Rainbow Six Siege Y11S3.2 Patch Notes: Noor Buffed, Tachanka Gets Impact Mode, Solid Snake Nerfed

Operation Split Fire's mid-season update is live in Rainbow Six Siege, and it's a big one for a mid-season patch. Y11S3.2 went live on October 15, 2026, two days after Ubisoft published the patch notes, and it does three things at once: it rescues the season's new defender, Noor, gives Tachanka an easier way to throw fire, and opens the long-promised Legend Division above Champion.

Ubisoft also rotated the ranked map pool, ran a ban wave of more than 50,000 accounts, and brought back the Doktor's Curse Halloween event. Here's everything that changed and what it means for your next match.

TL;DR

• Noor gets a full release follow-up: faster drilling, 100% guard break against shields, quicker equip and 80 impact damage.
• Tachanka's Shumikha Launcher can now set off its incendiary grenades on impact, not just after a bounce.
• Solid Snake's Soliton Radar loses one precision charge (4 to 3).
• Valkyrie gets the Glaive-12 shotgun as a secondary option.
• All fire now deals 14 HP instead of 12.
• Barbed Wire now stops Ram's BU-GI drones dead.
• Legend Division is open until December 1 for eligible Champions.
• Ranked drops Skyscraper and Theme Park and adds Kanal, Outback and Oregon.

Noor: the big release follow-up

Noor arrived on September 1 as a defender built to punish shield operators, but his Horus Lance Launcher felt underpowered from day one. In the designer's notes, Ubisoft says the goal of this pass is to make him much better at countering shields and to reward the risk of carrying the launcher.

On top of the numbers, the projectile hitbox has been reworked (the notes also list a fix for it being too large), and Noor can now damage a shield operator during the shield removal animation. In practice, a direct hit should now knock a shield user's guard down completely, and an 80-damage impact is a real threat on its own. Since fire damage also went up this patch, his lingering flames hurt more too.

Other operator changes

Tachanka: impact mode for the Shumikha Launcher

The Shumikha's bouncing grenades have always been tricky to aim, and the bounce delay slowed Tachanka down in quick fights. Ubisoft's answer is a firing mode switch: projectiles can now trigger on impact, while the original bounce mode stays for indirect area denial. According to Ubisoft's mid-season news post, impact mode is the default. The designers say the aim is a lower skill floor and more control, not more raw power.

Solid Snake: one fewer precision charge

Snake's Soliton Radar Mk III drops from four precision mode charges to three. Ubisoft's reasoning is that the radar offered a lot of low-risk information, and fewer charges should push players to use it more deliberately.

Valkyrie: Glaive-12 secondary

Valkyrie can now take the Glaive-12 shotgun as a secondary, alongside her D-50 pistol. The designer's notes frame it as a way to open up sightlines and set up Black Eye cameras faster and from further away, without making her stronger overall.

Quick refinements

The fire change affects Capitão, Dokkaebi, Goyo, Noor, Tachanka and Gas Pipes, so burning areas are now noticeably more costly to stand in or cross.

Osa's Talon-8 Clear Shield also has fewer deployment restrictions, so you can place it in tighter spots than before.

Barbed Wire vs. Ram

Ram's BU-GI drones now get tangled in Barbed Wire, stop completely and self-destruct. Ubisoft says it wants wire to be a reliable counter and for attackers to plan their routes more carefully. Cheap wire in the right doorway is now a genuine answer to Ram.

Legend Division is open

The headline feature of the mid-season update is Legend Division, a solo-queue ranked playlist above Champion that uses the Pro League map pool. It runs until the end of the season on December 1 and resets with each season.

To get in, you need all of the following:

• Champion rank in the current season
• Platinum or higher last season
• Clearance Level 200 or higher
• Reputation Standing level three or higher
• An authenticator app for two-step verification on your Ubisoft account
• On PC, Secure Boot enabled

Rewards include a profile banner that changes with your leaderboard position and an exclusive charm for the top 100 players in each region. Ahead of launch, Ubisoft says it applied a ban wave of over 50,000 accounts, aimed at account sharers, account sellers and ban evaders.

Ranked map rotation

Split Fire's mid-season rotation is the last one under the current system. Skyscraper and Theme Park are out, while Kanal, Outback and Oregon come back in. From Y11S4, Ubisoft says ranked will move to a more stable rotation, so the map pool changes less from season to season. That follows community feedback.

Doktor's Curse is back

The Halloween event runs from October 15 to November 2. It's the familiar 5v5 Hide & Seek mode on Doktor's Lab, a heavily modified Clubhouse, with Hunters swinging modified Sledge hammers and Monsters relying on gadgets and the Nightstride invisibility boost. New this year, Grim and Hibana join the Hunters (Hibana uses a modified version of Capitão's crossbow), and Mute joins the Monsters. There's a 33-item cosmetic collection, a free event pack, challenges and Twitch drops.

Bug fixes worth knowing

• Defenders no longer lose points for destroying their own Barbed Wire.
• Noor's reticle now respects the Reticle Opacity setting.
• Osa's Talon-8 right-side panel no longer flips from ON to OFF after you deploy it.
• The voice chat indicator no longer vanishes at random.
• New players now get the Recruit Rewards pop-up without having to restart the game.
• The drilling sound no longer plays when electrified Barbed Wire destroys a Horus Lance projectile.

What it means for players

Noor goes from a curiosity to a real pick. A guard-breaking, 80-damage launcher that equips almost instantly makes life hard for Blitz, Montagne and the other shield operators, and it should matter even more in Legend Division's high-skill lobbies. Tachanka's impact mode makes him easier to pick up, especially for newer players who never learned the bounce angles. Meanwhile, Snake players will need to ration their scans.

If you're chasing the top of the ladder, the clock is running. Legend Division only lasts until December 1, so check your clearance level, rank history and security settings now rather than in the season's final week.