During our recent hands-on with Mass Effect: Andromeda, we asked producer Fabrice Condominas about how the multiplayer will link up to the single-player campaign this time around.
"So there is no necessarily mechanical link to main campaign as in Mass Effect 3," the man from Bioware told us, "so you don't need to play multiplayer to complete that. But there is different bridges to the main campaign."
Condominas elaborated: "So we have the strike teams which are a principle that along the main campaign you can find side objectives that to accomplish you can send a team to do so, but they will succeed or fail, and you remain in single-player.
"Or you can say 'well I want to do that myself' and then you enter into multiplayer where you are another character and not your main character, and three of your friends, and you do that mission yourselves.
"That's already a specific bridge between the two. But also, obviously in a multiplayer setting, exploring that new galaxy, just like Mass Effect 3, the setting is consistent with what you are actually doing, and we decided to inject a bit more of a narrative touch also in the multiplayer campaign."
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