Alpha footage of Multiplayer, and some interview about it. (General forum discussion)

Love the music in the background.

Not to derail the topic, but are there submachine guns? The Andromeda vid with Liam did not classify Submachine as a main weapon type?

I actually hope to be more involved in the multiplayer this time around. I stopped with ME3 because my Xbox broke sometime after launch, and I never replaced the trilogy when I moved to PS3/PS4.

Seems like a lot of people had a lot of fun with it. I had some good memories with friends myself, but everyone kinda broke away after awhile. Weren't really the MP crowd.

shouldn't this be in the MP section

You can play only in SP and not even touch MP and it will still be the same result as if you played MP then back to SP, excep for a few minor bonuses you can earn if you do.
There is strike team misions in SP which you can go yourself or send hired troops (saved into the server). The APEX strike team missions can be reloaded and played with friends in MP, the other ones are only for SP.
Playing MP is completely optional and won't impact the ending or the fate of any characters, is just more fun for those who wanna try it

The old galaxy map theme grew on us over three games. It was an amazing composition, and I think it was one of the composer's favorites as well. I don't think it's gonna get topped, tbh.

Is it possible that the MP entered Alpha later than the SP? 

If that were the case, all of the assets would mostly be completed, then it would just be a matter of adding shadows and such for the trailer, even if they aren't fully implemented into the game itself. 

Just an idea. Dunno how plausible that is. MP and SP tend to be separate in the development though. GTAV and MGO3 are a few examples off the top of my head. Extreme examples, imho, since they weren't even released alongside the main game. As far as I know with Metal Gear Online, the team that worked on it were on the other side of the world, in LA, while MGSV was being developed by Kojima and his team in Japan. 

They don't have to develop the engine and how it works separately from the other team though. Animations, textures, shadows, etc. The back end is complete. The visuals are largely complete. They have to do different interactables and things like checkpoint sorta stuff. Enemy spawn stuff. Things that are "simple" and far more reflective of the game being in its beta stage.

To call that alpha is disingenuous. Almost all game companies do it now and it bothers me. Just a gripe.

Fair enough, tbh. Though, there is a lot of re balancing and tuning that comes with MP experiences, so it's not like they don't have to do any hard work. Making MP work is often tougher than SP, because a SP game can sometimes get by on things completely irrelevant to the game, like Walking Dead with its writing, or something similar.

MP has to be solid gameplay that you can go to endlessly. And the MP team has to work with what the SP team gives them, even if it's not built explicitly for MP. 

They might have just been super early in their end of development. Maybe it's not technically the same as "Alpha" for SP, but depending on how much work they had ahead of them at the time this footage was recorded, it could've been slightly more accurate than it lets on. 

Lmao, I love Liara in that pic. She looks like she's uncomfortable holding the gun.

I can't wait to see what a volus with a jetpack looks like.