Looking forward to another year of updates and fresh content for their popular strategic first-person shooter title Rainbow Six Siege, Ubisoft has revealed the first season details. This season introduces Brava, a new Brazilian Operator, and important gameplay updates including an immersive reload update, the Mousetrap feature to address players using a mouse and keyboard on consoles, and further anti-toxicity measures. 

In Year 8, Rainbow Six Siege is focused on solidifying its position as a high-intensity tactical shooter where purposeful action, precision, and creative tactics are the keys to success. In Commanding Force brings a balancing update to Zero, improvements to the Play Section UI, balancing change on weapon attachments, and a new immersive reload system: interrupting the animation will leave the player without a magazine but closed bolt weapons will have a single-round for the player to use at any point during the reload.

Starting today until March 20, players can purchase the limited-time Year 8 Pass for $30 to unlock the four seasonal Battle Passes, 14-day early access to new Operators when they launch, exclusive Exotic weapon skins, a 10% VIP discount on the shop, and more. For $60, the Premium Year Pass offers all the before-mentioned perks plus 20 extra Battle tokens that players can use to unlock rewards faster. 

Not only do we have Season 1’s information, but Rainbow Six Siege has unveiled their Year 8 roadmap as well. Through this roadmap, we learn that in Season 2 we will be introduced to a Swedish Operator and Season 3’s Operator arrives from South Korea. Plus, there will be improvements to player protection, console and player comfort, onboarding and practice features, and of course, balancing and playlist updates. You can learn more about Year 8’s roadmap on the game’s official blog.

Rainbow Six Siege is available on PC via Steam, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.