When it first unveiled Rainbow Six Siege X, Ubisoft had also said that it would be ready to handle the larger player base that would be coming in thanks to the title going free-to-play. The Christmas, however, has marked the biggest challenges Rainbow Six Siege X has faced for its multiplayeer infrastructure. While the shooter’s services had gone down thanks to a hack during the Holiday season, it had recovered. Since then, hackers have once more tackled the game’s servers and have been causing quite a bit of trouble. As caught by The Gamer, hackers have been banning players from the game for “67 days”—a reference to the “six seven” meme that has risen in popularity in the last few months.
This 67-day ban has been far from an isolated incident, with several players taking to social media to talk about it. While these issues might at first seem like they were only affecting the PC version of Rainbow Six Siege X, checking out the game’s status website paints a different picture, with the infrastructure of he PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S versions of the shooter also being affected. All five versions have been facing “4 Unplanned Issues”, which include “Degraded” connectivity, and “Outage” for Authentication, In-Game Store, and Matchmaking.
Ubisoft hasn’t yet made any statements regarding these recent hacks, which have in turn prompted some players to try and figure out what the issues might be on their own. One Reddit user has posited that it might be related to a vulnerability in the game’s implementation of the MongoDB database system. Interestingly, while players and even Ubisoft’s own status website notes outages affecting Rainbow Six Siege X, the game’s subreddit has many players pointing out that they have been able to play without any issues whatsoever. “Damn, I just logged off like half an hour ago. Been playing all morning,” wrote one user over the weekend.
Ubisoft had first spoken about its new R6 ShieldGuard initiative back in March 2025 when it officially unveiled the new features of Rainbow Six Siege X leading up to its free-to-play release. Programming team lead Adrian Fraisse spoke about the development team taking things like in-game toxicity more seriously, while also noting that the game’s code would use Binary Hardening to more thoroughly encrypt its files.
“Cheating and toxicity has no place in Siege, and we won’t rest until it’s a thing of the past,” said Fraisse. “At SI, we introduced a new initiative, R6 ShieldGuard.” The title also features in-game defense systems to prevent players from performing actions that have been dubbed “impossible” during gameplay. These actions include going directly against the game’s core mechanics, like sprinting and shooting at the same time.
Rainbow Six Siege X got its free-to-play release on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S back in June 2025. Along with stronger anticheat and anti-hacker systems, the shooter’s re-launch also brought with it the brand new Dual Front game mode, as well as some upgrades to the game’s visuals.
