sullynathan
Arcane
I heard that people were butthurt because now they can't smash noobs in casual, how true is this?
RAINBOW SIX: SIEGE’S PLAYERBASE HAS MORE THAN TRIPLED SINCE LAUNCH
Concurrent Players Now Up 3X and at One Point as High as 5X
Over the past year, Ubisoft has seen drastic drop-offs in the playerbases for almost all of their popular new releases. As we first reported last June, the most shocking of these declines was their best-selling game ever, The Division, losing 93% of its players in just the first 3 months. And since then, we’ve seen Watch Dogs 2, For Honor, and Ghost Recon: Wildlands all follow the same trend.
However, the same cannot be said about Ubisoft’s competitive shooter, Rainbow Six: Siege, which has seen its playerbase triple (even quintuple at one point) in size since its launch back in December 2015.
Unlike Ubisoft’s more recent top 2016 and 2017 titles, Siege didn’t have the strongest debut when it peaked at 12k players over its first weekend. This lead to Ubisoft being quick to announce a 40% spike in players right after releasing the “Skull Rain” DLC last August… a number which quickly fell back down as the game struggled in its early days to build a fanbase.
Rainbow Six: Siege’s Average Player Count per Hour via GitHyp
But Ubisoft’s continued support of Siege with new content, balance updates, price reductions, and free weekend promotions have all contributed to the game’s growth. The developer’s big Year 2 “Operation: Velvet Shell” update combined with a free-to-play weekend back in February brought in a new record high of 65k concurrent players – a number large enough to also help Siege break into Steam’s top 5 most played games for the first time.
Since that record-setting weekend, Siege’s numbers have slightly declined, but Rainbow Six’s future still looks bright for both Ubisoft and fans. Recent player counts are on average higher than they ever were before the Velvet Shell update. And Siege is constantly in Steam’s top 10 most played games with peaks around 40k concurrent players and averages around 30k players per hour each weekend.
With an upcoming Steam Summer Sale, where the game is surely to be discounted even further, and plenty of new content on the way (as Ubisoft has shared with the Year Two Roadmap) Rainbow Six: Siege’s playerbase is expected to show even more growth in the near future.
Oh I've always been a Thatcher user, especially when paired up with a Thermite or Hibby.Thatcher was worthwhile since day one. Every time I play with my friends in almost every attack round one of us brings Thatcher and Thermite/Hibana. He's gadget is extremly essencial.
Like that IQ has been given some subtle buffs. However she's still a very underrated operator. I really enjoy playing with her. She's very fast and all of her main weapons are better than most other attack characters plus she has frag grenades.
Now I've just comeback from playing a bit and fuck me I got salty.
First match I was playing in the Border map and the defender's objective was in the 1st floor (that room with the 2 glass windows), so I've decided to enter the building from the 2nd floor on the other side of the building. I was rapelling, destroyed part of the window, sent a drone to scout quick, coast was clear so I move in and enter, walk 2 steps and get handicaped by a Caveira that just appered out of fucking nowhere from behind. How!?
Second match. Map was Oregon. The objective was in the Tower division of the map. Luckly I managed to switch spawn locations to the main entrance (because my drone got shoot). 7 seconds into the match 1 of my teammates dies from a sniper up in the tower (this is something I already come to expect when playing in this map that why I always check the tower). Anyway, the main entrance is furthest point in that building away from the tower. Still I decide that the main door was to much a risk, so I go for a door some 7 meters to the left of it, a much more discrete entrance. The moment I was about to destroy the barricade I get blown to kingdom come by a shotgun. And surprise surprise, it was a Pulse that was coincidentally just passing by with the motion sensor.
EDIT: So I am close to unlocking a new operator. Who should I pick? Ela, Hibana, Valkerye, Jackal, the other Jap, one of the canadians, one of the brazileans or one of the chinese?