Rainbow Six Siege PC players are accidentally joining console lobbies and absolutely destroying them
A new bug in Rainbow Six Siege's matchmaking created a nightmare scenario for console players of the game: the PC players are invading console lobbies and wiping the floor with controller players.
For weeks, PC players have reported being placed in matches in which everybody else is playing on console, something that's supposed to be impossible. Siege was one of the last holdouts for crossplay among older FPSes, and when Ubisoft finally made it happen, it included one key stipulation: Xbox and PlayStation can play together, but PC players remain in their own bubble(opens in new tab). The community accepted, because pretty much everyone agrees that PC players have a major advantage in a no-respawn FPS that doesn't feature aim assist.
The earliest reports of the bug I can find date back to late April, suggesting it might be linked to the Year 8 Season 1 midseason patch released on April 11. Judging by the experience of PC players who have been inadvertently matched against console players, cross-platform matchups are going down as poorly as you'd expect.
«Uhhh so I just played about 5 games in a row and was wondering why it was so easy (I’m a Diamond on PC),» user iceyfire17(opens in new tab) wrote on the Siege subreddit. «Nobody would answer in chat and the times people had mics it would be open mic and worst aim imaginable. My team let me know they were all on PS5 and either from copper-silver ranks.»
User LazyWash(opens in new tab) also managed to matchmake into console lobbies and claims to have gone on a 10-game winning streak. Most of the reports I've seen say this is only happening in casual matches, but it does seem possible to cross-queue in Ranked and Unranked.
There's been a degree of uncertainty around how
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