Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege has just launched its holiday event, featuring a new gamemode on a revamped map, and of course, a whole new suite of rewards.

Freeze For All Permafrost is live for a bit under a month, leaving the game on January 6th of next year. Until then, you’ll find yourself in a reworked version of last year’s holiday festivities.

The headline gamemode here is an 8 player free-for-all, where you can score bonus points by grabbing “Frozen Souls”, dropped by enemies on death.

Unlike last year’s event, you’ve got an unlimited supply of respawns, letting players be far more aggressive in combat. First to 40 points wins – or, if the game reaches its eight-minute time limit, the player with the highest score wins.

The Arctic Workshop serves as the special map for this event – it’s an overhauled version of Hereford Base, given a new facelift for the holidays.

But we’re all here for rewards, and the holiday season’s got more than a few of those in store. Typical for live-service games, you’ll get rewards just by logging in during the event – in this case, a free cosmetic collection pack.

Weekly challenges can get you an enhanced Variant bundle for Frost, and you can get another bundle for Grim through Twitch drops.

If you’re willing to get a little premium, the Freeze For All Permafrost collection will get you bundles for seven different operators. Mika, Finka, and Thermite get new bundles, while Thorn, Ash, Vigil, and Dokkaebi get enchanced Variants bundles.

The collection also gets – you guessed it – skins, skins, and more skins. A drone skin, a universal weapon skin, an animated weapon skin, and more.

Freeze For All – A Chill Event For Rainbow Six Siege

Full information on all the goodies can be found on Ubisoft’s website, with an update post and a blog post giving you all the intel you’d need.

But, if this isn’t your first rodeo, the offerings here are fairly intuitive for a holiday event. You can jump in feet first and get a pretty good idea of things – the game mode is a familiar twist on a free for all experience, and we all know what skins are by now.

All things considered, the Freeze For All Permafost event is remarkably chill. Breach and clear – get what you need, and rest easy. More events are undoubtedly on the way.

There’s even been speculation about a whole new Rainbow Six game – but we’ll have to wait until 2025 for anything to materialize there.