I need people who have actually played this game - not faggots grifting onto the censorship shit - to give their thoughts on this game
Is it actually good?
I got a few friends I do shit with and we're looking for something to try.
A few of us have played SWAT 4 way back when. Is this a pretty good successor in terms of just wanting more SWAT 4 or is it just hype?
I've looked up a few videos on it and it seems alright but I think I'd trust opinions of people who've played it more
>inb4 asking for opinions on nu!/v/

>>716270140 (OP)
yeah its fun

>>716270268
No explanation just yeah it's good?

>>716270314
yeah i dont have notes. you played swat 4 so you get the gist of it.

>>716270140 (OP)

It's boring.

>>716270140 (OP)
How do I beat ides of march?

It's a universal complaint that the enemy AI are too highly tuned. Drugged up junkies have the same aim as private security companies and ex-military operators

>>716270714
solo?
with luck

>>716270814
Doesn’t sound too bad. Might just be a challenge balance thing.

>>716270140 (OP)
I bought it a few years ago and played like 100 hours right after buying it but haven't touched it since

It's basically SWAT 4 2: Electric Boogaloo, but maybe I'm an old man, but I can't see shit in this game

I have the same issue with Red Orchestra Rising Storm vs Rising Storm 2, on the game with the "good detailed graphics", I just can't notice the characters with all of the level design clutter, same thing with SWAT 4 vs RoN, on SWAT 4 I could just see and tell where all of the targets to potentially shoot at were, and in this game there's several seconds of getting shot at hoping to not die while I figure out where I'm getting shot at from

The fun I have in these games mostly comes from coop, I had more fun on SWAT many years ago than RoN today, but there's plenty of people playing this game that it's easy to get into a fun coop session

My main complaint is "too much visual clutter to know wtf is going on", but maybe that's just a skill issue

>>716270140 (OP)
Yeah I'd recommend it overall especially if you have like-minded buddies that want to be tacticool with you. Only played it a couple times with friends and when they weren't goofing off and actually focused it was a lot of fun. Mostly play it by myself which may not be for everyone, but I enjoy the gameplay and atmosphere. Enemy ai used to be absolute aim/wall botting dogshit, which is a reputation that still follows this game. But imo it's finally at a point where they're challenging, but not outright cheating and one shotting you through four walls from a different elevation.

>>716270714
Dump all the ammo for your sidearm and arm yourself with 6 flashbangs

>>716270954
I turned off a good portion of the graphic settings. It’s a UE game so it’s hiding behind a lot of post process effects.

Its alot of fun.
Difficulty is completely random though. Some games you can clear through a house easy. Others youll have a crack head shoot you down the block from the 2nd floor.
The a.i. is absolutely as bad as people say.

>>716270954
>>716270983
Near. Thanks anons. Any advice for setups or loadputs or just general tips?

>>716270934
its really strange, not in a bad way per se. the game pushes for tactical realism and you feel it in the movements and gear restrictions, but its also fantasical with insane AI reaction times, the fact that theres only 4 swat members against 20 guys in a costco sized environment, no overwatch helicopters or snipers giving callouts.
feels like a glorified aim trainer almost

>>716271130
>play one of the new (old) maps from the most recent update with friends
>we approach the side door
>door has a chance to be opened or closed at the start of the mission and the door leads to a hot area, facing the drop zone
>door is open
>dude fucking snips at us with his soviet shitshooter from 40 yards away and nails us right at spawn
>resatart
>door is closed
>everything goes without a hitch
Clown shoes

>>716271343
You are a swat team in a precinct in a commiefornia shithole do you really think they’d spring for air support?
Pay no attention to the Five-Seven you can pick for your loadout.

>>716271130
I had a suspect bolt from a door, grab a froends shotgun and beat me to death with it. Incredibly fucking dumb but it was funny.

>>716270814
>silent infiltration, no shots yet so no need to rock and roll
>no reports of civilians or potential hostages
>suddenly get shot in the face through the crack of a slightly open door
>suddenly the screen washes out to a khaki brown/tan/yellow and glaring, awful sunlight
>I can hear killswitch engage
>I'm spectating another blue clad operator
>he's frantically trying to defuse a bomb
>another gunshot, from something too big to be called a sniper rifle, something you'd shoot helicopters and lightly armored vehicles with
>he is killed instantly
>TERRORISTS WIN

>>716271165
>LE TELL ME LE EVERYTHING HOW TO PLAY COS IM TOO FUCKING RETARDED TO FIGURE OUT ANYTHING MYSELF
man youre pathetic. imagine being you. I feel sorry for your friends having to be aware of your existence

>>716271454
4 guys to raid a bungalow makes sense, but some if these missions feel really wacky

>>716271756
God forbid I ask someone how they like to play a game and take it into consideration into my own experiance.
Conversations don’t need to be hard, anon.

>>716271880
5 dudes storming a saudi princes yacht is also a little out there but hey you arrive by helicopter that time.

>>716271165
I'm no pro at the game, but in general the guns put enemies down like they ought to, so much of that is personal preference outside of using handguns/smgs vs rifles on enemies with body armor. You're going to always want at least one person with a mirrorgun so you can snoop before kicking down doors and check for tripwires. If you want to get the highest rank on a mission you need to bring everyone in alive, and the non-lethal weapons can be a bitch to use on some missions. All the gear is unlocked, only cosmetics have to be earned, so you can fuck around with weird builds from minute one.

>>716270140 (OP)
Should I play version of the game before the july patches/dlc? I heard it makes the AI much worse

>>716272492
Current version is fine.
Some changes are a bit contentious but overall it’s fine.

>>716272454
>need to non-lethal everything
Is this as much of an ass pain as it sounds?
I’m thinking like Deus Ex Human Revolution non-violent where it’s better but they only give you like two guns for non-lethal.
Ir do they give you attequate tools?
I saw the game has peperspray but how useful is that really?

>>716270140 (OP)
Is it good?
It's like Swat 4 with the Elite mod installed, crispy graphics, and more firearm porn. In coop it's great if you're into tactics shooters and seeing which of your friends would be the first to turn off body cams.

E-celebs ruined the surprise but some of the levels are unsettling and a lot more true to life than you might think.

As a tactics shooter focused on Swat, it's the only one worth talking about and it is the best in the genre since Swat 4 and Rainbow Six.

As a game it still feels unfinished. The storytelling is all very gamified in the sense that it isn't just buried but it would be like if Dark Souls had no dialogue or characters and the only thing you had was random item descriptions, usually one every couple hours, to tell you what RoN is "about".

I'm fine with that, but if you were expecting your squad to be more than bullet-catchers, it's not really there. It also gets a bit schizo, but considering the List, the sex trafficking ring of cultist sex pests is probably true to life.

>>716272492
The current version has way less of the "crackhead is a SOF PJ in a bit of a rough spot" style of enemy AI that prior versions had. It definitely feels like the newest versions differentiate the enemy groups better.

>>716270140 (OP)
>not faggots grifting onto the censorship shit
Censorship is bad thoughever, and it dealt a major blow to the atmosphere of the game

>>716272731
Even more of a pain in the ass. There are many missions with long range engagements, or situations where you're separated by a window and shit out of luck if the guy with an actual gun shoots first. But S ranking missions is not really a fun way to play, and only rewards you with some extra lore and cosmetics. There's a taser, pepper spray, and a pepper paintball gun, but they are super unreliable, so a beanbag shotgun is your best bet if you really want to do a mission that way. Just don't shoot the beanbag at the head, because it will kill them anyway. Honestly with the content in half of these missions, you'll probably want to slaughter most of them anyway.

>>716271165
Don't worry too much about loadouts too much at at first and experiment with gear. Ditto for score or ranking until you play a good bit.

>>716272731
It can be a pain since some hostiles will resist several pepper ball shots or flashbangs. You do get two pepperball launchers I think, and beanbag shotguns to use too. Pepperspray and the taser are fun, but not that good to use for crazier missions.

>>716272731
It is but you don't need to do non lethal cause rank doesn't matter. Yeah you need s to unlock cosmetics but it doesn't matter. If you want to kill everyone you still clear the mission. Just cause you can do it non lethal doesn't mean you have to.

>>716273245
No one is defending it, but it doesn’t kill the game.

>>716272957
You should be able to kill the fat furry fuck that phishes kids and has anime shit every where on him livestream and have it not decrease rank.
Shit game.

I like it a lot, but sometimes I get dropped almost instantly so my squad mates lose morale and I have to start the mission again. I think the morale needs to be reworked a bit more but that could be a skill issue on my part.

>>716270140 (OP)
If we must compare it to SWAT 4 vanilla + Stechkov, RoN is pretty much that except made by uninspired zoomers.

Remember that level with the kids buried in the basement? Very shocking. Devs were also impressed so every single level is that now 'are you spooped yet' nonsense, and the story tries too hard to do some kind of big conspiracy that just adds up to
>CIA is ruining California

Based on that premise, the missions are absolutely idiotic, and you'll face opponents you have no business facing. Most random people will open fire on your team with automatic weapons like indoor security, FBI agents, SWATting victims, literal whos, nurses, hotel staff, VIP protection, secret service, druggies. Everyone will engage you violently and with skill of a navy seal.

Even hostages prefer to flee you and do various fake-outs to provoke you into shooting them, up to running off to the hostage takers when they spot you. Victims of a mass shooting will actually do a fake-out animation of drawing a gun, but with a smartphone, just to fuck with you.

Equipment is just M4A1 ten times over, and bringing anything other than armor piercing ammo to take out random gas station robbers is suicide, and they will punch through your plates with their pistols.

General design, visual and audio, is much worse, AI tactical control is clunky, and writing of briefings is disgusting - it omits the crucial details to tell that the boy dindu nuffin before he decided to shoot up the place. Your team is randomly generated nobodies with no personality, that go literally crazy and you need to swap them out every other mission or they quit and kill themselves.

That said, since its a modern game, it has more detail and higher resolution environments, with an entire separate dev being tasked to 'spook up the place' and leave random clutter they call 'environmental storytelling' bits around.

They also nickel and dime you for every 1-2 maps, and throw in another set of M4A1s with every DLC.

>>716271130
>The a.i. is absolutely as bad as people say.
It's always gonna be the reaction times and accuracy for me (shout out to the cult of old women who are all inexplicably John Wick). Tell them to put their gun down and they do the no way copper song and dance, and if they decide to draw, in what seems like a fraction of a millisecond they've raised it and put one straight through your eyeball.
I ended up just abusing gas for the whole game to avoid it.

>>716270140 (OP)
I think so. What got censored again?

>>716270140 (OP)
It's censored trash and you have no spine.

>>716270714
Always leave a team in the isle to watch your back because the fucks run around.

nvm, this is a shitty marketing thread

>>716271165
Don't bother with buckshot. Buckshot is for people who like to die after shooting three rounds in a guy twenty feet away only to get headshot with a block.

Go slug round, turns out cartel members aren't clay pigeons and you actually need some stopping power ro make them not shoot you in the head with a glock.

>no sniper
>no commanding SWAT AI through cams
>removed maps
>removed game modes
>censored due to console
>uncensored mod is not allowed on nexus and VOID won't allow it on mod.io which they control
>actively banning mods
>AI snaps to your head at every sound you make and holds the angle
>AI bullet penetration can penetrate concrete, you cannot
>SWAT AI still refuses to follow orders and is EVEN worse since the console update
>Evidence still falling through the floor making it impossible to recover
>Cut the game by 30 GB+ for console and the graphics have been "optimized." Current downgraded graphics are a "bug."

>>716270140 (OP)
Yes, it's a good game. Fun single player and with friends.

>>716270140 (OP)
Censored

>>716271880
Off the top of my head
>a major postal center and adjoining parking lot
>A two floor car dealership and neighboring garage shop
>a whole fucking college building
>A PORT AND WAREHOUSE WITH 3 DIFFERENT OFFICES AND A MAZE MADE OF SHIPPING CONTAINERS
>the Karen Compound with dungeon and church in the back.
>the three flop houses with starter catacombs
>the actual catacombs
>the hotel from life aquatic

>>716277204
>Be void interactive
>Be talentless hacks
>Fill every single mission with grotesque nonsense like every suspect practicing some sort of pedophilia drug addiction mutilation nonsense
>Get told to remove it because its in bad taste, comply because you're moneygrubbing tards.
>Even bigger tards on v bemoan 'censorship' because they can't see a baby having a seizure in their videogame (why was it there?)
>>716277282
There's also that part where they send you to pick a fight with squatters and it turns into violent gunfight with multiple fatalities including perhaps yours, for little stated reason other than 'to shake things up for you LOL'.

other than the censored shit and the visual downgrade (apparently? didnt play the game after the changes anyway) the game is good. takes a while to get used to ordering your squad to do shit, but after you get the gist of it its pretty neat.
campaign mode is ass, dont bother.
>t. picrel

>>716270140 (OP)
its good, i s ranked every mission and played through them many times
unlocking the cosmetic gave a good loop for a while but after that, the overall games pretty short.
it has some bs moments that could be polished but overall was fun and intense

Why are there no recent feature complete, single player tactical shooters with a full campaign? They're all either in early access or multiplayer, sometimes both. Like we had so many in the early 2000s and now they're just gone

>>716277584
>the visual downgrade (apparently?
The game went from looking somewhat good to looking like they dropped the resolution to 720p. The lighting and shadows are also completely broken. A bunch of LODs are completely broken so the model stays in its super low detail form no matter how close you get to it.
They claim its all due to a bug, but I'm 100% convinced that this is all just shit they had to do to make it run at an acceptable framerate on consoles. They don't want to add more fuel to the fire by admitting that though, so they are going to just pretend its a bug and hope people forget what the game used to look like by the time the next DLC comes out.

>>716279235
Because the audience for tactical shooters wants to play with other people.

>>716270140 (OP)
I finished this quite recently
Am a poorfag so I pirated it and played solo thru all mission + DLCs
It was good, very much like SWAT 4 but some features are absent like being able to control snipers or giving orders remotely from bodycam
Overall, a solid game overall tho cant comment much on difficulty since I played on normal with AI teammates

>>716270140 (OP)
I played it solo
It was fun, just remember to check with mirror gun and utilise flash bangs

>>716277584
its a visual and environmental downgrade.
they stripped out 30gb of code and assets.

>>716279493
>>716279986
30?! I thought the game was like 50 total? did they accidentally remove any textures over 720p?

>>716280693
90gb.
the devs officially are claiming they compressed things down to 60gb, but when so much functionality environment interactions, and lighting is lost and simplified, it looks more like they compressed some and tore out other stuff.
basic stuff like being able to shoot out lights is gone, from the casual glance I took.

>>716280937
jeez.. well, fuckit, i guess i'll play it in like a month or two when they patch this shit up at least

>>716281072
I wouldn't hold your breath. VOID takes forever to patch things. The last patch was more than 7 months ago.

>>716277563
a baby having a seizure in their videogame (why was it there?)
Cause it's edgy dark and gritty, it's hard to find brutal games like these anywhere and now this one is pozzed and ruined, they removed the appeal of the game yet consolé fags bought it en masse, fuck console faggots

>>716270714
I get away with tear gas a lot and yelling at everyone until they're cuffed. Don't go through any space that leaves you wide open and cover every corner.

>>716281072
if you are looking to play single player go for an older version of it, if you can.

>>716270140 (OP)
The gunplay seems a bit off because enemies often don't respond to being shot
>But they were adrenaline ridden junkies!
Not all of them.

AI however is really bad. Suspects usually running through the wall to escape your line of sight, the pathfinding is really bad they had to make them noclip through walls.

Performance is dogshit even on my 3080

It's serviceable for SWAT alternative at least.

>Makes your game easier

>>716270140 (OP)
>a few of us played swat 4
Why haven't you discovered this game sooner??? The censorship is gay, and implies their future projects will be neutered for the subhumans. Aside from that, it's a pretty good game until you've beaten every level too many times, even with buddies. At that point, it's a bit boring, especially when you know all the potential ai spawns.

Doing challenges/achievements give it a bit more oomph, though I have not done commander mode because I think the squad ai likes to get themselves killed in stupid fucking ways.

But hey, if you liked swat 4 and want a change in environment, this should be considered. Just find a mod that reverts the useless changes and not from nexuscuckmods, because this game puts in the atmosphere that these are realistic scenarios... Until they weren't.

>>716270140 (OP)
its fun but poorly optimized
>feels nice and tactical
>sim elements are well done, sights have an offset, caliber matters
>getting shot at, not hit, shot at, disorients you to fuck and slows you down. You cannot run into heavy fire, need to approach things succintly
>very good for multiplayer cooperation: because of opportunity cost with the long tactical slot, if the whole team takes mirrorguns to not have to communicate what they see, you miss out on great items like the shield or long launchers. Game incentivizes having a "team leader" that communicates and direct the rest of the squad
or the other hand though
>some elements are limp. You'd maybe expect more de-escalation or more surgical ways to deal with suspects, but a lot of the time just having a gun out is fine enough
>HORRIBLE optimization. some parts of the game dip to sub 60 fps because of baked in effects
>AI art, a lot. Take it or leave it
>AI is on training wheels and it shows. Sometimes they'll be able to hit you where you can't hit them back and will snipe you dead for just peeking a door. A little too good sometimes but not gamebreaking. Still feels terrible to get hit across a room and down a floor because the angle was just right

>>716282360
that image hurts, anon.
thats how I feel about every damn bethesda game

>>716270140 (OP)
Faggot devs that will straight up remove content
Remember all the extra gamemodes you could play? Well screw you they're gone

>>716282360
>The censorship is gay, and implies their future projects will be neutered for the subhumans.
this is the worst part, anything release after you won't be able to unfuck with an uncensor patch because because there won't be an uncensored version

that new map they added with the dead cop strung up has him still completely dressed with just some blood on his face, thats the kind of weak shit were going to be getting going forward

>>716270714
Don't bring any ammo for your pistol. Use the extra slots to carry more gas grenade and always throw one before you enter any room.

>>716270140 (OP)
Well
I'm surely skipping it

>>716282149
I fucking hate how these realistic shooter add a .50 AE on their rooster and it somehow being OP gun despite being impractical IRL. insurgency also have a magnum pistol and its more powerful than a 7.62 semi auto DMR at long range. it's absurb.

>>716270140 (OP)
It's alright. Most missions feel kind of samey though. It always boils down to "these guys are doing some pedo shit and they somehow have 20 armed dudes guarding the location".

There should've been more missions like the beach house one, the gas station, the meth house, the schizo in the woods and the feminist cult. The hotel one is cool but the rest feels more like military operations. While cool the DLC missions also feel more like something the military would do rather than SWAT.

But the devs are massive faggots and would rather censor their game and take consolefags money while giving the finger to their already existing playerbase.

>>716270140 (OP)
>Trained tier one swat operatives get absolutely spooked by gunfire and can't handle the recoil of a mere 5.56
>Tumblr redditor witch Karens is unfazed by suppressive fire and can handle a full auto 7.62 M14 like it's 9mm.
It's fucking absurd how powerful the NPC are with their rifle as they always full auto it no matter who they are and what they use with better accuracy than the players despite the "realistic" setting.

Then there's the lightning. I can't see shit. To the oldfags in this thread it's not you getting old, the game has fucking horrendous lightning. Everything is a blurry foggy mess as if the devs never saw what real life looks like in their life.

>>716290426
>the feminist cult
I hated that mission the most along with the rogue secret service one. It just way too unrealistic. I will believe some random streamer have multiple gangbanger as his bodyguard than some feminist witch cult types able to handle guns and didn't cry and piss themselves the moment swat arrived on their compound. It should've been either a cartel torture compound or just classic racists redneck cult thing.

>>716290840
I guess. Focusing less on the suspects and more on the general setting of the mission. I like the compound.

The furry pedo streamer having a bunch of nigs protecting his ass is also kind of retarded. To be honest, most of the suspects in the game don't make sense.

Didn't really get totally ridiculous until you get to the club mission and there's literal piles of bodies on the dance floor. Whole game just feels over the top.

>>716270140 (OP)
depends on what you're looking for. i'm an autist too into actual SWAT stuff and the whole shadow PMC SEAL nigga escalation just doesn't sit well with me. it's okay if you download a bunch of mods for your uniform/guns/enemy AI but yeah, good luck convincing friends to download all of that instead of scorechasing and pulling teetht to nonlethal a fucking terrorist attack. friendly AI can be too good sometimes, too, and you end up just telling them to go in while they kill everything

>>716290840
I love the cult level so much I wish there was a tactical shooter that was full of levels like that
Where the fuck are the horror/occult themed tactical shooters

>>716291081
>you get to the club mission and there's literal piles of bodies on the dance floor
Except that shit actually happened IRL and was done by one dude. The only thing that different is the club on the game is a heterosexual club so you could feel more sympathy towards them.

>>716291081
>To be honest, most of the suspects in the game don't make sense.
I agree, the suspect of this game doesn't make sense and clashed way too much with the "realistic" gameplay and atmosphere.
>Server security guards
>Secret services
>Witch karens
>Climate activists
>Celebrity bodyguards
They were trying too hard to be unique and different it ended up incongruent and absurd.

I like the terrorist missions the most, they were actually fun and make senses. But there are only 2 of them.

>>716293839
>Server security guards
Hired because said servers were hosting CP and their compound had been raided multiple times by people claiming to be cops
>Secret services
Members of the Left Behind, aka disillusioned veterans and servicemen, considering the state of politics in RoN it's not hard to see why
>Witch karens
Cultists who captured rapists and killed them, a bit farfetched in presentation but not unheard of, "rape/revenge" is a whole genre in itself
>Climate activists
Ecoterrorists once shot a French nuclear plant with RPGs, it's kind of a miracle modern ecoterrorists are so limp wristed given the apparent stakes
>Celebrity bodyguards
A celebrity who was the major figure of a pedophile group that likely goes all the way to the top, of course he arms his security
On top of all that this is the US, everyone has a gun

I don't really get why people are so weirded out that things have escalated since SWAT4 days.
The criminals became better equipped and emboldened and the police flip from underfunded to overfunded every race riot; America got worse.

>>716276140
There is nothing wrong with censorship. I just want to know if the game is good or not, but it must be pretty damn good seeing how it make chuds melt down

sidegrade besides graphics to SWAT 4, inferior to R6 3.
Best tacticool game in VR though (Tacitical Assault is fucking shit unless you're in a john wick type mood because the AI has 0 reaction time)

>>716270140 (OP)
pirate it and try yourself
you just wanted an excuse to post this censored cesspool didn't you?

The people who actually played the game are the ones, quote, "grifting about the censorship shit". Because they actually know what was changed and why the devs are retarded.

>>716270140 (OP)
played for years, off and on

it's good. censorship aside, as per your op, it's in the best place it's ever been as far as i'm concerned. things have been rebalanced to make the game more fun, we have more nonlethal options, lethal is *very* lethal and everything just feels great to use.

gameplay wise, it's stoner cod. me and the guys get fuckin plastered, stoned etc and go shoot crackheads. it's good fun, and since the pacing is so slow, we tend to do alright. plenty of A grades hit off a few edibles.

graphics are... there. nothing wrong. nothing stylistically spectacular either. it's boilerplate realism, and it only has a weird kind of grunge and lighting to distinguish it at all from other games.

levels are well designed, but be prepared for a very stout learning curve for some of them. you'll find 2 or 3 maps that you really enjoy, and the others you'll barely play on because they're so fucking complicated to learn. the maps are skewed toward the large end given the player's movement speed (glacial, bumped to molasses at low ready) so if you miss something it's a slog to backtrack.

mods are good but currently broken because of multiplat release. an absolutely essential mod is for uncapping player count. i forget the name, it's not hard to find, but it removes the 4 player max and lets any number of people go in. 4 men is barely even a fireteam, but when you have 6+ guys all on discord call moving through a map designed for max 4 it gets really fun.

TLDR, buy it if you have friends who want to play it. i've never once queued in matchmaking, never will. i run solo or with friends.

>>716270140 (OP)
It's tough, but fun. Ironically, it's likely harder with a friend since you lose the AI squad (if they haven't changed it), but working with a friend to clear closets and under beds in a crackhouse is good fun. Also, the guns feel good.

>>716271165
bullets suck - use slugs or SMGs to fling more of them faster

take at least one nonlethal. too many missions have one magical bullshit man you need to keep alive for a good score. you could have a taser, pepperball pistol, rely on handgun+shield for lethal and use beanbag shotgun primary, all are perfectly valid.

USE STINGERS. as many as you can. i usually have no less than 4 throwable, sometimes i end up being grenadier and bring like 10+ stingers and a couple AR mags only. it's stupid fun making every crackhead in a room tip over while the homies subdue them or just blow their heads off.

light armor is meta so you can carry more shit. the line between "i got winged" and "i am dead" is so thin in this game, it's not even worth walking, just go light and accept that shit is lethal so you can take more with you.

riot shield is absolutely goated. your actions are restricted, and eventually you'll be blind because the plexiglas cracks, but it will block pretty much everything and it gives you enough time to land a lethal shot. you can also clutch for your teammates more often than not, many a run has been saved by my dumb ass camping a doorway with a shield.

>>716272492
god no. ai is better, weapon balance is better, you get a mommy milkers launcher (that south african revolver one), it's the best the game has ever been from a gameplay standpoint. it sucks that they dulled the game's classic edge, but whatever. gameplay is rock solid.

>>716290181
mk-v is nerfed by recoil, range, and capacity. it's basically meant to make riot shield clearing more viable, which is really cool. if you miss it does nothing, but one round to the chest will drop basically anything unarmored and headshots are a guaranteed kill. at most, in a reasonable loadout, you'll have 28 rounds *total*.

>>716270140 (OP)
>Is it actually good?
yes, it's hard though, very punishing
>Is this a pretty good successor in terms of just wanting more SWAT 4 or is it just hype?
it's neither. despite the devs clearly trying to make swat 4 but nu, the game manages to be less fun and charming than swat 4, but it does feel way more realistic, violent, difficult, although the teammate ai isn't much better (we haven't really made much progress on that in 20 years)

>>716295839
oh also comparing it to swat 4, less lethal feels much worse, and enemies are so fucking ruthless that i pretty much never use it in this game. in swat 4 i would use stingers/flash and beanbag shotgun for the whole campaign pretty much. in this game you're better off just fucking killing everybody

>>716270954
>I can't see shit in this game
i agree but i kind of like it most of time, it feels scary, except for when you're looking for evidence, then it feels annoying

>>716270140 (OP)
the "censorship" is effectively nothing
you can still turn somebody's head or any one of their limbs in to an unrecognizable pile of gore with a round of buckshot and splatter their brains on the wall, you just can't further mutilate corpses which would only amuse children for 5 seconds anyway, and the computer screens and pictures obviously alluding to child porn and prostitution have only been censored for consolecucks.
As for the game, if you like SWAT 4 you'll love it, it's the same thing but better, it's not dumbed down in any way, it's actually more complex both in how you can give orders to the AI guys and in the gunplay and the behavior of the crackheads.

>>716294602
>On top of all that this is the US, everyone has a gun
if anything it's surprising there aren't more random bystanders who whip out their grandpappy's revolver and make the situation even more chaotic

>Hired because said servers were hosting CP and their compound had been raided multiple times by people claiming to be cops
>Members of the Left Behind, aka disillusioned veterans and servicemen, considering the state of politics in RoN it's not hard to see why
Secret service has their own high paycheck and family to take care of. They won't just abandon that unlike the average combat veterans that got nothing to lose. The hotel mission should be the veterans simply overwhelming the secret service and took the family hostage.
>Cultists who captured rapists and killed them, a bit farfetched in presentation but not unheard of, "rape/revenge" is a whole genre in itself
IRL rape/revenge are always done by the male relatives of the victim.
>Ecoterrorists once shot a French nuclear plant with RPGs, it's kind of a miracle modern ecoterrorists are so limp wristed given the apparent stakes
Back in the day most European terrorist were funded and armed by USSR. Even the terrorist that did the rocket attack that you mentioned was armed by the communist terrorist cell of Belgium, which again got their weapon and funding from USSR. the collapse of Soviet union means no one fund eco-terrorist anymore.
>A celebrity who was the major figure of a pedophile group that likely goes all the way to the top, of course he arms his security
Those types were whims either they don't ever got touched by the cops or they immediately surrender and throw everyone under the bus in the court instead of making a last stand.
>On top of all that this is the US, everyone has a gun
>I don't really get why people are so weirded out that things have escalated since SWAT4 days.
>The criminals became better equipped and emboldened and the police flip from underfunded to overfunded every race riot; America got worse
No one complained about that, it just we should've fought more gangs and cartel instead of wacky bullshit that we fought in the game.

>>716296051
There's a toggle in the settings to highlight evidence because people complained about that

>>716281673
>a baby having a seizure in their videogame (why was it there?
Its not uncommon for a child with severe mental problems in crackhouses, either because of mother's living there taking drugs whioe pregnant or them medicating the child with illegal drugs whenever it needs things like food or attention. So seeing a kid having seizures in that sort of environment is not uncommon. It was one of those things in the game that was clearly taken from real life, just like streamer tards being criminals and pedophiles or sleeping bags in bath tubs.

>>716290840
>It should've been either a cartel torture compound or just classic racists redneck cult thing.
Every level had weird schizophrenic wall drawings about humanoid figures. I thought there was going to be a big reveal about that or something. I suppose the port level having the freaky sex slave auctionhouse was what it was implying. Then you have the porn king having the room sized collage dedicated to a little girl.

>>716291292
It reminded me of baywatch episodes when they did something way above their authority or expertise.

>>716270140 (OP)
Enjoy your ps2 game...

1 million copies sold on console btw look it up

>>716297760
Wonder if it was worth throwing out all the goodwill for. Hope they know how to invest, but seeing how retarded they are I doubt it.

To be honest I kinda wish they'd gone with the multiple missions storyline for each case like how Payday 2 has multiple stages that make up for a single heist.
>Pedo case contains missions like the pedo streamer and the mansion
>The drug case contains the gas station mission to the border mission
etc

>>716297704
Please be nice, that was modelled by an Indian, he didn't know what toilets look like

Censorship and downgrade aside, the two new maps are great. They should keep making maps small like these

it's not as good as swat 4 and it's too milsim tactical for its own good but it can be good. only get it if you want to play with people. the console patch broke a lot of stuff, introduced a ton of new bugs and did a huge visual downgrade on lighting, models, level geometry and similar assets. they mentioned the censoring but now the visual downgrade before the patch. it's in a worse state than it has been in a long time so i'd wait before getting it

>>716270140 (OP)
No it's shit, play Swat 4 instead. Devs don't understand good game or mission design.

>>716297930
They're not organised neatly but there are clear arcs for the missions, 23 Megabytes still leads to The Spider to Valley of the Dolls to Hide and Seek, and there are hints of interconnectedness in the other missions (Carriers of the Vine's prime suspect was former FBI and was targeting Voll)
But I think the disjointedness adds to the story, struggling to keep track of everything as time passes is part of the greater struggle and chaos that is rotting Los Suenos to its bones, despite the good you can do you're still fighting a losing battle because there's just too much shit going on

>>716271454
Are you fucking retarded? The LAPD is so fucking overfunded its ridiculous. They have 3 helicopters for every fucking vehicle on the ground. Shut your fucking mouth.

>>716297329
>I thought there was going to be a big reveal about that or something.
>I suppose the port level having the freaky sex slave auctionhouse was what it was implying.
Well yeah, that was the big reveal, the Spider group from all the previous pedophile missions and Lethal Obsession/Carriers of the Vine leads up to a big sex trafficking operation that FISA calls in for you to not look too deeply into it, which is the bigger "reveal" that the glowies are likely compromised (and water is wet)
The unrelated drawings in Twisted Nerve and Dorms are just actual drug addled schizophrenia

>>716270140 (OP)
Especially with friends definitely recommend. Its a lot of fun. Its pretty much on par with Swat4, only autists say otherwise. That said, the censorship stuff still grinds my gears because I already purchased the product. The idea I can buy a product and then have them retroactively pussify it is complete bull shit and I won't be buying anything from that company again.

>>716298932
The irony being that they are both overfunded and hamstrung and understaffed. The whole [recent events] thing resulted in a lot of LAPD layoffs because the department couldn't pay all the overtime.

>>716299760
Lmao so it goes

Is it true the MC is an MKUltra experiment?

>>716296190
>Secret service has their own high paycheck and family to take care of.
RoN takes place in a reality where things are bad enough that veterans are organising into terror cells, and even IRL it's no secret that if things got bad enough most organisations would be compromised by sleepers
>IRL rape/revenge are always done by the male relatives of the victim.
Hence farfetched, but the cult leader is also former FISA so the Carriers are better coordinated than your average cult/front (though maybe not as organised as the South Korean government was)
>Back in the day most European terrorist were funded and armed by USSR.
There are ingame hints that UPF are being backed by a third party by the time of the Lawmakers mission, and ecoterrorists like ELF were active until 2009-2012
>Those types were wimps
Again this is a reality where these people are emboldened, it'd be a pretty boring "arrest pedophiles" mission if it played out normally (though how many elite pedophile firefights would we even hear about even on /pol/)
>it just we should've fought more gangs and cartel instead of wacky bullshit that we fought in the game.
Remembering that SWAT4 had
>Christian fundamentalists (Mt. Threshold)
>Korean commandos (St. Michael's)
>American Paramilitary (Old Granite Hotel)
>Cultists (Taronne)
>Citizens Against Satanic Music (Sellers Street Auditorium) (Stetchkov)
With a smaller mission count, I'd say RoN still strikes a decent ratio, but the interconnectedness of the missions might make seem like they have more of a presence
I don't think the variety of missions and threats is the big issue /v/ makes it out to be sometimes

>>716301367
The missions are all fun but someone said some of them fit more of a millitary operation, and not a SWAT one, which I can agree with.

>The original Rainbow SIx trilogy allowed you to bring up to eight guys on mission, split them into multiple teams, and freely switch between them in a moments notice
>For some modern day tactical shooters haven't been able to replicate this

>>716270714
Use wedges, don't get flanked. Go top to bottom.

>The original Rainbow SIx trilogy allowed you to bring up to eight guys on mission, split them into multiple teams, and freely switch between them in a moments notice
>For some reason modern day tactical shooters haven't been able to replicate this

>>716302786
unironically small indie company

When is the last dlc where the precinct gets assaulted

>>716302303
Fair, but I'd say that's part of the point RoN is trying to make, the police are having to punch above their weight because the situation in Los Suenos/America is deteriorating rapidly and they just have to fill in from time to time
A tactical shooter where you played as two different teams, SWAT and military, in the same game could be fun, but I suspect the reason why they let you customise with so much army-looking gear is they just wanted to focus on one project, even if they might have cast too wide a net for some people
If they put out another game with more of a military operations angle I would've been keen before all this censorship bullshit
>>716302513
Glad you could replicate your post

>>716303030
>Glad you could replicate your post
Minor spelling mistake
Please understand

>>716297329
The collage was dedicated to her own daughter. He was looking really forward to her 18th birthday...

>>716270140 (OP)
>Ready or not suspiciously censors their game right before visa and mastercard start assraping everyone
Who thinks they were warned by their three letter partners/consultants?

>>716303208
>Their LAPD consultants knew about Steam pulling hentai games down because of Australian moms

>>716303208
>You find the cargo crate full of NSFW itch.io games
>VISA tells you to shut the doors and let them handle it
>You can't complete the mission until you comply

>>716294743
>There is nothing wrong with censorship
Female hands typed this.
Also
Fuck off newfag

>>716303376
Someone should hack those fucking bitches and their retarded karen org.

How is Creepcast consistently so good and funny? Even if it's obvious that Hunter pulls stories out of his ass a lot.

>>716303714
Wrong thread senpai

>>716303208
That’s sort of what I gathered honestly.
I don’t know how they would have known, but it’s a bit too much of a coincidence isn’t it?

>>716299259
I thought the schizo babble drawings were all about the MK Ultra shit that exists in that world.
Isn’t one of the things you can read into that MK Ultra was actually succesful?

>>716270140 (OP)
>I need people who have actually played this game - not faggots grifting onto the censorship shit - to give their thoughts on this game
>Is it actually good?
Nope

>>716304460
What'a the right thread? I assumed this is a thinly veiled eceleb thread bc of that recent wendigoon video.

>>716304680
I don’t watch eceleb shit

>>716303376
Why do you assume their "LAPD consultants" have anything to do with the matter and simultaneously implying that's their only insight into what's going on in the business?

>>716304926
I could see someone at Steam giving them the heads up about the ban but the way you phrased it made seemed like some dude at FBI tipped them off about it

>>716304608
There are hints of that too, the Mariposa Lily Organisation and their butterflies are all over the place, but there are other groups operating simultaneously as well, or at least we don't know what their relationship is with the Spider (but given the relationship of butterflies and spiders in nature...)
But some of the schizophrenia is just schizophrenia, I think there might be a butterfly in Twisted Nerve but the Dorms are just LSD madness, AFAIK
That's the trouble with MKUltra, if you rely on LSD, you're going to get LSD results regardless of whether you get anything valuable out of it

>>716275096
>security
paid to shoot at you, gives up most of the time
>FBI agents
the FBI agent in the mailroom is working with the cartels
>SWATing victims
The streamer house has a CP server in it
>nurses
The Hand members pretending to be doctors to blend in
>hotel staff
No?
>VIP protection
see above
>secret service
hated the politician for cutting VA funding, as they were all vets too

did you actually play the game anon

>>716305262
Hints suggest Judge is an MKUltra sleeper.
What do you feel like that means or implies in the grand scheme of everything going on?

>>716270140 (OP)
It’s shit, every mission is the same garbage
>peak corners and shoot retarded enemies that glitch through walls, don’t even try to escape when cops start raiding, scream through walls when you tell a hostile 3 rooms next to his to get down, horrible character models, 0 progression mechanics, no vehicles, no support team like helicopters, extra unit, snipers, shooting legs, arm, hand does nothing, 0 story but retards like to pretend it has nice lore

It’s fucking trash

>>716306308
>anon lacks reading capabillities

>>716305941
Given that you can find all those hints and make those inferences, it's just as likely that Judge could be aware that he's an MLO asset
If they do follow up on that story thread in the future I wouldn't mind if we're given a choice about whether we become a good guy or stay a glowie, that could be fun
Maybe even lean into the PVP aspect that inspired MLO being a thing in the first place and have the team split up and kill each other at the end of the mission

>>716306456
Me and friends brainstormed thatw e’d like the precinct to become a map if some kind. It’d be cool if you’d do an assault or repel a terrorist assault on it given how the building is layed out.

>>716303376
>Their "LAPD" consultants knew about Steam pulling "hentai" games down because of "Australian moms"
I think what a lot of anons forget, is that even in large organizations like the CIA and FBI, they aren't just a single person, just like /v/ isn't a single person.
It's made up of people, who go to each others bbq's, go bowling, ect... They are as human as you and me, and If I worked somewhere and I knew something was about to go down, would I not warn my friends about it?

>>716308013
Yeah that'd be neat, I'm pretty sure someone made a playable version of the old headquarters so you could fight criminals there, but I'm not sure they've updated it since the latest update
It's somewhere on the nexus, IIRC

>>716308040
>They are as human as you and me

>>716308040
>>716308148
This whole line of reasoning is irrelevant. one corporation is a conglomerate and does not deserve rights. There are human beings in everything and some of them are alright? So what?

>>716270140 (OP)
it's fun if you want something to scratch the SWAT itch, but it's pretty limited. the devs have also been pretty jewy; rushing to a release build, stripping some options, then pushing DLC, and now the latest changes.
they need to add something to give more replayability to the general missions like modifiers to enemies and spawns.

>>716309478
Doesn’t the new difficulty modes have some fucked up changed perameters in it? Like different enemies on maps, placements, etc that isn’t just “you die faster and do less damage”

>>716270140 (OP)
It's fun, definitely close to SWAT 4 in terms of gameplay.
If you liked SWAT 4 you'll probably enjoy this.
Just remember, P90 with laser, no ADS, civilians expendable and were probably involved somehow anyways, or waiting to stab you when you got close.

>>716309895
last time I played was a handful of months ago so there might be some new stuff I'm not aware of, but they used to have different game modes for each map and then they got rid of it for balancing reasons iirc.
the game just needs some more variety in general imo, but otherwise it's pretty fun.

how is this game if played with 1 friend? I pirated the game before and played it solo, but it's a nightmare to get through in certain levels since your AI teammates are retarded

>>716308148
That's the part that freaks me out more than comforts me, honestly. A faceless agency doing shady shit is one thing-at least it’s abstract. But regular people, BBQ dads and fantasy football guys, casually sitting on mkultra files and tipping off devs over beers? That’s way creepier. You expect the monster to wear a suit and shades, not cargo shorts and flip flops.

>>716310435
definitely doable. some runs will be sent down the gutter just from random chance, but you can clear everything with just a two man team.

>>716311393
definitely doable. some runs will be sent down the gutter just from random chance, but you can clear everything with just a two man team.

>>716311393
Perfectly doable but like another anon said, sometimes chance will just fuck you in the beginning.

>>716312538
>>716312661
Anon?

I beat this game Solo and only failed a few missions once, the penthouse, and that hotel one with the VA snipers, then got A rank on the rest except 1.

Last mission was so fucking tense im shocked I even did it one shot

>>716312825
I fucked up and replied to the wrong post.

>>716302786
>>For some reason modern day tactical shooters haven't been able to replicate this
>>716302890
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1621560/Black_One_Blood_Brothers/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc1DnqC9QCI

>>716270140 (OP)
It fuckin sucks..swat4 from 2005 is still lot better game.

>>716270140 (OP)
Swat 4 maps are better. RoN has too many large maps

>>716294602
Holy cope! Stop bro game sucks. Accept that.

>>716315863
I would've been annoyed if the other guy didn't put effort into his thoughtful reply and I just got this kind of post instead, but now I can just enjoy this one for free, thanks

It's decent, but not extremely good. The devs were promising a lot during early access and didn't deliver even half of it. Unfortunately, it's probably the best alternative to SWAT 4 available right now.

>>716270140 (OP)
You complain about grifters but please just pirate the previous version of the game. The new censorship update ruined the graphics, AI (even more so) and the story.

Anyway, RoN at its core is a shockingly good FPS. You can argue for hours and hours about how tactical or how hard a swat sim should be but RoN is just straight up a very intense and very fun experience. Every level has its own vibe and instills different emotions in you as you clear it out and the game just completely locks you into the experience in a way that the old swat games really couldn't, and I really love how although its a swat sim game, it does put you into some cool and very much wanted scenarios like taking on a creepy ass cult town. Also the fact that a tactical swat game actually has good gunplay is a god send.

The problems with RoN start to show up very quickly though, the biggest of them being that the game's ruleset and gameplay context do not change from mission to mission. Regardless if you're just dealing with some dumbass teens robbing a gas station or terrorists who have already killed 200 people, the game always expects you to deal with everything non lethal and it punishes you for trying to be proactive and actually set up and plan your best way of taking out targets.....which is a really big miss step for a tactical game. I would argue that if you wanna get the best experience, using at least the mod that removes ROE for shooting first is an absolute necessity. It makes the game much more fun while making it more tactical as you can actually use your brain to take down a place full of bad guys. I also encourage mods that put more suspects into the mercenary/terrorist maps, it really turns shit up to 11 while not breaking the game in any way.

Ready or Not is some of the most fun I've had with a videogame since 2020, but it has some core issues and modding it is pretty needed. It's too bad the studio and the game's updates are dead.

>>716318117
can you go into the AI? Also what version is the best one.

>>716270140 (OP)
Yes the game is fun, very fun. No, you shouldn't play it because the devs are slackjawed niggers who censored the game for no fucking reason.

>>716318432
just go to fitgirl and scroll to get the latest version before the big console update, which is the best one. The recent update made enemy AI even more schizo and trigger happy regardless of what enemy you're facing, and it also made your friendly AI worse.

Give me a reason not to use the FAL with HP rounds
>reliably 1-taps everything to the chest, rarily 2-taps
>recoil is supposed to be terrible but isnt that bad
I tried using the other weapons, all the stupid AR-15 platforms, the .300 meme caliber ones, even the SMGs, but they all feel like you're resorting to magdumping perps.

Unless they changed shit. Last played December 2024.

Wish milsims such as ARMA would copy RoN peeking free movement (ALT + WASD). Probably the best feature in the game and I would love to see it in more FPS games.

>>716277071
Pvp being removed was a good thing. Fuck PVP niggers

>>716318873
I like using high caliber weapons to turn criminals into mist