In Year 8 Season 1 of Rainbow Six Siege, not only are players getting a new operator in Brava, but we’re also getting a few new features as well. While some of the new features incoming are for newcomers to the game, Ubisoft is also rolling out a bunch of new stuff for veterans as well, and one of them is the new Rainbow Six Siege Immersive reload system.

In a press invite held by Ubisoft for Rainbow Six Siege Y8S1, the developers explained the Rainbow Six Immersive reload system alongside other planned stuff incoming for the major update.

• Rainbow Six Siege Immersive Reload: Interrupting the animaton will leave the player without a magazine but closed bolt weapons will have a single round for the player to use at any point during the reload.

In addition to that, players can also expect the following in Y8S1:

• Balancing update to Zero
• Improvements to Play Section UI
• Balancing changes on weapon attachments

Alongside these, Ubisoft is also introducing new on-boarding features to assist new players to the game! 

Beginner Challenges identify an Operator’s playstyle in-game. All Operators have one to two specialties which can be checked during the Planning Phase, in the Operators section, and in Operator Guides.

Specialty Challenges aim to help beginner players learn the various Operator specialties and what they contribute to a match.

Also of note, while it’s not coming to the Y8S1 title update, there will be a new anti-cheat feature for consoles which will detect keyboard and mouse users! This will go live in Y8S1.2, and you can read about it here.