Rainbow Six Extraction Details Revealed: Gameplay Systems, Operator Progression, and More

Ubisoft revealed further details about Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction, the next mainline installment in the Rainbow Six franchise.

Both Rainbow Six Siege players and those looking for a new PVE co-op game can experience Rainbow Six Extraction’s many features including a deep operator progression system, four adjustable difficulty levels, 12 ever-evolving maps, 13 dynamic mission objectives, over 90 guns and gadgets, a unique ranked mode and extensive post-launch support for free, to be detailed at a later date.

With development led by Ubisoft Montreal, Rainbow Six Extraction lets players join the REACT Team and assemble a one to three-player squad of well-known and beloved operators from Rainbow Six Siege to confront mysterious alien creatures known as Archæans. Equipped with more than 65 weapons, ten legacy Rainbow Six Siege tech, and 15 exclusive REACT tech, the operators have been adapted to best take on the alien threat. For casual players who want to go at their own pace, Extraction is also fully playable solo.

Players will be deployed in 4 varied regions across the U.S., including New York, San Francisco, and two other regions, and face the alien threat in 12 new maps. Each map is roughly three times the size of previous Rainbow Six Siege maps, and contains unique dynamic modifiers, ensuring no incursion is ever the same.

You will tackle 13 different mission objectives during tactical incursions including one called the Gateway Objective, in which players must face off against a Protean, a deadly Archæan variant that has adopted the form of REACT operators and mimics their behavior.

For Rainbow Six Siege fans, Extraction introduces not only entirely new Rainbow Six lore featuring many of their favorite characters from Siege, but also a brand-new twist to familiar gameplay features: for the first time, players can progress through a custom leveling system for each of the 18 Rainbow Six operators, allowing them to advance their Operator’s gear, weapons, and abilities in an entirely new way.

As they level up, players will also permanently unlock new containment zones, Operators, customization items, new REACT tech, higher difficulty levels, and more.

With 13 archetypes of Archæan variants, infestations, parasitic mutation challenges, numerous incursion types, and exciting new gameplay features including nests, spores, and Sprawl. Extraction also offers players who enjoy a challenge a thrilling gamble: extract and collect their rewards or go deeper into each map’s subzones, facing greater risks but more rewards for those who make it out alive.

If they fail to extract, their operator will go Missing in Action (MIA), but they have an opportunity to go back into the containment zone to rescue their downed operators. For players who enjoy a tougher challenge, there will be a feature-rich PVE system called Maelstrom Protocol, to be detailed at a later date.

Players who play both Rainbow Six Siege and Rainbow Six Extraction will instantly unlock Extraction’s entire roster of 18 operators in Rainbow Six Siege. They will also receive the elite United Front cosmetic bundles in both games.

Players who pre-order Rainbow Six Extraction will receive the Orbital Decay bundle with exclusive Epic items including the Orion uniform and headgear for Finka and Lion, the universal Vaporized weapon skin, and the Crashlander charm. Rainbow Six Extraction will also include live service support with regular content updates.

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction, will release worldwide with full cross-play, cross-save, and cross-progression in January 2022 for Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, and the Ubisoft Store on PC.

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