Rainbow Six Siege lower mouse and keyboard “spoofers” on console by 78%

Ubisoft explains why it did not ban mouse and keyboard gamers on console, and the way profitable its MouseTrap detection system has been.

The MouseTrap system launched this 12 months to Rainbow Six Siege has apparently had nice success in decreasing the variety of gamers utilizing mouse and keyboard on consoles, with Ubisoft explaining why it used this methodology to “penalize” mouse and keyboard customers as a substitute of banning them.

Ubisoft selected to “penalize” mouse and keyboard customers on consoles as a substitute of issuing bans

“One of many high complaints of PvP shooter gamers throughout the complete style is dishonest and poisonous conduct. Within the area of a single session, one cheater can smash the expertise for a whole bunch if not hundreds of gamers,” Ubisoft says, earlier than discussing its “two industry-first techniques” generally known as MouseTrap and QB.

MouseTrap is a detection system for these utilizing mouse and keyboard on console. It was launched again in April, and “penalizes” mouse and keyboard customers by “including additional enter latency (or lag) to gamers detected,” with the concept that they will then return to utilizing their controller. “There was a 78% discount within the whole spoofers (mouse and keyboard customers) detected in Rainbow Six Siege,” Ubisoft says. “If we take a look at Ranked by itself, the discount is comparable; 73% fewer spoofers than earlier than.”

Ubisoft provides that a number of gamers have been interested in why it selected to “penalize mouse and keyboard customers as a substitute of banning them,” explaining, “we wished to provide these gamers the possibility to alter their conduct and play pretty” — and apparently this has labored: “as soon as detected by MouseTrap, many customers are returning to their controllers or switching to PC. Our knowledge reveals that after a primary penalty, 43% of penalized gamers will proceed to play the sport with out ever getting any additional penalties.”

QB, in the meantime, is an anti-cheat characteristic for PC. The Rainbow Six Siege crew has additionally made efforts to fight toxicity within the sport with warnings and penalties for “voice chat abuse.” 12 months 8 of the sport will carry the Privateness Mode to consoles too.