Rainbow 6 Siege

Man this is a game I have history with as well as a love hate relationship but will remain as one of my most favorite games I have ever played.

I first experienced Siege during their alpha testing and being new to the search and destroy 1 life method it took me a bit to get the train rolling. After that I took part in the beta then all was silent. I admit I lost track of the game with other releases at the time and am pretty sure destiny was sucking away my soul during that time period. Then boom rainbow 6 siege released I wasn’t able to purchase it right away due to financial issues but I waited about 3 months after release. I bought the game on PS4 and slowly worked into learning everything I could from it. I remember dying time after time, again and again, getting discouraged but I didn’t give up. I worked hard and saved my Renown until I could purchase my first operator and then the grind continued.

When siege launched it had 11 maps and considering how much work went into each map I gotta say it’s really impressive. You see there are maps that go from 3 to 4 floors and about 85% of each map can be destroyed. Don’t quote me as it’s just a rough guess but the fact that you had windows, wooden door barricades and steel wall reinforcements you had a great amount of destruction per map.

But siege didn take off right away and many thought it was another failure for ubisoft who at the time was fighting against a hostile take over but that didn’t stop the development team as the season pass promised plenty of goodies. Each season added 1 new map and 2 new operators. 1 on each side of attack and defend and the fact was the team was pouring everything into this game which you can see from the maps alone how much work goes into them.

I remember putting hours into the game, grinding away, leveling up in a system that seems to have infinite levels cause even to this day I’ve seen players pass the 270 level mark and going and my dedication didn’t stop there. There was a time where online mode couldn’t be accessed on ps4 to play so I bought the game again l. This time on my xbox 1 and grinded away again since I knew what I was doing it was much easier to attack and defend. Many rounds I would walk away with an ace and for those that don’t know an ace is when you kill all 5 players on the opposing team by yourself. The sad part though is I never got any hate mail from other people. I grinded on xbox until level 76 then I ended up selling my xbox and went back onto my ps4 to grind some more.

Year 2 arrived and with it a new season pass, more maps, and operators and the best part of all this is if you didn’t have the money for the season pass and didn’t mind grinding many hours you could buy the operators with the ingame currency which is one reason I loved siege so much. It didn’t force you to buy a season pass. Ubisoft really made a great game. By year 2 the game was already rolling with plenty of traction as rainbow 6 siege had it’s own esport league.

But siege was failing, becoming plagued by the things that plague every online only game: cheaters and toxic players. And it wasn’t in small doses either. People team killing or instantly knowing where you were really made ubisoft think of how to save their game. By this time I had made the official jump from console to PC and yes I had bought siege for the 3rd time. And the community toxicity was bad there to and even worse the ingame chat was there for all to see which was both an awesome feature and a curse as trolls used this to piss people off and blatantly saying they would TK you at the start of the round.

Now don’t let that scare you away. Ubisoft has been hard at work since the games release fixing it and implementing ways to keep games clean as well as eliminating as much toxicity as they could but I still feel they need to implement a better way of reporting people and actually showing that something was done with the report filed.

This game I have loved and hated for a long time and my experience across 3 different platforms really didn’t change much after sinking close to 1000 hours into the game. I had finally called it quits simply put I couldn’t handle how toxic the game had become. Don’t let my words scare you away the game is still a great game and I still have plenty of friends that play the game and maybe one day soon I’ll return to the game and try to enjoy it again. Thank you and have a great day.