Siege X Update: Ubisoft Drops a Dumpster Fire—Gamers Left to Clean Up the Mess

Ubisoft, you absolute clowns. Ten years of Rainbow Six Siege and THIS is what you give us? Operation Daybreak, Siege X, whatever you want to call it—should’ve just called it Operation Pok Gai because that’s exactly how every player feels right now. If you thought this was going to be a celebration, congrats, you played yourself.

Free-to-Play? More Like Free-to-Rage

Let’s start with the “good news.” Siege is now free-to-play. Sounds great, right? More players, bigger community? Nah, it’s just open season for every 12-year-old, every cheater with a VPN, and every “my mum bought me a PS5” kid who thinks friendly fire is a personality trait. Ranked is now a zoo—if you wanted to play with people who have the tactical awareness of a goldfish, congrats, you’re living the dream.

And Dual Front mode? Ubisoft’s idea of innovation is to mash Attackers and Defenders together on a map the size of Richmond Night Market, give everyone respawns, and hope for the best. Tactical shooter? Not anymore. This is Call of Duty with extra lag and a sprinkle of confusion. You spawn, you run, you die to some kid camping in a corner with a shotgun. Rinse, repeat, uninstall.

Bugs, Glitches, and the Ubisoft Special

Day one, Siege X is more broken than your average Hong Kong escalator. Here’s just a taste:

• Missing Rewards: You grind for hours, and your rewards just vanish into the Ubisoft void.

• Sound Bugs: Footsteps? What footsteps? Sometimes you hear your own death before you even see the enemy.

• Lobby Freezes: Want to play with friends? Good luck, because the party system is as stable as a wet tissue.

• Server Crashes: Ranked games crash mid-match, and you lose MMR faster than you can say “Pok Gai.”

• Text Chat Disabled: Console players outside the US can’t even type “trash team” to their own squad. That’s half the fun gone.

• Graphical Corruption: Dual Front mode sometimes looks like your GPU is melting. Operator avatars are upside down, like Ubisoft is trolling us for fun.

• UI/UX Nightmares: The new menu is so unintuitive you need a PhD just to find your settings. Want to change your operator? Good luck, hope you like clicking around for five minutes.

Ubisoft’s response? “Restart your game.” Maybe if I restart my router, my skins will come back too. Spoiler: They won’t.

Gameplay: Who Needs Balance Anyway?

Let’s talk about the “improvements.”

• Dual Front Map: It’s so big and empty, you’ll spend more time running than fighting. By the time you find an enemy, you’re out of ammo and willpower.

• Hit Registration: Still garbage. You line up a perfect headshot, but the server says “nah, you missed.” Meanwhile, you get one-tapped through a wall by someone with 200 ping.

• Clash Rework: Clash gets a new shield and a taser, plus a new hairstyle. Did anyone ask for this? No. Is it balanced? Also no. She’s either useless or completely broken, depending on the match.

• Lighting and Textures: Ubisoft cranked the brightness up to 11. Hope you like playing with sunglasses on, because half the maps now look like Times Square at midnight.

• Cheaters: Still everywhere. Cronus users, script kiddies, wallhackers—you name it, they’re here. Ubisoft’s anti-cheat is about as effective as a paper umbrella in a typhoon.

• Ranking System: Still a black box. You win, you lose, your rank goes up or down for reasons nobody understands. Might as well roll dice.

What’s the Takeaway? (Besides Never Trusting Ubisoft Again)

Gamers:

• Don’t believe the hype. Wait for the real reviews, not the paid shills on YouTube.

• New modes are just new ways to get tilted.

• Reporting bugs is like yelling into a typhoon. Ubisoft support? Might as well ask your grandma to fix your PC.

Marketers:

• Free-to-play means more players, but also more trolls, griefers, and cheaters.

• If you overhype and underdeliver, you’ll be the next meme—faster than your servers can crash.

Designers & UI/UX:

• If it ain’t broken, don’t “fix” it.

• Don’t make your game look like a neon fever dream. Nobody asked for that.

• If your new menu needs a tutorial, you’ve already failed.

Influencers:

• Milk the chaos for content.

• Teach your viewers how to survive the circus, or at least how to get a laugh out of it.

• Poll your fans—let them roast Ubisoft for you.

Final Word: Ubisoft, You Pok Gai’d Your Own Game

Operation Daybreak could’ve been a win. Instead, it’s a lesson in how to alienate your player base and turn your anniversary into a roast session. If you’re tired of Ubisoft’s nonsense, subscribe to Pok Gai Gamer’s newsletter. We’ll keep you updated, keep you laughing, and maybe help you survive the next disaster patch.

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