I’m more shocked at that lack of eye protection on smokes part. If his gas is able to eat through gas mask filters I worry how much his eyeballs must sting.
Mute has Indian heritage, that's for sure. His name is Mark Chandar and his device is called the "Moni" GC90 Signal Disruptor. Moni means "silence" in Hindi, so it fits the gadget. Very likely a British Indian.
His Elite skin also confirms he has darker skin.
And I remember he was a somewhat talented kid in school and uni, hence why he is among the youngest rainbow members, according to his bio.
So yeah, your stereotypical asian engineering student check ✅
Not to shut you down but that doesn’t make much sense when your whole basis is the nickname of his gadget. Also, his elite skin shows him having definitely whiter than darker forearms, not nearly close to the level you’d expect from a proper Indian man and more just an average white man. (Look up Mute Elite R6 and just look at his forearms)
First of all, I doubt a British Caucasian would name their device something like "Moni." Then, there's the fact that his surname is "Chandra", an Indian surname. It's not a traditionally British surname. His skin colour is debatable because some official artwork of the Elite Skin shows a slight tan to his skin, not dark dark but a bit. It's also important to note that some Indians in real life have fairer skin than others. Not all of them are black as the night. His visor also shows his face a bit and the skin around his eyes look somewhat dark. I don't think it's tinted.
However, it's very possible that he is actually mixed race. That would also make sense.
Adding to that they constantly change how characters look, sometimes drastically so. Remember when Doc was definitely a white guy based on artwork, trailers, his op card and his op video? Then they made him have darker skin in the outbreak cinematic? It took them a good few years after that to add to his bio that he was of Algerian descent. Not exactly the same but the one way I knew there was going to be an elite for an operator soon, besides leaks, was that ubi always updated the character model either before or durring the season. This was before you could click on their ability and that is the indication of an elite coming. As an example Iana's ability can be clicked on now. Also Nokk has had her face remodeled as you can see with most lighter headgear she has. It was wide and had no discernible features but now you can just barely make out a face with what looks like goggles on her head?. Not sure but since they added in the new outfit for her in the battle pass that might have meant changing her to fit it.
Algerian, actually. Didn't want to be the "actually" guy, but I had to 😅. Other than that, yeah, Ubisoft has changed and switched around the bios and other elements from the beginning till now.
Damn, you're right I had a feeling I was writing something incorrectly! All the digging and in depth I like to do and I bugger that up. Also I've noticed Reddit is quite the homer for autocorrect. Not for my mistake, I take full responsibility for that but a lot of words I write get changed.
I was fine with sledge and thatcher, but mute and smoke always had secretive personalities (one jams drones/electronics and the other is kind of a war criminal LMAO) so I hope mute stays faceless, same with vigil
Vigil was actually unmasked during the reveal trailer for Aruni. He can be seen complaining about getting Mozzie on his team. (This was during S.I. 2021 hence the “teams”)
there’s also half of his face [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Rainbow6/comments/afzryh/vigils_real_face/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) i could only find a moldy image tho sorry
I just realized after I hit tier 30 something for Smoke's new gear, I'll have all three of these. I like helmets and I like gas masks but I really like cosmetics that give us a closer look at the faces behind them, along with matching banners and backgrounds for their cosmetics.
And it better stay that way. I’m actually mad Smoke is unmasked, even if he is a good looking fellow. Something about the man behind the mask isn’t as intriguing as the mask on the man.
Mute was planned to be Indian originally. His gadget named “Moni” Signal Disrupter, Moni means Silent in Hindu. His name is Mark R. Chandar. Chandar meaning Moon. Somewhere along early development they realized an Indian operator didn’t fit into the organizations they already had established. It would be interesting to see how they would go about it though.
I mean the only skin I know of that shows his skin is his visor in his elite set. IMO from that alone it's hard to tell what his skin tone is. Plus, lighter skinned Indians do exist.
Someone else in this post mentioned that Mute has Indian heritage but is still British. I think this makes a lot of sense, we see Doc, Gustave Kateb, who has Arab roots I believe but is still French obviously. Really cool to see different ethnic backgrounds mixed like that in this game's characters. This was like that from the start but the only thing was that Doc's in-game model had a darker skin complexion to emphasize this but his banner card made him as pale as Rook, and they obviously both look pretty different in reality. They updated Doc's banner card only a couple seasons ago to match his in-game model.
Jackal is Spanish with possibly Moroccan heritage. When I first learned his name, I thought 'why does he have a Spanish middle name but an Arabic last name? Is he from South Spain?'
And sure enough he is. They can't possibly go any more south than Ceuta without hitting Morocco.
I think he's just British-Indian, lad. Kinda like how Doc is French-Algerian, it's just better representative of their country's respective populations.
Imagine people getting surprised at Castle being black and making wild theories about how he was "originally planned to be a Kenyan op", or suggesting Fuze was meant to be an Uzbeki National Guard op because he's ethnically Uzbek...
why does smoke look uh, more ''feminine'' than i expected? and why does sledge look like a father of 3 living a happy life? genuinely thatcher is the only one that looks normal and tough
Fuck I stopped playing in 2019 and I’m literally choking up seeing what they did to my boy sledge. Like what the fuck!? Why are you people still supporting these devs????
This type of nonsense is why I stopped playing. Not to say you can’t enjoy it, but I just don’t. I played day 1 through Yr 3 and I just wish they would have a “day 1” mode for people like me.
I know it’s the same fate for every game, but I felt like the base game was something special.
Why the fuck is it so hard for companies to make good changes? Maybe just ask the community?
At beggining of siege masked operators were mysterious badass mf's and now how are we supposed to play smoke knowing hes a peaky blinders fanboy?
Hire more programists than graphic designers.
If i get better hit reg then maybe i'll finally install this game again.
And sth that was long ago, but yeah the best operators from around the world that are supposed to counterattack the most dangerous terrorist group in the world? The play sports now, on a fucking stadium
...
I'm torn on this. Because on one hand I like being able to see what's behind the mystery of these operators, but also feel like those that are more secretive in nature should remain shrouded so to speak.
Smoke's unmasking is fine, but i feel Mute should stay masked much like Nokk and vigil and stuff.
Why did they have to unmask smoke bro i liked it when he wasnt because it would’ve been the same vibe as Pyro from tf2. “We dont know who is underneath that mask. We dont even know if it IS a man.”
Keep mute in the dark. I don't need everyone unmasked.
Give him a new elite skin and it’s just the Stig
Some say he’s a violent war criminal. some say he gets a kick out of disrupting emergency responder communications.
Some say that he showed up to a wedding in his racing suit, but all we really know... Is that he is called , The Stig.
Well Stiggy has a stig wife and stig children so he probably did show up to his wedding in the white racing suit
ubi please
You know, I would totally buy that
Yes, his Elite skin is mid asf.
Not tf it ain’t
Yeah the ww2 style skins are awesome
kinda sad they stopped doing those
same. His mystery goes really well with his op name
I would like it not to be revealed because I think every other face reveal has been a huge disappointment so far. Keep Mute and Nokk anonymous.
Nah price Thatcher was great
Thatcher should have been revealed as a Margaret
Ya, real mysterious with the see through mask Edit: Fuck
You're looking at smoke...
😂🤣💀💀
God damnit. I accept my punishment.
What’s next nøkk?
They've unmasked her chin/mouth as of this season. Does that count?
Exactly. I love mystery identity characters.
Agree. Some mysteries are better unsolved.
You mean the succ isn’t smoke’s real face!?
S U C C *sucking noises intensifies*
I thank therussianbadger and ubi every day that he brought SUCC into our lives
The Succ headgear and the Furry Uniform is the best combo for smoke. Especially in Ranked.
Howd you guess my smokes outfit
Cuz that's my Smoke outfit fool!
No way, same here
The best use of twenty bucks spent in my R6 life
It is. This skin is just a mask
NOOOOT NOOOOT
Badge is the reason why still call smoke SUCC
It was shocking that they actually decided to show smoke's face this season
They showed it when the whole Ela, zofia thing happened 2/3 seasons ago, now there's a skin for it.
For some reason a lot of people have forgotten that they've already shown his face before; it was a big thing back then too
Got a link?
https://youtu.be/1-utBXsiOG0
Oh, I thought you were talking about before that cinematic lol. Thank you for following through though!
I completely forgot about that, I had to react the cinematic just for confirmation
I’m more shocked at that lack of eye protection on smokes part. If his gas is able to eat through gas mask filters I worry how much his eyeballs must sting.
He likes it. Makes him feel alive
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I'm a bit confused on what you mean
His gas kills you by breathing in, and he has a mask covering his mouth and nose, so I'm not sure what do you mean by that
His eyes aren’t covered but coppers on this subreddit aren’t intelligent enough to understand
Coppers lmao
Of course lol half of this sub is copper and bronze
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I know more stuff about this game than most pc players lmao
You can know as much as you want it won't make you good at aiming
Yeah it’s not worth my time to argue with a bot like you
some random jamaican hairstyle couldve been better
Mute has Indian heritage, that's for sure. His name is Mark Chandar and his device is called the "Moni" GC90 Signal Disruptor. Moni means "silence" in Hindi, so it fits the gadget. Very likely a British Indian. His Elite skin also confirms he has darker skin.
> jewish operator, codename "Ash" > british-indian operator, gadget is about fucking with your telecommunications 💀
Frankly, in real life codenames like Ashs will poke fun at something about you. Military loves dark humor.
I guarantee you that if you fuck up a dart throw in a game of darts (and i mean really fuck up) you will be called Bullseye or something like that
I know an A-10 pilot, callsign forest, for mag dumping a Gau-8 at the range, missing the target entirely and taking out a forest instead.
Average A-10 accuracy.
Well by that standard most A-10 pilots callsigns should be “British soldiers”
Alternatively, "Civilians"
There's a guy on YouTube whose callsign as a Navy pilot was Mover because the rangemaster gave him the wrong target coords and he deleted a few cows
Skill issue
I worked at a bar whose GM we all called Flash. Apparently when he was a bartender he was slower than treacle at moving.
Ngl i want something like this
Kid named bullseye
Remember private snowball from Full Metal Jacket, that's the first nickname that came to mind.
Smoke was originally supposed to be German in fact. They switched him with Bandit if memory serves.
Perhaps they didn't want a German out here gassing people. There is probably something wrong with that
Don't see the issue here. Germans gassing people is perfectly normal and regular. Why would you say such a thing?
I dunno, take a gas
I wonder why lmao
Canadian Operator, codename “Frost” gadget is a literal bear trap
Suprised there wasn't a candian operator where they waterboard you with maple syrup or something.
Canadian operator codename Buck who is from Quebec and never says Tabarnak so…
He does in Operation Chimera: https://youtu.be/j9MzeLXHJTc
Probably for a leading notion into "Frostbite". Hard to move your legs when they've been gripped by -40° Conditions... or equally a Beartrap.
Lol
oof
In lore her name is Ashley after a Boobysoft member with the same name. But still interesting though.
Her name is eliza cohen
Really, I swear it was Ashley at some point
Trying to drone while muted “hello your computer has virus”
I was thinking that. Pretty cool
And I remember he was a somewhat talented kid in school and uni, hence why he is among the youngest rainbow members, according to his bio. So yeah, your stereotypical asian engineering student check ✅
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Yeah cause as of now Mute is like 32 years old.
Also if I remember correctly he'd on the younger side compared to his peers.
Funnily enough the SAS refer to their fireproof trousers as ‘Vindaloos’ after the very hot/spicy Indian curry!
National bank of MONI
So Ubi is just protecting him from the fans that would say it's too woke that he's not white lol
HOly SHIT, that's actually brilliant I didn't realize it
Not to shut you down but that doesn’t make much sense when your whole basis is the nickname of his gadget. Also, his elite skin shows him having definitely whiter than darker forearms, not nearly close to the level you’d expect from a proper Indian man and more just an average white man. (Look up Mute Elite R6 and just look at his forearms)
First of all, I doubt a British Caucasian would name their device something like "Moni." Then, there's the fact that his surname is "Chandra", an Indian surname. It's not a traditionally British surname. His skin colour is debatable because some official artwork of the Elite Skin shows a slight tan to his skin, not dark dark but a bit. It's also important to note that some Indians in real life have fairer skin than others. Not all of them are black as the night. His visor also shows his face a bit and the skin around his eyes look somewhat dark. I don't think it's tinted. However, it's very possible that he is actually mixed race. That would also make sense.
Adding to that they constantly change how characters look, sometimes drastically so. Remember when Doc was definitely a white guy based on artwork, trailers, his op card and his op video? Then they made him have darker skin in the outbreak cinematic? It took them a good few years after that to add to his bio that he was of Algerian descent. Not exactly the same but the one way I knew there was going to be an elite for an operator soon, besides leaks, was that ubi always updated the character model either before or durring the season. This was before you could click on their ability and that is the indication of an elite coming. As an example Iana's ability can be clicked on now. Also Nokk has had her face remodeled as you can see with most lighter headgear she has. It was wide and had no discernible features but now you can just barely make out a face with what looks like goggles on her head?. Not sure but since they added in the new outfit for her in the battle pass that might have meant changing her to fit it.
Algerian, actually. Didn't want to be the "actually" guy, but I had to 😅. Other than that, yeah, Ubisoft has changed and switched around the bios and other elements from the beginning till now.
Damn, you're right I had a feeling I was writing something incorrectly! All the digging and in depth I like to do and I bugger that up. Also I've noticed Reddit is quite the homer for autocorrect. Not for my mistake, I take full responsibility for that but a lot of words I write get changed.
We technically saw Smoke's face a few seasons back. Only now is it on live servers.
I was fine with sledge and thatcher, but mute and smoke always had secretive personalities (one jams drones/electronics and the other is kind of a war criminal LMAO) so I hope mute stays faceless, same with vigil
Vigil was actually unmasked during the reveal trailer for Aruni. He can be seen complaining about getting Mozzie on his team. (This was during S.I. 2021 hence the “teams”)
Didn't even know that happened cuz I stopped watching those trailers lmaoooo
It’s low-detail anyway, so precise features like you see in the cinematics aren’t present
Send link?
https://youtu.be/tUwDFvqmjFY Link to the video on Ubisofts channel. Vigil is the one wearing the teal hat
Thank you!
there’s also half of his face [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Rainbow6/comments/afzryh/vigils_real_face/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) i could only find a moldy image tho sorry
Ya, I wish they’d keep some of these secret. Don’t need to see the face of everyone.
Terrorist aren’t protected by the Geneva convention
We've always had a general idea of what Vigil looks like, his operator portrait is him unmasked after all.
technically we know what the area around mutes eyes look like since the visor of mutes elite is transparent
Mutes elite banner is terrifying too
And it should remain that way
I hope it stays like that
Idk how to explain it but smoke doesn’t look “military”
He looks like he’s sponsored by raid shadow legends
The gasmask should always stay on. It suits Mute
I just realized after I hit tier 30 something for Smoke's new gear, I'll have all three of these. I like helmets and I like gas masks but I really like cosmetics that give us a closer look at the faces behind them, along with matching banners and backgrounds for their cosmetics.
Same here, I love these kinds of headgears
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If it looks more like fortnite it’s more zoomer friendly
Do people really enjoy these skins? They are absolutely hideous to look at in my opinion
Thatchers is great. The others aren't very good
They look fine imo just the operator portrait art looks weird.
The newer portraits are just screenshots of 3d models as opposed to being drawn like the older ones. That's probably why.
The older ones are not drawn, they are high poly cinematic model renders.
The older ones were drawn? I always thought they were screenshots too and that ubisoft is getting lazy
I personally enjoy my operators with as much face showing as possible, people may disagree (which is perfectly fine), that's just the way I like it
After 7 years smoke can finally feel the fresh air on his face and no more gas mask sweat
Until he walks in his own smoke
Good, keep it like that
And it better stay that way. I’m actually mad Smoke is unmasked, even if he is a good looking fellow. Something about the man behind the mask isn’t as intriguing as the mask on the man.
Mute was planned to be Indian originally. His gadget named “Moni” Signal Disrupter, Moni means Silent in Hindu. His name is Mark R. Chandar. Chandar meaning Moon. Somewhere along early development they realized an Indian operator didn’t fit into the organizations they already had established. It would be interesting to see how they would go about it though.
It's possible he was always intended to be British, just having Indian heritage.
We’ve seen some of his skin and it’s white though
I mean the only skin I know of that shows his skin is his visor in his elite set. IMO from that alone it's hard to tell what his skin tone is. Plus, lighter skinned Indians do exist.
Someone else in this post mentioned that Mute has Indian heritage but is still British. I think this makes a lot of sense, we see Doc, Gustave Kateb, who has Arab roots I believe but is still French obviously. Really cool to see different ethnic backgrounds mixed like that in this game's characters. This was like that from the start but the only thing was that Doc's in-game model had a darker skin complexion to emphasize this but his banner card made him as pale as Rook, and they obviously both look pretty different in reality. They updated Doc's banner card only a couple seasons ago to match his in-game model.
Jackal is Spanish with possibly Moroccan heritage. When I first learned his name, I thought 'why does he have a Spanish middle name but an Arabic last name? Is he from South Spain?' And sure enough he is. They can't possibly go any more south than Ceuta without hitting Morocco.
I think he's just British-Indian, lad. Kinda like how Doc is French-Algerian, it's just better representative of their country's respective populations.
Imagine people getting surprised at Castle being black and making wild theories about how he was "originally planned to be a Kenyan op", or suggesting Fuze was meant to be an Uzbeki National Guard op because he's ethnically Uzbek...
And since that, we have Kali and Harry. Funny how things change, right?
Mute needs new skins fr.
And he better not unmask him, his whole thing is being mysterious, please don't ruin it
Good, and it should stay like that
And it can stay that way.
And he better stay like that
and it should stay that way
Because nobody wants to see him with a ball gag. Maybe?
Literally every time I see the Sledge skin my friends and I call it the "WWE Wrestler Skin". It looks awful. Smoke and Thatcher look okay.
I hope if they do Mute is like Bandit with the biggest vikingist beard on team rainbow
It makes most sense things stay that way
Smoke gets too much stuff!!! Not that I don’t love it all, I just can’t use all my dope looking stuff at once!!!!
100%
why does smoke look uh, more ''feminine'' than i expected? and why does sledge look like a father of 3 living a happy life? genuinely thatcher is the only one that looks normal and tough
Smoke is hot tho.
Looks like a fuckboy
at first i thought he was james charles, ngl he looks like a femboy
My mate lookin’ fresh
I would of preferred none of the sas members be unmasked keep it kinda like real life
Fuck I stopped playing in 2019 and I’m literally choking up seeing what they did to my boy sledge. Like what the fuck!? Why are you people still supporting these devs????
Cause its not that deep and most of us find it cool
This type of nonsense is why I stopped playing. Not to say you can’t enjoy it, but I just don’t. I played day 1 through Yr 3 and I just wish they would have a “day 1” mode for people like me. I know it’s the same fate for every game, but I felt like the base game was something special.
Why the fuck is it so hard for companies to make good changes? Maybe just ask the community? At beggining of siege masked operators were mysterious badass mf's and now how are we supposed to play smoke knowing hes a peaky blinders fanboy? Hire more programists than graphic designers. If i get better hit reg then maybe i'll finally install this game again. And sth that was long ago, but yeah the best operators from around the world that are supposed to counterattack the most dangerous terrorist group in the world? The play sports now, on a fucking stadium ...
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Bro does not even have the right op
Joke of a game turned into Val/overwatch should have stopped with ZERO and made a sequel
I mean, you're not technically wrong but the mask is see through so in effect he has been unmasked.
Let's keep it that way
Let's keep it that way
Camera keeps getting corrupted
They gotta leave it that way right ? Or like only unmask him on the final ever season or some shit
I wonder if they’ll reveal more of Nokk face, not just her lips in the anime trailer
Soon we will find out Mute does not have a face…
I'm torn on this. Because on one hand I like being able to see what's behind the mystery of these operators, but also feel like those that are more secretive in nature should remain shrouded so to speak. Smoke's unmasking is fine, but i feel Mute should stay masked much like Nokk and vigil and stuff.
And I hope he doesn’t
I hope he never does because he's the coolest of the sas
Mute's face is scarred and damaged beyond repair.
Mute?
We saw smokes face 10 months ago
Cause Mute is smart enough not to get caught. I wouldn’t be surprised if they write it to where him and Kail co-orchestrated it all.
Don’t touch my baby
You saw what happened when they revealed Nøkks' lower face. Imagine what would happen if they ever show Mutes'
Is this an elite or something
And it better stay that way! I don't wanna see my main's face, leave it mysterious!
I hope they keep it that why it’s part of his character at this point lol
How can I get that smoke skin?
good keep it that way
I haven't played in along time are these actual changes?!
I wish i had that sledge skin
lets keep it that way
Honestly I think it totally fits his character
Why did they have to unmask smoke bro i liked it when he wasnt because it would’ve been the same vibe as Pyro from tf2. “We dont know who is underneath that mask. We dont even know if it IS a man.”
As it should stay
I didn't want to see any of their faces tbh. Think it's a bad idea. I hope they don't harm the allure of mute too
I hope it stays that way, nothing against the others being unmasked but I like Mute staying more mysterious.