Mass Effect Andromeda multiplayer Q&A

Do we have any idea what date we are getting more information?

I'm sure that there are people specializing on multiplayer within the team,
but I'm getting less sense of 'separate' in that sense.

It's a hard concept to understand, but there is no server.

Well, afaik there has been no official response on this yet.

We got confirmation that there would be a cap on promotions with the Prestige system in the thread dedicated to that topic, but no such comfort in the thread dedicated to whether or not there will be a region lock.

A P2P connection method doesn't require a server for gameplay calculations. One of the players will act as host. What is still needed is a matchmaking server where the sessions are negotiated and some kind of transaction thing or authorization stuff. When the matchmaker has rules not to connect different regions you won't find them in your matches without taking extra effort.

I've been running into it lately when players on the same platform (pc) cannot join each-others' lobby, because of a different game version or some such. Has this been taken into consideration, to ensure that most people are able to group-up?

Another barrier to entry would be people running on different patch versions, which has mostly become a thing of the past with clients like Origin forcing you to download the newest patch before you connect to the game's servers, but occasionally a few players will slip through the cracks and wind up not being able to match with anyone until they manually install the patch.

I hope they keep some aspect of the ME3 pack system. I've always loved earning in-game currency to purchase things like that. I'm a little conflicted on being able to directly purchase whatever you want because I feel like in the long run it would hurt the longevity of the MP. But even an RNG junkie like myself (basically every game I play has RNG, Destiny, Borderlands, Battlefield 4 etc, I love the feeling of having that dice roll payout) will start to get frustrated. I ended ME3's MP with over 400 hours and probably over the last 100 were dedicated to getting the final gun I needed after unlocking literally everything else, the Geth Spitfire, and I never got it. So I get the idea of directly purchasing. Not really sure where I was going with this so I'll leave with this, I still cite ME3's and Battlefield 4's pack systems as a way to do RNG right without a direct need or focus on using real money.