After many years, Ubisoft is now giving the long-standing tactical shooter Rainbow Six: Siege full cross-play support.
Rainbow Six: Siege has been successful on the market for nine years – and now a feature that was almost no longer thought possible is being added to the title! The shooter now receives full cross-play support on the occasion of the release of the next chapter, “Operation Collision Point”. Translated: In the future, PC and console players will also be able to play with and against each other.
When it comes to cross-play in the shooter sector, the discussion about fairness between the different platforms always comes up; The circumstances when gaming with a mouse and keyboard as well as a controller are too different. Ubisoft will take this into account through options.
Anyone who gambles online should be able to choose from three different player pools. There will be platform-specific pools in which you can only play against players on the same system, for example on the PlayStation only against other PlayStation gamers. The second pool allows cross-play exclusively on consoles, i.e. between PlayStation and Xbox. And last but not least, there is the new PC cross-play pool, which puts all players in the same matchmaking.
If you decide on general cross-play, then in the future there will be a separate PC rank separate from the traditional console rank in the corresponding playlists. Otherwise, more work has been put into this area due to concerns about more cheating. To balance things out, MouseTrap V2 will be part of the feature, says UX designer Abhishek Agarwal.
According to Creative Director Alexander Karpazis, the newly implemented system should make it possible to discover players with a mouse and keyboard who want to cheat their way into a console-only list. These should be automatically transferred to the PC pool.
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