The Rainbow Six Siege Invitational passed off over the weekend, teasing a great deal of new content material and modifications developing within the subsequent two years. Year 5 will see six new operators make their approach to the game, in addition to reworks to 4 outdated maps, whereas Year 6 is bringing reworks throughout the board for maps and gameplay alike. We’re not fully at nighttime with what these modifications are going to encompass although, as a result of in the course of the Invitational stream they gave us a primary take a look at new and improved Tachanka.
The large outdated Russian defender is getting some a lot wanted modifications. His stationary turret is being taken away from him, however they’re changing this by giving him a hefty LMG as his major weapon. The poor man wanted some extra mobility, notably in excessive stage play, as he’s a little bit of a sitting duck on that outdated turret. He’s additionally getting an incendiary grenade launcher as his new gadget. In the Twitch clip under you’ll be able to take a look at how mentioned launcher can be utilized to bounce grenades off of partitions and round corners, then explode leaving swimming pools of fireplace that may injury enemies that get too shut.
Tachanka has been a meme for so long as I can keep in mind, so it’s good to listen to he’s being made right into a viable character now. We don’t know precisely when his rework shall be launched, however it ought to be someday earlier than the tip of Year 5.
But, that’s not all there’s in retailer for Siege’s reworks. Speaking about Years 5 and 6 of the game’s content material, game director Leroy Athanassoff mentioned they wish to rework total elements of the game – and in Year 5 that begins with modifications to maps like Oregon and House. These shall be adopted by core gameplay reworks in Year 6. There’s no set date simply but for when Year 5 Season 1 will begin, but when it follows the identical sample as Year 4, it’ll doubtless start subsequent month.
You can take a look at what’s deliberate for every season within the content material roadmaps under.
Athanassoff informed PCGamesN that no new maps had been going to be added to Siege till reworks of the outdated ones had been finished to ensure they’re extra “interesting and satisfying”.
“When we create something new, we always expose ourselves to unbalancing, overstretching, stuff like that,” he mentioned. “When we take a map that’s already existing, we are able to discuss with our community, we are able to pinpoint exactly what are the problems… what should we do to fix an otherwise very competitive map?”
On high of all that, Ubisoft mentioned they’re including in little bits and items to assist the core gameplay really feel that a lot better. This consists of issues like extra methods to speak along with your crew and extra customary devices for operators to select from initially of matches. They’re even including a fame system (that appears a bit like Overwatch’s endorsement system), that may both reward or penalise gamers relying on whether or not or not they’re being a very good crew participant.
Some different operators shall be getting modifications too, although this shall be a mix of reworks and small modifications to rebalance the characters because the seasons progress.
And final however not least, they launched a really cool cinematic brief referred to as the Tournament of Champions. In it a few squads go face to face in a match whereas being cheered on by a crowd (it’s not an actual match, nowhere close to sufficient blood), and we get to listen to from the operators themselves in some post-match interviews.
Nat reported over the weekend that Ubisoft have introduced us to Iana and Oryx, the brand new operators that may drop with the Void Edge occasion someday quickly. For now although, they’ll be obtainable to check out on the check server beginning immediately.
That’s about it for the massive bulletins from the Rainbow Six Siege Invitational. If you wish to have a watch of all of the chatter about Years 5 and 6 your self, it’s all obtainable to look at over on Twitch.
