Ubisoft today announced a release date of September 16th Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction, the cooperative monster-mashing FPS formerly known as Rainbow Six Quarantine. It will pit familiar R6 Siege operators against a parasitic alien goop that's taking over cities - and people. Check out the first gameplay trailer below.
When Ubisoft announced Rainbow Six Siege was going to halt the production of new content and work on fixing the game way back in June 2017, it divided the community. Some were happy that major problems, like dodgy servers or the matchmaking system, were finally being improved, while others were disappointed that they weren't going to get their hands on new content.
The existence of that season, known as Operation Health, is still a divisive subject, but it doesn't stop people calling for a second iteration of it. Siege is in a much healthier position today than it was this time four years ago, but like most competitive FPS games out there, it still has its issues.
However, the game's development team is now confident it can continue to strike a balance between improving the game and providing new content, and rules out ever having to do a Operation Health again.
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Whether you're just jumping onto Rainbow Six Siege fresh or you're a returning player, the landscape of Siege in 2021 is totally different to everything that's come before. The game has changed wildly since its launch in December 2015, meaning that formerly invaluable operators like Hibana are no longer an essential part of the meta, while many newer Rainbow Six Siege operators just aren't making the impact you might expect.
So, we enlisted the help of Siege content creator 'GriefDrums' and Pro League commentator / analyst Jess 'JessGOAT' Bolden to help us pick the best of the best Rainbow Six Siege operators so that you can survive the draft phase and start every round with the best chance of success.
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June is here, which means it's time for the next Rainbow Six Siege 'after action' report, and some hints about what developer Ubisoft has in store for the FPS game soon. May's iteration of the report has now dropped on Twitter, and it offers hints about some "top issues" it'll be offering updates on soon, as well as some gameplay changes coming when the Rainbow Six Siege Operation North Star release date rolls around.
The May post doesn't tell us what Ubisoft's next ''top issues blog' update will look at in any detail, but we do have an idea of the topics the studio will be exploring. First up, the devs will be offering an update "explaining next steps" for MMR rollback - a feature introduced way back in Y4S1, which was implemented to "help reduce the long-term impact cheaters may have on other players' seasonal rankings". Essentially, the mechanic rolls back any gains and losses in MMR made by all players in matches in which a banned cheater participated for that particular season.
It's not clear what Ubisoft has in mind in the way of next steps for the feature, whether that means some changes - significant, minor, or otherwise. But, it's a pretty complex system that means balancing various different factors (such as how many matches' worth of MMR to roll back) to get right, as you can see in the dev post explaining it, so it's possible the studio's got some tweaks in mind going forward to optimise it further.
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