Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is an online tactical shooter video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on December 1, 2015; the game was also released for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S exactly five years later on December 1, 2020. The game puts heavy emphasis on environmental destruction and cooperation between players.

Each player assumes control of an attacker or a defender in different gameplay modes such as rescuing a hostage, defusing a bomb, and taking control of an objective within a room. The title has no campaign but features a series of short, offline missions called, "situations" that can be played solo. These missions have a loose narrative, focusing on recruits going through training to prepare them for future encounters with the "White Masks", a terrorist group that threatens the safety of the world.

Siege is an entry in the Rainbow Six series and the successor to Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Patriots, a tactical shooter that had a larger focus on narrative. After Patriots was eventually cancelled due to its technical shortcomings, Ubisoft decided to reboot the franchise. The team evaluated the core of the Rainbow Six franchise and believed that letting players impersonate the top counter-terrorist operatives around the world suited the game most. To create authentic siege situations, the team consulted actual counter-terrorism units and looked at real-life examples of sieges such as the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege. Powered by AnvilNext 2.0, the game also utilizes Ubisoft's RealBlast technology to create destructible environments.

Contents

• Gameplay
• Gamemodes
• System Requirements
• Base Operators
• Recommendations

Gameplay

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is a first-person shooter game, in which players utilize many different operators from the Rainbow team. Different operators have different nationalities, weapons, and gadgets. The game features an asymmetrical structure whereby the teams are not always balanced in their choices of abilities.

The base Counter-Terrorism Units (CTUs) available for play are the:

• American Hostage Rescue Team (referred to in-game as the FBI SWAT)
• British SAS
• German GSG-9
• Russian Spetsnaz
• French GIGN

When the round begins in an online match, the attackers choose one of several spawn points from which to launch their attack while defenders do the same from which to defend from. A one-minute preparatory period will then commence wherein the attackers are then given control over mecanum-wheeled drones to scout the map in search of enemy operators, traps and defensive set-ups in addition to the target objective(s), while the defenders establish their defences and are encouraged to do so without having the defensive and target objective(s) details being discovered, chiefly through destroying the drones. Maps in the game are designed to encourage close quarters combat, and players cannot respawn until the end of a round.

The game features a heavy emphasis on environmental destruction using a procedural destruction system. Players can break structures by planting explosives on them, or shoot walls to make bullet holes. Players may gain tactical advantages through environmental destruction, and the system aims at encouraging players to utilize creativity and strategy. A bullet-penetration system is featured, in which bullets that pass through structures deal less damage to enemies. In addition to destruction, players on the defending team can also set up a limited number of heavy-duty fortifications on walls and deployable shields around them for protection; these can be destroyed through breaching devices, explosives, or by utilizing operator specific gadgets in the case of the former. In order to stop attackers' advance, defenders can place traps like barbed-wire and explosive laser wire traps around the maps. Vertical space is a key gameplay element in the game's maps: players can destroy ceilings and floors using breach charges and can ambush enemies by rappelling through windows. Powerful weapons like grenades and breach charges are valuable, as only a limited amount can be used in a round.

Gamemodes

At launch, the game featured 11 maps and 5 different gameplay modes spanning both PVE and PVP. With the downloadable content (DLC) released post-launch with an additional four maps from year one and three maps from year two – there are currently 20 playable maps. The gameplay modes featured include:

System requirements

Base Operators

UNIT	ATTACKER		DEFENDER
SAS	Sledge	Thatcher	Smoke	Mute
FBI SWAT	Ash	Thermite	Castle	Pulse
GIGN	Twitch	Montagne	Doc	Rook
SPETSNAZ	Glaz	Fuze	Kapkan	Tachanka
GSG 9	Blitz	IQ	Jäger	Bandit

Recommendations

The following are my recommended base operators from each faction:

• SAS - Smoke: He is a very versatile and beginner friendly operator, who excels at locking down and securing small rooms and objectives. He can be armed with a submachine gun, or with a shotgun. For secondary weapons you can choose between a common pistol and a machine pistol.


• FBI - Thermite: While some people say that he's boring and dull, to me he is a really great attacker. You can bust open reinforced walls, incapacitate your enemies' senses by using a flash grenade or allowing your team to sneak through corridors with smoke grenades. Just like in Smoke's case, he can be armed with a shotgun or an assault rifle (which are mainly exclusive to attackers), for secondary weapons you can choose between two ordinary handguns.


• GIGN - Doc: A true champion among beginner friendly operators, he offers a game changing ability, which allows him to heal his teammates and himself. He can use this stim pistol 3 times in a round, which provides 120 bonus health to his team at times of need. He can also revive himself from the downed state with extra health (while bleeding out), without the help of his teammates. His kit offers you a choice between a shotgun and two submachine guns. As for sidearms he can choose between a pistol and a revolver.


• Spetsnaz - Fuze: A slow, but sturdy attacker with the potential of smoking out campers from their beloved objectives, this operator is often regarded as bad, due to his bombs affecting the hostage too, which can lead to the hostage dying, and with that losing the round. His loadout is an interesting one, since you can choose a ballistic shield- allowing you to safeguard your teammates. Of course, you can choose an Assault rifle too, or even a light machine gun. as for secondaries he can choose between two russian handguns.


• GSG-9 - Blitz: As his name suggests, he is the "lightning". He has a unique shield, which can impair his opponents vision in a flash, and he himself is quite swift despite carrying that heavy shield making him a strong opponent to encounter in a gunfight. He carries a special handgun along with his shield, which is often not as accurate as you want it to be.