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Rainbow Six Siege's new operator can repair breaches

Ubisoft is kicking off the seventh year of seasonal updates for Rainbow Six Siege with some of the most substantial additions the tactical shooter has received in years. There's the usual new operator - a Japanese defender called Azami - the first brand-new map since 2019, a new permanent game mode, a couple of operator reworks, and some long-awaited quality of life changes.

We'll start with the new operator, Azami. Her unique gadget is the Kiba Barrier, a throwable kunai that releases a substance after impact, which then hardens to form a bulletproof disc with a radius that's more than big enough. She gets four of these, but they operate on a cooldown so you can't just throw them all at once in a last-ditch effort to deny the attacking team access to the bomb site. And, while these barriers are bulletproof, they can be destroyed with explosives and a few melee strikes.

Azami is the first operator in Rainbow Six Siege who can repair or patch surfaces up after they've been breached, so her arrival is bound to usher in plenty of new tactics for the shooter's seemingly endless playbook.

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Ubisoft finally made the Rainbow Six Siege operator of my dreams

Sometimes Rainbow Six Siege adds a new gadget because it's fun to use, and sometimes it adds gadgets that fill an important role in the game's ever-evolving meta. Azami, Siege's first Year 7 operator, is a bit of both...
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Rainbow Six Siege: Demon Veil officially revealed as Y7S1

A new Rainbow Six Siege season is nearly upon us, and while Ubisoft is saving the full reveal for this weekend, we're getting the usual drip-feed of teasers leading up to the proper unveiling. Today, we learn that Rainbow Six Siege: Demon Veil is officially the name of Year 7 Season 1, and the devs have provided details on exactly when to tune in for the final reveal.

The Y7S1 reveal will take place on Saturday, February 19 at 7:30am PST / 10:30am EST / 3:30pm GMT. The first details on the Year 7 roadmap are set to follow on Sunday, February 20 at 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT. Both parts of the broadcast will run on the official Rainbow Six Twitch channel, during the Six Invitational 2022.

Based on previous Siege season rollouts, you can expect Demon Veil to hit test servers shortly after the reveal, and it should hit live servers sometime in March. We'll be getting a new operator for Y7S1, of course - one who appears to be equipped with a kunai.

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Rainbow Six Siege Y7S1 teaser reveals an operator with kunai

This week is going to bring us the full reveal of the next season for Rainbow Six Siege, and as always, Ubisoft is dropping teasers leading up to the full reveal. We're starting with what looks to be a glimpse of the new Rainbow Six Siege operator, dressed in a suit and holding a kunai - which, of course, seems to match up with the early leaks for Year 7 Season 1.

"A blade can sever and stick and scar," Ubisoft says in the tweet. "A knife can cut or crease or create. Don't the simplest tools have the most imaginative uses?" The full reveal will land on Saturday, February 19 on the official Rainbow Six Twitch channel, and until then we can expect a further trickle of details.

A Japanese operator equipped with kunai has been the subject of leaks for months, so it's looking likely that the early details are going to pan out. According to those leaks, the new operator will be called Asami, and will have a gadget that can counter breachers. Leaks also suggest that the new season will be called Demon Veil.

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Rainbow Six Siege has issued 166k bans in the past 18 months

Ubisoft has issued around more than 166,000 bans for cheating in its competitive multiplayer game Rainbow Six Siege over the past year and a half. The company provided some new data on its efforts to fight cheating in Siege - an ongoing effort, as cheaters seem to be endlessly innovative. The company also pointed to some specific efforts its made to make cheating more difficult and reducing the ways in which cheaters can disrupt the game.

The Siege team shared the new info on Twitter, which includes a graph of Battleye and data-based bans issued over the last 18 months. Totalling up each month's approximate values, and the number you get is somewhere north of 166,000, or nearly 14,000 bans per month, according to our maths.

Those back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that on average, someone has been getting banned from Siege every three minutes, every hour of every day. The company says it also banned a further 3,114 idle botters between last November and January of this year.

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