This Ready or Not Theory EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!

The story of Ready or Not feels like you're watching the first stage of a complete societal collapse

"Judge"ment <-- ⭕⭕RoN reference 🤯

30:40 There are no subtitles, but if you turn them on in game, Blue means good like teammates/TOC yellow is civilians and red is enemies. Fisa commander is shown as red.

Despite closing the door, I think Judge is currently on the road to being the good guy. The fact that he even for a moment pushed back on FISA’s orders is, to me, an indication of his ‘programming’ showing cracks. If he was fully gone, truly the robot that the USIA is trying to make, he would have been far more compliant. It wasn’t the clean-cut, measured “Understood” you expect from Judge. It was said with some effort and a venomous contempt. My idea of the timeline is the raid on Gerard happened recently before Port Hoken. I also believe that in that moment, when the FISA ordered them to leave the women behind, David started to look back to what he saw in Gerard’s compound. He’s starting to wake up.

Correction on the ARG! As someone who's working on it right now, it has reopened with proper, refound enthusiasm and passion, and we're going quite fine so far! Would love to see proper coverage of ARG2 as not one person on the team understands a thing being talked about

One of the most realistic dystopias ever

One thing worth mentioning that furthers this theory, in early access pvp lobby screen you can see that Judge has Langley written beneath his name, well Langley, VA is where CIA's headquarters is located

The "Cycle"? Main character who's literally more than meets the eye? Perhaps the real Ready or Not is the Trepang2 that we made along the way.

What if his shows of emotion are just an act? Like when Judge calls out a dead officer, his inital talk to TOC is calm, but when he says "Officer down!" he's actually shouting like he's stressed. Like he's been programmed to communicate robotically, but also to show some emotion when people die, so as to maintain his cover slightly better. These orders clash resulting in that stilted comment.

The theory reminds me of the Judge Dredd universe. For those unaware, it's a comic about a post nuclear world where most of humanity are holed up in these huge "Mega-cities", giant cities that strech across vast amounts of land. In this world, these Mega-Cities are policed, legislated, and ruled by the Justice Department, made up of people called Judges, who literally act as judge, jury, and if need be, executioner. This system was brought about because the pre-nuked world was rifle with crime and chaos, to the point that such a system seemed reasonable. The titular Judge Dredd is actually part of a set of clones of a man called Eustace Fargo, the founder of the Judge system and its first Chief Judge. He was known to be incorruptable and was saw as the perfect person for the position. He largely was, but he grew to love a woman romantically and had sex with her, which is something Judges are not supposed to do, as Judges are meant to be celibate. On his last day of life, he met with young Dredd and his clone-brother Rico, and he explained to them what they have to do and his personal objections to the same system he fostered. Judge Dredd himself, by the time he's an actual Judge, is practically incorruptible and practically allocates all of his life for his duty. What free time he does have, he uses it to study the system or even just to rest, which usually takes five minutes thanks to advanced technology, and yet even he is shown to change across the comic's long history, shifting from a hardcore Judge that doesn't excuse anything, to a still stone-headed yet relatively liberal Judge. Judge's name could allude to the comic and hinting what the hidden powers want for the world, and that these men, however much experimented upon and treated, are still only mortal men, which might be its ultimate downfall.

Based on Port Hokan though Judge is breaking the conditioning when he takes umbrage with the federal agent for ordering him to not help the women in the shipping container

The similarities between RoN and real life are staggeringly similar. Like almost so uncanny and identical that I’m questioning if the game devs at Void are actually people who know some seriously dark info but are prevented from saying anything due to NDA’s or an oath they swore to secrecy… and RoN is actually just their indirect way or warning everyone

Thanks for watching! A few notes I have on the DLC, now that I’ve played it. I was actually wrong about the rich people in the mansion! They seem to be one of the better people we’ve encountered actually. You can read an email in an office in the house where it’s revealed the husband offered live-in positions for his staff to keep them safe during the hurricane, and their families. So they actually seem pretty nice! (And not human traffickers) I was pretty much spot on about the Los Locos gang and the suburban map lol The homeless camp is really interesting, and may have opened doors for an entire new theory. I’m curious to see if you guys can guess why… Anyways, I really loved making this video. I can’t wait to come back to this game!

Guys guys liver4t is a reference to deadmau5

i like this theory, bleak but not completely hopeless, which is very fitting considering ready or not's themes.

I remember hearing that the theory that judge was USIA is quite popular. It is backed by Scott (as ex-USIA) seemingly knowing Judge to some extent on a personal level; Judges background being unknown and coming from 'out of state'; his excellent handling of all kinds of firearms as well as the references in early builds to Langley (being of course, the real world headquarters of the CIA)

You know, I did close that door, because I was so close to that S rank and I wasn't going to throw it away. I guess that makes me a good little dog for the USIA. But, I don't think you need to, I think you can still complete the mission without doing it. That kinda makes it unique as a RPG element in the game, even if it amounts to nothing and you end up in Dorms regardless. Also, I don't think the ARG is scrapped, it was simply benched for a bit. The iconography of the ARG has resurfaced in Dorms.

I feel like this video put me on a watch list... I love this game so much, the devs are something else.

Just saw the iceberg video. It would be really cool to see a DLC where it visits scenarios from neighbouring law enforcement groups across countries from Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. I, myself, would love to see a DLC set during the "pacification" of some of the slums in Brazil, specifically "Complexo do alemão", circa 2012-16. Coming from that absolute *hellhole* to a first-world country made me realise how desensitized I've become as a result.

Imagine if they added some Armoured Core type alternate ending where Judge goes insane and starts blasting feds