manually port forwarding for my router

[midosan]

(03-20-2022 05:44 AM)AdamN Wrote:  Different games uses different ports, which will also be different depends on the Port Offset value, so manually port-forwarding can be tricky for most people (unless they already familiar with the ports used by the game).

If even DMZ doesn't works for you, that mean your ISP is blocking the port, thus manually port-forwarding nor UPnP won't work either.
The only solution for ports being blocked by ISP is by using VPN.

However, since you're able to play with one other player successfully, that means both of you doesn't have blocked-port issue.
There might be some other issue, probably the 3rd player had issue, unless if that 3rd player were able to play the same game successfully too with another player.

For example:
1) P1 <--> P2 = worked ==> no technical issue
2) P1 <--> P2 <--> P3 = broken ==> issue on P3
3) P2 <--> P3 = worked ==> the route between P1 to/from P3 might be bad, where the route are depends on the ISP if you're not using VPN, and depends on the VPN & ISP if you're using one.

PS: There is also an issue where multiplayer with more than 2 players doesn't work well when using a certain VPN on some games, but since you're talking about port-forwarding, i assume you're not using any VPN (since VPN doesn't need port-forwarding)

my friend said that me and the other person have ports blocked but only one person with ports blocked can join the person with open ports also i can't pick a quest aka be the host even if there is just me and 1 person and that person has open ports or blocked ports

example
1P and 2P has blocked ports, 3P 4P 5P has open ports, H means Host aka they chose the quest

1P - 3PH = Works
3P - 1PH = Broken
1P - 2P - 3PH = Disconnects 1 of blocked ports Ppl from the party and then it works with the remaining
1P - 3PH - 4P - 5P = works as long as there is just 1 blocked ports person it works (my friend said this)

the first 3 example we tried but 4th we couldn't try bc we couldn't find more ppl with open ports to test

which VPN do u recommended since u said certain VPN only works with 2 people

i will try VPN and see if it works or not then I'll reply here about it