For the first time in a Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six game, players will engage in sieges, a new style of assault where enemies have the means to transform their environments into modern strongholds while Rainbow Six teams lead the assault to breach the enemy’s position. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege gives players unprecedented control over their ability to fortify their position - by reinforcing walls and floors, using barbed wire, deployable shields and mines, and more - or breach the enemies’ using observation drones, sheet charges, rappelling, and more. The fast pace, lethality and uniqueness of each siege sets a new bar for intense firefights, strategic gameplay and competitive gaming.

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege also features a technological breakthrough that redefines the way players interact with a game environment. Leveraging Ubisoft Montreal’s proprietary Realblast engine, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege incorporates procedural destruction that is realistic and unscripted, meaning the environment reacts authentically, distinctively and dynamically, based on variables like the caliber of bullets or the amount of explosives used. This advance allows players to leverage destruction in meaningful ways. Walls can be shattered, opening new lines of fire. Ceilings and floors can be breached to create new access points. This ability to modify the level design in real time enables players to create new gameplay opportunities directly within the game level.

Ubisoft revealed the third season of Rainbow Six Siege’s Year 9, Operation Twin Shells. This season introduces the Greek Operator Skopós, Siege Cup beta, and important gameplay updates including improvements to anti-cheat.

Operation Twin Shells unveils game-changing new Defender Skopós and her V10 Pantheon Shells gadget. With her shells Talos and Colossus, two remotely operated robots, Skopós can quickly allocate offensive or defensive support to different areas of the map. While Skopós can only control one shell at a time, one acts as an Operator while the other functions as an Observation Tool, making her adept at gathering intel and providing support. Skopós is a two speed, two health Operator, and her loadout features the new PCX-33 assault rifle as a primary weapon and a P229 as a secondary weapon.

Year 9 Season 3 brings an exciting arrival to the competitive Rainbow Six Siege experience via the Siege Cup beta. Siege Cup is our most competitive playlist, where 5-player squads are placed in a skill-based ladder tournament to compete for rewards every two weeks. Additionally, players who participate in Siege Cup and Ranked playlists can earn Competitive Coins to redeem exclusive items every season. The Siege Cup beta will be available in Western Europe and North America on PC only, with the objective of testing servers and ensuring fair competition before launch. Register now for a chance to be one of the first to experience and provide valuable feedback for this exciting playlist.

Fair and strategic play remains a priority in Rainbow Six Siege, with significant security measure improvements. The Anti-Cheat Development Team continue to focus their efforts on testing and supporting new security updates—such as binary hardening and developing QB System expansions—that aim to disrupt cheat development and usage while making it difficult to introduce new cheats in the future. This is a long-term, ongoing investment where updates will be made more frequently to ensure that Rainbow Six Siege is played fairly.

With Operation Twin Shells comes the second part of Solis’ balancing update and changes for Attacking Operators Nøkk and Dokkaebi. Now, Solis’ SPEC-IO Electro-Sensor only detects electronic devices in central view. The scan for detected devices has also been replaced with the Overclock function, which has limited uses, cannot be turned off, and alerts nearby enemy Observation Tools of Solis’ presence. In addition, changes have been made to Dokkaebi’s Logic Bomb and Nøkk’s Hel Presence Reduction gadgets to reflect player feedback.

Rainbow Six Siege continues to call back to its core tactical gameplay experience with new training and onboarding updates. With Versus AI 2.0, players can defend bomb sites against a team of trained AI Operators, providing a well-rounded training experience in addition to defending AI from Year 8 Season 4. This update will allow new and returning players to hone their skills in an accurate and challenging environment before jumping into competitive play.

Other updates for this season include quality-of-life changes that bolster player experience. After Action Report 2.0 has been fully redesigned to provide a clear overview of the most valuable and relevant post-match information. Additionally, drones will receive a boost mechanic that increases navigation speed and improves players’ ability to gather intel.

Key Features

• Counter terrorist operatives are trained to handle extreme situations, such as hostage rescue, with surgical precision. As “short range” specialists, their training is concentrated on indoor environments. Operating in tight formations, they are experts of close quarter combat, demolition, and coordinated assaults.
• For the first time in Rainbow Six, players will engage in sieges, a brand-new style of assault. Enemies now have the means to transform their environments into strongholds: they can trap, fortify, and create defensive systems to prevent breach by Rainbow teams. To face this challenge, players have a level of freedom unrivaled by any previous Rainbow Six game. Combining tactical maps, observation drones, and a new rappel system, Rainbow teams have more options than ever before to plan, attack, and diffuse these situations.
• Destruction is at the heart of the siege gameplay. Leveraging Ubisoft Montreal’s proprietary Realblast engine, players now have the unprecedented ability to destroy environments. Walls can be shattered, opening new lines of fire, and ceiling and floors can be breached, creating new access points. Everything in the environment reacts realistically, dynamically, and uniquely based on the size and caliber of bullets you are using or the amount of explosives you have set. In Rainbow Six Siege, destruction is meaningful and mastering it is often the key to victory.

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC.