Rainbow Six Test Server
The Rainbow Six Siege team has revealed patch notes for its current test server, and they come with a wide array of balance changes across the attacking side. The test server is live today with these changes as of 1 PM EDT.One of Siege’s strongest operators, Finka, is buffed further on the test server, with her inconsistent flashbang grenades being swapped out for the more powerful frag grenades, and she’s now less vulnerable to one of her biggest counters—Smoke. Operators under the effects of one of Finka’s nano boosts now only take 50% more damage from Smoke’s canisters, rather than double damage. As of last season, Finka was one of the, but her pick rate at high level was still lacking. While this change will certainly up her pickrate, further buffing one of the strongest operators in the game doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.IQ and Blackbeard, meanwhile, are nerfed. IQ is losing her frag grenades in favour of a claymore, and the range on her scanner is being decreased from 20 metres to 15. IQ’s main utility comes from her solid guns, frag grenades and high speed rather than from her situational gadget.
Without frags to rely on she may have to change roles from a speedy entry fragger to a slower, intel based operator, using her gadget to remove utility from the defending side, which seems more in line with her original role within a team.Blackbeard's shield is getting weaker, down to 50 HP from 60 HP, but he also receives a slight speed buff while his shield is equipped. While this may not seem like much, it lowers the number of shots required to break the shield across many defender weapons. This could mean that instead of being forced to aim well and land shots on Blackbeard’s unprotected body, players can now just blast away at his head and get a relatively similar time to kill. Forcing a camping Blackbeard off a window, where his shield can cover him nearly completely, becomes plausible rather than near-impossible. This change probably won’t affect higher levels of play as much though, which are more dominated by one-shot headshots, where Blackbeard’s shield still offers a significant advantage.A smaller change is coming to Dokkaebi, with her claymore being swapped out for flashbangs.
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The claymore offers less utility than her smoke grenades anyway, which are more useful for cutting off important lines of sight in the objective. Flash grenades might see some use for disabling players whose location has been revealed by her phone calls, but I doubt that they’ll provide more overall use to the team than smoke grenades.Obviously these operator tweaks could change or be abandoned before they reach Siege itself, but they indicate what Ubisoft considers to be worthy of testing. Also coming in the test server are a variety of smaller changes and bugfixes.
Check them out yourself on the, or on the test server itself which is currently live.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (for PC) Operation Phantom Sight DLC as part of its second season of year 4 content during today’s Pro League Finals in Milan, Italy.Operation Phantom Sight introduces Nokk, a new Attacker armed with an FMG-9 and SIX12-SD who uses her high-tech HEL Presence Reduction gadget to navigate behind enemy lines, invisible to cameras and drones. Download album zip files. OPS also introduces a new Defender, Warden, who uses his “Glance Smartglasses” to enhance his vision to give him better visibility in smoke and immunity to flashes while remaining still - he uses an M590A1 and MPX to make him a powerful anchor and entry denier.
OPS also includes a major rework of the Kafe Dostoyevsky Moscow map, which includes a redesigned first floor, new bomb sites on the second floor, and other updates aimed to improve replayablity and gameplay opportunities. Other features that will be introduced in the new season include updates to Reverse Friendly Fire, a reworked ranked playlist and a new in-game storefront. The test server (an alternate version of Rainbow Six Siege that allows players to test upcoming gameplay features) for OPS goes live on May 21 - this test server is exclusive to PC players.
OPS is included as part of the available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, with two more seasons set to drop this year.