Mass Effect: Andromeda multiplayer will be 'optional'

Mass Effect: Andromeda multiplayer beta testing starting soon

BioWare has decided that Mass Effect: Andromeda should, like the rest of the series, stay an experience primarily focused on singleplayer with multiplayer there to enrich, rather than burden the experience.

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"There's a system that we use called the Strike Team system, and fundamentally it allows you to go between singleplayer and multiplayer within the game, and it's packaged around a meta-story of what's going on in Helios", BioWare producer Mike Gamble told about a week ago.

Andromeda's multiplayer beta testing is right around the corner, as lead designer Ian Frazier confirmed in a Tweet yesterday.

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@FatherOfPearl1 Odds are good.
— Ian S. Frazier (@tibermoon) January 9, 2017
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