Port Forwarding documentation
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Already read it a lot of times and it's not clear for me what to do. It also said the number I had to put for the port was in the section of my game (assuming of that article) and it never said anything, just that if there was no luck use 3074.
I did all steps from my ISP/Router site (to port forward) but I think it's not working, the image shown didn't help either because that's not what my interface looks like and names for fields are also different.
Everyone told me it was just adding and that was it but we keep getting errors.
I also spent a few hours going through old posts and the answers are different because the system seems to have changed over the years multiple times.How can I set this without leaking my IP address to friends? once it's set can they just join or do they need to do some console commands?
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There is no reason to port-forward if you are afraid of others getting your ip, also joining any server will allow them to see your ip.
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Xerxes when I join a server it doesnt say my ip anywhere, probably the owner of the server will know it but not my friends. And I can probably trust servers to be professional.
By not knowing my ip I meant I saw a post that said u had to do some command + type IP which I wanted to avoid.
From what I saw if you port forward they can just join and no info is leaked, and if you just join normally same, but this isn't working for either of us. -
gasha_ the documentation is pretty clear on that side. Try to join normally just like on Steam and if it doesn't work then open the port given in your section which is 3074. There's only port per game and they're all given in their section
You don't have to give your IP or to run commands to join/be joined
What you have to do, as the host, is to port forward on your router.
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I found the problem, I had to open Nat which wasn't explained in the documentation. Had to grab ipv4 with cmd and put that in the port forward interface. I tried to figure it with other friends and neither succeeded, it was a YouTuber that helped us with that, as our internet provider guide didn't have the right ip either.
Either way now it's working but I'll stand by my original comment that the guide wasn't written properly. -
gasha_ said in Port Forwarding documentation:
I'll stand by my original comment that the guide wasn't written properly.
This is something you should tell your ISP not us as they gave you the router without documentation as we can't be expected to have a guide for every router in existence.
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gasha_ the doc explains that you need to port forward and you just did that so I don't see the problem, you did exactly what the doc said
