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This is new: an addiction to skylights. There are two on the roof of the Consulate map in Rainbow Six: Siege, and I can't leave them alone. You don't need to use up a breach charge on a skylight, you just smash the glass - they'll hear you coming - and then rappel down. I like to hover, on the first skylight, between the first and second storey landings. I like to hover upside down, and wait for those jerks with the explosives strapped to them to venture out to investigate the sound of breaking glass. Then I shoot them. Or at least I shoot at them. Sometimes I accidentally unrappel myself due to adrenalin and general clumsiness. That gets awkward! But not for long. Not for long.I went into Rainbow 6: Siege's closed beta with two questions. Was there anything here for somebody who's too much of a liability to ever play with real people? And would I enjoy blasting through walls and floors half as much as I thought I might?
The answer to the first question is tricky. Despite the lack of a single-player campaign, I'm finding Terrorist Hunt an awful lot of throwaway fun. It's you - and a team, if you fancy - against bots. On the closed beta, that means a handful of chums, potentially, against 20-odd terrorists, holed up in a variety of cluttered and mischievous maps. You can play it solo, and the whole things starts to feel like Die Hard. This is all good as far as I'm concerned, but I don't know how long the thrill of Siege will last if you're the kind of person who really, really doesn't want to play with others.
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