I Can't Take This Game Seriously Anymore - Rainbow Six Siege 

Siege is the most inconsistent FPS game I’ve ever played, it’s almost like it’s done on purpose somehow.

Yeah the last few seasons I have not been really feeling it and you basically put the finger on the issue. It's not like the good old magical times anymore.

I'm pretty convinced that ubi's sound engine can really only handle 3-5 sound files at once

I've said it before, I'll say it again: Siege is a good game, the issue is Ubisoft made it

Ok, so lets review Ubi's plan for solving audio issues: 1. Ask players to spend time in figuring out how to replicate the sound issues. 2. Make players report the issue in a horrible website. 3. Make others attest that the submitted report can help replicate the issue. 4. Figure out the sound issue and maybe solve it. 5. "Award" the person who reported the issue with a Raptor Leg charm. No shit nobody is interested in all this. The rewards are just too bogus for a casual person to care about.

C'mon guys don't bully ubisoft, they are just small indie developers with only 10-15 ish employees. They are very busy they can't even fix the suppressor damage in game menu

When I saw his beard I was like HOLY SHIT

after almost 2 years of playing, I just don't trust this game anymore. I don't trust its sound, so I always expect an enemy to come from anywhere with zero sound (that actually helps), my mindset behind it is "the enemy is closer than it seems". I don't trust its consistency, one day I can breach the wall with thermite, another day I cannot due to a bug. I don't trust neither in my teammates nor my opponents, what are the chances that someone is cheating?

Notice how it's the aggressor that wins most of the time. Solution: ASH HOSTAGE RUSH

Even thought I don’t play siege anymore, I’ll always watch a Rogue-9 video the moment it comes out

Unpopular opinion: siege was more fun in the early years even with the bugs and server issues

Back in the day sound was amazing in siege. You could hear everything perfectly. It wasn’t like today when someone is behind and it sounds like they’re upstairs in front of you. Also the game is just frustrating to play any more. Every op just keeps getting nerfed and more aggravating to play.

honestly this explains why it seems like people teleport so often, not being able to hear them when they're rotating long distances despite them sprinting, it also adds to the number of times I've seen the wrong kind of sound used for a situation, and all this ignores the sound direction bug where sometimes sound directions just get broken out of nowhere and someone is very loud in one direction when they're literally the exact opposite direction, add this to the community getting worse again (honestly approaching pre op health levels of toxicity) and it just kills the game for me

Rogue-9’s voice is perfect for narrating He makes anything sound interesting

The game is so stale now, i haven't played the game in 2 years and it looks even worse than when i left.

This entire game runs on an engine built with duct tape and sticks, it's literally starting to be the skyrim engine.

I gotta say, it's been almost impossible to get back into siege. I try but it's too frustrating.

I deleted the game a couple weeks back and I don’t think I’ll return, but I’ll still always be here to watch Rogues content, absolute unit can keep me interested in info about a game I don’t even care about

They need to make an Operation Health 2.0

I died to some bad sound mechanics 2 months ago, uninstalled immediately and haven't looked back since.

When a reinforced wall explodes next to you without hearing the thermite charge go off

I quit Siege because I was tired of the repeating bugs, glitches, balancing issues, the toxic community and the game just becoming a self repeating experience with nothing to be exited for when starting the game

The main audio problems are when people walk while ADSing they’re literally silent and vertical audio sounds like it’s on the floor you’re on.

When dying to inconsistent sound, you don't really learn anything, it's not a game at that point, it's luck.

I can relate. But in my experience it's not that movement or other actions doesn't make any sound... rather, it's as if I hear the sound from a location different from the one where I actually am. Like my ears separated from my body. Had some pretty ridiculous instances of sound coming from the completely wrong direction, or a different room.

The SOUND Bug is the only thing that's keeping me from playing this game. I love R6 and would deal with all other shit that UBI decided to throw at players. I'm not great with reflexes and have a potato laptop but pulled off excellent gameplay many times because of my strategy & awareness. But sound bugs are game-breaking stuff for me especially when I'm roaming with CAV.

Vertical audio has always been a bug since day 1. You can never tell if somebody is below, beside, or above you. It can be very frustrating

I've died so many times because there was literally no audio and I kept doubting myself thinking that I was just not paying attention. This issue is amplified when there is someone on a different floor. It's impossible to tell where someome might be when they're on a different floor and you have to take a guess as to which floor they're on.

And there I was, contemplating buying new headphones, believing my current ones went cuckoo.

Fun fact, there's been atleast one audio bug in game since Y2S3

I cannot describe how happy I am you got to this. I constantly try my hardest to enjoy the game again like I used to when it came out but apart from mnk being used constantly on console sound is by far my worst issue with the game. All of these clips basically sum up my experience of siege for AT LEAST the past 4 seasons or so. I hate feeling as though I am losing solely because of these issues and dropped the game a bit ago. I don't blame you for dipping, better for your mental health anyway as the community is just as toxic, at least on console.

This exactly why i stopped playing a few months ago. Played it almost every day for the past 5 years, the sounds were what made this game so great for me. And this whole sound bug hunter program feels like a big middle finger to the community because the sounds have been broken for years, gradually getting worse, but ubi seemed to ignore all the feedback they got. And now they realize they messed up and try to offload finding those bugs to the community, no thank you. It makes me sad when i think about all the great moments i had in this game. Now it feels like someone has pushed it off a cliff, it survived the fall but now it's a cripple.

Sometimes when bandit tricking, i can't hear the thermite charges at all, out of nowhere it blew up directly without sound queue.

The audio has been getting progressively worse, most noticeably when they switched (""""improved"""") their servers... which is also when peeker's advantage and random disconnects/lag has increased drastically for many players. Not sure what's going on over there, but I wish they'd do the opposite of whatever it is.

I've been blown up by silent thermites, killed by a silent amaru blasting through a barricaded window, and several blitz full rush at me! I'm over them not fixing the sound, and ruining the overall game. I honestly shut it off after this last update.

The amount of times I've been killed by an enemy that sprinted up behind me, yet I heard nothing until I was already being shot, are extremely numerous. It also happens to teammates I'm spectating. My teammates always say they heard the same thing that I did. Also, countless times have I fought a 3 Speed operator, I hit them once, and they proceed to sprint to the other side of the map to shoot me in the back, but I only heard them run through like one room, then nothing else until they're a single doorway away from me, behind me, sprinting even in the final killcam. It's so discouraging that I can make the slightest movement three rooms away, and the whole enemy team knows exactly where I am, yet enemies moving at full speed in close proximity to me are completely inaudible. Ridiculous.

By far my worst experience with sound was when I was playing on Villa in bathroom pushing up towards Astro and I hear somebody down the stairs only to be prefired by a Jager from the left side of the door. I asked my teammates and they all agreed they heard him on the stairs

don't really play siege anymore at all, an when you said "9/10" deaths I was highly skeptical and was expecting just salty john's, but wow those clips are so bad.

Im so happy youve made this video. Ive been having the exact same issues, bearing in mind i have 2k+ hours in this game, the audio for the most part throws me off so much!

I honestly can't have fun anymore, these days i can hardly find a single match where no one uses mouse and keyboard on console, it's honestly annoying and unfair.

The whole game is a bug and a problem.

This is somthing that they should look Into, they should do what hunt showdown does with their sound design, the game has one of the best sound designs that I know of and it's that good that 90% of the game you can tell where the noise came from exactly

Player: "The sound bug is the only thing stopping me play this game" Drone After Death: "hold my beer"

"they're sponsoring this video and that allows me to buy food and I like food" Rogue-9 2021

I honestly can't believe it took you this long

One of the two reasons I stopped playing after 4 years. I'm just tired of stupid sound. The sound engine cannot prioritise which ones to filter and which ones to amplify at any given time

I don't play siege anymore either. I basically only watch rogue vids for rogue anymore.

Glad you went through specific examples with clips. I’ve been saying this for 2 years but I’ve never bothered to actually bring out the examples and contrast them with custom match comparisons

Personally I barely play the game anymore because most of my friends stopped playing and I can't stand solo queue.

When i tried r6s again this year( last time seriously playing 1.5 years ago) i felt bad due to dying in situations due to audio, i thought i was bad. as i used to get most of my kills from sound

Jesus, I have played enough siege that I have become used to most of their weird sounds edit: some sounded normal/I could tell what was going on, but when you recreated it, I was shocked that I recognized the first

I just love how I die and blame the sound (with reason) and my teammates just say ''ThE aUdiO iS FiNe sTop CrYiNg'' yeah, it's fine, I can't hear a damn Ash rushing to the bombsite like crazy because the game is broken

It’s not only the sound. It’s the lagging enemies too. The dying behind walls or from enemies who aren’t even visible on your screen. Aside from the games flaws queuing up with toxic players every match is really frustrating too. As a ranked only player I deeply despise the ranking system because it’s just not accurate. There are gold lobby’s which feel like high plat or vise versa bronze. And then there are plat players which are absolute shit at the game. While me and my friend are stuck in gold this season although we were plat since the beginning of time. It’s all the above factors mentioned coming together keeping us down although we should be higher up. Which really frustrates me when playing the game. That’s why this season I barely played half as many matches as compared to every other season since velvet shell.

I know this isn’t something you can really test but the amount of mnk and smurfs on xbox right now is definitely ruining the game

It's so validating seeing the sound issues laid out like this, the clips are almost exactly what it feels like in game. I thought it was just my friends and I getting distracted all the time, but it feels like I misunderstand sound cues and get surprised by enemies moving at full speed constantly, but never in another game. The worst part is, I'm a huge audio guy, I use great equipment, have almost perfect hearing, and I still miss someone vaulting through a window and sprinting at me in a 1v1 with no gunfire. (I still adore siege, it's my favorite game, but audio is so important to me and I feel like I can never trust it in R6)

There is still the drone sound bug that you get after hoping off your drone... it’s been 3-4 seasons that it there

i rewatched some replays and sometimes the enemy didnt made any sound. no sound, not some bamboozled sound, nothing.

For the first clip the kapkan sounded like he was above you and to the right aswell. Idk that may just be me

Did not expect that massive Excision drop at the end there lol Bravo!

It's like painting a rusty metal without cleaning the rust. The paint can make it look good but deep down its still getting destroyed by the rust.

I stopped playing a while ago i lost love for it unfortunately

Rogue always asks "What's up" but he never asks "how's up"

thank you so much for the video. I thought that I was the problem all the time I couldnt hear the footsteps but now I really know whats going on in r6

6:14 Why was I expecting rouge to start spitting bars right the and there? 🤣🤣

I just got killed by a Tachanka because I didn't hear where he shot from... ubisoft needs to fix their shit

I stopped playing Siege over a year ago, I hated that they decide to constantly nerf operators, instead of buffing weak operators. It’s so annoying that they keep trying to balance operators on that chart and put every operator in the middle.

Yeeeey!~ Ela is on the thumbnail! Great content as always!

Played a warmup T-hunt game a few days ago where I was on kanal in the diving room crouched by the ladder to the underpass and I was holding an angle on the stairs and I couldn’t hear the last 3 enemies coming up on the open window to my right until they vaulted through it. Real head scratcher that one.

I swear I only hear Blitz running at me 20% of the time playing, that much scarier when you can’t hear him and he “Bonjour’s!” around the corner

started since operation blood orchid and I couldn't stop playing it everyday until clash got released. That's when I decided to play games that defy laws of physics like CS

I remember an instance where I was Attacking on Club House. I had gotten up to the vents area looking into CC Window, and I could audibly hear someone close by, prone/crouch level DIRECTLY to my left. Like it was the loud kind of close. So I vault in assuming he would be prone or crouched. Turns out, he was nowhere there, but instead the sound that I hear especially on the replay, was the dude sitting by the island in CACHE, watching the window.

My experience with sound? It's been my biggest source of frustration since Ela at frickin' release. Every season it does get worse. I'm sure Ubi overhauled the sound travel system around operation health, that's when they really broke it. The way it works now, the place the sound can go to quickest, it will travel to. Holes through floors completely frick the dynamic range sound is supposed to give. Standing on stairs in the middle of a floor transition als fucks your sound, the game then can't decide whether the enemy sprinting at you is above or below. Seriously, sound is the biggest problem and it has basically been this way since release. It's a shame really. They just need to build a new siege from the ground up with the necessary framework. A siege 2 would be great. Because rn siege suffers from very big fundamental problems

I stopped playing Siege because Of three reasons: First - my premade stoped playing because his favourite ops received way to much nerfs (especially Monti) Second - Utility seems less and less useful in my elo (higher silver - medium gold) and the number of Mouse& Keyboard-Cheaters on console seem to increase. Third - more and more games feel like I either didn't had a chance from the beginning or me and my team stomped the enemy without resistance.

after 5 years still sound bug is a thing

Ubi wont care until Macie Jay or one of their golden bois says something , which they wont.

Thank you for this video, I thought my headset was messed up and I fiddled with the settings but it seems its a game problem. Thanks Rogue-9

Brother, this game has devolved from a decent tactical shooter to "League of Operators" in just a few short years, which to me is a greater reason to leave it soaking in the bin.

The best thing to do would be to take a break, I took a 3-4 month break and I’m enjoying it so much more than I have in while.

Man your voice is legendary ❤👑 , glad to have a guy like you in r6 community

Thank god someone is finally talking about audio. Me and all my friends straight up stopped playing siege because it was so bad.

Hunt showdown sound design needs to come to R6

I don’t think I’ve played at all this year, good to know I haven’t been missing much

I was waiting for this video to come out lmao

That Blitz example was pretty wild lol

I've cut back massively.. The amount of money they must make off this game, and it's still a blithering mess.. They should have already started on Siege 2 with an engine that's designed for FPS games. Currently it feels like a leaky boat held together with flextape.. Just comes across as greedy.

Yoooooooo I never knew you had such a rockin beard! A very lovely face to match that lovely voice!

One of the worst "bugs" is having to do with rooms withmultiple stories (garage/rafters on clubhouse, any staircase, the hallway with the dropdown in Villa, etc) where in you cannot discern which story theyre on

I literally quit playing this game because the audio would always fuck me up and man I was just getting really sick of it. Thank you for making me feel waaaaaay better with this video

I just started playing again and every corner I turn I realize how much it’s changed and some of it for the worst, in my eyes. Only 1 operator per season, very few new guns, operators being changed up so often, new operators seeming pointless compared to older ones or having a second ability (Zofia and Aruni for example). Removal of night time, constant map reworks instead of new maps (completely destroys map knowledge of players which is frustrating because it can take hours to fully understand a map). The lighting and particle effects are downgraded (while I understand it’s meant to make things easier for competitive players it’s just disappointing from a standpoint of someone who plays for fun). And then the Audio issues which have been around for a while. I feel like Ubisoft focuses more on the competitive nature of the game, rather than the fun side. Take a game like Halo 3, Bungie instead of reworking weapons and maps every month, stuck to their guns and were confident in their game design skills and created a fun game rather than solely fixating on competition. And games like H3 while eventually becoming old, still holds up beautifully to this day and most importantly, it’s still fun.

Developers highly taking care of the game (i think) and if they are officially agree to a sound system inaccuracy they will try to fix it and no problem for me if they try. Every software has a problem, the important thing is the effort of the developers.

Thanks for actually pointing this out, everyone just says "ur bad, git gud" and the problem is never recognized by ubisoft

I dont know why but the audio you showed from the custom games is so much better than the sound i get

5:30 there was an error in your testing method there. In the match you where walking backwards while the enemy approached you, then when he stood still you moved forward. In the test however the person on your position stood still. This difference can skew the results. Same goes for 7:10 and 8:30. It looks like moving around makes your sound muffled.

5 YEARS of development and those lazy developers didn't find a way to solve the problem, woah!

The most outrageous death to sound not working happened to me in Consulate defending Cafe/Garage. Had a call that Twitch was yellow door when I was walking past spiral turned the corner and pre aimed piano, no sounds, turned to walk to yellow, and Twitch RAN into me, and the only sound I heard was Twitch's running only after she cut the soda machine corner. No sound before that AT ALL.

Not only these but the audio bug I had was also the one where literally everything sounded like it was from the opposite side.

Siege was fun back in the day, when pulse could instant switch from his gadget to his gun, when shotguns were op, Blackbeard had a 800 hp shield, everybody took obj slow and peaked slow, you could hear attackers coming closer as a defender and really feel theyre closing in on your position, when it wasn’t always about out shooting your opponent but using strategy, when maps had their unique parts and it wasn’t balanced but fun as hell, when it took 10+ minutes to find a game and usually with the same people. When there was night mode, atmospheric lighting and good sound before they changed it all. That siege is long gone

i stopped playing it seriously .. now i just play casual from time to time .. there are alot of better games out there

I'm playing the game since Velvet Shell and I still remember that around Para Bellum the audio was changed a bit (wihtout any info of it in the patch notes), and made some things harder to notice, especially around stairs.

I've noticed as well that sound just doesnt play for certain actions, happening at seemingly random. Had times where the Garahook makes no sound, and only the barricade breaking is heard, or vice versa. Also been holding angles and someone just normal walks to peek me and no sound is heard, along with crawling while prone making no sound almost 100% of the time, unless they shuffle around in place.