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Operation Steel Wave, the second season of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Year 5, is now available for the Playstation 4, Xbox One and WIndows PC. New Operators, Ace and Melusi – a new Attacker and Defender from Norway and South Africa respectively – are introduced, along with an entirely reworked House map and many other gameplay changes.
Those with the Year 5 pass will be able to play the new Operators immediately, while others will be able to unlock them from 23 June onwards using Renown or R6 Credits. Additional seasonal new content, including the House map rework, are available for free to all players. Year 5 Season 2 will also welcome its Battle Pass “Tour De Force,” on 29 June.
In Operation Steel Wave, players will meet two new Operators:
- Norwegian Attacker Ace is equipped with S.E.L.M.A., a throwable and stickable device that will stick to any vertical surface and slowly destroy up to 3 panels, one after the other. The S.E.L.M.A. gadget can also be thrown at almost any defensive gadget and destroy it with its arms or water explosive.
- South African Defender Melusi is equipped with Banshee deployable electronic gadgets. It applies a slowing effect to any Attackers that are in range and direct line of sight. The Banshee can also be used as an intel gadget as it produces an identifiable sound when an attacker enters its range.
The House map has been reworked to have a large two-story addition adding new objective sites and entry points for players to contend with. Additional changes can be experienced throughout the map, all with the intent of evolving the gameplay meta.
A new Defender secondary gadget, the Proximity Alarm, is also now available with Operation Steel Wave. The small, throwable sticky gadget is an essential intel-gathering tool that loudly alerts Defenders of an oncoming Attacker in its line of sight.
Additional game updates include the following:
- Unified MMR
- Amaru Buff
- Addition of Echo Elite set
