How does the multiplayer lobby work?
The multiplayer lobby is divided into 3 parts: the game staging area, where games are listed when they are waiting on more players and where the settings are selected when all players have joined, the chat section, in the bottom left portion, where you can post a message to the lobby (and hold private messages with individuals), and finally the bottom right area, or the more miscellaneous tabs section, where you can select different options and view your buddy list. The settings and chat sections are pretty self-explanitory; in the lobby, when you are searching for a game, there are various bits of information shown for each game: whether it is password-protected or not, the title of the game, how many players are in it (out of the total amount), what map they are playing, whether the game is new since your last refresh or not, whether or not the game is a PitBoss game, and the ping (connection speed; lower is better). By double clicking a game, you enter that game. In order the host t
