Ubisoft is at war with Rainbow Six Siege cheaters. Spoofer users will see their ping skyrocket.
Video game cheaters are a real nuisance for a variety of reasons. For some time now, developers and publishers have been offering tools, more or less effective, to deal with them. All this takes time and money. Ubisoft is tired. The studio announced that in the next version of Rainbow Six Siege, players who use a third-party accessory (spoofer) to control their keyboard or mouse will significantly increase their latency.
Ubisoft goes to war with Rainbow Six Siege cheaters
These accessories, including XIM, APEX, Cronus Zen or ReaSnow S1, allow gamers to take advantage of the higher sensitivity and improved feedback that keyboards and mice offer compared to console controllers. They also often include aim assist, auto-reload, and other features that have always been rightly criticized by the gaming community and banned from official competition. But that hasn’t stopped more and more gamers from using such devices to improve their performance in games like Destiny 2 or Overwatch.
This will no longer be in Rainbow Six Siege. The company recently introduced its Mousetrap system, a detection kit designed specifically to detect accounts using such banned accessories. The mousetrap is already active for several reasons, the company wants in particular to use the system’s detection capabilities to build a database of known scammers.
Spoofer users will see their ping skyrocket.
“We know exactly which players used these systems and when they did it,” said Jan Stahlhake, Head of Development at Rainbow Six Siege. “We also know that spoofers are very common in higher positions.”
If the system detects a scammer, the account will notice a noticeable increase in response time, more than enough to void any winnings won fraudulently by the spoofer. The user will need to turn off the device and play several games with such a high ping penalty before the effect wears off. Activision took similar and inventive action in 2022 against Call of Duty scammers with its Disarm system.
The studio acknowledges that such devices may also be legitimately used by players with disabilities, and Ubisoft encourages such players to contact support to assess the situation. You would think that this issue would be resolved before the official release, but unfortunately Ubisoft is not very well known for its culture of inclusivity.