How to use Rainbow Six Siege’s Match Replay feature

Wondering how you can watch and share replays of Rainbow Six Siege matches? Here’s everything you need to know about the game’s match replay feature. 

Watching your match replays can be extremely handy in competitive games, and Rainbow Six Siege rolled the feature out in beta back in Year 6. Whether you want to relive an epic win with your favorite operator or take some notes on how to improve your gameplay, it’s a much-appreciated addition to the beloved Ubisoft FPS.

If you’re wondering exactly how match replays work in Rainbow Six Siege, we’ve got all the information you need right here, including how to record and share your clips.

Contents

• What is Rainbow Six match replay?
• How to use Rainbow Six match replay?
• Basic spectator controls
• How to share Rainbow Six Siege match replays? 

What is Rainbow Six match replay?

Rainbow Six match replay is a feature that lets you watch back your latest matches. Siege will save your last 12 games so you can go back, analyze your gameplay, figure out new strategies, or just record that mad clip you hit.

While it’s in beta, you can only watch your own replays. However, in the future, Ubisoft is looking at ways for you to watch other replays, including pro games.

One thing to be mindful of is that replays will get wiped after every patch. If you want to watch them back after an update goes through, you’ll need to record it on your PC. You lose all the match replay features, but at least you can watch back through the video.

How to use Rainbow Six match replay

It’s pretty easy to jump right into a replay. Here’s what you need to do.

1. Launch Rainbow Six Siege.
2. Navigate to the “Watch” tab. 
3. Click on the game you want to watch.
4. Once it boots up, sit back and enjoy the show!

Rainbow Six match replay: basic spectator controls

Once you get booted into the match replay, you will have to navigate around yourself ⁠— there is no auto-pilot navigation. There are a lot of controls to get used to. However, there are a few select ones you should definitely know about. We’ve listed them below for you:

• Play / Pause: Spacebar
• Select Round: U
• Rewind: L
• Select Speed (0.5x / 1.0x / 1.5x / 2.0x): K
• Follow Players: 1 – 0 (numbers)
  • Blue Team: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  • Orange Team: 6, 7, 8, 9, 0
• Cycle Players: Q (Left) / E (Right)
• Toggle View Mode (Overhead / First-person): C
• Toggle Control Bar: R
• Zoom In: Page Up
• Zoom Out: Page Down

How to share Rainbow Six match replays

There’s no easy way to share Rainbow Six match replays right now. You can send files to friends by navigating to the folder your Siege is downloaded in, clicking on “MatchReplay,” and sending the file over.

If you just want to share a small clip, we recommend using third-party software like OBS or ShadowPlay to record the replay. Until Ubisoft adds an in-built recording feature, this is the best workaround.

Finally, it’s worth noting that the match replay feature is currently still in beta.

For more Rainbow Six content, check out our guides below: 

How to get Renown fast in Rainbow Six Siege | Rainbow Six Siege ranks explained | Rainbow Six Siege crossplay