Ready or Not 1.0 Review: It's Sort of Ready Edition 

the ai is broken, someone looked into the files and saw that their morale get improved the more flashbangs get used, it wasn’t like this pre-1.0

The AI definitely needs work. Shooting you through the wall while perfectly tracking your movement is ridiculous.

another thing that hasn't been mentioned is glass reflections. It is literally impossible to look through any window in this game, while the AI is not affected at all. Especially egregious about this is also the reflections on the viewport of the shield. In the mission with the Woman Cult there are whole houses you cannot see in when using an undamaged shield, due to extreme reflections and artifacts on your window, making you effectively blind in a bunch of indoor areas

The enemy ai is op. I understand it’s supposed to be unpredictable but once they spot you it’s all headshots and spamming you through the wall for 2-3 seconds.

I agree with the statement that the enemy AI is WAAAAY too op. The homies and I were going for the S rank on Port Hokan, it took us over 70 tries before the F**k it adjustment kicked in and we used a mod to unlock the stuff. We are all long standing players, but I've never seen the AI this aggressive until now.

It's crazy that the only person covering these issues is a RU-vidr with 1.7K subscribers... I've yet to see Jackfrags, Bigfry or any of the other "big" FPS content creators cover this game negatively. Every single one of their videos is only about how amazing and revolutionizing this game is, with each frame being carefully curated to show only the best of the game and not the 90% of fuckery that actually occurs during the average run.

Honestly the game would’ve been so much better if the maps were smaller. Swat 4 was a bunch of houses and smaller scale buildings that it would make sense for 5 SWAT members to go up against. But in RoN you’re raiding a compound or clearing a school shooting with only 5 people. When in reality you would need like a Platoon to do it safely. Modding is the only hope for this game to be like Swat 4.

some map design is really not for single 5 men SWAT team, also there should be police sniper covering outside and providing observation reports.

I agree so hard with maps just being monstrous to tackle. At least in Swat 4 you had big maps at times yes, but every room was just that, a room. Not some weird eldritch design that held three doors connecting to separate hallways with potential openings leading to the outside in which AI can freely utilize to ambush/flank you. Every room in Ready or Not for some reason connects itself to so many other rooms or routes that angle coverage on top of flow feel more and more overwhelming the bigger the map gets. Twisted Nerve can at least be handwaved by saying that they jankified the house for their meth empire (but I agree heavily that it's stretching the capabilities of a FIVE MAN TEAM), but Mindjot? Why does Mindjot feel like a huge labyrinth of hallways, doorways and interconnecting rooms the deeper you go into a facility that feels like an architect decided to go with their grandest, drunkest whimsies? With an actual labyrinth of servers upon servers within the center? Why does Ides of March have hotel rooms that connect to each other as if multiple s e p a r a t e rooms just have no privacy at all between each other? Hell even with 23/mbs, another smaller more plausible map already presents open angles being the worst thing about the game when armed suspects decide to just ambush you from three stories above as if you're in Seunostan. And if you thought Ides was bad on getting melted, Greased Palms has it even bigger where yeah, five men are taking down an entire postal packaging plant with a second story, outside and entry building with 5 men against a platoon's worth of Cartel armed mobmen. Christ. Even if they fix the AI that's my biggest concern atm in the sense that they are pushing the absolute boundaries if not breaking them by giving you only 5 lads to tackle these ever-increasing levels with deranged architecture in trying to cover what angles you can, while at some point being forced to restart due to just that one open room, inviting that one open door you forgot to check for that entire other section of a map that held 3 John Wicks gunning for your ass.

I feel they made some concessions to make the december release window. Hope the AI gets some touch ups sometime, because it's got the framework in place to be an extremely impressive AI enemy. I hope we will eventually see it outsmart us rather than outshoot us.

there is a mod called no crack for AI which vastly improves the gameplay experience by nerfing the suspect AI. They obviously still have many issues that cant be fixed without a mayor redesign, but the fact that you can enter a building without dying because a guy with a glock john wicked you from 7 miles away is a good start. It is pretty much a must if you wish to play ready or not right now

i would have wished they found a solution to the issue of running around at the end of the mission to find the last civilian in multiplayer (especially when you are the last one alive). It kills enjoyment so much

the amount of times ive gotten sniped randomly from outside, thru a wall by the ai is ridiculous. they want you to try and go non lethal, and you will sit there for hours doing it, and dying and going back, dying and going back. such a good and beautiful looking game, i just hope the ai gets a little more realistic. like i can understand a paramilitary force being super gung ho and accurate and coming at you tactical, but like random meth heads and shit should not have john wick training. theres a lot of things that can be done to change them, hopefully its actually done.

Funny you mention the AI ignoring damage while using a G36. I was using that gun one day and hit this unarmored AI in the chest/arms with 12 AP rounds. He didn't even flinch. Just full auto'd an AK and killed me as he was being shot. R E A L I S M

Remember to turn on volumetric lighting for flashlights as it’s default OFF!

I was taken aback when I finished the video and realized you only had 1.59k subs I genuinely expected like 300k+. Great video man keep it up.

"On the larger maps, like Port Hoken, Ready or Not becomes a survival shooter." YEAH. That's how I'd describe it after clearing it with just myself and my buddy alone. When I close my eyes, I still see muzzle flashes coming from shipping containers.

One thing that SWAT 4 has over RoN currently is just how reactive the AI are to you. You throw a flash, explode a door, use a breaching shotgun, beanbag, whatever, and the AI has an appropriate response to it all. In RoN, I hardly ever rely on flashes or stingers because of how unreliable they are. Sometimes they work, other times the grenades get lodged behind a paint bucket and suddenly have zero effectiveness, meaning I charge into a room, thinking a suspect would be somewhat impacted, only to find they were completely fine because the grenade didn't land directly on them. Non-lethal feels more like a hindrance to the player rather than a viable option for subduing suspects. Beanbags feel more like suggestions and pepperball guns have more effectiveness against you and your teammates rather than the suspects.

I hear a lot of people call RoN the swat 4 successor and honestly the ai is just holding it back. Swat 4 ai was hard but fair

Suspect and SWAT ai has wallhacks. It needs a little bit of work. Its either that or they might have missed a hole in the wall where both forces can see each other through the wall

Dude this production quality is pretty nuts for such a "small" channel. Also, awesome review! Took the words right outta my mouth, especially with the AI. Subscribed!

In SWAT 4, I can complete most missions on the normal difficulty without me or my squad getting hit. In Ready or Not, I can’t even get past the first mission without over half my team getting injured. Including myself.

One thing I sorely miss from pre 1.0 was the 6 shell M32 flash grenade launcher. In multiplayer, I was the "PACIFIST FLASHIST" coz my suspects surrender in a flash 😎✨ Running with light armor, I had 5 flash grenades, 6 M32 flash shells, 5 flash shells from my long tactical, and 4 C2 charges. That playstyle was so fun but maaaan~ I miss the grenade launcher 😭 Edit: thanks for the correction 👍

Really well made review. This channel easily deserves more subs

I want to love the game, but the issues make it impossible. Optimization causes stutters that make fire fights impossible; I hate peaking a corner to immediately stuttering when seeing someone just to die because my frames skipped. The AI becomes more aggressive with each update which I found noticeable after the Adam update .The enemy AI actually heavily keeps me from wanting to play the game more than the optimization issues, and it's more shocking when the diehard community defends the extremely unfair AI to the death to Gatekeep the game's "tactical feel". Yet I also feel like the gatekeeping and refusing the accept the AI's issues greatly diminishes the ability to enjoy the game from multiple play styles and also limiting your tactical options to only throwing 8 flashbangs into a room. Between a broken morale system and extremely flawed concept of their inhuman reaction and action times, I can't see myself being able to pick this game up to play again. It'd be near impossible to convince my friends to try as well, as I think I have far more patience than they do. I also wouldn't be surprised on the daily player count dropping fast to it's low number that it had before, where it will be again shortly after this update. Hope the game improves optimization and Enemy AI: I'd love to be able to play this game again. Like in the early stages of EA.

Honestly I was pleasantly surprised that the friendly AI was improved so much up until I went into ides of march where they proceeded to get massacred every time they entered a room and sometimes just went into the corner of a room after breaching and sat there doing literally nothing.

Great video, man. Both humorous and comprehensive without outstaying its welcome.

Fantastic review, I didn't expect this video to be as well made for a channel this size, definitely a good job sir!

Thank you so much for your honest, candid and thorough review of this game. I have seen so many RoN 1.0 vids that show how amazing 1.0 is and don’t seem to show how the game is still janky and has many problems still.

Great video! I really enjoyed your writing style, can't wait for the next one :)

It’s called ready or not because they were gonna release it whether it was ready or not.

this is such a high quality and fun video how tf is it so underappreciated im sure the algorithm will bless you shortly

Found you on my for you page, and man you are killing it!

This video is a damn work of art, it puts into perspective what we all sort of feel, but find it tough to word altogether

thankfully the no crack for AI mod is a good fix until the devs do something officially. the main mod is a bit easy but he has multiple version up for different ai values some even harder than the main game.

Incredible review sir. Keep up the great content

I wholeheartedly agree with the size of the levels not matching the number of SWAT present. Easiest solution for this to me is re-imagine coop with each player commanding their own team of 4 AI.

One thing that is incredibly annoying, that is the shield officers looking behind the door first before clearing the room which leads to them exposing their back to EVERYONE in the room. Not even to mention them just looking in random directions and standing in my way when i want to get out of danger. Idk but it feels like void lied in their New AI Trailer.

I love that you brought up the fact that we are essentially fighting a whole private militia with only 5 dudes. For a game that touts its realism, no SWAT team would EVER go in so outgunned. If you've ever seen a SWAT raid irl, they FLOOD THE BUILDING with as many officers as they can from almost every single entrance.

great video, pretty much captures exactly how i feel about the full release, one tiny thing i also ran into is that team ai frequently don't stack up, peek the door, and toss grenades into rooms the way you want them to, meaning a lot of times when the plan was to flash into the room (something that real people could pull off easily) the team ai will stack up, swing the door open, see a suspect and execute them, then toss a flash, and it pretty much can't go any other way. also, a few times my one tactical shield guy at the front of a stack will, upon being ordered to clear a room, start walking straight away from the door in some weird pathing fuck-up.

9:13 He says you get only one shot from tazer which is not true - you get two shots per cartridge and with one tazer you get 4 cartridges. Sadly if you waste more slots on tazers it wont increase your cartridge amount :(

This was one of the first reviews I watched of this game's 1.0 release and after watching some others, this review is still the best one I've seen that tackles both the game's issues and strengths in painstakingly entertaining detail. Nice job.

My biggest complaint Is my frames keep going down in random areas around the map. I’ll be cruising at a nice 80-82fps walk through a room or look at a door to breach all of a sudden I’m like 27 fps

Thank you so much, most faithful review I have watched. I don’t understand why other reviewers sell themselves to VOID like a little Port Hokan merchandise. You state downsides and good points honestly, no bias. Keep up the good work!

Great review! The first honest one I've seen

"Where your truck drives straight toward a nuclear explosion" made me laugh more than it had any business to.

Amazing video man

Very good video. Subbed for more, that sort of thing.

Their performance gets amazingly better after you play the Maps a few times it has something to do with cashing shaders

im glad to witness the starting stages of a (hopefully) succesful challenge

Your colonoscopy joke while I’m on the shiiter terrified me for life.

20:55 the best current way to do this is to hold shift when you issue a command and they will be on standby to complete that order. Once you choose “execute” on their pair or all 4, they will carry it out regardless of where you are at the time, so you can coordinate better. But it still doesn’t help if there is more for them to do after. You have to return to them at that point. I wish they would make a way to issue remote commands, maybe through the map device. Also, the automatic actions they take clearing subjects and evidence is cool and welcome, but sometimes they do it at bad times. Like I order them to an open door and they arrest someone first, or I order a person to come to me because it is dangerous to arrest them in the open, but the officer runs out to the open to arrest them before they get to me I tried equipping them with shields, but they all switch to it to clear rooms, so they lose a lot of firepower I also want game modes to return in practice mode

Perfectly and hilariously sums up my and many other's problems with this game that I'm sure we all want to love.

one of the best things in this game is after a succesful mission if there are lets say 4 people stilla live, you start a 2v2 where two guys start at one side of the map and the others at the other side. or a 1v1. its actually really funa nd you will start to really clear angles to kill the real players. its really fun actually. i would suggest doing that on smaller maps only tho xD

The fairly odd parents door ram reference was god tier.

The lock pick gun is much faster and quieter than regular lockpicks.

Wow, amazing video! This is the exact way I feel for the game right now.

Great review great sense of humor. I agree on a lot of things with this review

Bruh that colonoscopy shot had me rolling.

Bro went from random shitposts to one of the best and funniest review I've ever seen

Underrated, good video.

This is a masterpiece!

I’m glad I’m not the only one experiencing these frame rate drops, and in the same areas too

Absolutely underrated vid

The Taser actually has two shots. That’s why there are two yellow squares on its display. Once you shoot, one of them turns black

ok i would love a serious lore vid from you

Thumbs up for the larp clip lol, love that one.

Banger

Nice video dude, pretty entertaining :)

A thing i noticed on the SWAT AI while doing a mission (i was going for an S rank so i had all my buddies run non lethals while i was running shields) is that the SWAT AI has no problems magdumping the player with pepper balls if they can feel an enemy behind the player and also a wall, I literally looked my team member in the eye as he decided to fire 6 pepper balls in my face. The enemy AI can be somewhat fixed with a mod that turns their aggression way down, i had a lot more people surrender to me instead of fighting to the death, but the SWAT AI is still doing their best Ruby Ridge impression on every room clear, on certain occassions they will execute a surrendered enemy, just because they feel like it, while on other moments the concept of stairs freaks their AI out and they will happily die to an enemy two steps away from them.

Very good review. Thank you for bringing up the issue with the game. Seems like a lot of people don't mention it or ignore it.

the perfect loudout for all the squad is pepper guns, bean shots, no ammo on handguns and a lot of flashes. now you gonna make with no deaths and S

For everyone unaware, there are mods that allow you to tweak the cracked enemy AI, so you can make the game into a fairer challenge, turn it into a game of Call of Duty or make the enemy AI so cracked that you might as well be fighting terminators.

I miss the walking simulation missions in headquater mode. For example some of policeman will have problems with they cases, and you can help them a little with speaking with someone else

14:28 Everyone who’s cleared it just got the “1000 Voll Stare” from that basement door

4 shield idea seems rather interesting on post office map i tried to complete it yesterday for 3 hours straight and every time i got head/eyesed or shot to shit from an across the room with unpresidented accuracy while i dont even have an idea where they all at i remember in beta there was less of head/eyes because from what i heard any headwear used to give face protection

Team AI in a nutshell: "You're in my way, chief."

Referring to this game as a survival horror game is hilarious, and is something I am going to begin doing lol.

When I first tried the 1.0 update, I loaded up the Gas station just toi be rushed by all suspects at once out of the main entrance. It didn't feel like barricaded crackheads, but the beaches of normandy. So I went to the Nexus and fixed that. According to one mod dev, the crackhead AI in the very first mission had one of the highest aggressiveness and accuracy ratings. How does that happen? Also, I noticed when I look at my squadmates (AI or players), my frames drop down to 15 or lower. And they stay there for a while even after I look away. That is really impractical, when you try to respond to a threat but you stutter your way across the screen because your teammate's sleeveis visible.

Good review! I like the game, but yeah as you've mentioned the levels and AI can make for a frustrating experience. I mostly play co-op with one friend so our squad is already a fraction of the size, making some of the maps insanely difficult to beat. Granted we're putting ourselves at a disadvantage, but sometimes it really highlights how inconsistent the tactical gadgets and AI interactions are.

The taser is a 2 shot now. You can see the lights on the back.

Great video about Ready or Not! How did you watch the AI scoot around like that?

Mom: "We have Max0r at home!" Max0r at home:

Wholeheartedly agree with points made at 26:22. Pre 1.0 I average around 100-120 on high settings, literally had to switch to low quality in order to be able to load into the HQ. Used AMD SuperResolution and managed to get about 70-80 frames but as each match progresses my frames dip and I end up with about half by the time I finish

Your sense of humor made me subscribe to your channel. lol.

"Ready or Not is a first person survival horror game . . . " "Excuse me wha --- (flashbacks) --- yeah actually that sounds about right"

inconsistent TTKs is apart of the breach and clear simulator experience. we've both seen the videos of PCP zombies take an entire glock mag and not drop. sometimes the bullets just dont hit right, especially against suspects on drugs. there's a reason why bjj guys emphasize proper rear naked choke technique, and it's because a properly applied choke can knock out an opponent in 5 seconds, and an improperly applied choke will hurt really bad and either: take minutes to deprive the opponent of oxygen or continue to hurt really bad and do little else. pain compliance is like adding a 1% chance to instakill on your weapon, it's nice if it works, we give it a chance to work, but we plan for it not to. that's why we magdump the target until they no longer pose a threat.

For your frame problems, make sure you’re using DirectX 12. Fixed mine right up.

They considered a big content drop enough for a full release. I'd personally consider a bug free fully working game the full release considering the content it already had, and drop the new content in something called "Updates" (not dlc), something few remember exist. But what do I know, I'm not a game developer, I've just played hundreeds of games and used a couple of neurons.

A point to make is that the ai isn't based on both reaction and response time, it's only based on reaction time. I kid you not, it takes the average reaction time of 250 ms, despite reaction and response time for most individuals is 1 full second or more to respond to the threat. Felt like they took the reaction time and called it a day Edit: it's the reason why the ai seems so broken, let alone the fact you need extra miliseconds to process what you should do based in certain aspects

The intro to this video is more narrative than you see in the entire game.

"Medium Rare Ready"

just so you know, people and especially crackheads can take an entire mag into the lungs and heart area and still try and kill you for like 20 seconds straight before dying. adrenaline and drugs can delay a persons death for enough time for them to do some damage, from what I recall its also part of the reason police use/consider the "21 foot rule".

Alternate title for Ready or Not: Lethal Company 😂

Fairly odd parents reference on the battering ram surprised me lol

Glad to see I'm not the only one that was suffering with the AI and having to resort to using the AI Teammates instead of doing anything myself

Your review had me busting a gut laughing!

The team ai thing still happens. "Fall in, and stack up" seems to fix it most of the time.

Beautiful perfect game

Some of these maps make me wanna call in close air support