Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Best Weapon Attachments Guide

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is one of those tactical first-person shooters that rewards careful planning, situational awareness, and adapting to the conditions you face. As such, your weapon attachments play a huge role in this game.

Be it a stealth build using Nokk, or guns blazing via Thermite, attachments are crucial for your team’s success.

That is why today, we’re bringing you an ultimate guide on all Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege weapon attachment options.

Do remember that there are currently 70 playable operators in Rainbow Six Siege, and each one is unique in its own way. While we won’t be covering each one, we will give you a guide on which attachments suit which situations and playstyles. Let’s get to it!

Optical Attachments

We will start this guide with perhaps the simplest attachment options you can choose in the game, your optics. These range from a series of Red Dot and Reflex Sights available to you to ACOG sights with 1.5x, 2.0x,  2.5x, and 3.0x zoom.

The basic ideology behind optical attachments in Rainbow Six Siege is to use whichever option you are most comfortable with. While some sights, such as the Red Dot, might suit other players, you could be entirely different and find your perfect balance with the Reflex Sights. It’s down to personal preference.

That said, there are some things to consider. For example, the map you are playing on. Some maps are bigger than others. Lair, the latest addition to Rainbow Six Siege, is much bigger than Hereford Base to name a few. Here you may want to utilize ACOG sights which zoom in significantly more, allowing you to align those headshots perfectly.

In general, feel free to play around using different sights and finding which suits you best!

Barrel Attachments

Barrel attachments are significantly different from optics and they must be adapted to specific situations and weapons. Here you have several options: suppressors, flash hiders, muzzle brakes, compensators, and extended barrels. We will cover each one.

Suppressors

Suppressors are one of the best attachments you can choose in the game. Aside from hiding the direction you shot from, they also add an entirely different type of satisfaction when you land those kills one after the other. Not to mention the mouth-watering sounds they produce adding the much-needed spec-ops vibe to the game.

An important thing to consider is that they do reduce the damage output ever so slightly. This is, however, compensated with much less recoil and tighter spread making your shots more controlled and accurate. In essence, this is a trade-off you have to make based on your personal preference and the skill you possess when it comes to recoil control.

Additionally, suppressors, as the name suggests, mute almost all sounds coming from firing your guns. Audio is a big factor in Rainbow Six Siege, and masking your shots and remaining undetected can mean the difference between life and death.

Flash Hider

Sometimes referred to as the Flash Suppressor, this attachment has many benefits when using it. Aside from significantly reducing the flash from firing your weapon, thus blinding you, the Flash Hider also significantly reduces the muzzle recoil a player experiences during spraying.

If we were to include math in the equation, then the vertical recoil would be reduced by 13%, while the horizontal recoil would be reduced by 15%. In the game, this is an enormous difference and may be a significant factor for you in making those shots connect.

Weapons such as the MP5 used by Doc, Rook, and Melusi benefit from this attachment the most, making them deadly adversaries to deal with.

Muzzle Brake

Contrary to the Flash Hiders we previously mentioned, Muzzle Brakes significantly reduce vertical recoil (by as much as 45%) while not affecting horizontal recoil whatsoever. Their purpose is to re-align the weapon with its starting firing point allowing you better control over recoil and tighter bullet spread.

Players deciding between muzzle brakes and flash hiders need to take into consideration their skills when it comes to recoil control and pick the option that will best suit them. In most cases, the flash hider is the way to go. However, certain operators such as Thermite and Osa with their 556XI assault rifles work best with the muzzle brake.

Feel free to use the Training Grounds in the game to see which option best suits you, and which recoil management attachment you prefer.

Compensator

The Compensator is another barrel attachment in Rainbow Six Siege designed to reduce muzzle recoil. Only this time, it is horizontal recoil that’s impacted by this attachment. Using the compensator reduces horizontal recoil by as much as 35%.

This attachment is best used with weapons with low vertical recoil but high bullet spread. The compensator will then allow you much more accurate shots. Additionally, it is best used in close to medium-range gunfights.

Extended Barrel

The Extended Barrel attachment is one with the most controversy around it when it comes to Rainbow Six Siege. Contrary to the in-game description of this attachment, which states that it:

“Provides the full damage over a longer distance range, which offers you more options in terms of positioning to take down your opponents.”

In-game description

It reduces the damage drop-off by 15-20% depending on which weapon you are using. Additionally, the extended barrel attachment also increases the damage output ever so slightly. For example, the PARA-308 used by Capitao and Brava, with the extended barrel attachment, deals 52 damage as opposed to normal damage output of 48.

However, it is important to note that with the extended barrel, you do not get any recoil benefits, neither horizontal nor vertical. This means that by using this attachment, you miss out on all of the other potential benefits you could have with either the muzzle brake, compensator, or flash hider.

What to Use?

All of this information provided sounds great on paper, but what does it mean in practice? Which weapon attachments are best used in Rainbow Six Siege? This again depends on which situation you find yourself in. Let us take Nokk or Caveira for example. They are stealth-based characters that are meant to flank the opponents and take them down one by one.

You cannot go in guns blazing with these operators, it would be pointless. Hence why they thrive off suppressors for example to keep them as hidden as possible.

Other operators using assault rifles, for example, Fuze or Ace with their AK-12 will reap no benefits from using suppressors. They are front-line operators meant to deal damage, open walls, and take on gunfights. 

Here you have to consider what it is you’re good with at Siege. Be it horizontal or vertical recoil control, you need to attach adequate barrel attachments to compensate for your weaknesses.

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