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How to create a PRIVATE ROOM

By Salty Peanut

This guide will teach all of you dummies fresh off the steam sale boat how to create private rooms for you and your friends without clogging up the public lobby.

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Category: Classes, Co-op, Loot, Multiplayer, Walkthroughs, Weapons

Languages: English

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23 Jun, 2017 @ 10:58pm

9 Aug, 2017 @ 1:06am

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Guide Index

Overview

STEP 1. Select "Create a Room"

STEP 2. Create 3 "Invite Only" slots

STEP 3. Select "Send an Invite" through the in-game chat menu

STEP 4. Success

Comments

STEP 1. Select "Create a Room"

I hope I'm not losing you here.

STEP 2. Create 3 "Invite Only" slots

It's complicated, but we're almost done. Hang in there!

STEP 3. Select "Send an Invite" through the in-game chat menu

You access and navigate this menu by using the ARROW KEYS.

STEP 4. Success

Assuming you have friends, scroll to them in the invitation window that opens up with the overlay after selecting "Send an Invite". They can then join your private room.

Your friends will NOT see your private room in the PUBLIC LOBBY menu. They can ONLY join through an invite sent through the in-game chat menu. Sending invites through your friends list

DOES

NOT

WORK.

CONGRATULATIONS! No-longer do you have to make a public room with comments such as "DONT JOIN OR KICK" or "PRIVATE FRIENDS ONLY". ONLY YOU can keep the public lobby free of clutter.

36 Comments

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Burger Beers 19 Jul, 2024 @ 3:34am

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Cheese 17 Jun, 2023 @ 3:39am

BRRRR SKIBIDI DOM DOM DOM YES YES SKIBIDI DABU NEED NEED SKIBIDI DOM DOM DOM YES SKIBIDI DABU NEED NEED!

Delta-5 30 May, 2023 @ 9:44pm

The worst part is that some of them don't even put "private room" or whatever (the ones who make public rooms that they claim are private are still annoying but less so). Every single room I join feels like a 50/50 of whether I'll get randomly kicked by some dude with 0% completion

KG0D 26 May, 2023 @ 6:25pm

Guys, we figured it out. Make sure in step number 2 if you have any players in the "everyone is welcome" section, you need to use the A and D keys to remove those players and reallocate them to the invite only players. Hopefully that makes sense because in my case, it was showing 3 players for everyone is welcome and 0 in invite only, that made sense to me (you know cause no players will join til you invite)
So again, reallocate the players using the A and D keys on your keyboard to invite only to make a private room

Coconattsu 13 Mar, 2023 @ 3:47pm

You're doing it wrong then, you have to make sure to set Everyone is welcome to 0 player(s)

Then no one can join your lobby without invites

CrazyContraption 13 Mar, 2023 @ 11:04am

Unfortunately, this does not work. People can still join you without invitation.

Johnathan Dick 23 Nov, 2022 @ 8:32am

doesnt work

Delta-5 30 Sep, 2022 @ 5:29pm

This guide should be required reading for every newbie

Madcat 10 Sep, 2022 @ 8:00pm

Jesus christ my previous comment still holds up. RussianBadger forgot to add the part about making lobbies private. That wouldve been a huge help with the newbie incursion

Hatsune Marineku 10 Sep, 2022 @ 10:59am

I was wondering why I kept getting kicked from public lobbies. The hell is wrong with people.

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