The team at Rainbow Six Siege released a news update regarding Anti-Cheats within the game. One of the biggest things they stress is that every time they build up more defenses against cheats, the harder it will become to detect. The more defenses, the more complex hackers have to be to create a cheat within the game. This means that some of theses cheats are hard to detect. The good news is that with some of the recent developments, it has shaken up the cheating eco-system causing some of the cheat providers to leave or shut down.
A strike team has been made to target the less detectable cheats and take them down. The team understands that the cheats lead to deteriorated game play. The strike team has focused on further encrypting the game to prevent future cheats from being created. The most recent update to the game deals with various navigation, shooting-related, griefing, and drone-related cheats. There have also been widespread waves of bans with over 9,000 cheaters banned in January.
There are currently three different anti-cheat measures in place: mousetrap, QB system, and BattlEye with these system always active unless they hinder the legitimate players. However, these security measures are only temporarily disabled if ever. BattlEye is the only security system to always remain active.
The first security system is called Mouse Trap. This was established in Year 8. It still can be spoofed, but overall has decreased the amount of cheaters. The point of this security measure is to prevent those on console from using a mouse and keyboard. There is a warning feedback for detected players. There have been major optimizations recently to help the security software be more effective.
The QB system is the next security software. Its main goal is to make it more difficult for cheating software to be created. This software will continue to receive optimizations, however the developers are looking to make a new iteration of it soon. They will be releasing more details on that later this year.
BattlEye is the final security measure. It finds and bans thousands of cheaters each month. There is little mention of it in the game to prevent cheaters from learning about and attempting to circumvent the security. There was over 100,000 bans in 2023 alone from BattlEye. Data also plays a role in banning cheaters. There are still high stat cheaters out there, but the new data system has banned many cheaters already.
The team at Rainbow Six Siege understands that cheats make the game less enjoyable for the player. They plan on continuing to build and strengthen their anti-cheat systems. More details are to be released at the Six Invitational. Players can watch to learn more about Year 9 Season 1 on February 24th and Year 9 on February 25th.