Attention Officers new and old! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you. As the first community letter of the year we'll be covering quite a bit, so we'll be chopping it into two pieces. One where we deliver some more hopeful and thankful messages from our team, talk about the killer mods of last year, and talk a little bit about the data we'd gleamed from the Survey. To start, some messages from our Level team: [h2]From the Team[/h2] [hr][/hr] To everybody who managed to try out our new DLC, thank you so much for your continued support! Watching you guys play the levels we've spent so long on gives us incredible pleasure. As level designers we spend much time on every corner of the level, creating sections that you might find fun, challenging, and sometimes hard. And it's simply a blast to watch you guys navigate through these challenges in your own specific ways. Big props also go to all the RoN custom mappers out there and your patience and persistence in updating your levels when needed! Every RoN fan out there applauds you! And finally Merry Christmas to all of you!!! I can't wait till you see what we have planned for you next year! - Tisa - Environmental Artist [hr][/hr] Hey Officers! As the new year begins, I wanted to take a moment to say we all hope you’ve been enjoying our latest DLC! We level designers spent a lot of time and effort into making this one so seeing your reactions through feedback or shared videos—be it playthroughs, tactics, or hilarious moments—makes all the effort incredibly rewarding! Every suggestion, critique, and shout-out helps make Ready or Not even better. Thank you for the continued support, for being part of this amazing community, and for making this journey so rewarding. Here’s to another exciting year filled with updates, mods, and surprises yet to come Stay safe, and Merry Christmas! - Katarina - Junior Level Designer [hr][/hr] [h2]Survey Data Preview[/h2] In total we had a whopping Sixteen Thousand replies to our survey with the significant portion of the replies coming from Steam itself. Obviously there is some data we cannot share for marketing and privacy reasons but there are some bits we can, such as the game mode spread. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36750080/5867dfa0441bae60aa63be5a1d06c4e235fc2480.png[/img] We had mentioned around the release of Home Invasion that we were surprised how passionate our player base was about Commander Mode, but a 1:2 ratio of Commander players was certainly a surprise. We kept that in mind with Dark Waters and ensured that the new maps were playable on release. We did also collect hardware data instead of relying on the Steam Hardware Survey alone, but it seems that was unnecessary as they seem to align quite well with one another. For those curious, you can check it here! https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam [hr][/hr] [h2]Killer Mods[/h2] Surprising no-one, the king of mods in 2024 was the Venerable Gunfighter Gameplay Improvement Mod! [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36750080/964c2efde2f0291040a38ab91b85b07f99ff8f6f.png[/img] Jerrys taste in shooters as well as the plethora of options resonate with a significant amount of our player base to the tune of [i]one hundred forty five[/i] thousand downloads as a sort of New Game+ experience. We'd actually did a mini-interview of Jerry, you can find it here! https://steamcommunity.com/games/1144200/announcements/detail/6903544142289348012 — In our next newsletter, you can look forward to even more information about the previous year and some previews of some things we got coming next year! Outside of our drops, you can find more of this wonderful content here: https://discord.gg/TjyfbXTU28 or https://www.nexusmods.com/readyornot/ Follow Ready or Not on Steam here. Our other links: Spotify, Discord, X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook. Keep your feet on the ground. VOID Interactive