How to weapon inspect in Siege X
Siege X is Rainbow Six Siege relaunched: same game, new name, free to play, shipped in June 2025 alongside Operation Daybreak. Weapon inspect came with it. That single fact explains most of the confusion around this search, because a decade of older guides, forum answers and video comments all say Siege has no inspect animation. They were right when they were written.
The bind
- PC: hold I.
- Xbox: hold Y.
- PlayStation: hold Triangle.
It is a hold, not a tap, and it runs a short animation that turns the weapon so you can see the receiver, the optic and any charm hanging off it. That is the whole feature. There is no stat readout attached to it and no gameplay effect.
Finding it in the reworked menus
Siege X moved a lot of the interface around, which is the second reason people end up searching for this. The bind sits with the rest of the controls: open the menu, go to Options, then the controls tab, and scroll the action list until you find the inspect entry. Keyboard, controller and console layouts are stored separately, so changing one does not change the others. If you play on PC with a pad plugged in, check the controller list rather than the keyboard one.
If the action is not in the list
An action that is genuinely absent from the bind list means the client is not on a Siege X build. Let the launcher finish updating and check again. A bind that is present but does nothing in a match is usually doubled up with another action on the same key, which Siege permits without warning you.
Why it matters more in Siege X than it did before
Free to play brought a much larger cosmetics economy with it, and inspect is how that economy gets seen. A skin you paid for is otherwise only visible to you as a sliver of receiver at the bottom of the screen. Holding the bind for two seconds is the only way to actually look at the thing. That is also the reason to be disciplined about when you use it: two seconds is a long time in a Siege round, so keep it to prep phase, a cleared floor, or a round already decided.
Then there are the real ones
Siege takes its weapon list from service rifles and carbines that exist outside the game, which is why the animations look right to people who shoot. The semi-automatic versions of a good many of them are ordinary retail rifles in most of the country. New Jersey is stricter than most, and several configurations that look normal in game are not legal to own here, so readNew Jersey gun laws before you order. Every firearm we ship goes to a licensed New Jersey dealer, who checks your card or permit and runs your background check.
The control itself, with the older name and the console buttons, is set out inhow to weapon inspect in Rainbow Six Siege.
