Confirmed: Rainbow Six Siege to get full crossplay support

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is getting full crossplay support this December, Ubisoft confirmed in the Year 9 Season 3 (Y9S3) mid-season roadmap update. Full crossplay will come to Rainbow Six Siege with the Operation Collision Point season (the Y9S4), set to launch on December 3. Ubisoft has termed it 'Crossplay 1.0'.

Ubisoft’s popular tactical shooter getting full crossplay means PC and console layers can now join in the same match.

“Console to PC Crossplay will enable PC and console to play together. This will work by allowing console players to join their PC friends, opting into the PC matchmaking pool”, the French video game publishing giant announced in a website post.

Rainbow Six Siege: MouseTrap feature set to arrive, Dynamic Matchmaking 1.0 delayed

Rainbow Six Siege’s Season 4 also brings the MouseTrap feature which will force “confirmed mouse and keyboard console players into PC matchmaking, with PC recoil values”.

However, the Dynamic Matchmaking 1.0 feature is now pushed to Y10. The upcoming feature aims to improve “server allocation based on a broader set of players' data”. Instead of Dynamic Matchmaking 1.0, Ubisoft is bringing the Phantom Player feature to balance matchmaking.

Rainbow Six Siege: What’s the Phantom Player feature

In Rainbow Six Siege, Phantom Player “is a mathematical value, a ''6th player'', which will bring an extra layer of balancing to matchmaking”. The feature is supposed to check for skill disparity among the players of the stack and then “add the appropriate skill value to even out the matches depending on the number of players within this stack".