Rainbow Six Mobile Beginner's Guide | Tips and Tricks

Make room on your phones for an elite special operation with Rainbow Six Mobile, the tactical FPS from Ubisoft's famous Tom Clancy licence. In this Rainbow Six Mobile beginner's guide, we'll help you get off to a good start with some useful tips for getting to grips with the game. Start warming up now, because your surveillance, shooting and infiltration skills are going to turn your competitive games around!

Rainbow Six Mobile beginner's guide: understanding the gameplay

Rainbow 6 is a multiplayer, competitive team-based FPS. The mobile version is based on the original title published by Ubisoft in 2015 on PC and consoles, with a few key principles from the licence. To kick off this beginner's guide to Rainbow Six, we take a look at the game's general gameplay.

Attack and defence in Rainbow Six Mobile

This resolutely realistic PvP FPS focuses on your team spirit in two types of round: Attack and Defence. You'll have to take it in turns to prevent attackers from planting their bombs on the map by eliminating them, and do exactly the opposite when you're on the Attack team in classic mode. You're not alone against the enemy team, but in a squad of 5 agents with unique skills.

With your agent and customised equipment, you embark on an alternation of infiltration phases and close-quarter combat with your enemies right under your nose, in corridors, tunnels and between barricades. You can renew the formula with different game modes, destroying walls to take your enemies by surprise and flanking them mercilessly using abseiling ropes combined with your legendary stealth.

Game modes in R6 Mobile

In addition to its selection of agents with unique tactical powers and rotating maps, R6x Mobile also offers a host of game modes. For this beginner's guide to Rainbow Six Mobile, we'd encourage you to try out the training modes, which we'll look at later.

• Bombe's Classified mode , which lasts 20 minutes in BO5.
• Quick games with a preselection of agents and equipment for 7 minutes in BO3.
• Team Deathmatch Arcade mode, a single round of merciless bloodshed lasting 5 minutes.
• A limited-time BO3 mode lasting around 12 minutes.

Rainbow Six Mobile also offers mobile-exclusive content such as the Summit map and limited-time game modes that we can't wait to see evolve with new normal and ranked challenges to renew the gaming experience.

R6 Mobile also features game modes for beginners, which are sure to come in handy!

Training modes to get you started in R6 Mobile

As you now know, in Rainbow Six Mobile you can choose between several operators, each with their own abilities and gadgets. So you'll need to try out several of them, to find out which ones you're most comfortable with. The Warm-up mode is a great way to do this. It lets you try out the game's operators to get a feel for their gameplay.

In this Rainbow Six Mobile beginner's guide, we also suggest that you try out the single-player Training mode, which will help you get to grips with the game, as well as understanding the controls and the different objectives.

R6M operators

To get you off to a good start with this Rainbow Six Mobile beginner's guide, the game offers you a number of agents. But it's up to you to unlock the next ones by accumulating fame through your gaming skills and your best headshots, or by visiting the shop.

Immediately after the tutorial, you'll have two choices of 6 agents, so you can personalise your starting roster a little and avoid playing the same thing as all the other competitors. In all, Rainbow Six Mobile currently has a total of 20 agents, including ATQ and DEF recruits.

Each character has their own unique skill and equipment, for example:

• Sledge is a heavy hitter who smashes destructible surfaces with a big hammer.
• Kapkan can place laser detectors around openings to trigger proximity bombs.
• Glaz is a sniper with a thermal scope.

Each agent also has their own stuff, which you can customise with accessories, from main weapons to secondary weapons and cosmetics. You can store 3 pages of equipment per Agent. As an added bonus, your agent's gadget, or special item, can turn a game on its head with a blinding flash, give you a nitro boost or deploy smoke grenades, for example.

Rainbow Six Mobile beginner's guide: getting the game off to a good start

With this mobile version, we've gone from 5 to 3 rounds, with assaults lasting just a few minutes. So you have to rush to the various strategic checkpoints, protect or shoot down the objective and hold out for the duration of the round if the opposing team holds out.

During the preparation phase of the round, you can often lay down new pieces of destructible wall or reinforce existing barricades, but certain obstacles are placed by the game at the start of the game to speed up the process. As you place the majority of the obstacles, you decide which way the enemy players will have to go. Unless they choose the hard way and decide to force their way through, but the noise will inevitably alert you.

So you'll need to get your neurons firing and use your strategic mind to place the various elements in the right places to hinder your opponents and achieve your goal.

The aim assist, ideal for getting started in Rainbow Six Mobile

To simplify your task and get you off to a good start in Rainbow Six Mobile, we recommend using the aim assist. It's the perfect solution if you don't want to rage every time you play. More than just aim assist, it's also shoot assist, since shots are automatically triggered as soon as you activate the aim assist and it focuses on an enemy's head and shoulders.

Sure, it's a great way to get rid of enemies. But it's a good way for beginners to get started, while those with reflexes and manual aiming will always win out, given that the automatic fire takes time to calibrate before firing its first bullets.

Customise your HUD in R6 Mobile

The game features a customisable HUD to suit your screen and playing style. In this Rainbow Six Mobile beginner's guide, we really recommend that you take advantage of this.

You can customise the position, size and opacity of the main buttons, the stats display and your gadgets. It's up to you whether you want to play 3-finger Chinese-style or ping-pong. The joystick buttons can't be remapped individually , but there are several possible configurations , and you can manage settings such as the sensitivity of the physical stick.

Rainbow Six Mobile beginner's guide: final tips

• Take advantage of the freedom of movement the game gives you: you can crouch, lean left or right, leap over ledges, rappel to rooftops and even smash through barricades, when you're not using your special gadgets: barbed wire, flash grenades or even an armoured camera. Taking advantage of these different ways of moving around will help you perform better.
• Playing with the controller : if you have a controller for your smartphone, don't hesitate to use it. Even if aim assist is available in the game, using a controller will make your job a lot easier, especially if you're used to PC FPSs .
• Communication: to implement an effective strategy in R6M, you'll need to communicate with your mates. So don't be shy!

That's it for this Rainbow Six Mobile beginner's guide. You now have all the basics you need to get started, so don't wait any longer to get started on this mobile opus of the iconic FPS licence!