Is UPnP enabled on you an your friends routers? If not you could enable it on your router by Launch a web browser from a computer or mobile device that is connected to your router's network. If you can't figure out how to do that there's another way first, launch the game though steam or launch waw without plutonium and download 2 things waw lan fix and Hamachi start a sever on Hamachi have your friend join the server than create a lan game than have the person who isn't the host join the lan game and then set the server settings to whatever you finally you should be able to play.
here's video instructions for method 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gt8mcevY2g&t=84s&ab_channel=MasterBeef96

RedxSkull

hey i’m his buddy were trying to play, are u saying the port is the issue or we’re getting booted off every time we try to play, also have u heard of this problem or experienced it yourself? he can connect using connect command but when i try to join server publicly “low ping player” error pops up is the VPS absolutely a fix for this issue or just for protection purposes strictly, thankya brother

@mjoao050k https://plutonium.pw/docs/server/platform/how-many-servers-can-i-host/

@SweetBaloso Well you'll have to do what I did and create a dump of the server when it happens and link it here.

Matias95 so you're on a dedicated which means youre probably using 2008/2012 r2 standard or another version of one of those. Like they said it wont work on older versions. i learned that myself few months ago.

it does work perfectly fine on windows 2019 standard if you wonna give it a try.

OHHHHHHHHHHH I see I see, didn't know anything bout wan ip, they are not the same and the wan ip starts with 100 so impossible, any way to fix it? Do i need to tell my network company to take out the cg nat?

Yeah, it's just how 3arc games function, full of errors like this.

Fjoca_BR

Redist

Errors related to D3DCOMPILER_43.dll, XINPUT1_3.dll, D3DX9_37.dll, MSVCP140.dll or VCRUNTIME140.dll are caused by missing redistributable on your system.
To fix this a member of the staff created a script that will download and install all the redistributable (redist) required to get Plutonium running.
Download and open the script from the link below and let it finish to download and install every redist (Direct X, Visual C++ etc.)
Then once it says it's finished you can close it and start your game.
https://git.io/redists

The speed varies depending on your download speed and on your PC specs.
The script is safe so if you get a message from Windows click on "More info" and "Run anyway". You can always right click on it and click edit to see what's inside.

If for any reason it doesn't work read below

Download and install all the redist below even if you already have them installed
Direct X: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35
Visual C++ 2015: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53840
Visual C++ 2015 RC: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52685

Resxt Can we maybe talk on discord for like 5 minutes? Im sure you could help me

Port checkers are not reliable and don't work with the UDP protocol I think.

This information is irelevant, ignore it
If someone from outside your network can join then you're all good

Seeing as we are going at this blind
Have you followed these steps:

https://plutonium.pw/docs/server/t4/setting-up-a-server/

Especially following the part of having your server files in c:\gameserver\T4 and also followed the port forward section

yea i run backrooms. but i doesnt show in the server log only in plutonium

themrpotato try to add the same port in internal port too in your rule

Also for this to work you need to open the bat, it's not made for private games, it's a server.

And last thing you need to let the server open for like 30s until there's a heartbeat for it to be joinable, it's not instant

If you're sure you only have Windows Defender then add a firewall rule for both incoming and outgoing connections. Also.maybe check both public and private for plutonium-bootstrapper32.exe

And the most important are you 100% sure the local IPv4 on your port forward rule is the local IPv4 of your PC right now? It could've changed. Open a cmd in Windows and type ipconfig to see

I don't really understand what your issue/question is but:

Players can join servers mid-game normally. Unless you mean to force them to play right away instead of being spectators for a round? Then that's very likely a GSC script that you need to find or create

I didn't experience maps ending when you're solo. Are you sure it doesn't only happen on specific maps?

If you could give a clear/precise case of what you're saying that would help because I have no idea what you're talking about, never saw that myself

Vaporous what’s in ur scripts folder or server scripts folder