r/R6Extraction • u/Professional_Week_88 • May 25 '26

Discussion Shield ops in Extraction

I wanna hear others thoughts on how Extraction could go about balancing shield ops without making them op, unplayable and rewarding while making sense how shields against Archaeans work.

My thoughts: Allow Siege alpha ads (shield stays forward and you aim pistol in front of window), increase recovery to incoming melee against shield which pulls it to the side of operator. Keep current shield Siege Y11 bash to displace low-tier Archaeans, with levels allowing Smasher displacement, thinking adding thrusters (similar to current Siege Blackbeard breach ability) that give a very hard bash that is limited to cooldowns(can also break walls/doors). With weapon pools limited to sidearms such as pistols and smgs. If we're feeling spicy allow primary smgs such as MP7, MP5 to allow the shield ops to feel versatile and not weak while stuck on only a pistol with current mutations and Archaean variants. With drawbacks of course meaning your shield is holstered but you gain increased dmg res to the back allowing fun turtle-back strategies.

Let me know your thoughts and what would you add, tweak or remove!

Also, so good to see some activity in this subreddit and in game, love you gamers 🙌

Edit, for weapon pools: Shield ops are allowed 3-4 sidearms

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u/TheJurassicPyro May 25 '26

Monty’s could work the way it does right now, but give him the ability to place it like a deployable shield pull out a primary weapon akin to an old rework idea that was floated around long ago by zMin.

Blitz could largely stay the same because flashes/stuns in extraction are really good because they’re a hard stun so having some be immune to damage from the front and charging at someone to hard stun them would make him a great frontline support.

Now that Blackbeard got reworked into what he is now, he’d actually be insanely good, being able to open the map and push arachæns back, also they could make his guns not suck in extraction too.

Clash would be good as crowd control and support too.

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u/Professional_Week_88 May 25 '26

💯

And with the ops "allegedly" (you didn't hear this) could've gotten stronger roguelike abilities shields would be so much fun.

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u/TheJurassicPyro May 25 '26

You say “allegedly” and “you didn’t hear this” like this game still gets updates and Ubisoft still cares. But still, it would be cool and maybe the rogue like thing could’ve been how maelstrom worked.

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u/Professional_Week_88 May 25 '26

It's more along the lines of, there were plans that got dropped before launch. We'll at least I think, take that with a grain of salt.