Rainbow Six Siege players report FPS drop issue on PS4, PS5 after Y8S1 update; crossplay facing issues as well

Rainbow Six Siege is a high-intensity tactical shooter that emphasizes teamwork, strategy, and lethality. It’s the eighth year of the game, and the devs have added a new Battle Pass path system.

Branching pathways will replace the old linear system as players can now strategize their progression and obtain the rewards they desire faster.

The Y8S1 update, on the other hand, appears to be to blame for a new issue in which Rainbow Six Siege players are claiming severe FPS drops on PS4 and PS5 (1,2,3,4,5,6,7).

Those affected claim that their game would start up smoothly, but then the FPS would suddenly fluctuate, causing lag and stuttering.

This happens during gunfights as well making it impossible to control gun spray, and in a few cases, players claim that FPS goes from 90 to 1 before returning to 40 and then 20.

This happens even after gamers have verified the game file, restarted their console, and updated all of their drivers and game to the latest versions.

Anyone else been getting the fps icon flash along with massive lag/choppy gameplay my ping is low around 20 but I don’t know what could be causing it whether it’s on my end or not.
Source

Okay good, I thought me and my friend were the only ones. It’s literally unplayable 120 fps drops to like 40 every 10seconds or so
Source

Also, there appears to be a problem with the crossplay (1,2,3,4,5).

According to reports, there are several different varieties of this bug.  Sometimes, a player might not be able to invite friends to their party and a ‘failed to do the action’ error message is displayed.

Other times when a person is in a group with another player or more, the game may indicate that the party is locked.

Occasionally, the message ‘invite sent’ appears but the invite is not delivered to another player, or lobby joining fails.

@UbisoftSupport i am trying to play with a friend on ps5 i’m on xbox series s and i’m not getting error messages its just bugging out and not letting us invite each other fix it
Source

Anyone know why I can’t connect to a friends lobby and it won’t let me invite either. We’ve already restarted game, Ubisoft connect, and pc. It keeps saying an error code saying unable to connect try again later
Source

FPS drop in any game let alone Rainbow Six Siege can be frustrating, so we hope developers can fix this as soon as possible.

That said, we will keep an eye on the latest developments and update the article, so stay tuned to PiunikaWeb.

Note: We have more such stories in our dedicated gaming section so be sure to follow them as well.

Featured image source: Rainbow Six Siege.

PiunikaWeb started as purely an investigative tech journalism website with main focus on ‘breaking’ or ‘exclusive’ news. In no time, our stories got picked up by the likes of Forbes, Foxnews, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, Macrumors, and many others. Want to know more about us? Head here.