Ubisoft is planning on bringing some holiday cheer into Siege this week, as the Rainbow Six Siege Snow Brawl event is launching tomorrow, December 14, and will last for three weeks! Players will earn a free event pack for their snowy conquests, which you can preview in the trailer below.
Welcome to the first ever Rainbow International Snowball Fight! Check out this new Capture-the-Flag game mode with a snowy twist. Play during the event to get a free event pack. For three weeks starting December 14th, enter the Snow Brawl!
In addition to the R6 Siege Snowball Fight coming tomorrow, the devs have also made announcements regarding Rainbow Six Siege anti-cheat measures! Moving forward, players can expect dev updates every 1.5 months, and the first major move for anti-cheat is incoming this Feb. 10, 2022!
Beginning with data, this graph groups together BattlEye’s bans and our own sanctions based on data.
Highlights:
💥 Over 100,000 cheaters banned since Jan 2021.
💥 On average, 10,000 average cheaters are banned each month. pic.twitter.com/Z7fgCVjSbR— Rainbow Six Siege (@Rainbow6Game) December 13, 2021
We added data-based detections to work in parallel with BattlEye as they don’t have visibility on in-game stats.
In the past 2 years, we increased the amount of information we share with BattlEye dramatically, which helps BattlEye help us. pic.twitter.com/4cLcraTVmb— Rainbow Six Siege (@Rainbow6Game) December 13, 2021
One thing to keep in mind is that the code Siege is built on is quite old, so a solid amount of Anti-Cheat is focused on updating this old code.
Here are some ways we’ve been keeping the code fresh on the Anti-Cheat side. pic.twitter.com/d3iKzjsW2l
— Rainbow Six Siege (@Rainbow6Game) December 13, 2021
So much of Anti-Cheat work can’t be announced until it’s over, for security’s sake.
That said, here’s a small glimpse of two place where our focus will be in 2022. pic.twitter.com/LPcdXuihrx
— Rainbow Six Siege (@Rainbow6Game) December 13, 2021
Moving forward, we promise to bring you regular updates every 1.5 months on what we’re doing with Anti-Cheat, right here on Twitter.
The first of these updates will come on Feb. 10, 2022. pic.twitter.com/NlQGkLx9aa
— Rainbow Six Siege (@Rainbow6Game) December 13, 2021
For a deeper dive into the anti-cheat goals, plans and more, head on over to the developer blog about it.
If there’s a new patch to go alongside tomorrow’s Snowball event, we’ll be sure to let our readers know once it’s available.