Rainbow Six Siege Year 8 Season 1 "addresses mouse and keyboard on consoles" and voice chat toxicity
Ubisoft has peeled back the lid on Rainbow Six siege's Year 8 Season 1, Operation Commanding Force, which introduces new features, a new Operator, and «further anti-toxicity measures».
The new season also ushers in the game's all-new Mousetrap feature, which means players jumping onto console when using a mouse and keyboard will «activate a penalty that adds lag to their inputs».
«The goal of this penalty is to encourage fair gameplay by removing the unfair advantage that mouse and keyboard players have on consoles,» Ubisoft explains. «While active, continued use of mouse and keyboard gradually increases the lag over several matches, making it harder to aim and shoot. Completing matches with a controller will gradually reduce the lag back to normal.»
New Operator Brava is described as an «invaluable new Attacker equipped with the Kludge Drone gadget». This drone disrupts hostile surveillance and provides counter tactics, like repurposing the technology for her squad, and carries a PARA-308 or a CAMRS as a primary weapon and a USP40 or a Super Shorty as a secondary weapon.
Commanding Force also brings a balancing update to Zero, «improvements to the Play Section UI, balancing change on weapon attachments, and a new immersive reload system: interrupting the animation will leave the player without a magazine, but closed bolt weapons will have a single round for the player to use at any point during the reload». There are also new onboarding features, too, including Beginner Challenges and Specialty Challenges, with the former identifying an Operator's playstyle in-game. The latter is also there to help new players learn the «various Operator specialities».
As for those anti-toxicity measures?
«Further anti-toxicity
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