I was forging a new Reach map today on MCC. I check my lobby is set to invite only as I have done for the past 7 years of forging on each Halo game I’ve played.
Problem was, only 10 minutes or so after starting the match the usual “player joined” notification popped up on the bottom left side of my monitor’s HUD. I quickly ended the match forfeiting all the work I’d done so as not to have some random person destroy the entire map or mess with me. After ending the session, I checked and it was a follower who had joined, not even someone on my friends list. When I asked them how they joined, they said “on the side of my screen it said: Friends online, and it showed you on forge so I was like, eh ok, and clicked join”.
I checked after the match was over and the lobby was definitely set to invite only and after leaving, the lad who joined confirmed he could no longer re-join my lobby.
Could this be a bug of some kind? If so, it’s going to be pretty detrimental for forgers.
Anyone else had a similar experience?