50. Sensitivity Basics
The basics of sensitivity, and this goes for both PC and consoles, is that your horizontal sensitivity should be at a high value and your vertical sensitivity at low value. A high horizontal sensitivity will allow the player to look around and check the sides faster, especially for reacting to enemies on his peripheral views quicker.
Meanwhile, a low vertical sensitivity value will help the player maintain proper crosshair placement which is around the neck or shoulder area so that his shot will mostly go straight to the opponent’s head. So, a low vertical sensitivity is for maintaining stability of aim, and most of the time, the huge adjustments in aim that the player will have to do would be horizontal, not much for vertical adjustments.
49. Turn Off Ambient Occlusion
Ambient occlusion is one of the settings in the game that takes up a lot of system resources, so it’s just a good idea to turn it off and benefit from having more frame rates. Because in a competitive multiplayer shooter like Siege, performance should be prioritized. The more frame rates you have, the faster you’ll be able to react to enemies.
Besides, even if you have a powerful computer and don’t mind the performance decrease from this setting, having ambient occlusion on will just be detrimental to your ability to spot enemies, because it produces deeper and richer shadows on the maps, so it can actually help your opponents hide on corners more effectively.
48. Roam, Like A lot.
This is one of the first pieces of advice I give to anyone who’s new to the game. That is, when they’re on the Defender side, don’t be afraid and roam a lot. Heck, even when you’re on the Attacker side, if you haven’t been familiarized with the maps yet, you should roam thm more. That is because it is the quickest way to obtain map familiarity.
Yes, there are many map guides on youtube and there are even blueprints that will show you the layout of maps, but you’ll only truly gain familiarity with them once you’ve experienced them yourself. And the best and fastest way to do that is through roaming. With roaming, you’ll really know the ins and outs of the maps. The important angles, and even the drone holes.
47. Do Not Worry About Lens Effects
This is one of the graphics settings that you should just turn off early on. And I say that you shouldn’t worry about it because there are some guides that say you shouldn’t turn it off because it will lessen the brightness of Valkyrie’s cams, making them harder to find. Well, that’s either not true at all or it's outdated info.
Because I’ve personally done some tests and the brightness of Valkyrie’s cams remain the same whether Lens effects are on or off. So, I recommend to just turn this off and benefit from any added frame rates that you could have, but most importantly, benefit from ridding your screen of strong lights that can just distract you during a gunfight.
46. Be Careful with Shadow Quality
We talked about deeper and richer shadows at #49, and of course, shadow quality directly affects shadows in the game. The poorer its quality, the better for the player to detect enemies that are hiding in corners or dark spots in the map. Not to mention, shadow quality, in any game, takes up a lot of system resources.
So, reducing the quality of shadows in the game will benefit the player a lot with the added frame rates. But the reason why you should be careful with it is because the player should set it to medium at the lowest and never to low. That’s because low settings will only produce static shadows and remove enemy shadows that are sometimes very helpful for detecting them.
45. Don’t Sleep on Suppressors
A lot of people don’t equip suppressors because it doesn’t add any recoil control, and Ubisoft only recently removed its damage penalty. But since it has been removed, there’s really not much reason now to not equip a suppressor to most of your guns, especially if the gun doesn’t have a strong recoil in the first place.
That’s because suppressors, now with no damage penalty, are actually pretty OP. It greatly dampens the gunshot sounds, hides the muzzle flash, and most importantly, it removes the directional threat indicator that your gunshots normally make. So, with a suppressor, your enemies won’t immediately realize where you’re shooting them from.
44. Get Rid of Anisotropic Filtering
Another graphic setting that you should get rid of early on in your Siege career. That is because anisotropic filtering will just add more details on the backdrops on the maps, and the more details there are in the backdrops, the easier it will be for your enemies to blend on them, while a plain backdrop will let you see enemies better. This option is named texture filtering in-game, and you should set it to linear.
43. Put the Texture Quality to Low
Know those memes about fps games, where low settings are just superior when it comes to detecting enemies? Well that really applies in Siege too. Like what was said above, the more details there are on the map and the backdrops, the harder it is to spot enemies or focus on them. Even if you recognize them, your reaction time could be affected for a few milliseconds.
And in Siege, even a few milliseconds matter. So just put texture quality to its lowest setting and enjoy the plainer textures in-game that will not just allow you to see your enemies better, it will also affect your computer’s performance positively, because texture quality is one of the most resource-heavy settings in the game.
42. Check Out Your R6Tracker
The r6tracker website is the easiest way to track your progress in the game. It records every important detail from your Siege career. Your kd, the win percentage, your headshot percentage, how many you kill per minute, etc. And that’s important because it gives you a lot of insight on your strengths and weaknesses.
For example, maybe you have a high kd, something like 1.5 and above, and yet your win rate is low. That can tell you that your individual performance is great, but maybe what you’re lacking is teamwork, so better to practice playing more as a teammate, doing your roles, instead of just concentrating on fragging.
41. Don't Hesitate to Add Random Good Players
If you meet a really good player in your team or even in the enemy team, don’t hesitate to add them and ask them if you can team up. Having players who are good in the game in your Ubisoft Connect list that you can invite to play with will go a long way in your future in Siege, because you can really learn a lot from how they play.
And solo queueing is just not that great, especially when you start hopping in on Ranked games. Because Siege has a huge pool of players, and many randoms can just ruin your game experience. So, don’t be shy and add players that are good at the game and non-toxic. It’s very easy to do while in game. Just hit the tab button and click on their name.
40. Learn the Callouts
Well, you don’t wanna be the guy or gal who goes like “the enemy is over there!”, no, when issuing a proper callout, you’d want to say something like “the enemy is on sunlit stairs”. And it would really benefit your Siege quality of life when you’re familiar with the callouts, because that goes both ways. You’ll be able to pass intel to your teammates, and they can do the same for you.
The best way to do this is to look at the bottom of your screen, right beside the compass hud. It should tell you the name of the current spot you’re in. There are also layouts or blueprints of the maps available in Siege’s reddit, you just gotta search. But the most effective way is to really see and feel the map yourself, so I suggest the first method that I mentioned.
39. Do Not Turn Off Teammate Outlines
Yes, teammate outlines can sometimes obstruct your vision of the enemy, but I don’t recommend turning this off, especially when you’re not playing in a fully coordinated team with voice comms. Because no matter how experienced you are in the game, without teammate outlines, it would be very easy to mistake a teammate for an enemy and team kill him.
38. Don't Be Afraid to Carry the Defuser
Carrying the defuser might be intimidating for a beginner, but that’s the point. Early on in your Siege life, you should get used to that kind of intense feeling, because Siege is a very intense game. Learning your role as the defuser carrier and getting used to it will go a long way in your path to being a good player. It will also prevent you from easily forgetting that you have the defuser later on when you’re at a higher level, which could be very embarrassing.
This will also allow you to learn the best spots for planting the defuser early on. The timing of fake plants, how to counter defuser plant attempts, and other many useful things that you’ll be able to carry on later when you hop in on more competitive game modes.
37. Get A 144hz Monitor OR Better
Luckily, unlike graphics cards, monitor prices haven’t really been affected that much by inflation. Even 144hz monitors nowadays remain affordable, so I highly suggest that you invest in one. It’ll be better for your eyes too. Because having a monitor with a higher refresh rate will unlock a lot more frame rates for you, the more frame rates you have, the smoother the movements of characters in games will be.
That will benefit your performance a lot in Siege, because it directly affects your reaction time. The more refresh rate and frame rates you have, the faster and smoother you will be able to see your enemies. Trust me, once you’ve experienced playing a 144hz or higher monitor, you’ll never be able to go back to 60hz again, because it will just appear much slower, especially in fps games like Siege.
36. Take Advantage of the Shooting Range
This is a very new feature in the game. One that came out only a few months ago, and is one of the best features it ever had. Honestly, they should have implemented this feature a long time ago. But better late than never, I guess. The shooting range is a very powerful mode for testing your weapons’ loadouts and attachment setups to see which one works best for you.
A lot of people don’t know this, but while you’re in the shooting range and you want to change your operator and weapon, you don’t actually need to go back to the main menu and restart the whole thing. You just have to press 7 and it will take you back to the operator selection screen, and there you can switch operators and weapons as well as attachments without any loading screen.
35. Don't Play on Deathmatch Too Much
It’s a pretty fun game mode, don’t get me wrong. But if you’re serious about being good in Siege, I wouldn’t advise you to play it longer than two matches every time you fire up the game. The reason is simple. It doesn’t represent the real gameplay of Siege. It was made as a warmup mode before getting into Ranked, and it’s more casual than quick match.
If you play it too much, you could develop habits that could negatively affect your gameplay in unranked or ranked. It also only has one map, so if you’re a beginner, you could have used that time spent in deathmatch to learn the other maps in the game. While the map in deathmatch has been added to the ranked pool. It still would be hard to learn the map’s ins and outs in that game mode since it’s very chaotic.
34. Rebind Your Controls
This is one of the things that a beginner should do early in his Siege lifetime so that he could get used to the control setup that he’s most comfortable with. Some of the default controls are just not that efficient, or the player could have been used to the controls of other shooter games, so the player could rebind his keys with the same setup as his other shooter games so he could benefit from familiarity.
For example, I was so used to deploying the drone in Ghost Recon Wildlands with the ‘z’ button, so I rebinded the drone key in Siege to ‘z’ as well. I also found out that it’s more efficient for me to quick lean using the ‘c’ and ‘v’ keys so I rebinded it to them. These are some of the things that you should do early on as a beginner so you’ll get used to them early on.
33. Get Analog Stick Extenders
This is easily the best way to enhance your Siege experience in console. They’re cheap and also easily found. Analog stick extenders will allow you to have better control in Siege, and it will make your fingers less tired. Of course, having better control also means that you’ll have better aim and recoil control, so this is really important for gameplay.
32. Hop on to Ranked
As soon as you can, that is. Because ranked mode is the best training ground. For what? Well, for ranked mode as well. Unranked can get you familiarized with the mechanics of ranked, but never for its intensity. If you want to excel in ranked, then you should train in ranked, where there are actual stakes involved in losing a match.
With unranked, there are really no stakes involved. You lose, you don’t lose your mmr, so you won’t really feel the tension. But getting used to ranked as soon as you’re able to hop on it will go a long way into helping you enjoy the game a lot more, even in this competitive game mode. Because once you’re a veteran in ranked, you’ll get so used to the tension and it won’t affect your gameplay negatively as it used to.
31. Take Advantage of NVIDIA Settings
If you’re using an Nvidia graphics card, then you’ll have access to its driver software and shadowplay. Shadowplay is a powerful tool that lets you record your gameplay easily, stream, and take screenshots. But it has a really neat feature that can greatly affect your gameplay in Siege and up your game. And that feature is called Game filters.
For this to work, it must be done while you’re inside the game and you must press the alt + z keys. After pressing them, the Shadowplay overlay should appear and you must click Game Filters. The two filters that I would recommend you to add are Detail and Color. Once you’ve added them, feel free to adjust their values to the ones that suit you best. This will help you differentiate enemies from the other objects or backdrops in the game.
30. Yes, A Gaming Mouse Will Give You an Advantage.
Well, I know that a lot of gamers out there kind of frown on relying on gaming mice, but while it’s true that ultimately, your skills are what will affect your gameplay the most, the help that hardware can add to it is nothing to scoff at. With a good gaming mouse, you’d also get good software, and with that software you can set your dpi more precisely.
Good gaming mice also come in with more side buttons and those side buttons can really help you in Siege. For example, you can rebind your grenade key into one of those, like the one closest to your thumb, and with that, you’d be able to reach for the grenade key easier, and since it's bound to the mouse, you’d have better control over your grenade throw.
29. Set Your Aspect Ratio To 6:10
Aspect ratio has a big and direct effect on a player’s gameplay, because it affects how wide his peripheral view would be, how far or near the front view would look, and how thick or thin everything in the game would appear. And most pros use the 4:3 aspect ratio because it makes enemies appear bigger on the screen, therefore; easier to spot and hit.
The problem is that most players in Siege aren’t pros. Most players play online, and the latency in online multiplayer can affect the 4:3 aspect ratio, making your enemies appear to be faster than what they really are, and so of course, they’ll be harder to hit. For online, 6:10 is the most balanced and for beginners, they would do well to get used to it early on.
28. Start an Aim Lab routine
Honestly, the Siege Aim Lab training modules, even the basic ones, are actually a better warm up before hopping in on a competitive game mode than deathmatch. Yes, you will be hitting targets, not real enemies, but the R6 modules there actually help a lot for maintaining proper crosshair placement and pre-firing.
Think of it as you’re a real counter terrorist operator, and all counter terrorist operators train their aim regularly in the shooting range. So, for you as a Siege player, if you’re serious about getting good, think of Aim Lab as your shooting range. Something to train your reaction time, pre-firing, aim, and crosshair placement for a few minutes of your day.
27. Get Used to Higher Zoom Levels Early On
This is one of the things that I wish I practiced early on when I was still a newbie. When I started playing, me and my friends were all newbies in the game and we all thought it would be too hard to use 2.5x scope and above at close quarters. But the truth is, once you get used to flick shots and general aiming with higher zoom scopes at close range, it’ll be almost as easy as using a 1.0x sight.
The benefit of knowing how to use scopes that provide higher zoom levels at close range is that it will allow you to target enemies really well when you’re in aim-down-sights position, because they'll simply appear bigger for you. It’ll also allow you to differentiate the enemies among all the clutter in the map much easier than with a 1.0x sight.
26. Free Up Some Screen Space
Unlike many multiplayer shooter games, Siege has a lot of verticality. That means there are different floors in the mission building, so your enemies could suddenly appear from below, above, or at any angle. So, clearing up unneeded clutter on your screen will be of great help when it comes to detecting and reacting to enemies.
Luckily, this is pretty simple to do. Just go to the HUD options, and remove some unnecessary HUD on your screen, like your health bar and stance indicator. Even beginners don’t really need to look at the bar to know if their health points are low or full. Just the number will be enough. And no one really needs the stance indicator because it would be pretty clear from the level of your sight whether you’re on prone, crouching, or standing.
25. Get Used to Higher FOV Values
This is kind of the same as aspect ratio, but much simpler. Basically, the higher the FOV values are, the wider your peripheral view would be, and that’s great for detecting enemies from from the sides, but the catch is, it would make the frontal view appear further, and that could be detrimental to your aim when engaging enemies in front of you at medium to long range.
This is why I recommend balance with this one and not ninety which is its max value. I recommend around 80, so that your front view won’t appear so far from you. Besides, the max value sort of creates a weird fisheye effect, which makes the game look a bit weird. Finding the right mix between this option and the aspect ratio is really the key.
24. Switch to Advanced Mode
This goes for both drone and gadget deployment. Switching it to advanced and getting used to it early on will greatly help the player up his game. That is because he’ll be able to learn more tricks in the game. Tricks that are needed for certain roles. For example, Thermite’s role as a hard breacher requires him to know how to time when to deploy his Exothermic Charges and when to cancel its deployment.
That is a skill that players should know because the role of Thermite as a hard breacher is very important, and canceling at the right time, which is only possible with advanced mode, is crucial when it comes to out tricking Bandit on the other side of the wall. And with drones, you won’t automatically go into drone view once you deploy your drone, unlike in the basic mode option. This will prevent you from being vulnerable in case you just accidentally hit the drone button.
23. Change Your Reticle Color
Most pros use green or turquoise for their reticle color, and both are almost the same color, I recommend beginners to choose either of the two. They're the best reticle color in general because there’s very few items and backdrops in the game that are green and color. That means your reticle will always be clearly visible for you, and of course, it’s important for a shooter to see his reticle well in order to aim properly.
22. Take Advantage of the Mute Option
This is especially useful when you’re solo queueing, be it on ranked, unranked, or quick match. Because toxic random players just can’t be avoided, and you’ll encounter them from time to time. And yes, they’re even in quick matches, which is supposed to be just a casual game mode. My advice is, as soon as another player starts becoming toxic, mute his mic and text, that way, he won’t be able to bother you.
You can do that by pressing and holding the tab button and clicking on the text and mic icon of the player you want to mute. You can also just lower the voice chat volume down to 0 in the audio settings so that it will automatically be muted whenever you start a match. That will allow you to learn the ins and outs of the game without being bothered by random toxic players.
21. Play Operators that Affect the Game Even When They’re Dead
This is one of the first pieces of advice that I give to people who are just starting the game. Obviously, because they don’t know the game so well yet, they’d die fast most of the time. But it would really boost their morale if they get kills or are able to contribute to the team even when they’re dead. And having a healthy amount of morale is important for this game because it’s quite intense and sweaty, so many players tend to get burnt out.
That's why I usually recommend Kapkan, Lesion, Frost, and Rook to beginners. With them, even if the player dies early, he’d still be able to score kills, slow down opponents, or buff the whole team’s health points. It’s just pure fun when you’re dead and scoring kills through Kapkan’s EDDs and Frost’s Welcome Mats, and having fun is very important in a competitive game like Siege.
20. Take Advantage of Spatial Sound
This is one of the best, easy, and free ways to have the advantage over your enemies, especially since it seems like not a lot of players know about this. Spatial sound enhances sound detection, especially vertically, so with it on, you would be able to hear sounds that are coming from below and above you better. The great thing about it is that you can have it for free.
Just head on to your desktop, right click the sound icon on the bottom right corner of your screen, hover your cursor to the spatial sound, and choose Windows Sonic for Headphones. There is however, a premium Spatial Sound, which has better quality than Windows Sonic, but of course, it’s premium so it’s not free. With that said, Windows Sonic is already good, and it’s definitely better than not having it on at all.
19. Use Night Mode
This is one of the most important settings in the game and one that every player should get used to, so it’s highly advisable for beginners to switch to night mode dynamic range as early as possible. Night mode basically widens your audio range, so you’ll be able to hear sound cues further compared to Hi-Fi and TV. And the main reason why Night Mode is the best dynamic range is because of its ability to detect quiet sounds.
Those are sounds like Caveira’s quiet footsteps when her Silent Step is activated, or the small scratching sounds that operators make when they’re changing stance, adjusting their aim, or leaning. Those sounds are very important to detect so that you could prevent being ambushed, and in turn, implement an effective counter attack against the would-be ambushers.
18. Learn How to Quick Lean
This is another skill that I wish I learned early on when I started the game, because playing the game for a long time without learning this means that you’ve been missing a lot. When you perform a quick lean, you step quickly in the direction you want to peek at followed by the lean key to the same direction, and then a step in the opposite direction.
This will allow you to quickly peak and gather intel, and once you’ve gathered intel that an enemy can be strafed right after leaning in that direction, you can perform the quick lean motion again but this time with the fire command. This will allow the player to strafe at his opponent while reducing the chances of an effective counter attack from his opponent.
17. Mechanical Keyboards Really Helps
Like I said in the entry about gaming mice. A lot of gamers still have the mentality that as long as you have the skills, you’ll be great in the game, regardless of the hardware you’re using. And that is partly true, but the added benefits from having good hardware can’t be denied. Imagine if you already have great skills in the game and you even add good hardware to boot.
Once you switch to a mechanical keyboard, you’d never want to go back to old school keyboards again, because pressing its buttons would feel so light, so your fingers would feel so much more comfortable. And of course, that adds a lot of benefit to your gameplay in Siege, because in Siege, speed is very important, and that’s what a mechanical keyboard would bring you. You’d be able to relay commands to your character faster and easier.
16. Watch How to Use Each Special Gadget in Youtube
If you’ve ever played moba games like Dota or LoL, you’d know that learning about all the characters’ abilities will go a long way in your quality of life in the game, even if you’re not going to use those other characters most of the time. That’s because you’ll be going up against them, and the best way to counter them is by knowing what they can do.
In a lot of ways, Siege is like Dota or Lol, in that each operator brings a different skill set and special gadget to the table, so knowing what each of them can do will be very important when you’re going up against them. Of course, knowing the basics of their special gadgets will also help you up your game when you’re playing them.
15. Use Team Comms
That is provided that you’ll remember my tip from one of the entries above to make use of the mute functions for muting toxic players. Luckily, with the recent updates in the game for dealing with toxic players, most of the time you’re just going to meet non-toxic players. So, try to communicate with your team even when you're in a solo queue.
Communication plays a crucial part in a tactical shooter game like Siege. Giving your teammates advice on enemy locations when you spot them will be of great help for winning the round, and you can even do so while you’re dead, because you’ll still have access to observation tools. So, as long as your teammates are not toxic, communicate with them as much as you can, and strategize.
14. Always Remember Your Drone
Like I mentioned in some of the entries above, intel plays a crucial role in Siege’s gameplay. And when you’re an Attacker, you should exercise disciplined aggression, meaning it’s a good habit to drone an area first before advancing, especially, and I can’t emphasize this enough, when you’re still a beginner. Droning an area first before entering it will prevent you and your teammates from being ambushed.
This is also a great way for you to distract enemies waiting in ambush. You can use the drone to distract them while advising your team on their position so that your team can proceed with the push while you remain with the drone. Droning is also a great way for a beginner to learn the ins and outs of the maps, especially the location of drone holes.
13. Hop on to Ranked
As soon as you can, of course. The clearance level is now 50, so you’ll have quite a lot of time to prepare for it in quick matches and then in unranked. But as soon as you can join ranked games, I really recommend you to make it your go-to game mode whenever you fire up the game. Because ranked is what really will prepare you for, well, ranked.
Well, what I mean is, for higher ranks. As a beginner, and yes, even when you reach level 50, you’d still be considered a beginner, the learning curve in Siege is quite steep. So, you shouldn’t be frustrated if your first placement rank is on silver or below. If you want to reach higher ranks someday, keep practicing on Ranked.
12. Finish the Situations
Unfortunately, a lot of players who are trying out the game, especially when they have friends who can teach them, just go straight to multiplayer mode. And while that’s not necessarily bad, it would be a shame to just skip the situations entirely, because the situations are great for learning the most basic things in the game. It’s basically like the tutorial for the game.
They also come with renown bonuses which is one of the best and fastest ways to get some bonus renown. And don’t forget the in-game tutorial videos, because they also come in with some bonus renown when you finish them. Another neat thing about going through the situations is that the player will be able to experience some of the original maps.
11. Remember the Rotation Holes
Believe me, when I was a beginner, I was also confused by other players destroying walls inside the objective spot, potentially exposing the Defenders inside. But rotation holes are very important, especially in bomb mode, so that you can connect the two rooms containing the bombs and defend them better.
These rotation holes will also allow Defenders to flank pushing Attackers better. The more avenues in which you can move, the better, and it will bother the Attackers because they can’t just expect you from one direction. So, when players who are clearly more experienced than you start making rotation holes, remember those spots, so that you can make them yourself next time.
10. Play All Operators
Don’t just stick to one or a few operators whenever you get into a match, and this especially goes to newbies in the game, because as someone who’s new to the game, you’d want to learn what all the other operators in the game can do. Which means their roles, the usual angles or path of attacks that they take, and of course, their special gadgets.
The more you know about each operator, the better you can counter them when you’re going up against them. Of course, that will also allow you to use them better in the game. For example, when your teammate gets trapped by Frost and you’re near that teammate, you would know that Frost will probably come soon to finish off your teammate, and you can use your teammate as bait to kill Frost.
9. Take Advantage of Terrorist Hunt/Training Grounds
Now let me make this clear. I don’t advise beginners to play this game mode too much, because yes, the AIs don’t move like the players that you would encounter in multiplayer mode. So, if you get too used to fighting AIs, you could develop bad habits that would affect your gameplay negatively when you’re going against real players.
With that said, it’s a good game mode for warm ups and testing out your attachment setups. And whenever you enter T-Hunt/Training Grounds, you should set it to ‘headshots-only’. That way, you’d be trained in proper crosshair placement, resulting in having your first few shots go directly to the head. And that will allow you to finish your opponents quickly when you go into multiplayer matches.
8. Experiment on Your Loadouts and Attachments
It’s rare for one attachment setup to work for everyone. Every Siege player has their own preferences and playstyle, and the attachment options in the game allows us to really have our own kind of style so to speak. So, it would really help beginners to take their time and experiment on their loadout choices and attachment setups.
That way, they’ll know which works best for them. And luckily for them, there are more platforms for them to test their setups now, especially with the addition of the Shooting Range. The Shooting Range will really offer a lot of insight on how the recoil of your setup works, and what’s handy is that you can change operators, weapons, and attachments quickly in this game mode.
7. Don’t Reinforce or Barricade Everything
This goes hand in hand with the tips to remember the spots for rotation holes and getting yourself familiar with the maps. Because if you reinforce the wall between the two bomb sites, your team won’t be able to have a rotation hole there anymore, and chances are, your more experienced teammates wouldn’t like it.
Some walls, even though they’re not used for rotation holes, are just simply better for the Defenders to be left unreinforced, because they can be used for creating murder holes instead. And be careful in barricading doors and windows. Because the last thing that you want to do is get trapped inside with your teammates. That will just make the Attackers very comfortable in pushing, because they’ll know that the Defenders are just in one spot.
6. Get Buddies to Play With
If you’re not starting the game with friends, I recommend going to R6 subreddit or Siege discord channels to find some friends to play with. Because going through the game with playmates will allow you to have more fun with it. And besides, having a constant set of teammates in your party is what will really up your game and rank. Because it’s just too hard to hope that random players in matchmaking will play well with you.
I mean yes, it can happen a lot of times too, that the random teammates that you get from matchmaking will be good and non-toxic players, and when you do encounter players like that, my tip is to add them as friends in Ubisoft Connect. But it’s just much better for your experience in Siege to have a constant team that you can play with.
5. Learn the In-Game Sound Cues
There are many different sound cues in the game and it’s important to get used to them and internalize them so that you can respond to them appropriately. For example, you hear some small scratching sounds from the corner, and that’s probably from an enemy that is crouching, going on prone, or fixing his aim. With that in mind, you can bait him by faking him with a swing and then stopping, and when he responds, you counter attack.
Also, almost every special gadget in the game makes different sounds when they are deployed, so when you’re an Attacker, you won’t really need to directly scan enemies just to see which operators the Defenders are using. You can know just by hearing their special gadgets, like Kapkan’s EDDs, or Maestro’s Evil Eyes. The sound that they make when they’re being deployed are so distinct.
4. Get A Good Hardware for Audio
This is very important because sound cues are very important pieces of intel in the game. Intel that you can use to your advantage. But if you don’t have good hardware for detecting them, those important pieces of intel will be wasted. That’s why it’s really recommended to have a good 7.1 headset for the game, because 7.1 surround sound will allow you to have a broader range of audio.
A lot of pros also use earpieces instead of headsets. That’s because high quality earphones have really good quality, and their base aren’t that strong, so the player would be able to hear quiet sounds in the game like footsteps even when the operator is moving slowly. A lot of pro players use earphones with a headset to cover it over their ears.
3. Get Used to Pre-Firing
And this can only be really achieved if you’ve followed the advice on familiarizing yourself with the maps and getting used to the sound cues. Because when you’re familiar with the maps, you’d know the angles where enemies would likely be, and you could pre-fire in that direction. Be careful though, because if you’re careless with your pre-fires, you’d just end up compromising your location.
Of course, sound cues play a vital role when pre-firing, because when you hear sound cues well and determine that an enemy is hiding on the corner, you’d be able to know exactly where to pre-fire. And especially if you’re certain that an enemy is hiding on a corner waiting for ambush, you shouldn’t wait until you get a visual of him to fire, you should fire even a second before you get an actual visual, because that will prevent him from countering you.
2. Learn Proper Crosshair Placement
The most common mistake that beginners make in Siege is that they mostly have their aims down. And it’s quite understandable because the weapon, especially when it’s big, does block quite a big angle on the side, so having it down allows the player to have a better frontal and peripheral view. But even though it seems counterintuitive, you shouldn’t be putting your aim down most of the time.
Your aim should usually be around the neck area, and beginners should really practice this habit early on so that they’ll get used to it fast. And that is because having your aim around the neck area most of the time will allow you to have your first shots go to your opponent’s head immediately. And that will prevent your opponent from getting you first.
1. Familiarize Yourself with The Maps
This is the best advice for beginners because being familiar with the maps will give the player so many benefits. He would know which areas are usually taken as bomb sites. He would know the usual paths of attacks. He would know the usual angles that enemies use. And he would know the best places for cover or hiding.
That’s why when teams are recruiting for players, one of their requirements is always map familiarity, because it’s really important. With map familiarity, you’d also be able to give proper intel to your teammates instead of just embarrassingly saying “he’s over there!”. It is always said that Siege’s learning curve is steep, but once you’ve become familiar with the maps, everything is going to be easier.
