How it reads in a round
Distance ESP turns a contact into a decision. A tag at 5 meters means someone is on top of you, so you hold the doorway instead of pushing wide. A tag at 40 meters means you have time to reload, reposition or wait for your team. In Rainbow Six Siege, which runs BattlEye, the number matters most through soft walls, where you are shooting at something you cannot see.
The number is also your clutter control. Full ESP in a busy lobby is noise. If your build lets you cap the range that ESP draws at, set it, so anything past that cap stops drawing at all. You keep the players who are a threat and drop the rest.
Reading it with the rest of your ESP
Distance is a modifier, not a standalone feature. Next to a box it tells you whether that box is a threat or scenery. Next to an offscreen arrow it tells you whether the player behind you is right there or across the map. Without it, every contact on your screen looks equally urgent.
Where it sits for risk
Distance ESP is a drawing feature. It reads memory and paints text on your screen, and it never moves your crosshair. ESP only, with no aim assistance at all, is the lowest risk setup there is, and adding a range number does not change that.
The risk lives in how you act on the information. Prefiring an empty doorway every single time looks strange to the players watching you, even with no aimbot running. Let some of what you see go unused, especially on a fresh account, because a brand new account posting pro level numbers draws far more attention than an aged one. If you do run aim features alongside it, keep aim smoothing at 5 or higher and leave a visibility check enabled, so you are not tracking people through walls. For the current state of any Arctic build, check the live board at /status. If you are unsure how distance is displayed or limited in a specific product, ask support before you buy.
