14 DAY TRIAL // It's a little less than one month until Rainbow Six Siege arrives, and the developers working on the shooter at Ubisoft have internalized a lot of the feedback that the community offered during the beta testing period, with a range of tweaks for the core mechanics set to be implemented ahead of the title's arrival on December 1.
In an official announcement, the team explains that it has focused on the online matchmaking system.
The company states, "Thanks to all the data gathered during the Closed Beta, we have decided to remove some unnecessary complexities of the underlying matchmaking systems, while preserving our core values of matching players based on (not sorted by priority) their skill, account level, network performance and geographical location."
More testing is required at the moment before all the changes are revealed to the fan community, but Ubisoft is trying to make sure that gamers can move quickly from one round to another.
When it comes to the classes in Rainbow Six Siege, the studio has reduced hip fire accuracy and has tweaked other undisclosed mechanics, all of them designed to push gamers towards using them in a support position.
There are also tweaks to the weapons and the gadgets, all designed to improve the overall balance of matches.
When it comes to Terrorist Hunt, Ubisoft has decided to increase the challenge, regardless of the used difficulty level, mainly by making the Artificial Intelligence controlled opponents more accurate and able to deliver more damage.
The developers are also aiming to deliver an update soon after launch to allow the community to create custom matches on dedicated servers, which will require ten players to be present at the same time.
PC players should prepare their computers for Rainbow Six Siege
When it comes to the system requirements needed to run the title, Ubisoft says that gamers should have at a minimum a machine running Windows 7, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, with either an Intel Core i3 560 3.3 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 945 3.0 GHz processor.
6 GB of RAM are needed, and when it comes to graphics, gamers should run an Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5870 with 1GB of VRAM.
Apparently, more than 30 GB of hard drive are required for the game to install, which means that about double that is required by those who plan to get a downloadable version.
The recommended requirements for Rainbow Six Siege do not change the operating systems that are accepted but up the processor requirements to Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3 GHz or AMD FX-8120 3.1 GHz.
8 GB of RAM are optimal, and when it comes to graphics cards, Ubisoft is saying GeForce GTX 670 or GTX760 and AMD Radeon HD 7970 or R9 280x with 2 GB of VRAM are both solid choices.
Optimally, 47 GB should be free for Rainbow Six Siege to install.
The tactical shooter will also be offered on the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 on December 1.