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What part, if any, of Squadron 42 will be cooperative?
CR

Okay, so yeah, and I know this was an issue from the beginning, because the Squadron 42 story is as large as it is and has so much performance and is so particularly crafted. We can't do a cooperative story campaign where basically we let a friend of yours play the role of Old Man, which is played by Mark Hamill, because there's definitely things that are happening in the story that rely on other characters to do their thing. And if you have another player playing it, they may just decide, well, I'm not going to do that, all right, and then all of a sudden everything's going to break down. So our plan, I mean, you know, if you have Squadron, first of all, you'll have Arena Commander and Star Marine available to you to play with your friends. But also, as we go through the game, we were going to take some of the missions themselves, the combat, and then kind of have a kind of multiplayer version of it that you could play with some of your friends, maybe playing some of the other wingmen to achieve the objective that would be unlocked once you've done that in the story. So it wouldn't be for all of them, because some of them wouldn't make so much sense, but it would be for sort of the big battle opportunity. So there's some pretty big, you know, bigger battles or set pieces that, you know, there's a fair amount of AI that are fighting alongside you against a bunch of other AI. And in those cases, we could create some drop-in, yeah, drop-in, drop-out situations for that. It just won't necessarily be tied to the overall, you know, playing it through the story, because, you know, it's just...

JH

At the level of storytelling, we're attempting, yeah.

CR

Yeah, I mean, what happens if you decide, okay, we've got this big, you know, attack, and here's the good guys, and here's the bad guys, and there's, you know, 20 people on each side, but, you know, you make those 20 players on each side, and that battle may not end up the way that you want it to or need it to for the story, whereas if we've got you playing it with a bunch of other AI, we can sort of control or balance that better.

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