Developers from Ubisoft Montreal have shared details on what the fifth year of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege team action game will bring as part of an overall two-year plan. Director of game development Leroy Athanassoff (Leroy Athanassoff) said that the team wants to carefully study those aspects that have not been able to pay sufficient attention, and will try to return to the original concept.
The first half of the year will proceed as usual, with two playable seasons each bringing two new Operators, reworked Oregon and Home maps, two events, a Battle Pass, and access to the Arcade game list. But the third and fourth seasons, in addition to the reworked maps "Skyscraper" and "Chalet" and other things, will bring only one operative each, but the team's efforts will be directed to new materials and optimization of the basics of the gameplay, as well as story videos about characters. The same approach will continue in 2021, except that the functions and rework of operators will be implemented during the seasons, and not at the time of their start.
Chief game designer Jean-Baptiste Halle (Jean-Baptiste Halle) said that the game moved away from its origins. The number of operatives has increased from 20 to more than 50 and continues to strive for the previously announced hundred. But the problem is that now new players are less oriented and contribute less to the work of the assault squad. Therefore, the developers are working on improving communication within the team, which will allow each player to contribute without having deep skills in playing for specific operators. For example, it will be possible to control a microcamera moving across the floor to inform allies. Devices will also be added that are available to all operatives or some characters. The developers plan to make rare but serious changes to the operatives as well - this can completely change the style of playing for a particular character. This year, such an update will affect, for example, the operative Tachankin (Tachankin).
In the first half of the year, the four-day Arcade game list will be available once a season, and will become more frequent later. The first of them - Golded Gun - is worth waiting for in the spring. Each operative will have a pistol with a reload after each shot. Year 5 will also bring a card ban feature that players can use in a similar fashion to the existing Operative Weeding feature. Another promised mode that allows you to divide the players into teams and determine the strongest during the fight.
The most important addition will be the reputation system. Rewards or penalties will be applied based on the player's reputation, and notifications will help you not to miss changes in the rating.
Approaches are indeed changing, although not radically. This is due to the fact that Ubisoft in December set new priorities and some members of the development team.
Another news was a 6-minute cinematic video about the event , which took place from January 15 to February 16 and dedicated to the traditional Six Invitational tournament at the Place Bell complex in Montreal. The tense confrontation between defenders and attackers ends with an unexpected denouement, and at the end of the video there is a promise to repeat the competition again next year.
Source: 3dnews.ru