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Crystal Guard, the third season of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Year 6, is now available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, the Xbox One family of consoles, Xbox Series X | S, and Windows PC. This new season brings innovations with the addition of the Croatian operator Osa, and the rework of the maps Bank, Coastline, and Clubhouse. Additionally, players will be able to play Rainbow Six Siege and Crystal Guard for free from September 9 to September 13.
101 Trailer – Crystal Guard – Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
In Crystal Guard, players will discover a brand-new attacker: Osa, equipped with the Talon-8 shield, a deployable transparent shield that she can carry. Osa is armed with a 556xi or a PDW9 as a primary weapon and a PMM as a secondary weapon. In addition to the new operator, players will have access to the reworked maps Coastline, Bank, and Clubhouse. These maps had some modifications as closed windows, new alleys, more destructible parts, bomb site placement, and more. Also, improvements have been made to the following operators: Finka, Sledge, Glaz, Iana, Twitch, IQ, Mute, and Fuze among other updates.
Say “Nerd” – Crystal Guard | Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
In addition, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege will be available for free from Thursday, September 9 to September 13 on Playstation 4, Playstation 5*, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X | S, and Windows PC via Epic Games and Ubisoft Connect. Players will also benefit from a discount of up to 80% during this period, depending on the platform and version of the game. For more information, please visit rainbow6.com/freeweekend.
Year 6 Season 3 comes with a brand-new Battle Pass, including 100 tiers and 133 rewards, available until November 23. For the first time, the Battle Pass introduces a new reward: Battle Point Boosters, which are consumables that boost Battle Point gain by 20% when used at any time. The Battle Pass includes a free and a Premium track available for 1200 R6 Credits. Owners of the Premium Battle Pass can play with Osa immediately and progress faster, while other players can unlock her with Renown or R6 Credits starting September 21. New seasonal content including the map reworks and operator updates are available right now for free and for all players.
Additional updates coming with Crystal Guard include:
- Elite personalization
- HP now replaces the armor
- Updates for Finka, Sledge, Glaz, Iana, Twitch, IQ, Mute, and Fuze
- Lower price for operators Maverick, Clash, Amaru, Goyo, and Zero
- Seasonal weapon skin
Siege Year 6 Collector’s Case Trailer
In addition, Rainbow Six Siege will release a new Collector’s Case in Fall 2021, available for pre-order now. Limited to 7000 cases worldwide, this Collector’s Case will be exclusively available in Southeast Asia on the Ubisoft Official Shops on Shopee in Singapore and Malaysia. This case includes exclusive physical goodies such as a replica of Sledge’s hammer, the Sparkle Tachanka chibi, and digital content for Rainbow Six Siege.
Here our Unboxing of the Collectors Case.
