Rainbow Six: Siege fights cheaters with tough measures – and reports clear successes

Rainbow Six: Siege celebrates successes against cheaters, cheaters, and bad players: Ubisoft releases the numbers according to its own standards.

Toxic players and cheaters (and toxic cheaters too!) are a huge problem in many online games. The multiplayer shooter Rainbow Six: Siege is no exception. But there’s good news: Ubisoft has reported measurable successes against those players who spoil the experience for others.

A year against cheaters and attackers, what has been achieved?

Ubisoft’s Player Protection Team has implemented a number of measures over the past few months in an effort to control the plague of cheaters and toxic players. Mainly the following Three features show success:

Mouse trap

The “mouse trap” already reveals in its name what it is about: This is intended to punish gamers who play on consoles with a mouse and keyboard. After all, this gives them an enormous accuracy advantage over their fellow players. Such a mousetrap charges players an extra lag to get them to reach for the console again. Since its introduction, cheat rates have dropped by 78 percent, according to Ubisoft.

QB

This is an anti-cheat feature designed to make it difficult to develop cheats. Thanks order It is said that more than 10,000 cheats have been banned Furthermore, several cheat manufacturers are said to have stopped working with Rainbow Six: Siege.

the gag

Reputation Penalties are intended to ensure that players behave appropriately. Players who engage in toxic behavior in voice chat will receive two warnings. If they become prominent a third time, they It will be automatically muted for the next 30 matches.

According to Ubisoft, the warnings are clearly having a positive effect: for players who were warned once, 50% are no longer so clear. After muting, only 24 percent of those affected misbehave again. Thus, many have to experience tactical PvP shooting again as it was intended:

What do you think of the aggressive anti-cheat measures and features designed to reduce toxic behavior in Rainbow Six: Siege? Do you think this will solve the problem of cheating players in the long run or do you think it is a perfect city? And do you know of any other shooters that do this more effectively than the R6S? Feel free to write to us!