Ever since the end of the original Operation Health in June 2017, Rainbow Six Siege fans have been begging for a new seasonal update that fixes some of the game's biggest issues. From toxicity to desync, every Siege player has their bugbear - and while North Star isn't quite Operation Health 2.0, it's the closest we've come yet.
While it's not the same as the original operation (North Star actually brings new content to the game), this is something of an admission from Ubisoft that Siege's competitive integrity has been lacking. As someone who dropped off from playing Rainbow Six Siege ranked games a year ago due to the cumulative frustrations of being shot through an impossibly tiny hole in a wall from three rooms away, or having different sightlines to my enemy because of a visual bug, hearing that is really refreshing.
The armour to health change coming in North Star is probably one of my favourite tweaks to date - giving players full transparency of how much health they actually have, allowing them to make a call on whether they need to play safe or not, rather than guess and pay the price.
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