You sit down with your kid and unwrap the plastic sheen from the Halo: Campaign Evolved box as a nice little weekend surprise — some quality bonding time as you slug through the Flood. Both controllers are plugged in, the game is ready to go, and... only one of you has PS Plus, leaving you fat out of luck. Maybe it's not your kid; maybe it's your sibling, your friend, or your partner. Whoever you're sitting on that couch with, for some bizarre reason, both accounts need PS Plus to play together, even for local split-screen.
It sounds counterintuitive. Sliding the disc in and jumping into couch co-op out of the box is Halo tradition. There aren't usually any speed bumps, aside from maybe one controller not actually being plugged in and you stupidly falling for it and thinking you're the top screen, which definitely didn't happen when I was over at a friend's house. Yet that's exactly what the team announced in a new Halo Waypoint blog post last night.
"If you're playing split-screen on PlayStation 5, both accounts will need to have PlayStation Plus and be linked to a Microsoft account," the post reads. "Having these active...
