37b39443d8 | ||
---|---|---|
CUSTOM.md | ||
R6GameService.dll | ||
README.md | ||
RavenShield.mod | ||
SERVERS.md |
README.md
Instructions for playing Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield in 2020 and beyond.
Obtaining the Game
The game is frequently on sale for under $5 on Steam. This edition contains the Athena Sword expansion but not Iron Wrath. Iron Wrath is out of scope for this guide, but it adds 8 maps, 5 game modes, and 6 firearms.
Community Resources
Playing the Game
Essential Improvements
- Borderless Gaming will run the game in a fullscreen window, allowing you to instantly alt-tab. You can download it from Github for free.
- Check the PC Gaming Wiki for any tweaks you might want to perform.
Single-Player
You can now play the campaign, a custom mission, or a training scenario. To unlock all maps in custom missions, press ~
at the main menu and enter the command unlockall
.
Multi-Player
On September 4 2016, Ubisoft shut down the authentication servers for Raven Shield. We use OpenRVS to point our clients at a new set of authentication servers so we can still play the game together.
- Download the latest version of OpenRVS from RVSGaming.org.
- Open
readme.html
to read the documentation. - Copy
openrvs.ini
,OpenRVS.u
,R6ClassDefines.ini
, andServers.list
to<YourGameDir>\system\
. - Replace
system\R6GameService.dll
with the copy from this repo for OpenRVS. - Launch the game and set your Internet connection speed to
T3
in-game. - (Optional) Edit
Servers.list
to choose which servers are displayed when RVSGaming servers cannot be reached. The names in this file are for reference; the in-game server name will be retrieved from the server. You can force the usage of this file by editingopenrvs.ini
and changing the value ofServerListURL
to an invalid URL, such ashttp://127.0.0.1/servers
.
Custom Content
See CUSTOM.md
Hosting a Server
See SERVERS.md