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Many Rainbow Six Siege players have been complaining of a bizarre set of changes to recoil ever since Crimson Heist went live - though many others have insisted that those changes never actually happened. Ubisoft put that part of the issue to rest when the devs released a TTS patch addressing recoil, and now that the update is hitting live servers, the studio has finally explained what the problem was in the first place.

The devs describe the issues as such: "vertical recoil stops/drop down sometimes when a player tries to compensate it." That's not exactly a robust description of the issue, but it's at least more consistent than the community's attempts to figure out why recoil suddenly felt weird. Either way, it's been fixed, so there's no longer a need to be concerned.

This patch also introduces the first round of streamer mode options, and fixes a nasty exploit players could use to peek more quickly than they should.

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Resident Evil turns a whopping 25 years old this very week, and to celebrate the horror games series' new milestone, Capcom has a bunch of celebrations planned for the coming months. And, it seems these celebrations are extending beyond Resident Evil itself, as other games, like Rainbow Six Siege, are getting in on the action.

Following a tease earlier this year, the FPS game's French Twitter channel has revealed a brand-new Elite skin for attacking Rainbow Six Siege operator Zofia which is the ultimate celebration of Resident Evil, styling her after one of the survival games series' original characters, Jill Valentine. As you can see in the skin's preview below, the RE Elite skin includes a set based on the series' Raccoon City Police Department's elite special forces unit, S.T.A.R.S. - the outfit she wears in the first Resident Evil (and its remake).

In this, you get Jill's S.T.A.R.S. uniform, headgear, victory animation, weapon and gadget skins, and an exclusive pendant for Zofia - and, kitted out, she looks just the part. According to the tweet, the skin is now available, but it doesn't appear to have been posted on the 'main' Siege Twitter feed just yet, so it might not have come to the multiplayer game's store in all regions just yet.

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Amazon Games, the developer behind upcoming MMORPG New World, has opened a brand-new studio in Montreal, Canada. Focussing on "creating original triple-A games", the studio is headed up by some of the former core team behind Ubisoft's FPS game Rainbow Six Siege - and it's got an online game based on a new IP in the pipeline.

In a blog post announcing Amazon Games Montreal - which joins the company's existing roster of studios in Seattle, Orange County, and San Diego - Amazon says that the Canada-based team is founded by industry and Rainbow Six Siege veterans Xavier Marquis as creative director, Luc Bouchard as head of production, Alexandre Remy as head of product, and Romain Rimokh as content director.

While details on exactly what this studio will be cooking up first are thin on the ground for now, Amazon does say that its first project will be "an online multiplayer title based on new IP". It also sounds like it'll be very different from what the devs worked on previously, with Marquis explaining that, "building upon eight years of experience with Siege, we are excited to start with a blank page and the creative freedom to create a completely unique experience in the multiplayer space".

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