Rainbow Six Siege Finally Gets Cross-Play

Can you believe it? As Rainbow Six Siege approaches its ninth anniversary, it continues to be one of the most popular competitive multiplayer games on both PC and consoles! In an exciting turn of events, the next update will finally bring crossplay between PC and console to this competitive shooter.

Operation Collision Point is set to enhance Rainbow Six Siege, introducing a revamped Blackbeard with a new shield that features soft-breach capabilities and a retractable window, enabling it to use a primary weapon effectively. This complimentary Operator remaster marks the beginning of a season that will also include balancing updates for Ying and Sens, modifications to ballistic shields, and significant advancements in player protection.

Crossplay, Player Protection, and More

However, as we know most competitive shooters are struggling with cheaters and Ubisoft apparently has a plan to protect console players from PC cheaters. The next update for Rainbow Six Siege adds crossplay for PC and consoles. The Year 9 Season 4 update, Operation Collision Point, will be released on December 3 and will also change anti-cheat.

Player Protection advances this season include Mousetrap Penalty adjustments to account for crossplay, automatic match cancellation if a cheater is detected, an overhaul for the Reputation center, and AI text moderation.

The addition of crossplay means players will be able to play with friends on other platforms, with console players able to join the PC player pool. Cross-play squads that include at least one PC player will automatically be moved to the PC player pool.

However, PC players will not be able to join a party that is all console players. Console players playing in ranked playlists with crossplay enabled will maintain a separate PC rank from their console rank, Ubisoft explained.

Rainbow Six Siege is available to play on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC (via the Ubisoft Store and Epic Games Store), and Amazon Luna, and is included with a Ubisoft+ Premium subscription.

💥 The full crossplay experience is coming to Siege in Operation Collision Point!

🎮 Console players, get ready to squad up with your PC pals.

Starting in Y9S4, you’ll be able to choose to matchmake into PC lobbies as a console player.

🖥️ Will you be playing in the PC pool? pic.twitter.com/0m0Do4WsFU

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