Rainbow Six Siege hackers thwarted after flooding lobbies with giant chickens and NSFW nightmares

Rainbow Six Siege matches were briefly overrun by images of giant chickens and far fouler things, but Ubisoft has put a temporary stop to the issue while working on a permanent fix.

Sometime earlier this week, Rainbow Six Siege hackers found a way to take advantage of the game's ban ticker to flood players' screens with random images. It started with a lovable, goofy cartoon chicken. So lovable, in fact, that players weren't even really mad when the hack got underway.

The video above gives you an idea of what the exploit looks like in-game. The chicken was so widespread that it was even seen during esports broadcasts - which meant that commentators had to try and keep a straight face during the proceedings, as you can see in the opening clip of the highlight video below.

Ubisoft has disabled the ban ticker while the devs work on a proper fix for the issue, but the community isn't ready to say goodbye to the iconic chicken just yet.

Or, at least, that would be the case if the chicken was the only thing being added to Siege. Unfortunately, hackers soon started adding nude images to the feed, which would be a particular problem for streamers trying to avoid running afoul of Twitch's content policies. Much worse, images of real-world violence were soon added, too.

Listen, folks, if you're going to cause chaos at least just stick with the fun kind. It's a shame to see Siege Chicken's memory sullied like this.

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