Rainbow Six: Siegeremains an incredibly popular game among many, offering a particular breed of first-person shooter gameplay that few other games can match even five whole years after its initial release. The game has also continued to add content, andwhile tweaks like Map Bans are coming withSiege’s Year 5 update, there’s something else coming that always gets players excited.
The peculiar breed of controlled chaos that makes upRainbow Six: Siege’s gameplay is especially notable in that it is asymmetric: one group plays as Attacking Operators in a mission to stop the other team, the Defending Operators. This means that Attackers and Defenders, by necessity, play very differently to best fulfill their roles, and the tandem releases of new Attackers and Defenders are always highly anticipated by players.
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The newest Operators, those of Operation Void Edge, were not named for a while, and details about them are very slim, mostly circulating only as rumors. Recently, however, more news about them emerged, with some of the most substantial being in leaks of their artwork and names. The pair of Operators are an Attacker named Yana and a Defender named Oryx, each from a different background and with very different abilities. They, alongside a whole heap of overall improvements, constitute just some of the waysRainbow Six: Siegehas gotten better over the years.
Yana and Oryx’s powers have not been explicitly named, and the exact details of what they can do have not yet been outlined, but rumors hint at the general idea behind their playstyle. Yana is rumored to have the power to deploy a controllable, holographic clone of herself to distract and confuse defenders, while Oryx can crash headlong through walls. Hopefully, these are true; malicious rumors would not be the worstattack onRainbow Six: Siegeover the years, but it would still be disappointing not to be able to crash through walls as Oryx.
After five years, some new blood forRainbow Six: Siegewould be welcome, and not just in the form of new operators. There is a good chance that Ubisoft is hoping the quality of life changes and new content will bring in some new players to joyfully make a plethora ofrookieSiegemistakesalongside the five-year veterans.
No matter what lies in store forRainbow Six: Siegeplayers, it is hopefully something that will draw them closer to the game rather than make it grow stale, and hopefully, Yana and Oryx will bejoining the roster ofSiegesoon.
Rainbow Six: Siegeis available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
