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Ready Or Not, the SWAT spiritual successor, is getting console ports. Because of this, the developers have decided to censor the ever-loving fuck out of the game so that it doesn't get an Adults Only rating. Since they only want to work on one version of the game, though, they have opted to censor the PC release as well, to the chagrin of everybody who bought the game.

They'll undoubtedly get more money doing this, but they've lost a lot of goodwill.

All they had to do was add a censorship toggle on PC. It would add some extra work for crossplay, but come on... this is lame as fuck.

@beardalaxy Aren't ratings the same for PC and console? What do they need to censor?

@Jens_Rasmussen Steam allows adult content and the game isn't rated by the ESRB. Games need to be ESRB rated to release on console, and consoles have stricter content limits. They'd only allow an Adults Only rated game if it was going to make them a shit ton of money, like GTA 6 for instance. Maybe not even then.

I don't know too much about the game, but apparently it gets pretty dark with some of the missions.

There is an uncensor mod: nexusmods.com/readyornot/mods/

Here's what it changes:

-Restored the ability to dismember suspects and civilians after death/incapacitation (see the bugs tab for known issues with this)
-Restored Gerard's model to not have underwear
-Restored the Narcos' informant model to not have underwear
-Restored the models on the women on Port Hokan (in the container and in the auction area) to not have underwear
-Map file change to restore the appearance of evidence regarding minors on 23MB/s (by removing the Mindjot papers)
-Map file change to restore the minor on Twisted Nerve to be incapacitated (with the old animation and needle)
-Restored the objective name and descriptions for reporting the evidence regarding minors on 23MB/s (see known issues)
-Restored the objective name and descriptions for reporting the distressed minor on Twisted Nerve (see known issues)
-Restored the objective names and descriptions for reporting the video tapes and dark room photos on Valley of the Dolls (see known issues)
-Also other found changes to other maps/models, etc. if they are found. Please let us know if something was changed by VOID in the patch that is not on this list.

@beardalaxy Master Race being superior without even knowing it, I guess.
@Jens_Rasmussen @beardalaxy I'm curious about what would need to be censored as well. I haven't played the game but I've heard about one mission where you raid the home of a suspected serial killer, I imagine that level gets pretty gruesome.
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