Rainbow Six Siege’s Most Toxic Feature Is Being Removed

⏳ VOTE KICK INITIATED

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With the launch of Operation Shadow Legacy, Rainbow Six Siege fans can look forward to playing as Sam Fisher, the iconic Splinter Cell protagonist, as the biggest new addition. However, it’s the removal of a certain mechanic that might be the most popular change of all.

As detailed by Ubisoft in the patch notes, the ability to vote to kick in Quick Match (previously Casual) will be removed sometime down the line in Shadow Legacy in an attempt to combat toxicity.

Ubisoft writes:

Later in the season, we’ll be removing vote-to-kick from Quick Match—the only playlist which had this feature. We’ve been monitoring the use of vote-to-kick and have found that it has since strayed from its original intent, leaning towards a more toxicity-related use case. With the numerous RFF conditions in place, as well as the improved player-reporting panel, we feel the original need for vote-to-kick should be fulfilled by these other options for reporting toxic players instead. We strongly encourage you to report toxic players via the in-game reporting panel so that they can be sanctioned.

This honestly feels long overdue, especially with it only really being needed for team-killers way back in the day, who have since become much less frequent thanks to the reverse friendly fire update.

Vote to kick has become inherently toxic, especially when your teammates initiate a kick when they are dead and you’re one of the only players left standing. It’s intended to put you off, even when you could probably do with the concentration to clutch out the round.

It’s also just very silly to have something that’s so competitive minded in such a casual playlist, which is actually the only place where vote to kick can be found. As a long-time Siege player, Quick Match is just somewhere to have a bit of loose fun where you can experiment with your playstyle and gain map knowledge at your own pace. Removing vote to kick will just benefit new players in the long run.

The only issue might come with hackers, though Siege has some pretty robust tools these days to report them directly.

Rainbow Six Siege is available now for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions are due in the future.

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