

[@rustyshackleford1508]

The people who think this is acceptable as a 1.0 product are huffing some serious sunk cost copium. "Be grateful," I saw someone say. GRATEFUL? I PAID FOR THIS SHIT, I EXPECTED A FINISHED GAME IF THEY'RE GOING TO SLAP 1.0 ON IT!

[@BreachBangBeer]

The bar for good games has been lowered by all the games that got released in terrible states in the last 5 or so years. People see a game like RoN that is mediocre at best and because its not AS shit as all the stuff we got in the past its suddenly the new standard for a great game. Another problem is that people take it for granted that there will be years of updates after a "1.0" release. Back in the days a 1.0 was a finished game. Sure sometimes there were some bugfixes and maybe even a DLC but nowadays everybody thinks a live-service game is the norm.

[@howis-goin]

1 more thing u guys might not notice is that the gun customization screen is really dark, like i barely see how my gun looks after put on mods

[@mudnarchist]

Yeah it's useless cuz you can't see anything

[@QuestIonAskin]

I tried some of the AI mods. Most of them seem to revert all the AI back to pre-1.0 states where they did nothing if not asked. But what I did notice is that sometimes the regular AI breaks through and AI will revert at the worst times. School map. My guys just stood there in hibernation mode in a hallway with two hostage NPCs and did nothing. I hopped on my phone to look the mod up and see what the full description said and suddenly my teammates whip into motion and start yelling “I got this one” and using zipties on their own. It was also at this moment a suspect AI opened the door and wiped all but one guy on my team and me in a split second. After scrambling to drop my phone and drop the suspect, the one AI teammate left reverted back to hibernate until given orders mode again. It doesn’t seem that either option is particularly a good option. Edit: After watching a few videos, I highly suspect some of the guys that always seem to win battles either changed their INI files to make the AI easier or are using a mod to slow down AI reaction time and make enemies more compliant. The difference I see in my game and theirs is vastly different. Where I will hit the button to seek compliance, I will get shot in the head immediately much more often than they do in similar situations. Where as they can kick open a door and take down two suspects without getting shot at, I kick in a door and immediately get the mission over audio because I was one tapped as soon as I regained control of my weapon. I’m just saying that our games seem to follow different rules. My experience differs greatly in the same situations.

[@joeltijerina2575]

When you first play this update your pretty hyped not going to lie but the more you play it the more you realize they remove some features out of the last version and start seeing these bugs it’s a damn shame they took a whole year to release these without any play testing with the supporters in my opinion they should’ve stuck to updating the game frequently and testing it instead of just dropping a big update with no testing

[@billyherrington7004]

You would think people have learnt their lesson about broken video games. Turns out they never learnt😂 What a surprise. Moreover, they are the very same people who encourage companies to shit on them.

[@wanchorman472]

even little things like operator hands clipping through foregrips confuses me because i could've sworn they put out an update ages ago that addressed this

[@jaysanj152]

You single handily saved me 50$ and you have no idea how grateful i am. I was in a mindset where i thought it's best to buy the game when it's fully out of early access, Expecting it to be fully patched out and polished since it's a 1.0 release, plus it's on sale. So to see it in such a rough shape and it doesn't even feel like a 1.0 release but still more EA with extra bolts and screws really soured me. And It's not helping when literally every popular content creator just simping over this game and praising the hell out of it without bring up everything mention from this video. It all just feels soo deceptive. Yeahhh i am gonna wait until it's actually fixed for real and in the mean time i'll spend the cash on something much more worth buying.

[@TITANia69420]

I jokingly call this game copaganda because the cracked AI forces me to shoot first yell for compliance later

[@Mystogan50501]

They could also add alot more to the game like: Ladders, 10 Man Teams, AI as the Commander and you as the Member, Practise Mode with actual practise like in the Beta where you could choose any Map and 5 Gamemodes to play/practise

[@BreachBangBeer]

A lot of content got cut. I remember experimenting with drones, ladders, snipers and vantage points and so on in a very early alpha build.

[@Shoelaces77]

Good input, now they can work on the problem and fix it

[@somethingsomethingcrotasen1643]

Also it seems like the flashes are massively bugged rn as I've thrown a flash into a small room with a suspect and he somehow didn't get stunned so he just domed both me and my teammate

[@reapthewhirlwind6915]

Ive gotten multiple S on 1.0 nd will defend this game until i die. But how does a drug addict headshot me from a 200 ft away within 1 sec of me firing directly at him...

[@BoilingBroth]

How do you stop the suspects from shooting after they're hit with less lethals? I can mag dump a pepper ball magazine and still get shot at. To answer your question: it's crack rock magic!

[@SpecOpsRafa]

7:15 bro is doing unholy things 🥶💯

[@NightZ3r0]

Thanks for compiling pretty much everything I've found buggy in the game so far. I find suspect's random gun placements when downed (sometimes underneath objects) and sinking wedges also highly annoying. Heck, sometimes suspects dont drop any visible guns...

[@BreachBangBeer]

There is a setting which shows an outline around evidences to make it easier to find guns and before this option got patches in I often was searching and searching and couldn't find the last gun. Well now I know why. With this setting enabled you can see that these weapons clip through the floor which makes it impossible to pick up.

[@NightZ3r0]

I have it enabled but playing with randoms public games I still have issues. They don't even seem to be spawning under the ground, it just doesn't spawn anywhere. @@BreachBangBeer

[@DimasTWD]

Despite all of this, hope void interactive actually fix it and at least have a substantial care for adding other maps, contents and stuffs to this game.

[@Indigente666X]

It still works better than Gollum... Great compilation and I hope VOID takes note of all these issues and gives this great simulator a well-deserved fix soon. A very curious detail is that in my case I have an old 8GB GTX1080G1 and it works much better and more stable for me than a friend who has a 12GB RTX2060 and another who has an RX 6700 also 12GB. Something curious to say the least and I don't even need to use FSR. Greetings from Argentina!

[@TheKrzysiek]

Gotta love being the guy who only saw the "RON 1.0 is amazing!" videos before buying few days ago.... I still *mostly* like it, but I was very close to refunding after retrying single mission for 3 hours thanks to AI being bullshit

[@jacob2388]

Comment for the algorithms. This is some real shit here, so I hope this video gets the views it deserves. Liked and Subbed too.

[@BreachBangBeer]

I don't know how the algorythm works but as long as you enjoyed the video I'm happy. Thank you :)

[@NeuroGuh]

they were working on this update for over a year btw

[@GameFuMaster]

I seriously don't understand how all of the bigger youtubers are praising the game. Are they getting paid or are they just hopping on the trend?

[@giguyjoe]

It wasn't too bad for me but yeah, when my own AI teammates need a couple seconds to register that they're getting sprayed at, when attachment changes for my weapons don't take the first time, when I get the occasional teammate hangup, and when you have levels like Sinuous Trail where move and clear spots are broken in that your orders to act on said spot result in your teammates doing nothing, it's definitely clear that the game needed more work.

[@ano4104]

Awesome video thank you.

[@MidnightSlayz]

Finally an honest ready or not KZbinr 😂

[@jeffthenicedude]

My biggest issue with the game, is the fact that you have to arrest ALL suspects to get S. Which means running 5 less lethal and trying over and over again when you fail or die. This is not realistic lol. They don’t go 5 beanbag when doing swat raids since officer safety is worth more than the suspects. It’s an unrealistic goal when dealing with highly dangerous barricaded suspects or active shooters that you have to arrest all, sometimes the criminals just won’t give up and get arrested. If they want this they should also make suspects more complient when they look down the barrels of five swat officers assault rifles. Also add the campaign to Co-op please, idc how just do it.

[@scummyy]

S is supposed to be unrealistic, rule no.1 to CQB in real life is to avoid CQB in the first place. The whole reason S exists is to provide the player with a challenging scenario.

[@ExpertContrarian]

@@scummyy sure but I didn’t find it all that hard to srank all the Swat 4 mission

[@pold111]

the sights being barely visible from light really bugged me, especially in 23 megabytes a second where you practically cannot see where the guy on the second floor is from how bright the lighting is

[@chrystal2588]

I'm still glad I kept my review negative. Even as a supporter edition I can NOT recommend this game. It's nothing like we were promised and 1.0 feels more like them trying to milk the game for money and an excuse to not put it on the winter sale.

[@sovietshoes952]

Their publisher probably pushed it out early.

[@BreachBangBeer]

They are their own publisher.

[@sovietshoes952]

@@BreachBangBeer sorry, I thought I remembered them getting aqquired.

[@BreachBangBeer]

Dont worry :) Team 17 was their publisher for some time but Void choose to not work with a publisher eventually.

[@JS-xh9of]

Ok thank you for posting this I thought i was crazy but the suspect AI is definitely broken they are all like dead shot accuracy and the SWAT AI is so annoying i love telling them to clear a room or anything and they will sometimes just freeze and never move again fort the rest of the level.

[@R3dShift]

I knew it was bad but holy crap your video shows it all 💀

[@spaghetti9845]

My first exp with 1.0 was "Connection error" then "Unable to join game in progress" then I got a bug with the pistol where it was floating around the screen like I Was in VR... Nailed it with this update.

[@Onobody]

Ready or not 1.0 made me go back to swat 4 like with many newer games now a days I always end up going back

[@Redofreko]

this game really got me being dragged back to swat 4

[@BreachBangBeer]

If you haven't already, try SWAT 4 with the SEF mod (or SEF First Responder) :)

[@Redofreko]

@@BreachBangBeer im playing sef:fr with the boys right now

[@BreachBangBeer]

@@Redofreko Have fun, I've just finished it once more with a friend a few days ago :)

[@Redofreko]

@@BreachBangBeer on god

[@evoniee]

nice vid to expose this broken game

[@anatolystepanovichdyatlov1747]

To all those who complain about the suspect AI... dont you remember that you killed everyones dog and stole their car before the game begins? Big mistake.

[@Ghosthunter578]

Great well put together video !

[@aspicboat]

I'm very disappointed with the state of this game and have little hope that they can or willing to fix all this. There were no updates for almost a year and now we get this shit. People are eating this game up without complaining and while there are people calling this shit out, especially problems with the AI, I don't think that the devs are in any position to care. The game is successful enough for them to just coast on the shit state of this game. There are hordes of mouthbreathing youtubers jumping on this shit and calling it gold. Disappointing all around.

[@BreachBangBeer]

Hopefully Void does not abondon RoN and turns it into a full game in the future. I just played SWAT 4 (SEF FR) again and RoN is still so far away from the quality this 20 year old game provides besides the obvious aged visuals and some clunky controls. And yeah, the praising by all those youtubers is so strange for me as you literally cant play a single round without experiencing multiple heavy bugs.

[@CCA.C17.SQL.02Idot]

What makes you think they're abandoning it? They literally just sent out a patch that fixed a handful of bugs and they've already stated more are on the way.

[@xano7858]

Nobody is complaining about the game because its actually good stop crying about it

[@Gunboy122]

@@xano7858 greasy mouthbreathers like you are the reason why these disastrous launches happen in the first place and developers can get away with it. VOID absolutely *deserve* to get their name and game dragged through the mud, they did absolutely NOTHING to ensure that the 1.0 launch was the best they could make it and you can only make first impressions once.

[@mozarella_cheese]

lot of harsh words for just an ok update. Legit all things mentioned in this vid I didnt notice other than the AI being a lil too strong

[@GameFuMaster]

1:22 flashlights are my biggest pet peeve. They literally just used the horror type (almost useless) flashlight in a game that's supposed to be tactical, forcing you to take NVG all the time 6:08 SWAT AI got worse for some reason, while suspect AI got better

[@devlintaylor9520]

Whats really weird is that for the first couple missions, the AI is nearly perfect, its just when you get to "The Spider" Where the AI becomes broken again. Its like the ai changes per mission

[@GameFuMaster]

@@devlintaylor9520 it does, the intention is to match the scenario with appropriate AI

[@devlintaylor9520]

@@GameFuMaster So do you think they forgot to apply ai changes to everyone?

[@GameFuMaster]

@@devlintaylor9520 no, some maps are supposed to have "harder enemies", although that just translates into wall hacks and instant shots

[@BreachBangBeer]

I am pretty sure besides body armour and weaponary there is no "skill" difference in RoN for suspects and I also can't recall them behaving differently aswell except for voicelines. SWATs AI were very different from mission to mission in a way it made sense. Organised terrorists were heavily armed, armoured and had quicker reactions, better aim, got into cover before firing, talked to each other and gave commands while keeping quiet overall to surprise SWAT etc. Crackheads had no armour, often fired their guns with one hand "hood style", didn't have good accuracy or reactions, even shouted and insulted SWAT which gave out their positions.

[@terrified057t4]

People defending this shit are actually insane. Like, do you NOT want to see the potential which very much exists be refined into something amazing??? The AI used to be good, but now they're insanely difficult to play with. The SWAT AI is a 50/50 of Terminator or bumbling buffoons while the Suspect AI is 100% of the time super aggressive aim-bots that feel no pain, have thermal vision, wallhacks, superhuman aim & reaction time. The AI also cannot care about civilians, SWAT or Suspect. All my time in commander mode was boring as shit, watching the AI either R6 Siege each other or have to solo clear because the SWAT sucks. Also the traits and stress levels do not fucking matter at all to me, I cannot care that Watson is stressed because he spammed his M1014 and killed all the civilians trying to wall-bang Dixley and his goons from outside. I am not sending that man to therapy, I AM FUCKING FIRING HIM (because only the AI can execute the player, while the player can only get -30 score for friendly fire). Then the traits, locked from the start and completely unknown how to unlock them. Oh, the guy who's trait is pacifier unlocked it by slaughtering a bunch of youth holding up a gas station? Uh huh... Other than that, yeah RoN 1.0 is the same as EA RoN, with great eNvIrOnMeNtAl StOrYtElLiNg, atmosphere, guns (wish we had more options, especially secondaries considering 57 meta). You can call out 'skill issue' and yeah sure some of my complaints could be resolved by not having a life and investing whole weeks to learning the most meta way to complete every ready or not mission.

[@Bruh-d]

Wonder which creators are being sponsored by RON, since I saw earlier that S7 Milk bag was sponsored by RON to play it.

[@ninertactics]

I was really happy when 1.0 was released, I mean like finally a full featured tactical shooter aside from Arma. 3/4 into the campaign, Im reminded this this is just Ready or Not with its own problems. Mods might save it, maybe. Oh yeah you can change the loadout of swat AI, you just have to select each piece of equipment , you can not do it using the saved loadouts.

[@BreachBangBeer]

I played SWAT 4 again just after my first few rounds of RoN 1.0 so I could compare the feeling of both games better and I have to say it really showed me how bare bones Ready or Not is right now. Besides the aged visuals and some clunkyness SWAT 4 still is the king of tactical shooters (next to Rainbow Six 3) imo. Thanks for the info but for me it was impossible to change loadouts before the hotfix, even when doing it like you described. Maybe it works now after the patch but I cant tell as it completly broke my game to the point that I cant play it anymore.

[@brandenlebowski6826]

@@BreachBangBeer Swat 4 is clunky and lacks features but at the moment, its actually more fun because it is less frustrating considering the broken AI.

[@BreachBangBeer]

@@brandenlebowski6826 Definetly try SWAT 4 with SEF FR mod if you haven't already. It adds tons of weapons, equipment, features and QOL stuff.

[@mudnarchist]

The entire game feels AI generated to be honest. It looks super cool and amazing at first but the closer you look, you suddenly start to notice hundreds of imperfections.

[@rclsm1021]

My door wedges still go missing after I deployed them.

[@logan7527]

Honestly I have only had about three issues with my game so far and it is all suspect AI related. They are still way to fast, lock on through walls and smoke, and sometimes take an entire mag to drop. Other than that I have not seen any graphical issues, my computer runs it totally fine and I have a way less powerful gpu with only 8 gb of vram. The 1.0 update was a little rushed in some aspects but I think that it was justified, so many games are coming out now adays that are in the same state or worse with much much larger teams behind them. VOID has done some amazing work so far and I think that in the next few months it will be be even a better game. I do wish that they would have sorted some of the pre 1.0 issues out before release like the god tier suspect AI but it has just the game a little more challenging, nothing that can't be overcome by good tactics.

[@ExpertContrarian]

Other games being shit is not justification for releasing this shit. Stop being a shill. I honestly don’t believe anything you’re saying. Everyone that’s actually played the game knows a friendly swat AI constantly messes up and gets stuck and won’t follow orders looking at the achievements on Steam barely anyone has made decent progress in the game while giving glowing reviews. Most of y’all have not even actually played the game.

[@kevindeloria4537]

I for one actually am enjoying 1.0. The graphical issues are minimal on my end and I run a potato ROG Ally docked. My biggest complaint is the general state of AI - SWAT & suspect shoot through walls having seen their target for a split second, sometimes commands don't register, SWAT still enter fatal funnels, & they don't deploy shield on command anymore. Overall, the AI is still in a better state than pre 1.0, but not as polished as I hoped it would be.

[@urgentlygaming6410]

I have also noticed that I have had some pretty bad performance that they need to address, all low settings and it stutters randomly with 60 fps

[@starstorm5338]

coming back to this after seeing the reviews for the new dlc, somehow they made the performance even WORSE lmao, and some features like balaclavas are multiplayer only.

[@BreachBangBeer]

Yup, the new levels are not playable in commander mode aswell, only in practice or multiplayer because of "lore reasons" as the new maps play 4 years after the main story. Which is firstly a super lazy explanation and secondly wrong because in the port map we get infos about the hurricane (which plays a role in the DLC)

[@starstorm5338]

@@BreachBangBeer yeah it felt like an incredibly cheap excuse to not take some time to put it in commander mode, its just disappointing seeing how VOID is handling a game that could've done so much more.

[@Aceken23]

Lowekey what I want for a new update is an optimized update, I feel as If my pc Is chugging for most missions. Also the Enemy ai being like the terminator and auto locking onto you and killing you in one well placed shot. I had one guy come out of a door and auto locked to my head and one tapped me. Last guy too. Had to redo that mission 2 more times.

[@FlowerMareEnjoyer]

I was worried about the game releasing in a poor state when issues with development started becoming noticeable a few years ago. Sad to see it became a reality. Guess I'll go back to modded SWAT 4 and check back in a few more years to see if anything has improved.

[@playerknownwell3702]

I was pretty reluctant to believe you at first because I had fun and didn't notice much when I played 1.0, but I an definitely see how this stuff is all legit and can definitely hinder the gameplay and enjoyment/immersion. It's definitely not what I would call game breaking, which you never said, but still not a stable release, so I can understand the frustration. Nonetheless, I don't play it too seriously and for me, none of this is too much of a hinderance to be honest. (the flashlights have had the most impact on my gameplay)

[@ExpertContrarian]

How is the swat AI being terribly inconsistent not a hinderance? Terrible cope

[@ApexBOA]

Thank you for making this hopefully we get to see the fixes soon!

[@dudemanduderson]

got it for like $10 a long time ago. i have easily gotten my money's worth.

[@soultaker2254]

Not to mention the severe downgrade in the narrative. I remember playing in EA and playing maps like neon tomb and hearing the phones ringing and stuff actually making me *feel* something while playing, I remember going into the basement of valley of the dolls feeling disgusted by the implications and going like "Damn they didn't hold back!" actually *feeling* something. But a lot of the maps and narrative direction now feels half baked, like there's environmental story telling still there, but it's nowhere near as gut wrenching or visceral as it used to be. I know that a lot of people disagree with this sentiment, and I see why they most likely changed it to avoid controversy but I really think they should've kept a lot of the more quote on quote "edgier" things like keeping campus as a high school to hit closer to home, going more in depth on the beachfront suspects mother's condition maybe accidentally killing her if you use certain LTLs on her, having actual kids in agency to add more stakes (Voicelines exist for kids as civilians in agency but go unused). And I know in saying that everyone goes like "Ugh why do you want the ability for kids to die" (I don't necessarily, hell if you really need to, make it so you automatically fail if a kid on agency dies, or make them invincible), But I just feel from a narrative perspective it just offers a more impactful and visceral story, it makes you see the corrupt nature of the world, it makes you FEEL things just like the things we felt in neon, valley, and port when they weren't holding back with their storytelling. But it's clear now that they *did* hold back for 1.0, and in my honest opinion I feel that their narrative heavily suffered as a result.

[@EliWritesStories]

I made the point in their supporter discord that them not including high schoolers/children in the school shooter map was going to make people feel bait and switched and one of their discord mods told me, "Good we don't want *those* people in our community."

[@Arkideit]

Dude i have like toons of futage of graphical issues like missing objects and brokent textures, damn it's horrible quality for such price

[@loslingos1232]

I'm glad someone points out about not being able to change the loadout of your AI. It is so frustrating.

[@channe3049]

It's better only to stick to SWAT4 at this point.

[@Painless201]

There are a lot of bugs especially with the AI and it is indeed frustrating at times. But overall this is in a pretty good state for a non AAA production shorty after EA.

[@BreachBangBeer]

I disagree actually. Why not have the game stay in early access for another 6-12 months then and release it as an, you know, actual finished and polished product because that is what 1.0 means. Of course even then there will be bugs but the bugs and issues that are in the game right now are impossible to not spot when playtesting. So I guess there was no playtesting at all or they did not care. Both would suck.

[@ExpertContrarian]

@@BreachBangBeer they don’t want to accept the truth. The gaming industry has gotten so bad that people just accept it and they need to justify their purchase.

[@pope_xiv]

Not here to argue but, I have been enjoying this update

[@KillerBD]

Yep, although I've had fun playing 1.0, its certainly in dire need of many tweaks/fixes/updates...

[@ralsei8249]

And after 10 months of this video... Ready or not is still not even close to ready

[@caloroq]

They removed content and features, didn't deliver stuff they promised (such as being able to turn off the power in maps), subtitles and a lot of art in maps are AI generated, new soundtrack is just bland ambience, suspects are all the same john wick "I WON'T SURRENDER" enemies that always stay still and don't interact with the enviroment as it was promised and many more issues make this 1.0 release feel like an actual scam beacuse it is not a finished product.

[@bigtommy2556]

flashlights and windows are blinding to the user. Windows do reflect light. When i use my light to scan my yard for armadillos i have to put the light against the window otherwise it just reflects back and i cant see anything. As far as rooms being dark when viewed from a sunlit exterior that is also realistic. Your pupils would be tuned for the bright light outside which would obscure a dark room, once you enter the room your pupils would dilate and then you could see better.

[@BreachBangBeer]

The first clip where it shows the flashlight blinding the player I stand in a lit room and the room behind the window is also bright so this wouldn't look like this in reallife. People defend this and completly ignore the fact that you can see that this obviously doesn't work as intended because its not a "blinding" shader. The textures alpha just becomes 100% intransparent and that is visible in the game and video.

[@MerhabaBenMert]

I gave up on this game playing since release AI still john wick shooting through walls