How does multiplayer campaign work?

[Feudal]

Me and the boys want to do a co-op campaign but I'm wondering before starting the campaign as to how the crew works specifically when loading into a save. Do players assume the role of AI in the crew and therefore you need as many crew as players, or do they just spawn in the same way every other mission works? Are bots saved as crew but players are not?

[Captain Bart]

Players spawn as new chareacters, and their characters are saved.

[Welsh_Boyo]

you play the game as same as solo but with friends as the crew, they pick their class at start of joining and carry on untill death (and then they died and respawn as the same class). You can have bots at start if you want or not, or hire them in game.

[Prydain]

Players each have their own character to control and can decide what job they want as if it was a normal MP lobby.

Everyones character is tied to the save, but I think if someone DCs and doesn't reconnect before the game "saves", then that character is considered dead and the player will have a fresh character next time they join again. This is just based off of what has happened when I've played with friends before, so safest bet is to go back to the lobby if someone needs to leave to just make sure their character doesn't register as dead when they leave.

[Welsh_Boyo]

or if dead and want to move class, press tab and change and start next round as what ever class they want