New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….
Original story (published on June 03, 2021) follows:
There is a long-standing issue plaguing Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege players on Xbox. Initial reports can be traced all the way back to mid-2020. And they’ve been flowing in to this day without any reduction in frequency.
Players say that the game audio cuts out randomly during gameplay. When that happens, you can still run around and place gadgets and stuff, but about 20 seconds later, the game completely freezes and forces you to reset.
But if the player doesn’t intervene, the game may also eventually crash on its own. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any error message given out when the glitch occurs so a cause is difficult to pin.
Players have already tried the basic workarounds in vain like re-installing the game and transferring it between different HDD. One player even tried switching consoles but found that the issue was reproducible on both.
Some have even said that the crash problem occurs on every third or so game which has made the Rainbow Six Siege experience on Xbox terrible.
However, judging from the number of reports, the issue does seem to be affecting only a limited group of users.
Still, for that affected group, Ubisoft has finally acknowledged the Rainbow Six Siege audio cutting and crash issue on Xbox saying they’re aware and are working on a fix.
Hence, without the availability of any useful workarounds, your best bet would be to simply wait for a bug-fixing update to roll out.
Update 1 (December 29)
05:06 pm (IST): Several gamers are again reporting (1, 2) audio issue that crashes the game. And yet again Ubisoft acknowledges the issue and says that they are currently investigating it.
Update 2 (January 19)
11:39 am (IST): While the crashing issue is still under investigation, Rainbow Six Seige has provided a temporary workaround that the affected users can try and see if it works.
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