This is noticeable in the game, with genuine psychological dilemmas presenting themselves to the players – a couple of hours’ gameplay will leave you sweating and breathless! In order to offer an authentic siege experience, the game developers actually consulted genuine anti-terror units, examining real-life siege scenarios. The unit stands ready and able, awaiting the next call to action, whenever it should arise. The campaign ends with a huge success, and the end result is that Rainbow Unit is needed for the security of the world. The players must find their way onto campus, battle through the villains and break the siege to rescue those innocents on the grounds and eradicate the terrorists.
The teams are assembled and trained, before setting forth on the main mission, the take down of the White Masks after they attack a university (Bartlett University). Rainbow unit is redeployed, having been dormant for three years, and controlled by Six (voicing and motion capture performed by Angela Bassett). The White Masks are a terrorist organisation bent on world domination for unknown reasons. Characters killed in the fray, however, can enter Support Mode, and aid their companions remotely as radio support and similar.
Once a battle is initiated, it must run to the end, and players cannot respawn until it is lost or won. Players can choose their character, make upgrades and perform customisations to weaponry and gadgets, as well as pick spawn/ respawn points: but once the mission has started these choices cannot be undone so players must consider all the information carefully before committing to anything. Tactical thinking starts early and then provides a support throughout the whole game: the most successful missions are those that are carefully planned from the off. You can play as American, German, Russian, French or British operatives, all in teams of four.Īs each team member has different capabilities and gear, teamwork, cooperation and communication between all the players is absolutely vital for successful runs. There are several to choose from, and each character has different gear and gadgetry, specialised weapons and are even of nationalities. The player chooses to play as one of the members of the Rainbow teams.
The game got off to a slow start but plenty of downloadable content upgrades, plus the developers ‘game as service model’, since its release have seen any gaps in gameplay, plot and progression get filled in, and it is now known as one of the best games of its type with over 45 million registered players worldwide. These include hostage rescue, bomb defusing, and capturing or defending a control point. There is a strong emphasis on environmental destruction and cooperation between players, with each player assuming control of a playing character to defend or attack in each different scenario.
Article taken from Six Siege for PC is an online tactical shooter game. In other Ubisoft related news, it appears that a new "Ubisoft Connect PC Client" has appeared as found by SteamDB's Pavel Djundik on Twitter so it appears that more Ubisoft games may come to Steam.
Right now though, like everything else, it all depends on demand from users and how well the Steam Deck sells. Now though, with the Steam Deck that uses SteamOS 3, developers will have to get it working if they want their players to be able to access their games on it.
The thing is, this is just about playing Rainbow Six Siege on Linux with Proton, and it's not likely the developer would do it just for that. It's not exactly much and a pretty bog-standard response but it's a reply nonetheless and isn't being ignored. In response to a post on their official forum asking about Ubisoft hooking it all up, the rep mentioned they can pass the feedback onto developers and that hopefully "other players will reply here in favor of Proton support and the development team may then look to implement it". Now that getting games that use BattlEye for anti-cheat working on Linux (either native or through Proton) is much easier, an Ubisoft rep suggests people post in their forum to show demand for it.