I took it to mean that there would be a maximum of 6 players per team. However he could be meaning you can have a maximum of 6 players you can chat with per team, so if you are playing with teams of 6 or less you can chat with your whole team, if you play with more than 6 players you won't be able to talk with everyone (unless you use the console systems). I hope there are more than 6 players per team so I'm going to assume 6 is the max for now then I won't be disappointed.

Titanfall this shit up.

Notes on relevant points in interview: [spoiler] #1: In a sense this isn't that controversial. We had PTT restrictions for >4v4 playlists initially in Halo 3 after all, and #2: they did relax the restrictions on that later. Besides if there was a button to press to toggle fireteam/all-team chat then you could maybe switch back if this results in performance issues for you, at least by my layman's understanding. But obviously what exactly he means by other things is intentionally vague here, we just know that it's [i]situationally possible.[/i] #3: And here we hear that it could have an effect on modes–remember 6v6 playlists and the PTT restrictions being relaxed as an example. Nothing really controversial still, but worth noting. #4: Remember that elsewhere, most notably in PvE, the fireteam was defined as 3 in previous gameplay at least. It may still be, with teams being composed of multiple fireteams. So imagine a 3-man fireteam forming up or meeting up via in-game invites, switching to a team PvP "activity"– I use activity instead of lobby deferring to Bungie's language and the hint of at least the option for a "menu waiting room"-less experience– and linking up with another 3-man fireteam and deciding whether they will communicate with them again via in-game invites/chat toggles... #5: Well, shoot, that "we allow up to six-player teams" certainly seems definitive doesn't it, except he was just talking about fireteams, so which is it? #6: Then he says "[b]your[/b] entirety of [b]the[/b] team filled out with people you have voice chat to." Your entirety or the entirety? You'd have to really wishfully hang on the [i]intention[/i] of his words to argue that he means you have your majority of the team (your six-man fireteam out of a max 8 possible team) rather than the entirety of the team– that is, a team with a max of six players. But it still seems wholly possible that there's 8, so that you could "search" (again, however "seamless activity matching" will work) with up to 2 fireteams, possibly all in voice chat, and pick up two searching solo or one partial fireteam of 2 and choose to invite them. #7: Let's assume just for a moment either two of these three hypotheticals: 1. either 8v8 or –more wishful thinking– 2. 9v9+ are the limits, and in either case 3. he's not referring to teams but rather PvP fireteams in #5. If it's 8v8, then you automatically pick up an extra two players, either solo or in a partial team, every time you search in an 8v8 activity. Now, this number might help partial fire teams pick up new members where two or more partial fireteams are searching and meet one or more solo teammate to invite. However, your buddies over in a third three-man fireteam will have to split to pick up an extra two for your 8-man team. That doesn't seem to promote "stickiness" of parties at all. If it's 9v9+ (wth, might as well entertain all possibilities) that's easy to fill out the PvP activity quickly with players switching from any other activity, but obviously exceeds the limit for party chat on many, if not all, platforms for the foreseeable future. Even if you could just have one Guardian talking to his/herself for the duration, that means either randomly booting one Guardian in the last 3-player fireteam to join the party chat, or if each in the "extra" fireteam have to accept a party chat invite individually, a musical chairs situation. So it's absurd to consider a greater than 8v8 situation. #8 Now this could all just be for the Beta of course #9 If Xone and PS4 can both boast larger than 8 max party chat having more is possible [/spoiler] Final note: one possibility that's been floated by another member elsewhere in the GR forum is the idea that when partying up with more than one other fireteam, the fireteam leaders (this could be of that six-man or three man team) would have comms with the entirety of their own fireteam, while also simultaneously having open comms / an easily in-game toggled channel with the leaders of the other fireteams via party chat. These chat leaders could always be simply the fireteam leader by default, or it could default to one member with say the highest level that has a mic (or some other criteria that's fair) in the event the fireteam leader doesn't. That way even if the players on one team in a given activity exceed the 8-player party chat restriction, by forcing the party chat to be for leader coordination in that scenario, then awkward scenarios are avoided, like one man on a fireteam being the odd man out in chat with his fireteam, or being forced to leave because they want to do a larger activity that is arbitrarily limited to 8 instead of 9 players.