Rainbow Six Siege Year 4: operators, release date, roadmap – all the latest details
Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 is bearing down on us with the promise of another eight meta-defining operators, new maps, CTUs, and plenty more. After last year kicked off with the limited time PvE event, Outbreak, there is also a slim chance that Year 4 will deliver more than new gadgets and guns.
Interestingly, we heard about Outbreak and the roadmap for last year long before its release date – there was even a lengthy ARG to build hype for the zombie-slaying game mode. Ubisoft Montreal released their Year 4 roadmap at the Six Invitational 2019, but only released the nationalities of the upcoming ops and additional details such as what kind of map to expect each season. We no know everything about six of the Year 4 operators, but there is no information on the gadgets of the Season 4 ops from Kenya and India.
In addition to all of this, there are still some map reworks to look forward to, heaps of operators reworks, seasonal events that will add a lot more variety to each few months, and a some other details like changes to team killing and gadgets. There are even reworks to secondary gadgets, with the Deployable Shield now being able to attach to the walls and the Breach Charge now allowing for hot breaches.
Here is everything we know about Rainbow Six Siege Year 4, from new gadgets to when you can expect an official announcement.
RAINBOW SIX SIEGE YEAR 4 ROADMAP
The Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 roadmap and operators have been fully revealed at the Six Invitational 2019. Here is how each season will play out:
Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 Season 1
- Operation Burnt Horizon consists of two Australian operators
- New map called Outback
Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 Season 2
- One operator from Denmark and one from the US Secret Service
- Kafe map rework
Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 Season 3
- Operation Ember Rise adds one operator from Peru and one from Mexico
- Kanal map rework
- Highlights of the Rainbow Six Siege Ember Rise patch notes
- Ember Rise gameplay review
Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 Season 4
- One operator from Kenya and one from India
- Theme Park rework
There will be only one new map across the new year, but there are also plenty of planned operator reworks to look forward to.
Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 operators
Each new year of Rainbow Six Siege promises to add eight new operators across four seasons and counter terrorist units, most of which are based on real-life special forces teams like the GIGR and GROM. Ubisoft announced what nations will be represented in Year 4, but we still don’t know the exact CTUs for the final season.
Operation Burnt Horizon
The two Australian operators – attacker Gridlock and defender Mozzie – are now live in-game. Gridlock provides the attacking team with spike traps that can help secure flanks, while Mozzie can hijack drones and use them to aid the defending side. You can read all about their full loadouts in our Rainbow Six Siege Burnt Horizon review.
Operation Phantom Sight
Year 4 Season 2’s Rainbow Six Siege new operators, Nokk and Warden, hail from Denmark and the United States respectively.
Nokk’s background information is almost entirely redacted, but we know she spent time working with the Danish Jaeger Corps before joining Rainbow.
Her gadget is the HEL, a glove attachment that can cloak her from cameras and reduce the noise she makes for a short period of time. This makes Nokk an exceptional roamer and flanker on attack. Her kit suits stealth, as she can bring the FMG9 SMG or silenced SIX12 shotgun, or a suppressed D50 as a secondary.
Defender Warden comes from the US Secret Service and his Glance Smart Glasses make him a solid anchor, especially against operators like Glaz, Blitz, and Ying. These glasses can be activated, instantly enhancing Warden’s sight so he can see through stun flashes and even smoke. To help him lock down the objective, he can bring the mighty SAS M509A1 shotgun or MPX SMG as primary weapons. We recommend taking the shotgun as a primary as Warden can bring the SMG12 as a secondary.
Neither of the Rainbow Six Siege Operation Phantom Sight operators has had a massive impact on the meta, but both make interesting flex operators.
Operation Ember Rise
Rainbow Six Siege Ember Rise adds an attacker from Peru, Amaru, and a defender from Mexico, Goyo.
Amaru’s gadget is the Garra Hook, which lets her rapidly ascend through destroyed hatches, up to rooftops, and even hot breach through a barricaded window. Her G8A1 LMG is an excellent tool for dealing damage over prolonged firefights, while her Supernova shotgun is great if you plan on using the Garra Hook to surprise foes or break open hatches. Her secondary weapon choices are solid, too: you can take the lethal SMG11 or helpful ITA12S shotgun.
Goyo can bring three Volcan Shields as his main gadget. These look like Deployable Shields from the front, but hide an explosive canister and fuel container that deals damage to nearby operators when shot and spreads a deadly fire that burns for 12 seconds. As these shields can be detonated by anyone, and even Maestro’s Evil Eye cameras, Goyo can anchor or roam, and his kit allows both, too. Goyo can take either the Vector .45 ACP SMG or the TCSG12 slug shotgun, which can carry and ACOG scope.
Other changes arrive with Ember Rise, such as the reintroduction of Pilot Program skins, a reduction in the map pool for ranked that removes Hereford, Theme Park, and Fortress, and tougher leave penalties in ranked.
Year 4 Season 4
The final two countries making their way to Rainbow Six Siege are Kenya and India. It’s tough to say what joint operation the two nations could be working on with no discernible ties between the two countries other than that they are both on the coast of the India ocean. We also know that the Rainbow Six Siege Battle Pass will arrive in Year 4 Season 4.
Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 release date
In case you didn’t know, the Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 release date has been and gone – Operation Burnt Horizon kicked things off for us.
But there, are still plenty more seasons before Rainbow Six Siege Year 5 and we’ll, as ever, be on hand to provide you with all the latest updates and Siege news.
Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 roadmap revealed, new operators and 3 map reworks detailed
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Ubisoft has revealed the roadmap for Year 4 of Rainbow Six Siege , which includes new operators from Demnark, Peru, Kenya and India, as well as reworks to the Kafe, Kanal and Theme Park maps.
Following the introduction of two Australian operators and the Outback map in Season 1, which Andy covered here , Season 2 will add a new operator from Denmark and one from the United States Secret Service. Instead of a new map, Season 2 will see the map Kafe reworked, Ubisoft announced at the Six Invitational 2019 today.
For Season 3, Ubisoft will introduce operators from Peru and Mexico, and rework the Kanal map, while Season 4 will add operators from Kenya and India and rework Theme Park.
That means that after Season 1, we won’t see any new maps for the rest of Year 4. But there’s still plenty going on: after tweaks to Capitão and Dokkaebi, outlined here , the dev team will nerf both Lion and Glaz. Lion will be able to scan for enemies quicker, but enemy positions will be visible for a shorter time, and only as red pings rather than full outlines. As for Glaz, his scope will only reveal enemies while you’re stood still, which will make him less of an entry fragger.
Ubisoft is also trying to target toxicity and team killing during Year 4. Specifically, it plans to reverse damage you deal to teammates—after a certain level of friendly fire, you’ll receive a sanction, and any more damage you deal to your teammates will be reversed onto you, chipping away at your health bar.
Year 4 will also see the introduction of a newcomer bomb-only playlist that’s for players between levels one and 50, which will only offer three maps. The aim is to ease new players into the game, providing a bridge between casual and ranked play. In ranked play, Ubisoft will make the much-requested pick and ban system permanent.
Other changes include a big rework for deployable shields to make them a viable piece of equipment. They’ll fully cover doorways, and they’ll have small panels of one-way bulletproof glass in them, allowing defenders to see what’s on the other side, almost like a mini Mira window.
Ubisoft also detailed the new tiered cost system for operators: they’ll cost 25,000 renown for their first year, 20,000 renown for their second year, 15,000 renown for their third year, and 10,000 renown after that.
Lastly, the development team detailed their first attempt to target lean spam , which will go live on the test servers tomorrow. Basically, spamming lean will only move your head slightly side to side, rather than the wild flapping that happens currently and makes headshots near-impossible.
More details on the Aussie operators and the new map will arrive later today, so stay tuned.
Samuel Horti is a long-time freelance writer for PC Gamer based in the UK, who loves RPGs and making long lists of games he’ll never have time to play. He’s now a full-time reporter covering health at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. When he does have time for games you may find him on the floor, struggling under the weight of his Steam backlog.
This is the plan for Rainbow Six Siege’s Year 4
Ubisoft has unveiled its highly anticipated roadmap for the upcoming year of updates aimed at Tom Rain Clancy Rainbow Six Siege. As part of the «Six Invitations» held in Montreal, the studio has outlined four significant content planned for 2019.
The Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 Roadmap provides insight into future content plans, highlights game operators and multiplayer maps planned for future updates. With Operation Burnt Horizon fast approaching, this provides a clearer picture of what lies beyond the Australian season.
As with previous Rainbow Six Siege updates, four themed seasons support Year 4, each with two operators and one multiplayer map. It also shakes up past trends by branching out into seven unique counter-terrorist units and playing one new multiplayer map.
Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 begins with the previously announced Operation Horizon Burn; travel with two Australian operators and an Outback multiplayer map. Year 4 Season 2 sees a duo of US and Danish operators combined with a previously leaked Channel map rework. The third update is dedicated to South America with operators from Peru and Mexico, as well as the refinement carried out by Cafe Dostoyevsky. And at the end of 2019year, the makeover theme park welcomes new people from Kenya and India.
- Year 4 Season 1: Two Australian operators, Outback card.
- Year 4 Season 2: Operator USA, Operator Denmark, Cafe Dostoyevsky remakes the map.
- Year 4 Season 3: Operator from Peru, Operator from Mexico, channel map rework.
- Year 4 Season 4: Operator in Kenya, Operator in India, theme park makeover.
Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 roadmap looks promising with support from Ubisoft’s most diverse operator. And despite only one new multiplayer map for 2019year, early glimpses of the accompanying map overhauls indicate significant changes in gameplay and visual tones.
As with previous Rainbow Six Siege updates, all multiplayer maps will be available for free upon release. While $4 Year Pass holders get early access to Operators, the wider public rollout provides an opportunity to buy or earn these add-ons.
Let us know your thoughts on the Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 content roadmap in the comments section.
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Fourth year plans | R6S Fun
On the final day of the Six Invitational 2019, Ubisoft prepared a huge amount of high-profile announcements of innovations and changes. New operations, map overhauls, balance changes, new elite uniforms, and more. We have carefully studied everything and collected it in one material.
Year 4 Roadmap:
The developers have provided the public with a roadmap for the fourth year of the game’s life. In the first season, we are waiting for two operatives from Australia and card Outback . In the second season, one operative from USA and Denmark is waiting for us, as well as a reworking of the map Cafe Dostoevsky .
The third season will bring us an operative from Peru and Mexico . In the same season, we are waiting for the reworking of the map Channel . In the fourth season, operatives from Kenya and India will join the ranks of Unit Rainbow 6 . Among other things, we are waiting for the processing of map Lunopark , for the first time, a map change from the second year expansion of the third season.
Throughout the year, developers will correct the balance of the game, changing certain things, improving the behavior of players by introducing new punishments and tougher penalties for them, as well as innovative playlists for the game.
Also, each season will have a unique event like Mad House on Halloween or Road To S.I.
Roadmap for Year 4
Balance change:
The developers promise us to carefully monitor the balance of the game throughout the fourth year and correct certain points in time.
The developers already know a number of things that they are working on, such as Lion , Blitz , Glaz or stationary shields. So:
- Lion . The developers showed how they corrected this operative. Now the ability does not highlight the operative, but only puts a mark on him, according to the principle of operation of spears Alibi . The duration of his ability has also been reduced to 2 seconds instead of 4.
- Glaz . The developers did not like the situation with the Russian sniper, namely the fact that he often took the first wave when attacking positions, throwing smoke in vain and looking through them with a thermal sight. Now, when moving, Glaz ‘a loses the ability to see through the smoke and highlighting opponents.
- Stationary boards. The developers are trying to rework stationary shields by adding new assignments for them, as well as changing the mechanics of their location.
The developers made it possible to close doorways without gaps, and also added small bulletproof windows like worlds, allowing you to see what is happening in front of the shield in order to better win back from them. - Also showed in more detail the changes that were described in the design notes for the first season of the fourth year.
Player Behavior Improvement:
For a month now, the developers have been struggling with the toxic behavior of the players. The first step was the introduction of warnings and bans for toxic words in the game chat, later, sanctions for special killing of allies in regular games.
Now the developers are introducing a new system that will make players think a lot before killing their matchmates. After the first kill of an ally, when shooting at the second one, you will receive all the damage fired at him, up to lethal.
Playlist introduction:
Throughout the fourth year, developers will introduce different playlists. The very first will be a playlist for beginners — players from level 1 to 50, which will have only three maps with one Bomb mode.
Changes in normal mode:
The developers slightly reworked the normal mode, adding the ability to select the spawn point for the attack, see the drop-down point for the defense, as well as reducing the attack phase by 30 seconds.
Ranked mode beta status:
The developers have announced the imminent release of the rating mode. Beta registration will disappear along with the introduction of the system of banning operatives in matches.
Menu revision:
With each season, the developers are trying to change the game menu so that it is quick to read and easy to understand. In operation Wind Bastion , the score menu and shop menu have been changed. Now, a special section of the player’s rating statistics is being introduced into the game, where you can fully see the achievements of your account in rating games.
The operator menu will also be changed, thanks to which it will become clear which operators are bought and which are not, and will also simplify navigation in it.
eSports panel:
Among other things, the developers shared the panel of tournaments for the fourth year of the game:
The final of the ninth season of the professional league will be held in Italy , namely in Milan from May 18 to 19 . The tenth season PL will be held in Asia . Six Major will be held on the territory of USA , however, the city remains a secret for now. And in February Six Invitational 2020 will be held .
At the minor level, some changes have also come. If last year 4 tournaments were held with the support of the site DreamHack , now the number of tournaments held on this site will be reduced to two: Montreal and Valencia .
