The latest update of Tom Clancy’s rainbow six Headquarters brings a new Operator that can detect enemy technology, a new map, as well as cross-progression and cross-play. The fourth and final season of Year 7 is called Operation Solar Raid and defender Solis takes the stage. The Colombian character has a SPECI-IO electro-sensor gadget that detects attacking drones and devices. Solis also has special gloves that interact with the gadget’s overlay, allowing him to trigger a cluster scan for enemy technology.
The brand new map is called Nighthaven Labs, and it’s a mix between the open sea, verdant cliffs, and a laboratory of technological marvels. Players will be able to tear down the walls of the lab with Rainbow Six’s signature siege combat, so it’ll be interesting to see how players adapt to this new location, especially since it won’t be banishable in competitive play for allow players to learn the layout.
The Solar Raid season also brings many significant quality of life changes. Ranked play now has a new system that allows players to compete in five divisions throughout a leaderboard, instead of having their progress tied to a matchmaking rating. MMR is now known as “skill” in the system, a hidden value for all playstyles that does not reset at the end of a season. Players can team up with any of their friends, and the matchmaking system will find a matching skill group.
Tuesday’s update also brings cross-play and progression to Ubisoft Connect, which will allow players to maintain account progress and unlock on console and PC. Players can disable crossplay in the Options menu. Ubisoft also added a host of minor quality of life tweaks, like removing friendly fire during squad setup and allowing Zofia and Capitao to change the ammo type for their devices when not in range. not equipped.
Operation Solar Raid goes live on December 6 and is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
