The LMG is a remix of the old, but the Kulakov Incendiary Grenade launcher is something brand new, not just to Tachanka but to Siege as a whole. “The current plan is to still have the SMG with an ACOG scope, but you have to be mobile in this game which is why we removed the turret.”
“We’re not getting rid of the other main weapons,” says Jean-Baptiste Hallé, lead game designer for Rainbow Six Siege. He can roam, and he can make holes to shoot his incendiary grenades through.” While the LMG is clearly an iconic part of Tachanka’s kit, it won’t be his only option. “The design team thought it worked super well with the legend of his weapon. “There’s some crazy destruction you can do, but never on the level of Tachanka,” Karpazis says. A demonstration video shows the gun being shot to create a circle in some drywall in order to cut a large opening. “The biggest thing was lifting that LMG off the turret and have him be more mobile.” The LMG can be used to cause some incredible damage to a map’s soft walls. Originally, Tachanka’s gadget was a deployable MG turret that forced him to stay still. “His main problem was having that turret tying him down to one location,” explains Alex Karpazis, Art Director for Rainbow Six Siege.
