Recent reviews by Major Duck

lets face it its a CQB game "Ready or Not is an intense, tactical, first-person shooter " where your not suppose to shoot that statement has been lifted from their page on steam.
The last 2 times i have played its not been a shooter its been boring they even yesterday sent out a questionnaire where they asked which weapons we would like to get if we where a police officer that where not suppose to shoot, that might be fun for some people but its not a CQB first person shooter anymore somebody in their marketing department have completely lost the ball.
Sell it as a police arrest maze de-escalation game not a first person shooter where there are military equipment that your not suppose to use.

It was fun when you could use it as a military CQB game but the makers have decided that they want to decide how i play an intense, tactical, first-person shooter without shooting wtf.

You guys need to look at your marketing department.

Hi There

I want to say that i am at a point where i no longer recommend people to buy this game, i am getting real frustrated about it.
Why is that:
The developer is continuing their annoying trend that they Cather more or less only too the pvp community, despite the missing numbers of pvp players as there is only about 200 players online on a normal day where as their former game wargame RD could draw more then that even though they stopped development a long time ago.
They have removed the resupply FOB so if you play COOP against AI you have only a very small amount of resupply and the resupply is the only way to keep defending against the mass attack that the AI do, which by the way issent that far from soviet/Eastern block tactics.
You get a lot fewer units then in RD, you cant make what if scenarios cause the only way to make decks is the "balanced" pvp division decks which by the way is moronic as you never get more then a Battle group / Battalion worth of units anyway.
Artillery in that period was never fired as single guns and seldom as a Battery but it would normally have been fired as Battalion with 18-24 guns at a time as it is a area weapon.
The weapon fire and vehicles is all blurry and don't have the sharpness that we saw in RD fx.
They just recently removed the possibility to take the spawn zones so now there are no possibility to stop them from coming in from specific areas.
The AI are using the Mountain/Wooded areas to go through which in real life is impossible i have been there around Point Alpha and the Fulda Gap and there are no way that you can send Tanks through those hills and mountains.
Where are the long range NATO missiles that where in RD they have only kept the soviet ones.
Another thing that annoys me to no end is that the HMG take down ATGM helos almost out to the max range of both Hellfire and TOW missiles max engagement range , you can literally not engage with Helos from popup positions and even though the cobra had a 20 mm Gatling gun and the Apache a 30 mm chain gun they get defeated by BRDM or BTRs with 14,5mm HMGs
The A-10 is toothless , the bombers either drop bombs that have no effect (HE) or drop bomblets that only work on vehicles even though we all know why they got banned was that they where too dangerous for civilians and therefor foot soldiers, and some of the planes drop bombs from so far away that you don't see them do it
This game is so inaccurate and inconsistent that i will not recommend it to anybody, the game is setup for the quick fix pvp player not anything else, and it is my feeling that the only ones that play it at the moment is the die hard grognards/RD fans , and most of the players that i know of that still play RD or Steel division Normandy 1944 are mostly COOP players the pvp crowd has left that boat long ago.

I like how it is customizable but i don't like that even in version 3 vehicles still have problems with flying all over the place, and i definitely don't like most of the community (like people that runs their clans like a fantasy military unit wtf i come here to have fun not to listen to Privates who couldn't get a promotion irl or issent old enough to enlist yet and believe its the way to go, if people can't be serious when you play they shouldn't be there in first place and if they were old enough and could get a promotion then they have to realise that this isn't the army its a game for pete's sake, take a chill pill , cooperate and have fun).
I don't like all the radio/comms mods that everyone insist on using i was in the army 14 year and i never experienced all the problems and trouble that happen in arma 3 even with the older (ww2 vintage) radios that were originally made in 1935 and used in taxis in chicago.
There also is always trouble with Mods not updating or connecting to each/other.

So yes i like the game but the environment is bad as in way to many immature people trying to relive/experience what they believe is the military experience and have no clue or have a clue and can't relax.
Treat people the way you want to be treated yourself and respect others' opinions and just because they don't always agree with you they are not your enemy until they become hostile.

Update to not recommended
I have grinded my commanders to max skill at 19 at 1750000 or thereabout (12 of the in total 21 mill point) to again get them to max i will need to grind further ⅓ of the points again around 7-8 mill) and if you have few of them then its that much harder so people it is just about the russian oligarch money machine not about your enjoyment because they have made the change so massive it hurts your play and they have of course made it possible to buy the golden bullet for money so where wows before didn't have that golden bullet like in world of tanks they have now found it that's also why i don't play world of tanks even though i am military gamer
old review
Playability:
I really like this game, but i think it has a lot more potential, then what the developers have done until now and they are way to sensitive towards the nerf this nerf that crowd and pricing are way too high compared to other games and combined with what i have written below i am on the fence whether i want to recommend it to others.
and because of the missing potentiel it gets repetitive after awhile.

Random games:
Are fun in the lower tiers but get way to gamey in the higher where there are way to many Admirals who tell everyone how to fight even when they themselves die first, and the price for the higher tiers are way too high.

Coop Games
Fore those that want to learn to shoot , wants to play coop together and i don't understand the limit of 3 guys pr division in coop 5/6 would be a lot better , coop is for guys who are not into the pvp but want to shoot ships together.
I also don't get the limit of 8 players when there are 12 in Random.

Operations
Those are way to though for small clans or single players to finish.
There should be a lot more of them and with different tiers it would be so easy for the developers to quickly expand them by reusing the same operation but change the tiers and types allowed that would bring a lot more variety , to those
Also make operations based on year so if an operation was based in 1943 the only ships launched that year or older would be allowed.
Also let new players play them from tier 3/4 and up.
Make battles were different tiers can meet based on year not tier

Focus
It's pretty annoying to see countries Like Italy , france , Holland , Norway not having there full set of ships.
While we see all sorts of fantasy ships at halloween etc...
And i simply dont get why there has to be so many fantasy ships fx in the Soviet Navy almost everything above tier 6 never existed or existed in the 1950 way after WW2
The US even have fantasy ships like the Denver (Just why) there are plenty to take from (And Midway are a Post ww2 ship)
How about making a setting where you could say i want fantasy ships or not

Classes
Where are the DEs Frigats, sloops, MTBs Submarines and Coast defence ships. Maybe Escort carriers.

DD
Remove that 10% rule please a destroyer that gets 6-8 shells in the face from a BB (406mm) does not exist after that.
Limit the number of Torpedo reloads on DDs

CL/CA
There are a lot of inept ships in the lower tiers but where fx the Dido class or the Manxman class.

BB
Maybe make 2 categories in BBs Fast and Slow like they did in treaties

CV
CVB, CV, CVE and make battles based on that.

Countries
Italy , france , Holland , Norway and UK (Just to name a few) don't have their full set yet and the most ridiculous thing is that the first country with carriers are only getting them now ;-) and then they have been nerfed to the ground and everybody who plays them end up at the bottom of the score list every single time, don't they look at the score data , cause if they did that dataset would be blinking with the warning "red alert".
But that's just the usual when the guys in marketing takes over then we get navies like Pan asia etc.. instead of being true to history , there are more than enough ships from that area that havent been implemented yet, look them up Jane's fighting ships of ww2 is a good place to start.

Clans
There are a lot of tools missing in the clan area like writing mails to people, to get in contact and the description about the clan a way too short.

Pricing
I find it way to expensive for the quality of the game because everything you do cost money. (But i still play it) But i also know a lot of guys that stop playing it after a while because its so expensive and since it's so heavily focused on pvp.

When you play the campaign you get to a german soldier with a bayonett where you just cant get through unless you press a certain combination of keys, this game is not just frustrating its waste of money both in Multiplayer and in campaign.

There is no purpose to the multiplayer other then to keep killing to get your stats up to what porpose ?

and dont get me started on the zombie thing

Simple the best desktop General game i have ever played

the singelmost played game ever

Awesome