Rainbow Six Siege’s Burnt Horizon operators are fiendishly fun

It should come as no surprise that the first two operators of Rainbow Six Siege’s fourth year promise to bring serious utility to the table. After all, Year 3 was packed with meta-shifting operators like Lion, Maestro, Clash, and Nomad - every season broke with Siege tradition, whether that was the addition of global abilities, the first defender to get a shield, or nomad gifting the attackers their first trapper operator. Burnt Horizon’s Mozzie and Gridlock continue the game’s power creep, but also bring some much needed levity to this highly competitive shooter. That fun comes mostly from Mozzie, the new Australian defender from the SASR CTU. His gadget is the Pest Launcher, a crossbow that fires Pests that latch onto attacker drones, hacking them and adding them to the defender’s arsenal. Mozzie can gain control over a maximum of three drones, often before the action phase has even begun. This allows you to immediately counter-surveil the attacking side and set up a welcoming party to meet them whenever they try to enter your building. Alternatively, you can use your army of drones to harass and distract attackers: pinging their locations so they know they’ve been spotted, baiting them into traps, or just shaving a few precious seconds off the clock to deny a defuser plant. With a creative player at the helm and a well-coordinated squad, Mozzie is a boon to roaming defenders and at the very least reduces the number of drones at the attacking team’s disposal. Better still, Mozzie’s Pests can wrest control of Twitch’s Shock Drones, leading to absurd scenarios like denying a hard breach by using a captured Shock Drone to destroy one of Thermite’s Exothermic Charges.

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