Ubisoft’s XIM detection sees “major reduction” in Rainbow Six Siege cheaters
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XIM, Cronus Zen, and ReaSnow S1 devices are all being used far less.

For the uninitiated: XIM is a tool used to play console shooters with a mouse and keyboard and fake them as controllers, essentially giving them an unfair advantage in competitive shooters on console.

Ubisoft implemented a super effective way to counter XIM called “Mousetrap” a while ago. It slowly adds more and more input delay if you’re playing with a XIM and tons of people have been sharing clips of players clearly trying to use it and having a 200ms+ delay in their actions and playing like they’re drunk. It’s quite funny.

As someone who used to play R6 on console, I salute the devs.

  • aLlamaWithARifle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Using a Xim device will hide your mouse and keyboard input and display it as a controller. So you would get the benefit of aim assist while also having all the benefits of m&k.

    • Maple@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      That’s a legitimate issue that no one has brought up. That is most definitely grounds for cheating.

      • sneezymrmilo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The worst part is Seige isn’t the only game plagued with this issue. As an example, Destiny 2 has issues where PC players are doing something similar to this instance and getting controller aim assist on M&K. In shooters this kinda stuff really undermines the competitive integrity of said games and is yet another lame tactic for cheaters trying to get an advantage in FPS games.

        Now that I think about it I’m pretty sure Call of Duty War zone has also gone on record stating that they created anti cheat for these devices as well.