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Ubisoft buffs Renown earnings in Rainbow Six Siege X following complaints

Rainbow Six Siege finally made the switch over to free-to-play recently. The newly named Rainbow Six Siege X has brought a lot of people back to the game, but early players were quick to find that currency gain for unlocking new operators had become very slow. Now, Ubisoft has issued an update to increase payouts. 

Renown is a currency in Rainbow Six Siege that allows you to unlock new operators without spending any real money. The post-match payouts for Renown had always been pretty fair when the game was buy-to-play, but after the shift to free-to-play, long-time players had noticed that Renown gain had slowed down significantly.

Rainbow Six Siege X director, Alex Karpazis, addressed the concerns by announcing that a ‘buff' had been applied, so players should notice the Renown grind becoming a bit faster. With Siege X, Challenges were also added to the game. These pay out large chunks of Renown for winning games with certain operators, or getting kills with certain weapons, so that can help speed things up a bit.

In an interview, Karpazis told PCGamer that the goal is “not to change the amount of grind to unlock operators, or to unlock anything in the game”. However, if the data shows that gains are too low, the developers are willing to bump things up, as shown with this initial 10% buff to Renown gain two weeks on from the Siege X launch.

KitGuru Says: Have you tried Rainbow Six Siege X since the update? 

 

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