Rainbow Six Siege Operation Deadly Omen Test Servers now live: Designer's notes, Operator balancing, and more

Rainbow Six Siege Operation Deadly Omen is just around the corner, with Ubisoft ready to introduce a new attacker named Deimos to the meta. Before Deimos' arrival to the live build, the developers launched the Test Servers for gamers interested in taking a brief look at the upcoming season.

The Y9S1 Test Servers for Deadly Omen incorporate all the promised changes Ubisoft announced at the reveal panel. These changes also include the many Operator-balancing tweaks and weapon class reworks.

This article will guide you on how to play the Deadly Omen Test Servers while listing the important Y9S1 Designer's Notes in Rainbow Six Siege.

Depending on whether you have Rainbow Six Siege on Steam or Uplay, you will have two separate ways of downloading the Test Servers on your device. Here's how you can download it on Steam:

For Uplay users:

Both Uplay and the Steam versions take approximately 59 GB of your storage space.

With the Y9S1 Test Servers rolling in, the Operator balancing changes have been the highlight of the upcoming patch. Here's what you can expect from the Test Servers:

The weapon classes are also seeing some major changes with the upcoming season.

Category: No sight.

Category: Non-magnifying.

Category: Magnifying.

Category: Magnifying.

The Laser bonus has changed to ADS speed.

Movement:

Weapon handling:

Melee: