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Ready or Notis not your grandma’s tea party — it’s an intense, tactical first-person shooter that thrusts you onto the frontline as a SWAT officer. Set in a modern-day environment, your mission involves defusing hostile situations by equipping yourself with tactical gear and diving headfirst into the heart of the action.
Achieving a prestigious S rank in the game requires mastering the delicate balance between hard and soft objectives. To help you navigate this intricate dance, we’re here to guide you through the nuances, ensuring you’re well-prepared to conquer your missions. Let’s delve into the details and clarify the differences so you may confidently complete your objectives.
What Are Hard Objectives?
Hard objectives are your mission’s backbone. Right from the start,they’re laid out on your tablet, clear as day.
Yourtablet can be pulled upin-game by holding ‘Tab’. It will go over mission specifics and lay out your hard objectives in bullet-point form.
Hard objectives are themust-do tasks, the checklist for successfully completing the missions. They tend to be objectives likearresting suspectsorfinding civilians. They’re transparent, allowing you to strategize and execute your mission simply without guesswork.
You’ll know youcompletedall thehard objectives, butnotall thesoft objectives, when the prompt “Mission Soft Complete” pops up in the top-left corner.
What Are Soft Objectives?
Soft objectives bring a layer of complexity to your missions. Unlike hard objectives,they’re a mysteryat the mission’s beginning. You won’t find them on your tablet from the jump; you’ve got to be the Sherlock Holmes of SWAT and spot them yourself while completing missions.
After you complete a soft objective, it will then pop up on your tablet.
Soft objectives are related to the mission’s story, such ascollecting additional evidenceor findingunique NPCs. They reveal further things about the lore, so finding what they are is part of the fun.
Completing soft objectives gives youbonus pointstowards your final mission score, allowing you to hit thatcoveted S rank.They arenot required, however, to successfully complete the mission.
How To Discover Soft Objectives
Finding soft objectives is no walk in the park since they aren’t explicitly laid out for you. As you explore, pay attention toitemsandNPCsindicated by amagnifying glass icon promptthat are not listed as hard objectives.
Reading the mission briefbefore starting can provideinsights and clue you into what the potential soft objectives may be.
