Thorn is a trapper with a unique, hard-hitting SMG.
Rainbow Six Siege’s next operator joining in Season 4: High Calibre was announced a few days ago and Ubisoft has not wasted any time releasing further details. Thorn is a new defender who is primarily a trapper, as described by Ubisoft Montreal.
“Thorn’s gadget is called the Razorbloom Shell,” Rainbow Six Siege game designer Dominic Clément said during High Calibre’s reveal, which is embedded below. “It’s a sticky device you can throw pretty much everywhere on the map, and it’s going to stick on pretty much any surface.”
For a look at her gear in practice, take a look at the video below:
As seen above, the Razorbloom Shell is a proximity-based gadget. Once placed, an attacker must wander into its range for the device to activate. Upon activation, the attacker has a brief window of opportunity to decide whether to push ahead, retreat, or destroy the gadget before it explodes. When used correctly, the Razorbloom Shell is designed to force attackers into panicking and moving without careful consideration, priming them for an ambush.
“We wanted to iterate on the idea of a trap operator and trap gadget,” Clément said. “A lot of the gadgets that we have right now that are traps are pretty binary–either you walk into them, and you get the effect, or you don’t. So with this gadget, we wanted to see what happens when you give the players a little more time to react and you give them a couple options.”
The operator also comes equipped with a brand-new weapon, which (currently) is only available to Thorn. The new firearm is the UZK50GI, a small but hard-hitting submachine gun. Thorn can also equip Jager and Bandit’s shotgun, the M870, as her primary firearm, Jager and Bandit’s shotgun.
Thorn is going to be mainly played as an anchor,” Clément said. “She’s very useful close to choke points. You want Thorn playing around her gadget because that’s where she’s the most deadly.”
Alongside Thorn, High Calibre also introduces a new HUD for Siege. Additionally, Outback will get a rework with a few notable changes made to the map’s layout. High Calibre makes improvements to Siege’s test server too. High Calibre has no official release date, but it will go live on Siege’s PC test servers on November 9. If the timeframe holds to tradition, the season will officially go live on all platforms a few weeks later.
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