Ready Or Not Modder Retcons 'Censorship' Changes Within An Hour Of New Patch Going Live

Within 20 minutes of implementing unpopular changes to the unit and nudity successful VOID Interactive's shooter Ready oregon Not, a mod was disposable to retcon the changes.

Yesterday (July 15), VOID Interactive proceeded with changes introduced to arguable shooter Ready oregon Not contempt wide condemnation from fans who judge the developer is "censoring" the game's gore and unit by "appeasing console marketplace regulators."

VOID said it had to set levels of gore, nudity, violence, and the "mistreatment of children" up of the July 15 console release, and alternatively than "maintaining aggregate versions with antithetic assets and mechanics" that would "increase the likelihood of bugs," immoderate aspects of the PC mentation person besides been revised. At the time, VOID insisted the changes were "small capable that astir radical present wouldn't announcement if we didn't accidental anything," but it "wanted to beryllium transparent" with its players. Players disagreed, and the quality caused Ready oregon Not's Steam idiosyncratic reappraisal standing to plummet to "mostly negative" for caller reviews.

The mod — which says it "reverts (to the champion grade we can) the precocious illustration 'censorship' changes to [Ready oregon Not] caused by the Los Sueños Stories/Console update" — restores the quality to dismember dormant people, strips covering from immoderate in-game character, and rolls backmost different changes made by the developer to fulfill console makers arsenic the crippled yet jumped from PC to Xbox Series X and S and PS5.

"All 'Uncensored' files are either reused files (from the Dark Waters mentation of the game, and whitethorn besides beryllium modified slightly) oregon modified files of the existent version, some primitively made by VOID Interactive," mod creator Eman734 wrote.

"We bash not assertion to beryllium their archetypal authors and bash not assertion to person ineligible ownership oregon IP rights. VOID Interactive retains legal/IP rights to their assets, and we volition comply with immoderate takedown petition (though they person stated they bash not person volition of doing so)."

The mod has been downloaded astir 7,000 times since it launched yesterday, and racked up 78 endorsements.

VOID Interactive responded to subordinate backlash aft it made changes to the PC mentation of its arguable shooter Ready oregon Not successful bid to unafraid a console release, citing "misconceptions and misinformation" astir the amendments, but it was not capable to curb subordinate ire.

It's not the archetypal clip VOID Interactive has courted controversy. It parted ways with its archetypal publisher, Team17, 1 time aft the developer shared it would person a schoolhouse shooting level. Ready oregon Not was besides concisely hauled offline successful 2022 aft a takedown petition was issued owed to a trademark dispute. The contented related to a level that depicted a wide shooting astatine a nightclub called Prysm, which was released connected the day of the Pulse nightclub shooting.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.