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June 6, 2020

Operation Steel Wave

Don't miss a beat, Operation Steel Wave is coming in Rainbow Six Siege. Two new Operators specialized in rescue missions join the Rainbow Team this season, Ace and Melusi. With them, expect a newly reworked House into the game. As you'll find in the Patch Notes below, with this season you can also expect our House rework as well as the new secondary gadget, the Proximity Alarm. Keep an eye out for changes to our Matchmaking Rating system and Amaru's gadget function, plus brand new seasonal weapon skins and Echo's Elite skin!

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Upcoming Updates

May 28, 2020

MASTER SIEGE WITH GAMEPLAN: SHARE YOUR VIDEO GUIDES TODAY

Master Your Game with Gameplan, available now for Rainbow Six Siege. Gameplan is a part of the Ubisoft web ecosystem and can help you level up your game by efficiently filtering through YouTube videos for you. The Gameplan system is streamlined to deliver quality content relevant to your needs making it fast and easy to find walkthroughs, tips & tricks, and other helpful content!

May 27, 2020

OP ISSUES AND COMMUNITY CONCERNS

After our April Top Issues blog, we made an update to the game that would allow us to gather more data to accurately track and identify lobby-freezers. We were able to successfully use that data to implement an auto-kick feature for individuals identified as holding up games through extreme loading times. Kicked players will receive an abandon sanction and be locked out of ranked/unranked until the match is over.

May 27, 2020

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEW RAINBOW SIX ESPORTS ASIA-PACIFIC PROGRAM

As unveiled during the Six Invitational 2020, a major update is coming to the Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege’s esports programs. The four existing regions – Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia-Pacific – will now run in parallel their dedicated regional programs, all leading to the Six Invitational, the pinnacle of the Rainbow Six competitive year.

May 5, 2020

Y5S2 PRE-SEASON DESIGNER'S NOTES

Balancing changes are data and feedback informed. Several teams in contact with various segments of our community, gather and compile both data and feedback to provide guidance to our designers. We are about to give you an insight about future changes and the reasoning behind them.

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May 2, 2020

R6 VINTAGE FASHION FANART CONTEST WINNERS

A huge shoutout to everyone that participated. We received so many amazing submissions and saw so much creativity. The winners below are some of the top entries from artists that really took operator fashion and style to another mile.

May 1, 2020

ANNOUNCING THE RAINBOW SIX EUROPEAN OPEN CLASH

As the upcoming launch of the European League approaches – as part of its new regionalized ecosystem –, we are thrilled to announce the Rainbow Six European Open Clash, an online hybrid competitive tournament organized in partnership with FACEIT, where 16 European teams, both professional and amateur, will compete for a 50 000€ prize pool which will be donated in full to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders.

April 27, 2020

THE NEW SET OF EXCLUSIVE TWITCH PRIME OPERATORS SETS ARE AVAILABLE

The new set will follow the same recipe as the ones before, with Twitch-exclusive operator sets for Zofia, Lesion & Ying. These unique items can only be obtained for a limited time for all Twitch Prime members upon redeem. The three drop windows are as follows: May 4th to June 3rd: Zofia Byte set June 4th to July 3rd: Lesion Byte set July 4th to August 3rd: Ying Byte set Each set includes a uniform, a headgear, a weapon skin and a charm.

April 21, 2020

Y5S1.2 PATCH NOTES

The Y5S1.2 Patch will deploy to PC and Console in the week of April 20th. Please see our Designer's Notes for more insight on the balancing changes coming with the update.