Ubisoft's MouseTrap works, and console players are dancing on cheat hardware's grave

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Ubisoft's wild attempt to create a software that can detect and defeat people using a mouse and keyboard on Rainbow Six Siege(opens in new tab)'s console version seems to have paid off. Makers of the hardware «spoofing» device XIM, which lets you use whatever input you want on your console, are saying that—despite their best efforts otherwise—you're not using it in Siege any time soon. 

XIM isn't inherently a cheating device, as it's really just intended to let you use a mouse and keyboard with macros on your console, but in practice it allows console cheaters to pretend they're using a controller while gaining the benefits of a mouse and keyboard. 

That can be a big deal for some in competitive games, especially so in console games like Siege that don't have any form of aim assist in multiplayer matches. Whatever your stance on the mouse vs. keyboard skirmishes of the console wars, it's clear that this was cheating.

Ubisoft's war on those who would bring a mouse and keyboard to a controller fight started earlier this year, when it began testing the software by giving some XIM users deliberate input lag(opens in new tab). It intensified earlier this month, with the full rollout of the MouseTrap(opens in new tab) anti-cheating initiative, which saw spoofers scrambling to their forums for support(opens in new tab).

Of course, many expected that Ubisoft's efforts would be stymied as the spoofer-makers found counter-effects and software workarounds to re-disguise their work—that's often the story with cheating, hacking, and the like. Close one hole and they find another. But that's not what happened here, with quotes(opens in new tab) from XIM forum users saying if you plug in a keyboard, well, there's a «high chance» it