Rainbow Six: Siege's PS4 Patch Is Busting Entire PS4 Consoles

WOW. Glad I haven't played that game in a while

What is it with things crashing the PS4 lately?

Even on bootup no matter the HDMI cable it sometimes needs to be reset before outputting. The Destiny 2 somehow crashed PS4 Pro systems, now this?

Sony, your submission process exists to make sure it doesnt impact the system like this. This is why people have to pay you money to submit. So you can be sure crashes and especially bricking doesnt happen. :/

Realistically, what happens if a games patch causes your system to brick or wipe saved data?

This is atrocious.

How can a bug potentially wipe the hard drive? It almost seems malicious to me- like an unhappy worker adding some dodgy virus to the update.

Ahh ok. Ehen you say brick the system does it effectively ruin the console and cause irreparable damage or does a reformat fix things? This hadnt happened to me but im curious what kind of protection end users have.

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Now that is an impressive bug. Check a friends trophy list, lose everything. I can see how they are connected.

Really makes you wonder how things like this even leave the QA department (if Ubisoft has ever heard of such a thing).

I see a class action lawsuit coming, and a new Xbox 1X. So what does Sony plan to do to compensate for all the damage done??

@DeadlyBB62 Affected users will receive 1.78 free days of PSN. That's almost two days!

patches usaly auto download

@get2sammyb I read something on anther site that some people could rebuild the database from the safe mode i thought it was a post on reddit. Trying does not make anything worse.

so my friend has the update, he told me to download it too, but I just ignored (for some particular reason...). Interestingly he was talking about Rainbow 6 and was telling me about the new contents and some matches he played. so far he had no problem... the thing is... he has the update... is that gonna be problematic?
I mean he could at least just delete his Rainbow 6... instead of losing all the data he has...including Save files

"You collected your first crash!" - Bronze trophy
"You collected 10 crashes without dying!" - Silver Trophy
"Your hard disk have been wiped!" - Gold Trophy
"Your console have been bricked!" - Platinum Trophy

Wow that's not good. Would Ubisoft be liable to fix bricked consoles?

@hadlee73 yep mine does the same has fir years now, best fix I've found is unplugging and hitting the power button until stops bleeping and keep unplugged for a few hours,gives me a week or two before the spitting starts again 😉

@stBoa @hadlee73 Do you have Original model PS4's because this issue is caused by heat on the bottom of the console triggering the eject button

what you have to do is elevate the system of whatever you have it on so there is a gap between the PS4 and the shelf, this stops the eject issue (and yes i know this works because it used to happen to me and i asked the official help and that's what they told me)

of course if it ISN'T the heat issue then it's a faulty eject button

@FullbringIchigo yeah it's the original. .I've removed the rubber foot beneath the eject button and have the system on its side too!
It has times when it doesn't spit for a while but still an ongoing issue