Rainbow Six Tactics Uses Fatigue and Injury to Push Players Beyond Favorite Operators
Rainbow Six Tactics will use fatigue and injury systems to discourage repeated use of the same Operator, game director Martial Potron told TechRadar, pushing players to rotate their roster when the game launches in 2027.
Speaking to TechRadar Gaming at Gamescom, Potron described fatigue and injury as two separate mechanisms with a similar goal. “It’s a way to push players to use their tools and shuffle their roster,” he said. “So fatigue is one way, injuries is another way.”
Potron said Operators are human beings, so an agent injured during a mission may be out of commission for a period. That differs from Siege, where objective-based rounds reset a player’s health each time, TechRadar reported. “I think it’s also a good way to remind people that Operators are humans,” Potron said. “A bullet is a bullet. It’s very dangerous. That’s why reconning is important. If you don’t recon, it may happen that there is someone hidden and he shoots you, and and you get you get injured. You don’t have your Operator for two missions.”
He said the fatigue system performs a similar role and “forces players to readjust their roster” whenever Operators are sent on missions. Potron acknowledged that the systems may appear negative, but said the game will tell players which Operators fit certain missions. A rescue mission, for example, would not suit Ash because she uses explosives; a more close-range or precise Operator would be a better choice, according to TechRadar.
“So depending on who I am facing, I will also readjust my roster because they really are meant to counter other enemies,” Potron said. “So there is this negative side of humanity, and there is a positive side of Operators being very good against some part of the challenges.”