The Most Depressing Level in Ready or Not.
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Ready or Not is widely regarded as one of the most realistic tactical shooters of all time. In fact, it's actually been critiqued by many as being "too realistic" and potentially harmful to people who've experienced similar events. While the game's portrayal IS a scary one, I feel that it serves as an important tool for learning and empathy.
Today I analyze Ready Or Not's most depressing level, Ends of the Earth, and analyze how it manages to create a "quiet tragedy." Although this is a smaller map and easily overlooked -- it's probably one of the best missions the game has to offer.
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This whole storyline in RoN is overshadowed by the trafficking storyline. You start here, where the weapons are made, and you follow them through the distribution chain where everything gets messy. But this level is so much less black and white than the dealership or the postal service. This seems like the root cause, but the real root cause is the hate in the hearts of everyone who buys these weapons.
This mission is a good wake-up call for any player with the delusion of grandeur. You are no hero in Ready or Not. You’re a tool. You bring order to chaos, not happiness to the people. Maybe you stopped the shooting, but did you prevent all of those deaths? Did you help those who were scarred by it recover? No. You merely shot those who scarred them.
I remember being an actor for a swat-lite training day. I wasn't expecting to be handled so roughly, and I was a hostage!
It was about this mission that I started connecting the “oh shit this is anticopoganda” dots the game isn’t glorifying cops and capitalism it’s a commentary on the risks of prioritising police and dealing with the aftermath of crime and not the route causes of crime. When you start to see it the game is full of those baseline “maybe let’s take some money away from cops and put it into harm reduction and unemployment benefits”
The game just shows frankly the absolute horror that is the life of a first responder, and how little can truly be done. Law enforcement, fire/rescue, EMS, we are all pretty much just responding to an incident and reacting to the situation at hand. The game is sobering because unlike movies and TV, it doesn’t show the job in an enjoyable light, it just shows reality… The game trailer was an example, showing that this shit isn’t something officers want, hence why your officer’s morale always decreases unless you get through it without using lethal force, or if you manage to save all the civilians/hostages. The environmental storytelling, game functions, outcomes and more just build up to such a tragic and more real feeling of helplessness that a lot of first responders feel in many cases.
That’s the aim, you’re not a slick invincible operator, you’re just a swat member trying to stop the killing and stop the dying
@@kestrels-in-the-sky I don’t think defunding the police is the thing here. A lot of the missions are a result of a foreign presence or from corrupt government operatives. The police in Ready or Not is dealing with shoestring budget anyways. Not having some equipment that modern police have.
This video, and stage, really hit home for me. I'm a second generation Asian-American whose parents immigrated out of Vietnam during the war. My mom passed away February 18th, 2022 from stage 4 lung and brain cancer. Losing her has been one of the most difficult experiences of my life, but it has also given me a deeper sense of purpose. Watching this video reminded me of the sacrifices my parents made, and their resilience.
My condolences
Stay strong and eat well.
Stay strong, I can’t imagine what you’ve been through. My mom moved from the Philippines to the US in 2000, family back in the Philippines were greatly affected by the 2017 Marawi Siege, but we are well. I wish you well and will pray for your mother.
RIP to your mom Bro
I’m sorry for your loss friend
This is one of those levels that I always try to go non-lethal, so I can arrest the 3 sons instead of having to put them down. Yes, their mother will be gone and yes, they'll miss her funeral, but they'll live with a chance to redeem themselves.
I remember how oddly satisfying it was getting an S-tier on this mission. It was like a breath of fresh air.
Yes, they will redeem themselves with lifetime in prison.
Or if they get out on parole, which is not likely, they will not find employment because:
1. They are ex-convicts charged with serious crimes and society won't accept them.
2. The prison system is not put in place to rehabilitate and help convicts, it is made to turn in profits.
So long term their prospects are most likely this:
-they will turn to a lifetime of crime,
-they will try to go after their mom with their own hands or with the help of cops,
-they will end up back in prison,
All in all, I think this mission being their last mission is a better alternative for everyone.
Indeed the mom knows she was responsible for this to a great extent, however it will end fast for them instead of going through a lifetime of misery.
This is basically Ready or Not's version of the Trolley Problem. If you don't act to stop these kids, more than likely, more people are going to be hurt, but if you do act, you'll hurt people anyways. There really are no other choices, but as it is your job, you have to act for the betterment of others. It's up to you to choose the fate of these boys and no matter what you do, the outcome won't always be the brightest. Really puts your humanity to question.
I, too, found the chair in the shower as heart-wrenching. When I first saw the plastic chair in the shower, I immediately remembered my own grandmother and no joke, stood and looked at it for a solid 10 seconds, not moving in the slightest.
My grandmother is already long gone so I've gotten over it, but memories of her will always stay with me. I had the fortune and curse of getting to stay with her, but watch her grow weaker by the day. I even explicitly remember having to take care of her for the last year of her life along with my other siblings since my mother and father at the time had to go work.
The countless hours and hours of sticking by her, helping her regain motor control by stretching her hands, feet, arms, and legs repeatedly, helping her eat as her weak arms could barely grasp a spoon, and even bathing her. At first, I was happy to be doing these things for her. After all, she was making amazing progress and was looking to be recovering. I was quite optimistic and was ready to see my grandma smile so brightly again after she recovered, but I couldn't believe her heart problems would kick in soon after.
I had been in my room, doing what kids do until I heart a cry of horror from my mother that had been watching her at the time. My grandma has gone unresponsive, hardly breathing, and was going cold rapidly.
I rushed out to check on her, but in shock, didn't know what to do. I looked at the pleading face of my mother, watching her mom die in front of her and I picked up her phone, dialing 911. Despite how calm I seemingly sounded, the operator knew I was in a state of shock and quickly sent some people to help.
That hour was probably the longest hour I've ever spent in my entire life. Too shocked to cry, but too horrified to move. As a 15 year old kid at the time, I didn't know how to process anything that was happening and was too afraid to risk doing anything I clearly wasn't qualified to do. Simply put, I could only stand there in shock, staring at my grandma's face along with my other siblings that were there at the time, praying internally that she'd be fine.
When emergency response finally arrived, I had recognized some of them because they've come to save my grandmother a handful of other times, but it was already too late by the time they got to her.
Needless to say, that basically ruined my school life in an instant.
At first, I thought it wouldn't effect me that much because I was known and even knew myself to be a carefree and cheerful person, but man did that scar me. I hadn't realized it at the time, but my motivation for school had quickly diminished and I had been rapidly becoming more and more of a quiet kid.
I would enter the living room, where my grandmother always was and instinctively looking towards her bed that was no longer there. I'd even call out to her when my habit of making rice porridge for her kicked in and I hadn't realized she was long gone.
I was in denial for so long that school, which I thought of as boring before, just became a hassle and a waste of time despite knowing the value it gave me.
Even as I entered the master bathroom, where'd I'd carry her to bathe sat a baby blue plastic chair in the shower, almost the same as the one in the game, but instead, had 3 holes in it akin to *those* school chairs.
I couldn't help but instinctively turn around to get her whenever I saw the chair, but immediately remembering what had happened and just standing there, my clothes in hand.
Even after all this time, the effect she's had on me is quite apparent. One of the reasons why I take baths more often than showers is partly because of her. It's not that I can't bare taking a shower, remembering her, but that I've just grown more accustomed to baths and quickly favored them over showers after my grandmother's passing.
In fact, a lot of my behaviors and indirectly influenced by her and her passing, even if I don't realize it for a while.
What I'm trying to say is that this level almost seemed a bit too personal for me, but not in a bad way. It kicked me in the gut with how real it was and reminded me of a person I cherished. I won't criticize them for that, in fact, the opposite. Just the amount of detail that they put into the game simply goes to show how much effort they put into the world-building.
Sure, it's depressing, but it's relatable, and for a game that really strives for giving us players that experience, it's doing one hell of a job at it. I may not have the strength to do something so drastic as to switch to a life of crime for something like this, but I wouldn't be surprised with people that do because in the end, it's the loved ones they care about that they're doing this for and although their actions are bad in the grand scheme of things, you can't help but understand.
Anyways, props to the game for reminding me that I'll soon see my own parents in the same state as my grandmother one day. 😅
Hey, just wanted to say thanks for sharing your own story and personal experiences. It's appreciated.
Wow.
This has to be one of my favorite covers of this level. A lot of the controversial levels in Ready or Not outshine the smaller stories. I don't think people appreciate the smaller levels, so I thank you. Keep doing what you do, you are incredible.
My eighty eight year old great-grandma (1929-2018) sat in a plastic chair in her tub for showers so that was always a very human touch in this level… it made me happy.
I'm yet to play Ready or Not, but the level of storytelling in these videos are definitely keeping me satisfied till then
you should play it, there are a lot of shocking details you should experience yourself instead of getting spoilered
Don’t watch the valley of the dolls video. Experience that yourself. Or, if you don’t wanna be traumatized, watch the video to prepare.
Reminds me of the phrase: "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" and this level somehow embodies that.
What you're looking at in the attic is a ton of 3D printers, in particular FDM printers. So the attic was essentially their workshop.
And you can see that they've started swapping over to resin, which makes twisted sense.
For FDM printers, the more parts you have on the plate, the longer your overall time will be, but resin does the whole layer regardless of how many pieces, so you can load up the amount to print with it with negligible impact on overall time.
@@star20alpha Yes, but FDM printers are bigger and cheaper, so they could print more pieces at once or bigger pieces. They could be doing cheaper and more expensive parts for different clientele since resin is stronger than FDM, or maybe it's just what they could get their hands on. They could have also started with FDM and are moving up to resin since they're now getting cash.
@@CmdrBrannick oh absolutely, the later part of your comment was what I was aiming at, since resin printing tends to be more expensive and labor intensive. It also absolutely could be that, depending on what they're fabricating, one works better then the other.
@@CmdrBrannick They also had 2 laser cutters on the table
You could say the criminals in this mission are also victims. Victims of a cruel, unwanted fate
Arguably, victims of American capitalism.
@@AsianLaraCroftwow, i wonder if they get treatment in communist country. oh wait, they starved to death so they don't need to worry about mother getting cancer.
This is why people who call the game "copaganda" really just have no nuance for what copaganda really is. If this game were copaganda, there wouldn't be such sympathetic portrayals of the "bad guys" as simply an impoverished family doing what they can to get by.
If anyone wants to be a cop after this game, they need to get mental help.
Please do a quick one on the paranoid veteran and why there's 2 guys with him in the cabin next
Welcome to ready or not! In this game, you fight terrorists, human traffickers, crooks, crackheads, and… Children doing wrong things just to save their sick mother?
The 2 printers in Vinny's room are a filament printer and a resin printer, while the workshop is a filament printing farm with 2 laser cutters. Resin and filament in Vinny's room is for prototyping parts, while the resin and filament printers in their workshop are for AR-15 lowers and external parts, while the laser cutter is for the internals, like lining the filament upper and lower with steel to strengthen it while costing a fraction of the metal. Anything that needs to withstand tremendous forces such as recoil and spring tension would need to be all steel or steel cored, like hammer, firing pin, sear,etc.
I've never played Ready or Not, neither do I really play any games, but your videos are so high quality that I really might start playing.
As a 3D2A member, this temptation is very real. I gotta have a expensive license to sell 3D parts but even legal parts are worth A LOT of money.
After playing this is has to put my controller down and personally have that mental health break...
Most ppl are one bad day away from crashing out, but I'm literally one bad day away from this situation. It it really hard.
BABE WAKE UP ISSAC MORGAN POSTED
I think the plot is that the sons manufactured guns for the villains in the school shooting and nightclub massacre
Amazing analysis of the level. It really breaks my heart each time I do this particular level and you captured that feeling perfectly with this video.
Such a beautiful coverage here!
I almost wish that for this level the suspect AI was tweaked a little so that the family just cowers at your presence the moment you enter the house. I know that probably would not be as fun, but I think the idea of that make the level so much more powerful.
10/10 video as always!
10:00 3D printers to make the gun pieces. There is also filament in the room, so this is definitely the place where the pieces are manufactured.
I love how much you get into the game, and dissect every little detail. I have played ready or not since its very first announcement and seeing the game go through all the changes it has, has made me appreciate its craft even more. Each mission has its own little dark horrible twisted world within and you are able to make a video that I cannot look away from until it ends. Ends of the earth is the pinnacle of a lose - lose scenario and you capture that perfectly in this video. It is clear how much effort you put into all your content and I look forward to seeing the channel grow and covering the other missions. I know I will support you for all the way. Thanks Issac.
That means the world to hear you say, thank you so much!
What makes this mission even more depressing for me is its place in the chronology.
The previous mission was Brisa Cove, if I remember correctly. In it, we faced a heavily armed and well-trained platoon of militants with rich combat experience. And now we, in the same composition, are being sent to detain three boys who can barely hold a weapon in their hands.
For some reason, this contrast hits the emotions even harder.
And that damn soundtrack, of course. When, instead of the usual ambient or intense electronic music, a melancholic piano starts playing at the end of this mission, i can barely hold back the tears.
the last 2 minutes of monologue you gave, it really just shows that there's no winning in Ready or Not.
this mission hurts me to my core so fucking much considering i am also in a struggling vietnamese family with a slowly dying elderly parent
What was once a happy family where 3 brothers who knew the wrongs but had no choice only to collapse under guilt for life is cruel to all
Keep up the vids man i love theses i cant resist to click the notif but also in one of your "recent" video "The most controvesial level...." i really like the opening soundtrack and would love to hear it again
Amasing vids man. Only person who points out so many amasing details
The moment I went to this level, I literally geared everyone in my team with non-lethal weapons, pepper balls, bean bag shotguns, etc
Luckily no one in my team died, but some got wounded
I’m glad that you’ve been making content on ready or not, you’re already becoming one of my favorite creators on the platform ❤
I appreciate that! More to come!
I like your voice, it's so soothing and I just wanna keep listening
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Fantastic video as always! I personally thought the title ends of the earth was not just about the houses location, which definitely has its own symbolism, but is also representative of the goal: people say they love eachother more then the world. And thus, these kids will gladly go to the ends of the earth to help their mom, for their mom is more valuable to them.
This was the only level in game that I decided to use a tazer instead of my shotgun, I think that shows how well made this level was.
My favorite level for sure, especially due to the intimate setting of a family household. It's usually quite easy too, if I desperately need a win 😅
I wish ends of the earth was a full-on movie to be honest.
Fun fact: everything in the manufacturing room is a 3D printer. We can probably assume from this that most of the money they got from their sales, at least in the early days, went back into production as a single 3D printer can be any where from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars depending on the model. Not to mention that each one needs to be plugged into a power source causing electric bills to skyrocket, will need to be run for at least an hour even for smaller items, and they’ll have to restock on the filament pretty frequently assuming they keep the production going for as long as they can stay awake. I don’t know the exact timeline of events or any knowledge on their exact earnings and costs, but I’d imagine that early on they only had maybe a few thousand dollars at the end of each month to use outside of the business, which would then all be put into helping their mother. For all we know, the day of the arrest could have been when they would finally be able to break even, finally making enough to possibly get their mother treatment for her cancer.
TLDR: 3D printing is hella expensive at the scale they’re working with.
This video almost made me cry
Edit: This video did make me cry
I don’t even play this game I just watch it cause this guy makes it fun to listen to
I love the Style of your Videos
Keep on with the ready or Not content👍
Lets go caught this vid before work, great vid man underrated TH-camr
Hope you enjoyed it!
9:58 These seem to be different types of 3D printers of different sizes, possibly used to print out different sized mods for different guns
I am READY to watch this masterpiece
The fact that the painting in their house looks disturbingly familar to vietnamese traditional "Dong Ho" paintings just shock me
dude theses videos are amazing please keep up the good work!
What a coincidence! I just finished this for the first time with a A+ just last night!
Gave all of the AI and myself pepperball guns. Only one suspect had to be taken down with a pistol. It is my canon that he would recover, as he was still breathing. One of the few times my teams morale was raised from a mission
I like how he taught us how to make stolen money legal. Thanks man won’t need this later.
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best swat simulator ever fr
in the attic there are a lot of identical 3D printers, some like the one in Vinny's room and some slightly larger ones, as well as 2 laser engravers (the flatter devices with cardboard-coloured plates).
I kept asking why until I was content with my answer.
Why were we here? They were making weapons.
Why were they making weapons? They needed money.
Why did they need money? Medical debt, an unavoidable bill.
Why were they in medical debt? Their mother is sick, the care is horrifically expensive.
Why was it so expensive? US healthcare system.
They were put in a dilemma.
I place more weight on the root of their dillema than their relative morals.
Others may stop asking why after concluding theywere making weapons. Yet others wont stop asking until reaching an inditenent of the political system.
The buck stops... whereever the observer decides to rest their attention.
Simple as.
I thought this was a video essay about Sleeping Dogs based on the thumbnail my brisn farted
The title made me think this was gonna be the one about the sex-trafficking/kidnapper/CP 'daycare' level (which is called "The Spider" for those curious). That is the most depressing level to me although this level definitely very depressing.
This is the mission where we are the bad guys
Considering the downfall of Los Suenos I assume if the boys didn't manufacture the weapon parts for their clients then someone else would do it (eg the cartel in the Rust belt mission) due to the principles of supply and demand. In that scenario there wouldn't be any less violence in the city and they wouldn't have the money to support their mother. I think that if you once realize that in the boys situation there won't be much to hold you back from fulfilling your full potential in the context and you will most likely develop a more cynical world view which would in your mind justify other actions. Once you've went down that road I don't think there will be any opportunities to fully return to who you used to be.
This is one of those levels that I wish would get a very special specific change to the way AI works.
I wish the kids would be less trigger happy than how enemies usually are in every other level the game has.
Why are these guys all shooting at me the same way terrorists do? Why don’t they just realize “this isn’t worth losing my life over.”
It takes me out of the immersion just a bit and makes me feel like they’re all just the same enemies, and all get treated the same.
babe wake up issac justuploaded a ready or not video
you forgot to say that the brothers usually wait at their parents rooms (if i didn't get this wrong)
one comments on the IRS, they dont care where you got the money from, they just want you to report it and pay the taxes.
Makes me feel Bad for using this mission as a warm up sometimes
the only mission in the game where i will actively use non lethal means to finish it.
"Federal weapons charges aren't necessarily huge" a full auto gun can be upwards of 20 years a piece... Same with parts with intent to make illegal machine guns
Me before the vid: It cant be that bad
After the vid:
*See they all have the name Tran*
*See one of them just only 2003*
*See the bills get stacked more is so relateable*
Nah they are half Vietnamese brothers, imagine if you shoot to kill one of the brothers while their mother is already dying is heart breaking, if you shoot the youngest that would be an extremly dark day for a Vietnamese family house,
There is no justice, only the law.
Amazing video man. Keep it up
another s tier video, love your content
This level… I always go non lethal here.
i aint even watched it yet but know it bouta be fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I got an ad for 3D printers during this video :I
Damn ready or not is emotional as fuck
Gun go bang bang
i have the same printer as the one in the middle at 10:01
W Isaac fr 🤫🧏 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️.
I love these videos
I always bean in this mission
Oh shit now ready or not makes sence are you ready for the horrors of this stuff or are you not it has multiple meanings
Yoo, watching this when the video came out 10 min. ago
Playing only S rounds, jokes on you
Ready or not has always been accurate but this is very accurate when it comes to american life. We cant do shit legally.
earned a sub :)
first love these vids
Or 7 min.
They did nothing wrong.
Man, backstabbed by your own parents, by the very people they’re doing all that to help- Let this be your lesson, folks, there is nobody on this earth you can do so much for that they won’t ruin your life if they think it’s better for them in the long run
My utilitarianism can come off cold, but, these are the consequences of thier actions. Is it worth all that to fight a losing battle to cancer? Even if it was govt Healthcare, it's still a hopeless fight on the back of the taxpayers. Plus they choose to live in CA...
From an objective standpoint, it may be hopeless. But people will still give everything they have on the slim chance that their loved ones could live just a bit longer. Afterall, we’re not calculating machines that try to maximize the benefits for the taxpayers. Who are we to judge?
As I personally see it. When backed into a corner, people might be willing to do things that they wouldn't have normally to get one more minute with a dying loved one. Even if they might end up dying themselves while doing it.
@@viktornerfer i did do that once. kept my cat alive for a weekend for several thousand. granted it was a kitten and not an elderly cat.
Mmm tasty chees
Why did u keep the voice cracks in the video
because its human
the point of this video