I'm having the same issue, I've posted a thread here twice and opened a support ticket with ubisoft and still not recieved any help.
The 'join public matchmaking' option always forces me into other people's games.
Inviting friends or suggested players 1 by 1 seems to be the only way and seems unreasonable and not the way the game is designed to work.
'join matchmaking' has me join other's games, no matter which option I choose. I'd like to know how to join matchmaking and have people join my game.
In wildlands it was easy and simple to host the match and join matchmaking meant you could host the game. In this game, the privacy option only allows me to select private or friends only.
The game is pretty fun but it is ridiculous that such a simple feature is broken, that worked perfectly fine in Wildlands.
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