Ubisoft is smashing hackers by the thousands with 'QB,' and we may never find out exactly how it works
Ubisoft is becoming quite the anti-cheat innovator as of late. In a Rainbow Six Siege community update published today, the studio went in-depth on the performance of its two newest anti-cheat initiatives: the widely-publicized "MouseTrap" tech that counters mouse and keyboard spoofing devices on consoles, and another mysterious feature known only as «QB» that apparently makes cheat development so difficult that some cheat developers are giving up.
A reported 78% drop in daily mouse and keyboard abusage on consoles is a success for the first-of-its-kind MouseTrap. We don't know exactly how many console players have used this technique, but the issue has been widely reported and complained about for years. Call of Duty is also cracking down on XIM cheaters.
But I'm much more interested in that QB feature that Ubi is being so secretive about. All we know for sure about QB are the scarce details Ubi has shared about it since it went online in November 2022. It's a PC-only feature that «aims to make cheat development more tedious.»
How is it doing that? Ubi wants to keep that under wraps to «protect its integrity,» but we have a pretty good idea of what's going on. Around the time QB went online last year, eagle-eyed fans noticed that Rainbow Six Siege's Steam version was receiving small updates every few hours with no obvious change on the player's end. The theory at the time was that Ubi is altering Siege's executable several times a day so that current cheats become incompatible, forcing cheat makers to match pace by constantly updating their erroneous tools.
Ubi hasn't confirmed if QB is in fact this elaborate game of compatibility hopscotch in action (or if it simply represents one piece of QB), but it hasn't denied it
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