Rainbow Six Siege Year 9 Roadmap Revealed and It’ll Include Only 2 New Operators For the First Time

Today Ubisoft revealed the roadmap for Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Year 9, which will include four seasons as usual. 

One of the elements which will surely feel very different from previous years is that the four seasons won’t bring four new operators as they used to. 

Only two new operators are planned for Year 9, the antagonist from Year 8 Deimos in Season 1, as revealed yesterday (we also learned his real identity a couple of days ago), and a new Greek operator in Season 2.

The remaining two seasons (2 and 4) will instead bring a “remaster” of an existing operator. The first will be Recruit, and the second will be an unannounced American operator. You can see the full roadmap below.

To make it up, those who purchase the Battle Pass in Seasons 2 and 4 will receive an Operator Voucher. 

Following the changes announced yesterday for Season 1 (titled “Operation Deadly Omen” and releasing on March 12), Season 2 will include the full release of the Reputation System; map filters in the Standard Playlist; the addition of new maps and new Target drills in the Map Training Playlist; and the final release of the Siege Marketplace.

Fenrir will also be updated alongside the first part of an update for Solis.

On top of the new Greek operator, Season 3 will bring the badges and career system, the ability to wait for matchmaking in the Shooting Range, and the ability for the AI to control attackers in training mode, allowing players to play as defenders. New operators and maps will also continue to be added to the mode.

Solis will get the second part of her update, alongside a rebalance for Dokkaebi. 

Season  4 will let console players join matchmaking with PC players (this will be opt-in), while cheaters will be automatically kicked. More operators will be rebalanced, and more maps will be allowed to the training mode.

The developers will also continue working on anti-cheat and anti-toxicity measures throughout the year. You can watch the full video presentation and hear about all the changes directly from the developers below. 

Rainbow Six Siege is currently available for PC, PS4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.

While you wait for the start of year 9, the previous season (Operation Deep Freeze), and its new operator, Tubarão, are still available to enjoy for a few more weeks.