With so many online-multiplayer video games on the market, gamers need to have a clear picture of what the future holds months if not years post-launch before investing hundreds or thousands of hours of their time towards an experience. This is regardless of whether the content is paid or available entirely for free. Developer Ubisoft, ahead of their January 2022 launch of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction, has confirmed the “sizable amount” of content will be completely free and support what they hope will be an “evolving endgame” experience.
Below is a bit of what Ubisoft shared about the free post-game content:
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.
Developed by Ubisoft Montreal with support from their Bordeaux, Bucharest and Saguenay associate studios, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction will be available on 20 January 2022 on the Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Windows PC.
