Rainbow Six Siege Bans Thousands of Players Every Month
Rainbow Six Siege is one of the most popular first-person shooters of the PS4 and Xbox One console generation. While it struggled upon its release in 2015, Ubisoft spent the next few years making various improvements. This persistence was rewarded and Siege became increasingly popular over the course of the generation. Just last year, Rainbow Six Siege broke its record of concurrent players on Steam after the launch of the Crimson Heat expansion.
Cheating is fairly common in multiplayer games these days, and Rainbow Six Siege is no exception. Several developers are adding anti-cheat software to the PC version of their games, and many players get banned on a regular basis. Over 90,000 Siege players were banned in 2020, and now Ubisoft has shared some interesting data related to the current cheating situation in Rainbow Six Siege.
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This information comes from the official Twitter account of Rainbow Six Siege. It first shows a graph that confirms the number of bans handed out in the past one and a half years. It looks like thousands of players get banned every month thanks to BattlEye anti-cheat software. The number of bans crossed 10,000 in August 2021, and the developers had also banned 3,114 “idle botters”, from November to January.
Banning is key in the efforts to combat cheaters in Rainbow Six Siege, but the developer also wants to reduce the possibility of cheats being reproduced. As a result, it has deployed hotfixes to stop 3 cheats – Instantly kill entire lobby, Drones crashing matches, and Drone causing melee damage. Rainbow Six Siege developers also wanted to thank players for continuing to report cheaters.
The next couple of Tweets further detail the steps Ubisoft is
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