How to weapon inspect in Rainbow Six Siege

Siege went years without a weapon inspect animation while nearly every other shooter had one. It arrived with Siege X, the relaunch that shipped alongside Operation Daybreak in June 2025, which is why so many of the older guides say the feature does not exist. It does now, and it is on a single bind.

The control

• PC: hold I.
• Xbox: hold Y.
• PlayStation: hold Triangle.

Hold rather than tap. The animation runs for a couple of seconds and shows the gun from the side with whatever skin, charm and attachments you have on it, which is the point of the feature.

Rebinding it

Open the menu, go to Options, then the controls tab, and look for the inspect action in the list of keybinds. On PC the I key sits a long way from WASD, so plenty of players move it onto a mouse side button or a key near the reload finger. If you cannot find it in the list at all, see the next section.

If you have no inspect option

• The game has to be updated. On a client still sitting on a pre-Siege X build there is no inspect action to bind, because the feature was not in that build.
• Check you are in the controls list for the right input device. Console and keyboard bindings are kept separately, and a controller plugged into a PC uses its own set.
• If the key does nothing in a round, make sure it is not doubled up with another action. Siege will let you bind two things to one key and then quietly favour one of them.

When to use it in a round

Inspecting locks you into an animation, so treat it the way you would treat a reload in the open: do it in prep phase, in a cleared room, or after the round has been decided. It is a cosmetic flourish, not a free action, and the two seconds it costs are two seconds you are not holding an angle.

The guns behind the models

Siege draws its weapon list from service rifles, carbines and shotguns that mostly exist, which is why the inspect animations read as correct to anyone who has handled the real thing: the charging handle sits where it sits, the safety selector sweeps the way it sweeps. If you came here from the game and want to look at the originals, the rifles below are the civilian semi-automatic versions.

Every firearm we ship goes to a licensed New Jersey dealer, who checks your card or permit and runs the background check. New Jersey gun laws covers what New Jersey allows, which matters here, because several of the configurations seen in the game are not legal to own in this state.