The Ready or Not Iceberg Explained 

Fun fact: It's been scientifically proven that weapon "malfunctions and accidental discharges" are significantly higher when aiming at Voll, not sure why.

I don’t understand how some people think this game basically rewards police brutality… To get an S rank everyone must survive including hostages suspects and officers

The buzzing cell phones in the NEON club of relatives or friends trying to get in touch with dead people still gives me nightmares.

That basement in Valley of the Dolls is like the white-phosphorus scene in Spec-ops The Line. Its the ONE THING I think everyone knows about this game, even if they HAVEN'T played it.

Judge's Bio: "he maintains a professional demeanor." Judge during gameplay: *Smacks suspects in the back of the head and kicks them in the back as he detains them* I just find it funny lmao

In regards to Judge Langley.. Langley Virginia is the home of the CIA. From the wiki page about it: Langley is an unincorporated community in the census-designated place of McLean in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The name "Langley" often occurs as a metonym for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as the community is home to the CIA headquarters, the George Bush Center for Intelligence. So Judge definitely either is or has been USIA/CIA

Since Judge is the only character you control in the single-player story and the only one who doesn't seem to suffer any mental health issues throughout the game, it wouldn't be surprising if all the theories about him turned out to be true

the pepe meme is such a far back internet lore the fact people allowed it to become taboo is absurd.

Something I'll like to add about the copaganda allegations: The game implies you're solving nothing in the long run because the problem in Los Sueños is caused by the crisis those at the top created, mainly poverty just like IRL. The LSPD just deals with the consequences while keeping the status quo, either intentionally or not. If anything, this is a very fair critique towards the police.

Bruh, the reason Judge has no background is because YOU are judge and the date is shown in the briefings

What’s funny is that in the R6 single player missions the last mission which I’m sure can be played multiplayer deals with the White masks literally gassing an ENTIRE UNI CAMPUS and people are getting mad at ready or not sheesh

This game was what rainbow six siege should of been

41:00 Some rather polite aliens there, having the required red/green navigation lights on their craft. Jolly good.

I really like the theory that Judge is in purgatory. Especially after seeing the connections between him, the USIA, and the stuff you see in Lethal Obsession. The name of "Judge" as the main character makes sense in so many ways, obviously for the fact that you "judging" people in every mission, you're determining what the best course of action is, and you're trying to complete the mission with as few deaths as possible. The whole, "Bring Order to Chaos" motto just feels like it's what Judge represents. You, as a player, get judged at the end for what you've done in the mission, and I find it interesting that the only way to S a level is to not kill anyone, even those who are the most despicable of humans. Idk, I want to play more and learn more about this stuff because of this video. There's a lot more I wanna say about this but I really can't say more until I've actually completed all the missions in the 1.0 release. But I just find it fascinating that Void has this sort of "style" to their game that really reinforces that idea that something is wrong, something is empty. I find the whole ARG they did similar to that sort of style. I want it to mean much more and I can't wait to piece together more theories as I explore the game more.

I remember first playing through Valley of The Dolls before it had everything added. The only creepy thing was a weird radio in Russian. Then, when it finally came out, I found out just how horrific the map itself is. Also, at least one pair of feet is just Huntr after he shaved his legs for it. Again also, the game was stated by the devs to take place on varying dates from 2021-2022. Also x3: School (Renamed to EDUCATION CENTER) is still coming. Confirmed by the devs. Fast Food, however, has been cancelled for the future. Though it may return after COYOTE. Also x4: The entire thing with the PULSE anniversary was a complete accident. the devs said on stream they didn't even mean to announce it around then, as it was already announced a week prior for supporters. Also x5: Christina is a name for Crystal Meth.

So many takes, yet nobody noticed the most obvious thing: "Ready or not, here I come" is the motto of GEO - tactical unit of Spanish police.

I thought the nightclub was a reference to the Bataclan attack of 2015 where there were multiple perpetrators, with AKs and bomb vests.

fun fact, USIA was a real agency that existed from 1953 to 1999. It was essentially a public diplomacy agency and was eventually absorbed into the State Dept.

Coming back to this after 1.0 is nice I’m glad to see soo much in the 1.0

If looked from the iceberg perspective, the game started as a cool game with some interesting background elements put into it, and ended up being more tangled than the Black Ops timeline… Good vid tho

As an Asian, I found Bing chilling hilarious, hate it when people can’t take a joke

On the streamer mission, this may well be the only time a prank SWAT call did something good.

I always thought that The Valley of the dolls basement is just a random basement, since I don’t auctually keep an eye out for the lore. Thank you for this amazing video!

Maybe the reason Scott is so fixated on judge and why he talks about that woman in past tense like she’s dead is that hudge had something to do with her death like a mission gone horribly wrong resulting in some heavy casualties or it’s just scott caethon and he’s finally lost it after someone asked him about golden freddy for the millionth time

My favorite theory is the idea that the MLO are the incorruptible law enforcement, and the stuff about brain chips being developed by the USIA

Once me and my brother were trying to do the night club map. And when we breached into the main room, both of us just went “ohhh, shit”

Great video man. I hope you do an update now that the 1.0 is out. Side note: the discourse on “Copaganda” is so stupid. Everyone gets their panties in a twist because “you’re fighting bad guys who are unequivocally evil”. That’s what SWAT is for! They aren’t beat cops, they don’t do patrols, they are called for the WORST situations that require, you guessed it, special weapons and tactics for that situation. There are evil people in this world who do things only for themselves, you’re just playing through realistic scenarios taking those people down.

55 minutes of "developers make fun thing, people get mad over it, developers remove fun thing" feelsbadman

I just thought of something,what if Judge is like the next gen of the USIA's project?The MLA is like the older model,and Judge is the newest test subject,and they need to test him?That's why he was being warned because he might be able to break the "cycle" of mind control?

12:47 I remember finding that 1990s calendar in the police department by chance before and being freaked tf out by it because its of the month I was born...

In the "Christina" question, christina refers to Crystal Meth, the writing is probably just them fiending over the drug

33:14 For me, the "The Spider" is three people that are in control. Because it always looked like there are three faces that make up the main body of the spider. And the people that made up the limbs are the "Arms/Enforcers" of The Spider.

Absolutely loved this video, meant to fall asleep to it but was stuck to my screen all the way through. i cant wait for more lore after the game releases 1.0 tomorrow

MindJot immediately reminded me of MindGeek, which is also profiting off inhumane and illegal stuff.

49:04 Hey! That's my post! Thanks for the shoutout!

Fact that activity fail sounds like "bin chilin" broke me

just thought I'd add a bit to the Cycle entry, earlier you mentioned that Team17 would've been the publisher for Ready or Not before they had cut ties. It just so happens that Team17 is also the publisher for the game Trepang2 and there's heavy mention of a "cycle" in there too. The Cycle in Trepang2 being a sort of project of cloned super soldiers who're used for all sorts of things, like black operations, infiltrations and sabotage. The character you play as is the 106th iteration of the cycle and throughout the game you're tasked with taking down previous rogue iterations, all of them also constantly telling you to break the cycle and to take down the organization that's running the project instead. Of course this could all just be a big coincidence since Trepang2 focuses a lot more on the paranormal unlike Ready or Not's more grounded setting. Edit: added more information

OK, OK! STOP! I'LL PLAY THE DAMN GAME! Downloading it now.

I'm interested in you talking more about the carcosa/sepulchre args!

So much lore. It feels like I’m not alone when I play now

For clarification: i don't know what drugs your contact from the nda testing was on, but i was too. And yes, at the beginning the maps were almost empty and no textures; but we had several updates and i remember seeing 3 different versions of the "Welcome come again" (gas station) level during the nda tests alone.

I think you've convinced me to finally buy this game. Great video 🙂

Damn i didnt know the background lore and theories are this wild, im so interested in the future of the game and its story

Dude, really good video!

59:34 It’s now confirmed that PvP will be coming in a post release update so likely mid-late 2024 or early-mid 2025

can we get an update on this please?? this is really well done and epic, man :)

A real great research done. Keep up the good work!

I've been playing this since it first hit Early Access and I never thought to search for the story on RU-vid. This is so cool.

I'd like to add that Judge gets doctor notes at the end of every mission, but never attends the doctor's office. However, all of his squadmates get stressed and pulled from the team everybso often if they experience crisis

The whole spider thing being made out of people reminds me of Alice Cooper, I remember hearing the idea of that from RazorFists recent Metal Mythos video. Apparently it was one of Alice's darkest ideas for a story album of sorts, but I think it was mentioned that some others took the same idea of the "Human Spider killer person" and put their own spin on it, I would love to say the Devs of RON probably knew about the story somehow. 36:14 Edit: OKAY SO.. The album was called "Along Came about a spider" or something like that, but I feel POSITIVE, That maybe one of the Devs are a fan of Alice Cooper! (Lmao, put that on an Iceberg!)

This video needs an updated version now that all the "hypothetical" missions are real. If only Micheal "Milky Toes" ONLY had an illegal mining operation....

This video is a masterpiece

some things that aren’t included are all the details in the og police station, like the fact it’s a train station or barb the target and the giant bear statue

God bless you man, this is so cool

I think the 2035 missing poster one is to avoid anyone thinking they are real people. I'm not too into the lore tho, so it could be something i'm not sure

the caffeine part: "incredible!"

You need to update this lol, wanna see what you put into the next one since it’s fully released now.

Great video. Subbed! 👍🇦🇺

What soundtrack were you using at 33:00? Love me some somber/melancholy tunes every now and then. Nice video btw.

Nice to add the music from Myst.... didn't expect that.

If you think Ready or Not is Copagand I can immediately guess your politics.

I hope they will implement something like "turning the body cam off" /s

I know that this video is before the full release but if you go into some of the back rooms in the map neon tomb there will be a radio that will talk about spicy fries and is most likely a reference to taco bells fries.

Fun fact about the Venus Project: Look up the Bijlmermeer. They both share parallels, and Venus Project shares the same vibes as some grand utopian construction project meant to solve every problem humanity has ever.

Great video, though as someone who also got to play the old NDA’d builds of the game I can’t say I agree with your source for this video. Whilst there’s elements of truth to what they’re saying they’re being very bad faith, exaggerating, leaving out context, and in some instances lying. They themselves made their bias clear to you at least.

Great video

Awesome Awesome vid thanks so much !!!

IMAGINE THIS They change the story, everything is the same up until the last mission (I haven't completed the game yet I should mention) and after that it moves from a swat thing to uncovering a mystery or corruption that the crazy guy from lethal obsession knows about and mentions during the mission (like when he says him and judge are "stuck in it") and your squad comes with and helps you.

4:00 "vally of the dolls" is an homage to the SWAT4 CAMPAIGN "Children of taronne" which has a similar background also with gra*es of children in the basement below the floor. Really scary if you consider the fact that the game was free to play when 16 y'o "Nightclub" has also been in swat 4 know as "the bomb" if i remember correctly.

6:07 “The ides of march” not tides, it’s a reference to the assassination of Julius Caesar. Quite apt considering the context.

the 2 nouns mentioned around 12:07 are Al Zubahir, one of the hand's leaders. Quademah's right hand man, if i'm not mistaken. and Midi. a village in Yemen, which is the place that America had bombed, and was also Quademah's home. "Have no fear. This night is for Al Zubahir. For Midi. And for all people of Great Yemen."

For me, it just felt wrong to play the "Ides of March" mission, since you're very aware that you are killing veterans. However I'm glad Ready or Not has these kind of disturbing missions, as it's the game's goal to show the reality of swatting.

You need to make another one now! :]

12:10 I took this as the terrorists naming some of the people they knew who were personally killed in the attack.

I sure hope we get more DLC's for this game.

Okay, I just loaded this video and the "context" pop-up is about CLIMATE CHANGE... I can't wait to see how this plays out. LMAO

Alright here we go again!!!

neon tomb and valley of the dolls take place within three days of each other

with the 1.0 release of this game, the eve being janey's mom theory kind of makes sense. on the carriers of the vine level, you have to arrest a suspect named Eve Nader, who left her husband and daughter and has been missing since 2011, maybe she was married to Amos, and found out about the basement and his sick affinity for their daughter, and left to join the cult for revenge? cuz as we see they target abusers, rapists, and other unsavory individuals so maybe theres something there. idk

i need more on carcosa

31:46 To me this is clearly meant to just be YOU, judge is who you play as in the full game and their background being completely blank for you to put in the details

Bro this video got a context page about the un saying that fossil fuels melt icebergs 💀

29:49 wildgoose lol, I faintly remember that guy having a personal vendetta against devs or game People speculated it was probably alt of "Lewd SCP 1471-A" who nuked 30k RoN Discord modding server, just because apparently SIX people said they didn't want the server to stay Don't really trust that alt story, but I wouldn't be surprised, considering Lewd unstable behavior

29:24 So here's what ACTUALLY happened Years ago when i was working on mods for ready or not i was testing custom level data, so i entered in a custom description for one of the levels, simply entering "i hate minorities", this wasn't intended to be seen by anyone, until i started inviting more people to work in the same modding project as me and at some point the level data i edited ended up in an openly downloadable modding preset on nexus. Someone proceeded to download this project, see the text, and bizarrely assume it was put there by Void and not obviously put there by a modder. They posted this to reddit and the controversy happened. Around this time i was still present in some RoN discords and sent a DM to either Guin or one of the devs who's active in the communtiy explaining where the line came from. I do think it is hilarious a small bit of text i put years ago managed to cause a mini controversy. btw, whoever told you 40:00 is misremembering or partially lying, every PvE map had AI and only hotel(old) had broken pathing, there was also numerous updates along with a PvP branch that got tons of updates and was NDA-free, you can look up footage yourself.

Great video! I think the Need Christina isn't referencing a woman, but rater crysal meth, wich Christina is a slang for, as far as I know

The Cycle? oh boy can't wait for Payday's timeline to get a tie-in ;P

NEON to me was almost a shot for shot remake of John Wick... they have the baths where John goes first, the upper levels that both overlook and block view with walls, and the crowded dancefloor that you eventually have to cross to clear

32:55 I have a theory from seeing this Missing picture that it was put out by trolls. Because if you look at the date it's April 2 which obviously next day after April Fools Day.

Lethal obsession was one of my favorite maps as somsone with a future medical degree and a chemistry background.

What? RON mentioned my home country? 41:16, this got even better.

Ready or Not isn’t scared to exhibit the worst of the worst in the world and that’s what makes it special. The missions have so many references and lore everywhere that you feel the claustrophobia and stress. Also wanted to throw this out there, but the achievement for getting an S on every mission is called Medal of Honor and the Ironman achievements The World and The Hermit. What if that’s how you end the loop that you, stuck in purgatory, must go back and fix what you’ve done. If it is Judge, maybe his previous life was just killing in every mission, but if you have mercy and get an S, you exit the loop. Like if you get the S on every mission, you’d be awarded a Medal of Honor and saving your teammates (The Hermit) would cleanse Judge’s soul and forgive his actions in the past. He would be dreaming over and over until he finally breaks the loop and the game just ends. That supposed perfect hit squad might be us, the players, who fearlessly charge into missions knowing we can’t truly die because it’s all a dream. It all makes sense now… but that’s just my take on it. Great vid btw.

I love playing this game with my friend, we are stuck on "23 Megabytes per second", but we got it 😂

Man, what the hell is the OST playing at 34:36, that shit sounds so dark and depressing and fitting for this game's setting, I gotta know what it is.

I enjoyed watching this but I think you missed a few really good opportunities to speculate over what happened in certain missions, in greater detail. Also some minor details that provide important context. For example the "redpill" boxes in the game. They used to say "nogger jogger" or something to that effect, too, but that was removed from the asset for obvious reasons. This was one of many premade assets the devs bought premade to get the game ready for alpha quickly and it was a simple oversight in their haste. No symbolism intended

23:45 If one follows the interconnecting structure of RoN's lore mayby "Eve" referes to "Eve Nader" in " carriers of the Vine". Probably a random thought but it came to mind

Damn, i never thought it would be that deep.

A few notes, not to discredit the video or anything, I think you did a good job on the video for sure. But there are a few points that I should bring up. Voll/brixley have no concrete connection to the russian human trafficking ring, if there was any it would be very loose. While some speculation could be made, the primary import/export made by the russian mob seems to be teenage-adult women. With any younger imports being a small minority/niche exceptions. All of voll's victims are both male and female and seem to be gathered from brixley using his "talent agency" front, and by enticing very low income mothers to willingly give up their children with the promise of large sums of money. The bolton security guards do act more as mobsters than they do "private security" as they are seen acting as loan sharks to get money brixley owes voll. But the individual guards themselves aren't necessarily involved with any of the child exploitation operation directly. It seems the reason they are deciding to shoot at police and such is because 1. voll is compensating them 10 times their normal pay to keep his operation under wraps. And 2. Being associated with the operation is essentially a death sentence trying to win a case in court. And your timeline of events was wrong for valley and data center, the timeline is: ???(Most likely streamer) -> Data Center -> Agency -> Valley While the story has been revealed to an "illegal crypto mining operation" for streamer, data center is also connected to illegal crypto schemes, and the level description for data center could change to reflect that. I think initially it was going to be that you find illicit content on the streamers computer which would lead you to mindjot and so on but I think they changed it to make the crimes feel more varied and less of just "everyone being a pedophile" The reason I think this, is because it definitely wouldn't be the first time they've made major story changes to levels. Take hotel 2.0/sins of the father, the initial story was about 2 gangs having a shootout in the hotel, now it seems to involve a group of secret service/body guards of the senator that have gone rogue. (This is just me adding my own speculation and theory) I also think that the current story for the hand in hospital is a complete red herring. The reason being is that the voice lines in the files suggest that the hand want to kill whoever they're keeping in coastal grove as some form of vigilantism. With lines like "You're going to keep that psycho alive, but arrest me?" and "There is no time for court!"

Are the CGI clips in this vid trailers for the game? I just bought this a week ago and I don't recall any CGI films in-game.

good stuff

Btw Neon Night clubs name change was do to a night club chain called Przm in the UK at least so a copyright infringement and a brand was used so hence the name change I am surprised that an actual night club was watching and possibly play Ready or Not