Can you play offline with both friends and bots?; Is there team mode?

[Ereson]

I'm deeply intrigued by 10 player local play, but I'm curious about something.
If there's 5 people on my end, am I able to play with 5 humans, and with 1 bot in a match?

Also are you able to play with teams like in smash bros? Can I do 3v3, 5v5, (2 different teams)? Or perhaps something more chaotic like 2v2v2v2v2 (5 different teams)?

[brettpennings]

Hi Varuna! Yes, you can definitely do everything you mentioned in your question, except for the last thing: number of teams maxes out at 2, so 3v3 and 5v5 is possible, but not 2v2v2v2v2. Might be fun to do a 5v5 (5 humans vs 5 bots) and see how hard of bots your friends can beat. Bots go from 1-10 in difficulty, and if you are playing online, bots even have an "auto" difficulty, which adjusts to your skill over time; the more matches you play the better handle on your skill the game gets.

One final thing I should note is that in Couch mode you actually can go up to 3 teams; that's just something that we haven't added to Online mode at this point.

Hope you and your friends have a blast if you decide to pick it up!

Brett