Rainbow Six Siege servers received some maintenance along with a new Hotfix Patch on October 8, 2024, after an outage of servers, mainly for the Xbox platform. The server issue is quite normal in live-service games as there can be an outage occurring at any random time which causes errors and discontinuity in matchmaking. Rainbow Six Siege is one of the most-played tactical FPS games. R6 received some server issues on October 7 which made the Devs release an unnoticed patch on the next day. To all platforms to let players back in the game with a smoother experience of Operation Twin Shells.
Operation Twin Shells, the current Season of Rainbow Six Siege is live with a new Defend Operator named Skopós who is the first disabled operator in the game. Although she doesn’t come to the fighting grounds herself, she deploys her two humanoid robots to take care of the threat. Not only that, but she also has a unique ability to switch between the two robots which gives her an advantage of dual health and ammunition capacity.
Rainbow Six Siege October 8 Patch
However, there were some reports regarding her unique ability which Ubisoft fixed in the latest Hotfix Patch. Due to a random small outage of servers, the Devs react quickly to put out a Hotfix containing numerous fixes around gameplay, level design, operators, and user experience. Within these fixes, the Devs also fixed a bug where a robot of Skopós spawned without a shield which is a crucial aspect of her ability.
Now, there wasn’t any new content added with this update nor change to any Playlists. However, all platforms received a different size of update with Steam being the shortest and PlayStation 4 being the biggest.
Rainbow Six Siege Latest Hotfix (October 8) Update Size
Here is a list of the download sizes for all platforms of Rainbow Six Siege.
- Ubisoft Connect: 943.3MB
- Steam: 556MB
- Xbox One: 2.66GB
- Xbox Series X: 2.85GB
- PlayStation®4: 3.347GB
- PlayStation®5: 985MB
Rainbow Six Siege Latest Hotfix (October 8) Patch Notes
You can find the complete patch notes of the latest Hotfix patch of Rainbow Six Siege below.
BUG FIXES
GAMEPLAY
- FIXED – Jackal loses visibility when Motion Blur is turned off if he takes damage while Eyenox Model III is active.
- FIXED – Hitting Maestro’s Evil Eye with a melee attack corrupts the texture.
- FIXED – PCX-33 assault rifle has no rumble effect during a full reload when Controller Vibration options are turned on.
- FIXED – The reticle of the Reflex C sight isn’t centered on the SPAS-15 shotgun.
- FIXED – Shield Operators are unavailable in the Weapon Roulette arcade.
- FIXED – Deploying Kapkan’s Entry Denial Device on any doorway or window displays a second deploy prompt during the animation.
- FIXED – The End of Round replay shows the player who downed the last Operator of a team instead of the player who killed them.
- FIXED – The Equip button is missing when viewing an owned item in fullscreen from the Pack Highlights section.
LEVEL DESIGN
- FIXED – Placeholder texture is present on the cans located on top of the vending machine in 1F Service Stairs of the Consulate map.
- FIXED – Player can vault onto the crate stack in EXT Generator on the Nighthaven map and drop the defuser into an unreachable area.
OPERATORS
- FIXED – The equipped primary weapon of some Operators float behind them when previewing their default Victory Celebration in fullscreen.
- FIXED – Skopós’s V10-Pantheon Shells will place its shield behind itself if it switches into an idle state in a doorway with a lot of assets.
- FIXED – Skopós’s V10-Pantheon Shells doesn’t have a death animation in the Kill Cam or End of Round replay.
- FIXED – Corrupted model and texture of Skopós’s V10-Pantheon Shells in the End of Round replay for the last-killed Attacker.
- FIXED – When swapping Skopós’s V10-Pantheon Shells, the arrows in the fantasy HUD point the wrong way and the swap doesn’t occur.
- FIXED – The shield of Skopós’s V10-Pantheon Shells reattaches to the other side of the door frame after swapping Shells in the middle of a double door.
- FIXED – Skopós’s V10-Pantheon Shells will sometimes spawn without its shield.
USER EXPERIENCE
- FIXED – Sometimes the player will get stuck in a loading screen if they launch the Shooting Range from the Operator section during matchmaking.
That is all related to the latest Hotfix update of Rainbow Six Siege came out on October 8, 2024, on all platforms.