Rainbow Six Siege Gets A New Map For The First Time In Three Years

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege launched all the way back in December 2015 on PS4 and Xbox One, although the online tactical shooter did get next-gen updates, with the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions arriving in 2020.

Originally the game launched with 11 maps, with subsequent DLC adding another 9 maps, but the last map to be added was three years ago, 2019's Outback. Now, Ubisoft has announced that with Rainbow Six Siege's first season of its seventh year, a further new map will be introduced.

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The new map is called Emerald Plains and will arrive after the introduction of Azami, a defender operator who'll be able to fix up destroyed surfaces with a chemical compound that's bulletproof, which is pretty neat considering how much Siege emphasizes environmental destruction as part of its gameplay.

The additions come as part of Operation Demon Veil, the game's seventh year of content updates, which adds a new character, map, and several gameplay features and changes. The new map, Emerald Plains, is set in Ireland with a country club-style location that operatives can riddle with bullets and blow up, but players won't be able to access this manor house map until midway through the season (thanks IGN).

Operation Demon Veil also introduces Azami, a stylishly dressed operator from Japan's private security forces. Azami can deploy wall-fixing chemicals by throwing knives (well, of course) at walls, ceilings, and floors to defend against those pesky bullets people shoot you with. These patches are called Kiba Barriers and players will find it especially useful since they can be applied to ceilings as previously defenders could do little to