The favorite theory is that Ubisoft is releasing a new build of Rainbow Six Siege every two hours to thwart cheaters. The reality might be a little different, but that's not a totally wild idea, according to an anti-cheat expert.
, tells me that the new builds every two hours idea is"a decent strategy," but would be"really time consuming for a developer."
"I think we don't see this technique from game developers very often due to the operational complexity, but I think it could be effective," Chamberlain said."Even if it doesn't completely prevent cheating it does make it more difficult and expensive to make cheats and raises the skill floor required for new cheat developers to tackle the game."
If you wanted to go all out, however, it would be even better to give each player their own unique version of the game,"since that'd be the maximum amount of effort for cheat developers to keep up with," said Chamberlain. As appealing as it is to imagine a RainbowSix.exe factory that spits out a new version every two hours, that context does make the other explanation sound more probable: Ubisoft made a bunch of unique Siege builds and then distributed them randomly.
Both ideas are appealing for their simplicity. Cheaters keep picking your locks? Just throw new locks at them until they're buried in them. You don't need technical knowledge to understand that, and it sounds delightfully like a Sisyphean punishment for cheat makers. Sadly, cheat developers can write tools that help them adapt, Chamberlain says, so whatever Ubisoft doing isn't going to be the One Simple Trick that thwarts them forever.
Ubisoft says it's"confident" in its new anti-cheat method, which was developed over recent months. The system has reportedly broken Siege stat trackers, though, and Ubisoft hasn't said whether or not those benign third-party overlays will be usable in the future. The publisher has already said it won't divulge specifics about its anti-cheat methods, but I've asked for comment on the overlay issue.
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