Following itsmarkedly successful 1.0 release,Ready or Nothas promptly established itself asthego-to SWAT shooter on PC, and with good reason. Now, with plenty of hotfixes already released and more yet to come, the developer Void Interactive has provided information about the game’s first DLC,Home Invasion.
At this time, we know for a fact thatReady or Notwill receive at least two separate pieces of substantial expansion pack content. The first is the aforementionedHome InvasionDLC, slated for Spring 2024, which is seemingly going to set the stage for the game’s long-term post-launch production pipeline.
“We want to have an accessible approach to our paid DLC, release a free game update parallel toHome Invasionto create a broader ‘Home InvasionRelease,’ and expand upon our in-game narrative in a nuanced, impactful manner,” says Void Interactive’srecent blog poston Steam.
Ready or Not’s Home Invasion DLC is coming sometime this Summer
According to Void Interactive, the plan is forHome Invasionto feature three all-new maps and two new weapons for your SWAT team to utilize on missions. These maps will, unlike the majority ofReady or Not‘s baseline mission set, take the focus away from the main narrative’s interconnected organized crime. Instead, the goal ofHome Invasionis to give players a “nuanced experience that will take you away from the stark darkness of criminal ring activity to a much broader spectrum of disturbing grey.” Grim stuff, either way.
Void Interactive says that it’s important forReady or Not‘s DLC to feel “accessible” across the board, which will be realized in two fairly meaningful ways:
Further, asHome Invasionis supposed to launch alongside a major quality-of-life update, it seems there will be more to the package than it might be immediately apparent. For example, Void says that “all our planned DLC will come with free new base game weapons, a DLC-exclusive player outfit, and new maps,” which appears to imply that there may bemoreweapons being released alongside the DLC, with only two of them being exclusive toHome Invasionowners.
Plenty of questions still up in the air, then, butHome Invasionappears poised to ground the coreReady or Notnarrative which, if we’re being honest,doesstep on its own toes a tad with how incredibly interconnected and conspiratorial the baseline levels all are. IfHome Invasion‘s levels take the stakes down a notch or two and re-settle the action into a more “common” door-kicking situation, that ought to feel pretty fresh.
Void Interactive also revealedearlier this yearthat the secondReady or NotDLC is planned for release sometime this Summer, with the major 1.2 update slated for Fall 2024, so we already have a bit of a roadmap going. IfHome Invasionends up being of a high enough quality, Void’s seminal release may have a very long post-launch tail indeed.
