Ubisoft are making another big change to the world of Rainbow Six Siege, with several maps being taken out of the rotation for both ranked and casual matches. The ranked rotation will contain the same nine matches as are contained in the competitive season’s playlist, with season three’s map pool …
Read More »GAMESCOM 2017: Blood Orchid hands on & exclusive footage, how will this affect the game’s meta?
Today at Gamescom Esports Pro got a chance to get our hands on the content coming to Rainbow Six Siege with the forthcoming Blood Orchid update. We played with the three new operators — the new attacker Ying, and defenders Lesion and Ela — in a bomb defusal match on …
Read More »Ubisoft test improved servers for Rainbow Six Siege on Technical Test Servers
Ubisoft is testing out upgraded servers for Rainbow Six Siege on the game’s Technical Test Servers. This comes from a Reddit post from community manager Matt Shotcha. “During the last two months we redesigned our systems to support a different scheme of CPU partitioning over the new generation of game …
Read More »How do Rainbow Six’s Alpha Packs work? We open 100 to see what you might get
Loot boxes dubbed Alpha Packs have breached Rainbow Six Siege in the latest update, giving players the opportunity to earn a variety of cosmetic items. But don’t turn your nose up just yet. Every player gets an Alpha Pack for free, and you can buy them for 5,000 renown, the …
Read More »Rainbow Six Siege could hit 20 million registered players this month
In Ubisoft’s first quarter financials call last night, the publisher revealed several key facts about the business, as suits the celebratory tone of these calls. However, one figure was a real cause to celebrate. Ubisoft’s shooters Rainbow Six Siege will probably be hitting 20 million registered players before the end …
Read More »Rainbow Six Siege patch nerfs Glaz
Can you hear it? There’s a sound travelling around the internet like thousands of angry Reddit fans being silenced at once. Rainbow Six Siege’s 2.2.1 patch notes have been released, and Glaz is getting the nerf many have claimed he needs. Glaz’s rebalance is the only operator shuffle to take …
Read More »Rainbow Six Siege hitbox change gets rid of those pesky earmuffs
Rainbow Six Siege’s 2.2.1 update is now on the technical test servers ahead of its launch tomorrow, and the big change is that you can’t shoot the GSG operators in the headgear anymore. It’s part of a two-step hitbox restructuring, with Ubisoft revealing in a blog post on their website …
Read More »“The idea is that we are here to stay, and Operation Health is essential for that,” says game director Alexandre Remy
Rainbow Six Siege was a phoenix from the ashes, a stellar FPS game that missed its audience upon its December 2015 release, but was subsequently “discovered”, with the amount of concurrent players rising with each update, and a slow increase in the number of people playing near constant. There are …
Read More »Rainbow 6 Siege game director talks Glaz: perfect balance an important goal, but unreachable
In an interview with Esports Pro, Rainbow Six Siege game director Alexandre Remy spoke about the game’s recent shift towards a Glaz meta, responding to the recent community outcry over the Russian sniper by saying that a perfect balance is “an important goal to aim at, but also an unreachable …
Read More »Ubisoft reworks Rainbow Six Siege roadmap for three months of fixes
Rainbow Six Siege’s second year roadmap has been tweaked to allow for a three month period of fixing various issues that have been bothering players. The upcoming seasons set in Hong Kong and South Korea have been pushed back to August and November respectively and the Poland season dropped. Season …
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