Rainbow Six: Siege Adds Solid Snake as Next Playable Operator
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Ubisoft revealed the next season for their tactical FPS Rainbow Six: Siege, and it’s called Operation Silent Hunt, featuring Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid franchise.
This isn’t the typical collaboration where it’s a skin for an already available Operator in the game, as the new Operator is Solid Snake himself, complete with a unique gadget and weapon to go along with him.
Snake’s Gadget is the Solition Radar MKII
Solid Snake is an Attacker with a gadget that functions similarly to a minimap. This device covers the map layout of the area Snake is currently on, giving out key information he can use or relay to his team. Default cameras can be identified as well as enemy players near his vicinity.
The device uses three threat colors, with green indicating “All Clear” and shifting to “Alert” when a threat is detected. A very useful tool but not completely one sided as Defender gadgets can fool players using Snake thinking it’s all clear or that there’s an enemy nearby. Gadgets like Mute’s jammer can hide a Defender’s location and Alibi’s static holograms of herself can make it look like someone is there.
Snake Also Features On-Site Procurement
Snake isn’t only about the Solition Radar as he has a unique ability called On-Site Procurement (OSP), which essentially allows the Snake player to scavenge a dead player (friend or foe) for one of the five gadgets available to Snake. This effectively gives Snake an additional secondary gadget if he’s able to go to a dead player and scavenge for the utility he’ll need for the current situation.
Snake can scavenge for a frag grenade, stun grenade, smoke grenade, impact grenade, or even a breach charge. It’s also not randomized as Snake can choose what he’ll get when doing OSP on a dead player.
Snake will launch with the PMR9OA2 marksman rifle or the F2 assault rifle as his primary. His secondary is also unique as he’ll have the TACIT .45 pistol, which has an integrated suppressor and reflex sight.
He’s a cool addition and honestly, I’m okay with collaborations like this as permanent additions to the game. My only concern is the unique passive ability for Snake as Rainbow Six seemed to be moving away from unique passive skills from Operators, as they eventually removed Zofia’s self-revive passive, that allows her to slowly pick herself up when down to be revived at 5 HP. We’ll see how it goes but this does add more flavor to an already tactical shooter.
Operation Silent Hunt will also feature a Metal Gear Solid-themed event, various balance changes, modernizing of maps (Villa, Coastline, and Oregon), and more. Silent Hunt goes live on March 3, but the test server for this new season will go live on February 17.
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Carlos Hernandez is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Too Much Gaming, where he writes about video games, reviews, and industry news. A lifelong gamer, he would do anything to experience Final Fantasy Tactics for the first time again and has a love/hate relationship with games that require hunting for new gear to improve your character.
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