Rainbow Six Siegecame out in 2015, but the competitive shooter has seen continued support by developer Ubisoft ever since its release. With numerous seasonal updates released every year,Rainbow Six Siegehas received new operators, reworks, and maps with more coming with the confirmed Operation North Star.
Operation North Star will be the second season ofRainbow Six Siege’s Year 6 roadmap, with two more already planned out for release later this year. At the start of Year 6, which launched withRainbow Six SiegeOperation Crimson Heist, Ubisoft released a small roadmap that gave fans a look at what they could expect to be released during the year.
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The roadmap did not give a lot of information but did announce that Operation North Star’s operator would be from the Nakoda Nation. The Nakoda are indigenous people that originate from Canada and the United States but currently live in Western Canada. Ubisoft’s confirmation of the event gives little additional information, butRainbow Six Siegeis often subject to leaks leading up to the reveal of new content.Rainbow Six SiegeOperation North Starhas proven to be no different, as details already began leaking about the season last month.
The leaks have thus far focused primarily on information regarding the new operator, claiming that they’ll be a defender with the codename Thunderbird. They will be a three-speed character equipped with either a SPAS-15 or Spear .308 primary, Q-929 or Bearing-9 sidearm, and either impact grenades or C4. The leaks haven’t said anything about what the operator’s unique ability will be, so players will just have to wait until the official reveal to learn more.Rainbow Six Seigeset new concurrent player recordswith the launch of its previous operation, so Operation North Star will undoubtedly draw quite the crowd as well.
No official release window for the release of Operation North Star has been revealed, but withRainbow Six Siege’s seasons usually lasting a little over three months each, it should be coming in early June. The announcement does come after some of the game’s players and content creators started calling forplayers to boycottRainbow Six Siegeover what they claim is a rampant cheater and hacker problem. Ubisoft has yet to respond to the boycott or offer any update on the situation. Hopefully, fans will still be able to enjoy Operation North Star when it releases sometime soon.
Rainbow Six Siegeis available now on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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