Kanal could be the next Rainbow Six Siege map to get reworked

Ubisoft’s ongoing efforts to buff and rework its less competitively viable maps could continue with a map rework of Kanal. The Hamburg-set map was one of the game’s original maps, but has not featured in the ranked map rotation pool for a very long time now. The first Rainbow Six Siege map rework to Hereford was announced two season ago and is very nearly ready for release, which means the community is already questioning what’s next on Ubisoft’s priority list. We spoke with Rainbow Six Siege’s game designer Leroy Athanassoff at the Six Major Paris about the studio’s upcoming plans for map reworks. “For map reworks, we are only looking at maps that have a nice competitive potential, like for example, Kanal. These are maps where we think that by working on them we might be able to bring them back to the competitive map roster.” Kanal is one of the most balanced maps not to be included in the ranked map pool, but it possess a few key problems: it’s a safe haven for spawnpeekers and there’s only a single rotation route between its two main buildings. Certainly, Kanal is more ready for ranked and competitive play than maps like House, Favela, and Plane, so it would seem very logical for Ubisoft to target it as their next map rework.