Following its markedly successful 1.0 release, Ready or Not has promptly established itself as the go-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 that Ready or Not will receive at least two separate pieces of substantial expansion pack content. The first is the aforementioned Home Invasion DLC, 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 to Home Invasion to create a broader ‘Home Invasion Release,’ and expand upon our in-game narrative in a nuanced, impactful manner,” says Void Interactive’s recent blog post on Steam.
Ready or Not’s Home Invasion DLC is coming sometime this Summer
According to Void Interactive, the plan is for Home Invasion to feature three all-new maps and two new weapons for your SWAT team to utilize on missions. These maps will, unlike the majority of Ready or Not‘s baseline mission set, take the focus away from the main narrative’s interconnected organized crime. Instead, the goal of Home Invasion is 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 for Ready or Not‘s DLC to feel “accessible” across the board, which will be realized in two fairly meaningful ways:
- All Supporter Edition owners will be given Home Invasion for free, as was originally planned
- Players who do not own Home Invasion will be able to jump into lobbies to play its content if the host does own the DLC
Further, as Home Invasion is 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 be more weapons being released alongside the DLC, with only two of them being exclusive to Home Invasion owners.
Plenty of questions still up in the air, then, but Home Invasion appears poised to ground the core Ready or Not narrative which, if we’re being honest, does step on its own toes a tad with how incredibly interconnected and conspiratorial the baseline levels all are. If Home 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 revealed earlier this year that the second Ready or Not DLC 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. If Home Invasion ends up being of a high enough quality, Void’s seminal release may have a very long post-launch tail indeed.
