Both of these modes are great, and I often find myself warming up for PvP by taking on the AI first. They are different enough in subtle ways that influence what walls you want to reinforce or which operators you should use - for example, bringing the blind grenade-spraying Fuze into a Hostage situation is asking for trouble - but the general approach either team takes in a given mode can feel a little too similar.Īs a side activity to the competitive battles there’s the PvE Terrorist Hunt mode and the single-player Situations. Siege has just three PvP game modes, all of which revolve around one team protecting a room (or two rooms, in the case of the Bomb mode) and the other team trying to break through their defenses. Bringing the grenade-spraying Fuze into a Hostage situation is asking for trouble, so plan carefully. Timing breaches and calling out flash grenades will let you get the drop on a defending team, but the short two to three-minute rounds and setup period between those tense moments also leaves room for goofing off in between. Like many competitive games, Siege is almost always more fun when played with friends I can comfortably coordinate with. Of course, you’ll still run into plenty of people mindlessly tagging with cameras in public matchmaking. You can still use those same cameras after you’ve died too, which cleverly cuts out a lot of down-time as you continue to help any surviving teammates. But if you don’t mark enemies, and instead talk to your teammates and tell them where that person is, you can give them the same information without alerting your opponent. You can use cameras to mark the location of enemies for your whole team, but doing so will also warn the marked player that they’ve been seen, often resulting in them quickly hunting down and destroying that camera. It can be a big ask to rely on the voices of internet strangers (and Siege definitely has its fair share of unfriendly and unhelpful players) but overall I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how this community understands and embraces good communication as a tool.Ī great example of how communication can win games is with security cameras and drones.
Working with your teammates, either through voice chat, text, or just map markers and pings is a simple but extremely impactful thing you can do to get better at Siege. Still, it’s a tradeoff that ultimately improves Siege. I love that I often won’t see the same map twice in an evening of games, but the flipside is that it takes longer to actually learn the layouts of those maps. There are currently 15 maps in the casual matchmaking queue, only nine of which are in ranked, each visually distinct and set in different locations across the globe, which results in a fantastic amount of variety every time I sit down to play.
It makes Siege an immediately more accessible game, empowering you with the ability to improve your win rate through learning the maps alone, even if your aim doesn’t get any better. They’re also littered with destructible walls and floors, letting you create your own paths with breaching charges or even break small holes in defending walls to create new lines of sight. Most of its levels are set in buildings with three stories, giving its gunfights a sense of height that many shooters lack. It’s only a minute long, but there are a lot of subtle nuances in what walls to reinforce and where to place your traps that can differentiate the good players from the great. It’s game of cat and mouse that often devolves into hilarious, Benny Hilly-style chases as the defenders try to deny the attackers of as much information as possible. Learning which door to barricade can win you more games than just outgunning your opponent.Įach round of a match starts with a frantic race as one side sets up their defenses and the other hunts for intel with remote-controlled drones. Often times figuring out which door to barricade and which to break open can win you more games than just being able to outgun your opponents. A wonderful emphasis on strategy and smart play over pure twitch aiming gives it a distinct feel that you don’t get from games like Call of Duty or Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The core of Siege hasn’t changed a 5v5 dance of attack and defense between well-equipped military special forces squads on compact but complex maps.
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