Rainbow Six Siege Isn't Slowing Down On New Operators Anytime Soon
Despite Rainbow Six Siege having a truly staggering number of playable characters, developer Ubisoft Montreal isn't slowing down on adding new operators to the game anytime soon. In case you haven't counted recently, Siege has 64 playable operators as of Year 7, Season 2: Vector Glare.
«We haven't even scratched the tip of the iceberg,» creative director Alexander Karpazis told GameSpot. «The team has so many ideas to release more characters and we've become really, really good at balancing this ecosystem of gameplay and gadgetry so that no matter which way you slice it whoever you're playing as in a five-person team can be really important while always having a counter.»
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«If we look at the ideas that we have had with Sens and Azami previously, it goes to show that there's a lot of untapped potential that is still out there,» game designer Mathieu Lacombe added. «So it's really great news for us. We are still doing some creative operators that are interesting, that are innovative.»
Lacombe said that the team is able to create so many new operators so quickly because they can make operators that solve the same problem just in different ways. He pointed out how, for example, Wamai and Jäger fulfill the same role as defenders. Both operators have gadgets that can intercept projectiles, but Wamai's Mag-NET redirects them while Jäger's ADS-MKIV shoots them out of the air.
«It creates new gameplay designs, new opportunities,» Lacombe
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