Ubisoft confirmed late last week that Rainbow Six Siege year 4 season 1, Operation Burnt Shrimp on the Barbie, will take the team to the Australian outback. Now we've got our first look at the new map, "an homage to all the dusty service stations and motels that populate the forgotten highways of the continent, places filled with hardworking locals and specialty menu items you’ll find nowhere else."
Rainbow Six is on scene at this particular slice of nowhere because of a nuclear convoy that fell under attack while it was passing by. The locals headed for the hills, and your team headed in to clean up the mess.
Assistant level design director Jacques Wong said the map is divided into three distinct sections, the Garage, the Motel, and the Restaurant, and uses colors, lighting and geometry to ensure that everything is easily recognizable and flows as intended. The designers also put an emphasis on "returning to a style of gameplay that players have enjoyed in the past, while keeping the meta in mind."
"We wanted to emphasize the impact of player decision-making, so for example, there’s a limited number of doors between each sections," Wong said. "Roamers can still create new paths by destroying walls, and there’s always the option of changing floors as a flanking strategy. It’s a medium-sized map, so players won’t need to go far to find alternative routes."
Outback and the rest of Operation Burnt Horizon (which is what the season is actually called, by the way) will be fully revealed on Twitch on February 17, during the Six Invitational in Montreal.
