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Rainbow Six Extraction has several layers of mechanics that you lot'll become familiar with equally you play through more missions. Many of these are based on teamwork, such every bit the ping feature. Y'all can ping a location to tell teammates to move to it, indicate where in that location's a useful item, or show an enemy'southward position. However, the game doesn't explain how to do this, so we put together this guide for pinging enemies, locations, and everything else.

Target the enemy and hit the ping button

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To ping anything, y'all must first find information technology and settle your reticule over it, whether that's a weapon or the recon drone's camera. The ping button is the meridian push button on the D-pad on PlayStation, and it'south likely similar on Xbox controllers, though you can alter it to exist whatsoever yous desire on a PC. Then, once your target is in view, hitting that button, and it will ping them.

Using this ping, yous can complete many of the Studies that pop up throughout the game for pinging nests, useful items for Operators, and unaware enemy types like the Bloater. Of course, you'll accept to use your game knowledge to work some of these objectives out, like how to ensure an enemy is unaware or target nests in specific locations.

If you lot ping enemies using your recon drone, you become bonus experience points at the end of a mission for killing them. Scanned and pinged enemies always count for additional experience, helping yous button your Operator and overall progression level higher.