Rainbow Six Siege, it gets .. aliens?
Today Ubisoft revealed first details of “Operation Chimera” and “Outbreak Event”, the opening content of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Year Three. Two new operators, specialists in biohazard situations and playable in adversarial multiplayer, will have to face a major threat in the game’s first co-op event, Outbreak.
This time, the Rainbow team faces an entirely different threat: an infestation of unknown origin is attacking the small town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. The danger is so high that the authorities quarantined the entire town, trapping civilians and soldiers inside. Pushed to its limits, team Rainbow calls in some of the very best biohazard specialists currently in operation within the World’s elite national CTUs.
Respectively from France and Russia, these hot zone specialists are experts in matters of biological warfare and veterans of numerous conflicts involving bio-chemical weapons. They are Rainbow Six’s best hope against the dangers lurking in the Quarantine Zone.
Outbreak, a 4-week brand new co-op event
In Outbreak, the first seasonal event for Rainbow Six Siege, players will choose their best team of three to enter the devastated town of Truth or Consequences and neutralize the threat. From exploding monstrosities to hulking horrors, the Rainbow Six team will face something never-seen before. These armored monsters will bring the fight close and push the destruction engine to new heights. Players will have to find new ways of using their arsenal, against a foe that doesn’t take cover and engages instantly in close combat.
“Operation Chimera” will be available on TTS from February 19th and on all platforms on March 6th while “Outbreak” will be playable on PC on the second day of the Operation Chimera TTS, on February 20th. It will then be available on all platforms from March 6th to April 3rd inclusively.
You can watch that teaser above, but it appears the residents of a small, real-world town in New Mexico have recovered a Russian spacecraft, leading to an outbreak of an extraterrestrial nature.
“[An] infestation of unknown origin is attacking the small town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico,” Ubisoft said in a release. “The danger is so high that the authorities quarantined the entire town, trapping civilians and soldiers inside. Pushed to its limits, team Rainbow calls in some of the very best biohazard specialists currently in operation within the World’s elite national CTUs.
“Respectively from France and Russia, these hot zone specialists are experts in matters of biological warfare and veterans of numerous conflicts involving bio-chemical weapons. They are Rainbow Six’s best hope against the dangers lurking in the Quarantine Zone.”
Rainbow Six Siege’s Outbreak event will run for four weeks, and teams of three will take on a mysterious threat. “From exploding monstrosities to hulking horrors, the Rainbow Six team will face something never-seen before,” Ubisoft said. “These armored monsters will bring the fight close and push the destruction engine to new heights. Players will have to find new ways of using their arsenal, against a foe that doesn’t take cover and engages instantly in close combat.”
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At least it's not zombies.
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I played this game a few times its very fun and looks amazing, nothing wrong with Zombies either I very much enjoy playing zombies in co-op its a cod tradition.My daughter is way better then me I must be loosing my reflexes at 40 lol.
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Maybe I should install R6: Siege again. Hope there is not some additional disappointment waiting for me in game.
(Like stupid change to mechanics, Or pay-walled gameplay affecting content.)
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I've played it since beta and design-wise it's probably one of the best shooters ever made. The concept is relatively straight forward but the wall destruction mechanics and operator abilities add tactical elements that make it not only innovative but adds to the skill ceiling potential over more traditional shooters.
That being said the game is riddled with technical flaws. The netcode was terrible, better now since the operation health update, but still significantly worse than other modern shooters. It took Ubisoft nearly two years to fix the matchmaking into a state that was workable. There are bugs galore - for example Ash's rocket failing to destroy walls/windows has been a bug since beta and still occurs. Shield operators are buggy often showing the shield in the incorrect position, mostly on the z-axis and ubisoft claims to have addressed it several times now with the issue still occuring. I still occasional clip through walls when rappeling. Countless other weird glitches and issues - and I think most of them are related to the netcode which they can't seem to fix for whatever reason.
Despite those though I still find the game really fun and I'm glad it has such a large fanbase now, even in the face of ubisoft recently trying to kill it with the lootbox stuff - the actual dev team doing the content updates did a great job adding maps/operators and maintaining fairly good balance (sans blackbeard). I really hope they end up ironing out the rest of the issues.
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Can't wait . Too bad i will be at Work then. But this game îs beautifull .