Ubisoft are altering how team-killing impacts gamers in Rainbow Six Siege, with a brand new “reverse friendly fire” system rolling out on the take a look at servers quickly, described in this dev-blog post. If you handle to homicide certainly one of your folks within the twitchy tactical shooter (straightforward to do by chance), the participant you whacked will get a kill-cam exhibiting them precisely what occurred. At this level, it will be prudent to apologise, as your sufferer will get to determine whether or not to allow you to off the hook, or whether or not you’ll spend the remainder of the match with cursed bullets that bounce off buddies and again into your personal face.
This new system is, in some ways, a softer punishment than earlier than. Team-killing would beforehand get you booted out of a match. Now, you possibly can stay helpful even when your workforce suppose you’re as much as no good. Under this technique, the one individual in danger from your personal wild gunfire is your self. Ubi even considered the potential of hurting your teammates with devices, too – as an alternative of wounding your folks, it’ll simply trigger the gadget to break itself and self destruct. Under this new system, solely probably the most actively dickish of team-killers will appeal to the wrath of Ubisoft’s moderation workforce.
Killing hostages has an analogous penalty, though with out the verification section. Just be just a little extra cautious the place you shoot, and also you received’t have to fret about ricocheting photographs into your self. This does strike me as a greater technique to take care of unintentional team-killing – even when the individual you shot thinks it’s intentional, there’s not a lot threat of it taking place twice in a row. Whether it helps folks sit back and reduces the game’s general toxicity is but to be seen, however that is simply an experimental change. Ubisoft say they’ll be gathering knowledge and suggestions from checks and iterating on the system as wanted earlier than rolling it out absolutely.
Ubisoft additionally rolled out a small update today for the tactical shooter, addressing some amusing bugs. Operators can now not change weapons further quick when mendacity susceptible of their again, and gamers can now say the letter ‘V’ in chat by itself with out the auto-censor kicking in. Not fairly Dwarf Fortress bug-level, however amusing.
Rainbow Six Siege is at present on sale for £9.34/10.99/$10.99 on Ubisoft’s own store.
