DexertoRainbow Six Siege players are worried that the launch of Siege X may be a flop if the new overhaul update faces performance issues when released.
Rainbow Six Siege X was announced on February 16, 2025, revealing that the existing game would be overhauled in a CS2-like update. While there’s no official release date, the community has been eagerly awaiting more details on what to expect.
One player posted to the Rainbow6 Reddit, expressing their concern: “If Siege X performance runs remotely close to R6: Extraction or XDefiant as the latest leaks say, we are screwed!
“R6: Extraction uses an updated Siege engine and XDefiant uses Snowdrop engine. None of these were well accepted nor very well optimized. We can only hope that Siege X won’t be the end of high refresh rate gaming for many of us.”
Rainbow Six Siege community worried over Siege X performance
“They already f**ked up by removing Vulkan so I get 20% – 30% less FPS as it stands,” a top comment read, to which one replied, “Game been running like poop ever since. Should have just kept it in Vulkan.”
Ubisoft’s Vulkan launcher was added to reduce CPU load by shifting tasks to the GPU for PC users, but it was removed from Rainbow Six Siege in November 2024, in favor of DirectX 12.
“it will run like s*t, same as XDefiant, dont have high hopes,” a user stated, as one more came, “Plz no. Extraction performance are terrible s**t. Some mid PC may run Siege with high res, without running Extraction at minimal settings.”
Another added: “I hope they learned from Extraction, I expect it to take more resources, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be optimized.”
However, many players hit back at the claims. “What do you mean Extraction ran poorly? I played that game on PS4, PS5 and PC like every night last summer and it ran fine,” came one.
“Thats what im saying. I redownloaded it recently and it runs BETTER on high settings than modern day Siege does on low,” a player replied.
“The Snowdrop rumor was false apparently. Seems like there will be no engine change with Siege X,” replied another.”
Ubisoft has not stated if the engine or any other changes relating to this will be changed in the rework update. This is just pure speculation. The developers stated in their intial announcement via a blog post, that Siege will receive “deepened tactical gameplay, and major upgrades all around.”
You can find everything we know about Rainbow Six Siege X so far, including teasers, gameplay changes, and how to watch the upcoming Showcase, where more details about the game’s future will be revealed.
