During last weekend’s Six Invitational, Ubisoft hosted a proper unveiling of Rainbow Six Siege’s Operation Burnt Horizon content update. Part of that unveiling naturally focused on the update’s two new operators: Mozzie and Gridlock. Read on for a full breakdown of what the new Australian operators bring to the table.
Rainbow Six Siege Mozzie and Gridlock Details
Mozzie and Gridlock hail from Australia’s Special Air Service Regiment (SASR). They each come equipped with a signature gadget, but the nature of those gadgets may surprise you. At first glance, Gridlock’s Trax Stinger gadget seems like something a defender would use, but Gridlock is an attacker. Same goes for Mozzie’s Pest gadget. He’s a defender, but the Pest feels very much like an attacker gadget.
When deployed, Gridlock’s Trax Stinger starts laying down a small field of spike clusters. These clusters can block off hallways, surround key objectives, and act as booby traps from behind doors or under windows. A defender who steps on a Trax Stinger is both damaged and slowed for a few seconds.
Setting off a Trax Stinger also makes a noise which the attackers can hear. Similar to barbed wire, Trax Stinger clusters can be destroyed with gunfire, explosions, or melee attacks. Of course, destroying them also makes a lot of noise. If a defender player reacts quickly, they can destroy a Trax Stinger while it’s in the middle of its cluster-deployment process.
As for Mozzie, his deployable Pest devices can hijack enemy attacker drones. Once a drone is hacked, it’s fully under the defending team’s control. An attacker can tell if a drone is hacked by looking for a small blue light on the drone. The hacked drone also has a glowing outline for defenders so they don’t accidently shoot it.
Along with Mozzie and Gridlock, Ubisoft also recently shared details for Rainbow Six Siege’s Year 4 roadmap. As of this writing, the new patch and Burnt Horizon features are live on Siege’s test servers. A full launch is expected next month.