Because enemies can do a lot of damage in a short amount of time, stealthing through a mission is always preferred, and that requires planning-or at least some general knowledge of what’s lurking around the corner. Missions take place on levels that resemble Siege maps in how they give players multiple ways to approach any given situation. Unlike Left 4 Dead, or even Siege’s own “Outbreak” mode, Extraction isn’t an entirely linear affair. Even though you might be playing on a map you’ve already played on a dozen times, the difficulty level, the enemy types, the locations of the gunky parasitic sprawl, and the different objectives can add an extreme amount of variety and randomness to your experience. Obviously, you won’t need to anticipate and mindgame any human opponents, but understanding how important reconnaissance is to the success of a mission will drastically increase your chance for survival. Going into a mission in Extraction requires similar instincts to a round of Siege. Knowledge of and familiarity with the Operators and their tools aren’t the only ways that Siege players will be able to translate their prior experience to Extraction. Vigil’s cloaking device, meanwhile, makes him the absolute best Operator you can choose if you need to jab specific enemies with the aforementioned high-tech syringe. His heartbeat sensor can detect enemies through walls, giving you more intel as you move through a level and locate objectives. Likewise, a Defender like Pulse actually works great as an offensive Operator in Extraction. But you can also co-opt Siege’s Attackers, like Nomad or Gridlock, for similarly defensive purposes. Their gadgets seem built for slowing down a hoard. You can, for instance, take defensive Operators like Tachanka or Ela on a mission that involves protecting timed explosives from an alien onslaught until you can successfully detonate them. Eighteen of Siege’s 62 Operators will be available in Extraction at launch, and each of them already seems to gel nicely with the game’s overall design. While the specifics of why you’re doing something don’t seem to matter much in the grand scheme of Extraction, the actions you’ll perform to complete your objectives are generally varied and will determine what Operators and loadout you’ll want to have on hand. Some of the objectives include exfiltrating human captives, gathering intel from specific alien species by jabbing them with high-tech syringes, and triangulating satellite dishes for… probably a good reason, but I definitely don’t remember what it is. A covert group named REACT, whose members include about a quarter of Siege’s roster, must infiltrate the areas where the parasite has established itself and do, you know, covert stuff. The spin-off based on Siege’s popular limited-time “Outbreak” mode gives players the opportunity to experience the tactical Rainbow Six fantasy-with the Operators, their gadgets, and some environmental destruction-in the slightly less pressure–filled environment of three–player co-op.Įxtraction’s setup is simple enough, because it doesn’t need to be that complicated: A parasitic alien species has come to Earth and started spreading in several locations throughout the United States, like New York City and Alaska. In that way, Rainbow Six Extraction seems almost perfectly targeted to bring people like me back into the franchise. If Ubisoft changed the game to make it more approachable for casuals, I might like playing it more, but it definitely wouldn’t be the game that I want to play. The irony is, it’s that complexity and intricacy that makes it so special. To say that Siege is unforgiving to the casual fan, for someone who wants to sign on and have fun for a few rounds, is an understatement. I‘d love to play Siege, I really would, but every time I somehow manage to convince my friends to give it another go, we’re pretty much immediately demoralized by the punishing gunplay, the intricate maps, and the ever-increasing complexity of strategically picking and utilizing the Operators successfully. Yes, the lore.īut despite all that, I almost never play it.
I love how the guns feel, the visual and mechanical design of the Operators, and the lore. I watch videos about it on YouTube, I catch competitive live streams when I can, and I genuinely consider it one of my favorite current first-person shooters.
I’m what you might call a Rainbow Six Siege lurker.
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