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Ubisoft sees ‘major reduction’ in Rainbow Six Siege cheaters thanks to XIM detection (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/games@lemmy.world
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For the uninitiated: XIM is a tool used to play console shooters with a mouse and keyboard and fake them as controllers, essentially giving them an unfair advantage in competitive shooters on console.

Ubisoft implemented a super effective way to counter XIM called "Mousetrap" a while ago. It slowly adds more and more input delay if you're playing with a XIM and tons of people have been sharing clips of players clearly trying to use it and having a 200ms+ delay in their actions and playing like they're drunk. It's quite funny.

As someone who used to play R6 on console, I salute the devs.

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[–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

xim is inherently cheating as it hides the actual input method, I think it can also be used by aimbots to input inputs

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I wouldn't say it's inherently cheating, like there are plenty of use cases where it's completely non-problematic (like if I wanted to play a non-crossplay game with my homie on Xbox but I prefer M&KB), but in the case of competitive titles with a low time to kill (like R6) it's hugely unfair.

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