When selecting your operators, we highly recommend you discuss a strategy with your team.

Instead, you should build a team that has many strengths.

Consider pairing a defensive operator with a support character, like Rook or Doc.

An operator from Rainbow Six: Extraction backstabs an Archaen.

There’s no friendly fire in Extraction, so you don’t need to worry about harming your allies.

Certain abilities and pieces of equipment will also allow you to scan rooms and find hidden enemies.

If you see one of these coming your way, don’t panic!

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Instead, we’ve got a few different ways to take down Breachers and Bloaters without making any noise.

If you must shoot, aim for the limbs.

However, takedowns are always the ideal way to get a stealth kill in Extraction.

A post-game screen from Rainbow Six Extraction which shows the status of various Operators.

If you walk through sprawl, you’ll move much slower and take more damage from attacking Archaeans.

This can prove fatal, especially on higher difficulties when sprawl can gain mutations that make it even worse.

To clear sprawl, simply shoot it or use a melee attack just ahead of your character.

Rainbow Six Extraction player aiming at an operator covered in yellow Archaen spores

This will clear a small area of sprawl and allow you to continue on your journey unhindered.

Some objectives require you to defend an area from swarms of Archaean attackers.

Before starting these objectives, we suggest clearing any sprawl from the ground.

Rainbow Six Extraction operator scans an enemy grunt through a wall using a UV light

Use reinforcements

Remember, the DNA of Rainbow Six Extraction comes from Siege.

While the enemies might look a little different in Extraction, your tactics should remain largely the same.

When defending objectives, double-check you reinforce walls and barricade doors leading into the objective room.

Rainbow Six Extraction operator aims at a bloater as other Archaens walk by in a courtyard

It’s literally the name of the game, even though extracting early may feel like a defeat.

you could trigger the mission again torescue your operatorand recover any lost XP.

Don’t fall into this trap in Extraction.

Rainbow Six Extraction map screen, showing the full map of a sub zone

That wraps up our list of tips and tricks for Rainbow Six Extraction.

You should be ready to head into Extraction and beat back the Archaeans, but don’t get cocky.

A large room covered in the Sprawl in Rainbow Six Extraction.

Rainbow Six Extraction operator looking at a reinforced wall

Rainbow Six Extraction operator looking at the extract button on the side of the rescue pod while standing outside

Rainbow Six Extraction player pulling another operator out of the Archaen tree. Operator is covered in yellow stasis foam

Operators from Rainbow Six: Extraction enter a room filled with Archaen gunk and aim their guns at a mysterious singularity machine.