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Rainbow Six Siege's The Road to SI is back for 2021

The Operator Olympics are back, just in time for the 2021 Six Invitational in Rainbow Six Siege. The in-game event centers on the Stadium map and comes with a new battle pass, which is full of rewards to earn and unlock between now and conclusion to the Six Invitational, Siege's first in-person pro event in a year.


During the multiplayer game's Road to SI event, which begins January 21, you'll be able to play as any operator in three-minute, three-round unranked Plant the Bomb, with Pick and Ban enabled. Four captains have been chosen from Siege's roster: Mira, Capitão, Ash, and Vigil. Each team will be decked out in uniforms based on battle pass-themed content, Ubisoft says.


The battle pass itself offers the usual free and premium tracks. The premium track can be unlocked for 1,200 R6 Credits, and 30% of the revenue raised from sales will be dropped directly into the Six Invitational prize pool, up to a maximum of $3 million USD. That tournament is scheduled to run from February 9-21 in Paris, and as the first in-person LAN event held in Siege since the outbreak of COVID-19, it will be following "strict sanitary measures, in line with guidelines from health organisations and local authorities."


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Y5S4.2 Patch Notes



[h2]Y5S4.2 PATCH SIZE[/h2]

Below you will find the download sizes for each platform.

- Ubisoft Connect: 1.2 GB
- Steam: 775.0 MB
- Xbox One: 1.6 GB
- Xbox Series X: 2.0 GB
- PS4: 1.5 GB
- PS5: 3.6 GB

[h2]BUG FIXES[/h2]

[h3]GAMEPLAY[/h3]

- FIXED – Once a PVE session is completed and the "Vote for Retry" button is pressed, after the next PVE session, the "Find Another" button exhibits the same functionality.
- FIXED – HUD settings applied from the Custom Game playlist are not being applied to the host.

[h3]LEVEL DESIGN[/h3]

- FIXED – Various LOD issues present across a multitude of maps.
- FIXED – Several gadget deployment issues present on Theme Park, Outback, and Border maps.
- FIXED – Multiple vault prompt issues present across several maps that either prevent players from properly vaulting or cause rubber banding.
- FIXED – Updated the wall shelf in the Kitchen on Chalet map.
- FIXED – SFX are missing when placing Nomad's Airjab Launcher in the Main Entrance Barricade on Oregon map.
- FIXED – Arcade machine glass is destroyed inconsistently on Theme Park map.
- FIXED – Players can glitch themselves into the concrete dock in EXT Back Alley on Bank map.
- FIXED – FPS drops can occur for everyone in the session if a player spins rapidly in a certain spot of 1F Archives on Bank map.
- FIXED – Drone can be placed on a fence on EXT Back Alley to see through a gap in the West Wall on Bank map.
- FIXED – Players pushed on top of the vase at 1F ATMs can spawn peek out of the window on Bank map.
- FIXED – Several texture issues present that impact drones in 2F Executive Lounge, EXT Low Roof, EXT Parking, and 2F Hallway on Bank map.
- FIXED – Unfair line of sight created by the gap between the column and the wall near 1F Staff Room on Bank map.
- FIXED – Several items can be seen floating in the air after destroying surrounding items on various maps.
- FIXED – Shaded gap is present between patches of snow at EXT Campfire Woods on Chalet map.
- FIXED – Gadgets are experiencing clipping and collision issues in various places on maps.
- FIXED – Drone camera issues present, allowing players to see under the world on both Clubhouse and House maps.
- FIXED – Drone capture and retrieval issues present in 2F Control Room Hallway on Kanal map if Mozzie's Pest Launcher clips through the ground.
- FIXED – EXT Control Tower, EXT Street, and EXT Spitfire Courtyard location names are not displaying on screen while a drone is being used in those particular areas on Hereford Base map.
- FIXED – Maverick's Breaching Torch has to be used in order to destroy the wooden floors under the blue tarp carpets on Outback map.
- FIXED – The "You will die in" message displays when entering the 1F Kitchen from 1F Restaurant for a brief moment when under the doorframe on Outback map.
- FIXED – Attackers can enter Frost's Welcome Mat through the wall of 1F Kitchen on Outback map under particular circumstances.
- FIXED – Operators can get stuck when going prone between multiple collisions on Outback and Coastline maps.
- FIXED – Several breakable items on Skyscraper map have been updated.
- FIXED – A column partially obscures the operator on the far left when the winning team is on screen on Skyscraper map.
- FIXED – Players are able to place the defuser between a black box and a wall at EXT Chapel on Villa map.
- FIXED – Several line of sight issues present on Coastline and Villa maps.
- FIXED – Multiple Operator and gadget clipping issues present on Consulate map.
- FIXED – The defuser can not be retrieved once it is dropped between the bicycles and the wall in EXT Driveway on Villa map.
- FIXED – The deployment message prompt flickers for Operators when standing too close to the door that separates 1F Skylight Stairwell and 1F Electrical room on Bank map.
- FIXED – Operator bodies can clip through the stairs located at 2F Library on Chalet map.
- FIXED – The 2F Dorm Main Hall bomb is missing details on its inside metallic panels on Oregon map.
- FIXED – Players are able to silently place C4 above the VIP Lounge on Coastline map under certain circumstances.

[h3]OPERATORS[/h3]

- FIXED – Operator models have a light glow visible from a distance.
- FIXED – Echo's Yokai drone is experiencing collision and clipping issues on various maps.
- FIXED – Mira's Black Mirror can be deployed on the opposite side of a reinforced wall.
- FIXED – Attacking operators can not navigate with their drones after switching to a secondary or primary gadget while attempting to enter their drone by using the directional right button.
- FIXED – Twitch's eyes are fixed upward and her mouth animation appears to be broken under certain circumstances.
- FIXED – Thatcher's weapon reticle remains completely on screen when affected by an EMP grenade.
- FIXED – Oryx will not destroy walls that are close to a reinforced wall when using Remah Dash.
- FIXED – Valkyrie's Black Eye can be thrown inside the pipes in 1F Coast Guard Meeting Room on Kanal map due to a missing collision.
- FIXED – Ace is able to destroy his Selma on a metal indestructible floor at 1F Stage on Clubhouse map.
- FIXED – Aruni's Surya Gate clips into the neon light when deployed on the soft wall in B1 Supply Room Corridor on Kanal map.
- FIXED – Aruni can not destroy the ceramic tiles on the walls of 1F Bathroom on Skyscraper map.

[h3]USER EXPERIENCE[/h3]

- FIXED – Tachanka's mask clips through the Unicorn headgear.
- FIXED – Adjusting the field of view doesn't impact the crosshair size and will display bullets spreading outside of the crosshair in certain circumstances.
- FIXED – To clarify wording, player sessions have been adjusted to refer to a player's session group as a Squad.
- FIXED – Some players are not receiving the Doc Byte Set DLC after purchasing.
- FIXED – Battle Pass entries are sometimes missing from the detailed list after playing PVP matches.
- FIXED – The "Silver Tangerine" weapon skin is appearing instead of the default weapon skin for Aruni's P10 RONI.
- FIXED – The "Fever Impulse" weapon skin is appearing instead of the default weapon skin for Wamai's MP5K.
- FIXED – Tachanka's DP27 pan magazine disappears when zoomed in on an equipped charm and rotating the weapon downwards in both the side screen preview and fullscreen purchase preview.
- FIXED – The SFX plays twice when accessing the Battle Pass title from the main menu.

Rainbow Six Siege update fixes bizarre rapid spinning fps bug (and others, too)

Ubisoft is dropping a new Rainbow Six Siege update today and, alongside a host of gameplay, level design, operator, and user experience fixes and adjustments, there are a few, er, quirky hiccups that are getting patched. One of which involves causing frames-per-second dips by doing doughnuts really, really quickly in a certain spot. Huh.


"Fixed - fps drops can occur for everyone in the session if a player spins rapidly in a certain spot of 1F Archives on Bank map," the latest Siege patch notes detail. It's not quite clear what this certain spot is from the notes, but the hiccup sounds mighty similar to one described back in November 2018 by YouTuber DBL Online.


They showed that, if a group of players headed to a certain corner in the Bank map's first-floor archives room (having dialled up vertical and horizontal sensitivity to 100, and dead zones down low) and span around on the spot very quickly, the FPS game's, er, fps would drop significantly. At the time, the YouTuber reported that the glitch could affect everyone in a game.


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Rainbow Six Siege's 2021 Six Invitational will be hosted in Paris

Ubisoft has confirmed that this year's Rainbow Six Siege Six Invitational will be held in Paris next month, with 20 of the world's top Siege teams descending on the French capital. The tournament will be offline but with strict health and safety protocols, and it will be the first to not be held in Montreal.


The prize pool is currently not set in stone, but Ubisoft has announced that it will be capped at a total of $3 million. It will start with a base of $500,000 and revenue from the sales of the Six Invitational Battle Pass will top up the rest. If the community generates enough revenue to pass the $3 million cap, the extra money will be used by Ubisoft to fund this year's competitive scene.


The format will see the 20 teams split into two groups. Each team will play nine best-of-one matches, and the top eight teams from each group will progress to the playoffs. This means only two teams in total will be eliminated from the group stage.


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Rainbow Six Siege hotfix requires players to have a friend in a squad to join a lobby

Ubisoft has pushed a hotfix for Rainbow Six Siege that requires PC players to have a friend in one of a lobby's squads before joining. The fix is meant to shut down an exploit that allowed hackers to force their way into lobbies where they weren't welcome.


This latest hotfix to Ubisoft's multiplayer game only applies to players on PC for the time being. "Now players can only join games in which they have a friend already in that squad (whether it be the squad host, or someone else already in that party)", Ubisoft tweeted today from the official Rainbow Six Siege twitter account.


"Players can no longer use an exploit to force themselves into squads with other players", the tweet concludes. The lobby hacking issue has come to light mainly due to Siege streamers, who have in the past week found themselves seeing unfamiliar players barging into their pre-game lobbies and refusing to leave. FPL players have encountered these invaders as well, so it's not surprising that Ubisoft has moved swiftly to address the issue.


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