Overlaps with Singleplayer and multiplayer?

This will be the weekend Commendation Pack events.

Exactly... I'm glad that this time around the MP won't provide the type of definite advantage over SP that it did in ME3. From what I remember, before Bioware released the ME3 Extended Cut, it was nearly impossible to get the best ending unless you played MP. You could do it but it would take a whole lot of grinding.

I think I read/heard somewhere that weapons you unlock through the RNG in MP are usable by Ryder in the SP, no need to resource gather and craft, which will probably be pretty useful if you play a lot of MP and unlock rare stuff.

I sure hope not! I love all mp characters to be my own with names and backstories. Unlike DA, it's my only chance to play non-humans.i don't want second-hand characters.

Agreed, one of my biggest gripes with the MP characters in DAI was that they didn't appear outside of Skyhold or actually talk

Would've been awesome to see them appear in some of the bigger sections of the game

Not to derail this thread or anything- but are you the Alien Fodder from DeviantART?

YUP.  Multiplayer is optionally tied to settlement building.  The settlement/colony system reminds me of the Metal Gear Solid V's mother base mechanic.  Summary from below: You can either send colonists/strike teams on real time missions to defend settlements and get rewards from that or engage in them actively in Multiplayer on "Active Strike Missions".  


Eurogamer stated this, "[T]here are "Deployed Strike Team" missions which take real-time to complete sound similar to Dragon Age: Inquisition's war table missions, where you send out resources to complete missions in real-time. These will allow you to gather resources and keep areas secure, which also sounds similar to a Keep defense system intended for Inquisition but then cut during production. Inquisition's creative director Mike Laidlaw previously told Eurogamer this was due to the problems of supporting last-gen consoles, something which Andromeda will not have to consider."


This is also how Multiplayer fits into the game this time. You can opt to do "Active Strike Missions" instead and they will vary from horde mode, defusing bombs, assassinating a target, etc. Multiplayer gives the player the choice to actively engage in the missions where you play as one of the characters being sent on strike missions or using the real time feature and only play single player.

You sure? Thought I got the twitchy hand ending on my first play-through; which was the only time I chose destroy and before I started MP-ing IIRC... I could be wrong of course, memory is a wotsit, you know, thingamebob.