'Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege' YGS1.1 Full Patch Notes: Another April Fool's Joke or Not?

April Fool's Day posts are everywhere, and we are never sure that every piece of information published today, Apr. 1, is true or just too good to be true. "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege," said that it will be releasing its YGS1.1 patch notes. Is this a prank?

Ubisoft's online tactical shooting video game will now be available on select gaming consoles such as Xbox platforms, PS4, and PS5. The game developers announced that the ongoing maintenance for YGS1.1 is not an April Fool's Joke.

'Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege' YGS1.1 Patch Launches on April 1

According to the official tweet of the @RainbowSixGame page, the YGS1.1 patch will begin this Apr.1. There will also be a downtime of 30 minutes for the maintenance, meaning that you will not be able to play the game in the process.

In particular, there will be various patch sizes for different gaming consoles. For the Xbox users, the patch will begin at 9:00 EDT or 13: UTC. More importantly, Xbox One's patch size will be 1.33 GB while the Xbox Series X will have a much bigger patch size of 2.27 GB.

For the PlayStation users, the patch will arrive at 10:00 EDT or 14:00 UTC. Specifically, the patch size for PS4 will be 1.57 GB while for PS5, it will be 1.62 GB.

Moreover, the patch size for the Ubisoft Connect was not mentioned in the tweet. However, the official page of Ubisoft's 'Tom Clancy Rainbow Six Siege' stated that the patch size for the platform will be 1.56 GB if a live build was installed with HD PACK.

On the other hand, if the live build was installed without the HD PACK, the patch size will only be 1.44 GB.

With that being said, some players still considered Ubisoft's announcement to be an April Fool's prank. One user said that what the developer is doing is only reverse psychology.

While the majority of users spoke about the update being bogus, other users pointed out some problems like glitches that happen in the game. One user requested the developers to fix the double-MMR issue in a 5-man party.

There are also comments highlighting the MMR bugs of acquiring or reducing 150 ELO changes after a loss. Another user reported a one-round cancel glitch where one team immediately cancels the game causing the other team to restart finding a match.

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'Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege' YGS1.1 Full Patch Notes

What Ubisoft released today was not an April Fool's prank. Ubisoft's official page revealed several tweaks and improvements, as well as bug fixes in the game.

YGS1.1 Tweaks and Improvements

The first improvement is for the player's comfort and it is divided into two categories.

Streamer Mode

• Streamer Mode preferences can now be found in the Options Menu

• Streamers can now hide the information about their region and latency from the viewers. This also supports hidden matchmaking delay to avoid queue sniping

Charms Loadout Menu

• You can now alphabetically sort your charms in the player loadout menus and operator album. You can also arrange them through their rarity. However, this update is only temporary.

YGS1.1 Bug Fixes (Gameplay)

• Fixed infinite loading of title after Cold Zero cinematics

• Fixed issue so players can now fast peek around the corners through knifing and leaning the air

• Fixed Battle Pass progress of Bailiff 410 handgun to the Close Quarters shotgun challenge

• Fixed vertical recoil stops or dropdown

• Fixed Match Cancellation Penalty

YGS1.1 Bug Fixes (Level Design)

• Fixed issues on clipping, collision and multiple misplaced assets

• Fixed exploitable gaps

• Fixed issues on various LOD

• Fixed texture issues

• Fixed lighting issues

• Fixed Spectator's mode issues on asset

• Fixed attacker drones spawn in the AC unit box

YGS1.1 Bug Fixes (Operators)

• Fixed the small size of Montagne hip-fire cone when the shield does not extend

• Fixed weapon clips from Flores' Claymore

• Fixed RCE-Ratero Charge that will change position if the Pest caught it

• Fixed Black Mirror deployed by Mira

• Fixed Evil Eye camera of Maestro

• Fixed HUD of Flores' RCE-Ratero Charge which can now be spotted at the end of the round. MVP will now also be activated before the end of it.

• Fixed RCE-Ratero Charge HUD's red appearance when the deployed drones of Flores get wrecked.

YGS1.1 Bug Fixes (User Experience)

• Fixed disabled replay access when a player quits a match replay

• Fixed overlapping of ticker with the loadout bar in Caster HUD

• Fixed player's entrance to Observation Tool and immediately switch stance

• Fixed in-game notification that goes missing after leveling up an account

• Fixed Watch section not refreshing

• Fixed Navigation and UI issues

• Fixed localization issues

• Fixed shop and cosmetic issues

• Fixed pixelated VFX in NVIDIA Driver 461.72

• Fixed Premium Battle Pass purchase panel generating a wrong description in the case of a player reaching Tier 98 or above

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Written by Joen Coronel