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Service status is calculated by merging official data with a 24-hour baseline of user-reported issues. Our tool recalculates these metrics every 30 minutes to provide a real-time, 360° view of connectivity.

Major Rainbow Six Siege outages and their causes

Ubisoft’s complex tactical shooter infrastructure occasionally faces massive disruptions, especially during new seasonal updates. Below are a few notable examples:

January 2026: The 67-Day Ban Outage and Matchmaking Halt

Barely a week after a major holiday hack, Rainbow Six Siege servers were thrown into chaos again. A massive exploit caused the system to falsely issue 67-day matchmaking bans to thousands of innocent players (a reference to the community's "6-7" meme). Ubisoft was forced to take the servers offline and place the game in a "degraded" status across all platforms while they investigated the unauthorized synchronization errors. Source: GameSpot - Ubisoft investigates Rainbow Six Siege '67-day ban' exploit and server degradation

December 2025: Third-Party Hack and Intentional Shutdown

Over the holiday weekend, a catastrophic breach allowed hackers to flood the game with billions of illegitimate in-game credits and ultra-rare skins. To stop the exploit and roll back the compromised transactions, Ubisoft had to intentionally shut down Rainbow Six Siege and its Marketplace completely. The global outage lasted for over a day before services were cautiously soft-launched back to the public. Source: Eurogamer - Rainbow Six Siege servers and Marketplace shut down following massive credit exploit hack

January 2020: Widespread DDoS Server Crashes

For a prolonged period, Siege's multiplayer infrastructure was crippled by targeted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Bad actors were actively flooding the R6S servers to overload the network, resulting in severe latency and complete server crashes that disconnected all players mid-match. The situation was so severe that Ubisoft had to file a lawsuit against the websites selling the DDoS services. Source: IGN - Ubisoft sues Rainbow Six Siege DDoS service providers after prolonged server crashes

How our status checker works

We combine official data with a dynamic User-Report Baseline to calculate real-time connectivity. By analyzing user-reported issues over a rolling 24-hour window, our tool recalculates the health of each service every 30 minutes.

Online

When report volume remains below the 50% threshold, the service is confirmed "Online," reflecting stable performance and no widespread issues.

Partial outage

A report surge between 50% and 75% triggers a "Partial outage" alert, indicating localized disruptions or specific feature instability.

Down

Reports exceeding 75% of the baseline classify the service as "Down," signaling a critical failure or a major connectivity outage.

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What to Do If Rainbow Six Siege Is Down

If you're having trouble accessing Rainbow Six Siege, follow these steps to troubleshoot and restore your connection:

1
Verify Official Ubisoft Status

Before troubleshooting, visit the official Ubisoft Help page to check the server status for your specific platform. If services are flagged as "Degraded" or "Offline," or if @UbisoftSupport reports maintenance, you must wait for a developer fix.

2
Reset Launcher and Verify Files

Ubisoft Connect often suffers from sync failures. Force-close it via Task Manager and restart as an Administrator. You can also delete the "cache" folder in your installation directory or use Steam to verify files and fix corrupted seasonal updates.

3
Flush DNS and Open Your NAT

Siege relies heavily on stable data center connections. Run ipconfig /flushdns in Command Prompt to clear old routing data. Next, power cycle your router for 60 seconds to reset your ISP handshake and switch from a Strict to Open NAT.

4
Stop DDoS and Throttling with BearVPN

If your ISP misroutes traffic to Ubisoft's Azure servers, BearVPN provides a direct, encrypted path to stabilize your ping. It also hides your real IP to protect you from Ranked lobby DDoS attacks and prevents peak-hour evening bandwidth throttling.

Frequently asked questions

Check the Ubisoft Server Status page or Downdetector. If you see a massive spike in user reports, the servers are experiencing a global or regional outage. If the graph is flat, the issue is likely within your local network or ISP routing.

This error indicates a complete disconnection from the Rainbow Six Siege servers. While it can happen during official Ubisoft maintenance, it is frequently caused by local network instability or strict NAT types that can often be resolved by restarting your router.

Yes, in many cases. If your local network or ISP restricts specific ports required for Siege's voice chat and matchmaking, routing your encrypted traffic through BearVPN can bypass these local restrictions, helping you achieve a more open and stable connection.

This usually happens when your game client fails to synchronize with Ubisoft Connect's social servers. A quick fix is to restart your game, or if you are playing on a restrictive campus or workplace network, use a VPN to bypass the firewall blocking the game's social features.

Ubisoft generally does not ban players simply for using a VPN to lower ping, fix routing problems, or secure their connection. However, utilizing a VPN to deliberately manipulate matchmaking regions for an unfair advantage (often called ping abuse) strictly violates their terms of service.