In two updates, developer and publisher Ubisoft revealed that the cooperative shooter Rainbow Six: Extraction and the extreme sports MMO Riders Republic have been delayed. The original releases have been postponed, with Extraction being moved to next year.
What kind of games are these? Riders Republic is a new approach to MMOs, where 50 players engage in extreme sports together. In various disciplines such as skateboarding or paragliding, you compete against other players.
Rainbow Six: Extraction is a cooperative shooter and a spin-off of the popular tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege. Together with other players, you try to stop an alien infection.
A variety of characters from Siege are available with special abilities that you must use as a team to navigate through the levels. Extraction is a spin-off of the “Outbreak” event mode from Siege and expands it with new features like “Missing in Action,” which means operators lost in battle must be rescued again.
When will Extraction and Riders Republic be released? Both games were actually supposed to be released in September 2021 but have now been postponed:
- Riders Republic is now coming on October 28, 2021
- Rainbow Six: Extraction will not be released until January 2022
Extraction shows new operator first, we postponed the next day
Why the delay? Ubisoft does not provide reasons for why both games are being released later. Interestingly, a new operator, Vigil, was even shown for Extraction just one day before the delay:
However, the video received relatively little appreciation but much criticism in the comments over the operator’s ability. In Siege, Vigil can disrupt enemy cameras, becoming invisible to technology.
In Extraction, he also has this ability but can hide from the alien life forms. Some users took issue with the fact that he can suddenly “hack” biological life forms.
Ubisoft has already announced that the extra time will be used to properly polish both games. It is therefore quite possible that some of the criticism led to the postponement of Riders Republic and Rainbow Six: Extraction in order to further improve them.
At least for Extraction, this is not the first delay. The game was actually supposed to be released under the name Quarantine back in early 2020, but was postponed due to two flops.
Apparently, Ubisoft wants to do everything right with Extraction from the start and not have to polish it later, as was the case with Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Extraction can take some cues from the “big brother” Siege to ensure a successful release:
I say: The new Rainbow Six: Extraction needs 3 things from Siege to be really good
