It seems that there is another patch on the way for Rainbow Six: Vegas, which has been announced but slightly too early. Posted on the official forums, one eagle-eyed forumer managed to snap up the details revealed by a forum Admin, whose post was removed pretty soon after it was posted. The details are after the jump.

The update does the following:

Hi everyone, we’ve been working on a title update for Rainbow Six Vegas on XBOX360. Below you’ll find the list of fixes and changes we’ve brought with this update:

• A bug in Ranked Matches unintentionally allowed players to play multiple rounds back to back worth large amounts of experience points. Ranked Matches now properly disconnect everyone at the end of the match.
• Non-dedicated hosts can no longer automatically launch matches without being present. On a non-dedicated host, the game will start when either everyone presses Ready, or the host presses Launch.
• Added mechanisms to detect the use of rubberbands on your gamepad to level up. Anyone doing this will receive a “player idle penalty”, which means zero experience points at the end of the match.
• Fixed a bug introduced in the last patch that unintentionally increased auto-aim when using long range scopes.
• Modified the efficiency of certain Sub-Machine Guns and, to a lesser extent, Assault Rifles. Noticeable changes can be found on the MP7A1, MP9 and MTAR21.
• The Take Cover camera has been improved to fix a specific situation that allowed someone taking cover to aim-fire at a target without being seen.
• Fixed the fact that Grenades could be thrown through certain walls.
• The sound effects of explosions are now working as intended on dedicated hosts.
• Reloading your checkpoint / saved game in Singleplayer will no longer revert your difficulty level. This should help make the Rainbow Six Legend achievement more attainable.

Many of the changes we’ve introduced in this update are based on the feedback you, the players, have given us. We thank you for your continued support, and we hope you enjoy the improvements.

See you online!

Dev Team

It seems pretty obvious that this is true, since the above screenshot was also snapped before the post went down. It seems a worthwhile patch, and one that will improve the game. Certainly the last point at least, which should have been in the game from the start anyway.

Update:It seems this update came out on Tuesday and the post is out of date. As such, this is available now and there is not another one coming just yet. Sorry for any confusion.

Thanks to bluboy6 for submitting.