The game’s free cross-platform big team battle mode mode mode lets all of us dive into an epic game filled with plasma explosions, grappling hooks, nail-biting gunplay and vehicular mayhem.

The Fireteam leader finally got six of us together in matches. But the servers split some of us up with randos instead of friends. When we quit in solidarity, their Fireteam leader got banned.

Halo’s”Halo”has been a breath of fresh air, says CNN’s Kat kinsman. Most of my group’s favorite multiplayer games require 3, 4 or 6 players to work properly.

A second patch in mid-February should address’some issues with instances of cheating’.’wonkiness with the ranked experience’.