In a new Ubiblog, Rainbow Six developers have unveiled some of there post-launch plans for the game. For Year One of Rainbow Six: Siege, Ubisoft will push out free content starting in January 2016 all the way until October 2016. As seen below on the ‘Year One Roadmap‘ January brings update ‘Operation Black Ice‘ which will consist of a new map and two new operators. The remaining seasons of content will all bring in a new map and two operators as well.
The developers speak on why they have decided against selling content to their fan base.
Ubi also tackled the on-going question of micro-transactions. Essentially, players will not be able to buy their skill with real life currency (R6 Credits), but they can purchase weapon skins with R6 Credits.
Each new post-launch operator can be unlocked by playing approximately 25 hours (approx. 25,000 Renown). The data we have suggests that the average FPS player spends 8-10 hours a week playing their favorite FPS (also in-line with our observation during the closed beta), so it should only take between two to three weeks maximum to unlock an operator. With about three months between each Season of content, we hope players with regular game time won’t have trouble saving up enough Renown to unlock both new operators upon their release. Each operator can also be automatically accessed by spending 600 R6 Credits ($4.99 USD). Keep in mind that the initial 20 operators at launch will be unlocked much quicker in the base progression system (500 Renown for first operator in a CTU, 1000 for the second, etc).
Rainbow Six: Siege launches December 1st on Ps4, Xbox One and PC. Make sure to pre-order your copy now for any pre-order bonuses.
