Rainbow Six Siege’s Long-Promised Tachanka Rework Finally Hits Test Servers Tomorrow

All Rainbow Six Siege fans accept their ain opinions most who the game's best operators are, simply there's a pretty solid consensus on who the worst one is – poor one-time Tachanka. For those unfamiliar, Tachanka can establish a large, powerful turret gun, simply doing and so removes his ability to movement, which is kind of a major drawback in a fast, tactical game like Siege.

That said, Tachanka's infamous lousiness has made him an odd fan-favorite of sorts, with players referring to him equally "Our Lord" and creating various memes and fine art in the useless one's honor. Despite that, Ubisoft has been promising a Tachanka rework for ages, and, well, it'south finally arrived! You tin check out the new and hopefully improved Tachanka in activeness, below.

Basically, Tachanka can now really motion around with his turret gun, fixing his most glaring flaw. He'southward likewise getting a new grenade launcher. Volition Tachanka actually be adept at present? Or only less atrocious? I suppose we'll have to wait and see how players react. Here's the official rundown of Tachanka's new abilities:

Tachanka, a fable among Rainbow Half dozen Siege Operators, will soon pack an incendiary grenade launcher and take his formerly turret-jump LMG on the go as a role of a new competitive rework. Watch how effortlessly his DP-27 LMG shreds walls to create rotation holes and how chop-chop his Shumikha Launcher shuts down entry points with peppery blockades as the Ubisoft News team details the changes in the works for this low-speed, high-armor Operator.

Rainbow Half dozen Siege is bachelor now on PC, Xbox One, and PS4. A next-gen Xbox Serial Ten/Southward and PS5 version is also in the works. The Tachanka rework will be bachelor on PC exam servers tomorrow (October 8) and will likely be available to everyone approximately two or three weeks later.