{"id":59660,"date":"2018-11-02T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/329891"},"modified":"2018-11-02T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T19:59:00","slug":"visual-tweaks-hit-rainbow-six-siege-ahead-of-release-in-asian-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/02\/visual-tweaks-hit-rainbow-six-siege-ahead-of-release-in-asian-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual tweaks hit Rainbow Six Siege ahead of release in Asian countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many developers\u00a0that aim to bring a game to countries like China, Ubisoft\u00a0plans to\u00a0change some visual elements changed before <em>Rainbow Six Siege<\/em> can see an official release in the country.<\/p>\n<p>But for <em>Rainbow Six Siege<\/em>, those changes won\u2019t be confined to only that region&#8217;s version of the game. Instead, as Ubisoft details in a <a href=\"https:\/\/rainbow6.ubisoft.com\/siege\/en-us\/news\/152-337194-16\/aesthetic-changes-in-y3s4\">blog post on the game\u2019s website,<\/a> icons and environmental elements featuring gambling, blood, and sexual content will be removed from all versions of the game as the developer readies <em>Rainbow Six Siege<\/em> for release in &#8220;expansion into Asian territories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company explains that maintaining a single version of the game rather than two parallel versions eases strain on the development team and ultimately prevents it from having to do the same work twice to address issues in both versions.<\/p>\n<p>The changes themselves are minor and don\u2019t affect the gameplay, the company notes. Ubisoft has side-by-side pictures of what it is changing on the full post, for example, and most of the decisions boil down to things like removing a line of slot machines from a room or cleaning up a splatter of blood that previously adorned\u00a0an in-game wall. Changes to some of the icons in the game, pictured below, are likely to be the most noticeable.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/visual-tweaks-hit-rainbow-six-siege-ahead-of-release-in-asian-countries.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many developers\u00a0that aim to bring a game to countries like China, Ubisoft\u00a0plans to\u00a0change some visual elements changed before Rainbow Six Siege can see an official release in the country. But for Rainbow Six Siege, those changes won\u2019t be confined to only that region&#8217;s version of the game. Instead, as Ubisoft details in a blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}