Cheaters can now influence what players see in the popular shooter Rainbow Six: Siege and show huge chickens on the players’ screens.
What do the cheaters do? Currently, curious video clips are circulating in the community of Ubisoft’s popular tactical shooter Rainbow Six: Siege. Cheaters have managed to access the game’s ban log and project images onto the players’ screens.
With the ban log, the game displays a ban wave. It shows the IDs of players who have been banned in the current ban wave.
One of the first videos that circulated with the curious cheat came from the Twitch streamer and YouTuber Athieno. He was just about to take down his opponent when a huge image of a chicken appeared on his screen, blocking his view and causing him to lose the shootout.
The streamer also shared the clip on Twitter. We show you the corresponding post here:
However, not only images of chickens are displayed. The cheaters seemingly have the freedom to choose what the affected players should see. A player on reddit showed a fortunately censored video in which a penis was projected onto his screen.
The German e-sports player and Twitch streamer Levolution also fell victim. He had an image displayed which represented the layout of cheat software. This clip can also be seen on Twitter:
Chicken Image Even Sabotages Professional Match
Who can it affect? In principle, it can affect anyone. You don’t even have to be in the same round as a cheater for them to display an image on your screen.
For example, it also affected the professional match of the e-sports teams Astralis and Oxygen Esports. This was broadcast on the Twitch channel “NerdStreetR6” when viewers saw a huge chicken instead of the sight of Oxygen player Nuerss (via Twitter).
What danger exists for affected players? Of course, it is highly likely that you will lose your gunfight when you suddenly cannot see anything. However, this is the comparatively lesser evil of the cheat, which still seems quite funny with a chicken.
It is also possible that indecent or even disturbing images will be displayed. Additionally, there is a separate danger for Twitch streamers, as certain content cannot be shown during a livestream, and broadcasting such content can lead to a ban.
How can one protect themselves? Those who do not want chicken images or worse can reportedly protect themselves with a simple setting according to some players. You only need to disable the “Bans” option in the HUD settings under match information. However, Ubisoft reported on Twitter that they have temporarily disabled the “Ban ticker” that displays the images to the players.
While you won’t be able to see which players are currently being banned, you will be protected from an unwanted image on your screen. Nevertheless, it is clear that with this cheat, the cheaters in Rainbow Six: Siege have reached a new level. And this is despite speculations in November about a secret new strategy of the shooter against cheaters.
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