Rainbow Six Siege presents Year 7 Season 2

Ubisoft presented Operation Vector Glarethe second season of year 7 of Rainbow Six Siege. The new Belgian character Sens, a new map in Team Deathmatch mode, the first phase of the new reputation system (with privacy mode and other updates), narrative changes and other gameplay improvements are coming to the game this season .

Operation Vector Glare emphasizes strategy with the latest addition to offense, Sense, a Belgian character with military experience and a background in psychology. Your device, the WHEEL projection system, is a wheel that moves in a straight line and releases small spotlights before self-destructing after a period of time. The spotlights create a light barrier that blocks others’ vision, allowing for quite versatile play with Sens. As an agent, he has low speed and high health, and uses either the new POF-9 or 417, and a 9MM SDP or GONNE-6 as a secondary weapon.

In addition to Sens, with the launch of the season will also come a new exclusive map

Team Deathmatch: Close Combat mode. This is the first specific map in this mode that focuses on movement rather than defensive organization. This facility located at Greece It offers circular flow and a mix of different lines of sight, so playing here will be a unique experience.

Reputation system and penalties

Additionally, as part of the Year 7 roadmap, this season will also see the first phase of the reputation system. This will continue to try to improve the behavior of people who play Rainbow Six Siege. In this update, returned friendly fire will be enabled by default if you hit too many people in your team. Before this happens, you will receive two warnings and the penalty will disappear after playing several games without injuring anyone in your team.

There will be further updates to deal with those who abuse the match cancellation system, providing more control over the process (from the initial request to the cancellation itself). Additionally, everyone will now be able to access privacy settings in the Options menu.

Two new tools will also arrive this season to promote learning. First of all, the Photo gallery, a playground that lets you train, practice, and experiment with weapon damage, attachments, and recoil without the pressure of a match, so you can find your best loadout. And the agent guides

, which give you information about each character, their special abilities and gadgets, as well as advice on attack and defense strategies. Other updates include the inclusion of a third secondary weapon option for certain characters, as well as an option to adjust the intensity of screen shake.

narrative changes

As announced during the Six Invitational 2022, this year sees a narrative shift in the Siege universe. Your characters will now be divided into specialized units who will work together to achieve Rainbow’s overall protection goal.

Operation Vector Glare presented at the wolf squad, the most humanitarian military unit in the world, known for its compassionate and careful approach. Most of its members have field medical training and specialize in protection in one way or another; This team consists of Lion, Montagne, Nomad, Twitch, Ying, Sens, Clash, Melusi, Bandit, Frost, Thunderbird, and Castle, and is led by Doc.

Skins and new rewards

In addition, Ubisoft will collaborate with SEGA and the franchise Yakuza to create bundles with exclusive skins for Rainbow Six Siege. One of them, inspired by Kaoru Sayama, will be for Hibana, and the other, inspired by Kiryu Kazuma, will be available for Echo. Echo will also soon have a new Elite skin inspired by another iconic character from the franchise. Yakuza.

Finally, with Operation Vector Glare comes the team program. This will allow us to invite up to four people who have not yet played in Year 7. After playing five matches in any PvP game mode, you and the other person will receive great rewards.

If you invite several people, you will receive rewards for each of them who completes the program: from new characters from Year 6, to a new Exotic weapon skin, to other rewards such as battle pass points (in case you already have these characters). Likewise, people who choose the game will receive a Year 4 or Year 5 character and other rewards after playing five games.