Rainbow Six Extraction, a co-operative Rainbow Six spin-off, will be released January 20, 2022. Announced as early as 2015, Extraction, which was previously known as Quarantine, is a standalone game based on a popular Rainbow Six timed mode called Outbreak.
In Extraction, you and two other friends must fight off an alien invasion using Rainbow Six’s tactical and methodical gameplay. Unlike Rainbow Six Siege, which is primarily a PVP game, Extraction is a full co-operative experience that utilises all of Rainbow Six’s mechanics like reinforcing, environmental destruction, tactical gunplay, and lots more.
Ubisoft is launching a Buddy Pass system with this game which means if you own the game, you can still invite two of your friends who don’t own the game to join your lobby and play with you. They’ll have two weeks’ worth of play time for free, after which they’ll have to buy the game should they choose to continue playing. Extraction will offer both cross-platform and cross-generational support at launch.
As far as post-launch content goes, Extraction is following the live service model that most games adopt. This will lengthen the life of the game with weekly events, challenges and more. Here are the details from the press release:
“Risk it all in Maelstrom Protocol, a thrilling weekly challenge mode with tiered ranks, built for the most skilled Rainbow Six players. Players must navigate a series of nine subzones with increasing difficulty, tougher enemies, quickly depleting resources, and allotted time getting shorter at each stage. At each checkpoint, squads must choose to either extract to bank their points or attempt to push to the end. Earning points will secure a place for challengers in up to five classes, from Bronze to Silver to Gold, Platinum and even Diamond Class, each rewarding players with special headgear and REACT Credits.
Rainbow Six Extraction will feature a variety of other exciting challenges, including Crisis Events and Assignments. Crisis Events are limited-time, game-changing events with themed content, introducing a new Operator to your roster or a new dangerous Protean enemy to defeat. In the first Crisis Event, Spillover, players must wipe out mass colonies of an evolved version of the Sprawl as hordes of Archæans attempt to stop them. These events will reward exclusive REACT Tech, new cosmetics, and new lore.
Assignments are weekly modes with gameplay modifiers that put players’ skills to the test. For example, Veteran Mode involves no HUD, limited ammo, and friendly fire enabled. At launch, players can tackle both Maelstrom Protocol and weekly Assignments, with Crisis Events becoming available soon after.
If all this sounds interesting to you, Rainbow Six Extraction is now available for pre-order via Ubisoft Connect (Ubisoft’s own launcher) and the Epic Game Store.
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