Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege News

The Rainbow Six Extraction release date has been pushed back to early next year, but it looks like we won't have to wait that long to get a taste of the alien invasion. Ubisoft is teasing a new Rainbow Six Siege event for August that looks to be connected to the upcoming game - and a load of leaks have already provided details on what form that event will take.

The official Rainbow Six Siege Twitter account has posted a "routine safety announcement" from the Abidjan Metro System, warning that the "consulate station and surrounding areas are currently closed to commuters due to a gas leak". A new header image for the account includes an Extraction-style growth and a date of August 3.

No prizes for guessing that Consulate is getting an Extraction-themed takeover based on all that, and exactly such an event has already leaked - as most big Siege updates tend to do. Footage of a special mode set in Consulate with all of Extraction's alien goop recently surfaced courtesy of Zer0Bytes, alongside an indication that the event would last through August 24.

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• Ubisoft Connect: 1.48 GB
  
• Steam: 850 MB
  
• Xbox One: 1.28 GB
  
• Xbox Series X: 1.61 GB
  
• PS4: 1.77 GB
  
• PS5: 1.43 GB

• Added 2.0x scope to ACS12 (removed 1.5x scope).
  
• Added 1.5x scope to MX4 Storm.

• Removed 1.5x scope from C1.

• Added Deployable Shield (removed Proximity Alarm).
  
• Increased Shumikha Launcher grenades to 14 (from 10).
  
• Improved DP-27 destruction:
  
  • 0 to 4.99m: 0.3 radius hole per shot.
    
  • 5 to 7.99m: 0.2 radius hole per shot.
    
  • Beyond 8m: 0.2 radius hole after three shots.

• Modified M762 recoil so it's harder to control:
  
  • Increased vertical recoil.
    
  • Horizontal spread is stronger to the the left.
    
  • Long burst recoil starts on the 8th bullet (was 12th).

• Increased damage to 69 (from 59).

• Increased damage to 63 (from 57).

• Added the reworked Favela map to Ranked and Unranked playlists so players have more opportunities to play and test it.

• In the Post-Action Report, Ranked and Unranked players can now block or report players who disconnected before the last EOR replay.

• FIXED - Players can vault through barricades after a single melee hit.       
  
• FIXED - Operator Selection remains stuck on screen during gameplay.     
  
• UPDATED - Players can destroy a barricade with certain weapons, causing it to desync and become exploitable. There is an ongoing investigation into this issue to ensure it works as expected for players.  
  
• FIXED - Players can deploy a reinforcement or barricade while falling through a hatch.     
  
• FIXED - Players can select the same Operator as another player during a match.  
  
• UPDATED - Sometimes the Windows cursor remains stuck on screen, blocking camera movement. There is an ongoing investigation into this issue to ensure it works as expected for players.  
  
• FIXED - Some players above 4400 MMR are unable to Squad queue with other players, despite being within the accepted MMR range.           
  
• FIXED - Players lose camera control if they play a match while under an Abandon Penalty.

• FIXED - Operators can fall out of bounds or clip through the wall to get inside the building after exiting rappel in the gap between vents at EXT Forklift Alley on Kanal map.       
  
• FIXED - Attackers have unfair LOS into 1F Main Hallway and 2F Landing after vaulting over a bush on Villa map.               
  
• FIXED - The destructible floor doesn't fully break when Sledge uses the Breaching Hammer on the metal support beams on Favela map.  
  
• FIXED - Two soft walls cannot be reinforced while Defenders are standing on a reinforced hatch in 1F Public Bathroom on Consulate map.    
  
• FIXED - Gap on top of barricaded doorway allows LOS into EXT Pedestrian Customs on Border Map.          
  
• FIXED - Several LOD issues on Villa map.
  
• FIXED - Defuser can be dropped behind indestructible plant pots at EXT Terrace on Villa Map.      
  
• FIXED - Player movement dips while passing over the triangular gap between PC boxes in 2F Coin Farm on Favela Map.       
  
• FIXED - Deployable devices float when placed on wooden beams on Kafe Dostoyevsky map.

• FIXED - Fuze starts a round with a default weapon loadout if the player doesn't swap between weapons during Operator Selection.        
  
• FIXED - Jackal stops rappelling for a moment if gadget is enabled or disabled.      
  
• FIXED - Lights on Ace's S.E.L.M.A. Aqua Breacher appear in an incorrect location.
  
• FIXED - When Kali cancels a reload by switching weapons, the player is unable to ADS.    
  
• FIXED - When Buck cancels a Skeleton Key reload, the player is unable to ADS.    
  
• FIXED - Jackal's Eyenox Model III continues to ping Defenders after Jackal is eliminated.  
  
• FIXED - IQ's Electronics Detector automatically reequips after IQ places a Breach Charge.

• FIXED - Multiple localization issues throughout the game.             
  
• FIXED - Deployment SFX is silent when a player deploys a Frag Grenade or C4, then crouches or goes prone at the same time. 
  
• FIXED - New HUD can be activated through a game console command.   
  
• FIXED - Popup for redeeming the Sunstark bundle crashes the game.       
  
• FIXED - Prompts may linger on screen over several rounds.          
  
• FIXED - The iron sight attachment for the ITA12S and SMG-12 floats in multiple menus.  
  
• FIXED - Players can create a hole in Castle's Armor Panel if they melee a spot near the frame on both sides.               
  
• FIXED - Rappel SFX is sometimes inaudible.         
  
• FIXED - Keyboard players who browse the Charms category in the shop experience navigation issues.
  
• FIXED - UMP45 has the wrong weapon skin thumbnail for Six Major NA 2021.       
  
• FIXED - Booster icon is missing from the Booster activation confirmation side-panel.        
  
• FIXED - Battle Pass tab in Post-Action Report does not immediately update for players who complete the last tier of the Battle Pass. 

• FIXED - Incorrect Traditional Chinese character present in Thunderbird's Bio.

It shouldn't be surprising that Rainbow Six Siege 2 isn't in the cards, given Ubisoft's broad push toward fewer standalone releases and more long-term services, and the direction the game has pursued since its launch in 2015. But as part of an online Q&A with fans today, the devs behind the game have broken down the exact reasons why Rainbow Six Siege is not getting a sequel any time soon.

"Siege is an evolving game," creative director Leroy Athanassoff says. "The Siege of the future will be dramatically different from today's Siege, to the point where we could call it Siege 2. However, as a team, we strongly believe we can bring about these changes in an incremental way, within the current Siege framework."

Athanassoff continues: "Siege 2 would mean a new game, a new environment, probably a new inventory and maybe a new dev team. We do not feel that this is what is needed for the community. We care about your investment in the game, we do not want to move to a new one."

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It's nearly been six years since Rainbow Six Siege launched, and despite still drawing in record numbers of players but it continues to face stiff opposition from the likes of Apex Legends, Fortnite, and Call of Duty: Warzone - all fantastic free-to-play games. However, don't expect Siege to go F2P anytime soon, as Ubisoft confirmed to us that it is still "no plan" to do so.

Rainbow Six Siege continues to offer excellent free weekends and the like, but a few people may be hesitant to get into Siege due to the up-front cost. The game's director Leroy Athanassoff previously stated over a year ago that, regarding Siege going F2P, "on the development team we want that at some point" and that they "want the game to be accessible to everyone" - although they did admit there would be challenges involved.

We caught up with associate game director Aurélien Chiron regarding the state of Rainbow Six Siege right now and their plans for the future, and of course, we had to ask for an update about the possibility of it going free-to-play - and it still seems unlikely.

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