Multiple/different goals for heroes villains in same mission?

Had an idea. So much of the new content really is all heroic, the backstory says "this is going to destroy the planet you're currently sitting on and that would be inconvenient so you join forces with them."

What if a mission had different goals for heroes and villains? I'm not saying "must have heroes and villains on the team", but the main goal is to defeat the big baddie, heroes are checking computers for info on other crimes, villains are cracking safes to see what goodies are worth taking.

For example - let's assume that Boomtown is being rebuilt for settling refugees from Praetoria - and something bad came through the portals with it.

There are four main arcs, coop, but with some goals specific to hero/villain. There's also three hero and three villain arcs, unlocked by the coop arcs. "You found some clues about another problem going on, go stop it, hero" "Hey, you got a lead on a big score, cash in while everyone is busy with the big nasty"

I think that could be a fun way of mixing coop and alignment specific goals.

i think thats a pretty bloody good idea actually! Although I can see teams being annoyed by having their villains skulking through loot while the lone hero on the team is playing meatshield with an AV lol

We already have a precedent for something like this, by which I mean missions exist that have objectives which only become active when certain out-of-missions triggeres are activated. For instance, if you run the Vincent Ross arc and choose to take Lorenz Ansaldo as your contact, the objectives relevant to him will be active and the "radio" will display dialogue relevant to him. If you choose to take someone else or no-one at all, Lorenz's objectives will become inactive and others may activate instead.

If this is adaptable enough to feed off character alignment and not just mission-specific triggers, then I can certainly see it working. I'm pretty sure it won't allow different people to have different asynchronous goals within the same instance, but it should at least allow a mission that's taken by a villain to have the villainous objectives while the same mission taken by a hero to have the heroic ones. It would still put people of the "wrong" faction in an inapplicable mission, but at least then the player is in control of this. If you villain teams with a hero and runs the hero's missions, you WILL be running hero content. Still, villain content... Or at least villain-like content, however, will still exist.

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this is done in AE in a few clever arcs through optional objectives.
a mission to defeat X, has an optional objective to plant bombs as a vigilante. No bombs, you arrest the villains. Bombs - the place is blown up killing them.

likewise you could have a co-op mission. In the building is a safe, villains use the confusion and opportunity to rob the safe - heroes do not. Does not change the whole arc, but does change your motive.

And they have this with text trees - arrest the guy or kill him sort of thing