Ready or Not

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Ready or Not

Developers
	VOID Interactive
Engines
	Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows	December 13, 2023
Reception
Metacritic	79
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, FPS, Tactical shooter
Art styles	Realistic

Ready or Not is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person action, FPS and tactical shooter game.

The game entered early access on December 17, 2021. The full release followed on December 13, 2023.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Official Discord Server

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Developer website		Supporter edition also available.
Steam

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Supporter Edition	No longer available.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Move, rename or delete file
Go to <path-to-game>\ReadyOrNot\Content\Movies. Move, rename or delete ReadyOrNot_StartupMovie.mp4

User Interface Scaling

Editing the Engine.ini file
Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\ReadyOrNot\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor Open Engine.ini in Notepad At the bottom, add the following line: [/script/engine.userinterfacesettings] ApplicationScale=1.35

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\ReadyOrNot\Saved\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1144200/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%LOCALAPPDATA%\ReadyOrNot\Saved\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1144200/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		80-120 (weapon fov can be adjusted by doing so via game slider (will be weapon FOV) and then using Universal Unreal Unlocker software to change view fov)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		No setting for this in-game, may be always on.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Low disables AA, FXAA and TAA
High-fidelity upscaling		FSR 2.0, DLSS 3.1, TAAU DLAA setting for DLSS is not available
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Framerate cap slider in-game allows a maximum of 144 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)		Announced for reflections, shadows, and ambient occlusion, but not available in the current release.
Color blind mode		Protanopia, Deuteranopia and Tritanopia modes are availables.

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Disable film grain

The game has forced film grain but there is no setting to disable this.

Modify %LOCALAPPDATA%\ReadyOrNot\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\Engine.ini
Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\ReadyOrNot\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor. Open Engine.ini in a text editor (if it does not exist, create it). Add the following lines: [SystemSettings] r.Tonemapper.Quality=0

Issues fixed

Low GPU Usage caused by CPU bottlenecking on certain PC configurations

Fix low GPU usage by using DirectX 12 rather than DirectX 11
Disables the ability to use the shader compilation fix

Alleviate or eliminate shader compilation stutter

Force enable shader preloading[citation needed]

Massively improves framepacing during gameplay and alleviates most stutters caused by shader compilation. Does not work with the DirectX 12 version of the game. Also does not work on current AMD RDNA2 systems due to the driver not caching the shaders properly. Can exacerbate stuttering during level loading screens as the CPU is utilized on all cores to 100%. The shader cache has to be compiled again once a display driver has been uninstalled or updated due to the display driver's shader cache being deleted/reset in the update/uninstall process. Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\ReadyOrNot\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\ Open Engine.ini in a text editor. Add the following text as a new paragraph at the bottom and then save the file. [/Script/Engine.RendererSettings] r.CreateShadersOnLoad=1 According to DevBlog Vol.69 the game will receive official PSO caching support in the future.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Can force Steam Input to use Presets that bind keyboard and mouse buttons to controller input.

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Spanish
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		16
Online play		16

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer		Hosting via in-game will start a P2P session.
Dedicated		Official servers hosted by the developers
Self-hosting		Dedicated server software included with game install.
Direct IP

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11, 12	The game uses dx11 if given the command line parameter -dx11, and will otherwise use dx12.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX
Audio	FMOD

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-4430 AMD FX-6300	Intel Core i5-7600K AMD Ryzen 5-1600
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	90 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 AMD Radeon R7 370 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GTX 1060 6 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit system is required.