“Rainbow Six Siege” Year 8 Roadmap Update: Grenade Modification/Shield Rework Beta/Controller Mapping Function, etc.

Ubisoft has updated its Year 8 Roadmap, which describes the one-year schedule for Rainbow Six Siege. We’ve once again explained the new items and functional improvements that will be introduced in Y8S4 (Y8S4).

As a previously non-existent item, balance adjustments have been announced for the Assault Trigger sub-tool, the Grenade.

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Updated “R6S” roadmap for the eighth year

The Year 8 update, which will be implemented in 2023, will leave only “Season 4” remaining. Let’s take a look again at the items that will be introduced in the next major update.

See this article for the previous roadmap update in August.

The title of Season 4 of Year 8 is “Deep freezing process” announced (detailed article). The new launcher is said to have synergy with various tools on the defensive side, although the details are unknown.

The whole picture4:00 AM on November 13, Japan timewill be released on the final day of the currently ongoing global tournament “BLAST R6 Major Atlanta”.

Grenade modifications

In this roadmap update, a New Grenades Update has been added.

In the ongoing global tournament BLAST R6 Major Atlanta, new player picks Finka and Gridlock stand out. The impact of flags on player choices is immeasurable, and the development team acknowledges that the status of ‘frag grenades’ has risen to the point where they are very powerful in the current meta.’

Changing to grenades is inevitable. The balance will be adjusted, and the balance will be “rebalanced so that its effect is more consistent with all other sub-instruments.”

The area of ​​influence has already weakened in Year 7, but it will likely weaken further. Grenades are useful for getting kills from below decks without taking risks or for destroying bulletproof gadgets, but I would like to pay attention to what aspects of this gadget will change.

A new map has been implemented

A new map will be implemented in Season 4 of Year 8. It could have been an arcade mode minimap, but this blog describes it as a new minimap based on top-down gameplay with a carefully designed layout that opens up unprecedented strategic possibilities. It has been confirmed as a battle map for Normal Mode.

Details are unknown, but the official comic book mentions a freighter named “Heartbreaker” (detailed article). I’m curious if this is a new map.

“Defender AI Playlist” for beginners

An interesting new playlist has been introduced, where you play against AI-controlled defense operators.

However, it is only aimed at new players. The purpose of this AI playlist is described as “enabling new players to hone their skills against specially trained AI defensive bots to become better operators.”

It seems that AI players are still in their infancy, but in the future it will be interesting to be able to play against AI that behaves like players in the top ranks of ranked matches, or AI that copies the strategies of professional teams.

Beta testing has been conducted to rework the armor

A rework of the shield launcher was released at the time of the Year 8 announcement. The pilot will come during Season 4 of Year 8.

In the rework, features such as “You will no longer be able to fire from the hip when walking with the shield” and “You can only swing your head from side to side while keeping the shield facing forward” were introduced. , but this is not yet available in the official version.

Shield Rework Early Release will be available to play on the Lab Test Server during Y8S4. In other words, it looks like the armor-wielding Operators won’t have completely changed since the start of Y8S4.

Just as the Frost rework required lab testing and feedback, it seems likely that the Shield rework will take some time to complete.

Change control button assignment.Skinny waist possible

This is a feature change for consoles. The idea is to make it easier to assign custom actions to each button on the controller within the game.

Furthermore, during the course of Y8S 4, a new action will be introduced allowing the long-awaited “lower back tilt” to be performed using the controller.

Year 9: New participation conditions for ranked matches

These are the changes planned for “Year 9” in 2024. In order to increase competitiveness and ensure stable battles between players with similar skills, “other conditions for participation in ranked matches will be added.”

Arrested Development: Console version privacy mode

Privacy mode has been implemented in the PC version for some time. It was also planned to be implemented in a console version, but this development has now been cancelled. The explanation is that this was due to external problems encountered during the implementation process.

However, it was also mentioned that the new privacy protection features are available on each platform itself, rather than in-game. As a result, development of Privacy Mode for the console version of Siege has been halted for the time being.

Y8S4 will be released in full on November 13th

A new launcher and new map have been implemented. Year 8 Season 4 ‘Operation Deep Breeze’, which will also include balance adjustments to existing content, will be released at 4am on November 13 JST.

This corresponds to the final day of the Grand Atlanta World Championship, just before the start of the Grand Final (Japanese distribution:Youtube、Twitch). It’s early morning in Japan, but Siege fans should definitely check it out.

• Title: Rainbow Six Siege
• Release date: December 10, 2015
• Target models: PS5, PS4, Xbox Seriessteam)

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