However, Recruits can carry two sets of secondary gadgets, allowing them to flood the objective with frags, flashes, and smokes, and sometimes, that's all that's needed.

Lethal Joke Character: The Recruit is usually not considered a viable pick due to lacking in specialized gadgets.

If a member of the team doesn't follow this 'rule', chances are they will be disciplined by their team mates with a shotgun blast to the face.

Individuality Is Illegal: There is a common tradition in Siege where if one person plays Recruit, then everyone MUST play Recruit (and have identical loadouts).

Flat Character: Recruits have no bio and no personality to speak of.

Featureless Protagonist: Recruits have generic looks and lack any special mechanic/gadget that every other Operator has.

Their weapons come with modifications already installed and cannot be altered. The Recruit does not have any special gadgets, and instead comes with several generic gadgets. A generic Operator available for players who don't have any other Operator or is on a Self-Imposed Challenge.

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