As the title describes, if you check the box while tabbed during a mission and select “private” people are still joining my game. I was under the impression that the only way for people to join a private game was a direct invite. This has happened twice now for me in a single day in 2 separate runs. Either “private” doesn’t mean private or it’s bugged out because in my past experience no one has been able to join a private match when i make it one.
It’s possible to join other’s private games from their public steam profile, this works if anyone in said lobby has a public steam profile or if they’re steam friends with anyone in the lobby.
I think I’ve had issues with the private game checkmark from the tab menu before. Best to just checkmark private from the keep before starting the match.
But then you can’t get the QP bonus thus essentially eliminating your chances entirely of getting an emperor chest since it’s random as to whether or not you’ll get any dice and random as to whether or not you’ll get a bonus from ranald. Someone was smart enough to make a mod that allows the player to host their own qp game; something FS should have implemented at launch but i guess they can’t even though this modder has. And i wouldn’t want FS messing with the mods because they’ve shown their hand to be not great at implementing mod improvements such as the AI bot improvements (which no longer works thanks to FS twiddling on the backend).
Point is FS didn’t think players would want to host their own QP games and now that their “private” button doesn’t work in game they’ve essentially completely eliminated that option for players since it also seems random as to whether or not your game is truly private.