Rainbow Six Siege Confirmed To Have No Single-Player Story

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What is it with modern-day shooters going down the ‘no story’ route?

Titanfall, Evolve, Star Wars Battlefront – now Ubisoft’s latest franchise-resurrecting Rainbow Six has just confirmed it’ll be running with a heavy focus on essentially being multiplayer-only. Sure you have access to offline and ‘single player content’ in the form of maps filled with bots, but unlike the cancelled R6: Patriots that looked to be delivering a sold story, Siege will have no such thing.

Speaking at EGX 2015, Scott Mitchell, Art Director mentioned,

“There is no story mode per se. You go through training, where you get to experience different operators and their devices. You can play against enemy AI in co-op through all the maps. You can customise matches, so that’s what we’re offering on the single-player side of things”
adding,

“It’s a pretty good training ground, and on top or that you’re unlocking the same content as you would playing in PvP. You’re still gaining stars, reknown points, and new operatives”

Immediately for many fans of Rainbow Six’s older games, this will be a killing blow. It’s all well and good offering up a bevy of maps (11 so far, to be exact) that’ll be downloadable for free going forward, but anyone not up for getting stuck into the online portion of things will be thoroughly put off that the dedicated single player part of the experience is essentially just a training ground.
Rainbow Six Siege is scheduled for release December 1st, 2015.



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ClioPosted:

I saw this coming, I kind of expected it to be multiplayer only

PolygonPosted:

Well considering they've been selling it as fully online, I don't see this as a surprise.

Tactical_Luck_GamingPosted:

You got to be **** kidding me. As a avid campaign player, this irritates the hell out of me.

MushroomElmPosted:

nober555 To add on to my last comment; the newer call of duties, Black Ops 2, Ghosts, AW I haven't even touched the campaign. Mainly because I feel they haven't been putting in the effort to make it good. They have been focusing on making different gun skins that they can sell for 3.99 or "2 map" map packs that cost $15. Honestly I haven't even bought the last two and I don't plan on buying the new one because of sick of them solely focusing on the multiplayer.


Black Ops story is pretty good. One of the better ones. Also, Teyarch is pretty good about content. They don't focus on just Multi as they know a good chunk of people go for story and zombies as well.

nober555Posted:

To add on to my last comment; the newer call of duties, Black Ops 2, Ghosts, AW I haven't even touched the campaign. Mainly because I feel they haven't been putting in the effort to make it good. They have been focusing on making different gun skins that they can sell for 3.99 or "2 map" map packs that cost $15. Honestly I haven't even bought the last two and I don't plan on buying the new one because of sick of them solely focusing on the multiplayer.

nober555Posted:

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Miss I don't understand why companies are going down that route, campaigns are what make games great.


Because they know people will buy the game even at full 60 JUST for multiplayer.. Its really sad and true people will still go out and buy this game, and the season pass for whatever and all the camos that will cost like 3 dollars each and all the whatever.. Im not having this, im about to leave to take my pre order off at gamestop.


We should boycott rainbow six; BS


You guys are idiots, js. Campaign in FPS games aren't fun. I don't remember the last time I played single player on a CoD, and I didn't even do half of Rainbow Six Vegas 2. It's nothing groundbreaking or new. Shoot bad guys, take down terrorist group. Win. Yay.

How often did you play a single player FPS game? How many times did you run through a CoD story?


I played every FPS campaign on the hardest mode. BF, CoD, Halo, RS, the lot. It's something to do when your internet or something goes down.

If your whole aspiration for a game is " OMG MULTIPLAYER GOTTA SHOOT!!! " then wow. Not a lot to say there.


Lmao way to just prove my point. You beat it on the hardest difficulty. What did you do afterwards? Plus, "something to do when your internet is down" exactly. There's no point in playing the story. You run through, get the collectibles and do on hardest for achievements/fun then never touch it again.


Not true. You can always replay it different ways, especially if it's an RPG. If not that, then if the story is really good you'll play a ton of it. I played Rainbow Six Vegas 2's campaign so many times with so many friends and even by myself.


Skyrim, Fallout.... Nuf said


Skyrim and Fallout aren't FPS games. They don't even have multiplayer.


Both Skyrim and Fallout have 1st person in them, as well as you can "shoot" weapons in them. By my definition they are under my category of FPS/RPG. Either way that's not my point, my point is that if these companies spent half the time making a Good, replay-able campaign as they did on the multiplayer then maybe it might be worth playing the campaign. As for call of duty; I have spent many hours playing Cod 4, WaW and MW2 both campaign and multiplayer because the stories were good also to play through on the hardest difficulty and get all the collectibles. Don't even get me started on Halo... I can even begin to explain how much I have played Halo 2 campaign. Not only because of the story line, but doing the glitches and finding the easter eggs. Trying to get the IWHBYD skull was the hardest thing to do. I literately quit playing the game for a few weeks because it pissed me off so much, but when I finally got it the moment of accomplishment was overwhelming! It's those small things in the games that make them replay-able that makes the campaign worth it. Just because there are a few people that don't like campaigns shouldn't mean that the developers not add one in. And with the power of the consoles now they should have no excuses to not make on other than laziness and greed. It may not be the actual thought of them but that's the vibe they are giving the fans.

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nober555
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Miss I don't understand why companies are going down that route, campaigns are what make games great.


Because they know people will buy the game even at full 60 JUST for multiplayer.. Its really sad and true people will still go out and buy this game, and the season pass for whatever and all the camos that will cost like 3 dollars each and all the whatever.. Im not having this, im about to leave to take my pre order off at gamestop.


We should boycott rainbow six; BS


You guys are idiots, js. Campaign in FPS games aren't fun. I don't remember the last time I played single player on a CoD, and I didn't even do half of Rainbow Six Vegas 2. It's nothing groundbreaking or new. Shoot bad guys, take down terrorist group. Win. Yay.

How often did you play a single player FPS game? How many times did you run through a CoD story?


I played every FPS campaign on the hardest mode. BF, CoD, Halo, RS, the lot. It's something to do when your internet or something goes down.

If your whole aspiration for a game is " OMG MULTIPLAYER GOTTA SHOOT!!! " then wow. Not a lot to say there.


Lmao way to just prove my point. You beat it on the hardest difficulty. What did you do afterwards? Plus, "something to do when your internet is down" exactly. There's no point in playing the story. You run through, get the collectibles and do on hardest for achievements/fun then never touch it again.


Not true. You can always replay it different ways, especially if it's an RPG. If not that, then if the story is really good you'll play a ton of it. I played Rainbow Six Vegas 2's campaign so many times with so many friends and even by myself.


Skyrim, Fallout.... Nuf said


Skyrim and Fallout aren't FPS games. They don't even have multiplayer.

xxRider702xxPosted:

nober555
Znait
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Dismiss
-Corgi
Tiffxny
Qwel
Miss I don't understand why companies are going down that route, campaigns are what make games great.


Because they know people will buy the game even at full 60 JUST for multiplayer.. Its really sad and true people will still go out and buy this game, and the season pass for whatever and all the camos that will cost like 3 dollars each and all the whatever.. Im not having this, im about to leave to take my pre order off at gamestop.


We should boycott rainbow six; BS


You guys are idiots, js. Campaign in FPS games aren't fun. I don't remember the last time I played single player on a CoD, and I didn't even do half of Rainbow Six Vegas 2. It's nothing groundbreaking or new. Shoot bad guys, take down terrorist group. Win. Yay.

How often did you play a single player FPS game? How many times did you run through a CoD story?


I played every FPS campaign on the hardest mode. BF, CoD, Halo, RS, the lot. It's something to do when your internet or something goes down.

If your whole aspiration for a game is " OMG MULTIPLAYER GOTTA SHOOT!!! " then wow. Not a lot to say there.


Lmao way to just prove my point. You beat it on the hardest difficulty. What did you do afterwards? Plus, "something to do when your internet is down" exactly. There's no point in playing the story. You run through, get the collectibles and do on hardest for achievements/fun then never touch it again.


Not true. You can always replay it different ways, especially if it's an RPG. If not that, then if the story is really good you'll play a ton of it. I played Rainbow Six Vegas 2's campaign so many times with so many friends and even by myself.


Skyrim, Fallout.... Nuf said


Agreed, maybe not playing campaign by yourself is fun, but the amount of times ive played Halo with friends is INSANE. Espically halo 3 trying to do the vidmasters. And ive even played rainbox multiple times with my brother. So i think campaign is import.

nober555Posted:

Znait
-Corgi
Dismiss
-Corgi
Tiffxny
Qwel
Miss I don't understand why companies are going down that route, campaigns are what make games great.


Because they know people will buy the game even at full 60 JUST for multiplayer.. Its really sad and true people will still go out and buy this game, and the season pass for whatever and all the camos that will cost like 3 dollars each and all the whatever.. Im not having this, im about to leave to take my pre order off at gamestop.


We should boycott rainbow six; BS


You guys are idiots, js. Campaign in FPS games aren't fun. I don't remember the last time I played single player on a CoD, and I didn't even do half of Rainbow Six Vegas 2. It's nothing groundbreaking or new. Shoot bad guys, take down terrorist group. Win. Yay.

How often did you play a single player FPS game? How many times did you run through a CoD story?


I played every FPS campaign on the hardest mode. BF, CoD, Halo, RS, the lot. It's something to do when your internet or something goes down.

If your whole aspiration for a game is " OMG MULTIPLAYER GOTTA SHOOT!!! " then wow. Not a lot to say there.


Lmao way to just prove my point. You beat it on the hardest difficulty. What did you do afterwards? Plus, "something to do when your internet is down" exactly. There's no point in playing the story. You run through, get the collectibles and do on hardest for achievements/fun then never touch it again.


Not true. You can always replay it different ways, especially if it's an RPG. If not that, then if the story is really good you'll play a ton of it. I played Rainbow Six Vegas 2's campaign so many times with so many friends and even by myself.


Skyrim, Fallout.... Nuf said

TricksPosted:

It is kind of disappointing. Not all people can afford Xbox Live to play games, so some rely on single player mode to make it fun. I hope this doesn't start becoming a trend.


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