Rainbow Six Vegas 2 - General Discussion & Info

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Features

Return to Sin City in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2, the sequel to IGN.com's 2006 shooter of the year. This time, the stakes have been raised. It's your chance to rescue America's wildest city from an escalating terrorist siege. With massively expanded multiplayer, new seamless co-op, and customizable character creation, you have the tools to put an end to the terorist threat for good.

• It's Vegas, baby: Sin City is back and bigger than ever before. Explore new areas and the challenges that come with daylight battles, as the game takes place from dawn to dusk.
• New features: All new gameplay features include 11 new weapons, sprinting capability, bullets penetrating through thin cover, and smarter teammates and A.I.
• Complete customization: Customizable character creation (including gender, facial features, hair, face paint, body armor, clothing, and camouflage) is compatible with the Xbox LIVE® Vision camera. Look your best.
• Cross-mode customization: Your customized character carries over across all game modes—from single player to multiplayer to co-op—as well as all unlockables and achievements. Reap the benefits of your single player play in multiplayer and vice versa.
• Seamless co-op: A state of the art co-op mode features a jump in, jump out option which allows a friend to join you in your single player campaign at any time. When he leaves, continue on from that same point.
• More multiplayer: Massively expanded multiplayer includes two new adversarial modes, smaller maps for more intense face-offs, an improved terrorist hunt mode, a new online matchmaking engine, and vastly improved graphics.

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November 20, 2007 - Ubisoft Montreal announced today that it is developing Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, a sequel to the Sin City-based tactical shooter released in 2006.

The game, which Ubisoft said is planned for "next-generation consoles and PC," is scheduled for release in March 2008 to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Rainbow Six gaming franchise.

In an announcement today, Ubisoft didn't reveal much about the upcoming game but promised improved graphics, new gameplay features and new Vegas settings. The tactical solo campaign will return, and the sequel will build on its predecessor's popular multiplayer modes.

Co-op and adversarial multiplayer will return, and Vegas 2 will provide "unprecedented interaction between the solo and multiplayer modes," Ubisoft said.

"Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas took the gaming world by storm in 2006 thanks to its technological advances and gameplay innovations," said Yves Guillemot, president and chief executive officer at Ubisoft. "We are convinced that Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 will remain a pioneer in the highly competitive first person shooter genre, bringing more of what Rainbow Six fans love to the table."

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• Weapon Switch: Swapping to & from Pistols are now faster in Multiplayer.
• Sound Loops: Optimized sound bank to improve weapon firing and helicopter sound clips that loop over and over.
• Pings: Servers now update their pings more often so that players have a more accurate value of server performance.
• Team Leader Respawn Modification: Spawn Shield is shorter when respawning with the Leader.
• XP Modifiers: When there are more people on a team than the other, there is an overall XP modifier applied to all XP gained during the game.
• Outfitting: By pressing the start button, players now have access to the outfitting menu in observer mode.
• Team Deathmatch Respawn Modification: Respawning in Team Deathmatch now work like regular Deathmatch (random points throughout the map) which intensifies gameplay and minimizes spawn camping/trapping.
• Faster Respawns: Faster respawns for Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch. You no longer have to wait a full 10 seconds!
• Custom Search: Players who enter a room using custom search then exit will be brought back to an automatic search with the same criteria.

• Fixes
• Rank Reset Glitch: Fixed. Players will be able to use their Xbox guide during the game loading without risk of losing their rank.
• Private First Class - Achievement: If you are ranked Private First Class or above, you will automatically get the achievement after the title update is complete and you load your gamer profile.
• Freedom Shall Prevail - Achievement: If you've passed all checkpoints on Story Mode on Realistic and finished the game, you will automatically get the achievement after the title update is complete and you load your gamer profile.
• That Wasn't So Hard - Ribbon: Your ribbon now unlocks when you get the achievement.
• Light Machinegun Sound Glitch: When firing continuously with any light machinegun, the sound of the weapon will no longer get cut off.
• Civilians & Hostages on Tactical Map: No longer are displayed as terrorists.
• Shield Teleport Glitch: Players can no longer teleport when trying to take cover with a shield.
• Out of Map Glitch: Players can no longer cover-peek into each other to raise a team mate above their heads that allows them to walk into areas outside the designated map.
• Friend Invite in Ranked Matches: Inviting friends in Ranked Matches now work correctly.
• Custom Face: Previously, Custom faces were sometimes copied over to another player's face. This is no longer the case. Custom faces will display the proper faces.
• Radar Jammer: Radar Jammer now work for clients, not just hosts.
• XP Farming: That one famous area in ACT 1 "Ambush" will no longer allow XP Farming.
• Observer Mode: Players will no longer be stuck in the respawn screen at 0 seconds while in observer mode.
• Weapon Restriction: The weapon restriction configuration is no longer kept in Terrorist Hunt, Story and Co-op Story.
• Custom Camo 3 Save: The colour and pattern of Custom Camo 3 now saves correctly.