The Rainbow Six Siege Marketplace Beta is over, and all players are now able to trade! Sell your unused items for R6 Credits and buy the ones you really want from other players. This is your chance to get that elusive Black Ice skin.

Visit the Marketplace now or keep checking back regularly to see what new items are added.

Players who are at least clearance level 25, have Two-Factor Authentication enabled and played a match this season will have access to the Rainbow Six Siege Marketplace.

Operation New Blood is live and introduces new seasonal content to Rainbow Six Siege. Here’s an overview of everything launching in Season 2.

• Every elite Operator was once a recruit. Check out the new Recruit Operators, Striker & Sentry, who are joining the Rainbow Six roster. Both Operators have been optimized for competitive play and are available to all players, in all modes.
  
• Operator Balance Updates: Fenrir now has one less mine and activation ticket. Mines are also not bulletproof anymore, but tickets are recovered when mines get destroyed or deactivated. Solis' ability is now unavailable during the preparation phase. Its duration is also reduced to 10 seconds, the detection range set to 12 meters, and the ability needs to be fully charged to be used. Both Operators also received an update to their gadgets.
  
• Map Filters: You can now select the maps you prefer playing in the Standard Playlist. This new feature is available in your Settings Menu.
  
• Attrition Mode: The Arcade game mode returns to Siege for a limited-time. In this bomb mode, once an Operator is picked, it becomes locked for both teams for all remaining rounds. Time to adapt and make the most unconventional compositions work!
  
• Detailed Weapon Stats: Weapons now have detailed information regarding their Firepower, Accuracy, Ammo and Mobility. If you want to know everything about your loadout, be sure to check out this new feature.

But that’s not all! Watch the Year 9 Season 2 Reveal Panel for more information about the season
and the Operators & Gadgets video to learn more about the Recruits’ playstyle, and check out the R6S website to get all the details about the new content launching with Operation New Blood!



This season, the Premium Battle Pass rewards include an Operator voucher (unlocks any Operator), 18 Bravo Packs, a Bravo ticket, 600 R6 Credits, exclusive skins, a 10% store discount, and a 30% faster BP progression.
Unlock the Premium Battle Pass for 1,200 credits or upgrade to the new Rainbow Six Siege Membership to get instant access plus additional exclusive rewards.


Unlock the ultimate Rainbow Six Siege experience and get over 4,500 R6 Credits of value every month, including full access to the Premium Battle Pass, a time-limited Legendary item, an Epic bundle, 10 Battle levels and a Bravo Pack.
Join by June 18 to receive an additional Ash epic Bundle and 600 R6 Credits!

Learn more about the Membership on the R6S website

Find the download sizes for each platform below.

Ubisoft Connect: 3.45 GB
Steam: 2.8 GB
Xbox One: 3.19 GB
Xbox Series X: 3.56 GB
PlayStation 4: 3.64 GB
PlayStation 5: 3.29 GB

Due to a last minute bug, the following feature was pushed back to a further season.

RAPPEL IMPROVEMENTS

• Rappel is now instant and can be entered from further away when holding the rappel input and sprinting towards a rappel point.

FIXED - Players are able to eliminate more targets than the Target Drill objective states during Map Training.

FIXED - Enemies aren't pinged when they are scanned by Observation Tool during an AI Bot match.

FIXED - Tutorial's flow can't be completed as the dummy can't be scanned on the "Maintain 'scan button' to scan an enemy" objective during the Attack tutorial.

FIXED - Tutorial's flow can't be completed as the "Find all opponents by scanning them" can't complete the objective during the Defense tutorial.

FIXED - Talon-8 Clear Shield remains in her hand if it is destroyed when picked up.

FIXED - Points aren't lost if Operators destroy their own devices.

FIXED - Barriers aren't destroyed if walls are reinforced with Azami's Kiba Barrier.

FIXED - AI Bots get stuck in basement of the memorial room on the Clubhouse map in Versus AI mode.

FIXED - Operator UI is improperly displayed when a scan is used before the preparation phase timer ends.

FIXED - AI bots that are downed move faster than normal in Versus AI mode.

FIXED - Operators don't receive electrical damage when downed if they leave and re-enter the electrified area.

FIXED - Shield damage animation is missing from Suppressive Fire effect.

FIXED - Players can't complete Basics Tutorial if they restart in the middle of training.

FIXED - Players are able to hide a drone in the ceiling vent located in Red Stairs 2F on the Kanal map.

FIXED - Players can get stuck between two wood stacks located at EXT Garage on the Kanal map.

FIXED - Players can clip through an archway located at EXT Crash Scene on the Border map.

FIXED - Players can get stuck between the door and the fence located at EXT Warehouse on the Clubhouse map.

FIXED - Unfair lines of sight are present through the gaps in the tractor cabin located at 1F Garage of the stadium map.

FIXED - Window reflection isn't accurate on exterior windows of the Tower map.

FIXED - Destructible walls don't break as intended when destroyed with explosives on the Chalet map.

FIXED - Players have an unintended line of site for spawn eliminations in B Garage on the Consulate map.

FIXED - Operators levitate when laying prone on top of a sofa in 1F Sunrise bar on the Stadium map.

FIXED - Players have an unintended line of sight to EXT Parking on the Consulate map by running out from B Yellow Stairs to EXT Courtyard.

FIXED - Echo's Yokai Drone can see through textures on the ceiling on 2F Party Room on the Outback map.

FIXED - Echo's Yokai drone can get stuck behind a washing machine in B Laundry Storage on the Oregon map.

FIXED - Sens' R.O.U. Projector System gets stuck underneath some barricades instead of rolling through them in multiple locations on multiple maps.

FIXED - Throwable and sticky devices have no collision with a Christmas tree stand in 1F VIP Room on the Kafe Dostoyevsky map.

FIXED - Players are able to navigate onto vending machines located at 2F Break Room of the Border map.

FIXED - Players are able to navigate onto the vending machines located at 1F Tellers on the Border map.

FIXED - Smoke's Remote Gas Grenade can't be retrieved if thrown between a wall and weapon case in 1F Armory on the Lair map.

FIXED - Maestro's Evil Eye can be placed in an unintended spot in 2F Office on the Chalet map.

FIXED - Defenders can get an unfair advantage on top of a forklift located in B Barrels on the Lair map.

FIXED - Players get stuck between a fence and crated in Damage Lane on the Shooting Range map.

FIXED - Players can reach an advantageous line of sight in 2F Meeting Room on the Consulate map.

FIXED - Players are able to vault onto a chandelier in 2F Mezzanine on the Outback map.

FIXED - Various collision, asset, and texture issues on maps.

FIXED - Players can get stuck in 1st person point of view after detonating Flores' RCE-RATERO Charge.

FIXED - Brava's Kludge Drone can hack more devices than intended if players cancel the hack while holding down the shoot button on controller.

FIXED - Grim's Kawan Hive can affect Vigil permanently if Vigil's ERC-7 is used while leaving and entering the area of effect multiple times.

FIXED - Ram isn't displayed in the Operator Selection phase if the player does not own the operator.

FIXED - Tubarao's headgear and uniform thumbnail is displayed instead of Deimos.

FIXED - Tubarao's default headgear uniform appearance is displayed as Deimos.

FIXED - Osa's Talon-8 Clear Shield doesn't protect from flash effects.

FIXED - Deimos' hands are misaligned with the .44 Vendetta when switching weapons while sprinting.

FIXED - Ying's Candela shows a throw trajectory previsualization when deploying the device onto a surface.

FIXED - Deployable devices can be deployed on Alibi's Prisma Holograms.

FIXED - Amaru's Garra Hook can be used on the roof of EXT Range Terrance on the Lair map.

FIXED - Fenrir's F-NATT Dread Mine doesn't react properly if hacked by Brava's Drone while active.

FIXED - Demios' DeathMARK charge is not refunded if Opponents are in a state that deactivates the DeathMARK at the end of the countdown.

FIXED - Fenrir's F-NATT Dread Mine gives back more tickets than what is used if players overlap mines and quickly switch to a deactivated mine while activating another.

FIXED - Wrong stats for shield during pick phase.

FIXED - Missing shield stats when hovering over ready button while playing as a shield Operator.

FIXED - 6 bullets are listed for all destruction types in the advances weapon stats screen.

FIXED - Aiming down sight time isn't reduced with the Iron Sight.

FIXED - The weapon stats are compared to themselves when players select Ready in prep phase. Incorrect weapon stats comparisons are displayed when players select ready in the preparation phase.

FIXED - When a player-operator Observation Tool is destroyed while someone in support mode is watching, the static VFX persist across all Observation Tools for the support-mode player.

FIXED - Extra UI element is present at the top left of the screen while selecting an Operator during the Planning Phase.

FIXED - The scrollbar does not appear in the Locker after reaching 4th rows of items.

FIXED - Animation issue when exiting rappel while carrying the hostage.

FIXED - Missing image for Versus AI Update notification.

FIXED - AI Bot animations break if Bots quickly change direction or leave a position on the Nighthaven Labs map.

FIXED - Operator animations break when players move too close to certain objects on the Herford Base map during Snipers game mode.

FIXED - Operator animations break when players take the stairs in EXT East Spawn on the Stadium map.

FIXED - Missing Advanced weapon stats on GONNE-6.

FIXED - Aiming Down Sight Time and Reload Speed comparison colors are switched up when comparing weapons.

FIXED - The horizontal gauges for Damage, Fire rate, Magazine and Max capacity used for easier comparison between weapons are only either empty or full, with no values shown in between.

FIXED - The text "time needed to aim" and "6 bullets needed" in shooting record is blurry.

FIXED - Crash to desktop when selecting "Options" for certain returning players.

FIXED - The Return Home button from the Tutorial Rewards modal has no functionality.

FIXED - If the resolution is set to higher than the monitor's native resolution, the Monitor and Resolution tabs will lose functionality.

FIXED - Various UI issues.

FIXED - Various Match Replay issues.

FIXED - Various spectator mode issues.

FIXED - Various localization issues.

FIXED - Mono audio output doesn't combine the audio into a single stream.

FIXED - Mozzie's Pest Launcher hack SFX plays twice after the player loses control of the drone.

FIXED - Missing audio when players drop down a hatch while prone.

FIXED - Missing SFX for Solis' SPEC-IO Electro-Sensor if player is eliminated when activated.

FIXED - Missing SFX for Nitro Cell when thrown onto indestructible surfaces between walls.

FIXED - Various audio issues.

Operation New Blood introduces the first Operator Remaster in Siege, and who better to inaugurate this event than the iconic Recruit. Meet Striker, the attacker recruit, and Sentry, the defender recruit, who have been optimized for competitive play with their flexible loadouts. Both Recruits will be playable in all modes, including Ranked.


Discover the R6S Membership, the ultimate Siege offer that gives you a drop of exclusive content every month and full access to the Premium Battle Pass

Each month, on top of access to the Battle Pass, you will also receive exclusive rewards including a legendary item, epic bundle for an Operator, 10x Battle levels, and a Bravo pack.

The Premium Battle Pass rewards include an Operator, 18 Bravo Packs, 1 Bravo Ticket, 600 R6 Credits, a 10% store discount and the 30% faster BP progression.

But that's not all. All players who enroll between June 11 to June 18th, will receive an additional epic bundle and 600 R6 Credits!


Operation New Blood introduces impactful Operator balance updates on the defender side for both Fenrir and Solis.

Fenrir will now have four F-NATT Dread Mines and two tickets to activate them. Although the mines will no longer be bulletproof, tickets are recovered when mines get destroyed or deactivated. Fenrir will also swap his Barbed Wire gadget with the Observation Blocker.
Solis' SPEC-IO Electro Sensor ability will now be unavailable during the preparation phase. Additionally, the duration of the ability will be reduced to 10 seconds, the detection range set to 12 meters, and the sensor will need to be at full charge to be used. Solis will also swap her Impact Grenades gadget with Proximity Alarm.


In Season 2, only the Premium Battle Pass will be available. Rewards include an Operator voucher, 18 Bravo Packs, a Bravo ticket, Exclusive skins, 10% store discount, and 600 R6 Credits. The Operator Voucher can be used to unlock one Operator of your choice in the in-game store. If you already own all Operators, you will instead receive 600 R6 Credits!

Since its Beta launch, many of you have been engaging in buying and selling some of your favorite items with other players in the Siege Marketplace. Early in Year 9 Season 2: Operation New Blood, the Marketplace will be fully released and all players with a minimum level 25 clearance will be able to use it without registration needed. Make sure to check out the Rainbow Six Siege website to use the Marketplace and explore all the new features coming with its launch.


Read more about all the content launching with Operation New Blood!

From May 24 to 26, follow the finals:

• Friday 24th Quarterfinals 10:30 AM CEST
  
• Saturday 25th Semifinals 4:15 PM CEST
  
• Sunday 26th Finals and S2 Reveal Panel 4:15 PM CEST

Take a look of the last day exciting lineup:

1. CONTENT CREATORS SHOWMATCH: 7:45 AM PT / 4:45 PM CEST
   A Team of content creators will face off a team of four fans with one “hot seat” featuring a rotation of pro players! Tune in to watch this unconventional battle full of suprises and happenings.
   
   
   
2. YEAR 9 SEASON 2 REVEAL PANEL: 9:00 AM PT / 6:00 PM CEST
   Watch the Reveal Panel for Operation New Blood LIVE. Tune in LIVE for all the details about the remastered Recruit, the R6S Membership, balance updates for Fenrir & Solis, player protection, and more!
   
   
3. GRAND FINAL SHOWDOWN: 9:45 AM PT / 6:45 PM CEST
   The climax of the event unfolds as the two best teams in the world face off in the Grand Final.
   This is the last day to get Esports Pack & in-game items as Twitch drops, don’t forget to link your Ubisoft account!

WATCH NOW

From May 16 to 26, the first BLAST R6 Major of the season is taking place in the UK!

The competition is divided into 3 different phases where the teams fight or the trophy and a $750,000 prize pool, through various formats until the Grand Final on May 26th!

• Play-ins: May 16-17
  
• Playoffs: May 19-22
  
• Finals: May 24-26

WATCH NOW



As for the Six Invitational, you can make your predictions on https://r6esports.com/majorPredictions for each phase of the Major and a chance to win alpha packs and a Battle Pass! You can edit your predictions for Phase 2 until May 19th 12 PM CEST, and for the Finals until May 24th 10 AM CEST!

PARTICIPATE NOW



During the event, Twitch Drops are available on all R6 Esports channels and official watch parties! Watch the livestreams and you will be rewarded with up to 12 Esports Packs full of in-game items such as operator uniforms, headgears, and weapon skins. Here's a sneak preview of what's in store:

• Phase 1: 2 Esports packs to win - 1 per day
  
• Phase 2: 4 esports packs to win - 1 per day
  
• Phase 3: 6 esports packs to win - 2 per day

LINK NOW

Read the Event guide to get all the details about the BLAST R6 Manchester Major

The BLAST R6 Manchester Major is fast approaching! We're looking forward to welcoming the Rainbow Six esports community to Manchester from May 16 to 26, where exciting matches and new reveals about Siege Year 9 Season 2 will happen.

Find out everything there is to know about the event.


Phase 1: May 16 to May 17
Phase 2: May 19 to May 22
Phase 3: May 24 to May 26
Venue: B.E.C Arena



These teams will compete for a lion's share of the USD $750,000 prize pool, as well as points to qualify for the Six Invitational 2025!



The BLAST R6 Major Manchester will feature a 3-phase format with the final weekend playing out in front of a live audience in the B.E.C Arena in Manchester, United Kingdom. 



As for the last Six Invitational, you can make your predictions on https://r6esports.com/majorPredictions for each phase of the Major for a chance to win alpha packs and a Battle Pass! Note that you can still edit your predictions for Phase 1 until May 16th 4 PM CET, Phase 2 until May 19th 12 PM CET, and the Finals until May 24th 10 AM CET!



Get ready for Twitch Drops on official R6 channels throughout the event! When watching the stream, you will be rewarded with Esports Packs full of exclusive operator uniforms, headgears, and weapon skins. Here's a sneak preview of what's in store:

• Phase 1: 2 Esports packs to win (1 per day starting from 3 hours of watch time)
  
• Phase 2: 4 esports packs to win (1 per day starting from 3 hours of watch time)
  
• Phase 3: 6 esports packs to win (2 per day starting from 3 hours of watch time)

Our latest Anti-Cheat Status Update for May 2024 is here, bringing the latest updates on MouseTrap, the QB System and more!

Our Anti-Cheat team is evolving. We're currently restructuring, growing, and allocating more resources to our Anti-Cheat team, ensuring that we can provide a secure future for Siege. As the team expands, we'll have more opportunities to reflect the benefits of this growing team in-game. While we're in this stage, our team remains focused on improving your experience.

Here we have our latest ban data, including bans for February, March, and April.



This season marks a significant evolution in our approach to cheating, as we've made improvements to our Data Ban system moving to a machine learning model. We've vastly increased the number of data points used to analyze a player's performance, resulting in a meaningful increase in cheaters being detected and sanctioned through this method. We've also optimized our sanctioning process by increasing how often we run our sanctions, effectively reducing the time it takes to ban detected cheaters by half using this model.

In addition to these efforts, we also have new Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) detections which are currently being used to sanction players. We know that this has been affecting players and we want to make it clear that we are working on identifying behaviors and sanctioning players who are taking advantage of these services.

Looking ahead, we're working on an improved detection of AFK avoiders (idle botters) as well as additional cheat detection updates. These will further enhance our ability to identify and ban cheaters in Rainbow Six Siege, improving the experience for everyone.

CHEATING INCREASE

As we recently communicated, we are aware of the increase in cheating behaviors reported by the community. We want to reassure you that addressing these concerns is a top priority for our Anti-Cheat team and that we are looking to deploy solutions to resolve these issues as soon as possible. The Y9S1.3 patch deployed on May 2nd has temporarily improved this situation while we work on longer term solutions to prevent those cheats.

CRASH EXPLOIT

Our team is actively working on a fix for the Crash Exploit reported by the community. Until then, Abandon Penalties have been retroactively reduced to a 5-minute duration. All newly issued Abandon Penalties will be 5 minutes as well. Thanks a lot for your reports!

Several cheats have been addressed since our last Anti-Cheat Status Update, with some updates going live with Y9S1.3. However, in recent months, we have seen a dramatic decrease in a number of rage cheats being used. This reflects the ongoing work that our team is doing in order to tackle new cheats and protect the game and its players.

Hardening is the act of increasing the security and reducing the surface of vulnerability of the game's code, to protect against attackers. In Y9S1.2, we made several changes which resulted in improved overall game security, and we'll have more improvements coming in Y9S2. These improvements are continuous, and our updates are playing a crucial role in making the game safer. We'll be sharing more on our hardening efforts in the future.

QB is a security system available on PC, designed to make cheat creation more tedious, difficult, and expensive. By creating a less effective environment for cheat creators, our aim is to reduce the amount of cheats being successfully created and sold.

We want to ensure that QB remains effective, so as promised, we are continuing to provide regular updates to this system, and these will come at an increased cadence compared to Year 8.

Another goal of ours is to share more information with legitimate players, helping to understand why a game restart may be happening. Some of these changes are already live; for instance, you may now see the "Update available" prompt in-game in some circumstances, asking you to restart the game when possible.

MouseTrap is a system designed to detect spoofing devices which enable the use of mouse and keyboard on consoles. Changes implemented in Y9S1 have broadened its detection capabilities, allowing us to find more suspicious players.

This season, we are also focusing on your feedback, with most changes being aimed towards enhancing our current system. The Y9S1.3 update is helping to further increase the accuracy of MouseTrap by expanding on the types of devices that it can recognize, and improving the detection of currently identifiable devices. As well as this, the update is working to further minimize false positives, resulting in fewer controller players being incorrectly detected.

In Y9S4, we'll be making use of MouseTrap's detection in new ways, directly improving the experience for controller players. In this upcoming Y9S4 update, if a player is detected using a spoofing device three times,the updated Crossplay system will automatically place them into the PC matchmaking pool for a 90-day period. This will result in matches that feel fairer for controller players, while giving users of the spoofing devices a choice in how they want to play the game.

In conclusion, our dedication to upholding the integrity and fairness of Rainbow Six Siege is unwavering. Our goal this year is to make Rainbow Six Siege both more secure and more reactive when it comes to cheating. Through a multifaceted approach, encompassing machine learning and Data Bans, rigorous hardening, and innovative detection systems such as QB and Mousetrap, we are continuously following up on our commitment to safeguarding the gaming experience for all players.

Cheaters have no place in Siege, our teams are committed to making Siege safe and enjoyable for everyone.

Each season, we provide a Roadmap update to offer further insights into the development of upcoming features to ensure transparent communication with all players. Each update and decision we make takes into account various elements such as player feedback, time allocated to ensure the quality of the features delivered, and more.

With that in mind let’s delve into this mid-season Roadmap update!

• Status: confirmed for Y9S2

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Since its Beta launch, many of you have been engaging in buying and selling some of your favorite items with other players in the Siege Marketplace. With the upcoming Season 2, we are pleased to confirm that the Siege Marketplace will be fully launched and available for all players to use!

• Status: Part 1 confirmed for Y9S2

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As announced during the Year 9 Reveal Panel, we are doubling down on our efforts to address cheating in Siege. In Season 2, we will be focusing on a first iteration of an improved ban enforcement measure on Steam (PC), making it more difficult for cheaters to return to the game once banned. As this will be a new addition to our anti-cheat ecosystem, we are breaking down the feature into several iterations, with the first part scheduled for Season 2.

• Status: Confirmed for Y9S2

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Operator balancing is crucial to maintaining the competitiveness of Siege. As previously hinted, we have focused on the Defense side and will introduce Operator balancing updates to both Fenrir and Solis (Part 1) in the upcoming Season. The second part of Solis’ update is currently scheduled for Season 3.

• Status: Confirmed for Y9S2

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In Season 2, significant updates will be introduced to Map Training. Newly added to the Year 9 Roadmap, the “Endless Drill” mode will be introduced to the Map Training playlist. Other announced presets and an additional set of maps are also confirmed for the new season.

• Status: Confirmed for Y9S2

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Having more control over which maps you play has been a longstanding community request, which is why a new filtering feature will make its debut in the Standard Playlist. Map presets will be available in the menu, and will allow you to select your preferred maps.

• Status: New target delivery: Y9S4

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We are continuously working on improving the Reputation System based on the feedback you have shared with us. Therefore, we have decided to keep this system in Beta phase until Season 4, allowing us to make necessary adjustments to enhance your experience in terms of transparency, effectiveness and overall fairness of the system.

• Status: New target delivery: Y9S3

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For Player Comfort, the After-Action Screen will receive further updates this season and is currently scheduled for release in Season 3. With this feature, we aim to provide an accurate and insightful recap of each match of Rainbow Six Siege.


Stay tuned for the Year 9 Season 2 Reveal coming up on Sunday, May 26th, at 5PM BST / 9AM PT / 12:00PM ET / 6PM CET.

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Join the discussion on Twitter, Instagram, Discord, Reddit, Facebook, and TikTok. Check out the roadmap for more information on all the features you can expect during Year 9.

Find the download sizes for each platform below.

• Ubisoft Connect: 935 MB
  
• Steam: 860 MB
  
• Xbox One: 1.1 GB
  
• Xbox Series X: 10.73 GB
  
• PlayStation 4: 1.4 GB
  
• PlayStation 5: 1.34 GB

• Increased damage from High caliber Handguns and Revolvers by 10%.
  
• Increased damage received by Medium caliber SMGs and ARs by 10%.
  
• Increased damage received by High caliber ARs and LMGs by 5%.

• Added Impact EMP Grenade.
  
• Removed Stun Grenades.

• Gadget refill increased to 25 seconds (from 20).
  
• Initial damage reduced to 3hp (from 5).
  
• Added Observation Blocker.
  
• Removed Impact Grenades.

• HEL Presence Reduction duration and cooldown increased to 30 seconds (from 20).

• Remah Dash destroys Deployable and Talon Shields.

• R.O.U. Projectors increased to 4 (from 3).

• Damage reduced to 40hp (from 60).
  
• Reduced explosion radius to 2 meters (from 3).

• Explosion threshold to trigger the Guard Break reduced to 30hp (from 50).