Ready or Not

[parabolica]

Has anyone played this yet? Looks like a fun, co-op SWAT-sim FPS and it's been getting some decent reviews. I didn't realise it was available for console as well as PC; seen a few clips on youtube and looks like a fun game but at £50 for the base I'm on the fence a little; was hoping it would be on GamePass but no luck.

[Mastodon2]

Played it on PC, the AI was awful and I don't know if they ever fixed it. I mean being shot through walls with no warning, the enemy seeing you through the slimmest of gaps and landing a shot that would make an Olympic marksman jealous. In a game where taking one bullet is basically game over, this really hurts the experience. There's no checkpoints, you're starting the mission again. It feels even worse when you're raiding a crack house and the enemies act like ruthless terminators.

Also, the campaign stress mechanic is really, really un-fun. Your squad get PTSD and become sick from stress the more crims you kill, so you're expected to try and take everyone alive unless they present a threat to your life. Ok, it's realistic I suppose, but again, when enemies are doing the 'dropping the weapon slowly' animation then land a snapshot on you or someone in your squad, ruining the mission, it sucks. It's more fun to play it like Rainbow 6 game and just wipe everyone out, but the stress mechanic will cripple you if you do this.

A good concept bur it needed a lot of work and frankly, I don't think a lot of the promised fixes and tuning ever arrived, too busy getting the console ports ready, I presume.