The Worst Lore in Modern Gaming

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Bad lore is not uncommon. Many games have lore that is downright awful. But I can not think of a game that started off so good and then completely lost it's way to the tune of a triple A budget. When it comes to lore, @Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege is a very strange case. It's wonky, ineffective, and fails to reach it's audience. But before it's sharp decline, it had a promising beginning. In fact many still look back on it's old direction quite fondly. So what went wrong? This is how Siege's decision to abandon it's roots in favor of appealing to a non existent crowd caused it to write the most pathetic and forgettable lore in modern gaming. I'd be interested to know of a modern game that spent so much money on such a universally ignored universe. #rainbowsixsiege

[@grxyzi9866]

I always find it funny to imagine all the fans paid for tickets to watch a building, because there’s no indication they can see what’s going on inside the stadium building

[@iAmLufa]

This is hilarious

[@Noperare]

Best case scenario, you watch the game via the cameras inside the building. So you physically went to a stadium to watch the game on a screen.

[@Einsym]

@@Noperare And said cameras get shot/deactivated all the time too

[@GazDaLad]

YO THIS BUILDING IS HELLA SICK BRO. WE SHOULD COME BACK NEXT YEAR!

[@verticalpug2026]

Pretty sure it's implied that the body cams of the operators are being broadcasted...

[@Sprousey97]

An anti terrorist team being turned into a paintball esports team sounds like the plot of a south park episode

[@Pierce1996h]

This was actually a small plot point in a boondocks episode. Wuncler hired blackwater mercenaries to play kickball lol

[@baconflakes3345]

@@Pierce1996h real

[@landrylongacre6391]

I feel like for South Park it would be the inverse, paint ball players forced to become an anti terrorist group… and then they’d die horribly because it’s south park

[@rotunda_]

@Pierce1996h Still can't believe that dumbass bet all of Woodcrest's money on a kickball game

[@derangedfreackingtwistedps5048]

@@Pierce1996h show with good writing does a funny joke, funny joke misattributed to show with slop writing.. lol

[@owendyer9956]

Deimos is real af, just said “Rainbow use to be cool and now it sucks” and kills the guy that made it the dumb Olympics

[@averymicrowave1713]

"In this fandom, Deimos is a hero."

[@ScoutTheSpartan]

@@averymicrowave1713 yeah he kinda was ngl. Until they dropped the ball by having him get captured.

[@Azal423]

@@ScoutTheSpartanman I came back to the game and immediately didn’t like him because he kicked Zero’s ass lol

[@captainslow_037]

@@Azal423 not to mention that HE SAW ZERO IN A MIRROR, fisher would never allow that

[@darrenmays2036]

thank you@@captainslow_037

[@Clod_Datenshi]

"Most players are too distracted with the amazing gameplay" Is this gameplay in the room with us?

[@iAmLufa]

I love it

[@mikejones8808]

Facts lmao

[@whitehuayra]

Guy hasn't played many games. Sad 😢

[@torakazu2269]

They say that the servers are maintained purely by the energy created by the speeds Tom Clancy achieves by rolling around in his grave.

[@matthewmccoy7437]

Lmaooo

[@cevatkokbudak6414]

OH 😂😅

[@Very_Nice_and_Polite_Person]

Why isn't this the top comment

[@Very_Nice_and_Polite_Person]

Why is this not the top comment

[@MB-ih2fx]

They have now turned his grave into a turbine type motor and is now powering up a town.

[@belinskiparadox7687]

Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to give an anti terrorist game an anime Tournament Arc?

[@huks9380]

I have no idea, but they won the cringe world record.

[@seneschalorcberg1338]

Harry. Glad Deimos did him in.

[@kloa4219]

This is the consequence of avoiding politics in games. Stories end up looking silly in order to not offend anyone. Politics fleshes a world out and adds realism to it.

[@Hitokiri1912]

What is so bad about anime?

[@velvetinedrapes4359]

@@Hitokiri1912 Well it can be larger than life a lot of the time and completely avoid consequences which contrast greatly with a setting like Tom Clancys work plus the grand tournament with teams of special forces soldiers is very anime.

[@burgerman9246]

The fact that this is all connected to the Splinter Cell canon and Sam is spending his retirement coaching operators for e-sports is also pretty crazy.

[@JaCKal_646f67]

probably not canon for me

[@flatpepsi]

Definitely not canon for me.

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

Certainly not canon for me

[@sovereignstate6760]

Absolutely not canon for me

[@mj3541]

And Ghost Recon

[@rbarzevedo]

Back when the stadium cinematic dropped I remember thinking "oh that's cool, the Six Invitational is right around the corner, so they made this cinematic to hype up the event, having the pro players and their passion represented by the very operators." Never in a million years would I have thought that that was actually canon but here we are

[@lasermanso]

remember when ''Tom Clancy's'' meant grounded narative and feeling ''it could have happend '' ? been decades since i did

[@sate2801]

>this is why rainbow is formed >this is what you all been trained for >OLYMPIC DOORBREACHING

[@bolbistroganofsky5946]

Major League Doorkicking

[@skelemid5294]

​@@bolbistroganofsky5946 literally what Streamer's think of swat teams dream after they got doorkicked

[@choppergunner8650]

National Doorbreaching League

[@Y7Y01]

Go play ready or not

[@kentreed2011]

E-sports and it's consequences were a disaster to PvP shooters.

[@catalintimofti1117]

Not true CS franchise

[@jacobgriggs9673]

@@catalintimofti1117 ah yes the OG of gambling in video games

[@malif1279]

@@catalintimofti1117 tbf speaking as a CS player Counter-Strike is basically a one-of-a-kind anomaly in the gaming industry If any other franchise had (more or less) the same gameplay for over 20 years it would've died, but it speaks to just how brilliant CS' gameplay loop is that it's still kicking around today in the big leagues Also CS is synonymous with competitive grassroots gaming, even since 1.6 there were a shit ton of LAN tournaments being hosted

[@catalintimofti1117]

@@jacobgriggs9673 one of my friends got 1800 dollar gloves Which prompted one of my other friends into trying his luck

[@Dr.Oofers]

Truth

[@takedown205productions6]

Probably my biggest gripe, besides the tourney revealing the identities of Rainbow Operatives, was Operation Chimera. Doc was somehow allowed to make a decision over his head, that nearly resulted in the whole world getting infected and turned, just because he disapproved of a nuclear device being used to stop it. Some of the operatives are humanitarians, when they shouldn't be, and it's stupid.

[@Noperare]

An anti-terrorist secret agency becoming airsoft sport celebrities is the dumbest story I ever heard. Like, not even fun B-movie dumb, just plain dumb.

[@michaeljoggerst1015]

its a game, not meant to be a movie

[@joshfromsmosh3352d]

@@michaeljoggerst1015 doesn't make it any less garbage

[@youknowwhatever8649]

Actually I kinda can see a B-movie doing something like that.

[@underpaidmook]

@@michaeljoggerst1015 Yeah, still makes the lore dumb

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

Someone should make a B-movie about it, and make it good.

[@darknight-kx6ye]

Rainbow Six Siege is a game where most of the time I thought smoke's gas was the same as the white masks.

[@epgamer1145]

Fr. I figured they had an insider telling the white masks what rainbows next move was. It would have made sense since in the Rainbow six book, the operators could never find leads on the people they were trying to track down until some guy working as a third party whistleblew on their operations.

[@shoelessbandit1581]

I believe it was theorized that smoke is a rainbow operator but infiltrated the white masks. Was never confirmed or denied because they literally did nothing with the white masks since launch

[@Padlock_Steve]

it is (or was) he stole dat shit

[@_r3con]

@Padlock_Steve bro I've played this game for over 700hrs I was so confused LMAO

[@TheTrueChuster]

Sssssh...

[@tomkiernan254]

Tom Clancy is spinning like a turbine in his grave. (Even his most ridiculous plot lines have nothing on this mess).

[@RouGeZH]

Tom Clancy must be rolling in his grave. It's the biggest "F YOU" to the source material that I've ever seen.

[@mysticone2112]

The fact they wrote an entire explanation to justify having a super secretive elite military counter terrorist force be an esport team and use that as a jumping off point in the story instead of just saying its all non canon scenario is wild.

[@iAmLufa]

LOL

[@SirFailure]

Yeah, like what are they smoking at the time?

[@patrickiamonfire965]

@@SirFailure nothing apparently. No doubt the executive thought it was a great marketing idea for esports.

[@CBRN-115]

What kind of drug were they smoking

[@total_epicness6776]

Biggest falloff in history

[@perkup1695]

i cant believe the "Rainbow 6 start a paintbull club" was canon, i thought it was some noncanon for fun event just for the esports or something 😭😭😭

[@collinmclaren6608]

I remember seeing the map description for the stadium and just thought "Oh, they use it for training, that's funny." Little did I know that was a major canon event for the entire game.

[@Blajah_]

I feel like this was the biggest issue for r6, making stadium canon. If they needed a canon stadium, they couldve just made it an abandoned but polished stadium with no one there. It would also coincide well with the original lore for multiplayer being operators practicing against each other. And i feel like they shoulda just made a separate game for the pve and the story itself

[@smoketinytom]

I thought the White Mask group were the main threat, but the Multiplayer aspect was a War Games practice across various locations.

[@Blajah_]

@@smoketinytom at first i thought the multiplayer aspect were actual terrorist situations

[@David-tl6lv]

Personal headcanon: siege is not canon.

[@Addicted2Coffein]

I always loved the idea of an full length siege campaign were you would fight the white masks and could play with your friends, but sadly we probably won't get that and if so it would most likely be it's own spin off game to get more money out of the franchise

[@ReticularTunic7]

3:31 You can get demonetized for saying “Terrorist” now ? What happens if you were playing Counter Strike and the announcer says “Counter Terrorists win” ?

[@Dr.Oofers]

Death

[@notanaveragedoktah8390]

Reminder that there is canonically a story in the R6 universe where Ash, Tachanka, Blitz, Frost, Ela, Iana, Fuze and Doc were transported to anime Narnia and Ash becomes a catgirl in that story.

[@sw4gsmile595]

Add the fact that almost all of the isekai Ops kinda jump start the world to space exploration and unknowingly rebuild a country

[@shoelessbandit1581]

I've been out of the loop for years and are very confused

[@vp7877]

And it's better than the shit we get in rainbow proper 💀

[@sw4gsmile595]

@@shoelessbandit1581Lets just say the Gacha game arknights creator is a huge R6 fan like really they have allot of inspiration to R6 the skill icons the enemies looking like white mask and they already have part 2 were they recreate the iconic R6 cover art All in all they give respect to the source material while doing the Collab events and their individual story just screams "FREAK YEAH HUMANITY ROLES"

[@micalamb6144]

I love Arknights

[@Suileglas0415]

Team Rainbow is a bunch of countires working together to fight terrorism so the operators still serve under their respective governments. They wouldnt be able to just leave and join a PMC group while still being enlisted

[@Ryan-dp4rs]

based Sandstorm pfp

[@kainoawaikiki2614]

Yeah they'd basically all just be wanted criminals disobeying orders and committing treason lmao

[@ringingsilence9226]

Yeah they could, its called going AWOL it happens all the time

[@kainoawaikiki2614]

@@ringingsilence9226 but then they'd be wanted criminals and the governments would be sanctioned to attack their pmc

[@kainoawaikiki2614]

@@blinkachu5275 they're not just a few soldiers, they're elite members of a coalition anti terrorist taskforce.

[@PanzerMan332]

What's funny is that The Finals does what R6 basically does, but way better because it was always supposed to be a goofy premise for a multiplayer FPS. There was never a serious grounded backstory to trample on.

[@famulanrevengeance3044]

Okay it's absolutely delusional to praise the old singleplayer content this game had. The AI was braindead and the atmosphere wears off after an hour or two of gameplay. It was one of the least engaging PVE modes I've ever played and it doesn't even teach you how to deal with multiplayer operators, which is a huge missed opportunity. They absolutely didn't communicate or work together to take you down, they either stood still or beelined for your location, magically knowing where you were at all times. There were a handful of 'neat' things like the suicide bomber guy and the nitro cell nests, but that's it. There was no dialogue, team, story or anything. The university map that was gassed was a really cool place- and then they add in the same dumb, repetitive boring enemies. Absolutely missed the mark, and that's probably because they decided to shoehorn some offline content in for people without stable internet or willingness to play PVP at the last minute.

[@shanetian3977]

I was gonna say this is some INSANE revisionist history. No way anyone actually played the OG terrorist hunt and thought it was “competitive, scary and immersive”. No one ever played those besides for getting renown and the sake of the achievement lmao. Almost every single level had terrorists that would never even realize you enter the building or even try to shoot you

[@r1g0r_m0rt1s]

Even though I loved T Hunt mode, I gotta agree. This is really remembering things wrong.

[@_Devil]

Siege Ops at launch: A former FBI agent volunteers for an International Legion of Anti-Terrorist commandos who specially assist in hostage situations Siege Ops now: I was good at Paintball and I got drafted into the local SWAT unit

[@user-sq8hi3gw1d]

Im a cat girl who plays esports, im the perfect candidate for the team

[@choppergunner8650]

Literally a bunch of clowns. Just like Ryder says in GTA San Andreas: "Weekend soldiers! Ain't no match for Grove Street OGs!"

[@contra7631]

Your profile picture says my feelings for r6 siege lore and gameplay.

[@user-sq8hi3gw1d]

@@choppergunner8650 trained killers would get their ass kicked by a bunch of terrirorial morons

[@Imago8]

I wouldn’t even be suprised if that paintball story was a real thing they’d use.

[@vp7877]

You know it's bad when the gacha game collab has better and more thought out lore and personality for the R6 characters than the actual game

[@motorsporttj1689]

Average Arknights W

[@vp7877]

@@motorsporttj1689 very real

[@user-zk8ci6xj3p]

Blue archive

[@user-zk8ci6xj3p]

Tru​@@motorsporttj1689

[@pedroescalona3842]

Yeah, the characterization is quite good, it is true that they take very well and somewhat quickly to live in a world similar but at the same time very different from theirs, with very clear similarities like Columbia, but Ash looked like a really cool leader. And it helped explain things on both sides of the games. I hoped the 2nd event expands on what they were doing.

[@GravityTrash]

I knew R6's lore was silly, but I didnt realize the paintball arc was actually supposed to be a major part in the lore, that is actually criminally stupid. Making Outbreak canon would've actually been a less ridiculous decision.

[@d_erren]

“amazing gameplay” is a bit generous

[@Ontos_M50]

Tom Clancy is rolling in his grave so bad he could probably power a whole country

[@RKNGL]

Perpetual motion Clancy.

[@analias7810]

Yeah, the sellout hack of an author would probably be mad instead of spending the millions he got if he was still alive today. Dude wrote 3 good books and proceeded to shit the bed by the time he wrote the original rainbow six novel (which too, was complete dogshit compared to the hunt for red october). He never gave a shit and saw the games as a way to milk more money from his work and nothing more. He would have been over the moon with siege and how much money it's been making.

[@doesntmatter7560]

@@analias7810 thats kinda gay

[@sebastiann.8088]

@@analias7810 that's a little homosexual

[@Journey_Awaits]

“Tom Clancy’s rolling body, Rainbow Six Siege”

[@ZeePanzer]

Who TF prints its organization name on the fuckyng bullets they use, wtf.

[@masteryoda8390]

I'd imagine companies that make bullets do

[@ZeePanzer]

@@masteryoda8390 im talking about the military organizations bruh

[@InsertFunnyThingHere]

Killer Bean type beat

[@Zaekr2111]

Pretty sure those bullets were manufactured by Nighthaven for their own use.

[@S.0.S.]

@@InsertFunnyThingHere LMFAAAOOOOOOO

[@eamonwharton-ye3dy]

Deimos could’ve been a 1v5 mode, with Deimos having a bunch of buffs, like higher health, full knowledge of openets, and a base that had a lookout and maybe a drone or cannon or smth

[@green3814]

they could've just explained the whole gameplay part by it being training

[@thecstineman]

this is essentially just like a high school drama anime but ubisoft did it so it's worse

[@swilleh_]

Can't make something worse than the story in japanese cartoons.

[@thecstineman]

@@swilleh_ i thought that… until ubisoft did it. Also tbh fmab was pretty good

[@Lorewcius]

Thank God Tom Clancy isn't alive to see the shit they did to his beloved franchise.

[@friendlyfire3412]

Its like America Veterans, Video : "We Haven't Got the Country We Had When I Was Raised': 100-Year-old Veteran Worried About America" I can feel that man now... He would have said the same.

[@malaizze]

The best thing Siege ever did was trash that old loser’s legacy

[@euracleon]

@@malaizze broski mastered the art of bait

[@HotdogSosage]

@@euracleon would have to make rage to be true

[@reno239]

@@malaizzebait so unbelievable you couldn’t catch trout with it.

[@matteoquellobrutto5765]

rainbow's story stumbled so that for honor story could fall of a cliff

[@jadturki1494]

as a very new siege player, i thought that the defenders and attackers had deep, interconnected lore that would explain why they are on separate sides and that they actually didnt like each other and viewed each other as enemies. turns out theyre all best friends training in front of thousands of people 💀.

[@doctorbobcat7123]

I don't understand why AAA games are so allergic to realistic / "mil-sim" type stories. The same thing happened with the MW reboot, they'll pretend to be serious for about a few months until they start adding in zombies, dabbing emotes and Snoop Dogg skins. It's not even that "realistic" games aren't popular, games like Arma and Tarkov are huge. I'm just so burnt out with how unserious most stories are in games now, it's sucks all the immersion out.

[@spetsnaz4537]

grit and seriousness diverts from the norm and that scares companies. also the masses who still watch twitch streamers for some reason and gravitate to valorant/overwatch (the big leagues of subsidised art direction in favor of e-sports) magnetise towards cartoon graphics and atmospheres with hyper-developed character personalities, who in turn generates fanbases whose only logical conclusion is fanart and porn. and cosplay too maybe, but that's probably still just porn. the answer is porn and money.

[@Danthelegionmaster]

for obvious reasons, because they don’t make as much profit doing so. Microtransactions make fuck tons of money in live service games, and you can’t sell generic mil sim cosmetics, because the consumers don’t care for that. They care for flashy, over the top, colourful etc, that shit doesn’t blend with mil sim. That’s why Snoop Dogg is in CoD, it makes money.

[@SakurakoLover]

Marvel movies happened

[@howdoyoudo5949]

@@Danthelegionmaster They should just start out as that then.

[@sagitta9891]

That's sadly a common plague that has been ruining every live service FPS games. They let the game live too long to the point they run out of initial ideas then start adding goofiest shit humanity never thought acceptable in something that marketed itself as a serious shooter. Not only COD, it happened everywhere. Siege, CS Online, Crossfire. You'll always find a transformer looking gun in game and nobody thinks it doesn't match the game tone.

[@minoweltknives]

Best Part is that random chinese company who bought the rights to use Team Rainbow for a collab in their anime tower defense game (Arknights) took better care of the Lore of the individuals, their goals and ways than what modern R6 does with its cast.

[@swordmain1880]

Knew someone would bring up Arknights eventually

[@minoweltknives]

@@swordmain1880 ofc

[@erosthespy]

Small correction, Arknights is owned by a Chinese company (Hypergryph), not Japanese.

[@minoweltknives]

@@erosthespy oh, you are right thanks for the info

[@anantachonnambat6701]

Lmao, team Rainbow with cat ears is still dealing with terrorism and protecting the innocents while these dumbasses are competing in a stupid Olympic with White masks presumably still around.

[@PineOpal]

1:41 Caseoh just made my phone 100x heavier with his presence

[@GiverOfFlammenwerfers]

BANNED

[@andrewwood1502]

I'm convinced the stadium arc was made to psyop players into wanting to watch esports lol

[@migueeeelet]

You know what I hate the most? This whole stadium and operator vs operator escapade feels like the biggest cop-out in order to avoid any further PvE modes.

[@-Alter-]

sir, the only PvE mode we ever got before the Tournament stuff was Outbreak. And since then we've recieved a literal PvE that allows you to play matches with actual bots + an overhaul of the Terrorist Hunt. Not to mention the entire game they made from Outbreak, that also released after the Tournament stuff. (Although it was in development before the Tournaments, plus its pretty bad). but overall, they've increased in focus on PvE stuff AFTER the Tournament Arc

[@Ziero_H]

A rainbow six game with no terrorist hunt…shameful

[@Un_Altra_Persona]

@@-Alter- The new terrorist hunt overhaul mode is terrible tbh

[@acey6991]

@@-Alter- you obviously are not a vet, situations were actually super fun and basically a better T-hunt

[@-Alter-]

@@acey6991 2 things bud. 1. I don't know if they've recently gotten rid of them, but Situations have been in the game for atleast 7 years. you don't need to be a "Vet" to have played them. 2. Situations were literally the games Tutorial and can all be recreated in T-Hunt. And although i've played since Velvet Shell, being a Veteran player literally has nothing to do with my reply. Ubi is a dog water company. But they didn't make a Tournement Anime style story arc just so they could have an excuse to not make PvE content.

[@Tenkidcoop]

I need to say that, in regards to the stadium, having all the operators live together in one location has got to be the worst security risks I’ve ever heard of

[@nightigal]

The biggest security risk is the active broadcasting of their locations.

[@tipiet560]

I mean in the original book they had two teams of operators living in military baracks at herford airbase so this isn't too far off from the original. After all they had to be ready to fly out whenever a major terrorist threat was going on somewhere in the world so they can't just be flown in from who knows where before boarding the plane together.

[@theldapperapple2382]

@tipiet560 It couldn't be further from that? A barracks wouldn't have live spectators and a broadcast of what's going on. Plus, I'd assume it's much harder to find a military base housing these individuals than a literal studio people visit to watch.

[@tipiet560]

@@theldapperapple2382 I didn't say anything about live spectators or a broadcast lul? I just told about the original book and that the operators are all stationed in baracks at hereford base. There are obviously no spectators or broadcasts because THEY ARE FUCKING CTU OPERATORS.

[@dannymorales5549]

@@tipiet560 Whilst true, at least they wherent living together in a very public area where any terrorist could attack

[@blujay1294]

I remember how hype operation health was, the game finally reaching a good point, while still being in that gaming sweet spot of "Too Early for Bloat, but late enough to Have Content". I played on and off until the australians came out, tiny dude and lady with the weird hexagon spike traps. Game was reaching league of legends levels of character bloat, but without 1. the uniqueness and 2. being the right genre for it. It works fine in league where the game lasts 30-40 minutes, and you have many, many chances to see and learn whats happening if you've never played a character. In Siege? You don't get the full details, and it's a tac shooter, so you die faster and faster as players get better, and that skill floor gets higher as it goes on. KZbin home gave me this video for some reason, and I WAS thinking about the game back in it's "peak". Ironic lol. Not shocked to see the lore matched what happened to the gameplay/design LMFAO. But like you said, never had a fucking clue, they hide that shit well! Funny to see that they were seemingly actually connected, if not directly than at least by it shitting the bed parallel with the game itself.

[@psykhosev]

Ubisoft already had the perfect building blocks with the white masks and still butchered the story to move on to public airsoft olympics. One of my questions back when I did situations and T-hunt was "How do they have Thermites explosives? Isn't it supposed to be unique?" And Ubi could have added this in the story by making the White masks a constant threat even if their numbers fell. One thing I feel should have been made were RAID operations. Potential large map (similar to outbreak size where both defender and attack ops are suited to objectives) with a larger team against White masks, and possible bosses posed by high ranking White Mask operatives. This could work as bombers were already tanky, eating headshots at times, so you make these targets tankier or have a tricky mechanic. And one of these targets could be an engineer that is replicating Rainbow gadgets (Thermite) for the White Masks.8

[@G59forlife.]

Great ideas. Unfortunately Ubisoft is allergic to those

[@LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit]

Remember when Rainbow was such breach of international law, that NATO and the UN would disavow them in a heartbeat if the world found out the true nature and origins of their organization? (John Clark specifically told you this) Yeah, apparently Ubisoft forgot that part when they made Team Rainbow and airsoft team. When this first dropped, even I couldn't believe what they were trying. This was as far removed from the setting as they could get.

[@brandonhughes4571]

I had at the beginning thought it was less a sport team and more a team training/ it not being Canon. Yeah that didn't last too long.

[@couldyou4745]

You'd be a fool to expect any better from Ubisoft.

[@couldyou4745]

​@@brandonhughes4571 that's what I thought as well.

[@roningfroggy]

To add onto that, in the original Rainbow Six book, during the Olympic stadium section, I can't remember if it was Ding and Mike, think to themselves about how what they are doing could never become an Olympic sport, unless they brought back Roman Gladiators. And then reflecting that what they do isn't for sport and isn't "mass entertainment for a kinder world."

[@collinmclaren6608]

John Clark would be FUCKING PISSED if this is how Rainbow turned out.

[@connorkensly5251]

There was a point in ghost recon wildlands where Nomad (the protagonist) asked Caviera about Operation Patriots, to which she replies, "it's classified." hinting that the events did indeed happen, the game just didn't.

[@zerozeroone4424]

The whole idea behind patriots would have made for one amazing game. I hope it gets ressurrected sometime soon and not censored in the slightest

[@Savagem8]

Eh, I feel that was just a joke against fans basically teasing "you'll never know what happens because we aren't going to go back and do it haha"

[@justinbruce9808]

@@Savagem8 yea that honestly pissed me off more then it amused me. I grew up playing rainbow six on Dreamcast and went from there. And to not only have a game I had religiously been reading the game informer for cancelled for e-sports fodder, but then to taunt me with that? Suck my gooch Ubisoft

[@Avariice2299]

@@Savagem8 yeah ubisoft is really snarky and loves to troll their playerbase, it's crazy

[@iterationfackshet1990]

@@zerozeroone4424from the leaks about the next ghost recon game it’s honestly going beyond what was even shown for patriots and going back to the tactical roots of the Tom Clancy series. It seems like Ubisoft is doing a complete 180 after their recent failures and are now listening to their fans.

[@masonarmand8988]

its still crazy how far sledge threw thermite with one shove lmao

[@mcdonaldtrump228]

I love seeing small channels explode ( not literally ) Truly hard work pays off

[@benprint7615]

Dude the article 5 cutscenes and original operator videos were so badass. After your operator walks out of the decontamination tent, grabs his gun and rejoins his teammates as the music swelled.

[@trustworthydan]

"Fookin Lazer sights.."

[@FlamingZombie626]

Baffled by the arena thing entirely. Dude saw 1 anime with a tournament arc pop off and was like yeah I'll do that

[@thebusiness8212]

“It worked for Hunter X Hunter it can work for us as well!” - The Writers, probably

[@whitetober7825]

I was under the assumption for a while that it only existed to bring hype for the esports invitational, but didn't have any correlation to the lore itself like Extraction Which, I mean, tragically Extraction has a pretty good story (that I remember) but was abandoned by Ubisoft (as far as I'm aware) So go figure ig

[@evor6s]

as a long playing siege player and certified diamond gamer, the lore is such a hit and miss. Sometimes its insane, sometimes it makes no sense and is confusing as shit. Like, the CGI's that get released once a year, those are incredible, and literally have so much potential for a proper story, and an insane TV/streaming series. I dont think its the worst lore in modern gaming, but it definitely took a weird turn that can still be rectified in later instalments.

[@evor6s]

though one thing i'll add is that the multiplayer is completely separated from the lore, as evidently shown with Zofia's withstand passive being removed (because she is a mum) and much later being implemented in Rook's armor. Zof/Ela's concussion sponging passive was removed too as well as a few others, like Echo being invulnerable to Dokkaebi. I think it was confirmed that the multiplayer is just entirely simulation. Anything lore wise that was in game is/was non canon or very, very brief. Deimos being added to the playable characters only really makes sense in the idea that the multiplayer aspect is entirely simulated. It's so weird how I can have this immense connection to a multiplayer competitive FPS like siege, that has no sort of in depth and captivating story/campaign. I loved the old R6 titles, I played Vegas and Vegas 2 for hours and hours, both campaign and multiplayer. I genuinely would love to see Siege expanded on into a proper story mode game in the future with the current operators, hell, even diving into Harry's era of Rainbow and the downfall, and continuing on from there. It has so much potential and it would be a shame to see it go to waste.

[@drippnjimmy1033]

Jesus Christ, I had no idea where the lore went after outbreak

[@dizzpenzerr5367]

They really should have stated that Deimos is just a gameplay aspect and him playing along with their "training" is mostly non cannon. Heck they could have just hired a double for him and basically say "Hey, we think this is how this guy will operate. Play with/against him just so you guys can dip your toes on be ready when you fight him for real" Instead of basically saying "Yeah, this is the real guy. Why is he participating on the activities he hates so much? I dunno- I mean... It's some super secret reason, yeah. He's totally a 5head gigabrain and it is all part of his plan."

[@iAmLufa]

That’s such a smarter idea

[@ofal5124]

It's not like I want to participate in your stupid airsoft olympics B-baka!

[@contra7631]

At this point who cares about this games lore or about the game itself.Fk it.Theres literally skins of rick and morty,master chief and other goofy anime like women operators and people still cares about lore.Jeez.

[@mc85it26]

Thats literally exactly what they did

[@iAmLufa]

Nope thats a lie. The developers definitely expressed that this is the real Deimos@@mc85it26

[@daleksec01]

Ubisoft has basically looked at the lore team and went: "yeah we'll just make new operators, you just do... whatever makes you happy..."

[@wastedpolygon6283]

Did you have to use that Caseoh Clip? Broke my desk man, thanks.

[@persunovs]

Bro is not that heavy CaseOh

[@wastedpolygon6283]

@@persunovs I laughed way to hard at this man

[@cevatkokbudak6414]

​@@persunovslmao thanks (if you think something too much, you will become creative in that thing)

[@brianfunt2619]

Thankfully the only exposure to the lore i ever get is occasionally when i start up the game there'll be the audio of a cinematic playing but i am just looking at a the menu background texture until i press a button to skip it

[@beatit2464]

Its like if the Rescue Heroes stop doing their actual job and saving people to do a special training all the time

[@Calvin_Coolage]

Or if GI Joe decided to host a field day and just let Cobra do NFT scams or whatever petty scheme they've cooked up for this week's episode.

[@beatit2464]

@Calvin_Coolage exactly you could call deimos Commander Cobra of siege And the same with the Decepticons

[@polargray1]

@@beatit2464 And then Cobra Commander and Destro would occasionally train with the Joes because they agreed

[@CrazyPlatinum92]

You fail me yet again Starscream

[@casualtr4sh]

Yo, rescue heroes was my shit.

[@gabrielegr8282]

I don't really buy that the stadium plot was to make the story more escalable. What I think happened was that they realized making a game about anti-terrorists is inherently political, and they needed to tip toe around a lot of stuff to avoid offending anyone. They want to keep the game as apolitical as possible to attract more players. Think about the backlash they could have gotten if they had released any of the Russian ops now with the Ukraine war going on. Or what if suddenly one of the units featured in the game gets involved in a controversial situation like violations of human rights? Then an ignorant news station could run a segment about the game that let's you play as them. That's why they stopped featuring real anti terrorist units in the Operator's background. Deimos is an attempt to go back to the anti-terrorist roots, while keeping the conflict mostly internal. He doesn't really follow any political agenda, his whole motivation is focused on Rainbow itself.

[@mayochup4684]

I try to explain this all the time, this is a perfect way to describe this.

[@Mi_tala]

that sound kinda reasonable,i mean they cancelled rainbow six patriot for the same reason

[@NaiveOreo]

Sad that games cant tell their own stories and create characters without having to limit and worry due to people not understanding the difference between real like and fictional worlds

[@mayochup4684]

@@Mi_tala I’m really sad that Rainbow Six: Patriots got canceled, it looked like it would be a good game, it’s a shame

[@Mi_tala]

@@mayochup4684 well since how soft people nowdays,it unfortunately not possible for them

[@shycho1690]

The whole tournament thing can work if instead of being a public event it's a private event which is used to recruit new operators and test their skills, you can have drama between the old and new operators and if still want audience you can have military guys cheering their buddies

[@CainCAUS]

Ela & Zofia have always had major world view differences. Even design wise you can tell this is true where Zofia has an army attire that's very professional with a serious tone, while Ela has a very casual look and more brutish and outgoing personality. To say they have been retconned into a sibling rivalry is wild to me. Even in the 5v5 game you get a sibling rivalry bonus for taking out your sister if you play as the other.

[@Kano_Productions]

I miss the old r6, when it took itself serious. Nowadays I'm fighting fuckin pickle rick

[@archbishopofthecrusades9579]

Yeah, I thought the games entire draw was that it was more grounded and serious than CoD or BF. Now it's just another shooter.

[@sendingit2601]

What sucks is that it sells. It all works still, so the machine continues to push on.

[@brazilianGuy254]

The moment that made me drop from the lore were when the ducking writers decided to pick up a elite anti terrorism unit and make them fitgh themselves in a damn stadium, where literally ANYONE can go in and watch their tactics and strategies, like you know what I will end this comment here before I say a lot of bad words.

[@Artician]

"where literally ANYONE can go in and watch their tactics and strategies" The internet:

[@PINESMALL_NOTREAL]

Harry: “Hey guys, I have an idea to show the whole world our own tactics!” T*rrorists: “I see this as an absolute win!”

[@foxprazision1695]

​@PINESMALL_NOTREAL so glad Harry is dead 😊 bring back john clark

[@absolute-golden]

I believe canonically only siege staff or smth could watch the event, but it’s still very risky

[@grigoriyremez8851]

@@absolute-golden Why tf would they need a stadium for their own staff then!?

[@R-SXX]

Its the same thought process they probably had when they designed ghostrecon breakpoints story; who thought that sending ALLL ghosts, an elite unit of anonym soldiers with no identity who gets dropped when discovered, send to a small island?! ONE squad would be suffice, but not ALL of your extremely secret task force!

[@chriscormac231]

The story justified it with the fact that Peter Miles actually set them up to die

[@R-SXX]

@@chriscormac231 Even dumber when one guy was able to do that, it doesnt fit left and right if the ghosts are as unique as they were made out to be

[@G59forlife.]

Plus the ghosts looked like they got their gear from Temu

[@specs.weedle]

i've been through a lot of convoluted and extremely dumb storylines in games that I'd rather not give attention to, but i didn't know it could get this bad not spoiling how bad because it'll be funnier and scarier if you see for yourself

[@SirShadeyy]

I think that Deimos killing Harry is representative of the devs attempting to go back to a more grounded story without the stadium and games bs. Ever since Harry was killed off, they’ve had a more direct story of Keres versus Rainbow, but I can’t be bothered to learn about it past the surface level because there’s no gameplay content to experience the story in.

[@Beranus]

Yeah, imagine if they made proper Rainbow Six game instead of shit like Extraction.

[@hermitgreenn]

The "Harry" arc was the worst period of this dogshit franchise. "We should hire a psychologist to run an international anti-terrorism organization" what?

[@nasfoda_gamerbrbigproducti5375]

@@hermitgreenn Because the thing you need the most during an operation is love and team bound, not tactics or actual skills haha

[@VValkyr]

That cinematic gave me a ray of hope, and then next season came out packed with more cringe. Yeah, fool me twice ubi

[@LelandJ71]

Story is still gonna be shi. Same devs.

[@starsjosephfrost]

so the devs made “Deimos” as the evil personification of the OG players who wanted rainbow to go back to its original form yet they have the guts to make him bad and then turning him into a just a regular airsoft operator.

[@ProbNotCross]

*Deimos, he is called Deimos.

[@starsjosephfrost]

@@ProbNotCross alright thanks.

[@SBImNotWritingMyNameHere]

​@@starsjosephfrostgood Now don't make that mistake again

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

Really goes to show you why games are so bad nowadays. Its because the developers dislike the playerbase and want to drive them away for their own slop.

[@LaRavachole]

​@@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778If I was a dev and my playerbase was anything similar to Siege's, I'd hate it too lol

[@just_james]

You cant have rick and morty skins with a realistic anti terror swat game

[@matthatter5099]

When they first introduced the stadium tournament stuff I didn’t know it was actually part of the lore tbh. I thought it was just a cool event and that the cinematics were just for promotion and wasn’t actually happening in the story.

[@bababooey8330]

So Deimos just wants the counter terrorism unit... to do their job and kill terrorists? But instead of like acting as an advisor to Rainbow like Zero, he just hunts them down and kills them to I guess prove a point that they're all pussies now?? It's funny how they wrote a villain who's main point is correct but his actions make no sense in relation to it. Deimos was a major missed opportunity to really dig into the morality behind a covert counter terrorism unit with no government oversight. If I could rewrite him, I'd make Deimos believe its dangerous to have CTUs exist unchecked, and decides he only trusts himself to run a Rainbow esque unit. So his goal is to essentially cannabalize every non-government CTU and for-hire groups like Nighthaven until hes the only one running what would basically be his version of Rainbow. So he'd first try to recruit anyone from other CTUs including Rainbow and Nighthaven, and those that said no or disagreed with his vision had to be eliminated. Additionally, and this part is slightly in the current lore but I would focus on it more, he actually wants covert ops to be, you know, covert. So the whole airsoft olympics thing very much pisses him off. Ok in a perfect world the stadium just would be scrapped entirely bc its obviously stupid as shit but it was already there before Deimos so I gotta work it in. He wants his CTU to be impossible to track for tactical efficiency, especially considering he's going to war with other CTUs, hence why he kills anyone that knows about him and doesn't join the cause. To tie his motivations together and make his beef with Rainbow personal, his backstory could be an op that went wrong and his whole team was killed. They were like family to him, and they died because whoever was running Rainbow at the time (I like the idea the leader is just called Six) didn't listen to his input on the op. Something like maybe he wanted to keep the op quiet but Six communicated with a local government for information, that info got out and led to an ambush. Then he has specific motivation to run Rainbow the "right way", seeing Rainbow as his white whale and ultimate goal of his crusade. While he initially reaches out to some ops about joining, maybe swaying some Nighthaven ops, his undisclosed goal is to kill Harry. Maybe he frames Nighthaven for Harry's death, causing a civil war between the two teams so he has less ops to contend with, leaving only the best ops alive and very open to join a well run CTU after their's was destroyed. He'd be the only one left for them to work for.

[@iAmLufa]

You need to be hired

[@AGnar0k]

Bro I would love this game again if this was the actual lore

[@averymicrowave1713]

Only thing I really disagree is your proposal for his background motivations, mainly because the Six at the time would've been either John Clark or Domingo "Ding" Chavez - who were HIGHLY competent at their jobs and both ran Rainbow like clockwork until a bad apple in Vegas nearly compromised the team's existence. I would maybe work Vegas into the story - with Gerald's team or family killed due to the data leaks, or have his team killed due to higher international bureaucracy (maybe some high level bureaucrats secretly compromised their operation as part of some deal, or were trying to force them to let some terrorist go). I would even add some consequence to Harry setting up the fucking stadium and essentially publicizing Rainbow's existence so there's actually some credence and threat to his desire to turn operators against eachother/to his side and more clear reasoning to Deimos killing him (I can imagine a lot of family-oriented operators supporting Harry's death if his actions led to terrorists targeting them or their loved ones). Maybe even imply that he had some backing from various government and military leaders because *publicizing your covert international CTU is VERY bad and you become a loose end*. So now Rainbow is contending not only with the threat Deimos poses, but debating if he operated within their mandate. And all this, while being much more compelling than the current lore, would also be a lot more Tom Clancy.

[@CheekyLad_]

Its more spectacular when hes killing people plus it lets you interpret him as either the bad or good guy, not saying that this is the better way to write him but im assuming ubi's intentions

[@averymicrowave1713]

@@CheekyLad_ True but atm his motivations are pretty weak and it's even weaker considering he's currently training with them when his whole reason for hating current Rainbow is they became a circus performance publicizing their training exercises instead of being the professional, stone-cold troops of his day.

[@TheOrangeMan13]

didnt even know siege had lore 💀

[@iAmLufa]

Gameplay = 🔥🔥🔥 Lore = 🗑️

[@bigpotato3355]

@@iAmLufa Gameplay = 💀💀💀

[@iAmLufa]

What rank are you? Just curious hehe@@bigpotato3355

[@mschf_0]

I wish it didn’t

[@epgamer1145]

@@iAmLufait’s the non shinny metal.

[@EddyMorino]

since when do we use the word "lore" interchangeably with "narrative?"

[@DukeofRizz]

Ever since the "narrative" has become barely existent

[@iamfat6164]

For a lot of video games they are synonymous tho. Games without clear stories or campaigns don't exactly have much of a difference for the two words since its narrative isn't exactly the easiest thing to find. Like yes siege has a narrative, but no one normal is going to have access to what said narrative is without jumping down the entire rabbit hole fr

[@lagg1e]

When people talk about narrative they usually mean story happening in gameplay, and lore is outside of gameplay. Both are related terms, but yeah, the narrative is trampling all over established lore.

[@iamfat6164]

@@lagg1e I mean we're also getting into the very real conundrum where lore (all the background and world building details), and the narrative (the actual structured story) are going to be only found if you're really curious. So in this case you're kind either completely in the rabbit hole, or completely out of it

[@SurgicalJust0n6838]

Gregor in a video talked about how he thinks Ubisoft wanted to distance themselves from the military aesthetic because of far right groups associating themselves with it. Then he really liked Solis’ design hinting Rainbow going back to their tacticool military sci fi vibe. Deimos seems a little silly being the anime villain of R6 but I love his gadget being based off the hornet drone NATO forces actually use!

[@owgamer7415]

I often think about how ace is supposed to be a natural disaster rescue guy saving people that works for a private mercenary group

[@dankim7831]

He always was an egotist

[@Gannoh]

It's important to keep in mind that the first Rainbow Six novel was about trying to stop terrorists from releasing a lethal virus at the Olympics. For some reason, the writers thought it'd be a good idea to have the world's most dangerous task force in public, showcasing military tactics all under one roof at their own Olympics. Terrorists could literally just study Rainbow's tactics, or even better just kill all of Team Rainbow in one place. Insanely stupid writing, even for Ubisoft. And then, there's Nighthaven...

[@choppergunner8650]

The idea of making a PMC such as Nighthaven having any level of technological competition or sometimes being technologically superior to Rainbow is simply INSANE. John Clark said how difficult it was to get stuff to Rainbow, and even their heartbeat sensors were donated by the government or something. But nope, let's just see these bum-ass mercenaries outplay Rainbow like they're nothing.

[@roningfroggy]

Not to mention with those Olympics, Ding even thanks to himself about how what they do isn't sport and would never be shown at the Olympics.

[@choppergunner8650]

@@roningfroggy Ding and the other Rainbow members were literally undercover during the Olympics mission in Sydney. If I'm right, not even the Australian Police was to be informed that someone carrying a vial that cointained a lethal virus was around. Nobody even knew Rainbow were there. But nah, screw the novel, let's see Mira and Ash duke it out with a bunch of bums watching it from a stadium stand.

[@erosrodriguez538]

I still remember when I thought the 6 invitational was just the last match of the real life Tournament with details from the lore (I didn't watched it). I found it really hard how this can be Canon (look where we are now).

[@RoosterFloyd]

What's almost worse than bad lore is amazing lore that is hidden in convoluted ways or behind challenges that require sweaty levels of dedication to find. Not necessarily 'phenomenal' but a good example is call off duty zombies. I love the idea of the hunt and the Easter eggs and that hunt should give you something awesome if you put in the effort to find and complete it but I'm pretty sure most of the fan base only knows the entire story from expansive 4 hour KZbin videos, vaguely know the story from short bullet point videos, or know some of the story and then some made up stuff from chatting in lobbies/games. That said, it was fun as a kid playing World at War and sifting through all the made up stuff to try and decipher the actual story. I miss those days of gaming. When the kid at school told you they played as a hidden character in Mortal Kombat and you had no idea if they were lying or telling the truth and you wouldn't find out until years later. Yeah, turns out they were full of shit.

[@sampledgem6215]

I grew up with R6 Vegas and Vegas 2. The switch from a grounded story of an anti-terror group stopping terrors to E-sports was like going from GTA 4 to Saints Row 3.

[@G59forlife.]

At least Saints Row 3 isn’t anywhere close to sieges level of cringe tho

[@TrollingWolfGaming]

It's a shame they gutted Rainbow Six: Patriots to make this game.

[@christianmanka3884]

It’s a shame that modern Tom Clancy games can’t live up to the 2000s ones. At least when it comes to the writing.

[@Noacon]

5:50 is that true tho? The R6 cinematic shows that this attack is the first one that the White Mask did, the reason why R6 was reactivated to handle that exact reason. Basically where it all started, lore wise

[@tobysealz3574]

I miss the good o'l days where I can fire up T-hunt with my friends and chat while we farm credits in a somewhat chill fashion

[@einsUNDcolt]

Team Rainbow in Arknights has a more serious story with a more realistic tone. And that story starts with Ash, Tachanka, Blitz, and Frost getting Isakei'd into a world where they have to fight magic mutants along side a talking lizard man and cat girls

[@indomaretlawrence1069]

He was a good Doctor.....

[@typeoddnamehere2362]

It's kind of funny that it also still does world building for Arknights, namely what happens when someone dies of funny rock cancer (Oripathy). Also how Team Rainbow's firearms work compared to how they work in Arknights, and the potential shitstorm that could cause.

[@DakotaofRaptors]

I only know of Arknights thanks to some fanart...is this legit the story?

[@einsUNDcolt]

@@DakotaofRaptors yeah, in broad strokes that is their story in Arknights. And in like 6 months that story is getting a repeat and we're getting a second story where Doc, Ela, Iana, and Fuze are trying to find the lost four; also get Isakei'd to the same world; and get caught up in civil unrest in Not Cuba and have to fight terrorist dog boys

[@mercenarydelta7351]

@@DakotaofRaptors yep it is. And it's better than what Siege lore is nowadays.

[@mfdoodoo6951]

idk why but the almost empty shelf at 1:55 got my full attention. what is he hiding from us

[@iAmLufa]

LOL I just don’t buy stuff for it because I don’t want to worry about standing them up/cleaning them

[@ACCOUNT72197]

Siege story is so cringe. THE sport arenas and shit... So they shooting fake bullets, gadgets, explosives or what? 😂 ubisoft is shit

[@RedCruuve]

You can tell by character design when the story shift happened as well. You cannot tell me that those that designed and wrote ops like Glaz and Kapkan are the same people that designed Sens, Junkrat and Roadho…sorry, Mozzie and Gridlock, Osa, Azami, Fenrir, Kali, Amaru, Iana, etc…

[@pipp972]

At least they're getting back on track. Solis, Deimos to some degree I guess.

[@choppergunner8650]

Oh God, Osa and Sens are the worst. Literally characters made to pander to a specific agenda. They would never get military training anywhere in the world, and even if they did, it certainly wouldn't be enough to land them a spot in the world's "best counter terrorist unit".

[@Dervitox]

@@choppergunner8650 bro gridlock weight like 2 tons, and is inside the best antiterrorist unit of the world, like wtf

[@choppergunner8650]

@@Dervitox yeah. Rapelling would be literally impossible (her body weight + all the equipment she carries would break her fucking back). And Aruni is literally handicapped (Capitão is handicapped too, but I guess losing an eye is definitely better than losing half a body), yet R6, which started out as a somewhat realistic game, wants us to believe that this woman can punch through wooden planks, can run at top speed and fire guns, all with prosthetics? Fuck off. Most Siege characters are a joke nowadays. It's literally characters made to fit agendas, and not characters to fit whatever's left of realism in Siege. Gridlock's supposed to combat "fat shaming", Kali's bio is literally about "the woman, oppressed by nasty men in her society, built her own mercenary army", Thunderbird is supposed to represent Native Americans, Flores is supposed to represent gays, Osa is trans, Sens is non-binary/toaster/whatever the fuck... like, when you watch roadmap reveals, you see that operator's country flag and you'd start to imagine how the operator would be. I always imagined that the Croatian operator would be some huge dude, with 200 pounds of muscles, probably a veteran of the Yugoslav Wars, scarred by the experience, probably lost his family to terrorists, joined the anti-terrorist squad to prevent more innocent lives from being taken, and not "they/them grew up in a place full of toys and had identity crisis when a teenager". The absolute disrespect to what the fanbase used to be, combined with excessive uses of unnecessary rebalancing of operators, weapons, "give an ACOG to this weapon, take it away from that weapon", "give him C4 instead of barbed wire, give her frags instead of flashbangs", taking maps in and out of the map rotation, and always remaking them to the worst possible designs that would make an architect kill himself, always pandering to Pro League as if the average player is as skilled as they are... that's what made me stop playing Siege altogether and said "fuck it". Never playing this piece of fucking trash ever in my life.

[@guilhermebranco8572]

Yup, the entire creative team was changed at around that point, not just the writers but creative director, artists, everything

[@bigman9854]

Imagine if instead of a stadium it was all based around intense training in a covert kill house training ground somewhere. Surely someone thought of that instead to be more grounded and achieve the same thing

[@Francisco-ow6bl]

That's just old hereford base. Until they gutted it and made it into a villa

[@Heljumped]

Little reminder rhat canonically caveira went to bolivia and hunted down the underlings of a major cartel boss

[@SinKatori]

Wow, haven’t heard or seen the rest of video yet, but the background music at the beginning was used for Max Payne. And that was hard!

[@Gamingproductionv2]

Tbh the graphics for siege kind of went down over the year aswell as the story. Tactical shooter goes downward into anime drama levels of writing

[@eltacobandito]

Not the graphics, it was the lighting which i do wish they brought back

[@robertspeedwagon982]

the lighting was so damn good before, ALSO NIGHT MAPS RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[@RickMoren477]

Which is funny that an anime game collab arknight treat R6 character better in that game than Ubisoft ever did. Probably help that Arknight developer is a huge fan of the game

[@bennetth.929]

@@robertspeedwagon982 Night maps werent great since you could easily see the attackers in windows and some skins made it hard af to see attackers too

[@robertspeedwagon982]

@@bennetth.929 it's realist, it mixes up the way people play (and other games with competent devs made similar maps togglable for sweaty tryhards who can't enjoy anything)

[@jimmytrex0920]

I love how in Overwatch, you can pair Doomfist, the main baddie that Overwatch is hunting down, with the Overwatch team themselves and nobody cares

[@OrionDawn15]

One thing that I despise about hero shooters. It's immersion-breaking to see someone blatantly working with the opposing faction.

[@scoobydoo7275]

@@OrionDawn15 immersed in overwatch lmfao

[@DukeofRizz]

​@OrionDawn15 the only thing about overwatch I'm immersed in is the VR porn

[@midgematic8659]

They also recently added the Omnic terrorist that spearheaded/lead the Omnic uprising, yknow, one of, if not THE biggest wars in Overwatch’s world? The war that Overwatch was created for? Right there fighting alongside Soldier 76. That game is goofy ngl

[@OrionDawn15]

@@scoobydoo7275 You can be immersed in... most games, under the right conditions. It's not unreasonable to want. Also I didn't specifically say 'Overwatch' now did I?

[@RDHDE]

Anyone know the name of the song that plays during the Hello Neighbor Segment? Sounds so familiar its on the tip of my tongue and its bugging me ughhh

[@kubz1570]

I really like the stadium cinematic's first half. Training at the ABANDONED stadium. Using the training dummies as targets, having those obstacles and reusing the location is so cool... But then they made it a public event.

[@Follow_your_path]

Deimos was the only good thing they added in a while and then they arrest and and take him in after just adding him in a trailer he ain’t even last a couple months 💀

[@iAmLufa]

Bro might be the worst mercenary of all time

[@jonathans.955]

I mean, he was first revealed longer ago. He just lost his first fight immediately😂

[@Follow_your_path]

@@jonathans.955 he sold

[@DylanoRevs]

Arknights made a better story regarding (some of) the operators than Ubisoft themselves. They even care more about the IP of them being a counter-terrorism unit

[@devilbuster20xx37]

I would bet my money that Blue Archive has more self respect than Siege

[@spartanalex9006]

That moment when the non-canon zombie event and Gatcha game crossover had better writing than the main product.

[@shadowmarine9706]

Ever since Fortnite and battlepasses became popular, the story which is true for other games as well is where games pursued the live service model which was when cosmetics and quirky characters were emphasized over realism and integrity.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

Yeah all these live service games have the worst lore in gaming and I am so fed up with it. People need to call this out more. The lore DOES matter and gamers deserve better. I want the next generation of gamers to have storys as good as halo to play. Not this fortnite slop. Cause thats what it is, its slop and lazy.

[@roguedoge2479]

Oh I don't even give the story any thought. There IS no story. It's literally just whatever improvised bullshit they can think of every couple months that doesn't completely derail the improvised bullshit they've come up with so far. I've never seen "Assassins Creed 2" level-lore from a live-service game.

[@Blanktester685]

Story in modern halo is ass aswell.

[@alexm.a.d892]

Why this game needed more than "special forces fight against knock off KKK who gas people" for its lore?

[@moai6275]

Because they killed all the spicy air boys in article 5 and decided that they were cringe now.

[@genericprotagonist2842]

What, at all, is the similarity to the KKK other than them being terrorists?

[@choppergunner8650]

​@@moai6275out of all of my friends, I was the only one to actually beat Article 5, and it was absolute dogshit

[@moai6275]

@@choppergunner8650 im not saying it wasn't, im just saying they killed them off in it

[@archer454]

@@choppergunner8650 I actually really liked it. I beat it a bunch of times. I kinda wish they did more pve stuff but probably never gonna happen.

[@SorakuFett]

This is why you have to do something to make PVP be actually about fighting bad guys, not just "practice". Ghost in the Shell First Assault (RIP) launched with a feature where the enemy team showed up as having different models to your own team. Ubisoft's own Ghost Recon Phantoms (also RIP) did somewhat the same thing with the enemy being ex-Ghosts having red lights instead of the Ghosts' blue to explain why they had the same gear. There are ways to write it such that the multiplayer can be canonical operations against real enemy forces.

[@midding593]

what is the background music in the intro? It sounds so familiar but I just can’t remember what game it’s from

[@loganswalk8621]

They could’ve just had the White Masks funded by a rogue state of Whateverstan lead by a charismatic dictator and have them be the main villains for awhile.

[@randomindividual948]

Or have Aurelia funding them to have both the White Masks and Rainbow at her beck and call.

[@cevatkokbudak6414]

Or they can stayed with monsters but more scawy

[@eccentricjoe8786]

truly the mediumest outcome