Rainbow Six Siege’s Azami was a “green goo” operator called Flubber

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Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege is still one of the best multiplayer games on PC and it’s about to hit Year 7 Season 1 – now officially revealed as Demon Veil. It’s also about to get a new operator with a game-changing gadget, but to get to this the team prototyped several operators with unique gadgets – including one with a “pile of green goo” called Flubber.

Earlier this month the Rainbow Six Siege team revealed Demon Veil and the new operator Azami, a Japanese defender with a meta-busting gadget called the Kiba Barrier – which can repair walls and other breaches. Azami’s the first operator that can do this, although Ubisoft informed us of two other cancelled operators that led to Azami – nicknamed Patcher and Flubber.

We spoke with creative director Alex Karpazis and asked him about Azami’s development journey, who told us the operator had “a long and storied past” – primarily “because the idea behind her gadget to repair destruction or patch holes is so integral to Siege”.

Siege has always been about destruction, but the idea to create an operator around repairing breaches “has always been there”, apparently. “I think five years ago,” Karpazis says, “we had a prototype called Patcher, where it was a bit like a ranged Castle, you would essentially shoot Castle barricades at windows and doors, and on the reinforced double walls as well”. The reason Patcher never happened, Karpazis explains, is because “we couldn’t find a great way to make it feel really unique and really stand out versus what Castle was doing before”.

More recently, just over a year ago, the team tried another operator nicknamed Flubber with a gadget that “was essentially Ela’s Grzmot Mines that you would throw, and just kind of explode into a radial pile