Hardware bans in Rainbow Six Siege

Two very different things get called "banned" in Siege chat, and they do not behave alike.

An account ban attaches to your Ubisoft account. The account stops working, but the PC underneath it is not what was blocked. Your rank, your skins and your library go with the account. A second account on the same machine can still play, because nothing about the hardware was flagged.

A hardware ban, usually shortened to HWID ban, attaches to the machine. It works off identifiers tied to your parts, the same ones a spoofer changes, such as drives, RAM, monitors, network adapters, GPU and motherboard identifiers. Once those identifiers sit on a ban list, any account signing in from the same set can be tied back to the banned one. New email, new account, new payment method, none of that helps, because the machine is what is being matched.

Telling the two apart is a test, not a guess.

• Make a throwaway account with no cheat loaded at all, then play a few matches on the same PC. If it survives several sessions, your machine is probably still clean and the ban was account level.
• If the throwaway gets banned again, treat the machine as flagged.
• If a fresh account plays fine on a different PC on the same internet connection, that points at the hardware in your own PC.

Run the test cold. No cheat, no loader, no spoofer running, because spoofing during the test hides the answer you are trying to get. Give it more than one session too. A flag does not always show up straight away.

If the result is still unclear, ask support before you spend anything. Guessing wrong burns a second account for no reason.

1. Confirm it is a hardware ban. Run the cold test above first. If only the account was closed, a new account on its own is enough and you do not need to spoof at all.
2. Retire the banned account. A spoofer does not unban it and does not remove the ban record. Nothing you run brings back your rank, your skins or your purchases.
3. Set up a clean account. New Ubisoft account, new email, and keep it separate from the banned one.
4. Pick the spoofer. Trace 2.0 covers BattlEye titles, so it covers Siege, and it is the safe first purchase if you have never spoofed before.
5. Prepare Windows before you run anything. Turn off Memory Integrity under Core Isolation, then disable Windows Defender. The Trace 2.0 setup guide walks through every toggle in order.
6. Get the order right. Trace 2.0 is session based by design. Inject your cheat first, then run Trace 2.0 once, not the other way round.
7. Use the seed system. A saved seed keeps the same fake identity across sessions. An anti-cheat that sees the same PC every day is less interesting than one that sees a brand new PC every day.
8. Expect it to reset. Trace 2.0 writes nothing to firmware, so a reboot returns your real hardware. That is by design, and it means you run it again every session.
9. Check the live board before you launch. Open /status and read the current entry for whatever you are running.
10. Play like the account matters. Level it before you turn aim features on. Set aim smoothing to 5 or higher so the aim moves like a hand instead of snapping like a machine. Turn the visibility check on so the aimbot does not target through walls, which keeps your killcams clean. ESP only, with no aim assistance at all, is the lowest risk setup there is.

Be clear about the limits. A spoofer will not hide you from a lobby full of people pressing report. It will not save an account that plays like nothing human either. It changes the machine you are seen as, and that is all it claims to do. Siege cheats themselves are Frost, Inferno and Frost Pro.

Both spoofers cover this game, because Siege runs BattlEye and BattlEye is on both coverage lists. So the real question is which one fits you.

Trace 2.0 is the sensible default. It covers Easy Anti-Cheat and BattlEye titles, it spoofs drives, RAM, monitors, network adapters, GPU and motherboard identifiers, and it is the best value option. It is session based, so you run it each time you play, and a reboot puts your real hardware back.

Verse is the firmware level option. It rewrites SMBIOS, UEFI variables, the TPM identity, EFUSE MAC and more, and the identity survives every restart. Its SMBIOS fixer picks from over 1,250 real motherboard profiles, so the board it reports is one that actually exists. Verse is worth it in two cases. First, if you want one permanent spoof instead of a per session routine. Second, if you also play a Vanguard or Ricochet title such as Valorant, BO7 or Warzone, because Trace 2.0 does not cover those.

Check two Verse limits before you buy. Motherboard support covers ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte and ASRock, but Lenovo, Acer and Dell prebuilts are not supported. Verse also sells in limited batches and is often out of stock, so use the restock alert on its product page. You can compare both on the HWID spoofers page.