Rainbow Six X vs Siege Guide
Everything You Need to Know About the Ultimate Tactical Evolution
Discover everything you need to know about the difference between Rainbow Six Siege and Siege X.
Rainbow Six Siege X is a big new update to Ubisoft’s beloved tactical shooter. I managed to get an early look at all the big changes coming to the game, including visual changes, new gameplay features, and a brand-new game mode. The game offers modernized maps that have new environmental destruction, like fire extinguishers and pipes that you can pop holes in and cause to explode.
The new 6v6 game mode has its own exclusive map and gameplay, such as mixing attackers’ and defenders’ abilities. They have a new, overhauled audio system and improved repel controls that allow you to sprint on walls and jump around corners. Rainbow Six Siege X brings new skin updates, skin drops, and a new weapon inspect. A lot of new changes have been made in Siege X that give you a whole new immersive experience.
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What is Rainbow Six Siege X
Siege is a tactical first-person 5v5 shooter where players pick unique operators with specific weapons, tools, and abilities. It’s not your typical hero shooter, as Siege is all about slow-paced combat where a single bullet can turn the tide of battle.
It launched all the way back in December of 2015 and since its launch has now racked up over 70 operators, over 20 maps, and four competitive game modes. You have to ask with a game like that, where it can go next, and Rainbow Six Siege X is the answer to that very question.
Launch Details:
Launching on June 10th with the year 10 season 2, X will bring a number of changes that we hope to enhance the pillars of the experience and is doing so across six big areas.
Visual Changes
Rainbow Six Siege X will launch with five of what Ubisoft is calling modernized Maps. The map roster includes Clubhouse, Chalet, Bank, Café, and Border with three additional modernized Maps launching with each new season.
Modernized maps are upgraded in two key ways:
- Resolution: Textures on PC will now reach 4K. While we didn’t get specifics for console, the texture resolution will still double
- Lighting: Ubisoft has completely rebuilt its lighting engine for more realistic illumination
Additional Visual Improvements:
- Weapon inspection animations for every gun in the game
- Menus receiving a fresh coat of paint with snappier and more responsive feel
- Battle pass improvements to navigation
- Plans to refresh the shop down the line
- Introduction of the Esports tab to see upcoming Siege Invitational events
Gameplay
The next pillar of Siege X is deepened gameplay. The most impressive addition comes as a result of that new lighting engine. X introduces first-person shadows, so you can now see whether your shadow is revealing your position as you round corners.
Audio 2.0
Improved sound propagation and reverberation for much more realistic and immersive sound, making it easier to pinpoint footsteps and gunshots.
New Communication Wheel
Relay information if your team isn’t on comms with non-verbal callouts and team coordination.
Enhanced Destruction
New destructible elements including gas pipes, fire extinguishers, and metal detectors add tactical depth.
New Destructible Elements:
- Gas pipes: When shot, cast beams of flames that block entrances before exploding
- Fire extinguishers: Act like smoke grenades, but concuss players if shot near them
- Metal detectors: Now destructible and can be permanently turned off during a match
Onboarding Process
We all know that live service games have a bit of an issue bringing new players. Siege X is hoping to alleviate some of the frustration potentially felt by new players with a rework clearing level to get new players to improve as they learn.
New Player Journey:
Level 1 through 20 is now a pathway to unlocking new tutorials, game modes, and operators. This includes extended playlists, including standard playlists going unranked to allow new players to get a great, varied feeling for the game.
Anti-Toxicity
Other big issues for games like Siege are toxicity and cheaters. After overhauling the anti-toxicity system in year 9, year 10 season 1, which has just started, saw the launch of a new anti-toxicity beta.
Anti-Toxicity Features:
- Rewards positive players whilst penalizing negative ones
- Continued improvements planned across year 10
- Enhanced anti-cheating with Rainbow Six Siege Shield guards
- Investment in binary hardening, gameplay violation detection, and mouse traps
New Game Mode
🎯 Duel Front – 6v6 Mode
Rainbow Six Siege X brings a brand new permanent 6v6 Mode called Duel Front. This is sort of like a breakthrough in Battlefield, where each side has three points to defend.
How Duel Front Works:
- Each side has three points to defend
- Capture the first enemy point to move to the next
- Enemies can recapture their own points
- Central neutral zone with separate assignments
- Teams comprised of both attackers and defenders for the first time
- Limited operator roster that rotates monthly
Communication Wheel
Some interesting quality of life changes are coming with a new communication wheel that’s going to be released. This allows us to communicate call outs non-verbally.
Communication Options:
- Request help from teammates
- Thank other players
- Tell teammates that a room is cleared
- Various tactical callouts without voice chat
Pick and Ban Rework
In Siege X, each round, you are going to have a pick and ban phase. There’s not going to be one long, drawn-out phone phase of picking and banning.
New Pick and Ban System:
Instead, if you’re defending each round, you are going to choose your site, and then you’re going to choose an operator on the opposite team to ban. This is going to repeat each round.
Veteran Rewards
Veterans are also getting special rewards to commemorate their long-standing dedication to the game.
Veteran Reward Items:
- The coveted Ice 2015 skin
- The Decontaminated 2017 headgear
- The Sleep Tight Cali skin
- Additional exclusive veteran cosmetics
Free To Play
Siege is going free-to-play. New players that join after year 10 season 2 will have free access to 26 operators to choose from. They will be able to play standard, quick play, and dual front. They can do everything, but ranked.
Free-to-Play
- 26 operators included
- Standard & Quick Play
- Dual Front mode
- Unlock more operators as you progress
Premium Edition
- Unlock ranked at Level 50
- Immediate access to more operators
- All standard features
Elite Edition
- 40 operators included
- All premium features
- Exclusive content
Ultimate Edition
- All operators to date
- Complete access to everything
- Premium benefits