I just got Halo 4 and everyone on my dorm was psyched to play it. However, when I booted up the multiplayer, I couldn't bring anyone else with me into an online match. I haven't played online shooters for a long time, but I distinctly remember having a person sign in as a guest with a second controller and play Halo 3 with me online in a casual match against random people on the internet. Can I do that on Halo 4 or am I just boned? And are there any online options if you have people signed in as guests? Online co-op, spartan ops, etc?

We were literally just doing that 15 minutes ago. I'm not sure how they set it up, though, I got home late.

@Walreese55 said:

I just got Halo 4 and everyone on my dorm was psyched to play it. However, when I booted up the multiplayer, I couldn't bring anyone else with me into an online match. I haven't played online shooters for a long time, but I distinctly remember having a person sign in as a guest with a second controller and play Halo 3 with me online in a casual match against random people on the internet. Can I do that on Halo 4 or am I just boned? And are there any online options if you have people signed in as guests? Online co-op, spartan ops, etc?

I play local co-op online matches with my brother all the time, you just need one XBOX live again that's gold and let the other sign in as guest. It should work fine.

What Ravelle said, still works.

Hmm, that's fucking weird. I'm currently on the xbox live gold free trial, could that have anything to do with it? I don't know, I'm grasping at straws at this point. Only other thing I can think of is that my I'm connecting to live through my laptop's wifi, but again, grasping at straws. Does every multiplayer mode in Halo 4 support local co-op multiplayer?