Rainbow Six Siege Y4S3.1 Patch Notes: Hostage Changed, Reverse Friendly Fire & Fixes

The hostages are now Targaryens.

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It’s been a tumultuous start for Season 3 of Rainbow Six Siege’s fourth year with DDoSers running rampant, leading to Ubisoft declaring legal action. While they’re now making progress on that front, the Y4S3.1 patch will also introduce some balance changes, a surprising buff to the hostage, and a re-calibration of the reverse friendly fire system.

Amazingly, the hostage in Siege is now completely invulnerable to any kind of fire damage. This is to combat Goyo griefing, so now there’s no way for the hostage to take damage from his exploding canisters or even Capitao’s crossbow.

Elsewhere, RFF will now apply to all members of a squad when a player intentionally hurts or kills another. That is a pretty major change and one that should make things easier for everyone, though you imagine there will still be some idiots.

Here are the Y4S3.1 patch notes for Siege in full. Visit the official blog for more info.

Rainbow Six Siege Y4S3.1 Patch Notes

Siege

GAMEPLAY

BALANCING

GOYO

Hostage has evolved.

  • Hostage is now immune to fire (both Goyo’s Volcan and Capitao)
  • To prevent incidences of team griefing towards Goyo under the RFF system, we’ve decided to make hostage immune to fire.

RFF SQUAD MANAGEMENT

  • We have now expanded the RFF system to squads. If players of the same squad damage or TK other team members, RFF will be activated for all members of that squad.

BUG FIXES

  • FIXED – Crashing issues on PS4

We are also in the midst of investigating crashing issues reported for PC and XBONE as well, and will update when we have more.

GAMEPLAY

  • FIXED – Player exploit to vote on themselves when a Vote Kick is triggered and they are the ones being kicked
  • FIXED – If player crouches or goes prone and then falls, their upwards view can be obstructed by their character model.

LEVEL DESIGN

BORDER

  • FIXED – Operator’s shield clips through the wall at 2F Offices on Border

COASTLINE

  • FIXED – Inconsistent wall destruction in 2F hallway on Coastline

FORTRESS

  • FIXED – Players can barricade a door behind the boxes in 1F Hannam Hallway of Fortress
  • FIXED – Flickering wall texture in EXT Garden Path of Fortress
  • FIXED – Small texture gap on Central Stairs of Fortress
  • FIXED – Players can clip through the ceiling domes in Fortress
  • FIXED – Misaligned wall in 2F Bathroom on Fortress

KAFE

  • FIXED – Missing visual texture on walls in 3F Cigar Lounge on Kafe.

PLANE

  • FIXED – Mira’s black mirror can clip through an unbreakable surface if deployed at the West wall of 2F Staff Section on Plane.

USER EXPERIENCE

  • FIXED – Level skybox sometimes visible when loading in on the first boot
  • FIXED – Stat tracking issues when using Twitch drones to destroy gadgets
  • FIXED – Various minor visual cosmetic fixes on headgears and uniforms.
  • FIXED – Phone reset animation plays on the wrong side when getting a call from Dokkaebi.
  • FIXED – [Caster] Operators are detected on the basement level instead of the first floor in spectator mode.

Rainbow Six Siege is available now for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

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