Strike Team missions - Interview with Mike Gamble

oh no! no more MP from main menu!? no
if strike team is limited to a few missions during single player campaign it will be hard to find players that are in the same mission or level

i want to play endless MP when i want to!
we need more info on this ASAP

I like that they're apparently giving you the option to play it solo if you're not in the mood to play with other people, or if you just don't like to. It sounds pretty good. I'll still be mostly a SP player, but I can see how this will make many people, myself included, more inclined to play some MP.

Pretty sure MP is still and independent mode. They said that these strike teams "use MP Horde mode" for their execution, implying they're borrowing from another system. Not merging them entirely. Strike team missions are just a crossover thing meant to encourage more people to try out the MP.

Could be good or could be terrible to be honest. We just don't know enough just yet.

I like ME3 MP, but really the time I least want to play it is when I'm playing the single player game. MP is good as a quick break from other games, but its hardly immersive and if I'm playing the SP then I'm getting plenty of Mass Effect gameplay.

I'm a bit skeptical about how this is going to be integrated with the SP. Hopefully the "better" rewards don't become "exclusive" rewards.

Also, if I'm going in solo, I'd suggest adding in the ability to add AI squad members to fill empty slots. They don't have to be geniuses (and probably won't be), just follow me around, shoot/use powers on the bad guys, and cover me while I complete objectives. I think that's pretty reasonable.

Oh, Jesus. What's the deal this time? You can still do these missions solo. There, saves you a lifetime of nonsense.

Oh, you know they'll try it at some point.

I hope we do get more info soon, but I feel like you will still be able to access MP from the main menu.  It just won't be necessary to back out to the main menu to get into MP.  I don't really have any evidence for this besides that they know many people will come back again and again for the MP and will need easy access to it.  I think it might be similar to the War Table in DAI, but instead of sending out Cullen or whoever, you send out a "strike team" but that gives you a chance to jump into it at the time.  Or like in ME3 when you take over the ground cannon or the Cerberus Research Facility and they state that Alliance Teams will hold that position (the segway into MP) it would then allow you to play the MP from that moment without going out to the main menu.  I mean, the Strike Team will work differently than these examples, but I feel like it could be similar.

I agree, however, that we need more info.

Yeah, it's not like past ME games had loading screens or had Shepard standing still for a minute. If you can get "immersed" in Fallout, Skyrim and Dragon Age, you can here too.