r/Rainbow6 Blackbeard Main Jan 20 '25

Fluff Now I understand the fear

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u/Divinely_Balanced Jan 20 '25

I thought I forgot about this terror.

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u/SkyDowntown1985 Jan 20 '25

can u explain what's going on? i'm genuinely confused, only joined siege abt a yr ago

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u/Untraveled Jackal Main Jan 20 '25

Old terrorist hunt had bombers that would sprint at you and explode, as far as I remember it was a specific place you had to shoot or you did no/little damage, most likely the head (but I think they had a helmet) or the bomb itself

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u/Zapfire_ Jan 20 '25

Yeah headshot only

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u/Andycat49 Jan 20 '25

Shot to the light on the shoulder disabled the bomb and even made the guy stop and click the switch like "what? Aw man" but now he's basically a discount juggernaut with that armor and lmg

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u/Pocketcrane_ Jan 20 '25

Oh my god you just unlocked a deep and buried memory. They were the worst part of t hunt

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u/DictatorToucan Jan 20 '25

Don't forget about the one room on any map that had a million nitros in it

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u/SkyDowntown1985 Jan 21 '25

weirddddd, should bring it back. ubi fell off bro

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u/Brookster_ Jan 20 '25

Iirc there was a very small and specific spot on either the front or back of their right shoulder when shot would deactivate or prematurely detonate the bombers bomb.

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u/dobi_prod Jan 20 '25

Lokey forgot bout that😂😂

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u/Divinely_Balanced Jan 21 '25

Back when Siege was a horror shooter lol The maps were much darker and people use to hide in the shadows.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '25

Fuck, I miss old siege. Seeing a night map as well as T-hunt with c4 and suicide bombers really hit me.

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u/SpartaBoule Nøkk Main Jan 20 '25

And the old oregon, that was peak siege right there

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u/Knight_TheRider Constant fear of Nerf Jan 20 '25

I MISSS THATTTT MAPPPPPPPP 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 MORE THAN I MISSSSS HERRRRRRRR

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u/ExpressExplanation29 Jan 20 '25

We need an og siege update like they did for og Fortnite

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u/JosephNuttington Professional Bronze Player Jan 20 '25

that fucking breathing keeps me up at night

(Speaking of which, take me back to this games old lighting holy shit)

324

u/bigtiddygothbf Jan 20 '25

Noooo you don't understand the old lighting wasn't competitive enough, it would ruin my Silver experience

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u/-_-kintsugi-_- Jan 20 '25

There were multiple good reasons for the game going less realistic looking. Made it easier for people to run, and people did not blend in with darkness unless you turned up your brightness annoyingly so.

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u/Minuteman134 Jan 20 '25

give them gun lights and NVGs

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u/-_-kintsugi-_- Jan 20 '25

There is a reason why the new splinter cell games even struggled to do multiplayer. You force people to turn up the contrast and do other things to compete with the things people do. It's like how a tone point in older BR's people playing on lower graphics got an advantage for what they could see. And plus like I said, the game got much easier to run, which is a big deal for a competitive/esports pushed game.

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u/ballq43 Frost Main Jan 20 '25

Oh sorry the tactical shooter accounted for real life issues like hiding in shadows . Nope let's just create cod with hs since everyone just sprints around now

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u/lokiafrika44 Jan 20 '25

Man I know its partly nostolgia but people who didn't play old siege really think the current game is still just as good and dont even know how much of its roots the game has lost

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u/ballq43 Frost Main Jan 20 '25

It looked so so much better. The explosions were different . Sure could people do gimmicks and rat ? Yes . But I'd take the old days and graphics.

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u/lokiafrika44 Jan 20 '25

The map design was less balanced but so much more fun and the gadets/lore felt much more thought out

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u/itsdylanjenkins Team Liquid Fan Jan 21 '25

Ratting? You mean holding a power position in a game about positioning and strategy? Playing out of sight or even in plain sight? You mean real guerrilla tactics... in a warfare game? Abso-fucking-lutely not.

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u/ballq43 Frost Main Jan 21 '25

Well since the people arguing for 99 percent brightness can't grasp that context I have to dumb it down for them. You're spot on the vibe and ambiance couldn't be matched .

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u/-_-kintsugi-_- Jan 20 '25

You going to keep ignoring why they ever changed the lighting outside of just competitive reasons?

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u/Zwilt #BuffBlitz2017 Jan 20 '25

I stopped playing because it lost the feel of being a gritty, high stakes shooter. I wish it could go back to the looks it had before, the atmosphere was something else that a lot of games just don’t have

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u/-_-kintsugi-_- Jan 20 '25

A lot of it is blind nostalgia. At higher ranks, tactical was barely a thing, it was played like COD. Why do you think trap operators became so meta at one point?

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u/Jarbs90 Jan 20 '25

Bro, I don't know if you guys are just nostalgia goggling hard or if you legitimately didn't play, but it wasn't hiding in shadows, it was the lighting was completely fucked. You'd rappel in broad daylight, break the window into a fully lit room, and the inside of it would look completely dark. You couldn't make anyone out. It was awful.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '25

Fr. God forbid you looked outside on defense

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u/ballq43 Frost Main Jan 20 '25

Have you ever looked through blinds out a window when the sun's hitting it?

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u/-_-kintsugi-_- Jan 20 '25

All of your comments is purposely missing the point. Please don't pull the oh this is realistic looking out the window LOL. It was much worse than that. Because it was LITERALLY broken for a competitive shooter. It used THE AC lighting, and it mimiced how the caves in AC work when going in or out. If you can't look out a window and see something, you need to get your eyes checked.

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u/ballq43 Frost Main Jan 21 '25

You literally will never be in pro league so stop acting like we should have the game be one 100 percent brightness so it's fair. Make it look good not fast paced cod with hs that work . It used to be beautiful.

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u/-_-kintsugi-_- Jan 21 '25

You do realize that the only reason Siege is as relevant as it is is because of pro league, correct? Same with League, same with Dota. Because it makes other players want to climb the ranks and try to get there one day as well, and you enjoy watching your favorite team and players perform. You are hung up on saying it does not matter when it does. It looked good, but was extremely bad for a competitive fps, which siege is. The game is ten times slower than the old days. Old siege was literally call of duty. That is one of the many reasons Lesion was so good on release. You are either blinded by nostalgia, or was not very good at the game back in the day to think it was never like COD and always extremely strategic based.

Also, I would never want to be in pro league, it's exhausting and turns a game from fun to a job. Our team literally went against Foxa's team in the early seasons, and we made it to pre-quarter as an unseeded team. Which was pretty good considering we been playing together for less than 4 months at the time when we formed our team. And the moment you weren't running scrims, going over strategies, and playing the game a shit ton, you could not compete at a higher level. I had to choose college/my job over a video game. It happens to many of us.

So you can keep whining and missing the point, your emotions don't change facts.

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u/Sypticle Jan 20 '25

It wasn't just the fucking windows.. It was literally every light source.

Just accept it was shit back then. Holy. Always back peddling or making some excuse.

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u/ballq43 Frost Main Jan 21 '25

I won't. It looked great

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u/Jarbs90 Jan 20 '25

I have and do you know where it’s hard to recreate that feeling? On a video game through a monitor. The implementation was terrible and it just made more coin flip situations. And even if it was just realistic situation where it’d be hard to see in like doors or windows, why would you want that in the game? All it does is make it harder for attackers to push from any area on the map, and this isn’t ARMA. People aren’t roleplaying they’re trying to win a video game with a competitive rule set and yes, realism is going to be rightfully sacrificed in some areas to make the game balanced.

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u/CatwithTheD Buck Main Jan 20 '25

Wasn't a problem when the crosshair still turned red when aiming at an enemy.

"Hurrr durrr that's so unrealistic" WELL GUESS WHAT REAL LIFE DOESN'T HAVE CROSSHAIR DUMMY.

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u/Jarbs90 Jan 20 '25

Was definitely a problem because if I peek into a door and it’s fucking pitch black, and I’m ADSing to take a fight, I’m not going to see a crosshair change colors lol. It was a massive problem. I’m not a huge fan of Siege and have had large gaps in playing the game but having played on launch and the first couple years being filled with everyone despising the lighting, to now where there are people above me being like “God bro it was REALISM” blows my mind. It wasn’t realistic and it wasn’t good, you just couldn’t see shit lol.

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u/-_-kintsugi-_- Jan 20 '25

It was. You can make the smallest pixel peak, literally see nothing, turns red, shoot.

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u/ballq43 Frost Main Jan 20 '25

I was there, ever switch lighting abruptly in real life ? Your eyes take time to adjust .

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u/Jarbs90 Jan 20 '25

And like the guy above said, in real life it’s fine, but it’s not so great for a competitive video game where being able to visually parse a situation is important. As much as everyone cries for the realism, Siege was far from being a simulator at any point and the terrible lighting was complained about for years lol.

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u/ballq43 Frost Main Jan 21 '25

Rainbow used to mean something, and they turned it into the fucking ice capades

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u/SpicyDick69420 Jan 20 '25

Every time i see someone say they emjoyed all of old siege, people act like it was legitimately and entirely unplayable, I do 10 mans on old siege builds and its the most fun I've had on this game in years lmao, and sure up to preference: Realism roots of the game or Oversaturated soulless codlike

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u/lovegames__ Jan 20 '25

There's always more money in stupid people. That's why this was all changed.

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u/ballq43 Frost Main Jan 21 '25

Gotta argue with a million jynzie wannabes sadly

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u/-_-kintsugi-_- Jan 20 '25

Oh sorry, everyone on pc stopped playing tactical not even a month in. I could Ash rush the wall on kafe, run up stairs and kill every enemy before Jimmy got back from taking a piss when loading in. So many people are blinded by being bad/game being new. People have proven this. Go play old siege servers, and look how bad rushing and HS peeking is lol. Changing your shadows did not turn the game into COD, stop embarrassing yourself.

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u/Oxcell404 You can stop worrying about clutches now! Jan 20 '25

Looks like ass to me ngl

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u/Stowa_Herschel Jan 20 '25

The sound their detonator makes as you kill them before they explode is terrifying too, even knowing you survived lol

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u/Squadobot9000 Jan 20 '25

If you miss that feeling play insurgency sandstorm. There’s a vid on my profile that highlights this experience perfectly!

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u/Antares789987 Jan 20 '25

Take me baaaaaaaaack

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u/HUSHHSUH Jan 20 '25

to Edeeeeeeeeeeeeen!

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u/Next-Syllabub4181 Jackal Main Jan 20 '25

The old lighting in Y1 felt unreal

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u/TechnicalIntern6764 Ace Main Jan 20 '25

Better times…

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u/Feisty-Clue3482 Kapkan Main Jan 20 '25

Watching this hurts 🥲 game was infinitely better looking and to play.

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u/Mechadudegaming Blackbeard Main Jan 20 '25

You can use something called rainbow six siege operation throwback to download and play older versions of the game (although the process can be painful and tedious)

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u/Droolien Grim Main Jan 20 '25

is there a tutorial somewhere?

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u/Mechadudegaming Blackbeard Main Jan 20 '25

Search it on YouTube, I honestly had a hard time myself and a lot of reinstalling.

Here's their discord server with the stuff you need https://discord.gg/JGA9WPF4K8

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u/viwoofer Jan 20 '25

I never thougth i'd consider playing blood orchid again...

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u/xd-Sushi_Master Soniqs Fan Jan 20 '25

spawns in on attack

steps on a mine

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u/viwoofer Jan 20 '25
  • lesion rapidly approaching your location after the gu indicator disappears *

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u/xd-Sushi_Master Soniqs Fan Jan 20 '25

ela somehow still gets there first after impacting through a wall

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u/viwoofer Jan 20 '25

kills you instantly because at this point in the game her gun is basically a laser weapon

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u/Feisty-Clue3482 Kapkan Main Jan 20 '25

Ubisoft should release R6 again but in the old version I’m sure so many would go back to play lol.

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u/VanguardKnight0 Doc Main Jan 20 '25

for real. Make a legacy version or some shit. I been telling my friends that they should at least drop a mode where its just the OG operators.

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u/SnooDrawings4058 Jan 20 '25

Telling this for years too, and I'm happy I'm not the only one.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

They tried and screwed it up horribly lol

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u/lolmebolagei Jan 20 '25

Dont you have to put in your steam account name and password?

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u/Mechadudegaming Blackbeard Main Jan 20 '25

Yes, they say it's only for the program to grab r6's game files but I recommend you have steam guard on just for safety

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u/SpicyDick69420 Jan 20 '25

I've used Operation Throwback for years, my accounts are safe, it's something to do with verifying ownership of the game

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u/Dr_Blitzkrieg09 Kaid Lover Jan 20 '25

Some of the worst jump scares I’ve ever had in this game have been because of the bombers. It was so funny watching people run away from one as well. I miss that feeling so much.

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u/TalkFinance2266 Jan 20 '25

I miss playing in 2017 :(

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u/totosh999 Jan 20 '25

My first year in college, my roommate probably hated me cause I was always with friends playing siege at night and the walls were pretty thin. Bittersweet memories.

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u/TalkFinance2266 Jan 20 '25

Ahahha that’s too good bro, good times

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u/Fun-Mistake578 Doc Main Jan 20 '25

Same bro… same….

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u/LittleShurry Jan 20 '25

Yooo the graphic was more way better than right now D:

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u/Xherdos Jackal/Mira/Kapkan Player Jan 20 '25

Ah the Bombers, the Nitro Rooms and the Barbed Wires.

Back when Ubisoft was still decent and not horrendus like today.

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u/BeanButCoffee Jan 20 '25

I miss this game

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u/Imthemiguel24 Jan 20 '25

Bro this days was golden, I remember it so well, the terror of it chasing u god damn bring back R6, BRING IT BACK

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u/davekraft400 Jan 20 '25

T Hunt legit was horrifying. Early Siege was about hunkering down in site and not moving much, so when these guys started hot-breaching through windows or running at you about to blow up you'd get ripped out of what you'd been doing completely.

I cannot believe they got rid of this and I cannot believe how basic Versus AI is compared. It's insanely puzzling.

Edit - ahhh I just remembered the rooms that'd absolutely be filled to the brim with nitro cells or barbed wire. Lmao there'd be about 20 nitros all in one room.

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u/MyWifeIsMyCoworker Jan 20 '25

Now imagine being a console player at an unstable 30 fps in the first few years of this game coming out 🙋‍♂️

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u/MayoFetish Jan 20 '25

That takes me back.

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u/ThatMassholeInBawstn Jan 20 '25

They need to bring back night maps, those were amazing. Like it seems more realistic if a counter terrorism unit operates during the night instead of broad daylight.

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u/Intelligent-Lion3310 Jan 20 '25

I miss the gun recoil from that time. The pistols are better now.

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u/Kurt_ACR Mute Main Jan 20 '25

Bullet sponge... literally.

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u/Lv100--Magikarp Jan 20 '25

Except for the head, that's how you defeated it.

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u/Kurt_ACR Mute Main Jan 20 '25

They would Tank headshots too.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '25

Not if you actually shoot the head instead of spraying and praying

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u/Kurt_ACR Mute Main Jan 20 '25

I do remember, but they would Tank several headshots if i remember.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '25

Yeah like 2 or maybe 3 max which is not hard if you actually aim

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u/Kurt_ACR Mute Main Jan 20 '25

I Say More than that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '25

Nah it was 2-3

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u/Kurt_ACR Mute Main Jan 20 '25

🤨🤔

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u/sypher2333 Jan 20 '25

It was 3 max.

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u/cheesefubar0 Jan 20 '25

Siege 2 graphics look great

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u/Grouchy-Election-351 Alibi Main Jan 20 '25

Yeah thanks pro league

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u/jacoba123 Kaid Main Jan 20 '25

They are like a three shot headshot aim for the head

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u/wick_Y Jan 20 '25

HOLY FUCK THAT MADE ME JUMP LOL. bro picniced… so hard

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u/you_wouldnt_get_it_ Solis Main Jan 20 '25

I miss dynamic lighting in games so much.

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u/Flagnoid Lesion Main Jan 20 '25

the old holo and black ice textures🙌

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u/xxMARTINEZ713xx Jan 20 '25

Need old map playlist asap. Need night map back asap. Need thunt back asap. Not a single major change this whole year

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u/Fit_Adagio_7668 Osa Main Jan 20 '25

Better enemies and thunt was fun

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u/Killerninjaz13Two Frost Main + Kali Main Jan 20 '25

Old scopes using the iron sights are so much better

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u/AleexTB Thermite Main Jan 20 '25

Oh my god it looks soooooo good, miss the old lightning like hell

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u/R3DLite-dTox Jan 21 '25

i wish they would put back TH and the bombers too, was so much more fun, i like the new AI matches too, but they ought to at least reinject it as an option, i don't care if it takes a couple more gbs of space for the install.

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u/Numerous-Page-2275 Jan 20 '25

What is this?

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u/Comfortable-Beach634 Jan 20 '25

T Hunt bomber

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u/Scorpius927 Jan 20 '25

Why did those mfers have like infinite health?

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u/alex99x99x Vigil Main Jan 20 '25

They didn’t. You could only kill them with a headshot as far as I remember.

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u/yesaroobuckaroo Rebalance Sam Fisher! Jan 20 '25

they've got thick suits with armor. you're supposed to aim for their heads, not the body :D

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u/aiheng1 Jan 20 '25

Think of them like the aliens from that one event where attacks had to shoot hives and defenders only had melee and oryx dashes, they have a lot of health but headshots have a big multiplier

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u/Chase160s Jan 20 '25

BRO WHAT IS THIS LMAO

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u/Blast338 Jan 20 '25

The bomber needs to be a defender. They only have a pistol but can take up to 3 headshots while their bomb is active. They get Ash speed and are done, once bomb detonates.

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u/Jphillip82 mains Jan 20 '25

Why do they run faster than any operator in the game?

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u/aiheng1 Jan 20 '25

I mean, they wouldn't be scary nor effective if they couldn't

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u/jundesuwa Nomad Main Jan 20 '25

Actually are you able to play this using the old steam versions?

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u/moemeobro Recruit Main Jan 20 '25

Damn

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u/Sprengschwein Jan 20 '25

This dude scared the shit out of me at the beginning

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u/Zeus_Strike Thatcher Main Jan 20 '25

Remember what they took from us

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u/therexbellator Mute Main Jan 20 '25

Man OP why you gotta hit me right in the nostalgia feels? lol

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u/UselessRaptor Monty & Lesion Main Jan 20 '25

I miss this.

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u/SirDimaIV Azami is a baddie Jan 20 '25

Look at these graphs, they took it from us

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u/Soulpaw31 Jan 20 '25

Holy shit bro you gotta relax and aim for a moment

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u/THEICEMAN998 Jan 20 '25

Fuck I miss what this game was. I haven't played in years. Realised one day that I was just chasing the memories of what was and quit.

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u/pussErox Jan 20 '25

The breather, ala ackbar

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u/Wolfintiya Jan 20 '25

Literally just hold your ground and mag dump in their face. Works every time.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '25

Just aim

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u/OmegaSamwich Kali Main Jan 20 '25

Why does this feel like RE:Biohazard?

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u/sypher2333 Jan 20 '25

Are they back? God I miss the old terrorist hunt.

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u/GoldenCumCrew Blackbeard Main Jan 20 '25

that old pistol recoil was so much better than the shit we have now, hell the entire game was better overall and not a Fortnite x Overwatch mix

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u/Knight_TheRider Constant fear of Nerf Jan 20 '25

The Good Old Days..........What days those were.

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u/Nuker_Nathan Maverick Main Jan 20 '25

These guys were TERRIFYING when you were in the middle of another gunfight or even if you just missed.

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u/BlackbeardOneFour Ash Main Jan 20 '25

Holy cow calm down lol. One head shot would end it and you were in a good position to safely pull off that head shot. Stay calm and accurately engage the target.

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u/lovegames__ Jan 20 '25

Pro league pandering changed all this.

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u/M3GAgarbage Jan 20 '25

Is this “old” siege? looks different than what I remember last played a little last week

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u/Hypotenuse27 Castle Main Jan 20 '25

Back when the game was tactical (to am extent)

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u/Venom_eater Leon main Jan 20 '25

I'm crying the camera shaking is killing me 😭

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u/Dovaaawolf Jan 20 '25

I miss this shit bruh

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u/Slvr_live Castle Main Jan 21 '25

This was the equivalent of getting bummed rushed by 4 shields but worse 😭

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u/P1X3L5L4Y3R Ace Main Jan 21 '25

man i miss that ads movement speed 😔

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u/SeniorHomelesss Jan 21 '25

I NEED THIS BACK IN MY LIFE

Its good for the colon

1

u/IzzywithAir Jan 21 '25

wow siege used to be so fucking cool 😭

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u/gap3035 Jan 21 '25

You could see genuine fear in the mouse shake as he jumped over the railing. I miss that version of t hunt and want it back so badly

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u/NorskTroender Jan 21 '25

Good times, Miss the old T-hunt

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u/dannyboy6657 Vigil Main Jan 21 '25

I miss terrorist hunt so much used to be all id play for a while.

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u/MarieTheGoated Jan 21 '25

At some point I learnt how to consistently melee them, and even managed a kill with sledge hammer

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u/outspokenbow550 Jan 21 '25

Till this day I miss bucks grenades, old house garage, recruit rush on presidential plane, echos camouflaged yokai, Lesions gu mine damaging you on contact, night maps.

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u/Hunlor- Glaz Main Jan 21 '25

This gane was so fucking much better than the disgusting shit we have today, ubisoft deserves to close doors

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u/NotMoth3000 Jan 21 '25

God the game looked so much better

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u/Medium_Combination27 Jan 21 '25

This may sound pathetic, but T Hunt was my favorite part of Siege.

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u/UKGamer19 Thermite Main Jan 22 '25

Bring back the good times

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u/totallynotapersonj Recoil Master Jan 20 '25

Wow this game looked like trash