In Ubisoft’s tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege started on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, the new season “Solar Raid”. Included is again a Battle Pass, which contains 100 tiers with cosmetic content and the new defender Solis. Completing the pass actually requires numerous hours of gameplay, but in the new season players can finish in just 2 days or a few minutes.
How is the Battle Pass leveled? In the Battle Pass of Rainbow Six Siege, you normally level up by playing matches and completing challenges.
Depending on the mode and win or loss, you receive a certain number of “Battle Pass points” after each match played. Challenges such as destroying gadgets, cameras, or similar grant extra points.
Why are players already done with the Battle Pass? Some players of the shooter benefited in Solar Raid from two factors that massively accelerated leveling the Battle Pass:
- the cross-progression system
- the esports packs
In the following image, you can see the progress of the Battle Pass for the current Rainbow Six Siege season Solar Raid in the upper right corner:
What is cross-progression? In Solar Raid, Ubisoft introduced the so-called cross-progression system for Rainbow Six Siege. With cross-progression, you can link your accounts from different platforms.
If you played on PS4, for example, and have since switched to PC, you can use your purchased skins, levels, and other progress on both platforms. This also applies to received “esports packs”.
What are esports packs? The esports packs are loot packages that contain weapon skins, uniforms, and other cosmetic items based on the esports of the shooter.
Players could receive esports packs by watching official esports matches on the Twitch channel of Rainbow Six Siege. After a certain time as a viewer, you then received such a package as a Twitch drop.
Why do esports packs affect the Battle Pass? Ubisoft faced criticism from players due to the esports packs containing duplicates. With a bit of bad luck, you received a skin or something similar that you already owned. The time spent watching was then completely for nothing, which is why Ubisoft removed the duplicates in the meantime.
Instead of duplicates, players can now receive Battle Pass points from the esports packs that allow you to level up in the pass. Moreover, cross-progression now comes into play:
If you collected esports packs in the past, you received them on all platforms linked to your Ubisoft account. A former PS4 player, who now only plays actively on PC, thus owns every pack he opened on PC also on his unused console.
By merging progress with cross-progression, all these packs are now available on every platform and can be opened again, and instead of duplicates, they now contain 500 to 2,000 Battle Pass points per pack. Those who diligently watched on Twitch could consequently complete many tiers or even finish the Battle Pass.
Also, MeinMMO author Dariusz Müller benefited from the esports packs and needed just under half an hour to “complete” the pass. He had 122 esports packs and was missing only 5 skins. Consequently, 117 packs contained Battle Pass points, and the pass was completed after opening.
Dariusz Müller has, by the way, not only collected many esports packs in Ubisoft’s tactical shooter but also amassed a significant amount of playtime. Even in 2022, he finds that Rainbow Six Siege is one of the best shooters and still impresses with its unique gameplay.
