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This week is going to bring us the full reveal of the next season for Rainbow Six Siege, and as always, Ubisoft is dropping teasers leading up to the full reveal. We're starting with what looks to be a glimpse of the new Rainbow Six Siege operator, dressed in a suit and holding a kunai - which, of course, seems to match up with the early leaks for Year 7 Season 1.

"A blade can sever and stick and scar," Ubisoft says in the tweet. "A knife can cut or crease or create. Don't the simplest tools have the most imaginative uses?" The full reveal will land on Saturday, February 19 on the official Rainbow Six Twitch channel, and until then we can expect a further trickle of details.

A Japanese operator equipped with kunai has been the subject of leaks for months, so it's looking likely that the early details are going to pan out. According to those leaks, the new operator will be called Asami, and will have a gadget that can counter breachers. Leaks also suggest that the new season will be called Demon Veil.

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Ubisoft has issued around more than 166,000 bans for cheating in its competitive multiplayer game Rainbow Six Siege over the past year and a half. The company provided some new data on its efforts to fight cheating in Siege - an ongoing effort, as cheaters seem to be endlessly innovative. The company also pointed to some specific efforts its made to make cheating more difficult and reducing the ways in which cheaters can disrupt the game.

The Siege team shared the new info on Twitter, which includes a graph of Battleye and data-based bans issued over the last 18 months. Totalling up each month's approximate values, and the number you get is somewhere north of 166,000, or nearly 14,000 bans per month, according to our maths.

Those back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that on average, someone has been getting banned from Siege every three minutes, every hour of every day. The company says it also banned a further 3,114 idle botters between last November and January of this year.

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Ubisoft has added an in-game memorial to Rainbow Six Siege's Presidential Plane map to honour the memory of Michael 'Kixstar' Stockley. Now, when you're wandering around near the plane's bottom stairs, you might stumble across a plaque on a wall with the caster's name on it.

The plaque was initially highlighted by Ubisoft esports director Wei Yue following a recent patch, though plenty of players flocked to the map in-game to check it out for themselves. The map holds some significance as it was the setting for one of the Siege caster's finer in-game moments. He got an eight-second ace to clutch the round for his team during one match. If you're not up on your Siege lingo, that means he wiped out the other team by himself.

Stockley was initially a professional player himself, though he swiftly found success in casting, becoming a massive part of the game's esports scene. He, unfortunately, passed away in October of last year, which was confirmed in a message from his family that was shared on Twitter.

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• Ubisoft Connect: 2.49 GB
  
• Steam: 1.01 GB
  
• Xbox One: 2.14 GB
  
• Xbox Series X: 2.58 GB
  
• PS4: 2.68 GB
  
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• Investigations are ongoing for the crashes related to audio issues on Xbox and it's suspected to be related to sound data corruption.
  
• Today's patch aims to help limit the number of crashes related to these issues and will allow the team to collect data from active cases to help further investigations.
  
• A new icon (see below) has been introduced and will appear in-game when a related audio issue is identified on your end.
  
  • If you see this audio icon, rebooting the console at your earliest convenience should help avoid the issue and minimize the chance of crashing.
• The team will continue to share progress updates via the Siege Twitter account as a more extensive fix for this issue is worked on.

• Muzzle Brake attachment can be equipped on the MK14.

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  • Reduced damage to 25 (from 35).
    
  • Reduced Extended Barrel attachment damage modifier to be consistent with other weapons.

• Concussion effect of Grzmot Mine and KS79 no longer affects movement speed.