How to do Soft Objectives (a complete guide) + DLC

Welcome!

13th of December, 2023, Ready or Not got it's 1.0 update - that was truly a glorious day!
And so it brought us an enormous amount of new stuff, including so called soft objectives, which are useless in general but are necessary to get S ranks in this game (people rarely care about lore and 100%ing the game)

UPD 24.07.24: added info about Home Invasion DLC maps
UPD 24.12.11: added info about Dark Waters DLC maps

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中文版	versión España	Version française
Deutsche Version	Versi bahasa Indonesia	Svensk version

So lets get started!

Important things before you start

Talking about getting S ranks - you can get them in multiplayer, but for the achievements VOID Interactive are forcing players
TO COMPLETE SINGLEPLAYER ON ALL S RANKS
to get achievements corresponding to each mission completed

Was fixed after DLC update, now you can get achievements even playing in multiplayer.
YIPPEE!!!

There's a new thing you should really take to an account: with release of Dark Waters DLC, devs decided that game had became too much sportive, so they added feature what everyone was worried about - THEY BROUGHT PENALTY FOR LOSING A TEAM MEMBER TO MULTIPLAYER
Not that it's a groundbreaking thing, the reduction of 100 points for dead team member existed from the beginning, but exclusively for singleplayer, meaning only bots lives matter, now it's in multiplayer too, which may or may not be of a huge problem for teams gathering up to deal with some missions dealt on S rank.

Note: all S ranks are made here not to simply flex, it was never main idea, I was trying to prove people that it's true and there are exactly as many soft objectives as I say, and best solution for me seemed to do S ranks when I will not forget a single thing meaning I will not have to do it all over and over again just for good shots (yes, some of DLC maps don't have these for now, will be fixed as soon as I will have time and will doing that)

And with new glitchy and uh... "provocative and creating a lot of confusion" AI, all I can say to everyone of you -

Good luck, either you are Ready or Not

All about maps from basic game

Thank you, come again! (aka 4U Gas Station)

There's only 1 soft objective

Report a wounded veteran - if you enter through store side, take a right door pass near storage

Example of S rank:

23 Megabytes a second (aka San Uriel Condominiums)

There are 3 soft objectives

	Report an illegal cryptofarm (2 floor)
	Report a SSD in streamer's room near keyboard
	Report some porn pictures in streamer's room near bed

Example of S rank:

Twisted Nerve (aka 213 Park Homes)

There are 2 soft objectives

	Report cash on table
	Report wounded minor on bed

Example of S rank:

The Spider (aka Brixley Talent Time)

There are no hidden objectives, good for us!

Example of S rank:

A lethal obsession (aka Sullivan's slope)

There is only one hidden objectives on this map.

Some files in the hallway

Example of S rank:

Ides of March (aka Brisa Cove)

No soft objectives here, and thank god, honestly - with all these booby traps this would be a headache!

Example of S rank:

Sinuous Trail (aka Mindjot Datacenter)

This mission has no secret objectives, good for us!

Example of S rank

Ends of the Earth (aka Kawayu Beach)

Only one secret objective here

Report bag of cash

Example of S rank

Greased palms (aka Los Suenos Postal Service)

There are 2 soft objectives on this map

	Follow the blood path and report body
	Report illegal weapon delivery and Freeman's crowbar (search the truck parking on the other side of the map from starting position)

Example of S rank

Valley of the Dolls (aka Voll Health House)

There are 2 soft objectives

	Report some CD's with porn in one of the first room near start
	Report weird porn room in the basement ...or table in the red room right before it, works all the same

Example of S rank

Elephant (aka Watt Community College)

There are no hidden objectives here.

Yet I must admit - a combination of Active Shooter and Bomb Threat is a horrible one (from POV of dude who existed back when alpha and beta testings of the game were at full capacity and remember the old "test" features)

Example of S rank:

Rust Belt (aka Costa Vino border reserve)

There are 2 secret objectives here

	Report confiscated Mexico passports
	Report the barge deep in the tunnels

Example of S rank:

Sins of the father (aka Clemente hotel)

There are no hidden objectives on this level.

Unless... we need to find and cuff Victor Zakhaev before he will shoot himself... hmmmm...
(added from Chinese version of the guide: "There should be a nuclear bomb on next level then")

Note: there were confused people not understanding what the flock is going on, well, I bet you just didn't play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to understand such a humor

Example of S rank:

Neon Tomb (aka Neon Nightclub)

No secret objectives here either, lucky us!

Example of S rank

Buy cheap, buy twice (aka Caesar's car dealership)

There are 2 hidden objectives

	Report weapons in one of the garages, or alternatively, as mentioned by MatisProto , you can report any of these - drugs and money
	Report documentation in the offices (or the whiteboard, works all the same)

Example of S rank:

Carriers of the vine (aka Cherryesa farm)

There's only one soft objective

Report some paintings and a map inside the first big house (says it's conspiracy evidence, well, I'm too stupid to understand such a thing, for me it looks like bunch of papers and paintings, like any subculture have)

Example of S rank:

Relapse (aka Coastal Grove medical center)

There are no hidden objectives.

Example of S rank:

Hide and seek (aka Port Hokan)

There are 5 (!!!) soft objectives

	Report weapon storage container - there will be like few different yellow containers with some spider spray on doors, lit by some light, check every single one of them and you will find the weapons
	Report drug storage container - find it same way as weapons (correcting by 8tails )
	Report slavery auction - in the warehouse 13, deep inside, in a makeshift "living" area for the product behind the containers (hint by 8tails )
Image is cut by censorship	Report container with missing persons - full of naked women, yellow container as with weapons and drugs (hint by 8tails )
	Close the container - simply close that container, no idea why, but on radio we will get a direct order from some random person, who will say us to do so... well, who we are to disobey orders on radio, right? (hint by 8tails )

Example of S rank

All about maps from DLC #1

Dorms

Only 1 soft objective

Report drug paraphernalia (second floor, in one of the rooms), hint provided by SavageCore

Example of S

Narcos

3 soft objectives

	In the first house near spawn zone - report hidden files (idk why hidden files if we report PC but fine), hint provided by DanielJT
	In that same house near spawn zone - report a crime scene (a chair with blood on it and a car battery, meaning someone was tortured real hard there), hint provided by DanielJT
	As you left first house - go to the right, enter the closest door with white decorative fence and look left, then report a crime scene (they killed poor doggo, bastards)

Example of S

Lawmaker

No soft objectives

Example of S

All about maps from DLC #2

Mirage at Sea (aka The Seraglio)

Two soft objectives

As you start - go up to the main deck (or at least I think it is one) and there will be a big guest room, after which a staircase and a number of doors - from some of the rooms, including kitchen, you may access the other rooms through the doors with transparent plastic strips (aka "plastic curtains"), you probably seen these in some restaurants or in storage areas, in one of those rooms will be a body

As you proceed through the ship you will stumble upon a trail of something red, follow it to upper deck 1 and find a big puddle of ketchup, which you have to report; alternatively can be found in one of the corners at engine room, technical deck below front of the ship

Example of S rank:

Leviathan (aka Heavywell A-101 Rig)

1 soft objective

As you explore the place you may find a room with the oil drill itself, you recognize it by seeing big cage-like window on second level, if you approach the console on that second level you can disable the drill and make some tiny desk Dallas scream "PIECE OF ♥♥♥♥ DRILL!!!" (a bit of PAYDAY franchise vibes)

Example of S rank

3 letter triad (aka The Elysian)

No soft objectives

Try blowing up the wall in the toilet, it has markings so you'll know if you looking at right wall or not

Example of S rank:

Names	Deeds
Sedlynne , edgeener , Quiet Root , Flugornas Herre and MatisProto	Hints and different advices for the multiple base game maps
8tails and Lumina	Info on port Hokan specifically
SavageCore and DanielJT	Hints about Home Invasion DLC maps
Aspect	Hints about Dark Waters DLC maps
死者の魂	Ukrainian translation
SailorYaaz	Turkish translation
TomArma	Italian translation
Wha1ers	Chinese translation
Carsman	Spanish translation
Mistz	French translation
screapax	German translation and few photos
A4	Indonesian translation
capNcook420	Swedish translation

If anybody will want to join in - I'm always up to help making yet another version translated to one of the many languages of the world, only one fair exception: russian, don't even ask me if you can translate the guide to russian, the answer will be fully completely NO

Thank you everybody, who voted for the guide, who read it and who supported me! You are all the best! Hope the guide helped ya at least a little!

[Jonny]

I Just realised it the run right after this one.
The remaining containers are right at the start and in the next hallway to the right from container 2

[GralgarTheWolf]

Jonny , my man, do you even realize that crates are randomly filled each time you restart the game? And since only women are static that info is just immediately not correct

[Jonny]

On Hide and Seek
Container 1(Weapons) is on the left in the first opening.
Container 2 (drugs) Stick to the right. When passing through the container with the furniture a few more steps and the container is to your left
Container 3 (Women) is right infront of the warehouse infront of the office containers.

[capNcook420]

What's up, I wanted to let you know that I can help translate this guide into swedish if you so wish.

[knmc]

@GralgarTheWolf the mission doesnt end right away even if you complete all objectives including the laptop without reporting the drives - therefore the drives are definitely are a soft objective; also, during the alpha/beta testing, i honestly dont recall the laptop being there in the first place - unless its just me forgetting about it
but anyways, this is a really great guide if you forget about a certain hidden objective, honestly thank you

[GralgarTheWolf]

Since you're not specifying which laptop you talking about, I presume you talking about the one in the room adjacent to the garden/green area - that is main objective, gives 500 points, called "Locate Voll's office computer"

It never was a soft objective straight away, in alpha-beta they all were optional, technically soft, except "bring order to chaos" and "rescue all civilians" were main and finishing without doing them was impossible, but it was then and now it's different

[knmc]

@GralgarTheWolf i see now, but the hard drives and the laptop? they are not listed in the briefing as the main objective, so it must be a soft objective?

[GralgarTheWolf]

To A4 - well, it depends if YOU want to do it, I mean - yourself, since it's completely volunteer thing, in short if you have time and will to do so, then, of course, we can discuss it more privately

To knmc - try harder, unless someone is in the lobby beside you and activates it before you come to the room or you doing it yourself by reporting the table before the weird room (also counts as room itself)

[A4]

Hey mate, I can help with a translation into Indonesian/Malay if useful. Let me know.

[knmc]

also they removed the need to report the weird room now, i dont seem to be able to interact with it anymore