While most of Ubisoft’s current focus is on the upcoming Operation Para Bellum update for Rainbow Six Siege, the Siege development team is already looking beyond the upcoming expansion. One area of the game that the team plans to address in the future is breaching, and part of that added attention could very well include a new breacher operator.
Currently, Rainbow Six Siege only has two operators who specialize in quickly destroying enemy barricades (i.e. breaching), and those operators are the base game’s Thermite and the DLC operator Hibana. While there are other operators who can efficiently destroy barricades when given enough time, like Sledge or Buck, none are more efficient than Thermite and Hibana, and Ubisoft worries that such circumstances lead an attacking team into believing that they have to pick one of those two “hard breachers” to maximize their efficiency.
Speaking during a recent preview event for Operation Para Bellum, Ubisoft’s director of marketing Alex Remy confirmed that breaching is an area that the Siege team wants to take a closer look at in the future. Remy noted specifically that the Siege team feels there is a noticeable hole in breaching gameplay, a hole that could perhaps be filled with the addition of a new operator who specializes in hard breaching. Remy was also careful not to explicitly confirm anything, but it sure does sound like Siege fans can expect at least one new breacher operator in the near future.
Meanwhile, Rainbow Six Siege’s upcoming Operation Para Bellum expansion will prove to be a great boon to defense-oriented players when it arrives sometime next month. The expansion will add in two brand new defender operators, a new Villa map, a Pick & Ban system for competitive play, and a multitude of other tweaks and fixes. If you want to give Operation Para Bellum a go as early as possible, it will arrive on the Rainbow Six Siege PC test server on May 22.