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These top Rainbow Six Siege tips will help you step up your Mozzie game
Put a few tricks up your sleeve with Rainbow Six Siege’s latest Year 4 defender, Mozzie.
Rainbow Six Siege’s first operation of its fourth year is finally here, and it brings two new Australian operators alongside an accompanying map to play on! While these operators are still new, it’s important to get ahead of the competition by learning as much as you can about them.
Mozzie is an all-new defender, and he packs a gadget that can hijack enemy drones and take control of them for the defending side. Here are some tips and tricks you can implant into your brain in order to get even better at playing the operator.
1. Place your pests around corners
If you’re going to be planting your pests in spots rather than shooting drones directly, do it around corners – more specifically, around the corner of a vent exit or a main door. This is almost guaranteed to get at least one sneaky drone that is trying to get a peek into the defender’s room. You should be able to snag control of one the second it turns the corner after leaving a vent or entering a door.
2. Act natural
Once you have control of an enemy drone, make sure to act natural and don’t roam around staring at attackers – make sure that you act like one of them. Most teams will forget about Mozzie’s ability and not look twice at a roaming drone. This means you can drive about – usually – at your heart’s content.
3. Switch up your loadout
Make sure you customize Mozzie’s loadout prior to a round’s start in order to maximise his usability. The default loadout isn’t bad, however making sure that you add accessories to your weapons is key. I recommend testing out both of Mozzie’s primary weapons in order to see which gun you play better with and prefer using.
Combine the Commando 9 with the Super Shorty and Barbed Wire
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Mozzie’s two main weapons each have their advantages and disadvantages – with the Commando 9 bolstering a damage rate of 36 compared to the P10 RONI’s rate of 26. However, the Commando 9 has a much lower fire rate. It’s really up to the player which gun they prefer.
4. Take advantage of barbed wire
Barbed Wire is your best friend when playing as Mozzie, as you can hide your hijacked drones inside clusters of the tool but also use it as a trap to capture even more of them. When an attacking drone comes near one of Mozzie’s pests, a small triangle warning pops up on their screen. Most players will not respond in time anyway and will succumb to your control; however, you can get a huge advantage over those players who are on the lookout for your abilities.
Placing barbed wire is a great way to create a spider’s web against enemy drones, and it’s also a great strategy for hiding your already-hijacked machines in plain sight. Most attackers won’t look twice at a drone in barbed wire.
5. Don’t waste all your pests at the start of the round
If you place all of your pests at the beginning of the round, it’s likely you’ll spot a drone later in the round and have no way to take control of it. This happens sometimes when a player will have placed a pest and it hasn’t caught a drone all match and then they forget to pick it back up later. A good trick is to save at least one pest in your inventory midway through the match so you can takeover any drone you might come across.
6. Remember – it’s hard for attackers to tell if you’ve caught a drone
You may notice that when Mozzie hijacks a drone you can see a bright blue pulse around it just so you know it’s on your side and you shouldn’t shoot it. Because of this, some players may assume it does the same for the attackers; however it’s actually quite hard for the enemies to tell if a drone they are looking at is being controlled by Mozzie.
An attacker cannot see the difference between one of their drones and one of their hijacked drones unless Mozzie or another defender is using it at the time. When they are using it, the drone has a dotted blue light instead of a red light that it would usually have. This is good because attackers will then have a hard time distinguishing a drone driving past them as a friendly or an enemy, and likely won’t care to check.
