Ubisoft has just released Rainbow Six Siege’ ‘s new Y8S2.3 Designer Notes, which is bringing some interesting changes to the FPS game.
To begin with, the upcoming Y8S2.3 patch is set to buff Thorn by giving her the 1.5x sight on the UZK50GI. The devs have revealed that Thorn is one of the least-played trap operators in the game right now, which led them to this decision.
The designer’s notes also include some updates to Nokk, as her silent step ability is being removed from her HEL Presence Reduction. Both Nokk and Vigil will now also have similar glitching effects on observation tools when doing certain actions such as shooting or sprinting.
You can read the Y8S2.3 DESIGNER’S NOTES below.
BALANCING MATRIX AND TOP OPERATOR BANS
WIN DELTA VS. PRESENCE
Please note that we are using presence to gauge the popularity of an Operator. This notion had to be introduced to reflect the implementation of the pick & ban.
Presence definition: pick rate of an Operator when not banned. Win Delta: The Win Delta is aggregated from Operator’s Win Deltas per Bomb Site.
OPERATOR BAN RATE
OPERATOR BALANCING
THORN
UZK50GI
- Sights: Added 1.5x.
Thorn is currently one of the least picked trappers on defender lineups, we’ve decided to boost her loadout by adding a 155x sight to the UZK50GI, this should increase her popularity within the trapper ecosystem.
NØKK
HEL Presence Reduction
- Remove silent steps while the ability is active.
- Increase duration of the ability to 20s (from 12)
- Update glitching reasons
Deception is always a controversial topic and Nøkk’s ability is conceived around it. She can become invisible to observation tools and at the same time mute her footsteps. She is leading some of the main frustration for defenders and we would like to tackle this. In a quiet environment everyone should be able to hear someone else approaching, and Nøkk’s ability to move silently breaks this rule. We’ve decided to remove the silent facet of the ability in exchange for increased ability duration.”
VIGIL
ERC-7
- On observation tools Vigil will share the same glitching effect as Nøkk.
- The ability won’t deactivate while performing certain actions, like shooting, and will instead trigger the glitch effect on observation tools.
- Vigil won’t be immune to Lion’s EE-ONE-D or Grim’s Kawan Hive. Both gadgets will detect him, but he can prevent being pinged down by activating the ERC-7.
Nøkk and Vigil share a similar ability, and in the pursuit of consistency, we’ve decided to extend Nøkk’s cloaking rules to Vigil. With this change Vigil will glitch on observation tools while performing actions like shooting, deploying a gadget or sprinting. These new interactions will reward players that proceed more carefully while using the ERC-7 and will punish those who act more careless.
ORYX
Hatch Climb
- Reduced hatch climb interaction time by 30%.
Our game data shows that Oryx does not profit much from his ability to climb hatches. We would like to make this interaction smoother by reducing its recovery time, now it should feel less dangerous to perform.
