Rainbow Six Siege devs lay out their plan of assault for this yr

What do you name a bunch of sixteen-year-olds skiving off college to play a tactical team-based shooter? G Siege-ees.

Wait, come again. I must inform you about how the Rainbow Six Siege devs are invading Australia with Operation Burnt Horizon, the primary occasion of Year Four. Early subsequent month, you’ll be working round a brand new map known as Outback with two new aussie operators.

Ubisoft Montreal have additionally revealed how they’re dealing with their subsequent yr of #content material. As properly because the anticipated eight new operators, we’ll see three map redesigns, a newcomer queue to assist ease in recent gamers, and an anti-teamkilling system that makes would-be arseholes truly off themselves.

Outback will launch alongside two Aussie operators. One of them is an attacker that fires clusters of nasty wanting spike traps, and the opposite is a defender packing creepy spider robots that may hack the attacker’s drones. Here, hearken to this man who is aware of way more about how they work than I do.

At yesterday’s Invitational event, the devs talked about that the take a look at servers ought to go reside immediately – so you must be capable to to strive them and Outback out fairly quickly.

After Outback, these map redesigns will likely be spaced out by way of the three remaining seasons. It appears a disgrace that Siegers solely get the one map that’s utterly recent, however the little overhaul previews within the vid beneath do look drastic.

The devs are additionally including reverse pleasant fireplace, the place bullets fired at a pleasant teammate do harm to your self. That prompts after a participant’s first teamkill. It’s a karmic method to coping with the issue that I’m shocked I haven’t encountered earlier than.

All of that sounds snazzy, however the newcomer playlist could be one of the best upcoming characteristic. With so many operators and maps to fret about after folks have spent years getting good at Siege, a queue that’s solely for folks underneath stage 50 feels like an awesome thought. It’ll solely have three maps and one game mode, too, so hopefully received’t be too overwhelming.

Most of the brand new information about the remainder of the yr will be discovered within the dev vid beneath, the place folks in an workplace stroll about grinning at one another alongside to overly dramatic music. I haven’t lined every thing they do, so do have a gander in order for you all of the candy candy deets.

Here, have a useful little roadmap, too. Click to embiggen.

For a extra full image, see this Reddit poster’s recap of everything we learned in yesterday’s livestream.

The timeframe for the options on the backside of that roadmap is ambiguous, but when Ubisoft Montreal stick with their regular sample then season one will kick off early subsequent month.