Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

Balance · 14

• The slowdown strength when enemies retreat is increased to 10% from 5%.

  slowdown strength

• Fire damage is increased to 14 hp from 12 hp.

  damage

• The Glaive-12 is added to secondary weapons.

  secondary weapon

• Horus Lance impact damage against an operator is increased to 80 from 50.

  impact damage

• BU-GIs become entangled in Barbed Wire, stopping completely and self-destructing.

  entanglement interaction

• A firing mode to trigger Incendiary Grenades on impact is added.

  firing mode

• The guard break strength on projectile impact against Ballistic Shields is increased to 100% from 30%.

  guard break strength

• Deployment restrictions are reduced.

  deployment restriction

• Equipping uses quickdraw animations and equip animation timings are reduced to 0.4 seconds from 0.9 seconds.

  equip animation timing

• The drilling time on Ballistic Shields, soft surfaces, and solid surfaces is reduced to 1.5 seconds from 2 seconds.

  drilling time

• Precision mode charges are reduced to 3 from 4.

  precision mode charge

• The delay between expansions is reduced to 0.9 seconds from 1 second.

  expansion delay

• The hitbox for Horus Lance is updated for better accuracy and consistency.

  hitbox

• Horus Lance can now damage Ballistic Shield Operators while in the removal animation.

  damage capability

Fix · 8

• Fixed an issue where the voice chat indicator sometimes stopped appearing.

  voice chat indicator

• Fixed an issue where defenders lose points for destroying their own Barbed Wire.

  score penalty

• Fixed an issue where the drilling sound played when Noor's Horus Lance projectiles were destroyed by electrified Barbed Wire.

  drilling sound

• Fixed an issue where Noor's Horus Lance Launcher reticle was not impacted by the Reticle Opacity option.

  reticle responsiveness

• Fixed an issue where Osa's Talon-8 Shield's right button went from ON to OFF when deployed.

  button state

• Fixed an issue where players could not navigate left or right if they selected the area above the OPEN NOW button in the Locker.

  navigation

• Fixed an issue where newcomers did not receive a Recruit Rewards pop-up unless they rebooted.

  rewards pop-up

• Fixed an issue where the hitbox for Noor's Horus Lance projectiles was too large.

  hitbox size

Also in this patch1

• Snake and Ram were nerfed in the mid-season balancing patch.

  balancing patch

• The TCSG weapon will be nerfed in an upcoming update.

  balance