Rainbow Six Siege has been struggling with cheaters recently, and Ubisoft has taken some serious steps to fix the issue. We’ll take a look at their ongoing investigations and what they’re working on.
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Rainbow Six Siege Anti-Cheat Team Update
Ubisoft mentions their Rainbow Six Siege Anti-Cheat team is evolving. They said they’re currently restructuring, growing, and allocating more resources to their Anti-Cheat team, ensuring that they can provide a secure future for Siege. Ubisoft mentioned that while they're in this stage, their team will remain focused on improving player experience.
Rainbow Six Siege Bans: Data Bans and Battleye
Ubisoft mentioned that this season of Rainbow Six Siege marks a significant evolution in their approach to cheating, as they made improvements to their Data Ban system, moving to a machine learning model. They’ve also vastly increased the number of data points used to analyze a player's performance, resulting in a meaningful increase in cheaters being detected and sanctioned through this method.
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In addition to these efforts, they also have new Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) detections, which are currently being used to sanction players in Rainbow Six Siege. Ubisoft wanted to mention that they know that this has been affecting players, and they want to make it clear that they are working on identifying behaviors and sanctioning players who are taking advantage of these services.
Ongoing Investigations in Rainbow Six Siege
Ubisoft mentioned that they are aware of the increase in cheating behaviors reported by the Rainbow Six Siege community. They wanted to reassure the community that addressing these concerns is a top priority for their Anti-Cheat team and that they are looking to deploy solutions to resolve these issues as soon as possible.
The Y9S1.3 patch deployed on May 2 has temporarily improved this situation while they work on long-term solutions to prevent those cheats.
The Rainbow Six Siege team also said they were actively working on a fix for the Crash Exploit reported by the community. Until then, Abandon Penalties have been retroactively reduced to a 5-minute duration. All newly issued Abandon Penalties will be 5 minutes as well.
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MouseTrap in Rainbow Six Siege
MouseTrap is a system in Rainbow Six Siege designed to detect spoofing devices that enable the use of mouse and keyboard on consoles. Changes implemented in Y9S1 have broadened its detection capabilities, allowing it to find more suspicious players.
Ubisoft mentioned that this season, they are also focusing on player feedback, with most changes being aimed at enhancing their current system. The Y9S1.3 update is helping to further increase the accuracy of MouseTrap by expanding on the types of devices that it can recognize and improving the detection of currently identifiable devices.
As well as this, the update is working to further minimize false positives, resulting in fewer controller players being incorrectly detected.
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