After a month of ongoing connection and server issues, the team behind Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is now investigating a cheat that kicks players from games, often incurring abandon penalties in ranked matches and occasionally even crashing the entire game.
We are currently investigating a cheat where players are being kicked out of games. We have released a hotfix to reduce some of the impact of the cheat for certain cases while we look into it further.
— Rainbow Six Siege (@Rainbow6Game) May 21, 2020
While Ubisoft haven't given too many details about the cheat, players in the comments have elaborated on the problems it's been causing. While only some players have been experiencing game crashes as well as being kicked, the support team confirmed they were related to the cheat in question.
My screen just freezes mid-game and I get kicked. It doesn’t take me back to the menu either. I have to fully restart siege again. Usually it only happens once but there was a day where I had to do it 2-3 times.
— kawaiicakes (@upashna09) May 21, 2020
Thank you for the clarification! This seems to be related to the cheat we mentioned. While our team is still looking into it, feel free to send any videos you have of this to our Support team for further investigation.
— Rainbow Six Siege (@Rainbow6Game) May 21, 2020
From the account's reply history, it looks like this issue has been affecting some players since at least May 14.
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