Rainbow Six Extraction’s Nightmare Fog will have you shooting at hallucinations
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Ubisoft is launching a new “crisis event” dubbed Nightmare Fog today for its Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction co-op shooter game. It is a limited-time event that will test your operator’s senses as an unavoidable fog of toxins makes its way through the containment zone.
I played the Crisis Event at a Ubisoft preview event and naturally got pretty shredded in the game. But I enjoyed it, and apparently a lot of other people are having a good time with Rainbow Six Extraction, which saw more than five million players in its launch quarter.
In the game, up to three players can band together in a co-op fight against alien creatures who have invaded Earth and are breeding in a variety of urban hangouts. As with Rainbow Six Siege, you can choose your operator who specializes in certain skills that complement your squad’s strengths. Those abilities include roles such as medic and sniper.
You can go in with guns blazing, but you’ll have a crazy firefight as all of the aliens converge on you. It’s like Left4Dead with aliens instead of zombies. You can also operate in stealth mode and perform missions like taking out nests, capturing specimens, or rescuing colleagues.
What’s different about this event is a purple haze that descends on the battlefield. You start out in a safe zone where you can send your drones into the mission area to do recon. You can find various important points, but your drones always run out of batteries before you can scan the whole area. Then you move in and try to achieve your mission objectives. Only this time, as you are going through the fog.
As you move through the containment zone, exposure to the
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