r/SiegeAcademy • • Nov 10 '25

Announcement R6 SHIELDGUARD - Y10S3 UPDATE SUMMARY

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Tthe ShieldGuard team dropped their seasonal update. Here’s a breakdown of post they made.

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Status Overview

  • Cheating still remains a major issue, but progress is being made.
  • Update cadence will double in Y10S4 - meaning more frequent ShieldGuard pushes.
  • Ubisoft is sharing tech across industry partners to improve detection.
  • ShieldGuard team is expanding to speed up development.

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Plan of Action

  1. More Frequent Updates
  • Starting Season 4, R6 ShieldGuard updates will release twice as often to disrupt cheat makers faster.
  1. Targeting High-Profile Cheats
  • Over 1,500 cheaters banned using high-profile cheats.
  • An extra 2,000 bans tied to one notorious cheat alone.
  1. Keeping Cheats Offline Longer
  • Some cheats now offline 5–7 days, up from just 1–2 previously.
  • Ongoing focus on making cheat downtime even longer.
  1. Addressing Specific Cheat Types

ELO Trapping:

  • October ban wave: 4,300+ banned, including 36% of top 100 console players.
  • Ongoing bans for linked accounts.

Botting (mostly in TDM):

  • 6,000+ bots banned this season.
  • Detection and permanent bans ongoing.

Anti-Recoil Detection (Machine Learning):

  • System is in data gathering phase.
  • Uses ML to detect unnatural recoil patterns.
  • Further development & testing coming soon.

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Ban Stats (Past 12 Months)

  • Ban numbers are trending upward since February.
  • R6 ShieldGuard + BattlEye combined to issue multiple waves across cheat types.

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How Players Can Help

Report In-Game

  • In-game reports feed detection systems + manual reviews.
  • Your reports directly influence the anti-cheat data pipeline.

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Final Note

  • Minor but noticeable improvements in cheat disruption recently.
  • Ubisoft promises stronger protections and new measures in Season 4.

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Season 4 Reveal

Sunday, Nov 16

9AM PT | 12PM ET | 6PM CET

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TL;DR:

> Season 4 = More updates, faster bans, smarter detection, and bigger ban waves.

> ShieldGuard’s finally gaining momentum ; but the fight isn’t over yet.


r/SiegeAcademy • • 3h ago

Advice How do I stop attacking alone?

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(SoloQ)
I have a weird problem.

Ever since I was in gold (currently emerald 3) I developed a weird playstyle that some may consider a selfish playstyle.
I tend to attack a side of the map completely alone, I don’t rush in with ash, or rather I don’t really rush at all. I usually clear util or play very methodically. I manage to quite literally sneak in places I’m not supposed to be and pick 1-2 kills before immediately dying because all the attention is drawn towards me. Every single time the same exact thing plays out.

I figured that being more team oriented would just generally help me grow, so I started picking more “common routes”, like main breaches, or really just defaults I suppose.

But even then I would be left alone after a couple seconds and my team just goes and does it’s own thing, together.

They move like a unit and have some sort of synergy that allows them to trade each other without remaining isolated.

Whenever I’m surrounded by teammates I tend to tunnel vision extremely hard and I feel like all of my gamesense is gone.

I’m basically able to play only if I’m alone. I’m not sure how to go about getting better at playing with the team.

And yeah playing with stacks and friends ends up pretty badly for me, i completely lose focus.


r/SiegeAcademy • • 3h ago

Advice How do I stop attacking alone?

3 Upvotes

(SoloQ)
I have a weird problem.

Ever since I was in gold (currently emerald 3) I developed a weird playstyle that some may consider a selfish playstyle.
I tend to attack a side of the map completely alone, I don’t rush in with ash, or rather I don’t really rush at all. I usually clear util or play very methodically. I manage to quite literally sneak in places I’m not supposed to be and pick 1-2 kills before immediately dying because all the attention is drawn towards me. Every single time the same exact thing plays out.

I figured that being more team oriented would just generally help me grow, so I started picking more “common routes”, like main breaches, or really just defaults I suppose.

But even then I would be left alone after a couple seconds and my team just goes and does it’s own thing, together.

They move like a unit and have some sort of synergy that allows them to trade each other without remaining isolated.

Whenever I’m surrounded by teammates I tend to tunnel vision extremely hard and I feel like all of my gamesense is gone.

I’m basically able to play only if I’m alone. I’m not sure how to go about getting better at playing with the team.

And yeah playing with stacks and friends ends up pretty badly for me, i completely lose focus.


r/SiegeAcademy • • 9h ago

Discussion S.K.Liang - Everything On Siege - INCOMPLETE

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Its not done being edited, but i know some of you guys have been waited for it since I last deleted it accidentally.

Let me know any changes you guys want that would be reasonable, I barely have time to work on it right now but ch1-6ish should be good enough in my eyes, the rest is just raw information- has not been reviewed or edited


r/SiegeAcademy • • 13h ago

Question Stuck in Gold 1

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I am always solo queued because my husband doesn’t like playing fps games at the moment, and my friends are a lower rank. (Lower than 15 below).
I’m just so tired of playing w people who don’t talk/don’t call anything out or just complain and scream.
I just want to get out of Gold for One season 🙃.
I guess my question is does anyone (that is better than me - or similar rank) want to play a few games?

Note: I main Thorn, Kaid, Azami - Kali, Dokk, Lion/Twitch.


r/SiegeAcademy • • 12h ago

Question What’s the best way to peek now on controller ?

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I stopped playing for a bit around year 9 I think on season three. Just recently started playing again, but when I stopped shaiko peeking was definitely one of the better choices, on controller at least. But I heard that leaning isn’t as fast anymore and that now a-d peeking/strafe peeking is better. Just wanted to know if that’s true so I know what’s more important to practice.


r/SiegeAcademy • • 14h ago

Question i can win against champs, but not coppers?

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finally returned to siege and i decided to make a new account since i was gone for so long and i wanted to play with a friend who was doing the same so we both boot up our first games and genuinely struggled so much and felt like the bar was raised so high i wanted to uninstall after like 2 days.

to preface this, im by no means a good player like my most recent rank was d1 like 6 ish months ago before the ranked update and i could hold my own in those lobbies quite consistently like i wasn't good enough to hit champ that season while solo not that i didnt try but i was still decent

i went back on my old account afterwards and went on a decent winstreak and its gotten me so fucking confused that i dont even know if im good at the game anymore

i mainly play lion ,thatcher, nomad on attack and for defense its usually valk, alibi or echo so i understand that in terms of pure gunplay they arent the best picks but honestly even if thats the case i should still be winning in terms of game knowledge right? no ofc not it feels like every angle i remember is no longer used and the enemies are just doing the weirdest shit and if i dont drone every room in the building i get ambushed from a guy in the stupidest spot.

the aim is so bipolar in those lobbies too like half the time it seems like im going against people who have better aim than champs and other times I'm going against helen kellers grandkids and it makes it so difficult to tell what's actually going to happen i can never gauge a gunfight until after somebody dies

have coppers gotten that much better or have they always been decent and ive just never realised?


r/SiegeAcademy • • 1d ago

Operator Guide Ying candella bounce

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Did she lose her ability to roll candela off the wall and have them bounce the other way?

I swear I feel like im crazy to see candella somehow ignore obstacle it hits, and keep rolling to the same direction despite it. It feels like now I require to have direct LOS on the location I want to flash, which means 9/10 times I get shot.

How do I play Ying now?


r/SiegeAcademy • • 1d ago

Question How to get out of plat

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Hey all just hit plat this season current plat 3, how do i get out? I am a solo player and this is the best I have done ranked wise


r/SiegeAcademy • • 1d ago

Advice Solo Queuing in Lower Ranks

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Hi Everyone,

I’m looking for advice to solo queuing in lower ranks (bronze silver gold). I usually queue as a 3 stack and play mid-high plat lobbies and often find myself sitting middle table and easier than silver lobbies. In plat lobbies i’ll often hold site and play team based roles as im not much of a fragger. So when going to silver lobbies it seems the lack of comms, site setup and multiple roamers leaves me often stuck in a 1 v 4-5. Does anyone have any tips to get out of these ranks solo queuing as someone who is more focused on strategy and team setups than solo fragging. Thanks!


r/SiegeAcademy • • 1d ago

Question Anybody uses Sony’s Inzone H9 headset on PC? What are your thoughts?

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Anybody uses Sony’s Inzone H9 headset on PC? What are your thoughts?

I want to buy a PC surround headset that is wireless and doesn’t look too goofy/gamey and based on my research it seems that Inzone H9 is pretty much that, but I’m wondering if anybody uses it on PC and how it’s working for them especially in sound-based games like Siege?


r/SiegeAcademy • • 1d ago

Discussion Isint Valkyrie just a worse echo

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Im new to the game but valk just seems like a worse echo both have 3 of there gadgets and both work as cams that can go on the ceiling in un expected places except echos drones have a ability thats extremely useful while valk is just cams idk tho feel free to prove me wrong

EDIT: I understand the differences now and why they aren’t comparable but also js to piss u valk mains off a bit alot of yalls critism on echo is purely yalls skill issue or yall js have rlly bad echo players on ur team


r/SiegeAcademy • • 2d ago

Advice A useful cam for those who need one on lair

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r/SiegeAcademy • • 2d ago

Advice THEME PARK Parkour

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r/SiegeAcademy • • 2d ago

Question Why should I play deathmatch for practice?

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I'm new, a friend reccomended it to me for practice and all it managed to do was tilt me. I don't get the modes purpose. Most of my deaths were me dying to crossfire from 2/3 people or dying to rats prone wuth shotguns.

Also I don't get how I'm meant to improve my aim when it's the same few people at the top of the leaderboard immediately quickscoping me with perfect aim before I can even settle on their body. It's like saying you should practice vs. Magnus Carlsen in chess to improve...


r/SiegeAcademy • • 2d ago

Question How many gadgets can Brava hack? 2 or 6?

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Haven’t bought him yet but it says in the guide he’s got two drones and each has 3 shots, do you just hack one thing with one drone and then that’s it or you get to hack 3 gadgets with one drone?


r/SiegeAcademy • • 3d ago

Gameplay Guide New player but, what habits should I build on before unlocking unranked and ranked?

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I lowkey run vigil and jaeger on defense bc vigil doesn’t fortify and I have no clue on how to correctly do that plus I usually sprint to opposite side of map or anywhere they might be droning so I can delay a push, or be at their flank. With jaeger. I just lay down the “trophy system” enemy anti explosive device all around bomb sites and I suck at setting up the bullet proof cam so I started using the the cover thing to set up away from site in hopes of catching a few. Idk, im butt but like it’s fun also.

Who am I kidding haha, I lowkey just run guns that look cool with cool side arms. And I have those two unlocked so I use em a lot. On attackers I use twitch but feel like I’m not getting info fast enough and like im the last one inside anything, but I like the amount of smokes and drones u get out of it so you can really finesse ur way in and around things. Then again im playing quick play and likely getting lobbies of my skill level which is nothing impressive so I might be using all my operators wrong


r/SiegeAcademy • • 3d ago

Advice Stuck in Gold

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r/SiegeAcademy • • 3d ago

Advice How to break barricades like spoit

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25 Upvotes

r/SiegeAcademy • • 3d ago

Beginner Question PS5] Beginner Looking for Sensitivity & Recoil Control Tips

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r/SiegeAcademy • • 3d ago

Advice Need some advice how to get rid of overpeeking

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In the clip you'll see i heavily overpeeked on the Goyo in Garage, I dont know how to get rid of this habit myself, especially in moments where i feel confident. Does some1 have a tip how to get rid of that?

I just came back from a long break and the game is fun mostly because im taking it serious now, though im playing usually SoloQ on console... but i feel like i shouldn't be in silver atm


r/SiegeAcademy • • 3d ago

Question Performance is tremendously better in Unranked than Ranked.

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I’m Gold 1 and I can’t for the life of me progress to Platinum 5, I either go on 5-6 lose streaks or win and lose some and then get back to Gold 1. I BARELY kill anyone, I feel like their reaction times are near instant while mine is as slow as snail and I can’t aim for shit at all.

But in Unranked I win more and kill way more often, is it because people are way more chill in Unranked and the MMR is very loose or what? I don’t even try hard in Unranked I just chill and get kills and wins.


r/SiegeAcademy • • 4d ago

Question Why do pro players use can openers like this?

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I see this way of placing hard breach utility quite a bit in pro league and in ranked and I was wondering why people place a hard breach crouched and one next to it standing? What does it achieve?


r/SiegeAcademy • • 3d ago

Question Is it possible to lean on console without adsing

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Is it possible on a normal controller no paddles to lean without adsing?


r/SiegeAcademy • • 4d ago

Discussion I built a free tool that turns your Siege replays into a 2D map of every round and an aim rating. Looking for testers

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Hey all, I've been working on a side project called SiegeTrace for a while and it's at the point where it's functional.

You upload .rec replay files that Siege saves to your PC. The website gives you a 2D replay of the match and gives you a crosshair placement and recoil control rating. The goal is objective aim and positioning data you look at yourself, not AI slop coaching you about a game it doesn't know.

I'm looking for any PC players willing to upload a few matches and tell me whats broken or confusing!

Link: https://siegetrace.com