This post will serve as a megathread for information about Year 8 Season 4: Operation Deep Freeze.

You can watch the reveal live here: https://twitch.tv/rainbow6

General

  • Test Server launch: TBD
  • Live Server launch: TBD
  • Gameplay overview trailer: TBD

New Defender: Tubarão

  • ? speed Operator from Portugal
  • Gadget: Zoto Canister
  • Counters: TBD
  • Primary weapons:
    • TBD
    • TBD
  • Secondary weapons:
    • TBD
    • TBD
  • Secondary gadgets:
    • TBD
    • TBD

New Map: Lair

Gameplay Updates, New Features & Other Changes

R6S Marketplace

  • Marketplace to buy & sell cosmetics
  • Closed beta launching this season

Defender AI Playlist

  • AI defenders trained on real player behavior
  • Two difficulties: Beginner & Advanced
  • Available for Clubhouse

Player Onboarding: Map Run

  • Dedicated mode to learn specific maps

Player Onboarding: Removal of Training Grounds & Situations

  • Removal of Training Grounds (aka Terrorist Hunt) and Situations in favor of new onboarding features

Balancing: Frag Grenades

  • Remove ability to cook grenades
  • 4 second fuse timer after being tossed, slightly reduced after hitting surface

Controller improvements

  • Freely remap controller buttons
  • Deadzones can now be reduced to 0%
  • Later this season: leaning without ADSing

Battle Pass Navigation

  • Interactive overview for improved navigation

Balancing: Updated Shield Mechanisms

  • Launching on Test Server later in the season
  • Paradoxical95B
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    1 year ago

    What happened to nades is sad. But my main gripe is with this Zoto Cannister.
    Radius is too big. And the footsteps thing is bad. So either reduce the radius + timer OR reduce the count to 2 AND/OR add a delay in detonation like Kali or Kaid OR make that cannister destructible. Gives those Melusi (on launch) vibes. Will be nerfed I’m sure. Too strong and no hard counter. (Unless I’m missing something as TS is not live)

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    1 year ago

    Omg top floor chalet basement bomb site run outs bout to go brrr. Bro can freeze prox mines

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    1 year ago
    • It would have been way easier and better balance to just force you to commit into throwing the cooked nade (instead of being able to cancel it whenever you want). This is like the bottom of the barrel balancing again by removing a mechanic.

    • Expected the deserved boooooo for removing T-Hunt. I love when I’m losing content (people play it besides learning stuff like the new things they adding to “replace” it)

    • I don’t play console, but 8 years to finally give them fully customizable keybinds is kinda wild lmao

    • Marketplace will be prolly be overpriced as hell, but if I can get the couple of things I’m actually interested in I’ll be okay with it. Prolly it will just be black ice circlejerk (I can finally get rid of em yipee)

    • Also reusing an SMG that has been already reused… Same with the pistol 😮‍💨

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    1 year ago

    it’s clear to me the shield rework they are working on must not be working because the ammount of delays it had already is crazy, they have been hyping this up all year including in teasers for the season and now they want to delay? makes no sense to me

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    1 year ago

    So glad theres another dmr on defense, also the mpx, come one you could’ve recycled something like the scorpion ump mp5sd non of those have been recycled

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    1 year ago

    Lowkey hope the do a bundle with all black ice (would fit the season theme).

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    1 year ago

    They actually fucking deserve their game to die lmfao

    Fuck ubisoft. Terrible developers

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    1 year ago

    “We’ll be removing situations and training grounds (t hunt)”

    Well, that single change makes this is one of the worst seasons in all 9 years for me. Neither of the two new modes come close to offering what T Hunt does from their descriptions.

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    1 year ago

    Removal of Training Grounds (aka Terrorist Hunt) and Situations in favor of existing and upcoming onboarding features

    WHAT THE FUCK.

    well that’s the last straw ubi, please give the Tom Clancy franchise to another developer.

    just when i decided to get back into the game for some TH…

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    1 year ago

    removing nades cooking is just really risky compared to reducing from 2 to 1 nade.