Slot machine jackpot: Rainbow 6: Vegas patch coming soon

Now that Rainbow Six: Vegas is getting quite a bunch of hits in Xbox Live, it seems that Ubisoft is keeping up with support for the game. Well, why wouldn’t they? R6 is one of the strongest FPS franchises out there anyways. And of course, you can’t talk about FPS without mentioning its strongest suit: multiplayer.

That’s why when Ubisoft announces that a patch is coming up for their game, you can bet your last round of ammo that it’ll concern more toward fixing a whole bunch of multiplayer issues. Generally however, they were able to tweak some localization errors in Spanish. Also, for single player, they’ve fixed bugs with voice-recognition and another problem that made the game crash when killing Dr. Smythe under some specific circumstance.

Here’s the whole list of of Multiplayer issues that they addressed:

• Getting stuck at briefing screen when joining a match in progress
• Fixed a coop crash when failing a mission numerous times
• Fixed an exploit where observers received same kills as host in terrorist hunt
• Fixed a intermittent coop crash in map Factory
• Fixed a disconnection bug when host changes map
• Fixed a bug with live camera that forced a reboot.
• Fixed an issue with max players not being related to recommended players for maps.
• Added better feedback in the game search menus.
• Fixed a bug with the siege specialist achievement.
• Fixed players crashing when using shield and entering a game with shield restricted.

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Now that Rainbow Six: Vegas is getting quite a bunch of hits in Xbox Live, it seems that Ubisoft is keeping up with support for the game. Well, why wouldn’t they? R6 is one of the strongest FPS franchises out there anyways. And of course, you can’t talk about FPS without mentioning its strongest suit: multiplayer.

That’s why when Ubisoft announces that a patch is coming up for their game, you can bet your last round of ammo that it’ll concern more toward fixing a whole bunch of multiplayer issues. Generally however, they were able to tweak some localization errors in Spanish. Also, for single player, they’ve fixed bugs with voice-recognition and another problem that made the game crash when killing Dr. Smythe under some specific circumstance.

Here’s the whole list of of Multiplayer issues that they addressed:

• Getting stuck at briefing screen when joining a match in progress
• Fixed a coop crash when failing a mission numerous times
• Fixed an exploit where observers received same kills as host in terrorist hunt
• Fixed a intermittent coop crash in map Factory
• Fixed a disconnection bug when host changes map
• Fixed a bug with live camera that forced a reboot.
• Fixed an issue with max players not being related to recommended players for maps.
• Added better feedback in the game search menus.
• Fixed a bug with the siege specialist achievement.
• Fixed players crashing when using shield and entering a game with shield restricted.
• Fixed a rare crash when starting a coop story game
• Fixed a bug that made the shield become invisible in certain circumstances.
• Fixed a display bug with weapons disappearing while using shield
• Fixed a crash while using the Live Vision Camera
• Fixed a display bug with the canister in retrieval staying visible after being taken.
• Fixed a random crash for clients in COOP games.
• Fixed a display error that showed 14 players instead of 16 for dedicated servers.
• Fixed a bug with score limits not working properly.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented grenades from being used at game start.
• Fixed a crash through the world bug related to starting COOP games while playing Terrorist Hunt.
• Fixed a crash through the world bug in Casino COOP.
• Fixed a bug with invalid recommended players in COOP maps.
• Fixed a lockup in COOP mode related to clients joining a game late.
• Fixed a bug where a dedicated server set for 16 players only accepted 14.
• Added better feedback in the game search menus
• Remove proximity voice chat from team games.
• Adjust TerroHunt XP based on density setting:
• Fixed bug regarding voice chat – Now voice chat works for all players
• Fixed a crash where clients crash when host change map or quit the game before they have time to load lobby
• Fixed a crash when clientnt selects Option/ Map name either in the lobby or In game
• Fixed a bug related to the infiltration specialist achievement
• Fixed a bug where when score limit is 10 a game does not end when canister is deposited
• Fixed a bug in splitscreen:Crash when player 2 Press ready before player 1 in the login profile menu
• Fixed a bug where game occasionally crashes on boot at the Title Screen.