Yesterday (November 21, 2022) during the Six Jönköping Major 2022 (in Sweden) we had the Panel Reveal of Year 7 Season 4 of Rainbow Six Siege, Operation Solar Raid.

Firstly, we have a new "GhostEyes" squad 🕷️ led by operator Caveira, this team operates under the sign of discretion to retrieve any type of information.


Who says new season says new operator. The new operator is called "Solis" and she is columbian and on the the defenders side. She is a 2-2 operator, which means 2 health and 2 speed. She was designed as IQ but for defenders.

Solis is equipped with an augmented reality headset with an integrated scan, which she controls using her wristband.️ So unlike IQ she cannot defend herself while using her AR headset. The scan causes pulses that give her teammates the position of electronic devices in her line of sight, including the attackers' phones, drones, and gadgets (special or not).

Her arsenal is equipped as follows:
In main weapons we have the choice of the P90 or the ITA 12L shotgun in secondary weapon we have the SMG-11, as for the gadgets we have the choice of the impact grenade or the bulletproof camera.


Of course, she is not unstoppable, and her nemesis is Thatcher, who blocks the use of the helmet with his EMP Grenades (Electro Magnetic Pulse). As well as IQ which can detect Soli's gadget when she uses it.

This season will also bring a new map, "The Lab of NightHaven". The map will be available in all playlists (Ranked, Unraked, Quick Match and Novice) and a new thing during this season, it will be impossible to ban the map in Ranked or Unraked.

Another novelty, we will have crossplay and cross-progression. Let's start with crossplay, it will allow Playstation and Xbox players to play together and PC and Cloud Gaming players (Stadia RIP and LUNA) to play together also to note for some clarity that console and PC players cannot play together. Communication being essential in this game, Playstation and Xbox players will be able to communicate together as long as the chat is activated in their options, also note that crossplay will be activated by default.


Now let's move on to Cross-progression. Your R6 Siege data is now decentralized in the cloud and is accessible from any platform, at any time! (With a few subtleties):
  • Your skins, Alpha/Bravo packs... will be the same regardless of your platform.
  • Your rank in Ranked games will be the same depending on the type of platform, whether Console or PC platform. So your PS and Xbox rank will be the same, but will be different from your PC rank.
  • In-game currencies, R6 Renowned and R6 Credits will be added between different platforms, if you had 200 R6 Credits on console and 800 R6 Credits on PC after the update you will see 1000 R6 Credits on all platforms.
  • Penalties should be the same on all platforms.
All players should receive an alpha pack to celebrate the arrival of Cross-progression.


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Picture's text translation :
  • Only 1 Ubisoft Connect account to take with you your data everywhere.
  • Your progression shared on all platforms.
  • Play with other console players and invite your friends from Ubisoft Connect.
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We will have changes about the in-game behavior. The beta of the new reputation system is coming!
A rank will be assigned to each according to a score that will be private for yourself, and will be based on behavior and interactions with other players. And from year 8, bonuses and penalties will be distributed, depending on the level of reputation of each player. The bonuses will be for example Alpha packs, XP or special drops. As for the penalties, it will be, among other things, restriction of access to competitive playlists and test servers or slowing down of progress and chances of obtaining Alpha packs.
In order to offer the best possible gaming experience, starting from season 4 friendly fire (team kill) will be removed during the preparation phase.


There will also be a new anti-cheat system, but they are keeping the details secret for obvious reasons.

Another novelty (there are many) the new ranked games, the "Ranked 2.0".
What changes :
  • The MMR no longer influences your rank in ranked games, it is now the "skill".
  • New Emerald rank between Diamond and Platinum.
  • Each rank has 5 levels.
The news :
  • Ranking points
  • 5 tiers per rank, and 100 points per tier
  • A demotion shield
  • One Tier Reward
  • Replacement of the team restriction by an algorithm ensuring the balance of matches (which means no more 1000 MMR points of difference that prevented to play with friends of higher ranks)

Operation Solar Raid introduces a new Battle Pass, but above all a new Battle Pass progression system. No more linear progression, you can now choose to target the rewards you want to unlock first! Among the rewards a novelty has slipped in, these are skins for drones. Of course there will be other rewards too, as usual there will be free rewards and others reserved for Premiums (those who have paid for the Battle Pass) speaking of Premiums, they will be entitled to special content like we said it but also have an early access to the new operator, a 30% boost for progress in the Battle Pass as well as a 10% discount on the store (for the purchase of operators or skins)


A new season also comes with quality of life and balancing updates :
  • This season, all operators will have the same movement speed when aiming (ADS), which will be equivalent to operators at 3 speed points.
  • Additionally, the health and speed of Sens, Dokkaebi, and OSA have been readjusted.
  • For agents with dual function gadgets such as Zofia with stun or explosive grenades or Capitao with incendiary or smoke darts, it will no longer be necessary to select the weapon before changing the type of ammunition, we will be able to do directly while we are using another weapon.
  • Before, when we detected a bomb site we had an A and/or B icon to locate it, but if the teammate who was carrying the defuser was eliminated we lost the site tracking icon to see the location of the diffuser, now it will be possible to see both, which will allow you to choose between attacking one of the sites or recovering the defuser.
  • There are also new features for controller players such as drone control which will make the task faster and easier to navigate.
Operation Solar Raid does not forget to continue the work already started for accessibility options for color-blind people. From now on, the choice of the team color (between Blue, Red and Orange) will be reflected in the color of the lights emitted by the gadgets (drones, cameras, C4...). The team hopes to offer more colors and customizations in future updates.

Let's finish now with the Elite Skin that will arrive, we already knew that Maverick will have a skin from Nier: Replicant, now we also know that Iana will have the 2B skin from Nier: Automata.




The new season will be available on Test Servers from this week (week of 21st) and will be live (on stable servers) from December 06, 2022.


And for those who prefer to see with their eyes, I put the replay of the reveal below: :


PS: sorry some videos (like for Ranked 2.0) however they are available on the full reveal video above which has chapters or on the official Rainbow Six France Twitter. I also know that 1 picture is with French texts (and translated it), that's because the US/Global account doesn't have them in English, not to say at all.