In Rainbow Six Siege, it is about the collaboration of your own team against enemy players. What happens when a single player controls all the operators of a team? This is what the streamer Basically Homeless wanted to find out and set up an impressive setup to play five accounts simultaneously.
What was the idea? The streamer Basically Homeless is a very good Rainbow Six Siege player and had the idea to play all the operators of his own team – that is, to take control of five characters. To do this, he set up five PCs, each with its own copy of the game and account, as well as six monitors.
He used only one mouse and one keyboard. Through a switch, he was able to switch to all accounts to guide them through the game. A macro prevented his accounts from being kicked out of the game due to inactivity.
In his video, Homeless explains that even the five PCs led to difficulties: He could not provide power to all PCs in one room, as otherwise the fuses would have blown. So he ran extension cords throughout the house to operate the PCs from different outlets.
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In the game, Homeless uses his other accounts as a kind of respawn: He controls one character and switches to the next when his current operator is eliminated. In doing so, he gains valuable information for his next attack, as he already knows where the enemies are entrenched.
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How far does he get with the setup? After ensuring the basics, Homeless ventured into the casual mode. After he cleaned up with his five-stack there, the streamer took it a step further and tried his hand at ranked play.
Even there, he was able to perform quite well. In between, one of his accounts was banned, so Homeless continued playing with a random teammate. This teammate could hardly believe who he was playing with and that the streamer was actually using four accounts.
Together with his random teammate, Homeless made it to round 9. The matches were all quite close and exciting, as he proves in his video:
What does the community say? Basically Homeless is something of a legend in the Rainbow Six community. Even the latest video from “Mr. Hummus,” as his viewers call him, is well received by the players.
The players are excited about the streamer’s skills and that he manages “to carry himself through the game”.
Furthermore, they joke that Homeless has finally found a solution to the often lacking communication of team members in the game: you just play all the operators yourself…
