Gamecloud - Will the game have any multiplayer options?

Chris Wren - Absolutely, we are planning on a cooperative campaign mode being available, whereby up to 5 players can join up and go through any or all of the single player campaign together. We also have the ability to choose from any mission in the entire game and play through them in any order they choose. This play mode is geared toward those players who are seeking to advance their characters and collect loot, we are guessing some people will prefer to play through the story in order and others will just want to jump on for a quick session on their favorite mission to get some phat lewt.

In the single player game you play as one character, and you will acquire NPC sidekicks as you advance through the regions, resulting in a party of five different heroes. In Multiplayer, we are allowing players to bring any character class to the party, giving us a lot more diversity in how people choose to play online. For example, a group of friends might decide that a five dwarf party is really great, with a couple focusing on explosives, a couple on guns, and maybe one on melee.

We are incorporating dynamic scaling to the missions of the game to keep the challenge level up for the player no matter how quickly they advance. How this works is that enemies will scale up their difficulty based on the strength of the party, they will have more hitpoints, they will do more damage, and they will drop better loot. We are also dynamically scaling players to allow beginner players to play alongside their more experienced friends. This will scale up their hitpoints, armor and damage but they will still need to rely on the existing abilities that they had before joining the game.