Lord Chanka posted:

Hello recruitz and velcome to Tom Clancy'z Rainbow Six: Siege Thread #dva.

Vhat iz it?
Siege iz semi-realistic yolo 5vs5 FPS shootmen simulation developed by Ubisoft Montreal. Choose op to 20+ tovarishes with ich ovn onique abilitiez and make motherland proud in variouz ATK vz DEF gamemodez.

Round alvayz startz in Prreparation phase where ATK heaz to find objectivez using ground drronez while DEF set op defensez. (Barricadez, vall rreinforcement, imparing gadgetz etc.)
Eahz yolo parte impliez, you only have one life per round so be smart blyat. Once deade, you can still be useful and have access to observation toolz of your team (Dronez for ATK, Cameraz for DEF) Use microphonez comrades.

Thiz game heaz extremely fast Time To Keell and iz brutally unforgeeving. Did i mention any bollet to голова killz you instantly?

FBI posted:

• [ATK] Thermite: Carries Exothermic charges capable of breaching reinforced walls.
  
• [ATK] Ash: Fires an explosive breach round that burrows into a surface and automatically detonate.
  
• [DEF] Castle: Sets bulletproof barricades, more resistant than standard ones.
  
• [DEF] Pulse: Detect heartbeats at a distance through obstacles.
  

GIGN posted:

• [ATK] Montagne: Carries ''Le Rock'' an extendable shield that fully covers his front and sides.
  
• [ATK] Twitch: Uses Shock drones to destroy gadgets or injure tangos.
  
• [DEF] Doc: Carries Hypodermic needles that (over)heal & revive himself and/or allies.(Even tangos)
  
• [DEF] Rook: Drops a supply bag of armor plates.
  

GSG9 posted:

• [ATK] IQ: Wears purple shoes and carries an electronics detector that ..detect electronics through surfaces.
  
• [ATK] Blitz: Oversized ears, listens to dubstep while blinding people with his flash ballistic shield.
  
• [DEF] Bandit: Does drugs and has car batteries to electrify reinforced walls, barbedwire or deployable shields.
  
• [DEF] Jäger: Deploy small Trophy systems that intercepts and destroys incoming projectiles such as your mom.
  

SAS posted:

• [ATK] Sledge: Uses a Breaching Hammer to break through destructible surfaces
  
• [ATK] Thatcher: Uses EMP grenades to disable fookin laser sights.
  
• [DEF] Mute: Has signal disrupters that jams enemies drones or breach devices within range.
  
• [DEF] Smoke: Sleeps in his nest of beauties with his toxic babes. He uses mustard gas basically.
  

SPETNAZ posted:

• [ATK] Glaz: Closest thing to a sniper. His rifle has a magnified lens flipsight that can be toggled.
  
• [ATK] Fuze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoFObSPnNck
  
• [DEF] Kapkan: Has Entry-Denial-Devices aka proximity claymores that he bolts into doorways or windows frame.
  
• [DEF] Tachanka: https://vimeo.com/186059028
  

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• S01 Black Ice Introduced: JTF2 operators Buck & Frost, Yatch map and the Spectator Cam
  
• S02 Dust Line Introduced: NAVY SEALS operators Valkyrie & BlackBeard and the Border map.
  
• S03 Skull Rain Introduced: BOPE operators Caveira & Capitão and the Favela map.
  
• S04 Red Crow Introduced: SAT Operators Hibana & Echo and the SkyScaper map.
  Year2
  
• S05 Velvet Shell Introduced: GEO Operators Jackal & Mira and the Coastline map.
  
• S06 Health Ubi removed the Polish season from the roadmap in order to fix some poo poo.
  
• S07 Blood Orchid Introduced: SDU Operators Ying & Lesion, GROM Operator Ela and the Theme Park map.
  
• S08 South Korea TBA
  

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First things first, this game is in no way pay to win. The only things you can buy with real money are cosmetics.
Every DLC that released so far included both a FREE map and 2 new operators available to everyone whether they have the SeasonPass* or not.

R6 handles 3 kinds of currency listed below. 90% of the stuff can be bought with either Renown or R6 Credit, however, some cosmetic set items are only available by spending your hard earned cash.

1. Renown: The main ingame resource, It serves as the main currency to buy pretty much anything in the game from operators to skins. You will gain renown by playing the game and completing challenges.
   
2. R6 Credits: R6 bucks are a currency that you cannot earn by playing and must buy with real life moneyz. It will always cost fewer R6bucks than Renown to buy something. R6bucks packages are available in the SHOP tab.
   
3. Real currency: Found in the Digital Content under the SHOP tab, those cosmetic items are exclusively available with real life currency.
   

Wheres my single player? Where are my tacticool Ai that I can command at will? posted:

It's not there Ubi took some liberties with the brand. Siege is first and foremost a multiplayer game but there is 4 solo/coop mode for you to battle eAI.
There's also 11 Situations with specific objectives to give you Siege basics.

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PC: Separated mostly into 2 crews. Both are pretty chill, pick your poison.

• Discord: Click here for the Invite & then a neat quick link -> http://www.goonstack.win/discord/
  
• Mumble: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3796734
  
• group (lol) http://steamcommunity.com/groups/rainbowgoons

The game has been out for a while, people are playing other great games so hang out in the channels, be patient and it will fill eventually.
Goons are usually pretty chill when it comes to newblood so don't be shy. (you are adorable and your mistakes are hilarious)

Consoles: Post in the thread i guess Getting invited by someone will probably open to their friends' list.

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ESL Portal
Info on Year 2 PC pro league and Consoles major league
Check your stats here you tryhards.
Watch the Season3 PC finals ->HERE<- It was

How does Ranked MMR works.

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Standard Edition:
The good ol' game as it released. It still currently hold as your normal AAA full price title but comes on sale rather often.

Gold Editions:
Year1 Includes the Standard Edition + Season Pass Year1**
Year2 Includes the Standard Edition + Season Pass Year2**

Complete Edition
Includes the full game + Season Pass year 1&2

Starter Edition: (~15$ USD) (PC only for now, Consoles haven't been announced.)
The Starter Edition is not always available. Its history shows that it come and goes as it loving pleases.
It is the complete full game at 15$ USD and you can play with anyone and everyone. The only difference is that the Renown unlocks price for operators are sky high.
For a full F.A.Q check here

**Season Pass: (~30$ USD) (Year 2 currently live, Year1 is not available as a standalone anymore.)
Why the poo poo should I buy the season pass when everything is available to anyone?
Welp, it saves you a lot of grinding and toss in some exclusive bonuses listed below.

• All DLC operators unlocked and you have a 7 days exclusive early access when they release.
  
• A bunch of exclusive customization (weapon skins, charms, headgears etc)
  
• 600 Rainbow6 Credits
  
• 5% permanent Renown bonus at the end of each match.
  
• 10% discount on any content that costs either Renown or R6 Credits
  
• 2 extra challenges slots.

Various links posted:

• Wiki: http://rainbowsix.wikia.com/wiki/Rainbow_Six_Wiki
  
• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rainbow6
• Reddit/wiki : https://www.reddit.com/r/Rainbow6/wiki/guide
• Maps and locations in top down view.

Youtubers posted:

• Serenity17: Proleague, Ranked, reviews.
• Macie Jay: Ranked.
• KiXSTAr: Proleague, Ranked.
  
• Iceycat25: Content reviews.
• Anthonypit1: Shenanigans.
  
• Microwave: Ranked.
• coreross: Reviews, Gameplay, Mythbusting.
• I'll be happy to add any links you got.

WTF i died how did he knew i was there? I'm so mad at this video game! posted:

Theres half a dozen reasons why he knew you were there. Whether it be camera/drone spotting, the noise you made, map knowledge, your rear end being predictable, prefire or just sheer luck.
Play smart, learn from your mistakes and for the love of Lord Chanka don't cry over the mic when you die. You're dead, nothing will change that but you can still be productive, watch your killcam and communicate who and where is whatever killed you.

PC Hacking countermeasures posted:

PC hacking used to be a big deal up until Season3 when BattlEye got introduced as a clientside. While there are still hackers out there, their numbers got reduced drastically.
Fairfight is still enabled as the serverside cheat anti measure.

I bought this game on release and it was literally unplayable. Why should i reinstall? posted:

Well this game is not perfect and still require some love, however, the devs are very committed and have shown this by improving on stuff like what you plebs like to call ''netcode'', fixing thousands of bugs, adding a clientside anti-cheat, new content such as but not limited to: operators, maps, modes, gadgets, customization and a lot of quality of life changes.

Is this game dead? posted:

Nope.

Thermite posted:

Ash posted:

Castle posted:

• Avoid fully barricading the objective room.
• If you or a teammate takes down your barricade it will be refunded in your inventory.
• It takes 12 melee hits to destroy a reinforced barricade!

Pulse posted:

Montagne posted:

Twitch posted:

Doc posted:

Rook posted:

• Your only job is to drop your armor plates when the round starts, you're free to die after that.

IQ posted:

• IQ's gadget is pretty useful to detect all types of bullshit that the DEF is throwing your way but she's especially good for detecting: Pulse's cardiac sensor, Valkyrie's Black Eye cameras and Echo's cloaked Yokai drone.
  

Blitz posted:

Bandit posted:

• Learn the Bandit Trick

Jäger posted:

Sledge posted:

Thatcher posted:

• You are Thermite/Hibana's lapdog

Mute posted:

• Start the rounds by placing your jammers at chokepoints to stop drones, once prep phase ended pick them back up and jam wherever. Careful of that Twitch drone!

Smoke posted:

• Smoke is the only operator immune to his own gas grenades, yes even if the other SAS operators wear gas masks, get over it.

Glaz posted:

• Glaz's Dragunov is the only rifle that can shoot through and destroy the Presidential Plane's windows.
  
• The Dragunov is also the only rifle that can shoot through Castle's reinforced barricades.

Fuze posted:

Kapkan posted:

Tachanka posted:

Buck posted:

Frost posted:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hiji6Y-XbgA

BlackBeard posted:

• Windows are your friends as you can safely peek with your rifleshield without exposing the rest of your squishy meat.
  
• BB also works wonders with Hibana's murderholes in reinforced walls.

Valkyrie posted:

• Make a hole on top of walls and place a cam in it to cover two rooms at once.
• Your cams flash bright blue, don't be predictable in your placements.
• Don't use the tag function, it will alert the ATK that theres a cam nearby, just communicate over voicechat.

Capitão posted:

Caveira posted:

Hibana posted:

Echo posted:

• Yokai's sonic burst will cancel any animation, great for interrupting defuser or breach plants.

Paradigmata posted:

fake e: I might buy an elite skin if Ubi manages to put out a patch for once that doesn't break stuff that has already been fixed at some point or introduce bugs like twitch drone damage + crosshair, that should have been spotted if any person would actually have played her before patch goes live.

Jehde posted:

Also that's a pretty good OP. Maybe some suggestions for first operators to try/operators to avoid until you git gud? i.e. Sledge makes a great starter attacker, Rook is an easy defender to play, Castle is usually a bad idea until you really know the maps, same idea for Thermite.

Great Beer posted:

Blitz needs a big bold warning that his flash shield affects teammates too.

Major Isoor posted:

Nice OP, Hard. Actually hadn't thought of the "Make a hole on top of walls and place a cam in it to cover two rooms at once" Valk trick you posted, somehow - even after playing her a reasonable amount over my couple hundred hours of playtime on this...

WhatDo posted:

So I bought the season 2 pass and got 600 renown and was all good and happy. But then someone told me that I should have gotten 1200 for s2 pass since I own s1 pass.

Now I'm still good and happy, but hoping I qualify for another 600 renown windfall. Any truth to this?

IceOrb posted:

Well this was definitely not the case in Seasons 1 and 2 as it was the source of endless hilarity when said person lost their plat a few days before the season closed out and didn't get the reward as a result.

Season 3 seems to have be the change to that if what he says is true.

Ularg posted:

For page 1 readers, this is the best game that we all hate but can't stop playing. It's good, get it and come join us.

Also oh man and I finally got used to sifting through the board to find the old thread buried several pages under. Now we got a new thread.

Ularg posted:

Hey Hard, can you pass the message along to those responsible that I love the Uplay weekly challenges? I can't really put my finger on why, I just really love completing them and I love the little shield charm I got this week.

And also a thank you to everyone there because Siege got me over my competitive shooter anxiety and now I love the poo poo out of single-life matches with really clutch plays.

SatelliteCore posted:

Anyone think it is a little hosed up to give an employee control of the thread?

No offense, just kinda weird.

Ularg posted:

The only challenge I found annoying was the Gadget/Melee kills, because I just never get them. People know by now to run the gently caress away from C4. Impact nades get you killed if you use them in straight combat. And I can count on 0 fingers the numbers of times I've gotten an honest to god melee kill.

God I am so awful at this game. There's way too many games where I go 0 kills 3-5 deaths for this to be enjoyable. People are just way quicker on the draw.

Scalding Coffee posted:

I was going to order it from I think it was the Ubisoft website and saw that the 75% off deal is only for the consoles, with the PC version still full price. Why the hell is this a thing?

Sion posted:

I bought the starter kit for this a while ago and never really played it. I also watched the SuperBunnyHop video about this game and I have decided to actually put some effort in.

With matchmaking being what it is, I'm a little concerned that if I play with Goons I will get matched up against similarly goony enemies, all of whom will stamp a hole into me. If i play with goons will I just get stomped on by the enemy team in the first 5 second of a match? Is there a big enough pool of players for someone to learn the ropes before moving on to playing with more experienced players?

Foehammer posted:

I still maintain that Castle's value increases 10x if he saves his barricades until:
a) There is less than ~1 minute on the clock
b) There are only 1 or 2 players left on the enemy team

Gamerofthegame posted:

fyi post more videos

slap me and kiss me posted:

This appears to be some sort of big post on how ranks are calculated.

http://rainbow6.ubi.com/siege/en-GB/news/detail.aspx?c=tcm:154-277344-16&ct=tcm:148-76770-32

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Every single one of those things and more

IceOrb posted:

Hard, make player dialog audible for both sides so we can hear IQ scream at the top of her lungs about how she's got her scanner out.

Revelation 2-13 posted:

Have been having some pretty annoying connection problems, get disconnected from matches (uplay servers down) while friends keep playing etc. also getting in a squad is a massive chore. Any easy solutions?

cinci zoo sniper posted:

Please don't invest anything in ~gaming~ audio or furniture. Also please fix your game Hard, my friend's HyperX Cloud II is still not being recognized by the game.
Fair enough, video game is not worth a migraine.

lohli posted:

Player 1 says something over VOIP
Sound comes out of Player 2's speaker
Player 2's mic picks up audio from the speakers and transmits game audio and/or voip whenever Player 2 hits their PTT key.


I've noticed the further from release you look the less popular Glaz is, it took a while but I think people eventually realised that you can't just be the dead-weight sniper every game.

cinci zoo sniper posted:

Wow rude

Seriously though, this microphone problem is the least decipherable problem I have encountered in a while, albeit I suspect that his OS might be hosed up a wee bit. Although, apparently there's plenty of Russians complaining about VoIP accessibility.

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

How many of you guys get the season pass? I am enjoying this game enough I don't think I would mind investing more into it.

IceOrb posted:

I bought them.

Because I'm on a quest to fund the game entirely through micro transactions.

keyframe posted:

Me and iceorb spent more on your game than every other goon in this thread combined yet you still don't come play with us on discord, Hard.

Captn Kurp posted:

I hate to be "that guy" but I'd love an "examine weapon" action. I'm also "that guy" who went back to CS:GO when they added weapon skins.

Revelation 2-13 posted:

I'm not so sure I like the weird, 'lower/higher certainty', more accurate, part of the mmr system Since it's based on wins/losses it's essentially just an ELO system, but imagine if chess rankings had a part where the more games you've played the less points you gain/lose per game? That doesn't make sense at all. I'm not sure I entirely understand it though.

For example, if I play the first 100 matches with my goofball friends who are even more terrible than me, the system thinks it has figured my skill out and reduce the uncertainty of my skill evaluation, leading to lower gains/decreases in mmr-points, right? Meaning, once I ditch those losers I'll have a harder time moving up the ranks, because the system thinks it has pinpointed my skill with a low degree of uncertainty (or can the system re-evaluate? Like, oh boy, I sure pegged that dude wrong, he is winning all his matches now! Or is that just each 'season' reset?). Thought experiment: I lose the first 100 matches and win the next 100 matches (massively improving my ability) as I understand this system, that will get ranked lower than winning 100 matches, then losing 100 matches (a massive degradation in your ability). Right?

In the end it seems like this means that if you want to move up the ranks, you shouldn't play with newbies or bad friends, because it will literally make it harder for you to move up the ranks at a later point (even if your actual, real, skill doesn't change). If that is the case, then the system massively emphasizes playing with good players, "rewarding" (I know rank is not a reward) that play style even more than these types of games usually, and already, do (teamwork OP!). Realistically, you'll contribute 20% to your wins/losses, while other players contribute 80%, over enough games those 20% will be the deciding factor, but that only really holds true if you're playing solo, and if you're getting less and less points, depending on how well you did initially, doesn't that sorta gently caress the system up?

DoctorStrangelove posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JP4wBRF3DY

HOOLY BOOLY posted:

Someone mentioned a few pages back about drone "hide and seek" in the objective room after it's already been found and i've never really thought about that much myself until i saw it happen every time in all the public matches i was playing.

I understand the need for points is great but what are you going to accomplish besides that? The game has been out long enough that people know all the spots where drones can hide in so it's not like you can keep one in a place and constantly keep the defenders positions updated, at least not for very long before the drone just gets shot. Perhaps this doesn't happen as often in Ranked but i don't normally play that anyway since i'm usually squadless.

Speaking of which goddamn Hard hurry up and fix this matchmaking issue. I got my friend to play this game with me and while i was training him up in T-Hunt we kept getting disconnected from each other

cinci zoo sniper posted:

Ah, so there is just no YouTube stream. Fantastic, I've just been sitting there on the stream page on YouTube. Good job, as usual!

Sultan Tarquin posted:

Did they extra promise pinky swear that lighting isn't going to be garbage this time?

Great Beer posted:

Speaking of spawn killing, was anything done about the lovely Christmas trees spawn on Kafe?

Basticle posted:

I cant wait to not see him through a window

Sultan Tarquin posted:

Then my game crashed.

Draxion posted:

Just had a match where the attacking Glaz downed the hostage, the hostage bled out, and then the attackers won. Is something iffy going on there?

Lemon-Lime posted:

Yes, I'm aware of what it says, I'm asking if it's actually working as described, because this is Siege.

IceOrb posted:

Hard,

When you guys roll back the FUZE buff because all the youtube superstars complain to you guys about him being OP can you instead make it so that we can swap his lethal charges for non lethal? (Flash and Smoke)

Tia.