Rainbow Six Siege held its fourth Community Checkpoint, where developers discussed the current state of the game with a focus on Player Protection. The team clarified core rules, outlined sanctionable actions, previewed anti-cheat measures, and shared Operator balancing updates coming in Year 11 Season 3.

Core Rules Update

Rainbow Six Siege enforces core rules around fair play, team conduct, and match mechanics. Last week, in response to the growing community and evolving competitive playlists, the core rules were updated to clarify acceptable behaviors and sanctions.

Sanctions are issued based on severity, frequency, and intent. During the Community Checkpoint, developers outlined key cheating behaviors that trigger sanctions:

Cheating: Using any software or hardware for unfair advantage, including exploits like spoofing
Smurfing: Using alternate accounts to bypass bans or dominate lower-skilled lobbies
Boosting: Playing with cheaters, intentionally matchmaking against specific accounts to manipulate ranking, or using external services to influence rank
Negative communication: Bullying, harassment, threats, or hateful language
Botting: Using bots, scripts, or automatic systems to mimic player behavior and farm progression
Account abuse: Using shared or unverified accounts, or providing false account information
Circumventing anti-cheat detection systems or account bans

Anti-Cheat Measures

Operation System Override has the lowest number of cheating reports in recent seasons, except in high-ranking match pools. The team is prioritizing anti-cheat improvements at Diamond ranks and above.

The upcoming Legend Division will introduce two-step verification with an authenticator app, required to protect accounts. All players enabling two-step verification will receive an Alpha Pack. Two-factor authentication via app will eventually roll out to other divisions.

Legend Division will also debut The R6 Shieldguard Secure Platform, the most significant anti-cheat update since the game's launch. It features:

Secure Boot: Verifies the legitimacy of PC startup components (firmware, OS, drivers) to detect cheats before launch
VBS/Core Isolation (HVCI): Runs Windows' most sensitive processes in an isolated virtual environment
Trusted Platform Module (TPM): Cryptographically ensures Secure Boot and VBS/Core Isolation are active

Players need to enable Core Isolation in Windows Security; some may need to upgrade firmware for Secure Boot and TPM.

A dedicated Ubisoft Security team is developing a kernel-level, shared anti-cheat solution across Ubisoft games, with Rainbow Six Siege among the first to incorporate it. Players will be notified upon launch in Season 3. Kernel-level anti-cheat combats modern cheats that hide in the game's deepest levels.

Developers confirmed that manual bans occur only after physical review of evidence and backend data—never based solely on player clips. Players are encouraged to report suspected cheating through in-game systems.

Console Cheating and Mousetrap

Console cheating persists, particularly mouse-and-keyboard spoofing in controller pools. The Mousetrap system detects and sanctions these cheaters, though developers encourage reporting to improve its efficiency.

Recoil macros represent another console issue. A new detection model will identify programs and scripts enabling recoil macros, issuing bans only after multiple confirmed instances. This system launches on PC later this month and is in development for consoles.

The team is also building a program to retroactively analyze past matches for cheaters. Developers are analyzing AI-assisted cheating on console and will evolve anti-cheat measures accordingly.

Anti-Toxicity

Rainbow Six Siege continues iterating on anti-toxicity measures, particularly with voice chat:

Updates to anti-toxicity voice chat programs before year's end
A new, mandatory Code of Conduct beginning in Year 11 Season 4
More communication on outcomes of cheating and toxicity reports
Year 12 will introduce features recognizing and encouraging good behavior

Operator Balancing

Operator balancing is critical to keep gameplay competitive as new Operators enter and the meta evolves. With the meta trending toward power Operators, developers are refining balance while maintaining core appeal.

Year 11 Season 3 brings these changes:

Dokkaebi

Replacing Impact EMP with Breach Charge
The Jageo Payload becomes an active upload that can be interrupted before the call places, rather than an instant threat
The upload can be countered by entering a Mute Signal Disrupter radius or eliminating Dokkaebi before the call completes
Tubarão can disable the upload using their Zoto Canister
IQ will see the targeted Defender's phone
Solis' SPEC-IO Electric Sensor will detect Dokkaebi's tablet during the Jageo Payload upload

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