Nokk ADS Bug, Improved Cav/Jackal Interaction & More! – Y4S4 Operator Updates: Rainbow Six Siege
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What’s up guys, Rogue-9 here and in this
video I want to discuss the operator balancing changes that are coming to Rainbow
Six Siege with Operation Shifting Tides. The volatile phase of the test server is
over and I think it’s safe now to look at these changes without any of them getting
dropped or modified any more; because that’s always the trade-off, right? I could smash out a video as soon as the
test server drops and get the info out as soon as possible but then that runs the risk of
certain changes not making it into the game and then I’d just be causing confusion
rather than providing useful info, so I will always prefer to stay a bit more cautious. That said, I think the time has now come
to discuss Shifting Tides and there is in fact so much to talk about, that I will be
splitting the analysis into three different videos: Operator Balancing, Gameplay Changes and
Gun Balancing, starting off with the Operators! Check the pinned comment below for
timestamps and with that, let’s finally get going! With the latest update to Siege Glaz is
buffed significantly with an update to his banana vision and boy is this a good one. I have mentioned in the past that I
consider Glaz to be a bit of a knife edge character. Only a few seasons ago, his ability to see
through smoke was META defining and Glaz was consistently pretty strong. Then came the big nerf with Operation
Phantom sight that forced Glaz to stand still for his smoke vision charge up… He essentially went from a must pick, to a
near useless operator overnight and ever since then, the devs have been gradually re-buffing him
bit by bit to bring him back to an acceptable power level. And up until now, those changes were kind
of like drops in the ocean, sure he became better but not nearly enough to make
him viable in any truly competitive match. This update though changes all of that. As you can see, with Operation Shifting Tides,
Glaz now has a very bright and visible yellow overlay for enemies, even when the
meter on his scope is completely depleted. When looking through smoke, the empty
state is not nearly as effective but even with no charge at all, you can still see the enemies just a tiny bit. Combining this far more forgiving overlay
system, with the slower charge depletion and faster fire rate updates that came before
and it looks now as if we might be back to the good old days (at least for Glaz mains). It feels like the usability nerf from Phantom
Sight has been almost entirely reversed and the way the scope works now makes it actually possible for a skilled Glaz player to use him effectively again. Will this tip Glaz too far again
in terms of the power balance? In my opinion it definitely feels as if this
might take him too far over again but hey, maybe that will at least give Warden some
validity and who knows, maybe the two will actually balance each other out by some miracle. I guess we’ll have to wait and see what
the final outcome will be but if you used to enjoy playing Glaz, all I can say is definitely give him a go; you might well find that he’s pretty usable again now. What are your thoughts on this buff? Let me know in the poll in the top right hand
corner now! Kaid is also getting a bit of a buff with
increased range on his Electroclaw area of effect (from 0.75 to 1.3m) and he is handing
in his impact grenades and drawing some shiny new barbed wire from the Team Rainbow armoury. Or maybe I should say shiny old barbed
wire, because he only just lost that recently. It never made any sense to me why Kaid, who’s
main gadget has such great synergy with the wire, should lose access in the first
place but hey, it’s back so who cares? The increased Claw range will allow him to
electrify up to three walls at once and that goes for side by side or 90 degree angle arrangements. The deploy time stays the same, as you
can see, and that means that overall, Kaid will now simply get more bang for his buck on each
Claw and this should go some way towards pushing his utility up a bit. This, combined with his recent AUG A3 buff
will make him far more competitive as an alternative (or supplement) to good old Bandit. Kaid didn’t quite live up to expectations
when he was released but the consecutive buffs have now finally raised him to a point
where I’m starting to like have taken a him a lot. It might year, but hurray, Kaid has finally arrived! You know the drill, a poll for
your thoughts is available now! Warden is also being… ehm… changed? A tiny bit? He’s basically losing his barbed wire and
gaining a nitro cell, which is supposed to make him a more powerful anchor and plant denier… I mean, sure C4 is great and all but if you
want to bring an operator to deny the plant with explosives, then why not bring one that
can also add something to the team with a useful main gadget? The whole argument of Warden now being
able to act without exposing himself completely contradicts the nature of his main gadget. He is supposed to withstand flashes and
smokes in order to be able to expose himself at the right time and counter the push. If using the C4 from cover is the play, then
literally any other defender who owns a nitro cell can do this and be more valuable to
the team with other abilities at the same time. I think Warden may need some more love in future here. The Jackal update has been discussed to
death already by now, but there are some aspects that are not properly elaborated on in the patch notes. So let me skip over the basics relatively quickly before going into more detail on the new Caveira interaction. The number of pings he gets now are
dependent on the age of the footprints, which will be evident to you by their colour and the format of the highlighting ring around the print you are scanning. When you scan now, all footprints of that
specific enemy disappear, so you will have to make a choice between following the prints
or scanning for pings but of course, new prints left after the scan will be scannable again. Finally, Jackal will no longer be able to see or scan footprints from below after opening up the ceiling! So that should be clear, right? Interestingly, the patch notes also mention
an improved interaction with Caveira’s silent step ability but they don’t
really explain what that means. So I did some digging around in the game and
actually, this is a really neat little update and fix. Pre-patch if you’re playing as Jackal and
scan Caveira, one of two things could happen if she activated her silent step ability. If you scanned her and she activated her
ability afterwards, she would avoid getting pinged but the countdown timer for both Jackal and
Cav would look exactly the same (i.e. blue). If on the other hand, Cav already
happened to be in the silent step exactly when the scan completed, the entire scan would just fail and you would have basically wasted one of Jackal’s charges. The new system addresses both of these possibilities. Firstly, when Cav manages to avoid getting
pinged by activating her ability after getting scanned, the timer is greyed out for both
operators which then makes it clear that the pings are failing due to Cav’s super sneakiness. But even better than this, if Cav just
happens to be sneaking at the time of getting her prints scanned, the scan will no longer fail. It will just start out in the greyed out state
indicating that she is hidding but offering the possibility of one of the
other pings still working in future. That’s quite cool and I think an
important fix before this overall nerf goes live. Imagine scanning prints, seeing them all
disappear and then getting no payoff at all because Cav just happened to be
silent stepping right at that moment. It would kind of suck, so seeing this fixed is great! Here’s something that wasn’t in the patch
notes and is probably a minor bug; Nokk’s ADS time when using her cloaking ability will
now be shorter compared to not using her ability. As you can see in my test footage from before
the new patch, the time with the FMG-9 used to be consistently between 216 and 233ms,
irrespective of her ability being active or not and this made complete sense because the
FMG-9 is supposed to have an ADS time of 220ms, which falls exactly between
two frames when recording at 60 fps. Thanks to some helpful hints from
fans (many thanks for reaching out guys!) I also tested this on the TS build and as
you can see, when Nokk is using her ability now, her ADS time is reduced to around
183ms, so over 17% faster than it used to be. I don’t know what could have caused this,
it definitely doesn’t feel like an intentional change and if it’s a bug, well then I wonder what
other guns or operators have been affected as well. Have you noticed anything off for operators’ ADS times? Share a comment below! And last and definitely also least, the voice
actors for Hibana and Mira are being changed. Ubisoft is planning to put out more lore-style
content in future and just like Angela Basset being swapped out of the role of Six, I
suspect that Hibana and Mira being replaced is down to a cost saving measure. Using higher profile actors for voiceovers
is cool and all but I can understand how things could become really expensive once you start
putting together more cut scenes, voiceovers or even motion capture
sessions for animated short films. So either Jamie Choi (who previously played
Hibana) and Christine Solomon (who played Mira) are just too busy to commit to future Rainbow
Six engagements or they are simply too expensive. Although, this swap might also give us a hint
at the next short film we might be getting. The first one focused on Thatcher and Dokkaebi,
maybe the next one will be a Mira/Hibana special? Although Mira definitely makes sense in general,
since voiceovers from her have become a significant part of the gadget reveal teasers each season. But yeah, no real impact on gameplay here and it is almost certainly just down to commitments or cost. And those are the Operator Balancing
updates and changes of Operation Shifting Tides. Do let me know your thoughts on the changes
in the comments below; thank you so much for watching, I hope you enjoyed the
video and I will see you in the next episode!
0:58 – Is Glaz going to be OP again?
3:04 – Kaid buff
4:24 – Warden change
5:18 – Jackal Rework
7:42 – Nokk Bug
8:52 – Mira & Hibana Voice Actor Switch… Why?!
Maybe the Nøkk thing is because of her negative win delta? I would only assume it's supposed to be a minor buff
Make optional scope on .44 Magnum.
Honestly maybe we give warden smokes as the first defender with smokes
Warden's glasses should give a permanent but slight buff against smokes and flashes, similar to how glaz's scope worked right after his nerf/rework, but upon activating it he receives full immunity to flashes and far greater visibility through smoke.
I’ve actually been using glaz again quite a bit since the firerate update so yay!
How to buy new operators in ps4?
The new Mira voice is awful. Bring back old Mira!
Give nokk mp7 reee
No no give kaid his impact back reeeeeeee
I never thought glaz was too powerful
That schlong murder hole at 0:15 tho lmao
Nook change seems like an intentional ninja buff. Even her ADS animation is different. Notice the placement of her left hand.
I fucking hate that ubi is focusing on lore more fix the main problem and comp problems instead of some bs that no one cares about
Ah yes, another video <3
Just do something for hibana Increase there magzine 21 to 31 .primary wepon type
I think the voice changes are because of the New game from ubisoft. Something with Zombies and the Operators of Siege.
Warden and Tachanka is the perfect example of Ubi not listening to fans. Multiple times I’ve heard/read Warden needs a gadget buff and Tachanka needs armor piercing rounds for shields. But no. Ubi just doesn’t listen to fans
i think warden should get a blue esp like glaz does (when his glasses are on)
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"Banana vision"
Maybe replace wardens glasses with a sonar grenade with a small range for smoke plants
Why don’t u play ranked?
Just give Nook a new fucking gun🙄
So everyone gonna ignore the fact that guns don’t move anymore when rapelling ?
Unblock me on twitter I’ve never even said anything to you
Warden have 2 protect 2speed now.
#glazmainsriseup
What are your thoughts on giving warden a smoke grenade @Rouge-9 ?
Jackal is so useless now, fucking morons. Cav should be nerfed and only compromise for 2 seconds instead of what 7 seconds.
I think warden needs to see some yellow like glaz to increase his pickrate
so i mean, im not the only stonebank lover outhere 😉
I think the nokk buff is intended because most players crouch ads with her
I like how they originally wanted to make him less of an entry-fragger, and now they've LITERALLY given him frag grenades AND they made the vision still clear on zero charge for at least a non-obscured point of view.
I'm not complaining, I think they finally fixed Glaz tbh. Now he's not too underpowered when he's the last one standing and he has to get into closer quarters, he can flush people out now. Also now his smokes are still a big deal without being quite too powerful, and – most importantly – he's going to be very good again at quick-sniping asshole spawnpeakers.
That was actually a major problem for me – he used to be the best defense against spawnpeakers and then they made him way slower and more vulnerable. A person with a normal weapon and ACOG would be better in that fight because the mentality changes when you're Glaz – that split second where you DON'T see a glow could get you killed because you expect to see a glowing target to indicate a threat, and not seeing that makes you have to second-guess yourself before it really clicks in your mind that yeah, there's a dude looking at you from that window and he's alive.
I thought the new operators were coming out too? Am I missing something
They need to get rid of cavs immunity to jackal
It’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense!
So if I move really quietly that means I don’t leave footprints?
If I’m quiet that means I’m not walking at all right?
I agree with you on the Warden change. His main issues are the lack of utility and bad/mediocre guns. He desperately needs impact grenades. So if you want to bring utility with the shotgun you have to rely on the SMG-12 for medium to long range, which is really hard. If you bring the MPX instead you get range and easy recoil but you have no utility because your gadget sucks. Impacts fix that. Other than that, I think he needs to counter Zof’s concussion nades, he should go back to 1 armor and get the P90, but reduce the P90’s recoil. Will he be meta? Probably not, but at least he’d be viable.
I feel like the only way to make Cav more balanced is to like double the amount of time interrogation takes to complete. Even in casual, this bitch is the bane of all that is fun in the game unless you're the one playing her. If they're gonna buff her primary weapon, they should nerf the hell out of her ability.
New ops suck waste of my money
I'm gonna stop you right there with the voice actor price defense for Ubisoft. That's no excuse. Rainbow Six Siege makes an absurd amount of money, it's Ubisoft's main cash cow right now. They don't just charge outrageous prices for all their shit, they actually profit a lot. Cutting corners is not okay, and that's shitty to the original voice actors.
That voice switch is the dumbest thing.
Honestly the way I see Warden at the moment, he's designed solely as a counter-pick operator for teams that may rely on distruptive utility, and Glaz. Make his ability both passive and active so it auto-activates once a flash goes off near him (be it flash grenade or blitz flash) with a set amount of charges so he cannot fully deny a team's utility, and then make them also have a toggle for seeing through smoke and MAYBE for removing visual effects from concussion grenades? And possibly give him a carbine like Jager/Vigil so he can take longer range fights and be more effective as a post Glaz buff counter, and for increasing fragging potential – Jager and Vigil's abilities are still more universally useful than his and they aren't made OP by having carbines.
They need to remove his situational aspect and make it so he can be more reliably useful and consistent basically.
Also I would say they are probably trialling the Nokk change for viability before they look at changing her loadout, it doesn't make much sense with her ability but still.
Nokk needs a buff. She fucking sucks.
I wouldn't call miras voice actor change least, the new voice actor is fucking GARBAGE
Can they please revert Mira’s voice lines? The new ones just don’t feel right for Mira
I don't think they should've nerffed glaz in PS like they did insted they should've increased his ads time so it takes longer to bring it up and brought down the rate of fite
Noo old mira voice better.
0:16 penis in wall
Is maestro getting his shield back? I’ll just a rumor I heard
I like kaid's change, because even though 2 claws that cover 3 walls is the same as 3 claws that cover 2 walls, this version of the buff means he can still only get 2 hatches
I don't like the new Mira Voice, but if it means we'll get more lore-based content, then I consider it a necessary and worthwhile change
watching this while the update downloads
Lmg for fuse and finka seem wonky, sometimes they feel quick and sometimes they aren't ( without finka boost)
Did anybody see the VG charm on the mira shotgun?
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If Jackal scans Cavs footprints, then is it not OP that Cav can use her silent step only for a few moments when the ping should happen and after that turns off the silent step? Jackal should have been the roamer counter…
What’s the outro music btw awesome video
Edit:)found it in link in description
That is the poshest accent I have ever heard
I played with glaz 112 hours,ive got the elite and of course im a glaz main and finally hes buffed 🙂
Did I hear banana vision? Oof
I actually noticed that while playing nøkk in the new season. Playing her felt better than on ember rise. PS. Is it just me is is the red dot scope further from her while using her gadget than when you are not
Kaid should keep his impact nades
I would consider this a viable change for Glaz. Yeah i would rather him be slightly overpowered than useless…But i guess we will see what Ubisoft does with their bullshit "frustration data" Thanks for sharing Rogue! Im looking most forward to Kaid change. Ive always been a fan of him and find his DMR shotgun… And I would still consider Warden pretty useless
The jackal rework is cool, I main him, however I feel it wont change anything because if you are scanned it shows your current location which is a massive advantage to the attackers especially when defenders attempt to flank so I feel like jackal wont be seen in ranked anytime soon. :/
I do not approve Mira's new voice…..
The new Mira voice is ugly
Console definitely got a pistol recoil animation change, it seems more like pc so I doubt y’all of players will notice it
Holy shit looks like I'm going kaid again boiiiiiiisssss. That barb wire is OP when blocking off hallways I have missed it
0:13–0:18 wow perfect shape, perfect shotgun shot WINK WINK 😂
I thought there would be a battle pass coming out
As a glaz main, I’m happy
Why still bully warden
Give warden flashes and smokes so he can actually use his ability
glaz has a super fast firing sniper too they buffed the firerate
Whoa. Rogue-9 "just wants your lovin'." <3
holy smokes i had no idea the season started today! i got home from work and see a 7 GB update downloading and was so confused!
Did they change the sens? On Xbox I have it at 100 100 and 17 for ads but it feels so slow now
gr8, back to the glaz&smoke meta…
@Thedooo
Just make warden’s ability have the same charge mechanic as cav, nokk and vigil, and make the ability actually activate halfway through the activation animation. Current warden is way too slow to react to anything and if you activate his ability at the wrong time you get punished for the full cooldown. This’ll make using his ability more flexible and reactive, allowing him to actually do something with it.
I like the glaz rework
i don't know if its just me but mira's new va is trash just unacceptable at this point
Bruh the glaz buff brings back the exact same problem it’s so visible without any charge they’re so stupid. It shouldn’t be visible at all. The buff entirely negates the point of the nerf .
You are very thorough. I like it!
Ugh…still no changes for nøkk 🙁
Shes so underwhelming
I wish they got rid of kaids C4 instead of his Impacts i feel to many defenders have C4 charges
At 6:39, when you’re talking about the old Jackal system, the video incorrectly displays the game version as Shifting Tides instead of Ember Rise.
Any news on the battle pass?
Warden just needs passive flashback immunity like ying and keep "smoke vision" as the active ability, he'll still suck but it would be something
Look at the shotgun blast shape at 0:15
I bought hibana for the first time yesterday since I started playing in Operation Skull Rain
just a question, im new to this game but i have bought some r6 credits and i dont know who to purchase. could someone give me some tips?
Dose anyone feel like this update made gun play better ldk how to explain it but this update feels great
The Nokk bug could be from how her ability animation is similar to Finka’s.
They could’ve done the voice changes for outbreak
#WardenP90
Our boy needs to be a 3 armor again with an ACOG if his gadget is gonna stay this way. How can they keep him an anchor playstyle and not do this?
So no Ela Nerf…
Really happy with the glaz buff. They’re definitely going in the right direction and getting really creative. The cool down time might be just a hair too high though imo, we’ll see.
You might be able to tell where jackal is when he pings you now based on the amount of pings