Rainbow Six Siege 2.1.1 update brings loot boxes, balancing and more

Rainbow Six Siege is getting an update today, which lays the groundwork for alpha packs (aka. Loot boxes). Update 2.1.1 will also fix some bugs and tweak the game balance some more. The update will come to PC, PS4 and Xbox One today.

This title update comes as part of Operation Health, the recent season for RB6, which is focused on balancing the game and tweaking issues to ensure the game is in a strong place going forwards. 

So what’s new in this update? Alpha packs are a staggered release which will introduce a loot box system. They’ll include past cosmetics like the black ice skins and also Legendary tier items you can only get from these alpha packs. Everyone will receive a free alpha pack when it’s fully integrated into the game. Which is nice.

There has also been some fixes made to the character Hibana, in particular her X-Kairos launcher.  The fix stops her second charge from exploding when activated quickly after the first. This is the first of ongoing work on this character so expect more changes. 

The Kanal spawn kill exploit has also been subject to a few tweaks. Defenders would previously have a line of site to immediately kill the attacking team as they spawned. Ubisoft closed off the window in the control room to halt this, but it didn’t resolve the issue, so was retracted. Now an extra piece of cover has been introduced in order to prevent the easy line of site. It’s literally just a large block of concrete. Now that’s effective.

That’s it for now, but for more details on the update head on over to the Rainbow Six Siege blog.