More and more details are coming out on Mass Effect Andromeda, leading up to a game play reveal this week at The Game Awards 2016 and its eventual release sometime in March. Late last week we learned about side missions in the single-player campaign, but now we find out that those side missions may be tied in to the multiplayer.

The team at BioWare confirmed to GameInformer that there is a connection between the two, but didn't offer too much explanation on how the multiplayer would actually tie in to the single-player campaign. However, there were some tidbits offered. Lead Designer Brian Frazier said that funds earned in multiplayer would have "tendrils going out into the rest of the game," while producer Fabrice Condominas said that teams can be sent on side missions, or the player could do it in multiplayer. Frazier also added that multiplayer is not essential to the experience. “If you feel cheated, we’ve done something wrong,” he said.

The multiplayer mode will have many of the same mechanics as were found in Mass Effect 3, but with some key changes to things such as less grinding via loot packs sold in the store, prestige experience gained at the same time as regular XP, and the added dimension of verticality provided by the jetpack.

BioWare has confirmed that Andromeda will be its biggest game to date, which is a pretty tall task considering that they have also revealed that all of the races from the previous trilogy will not make an appearance in the new game. "We've designed the IP in such a way that they can all show up," creative director Mac Walters told GameInformer. "For hopefully obvious reasons, they're not all going to show up in the first game."