Is Rainbow Six Extraction a separate game?
The answer will shock and surprise
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Rainbow Six Extraction launches (or at the time of reading this has already launched) and you’re really deep into that Seige hole or have been circling it, but not really a fan of PVP and want to shoot aliens with your buds.
Now, do you have to own a copy of Seige to play Extraction? If you’d asked me the three or four years ago this game was actually announced and not delayed until this very day by a pandemic and the colossal nightmare of inner politics at Ubisoft, I’d probably have said “Yes, you need a copy of Seige.”
However, by the good graces of God and some smart marketing person at Ubisoft, as well as the many developers who might be cradling themselves in a fetal position at the thought of putting PVE into a PVP game, with AI that’s actually smart, as well as entire new mechanics into a game that is now going to be – surprisingly – seven years old when they weren’t there before, you will not need a copy of Rainbow Six Seige to play Extraction.
I repeat for the people glancing over my words: Rainbow Six Extraction is a separate game.
Video game development is excruciating and if Ubisoft’s Seige team were to simply just plop in a PVE mode, it would require extensive rewrites of AI code that I’m just sure they don’t want to do because that’d mean those learning via bots are going to have a bad time and it just becomes a mess. Plus, how are you going to extract cash out of people by limiting it to a game that gives of a menacing stare any time that you so much as look at it the wrong way, if you don’t have a monitor that spits out 360Hz, a mouse with a billion DPI and at least several years playing Counter-Strike or at minimum, Call of Duty’s hardcore modes?
So yes, when the game is out or already out, you can just simply download it and play it.
