I have UPnP disabled, and none of these ports are being forwarded on my router. Yet, the game works and I can connect to other player's games and host sessions.

If you have a home router it acts as a NAT firewall. It drops ALL unsolicited packets that your network did not first reach out for.

If you are hosting anything P2P whether it's gaming, file transfers, etc you need a DNAT or port forwarding for the traffic to get through a NAT firewall to your device.

If you are hosting a game on a P2P game you are using port forwarding whether you manually configured it on the router or your game supports UPnP and tells your router to open the ports.

There's no going around it, no solutions. P2P requires it.

The "solution" is using dedicated servers which send and receive data to and from each player acting as a middleman thus making the game no longer P2P.
Some games do this without telling you. For example if you play Halo CE coop the default settings use a Microsoft relay server which makes the connection really laggy. Port forwarding is required for lag free P2P Halo CE coop.

So yes, 2024 has port forwarding.

Hi, I didn't understand something. I play with Steam and my friend with PSN.
You put both the Steam and PSN ports but I don't understand if we both have to open them all to play together or how should we do it?
A thousand thanks

>>>"this game came out in 2024, and it needs port forwarding"

>>The year does not dictate how servers interface with your network.

>smt smt new standards, UPnP.

20 years later and we're still not using IPv6 universally. I dream of the day we can stop dealing with the devils offspring that is NAT, and the offspring of said offspring, UPnP.

Port forwarding works better if you host the game. I have had randoms join me.

I did open all the suggest port in my router and still can't find a party to join with matchmaking.
It sucks to not find a party for a coop game

Nah dude, we've had solutions to port forwarding for years, the current year matters as does the current standard

1024-65535. tcp/udp.

>>"this game came out in 2024, and it needs port forwarding"

>The year does not dictate how servers interface with your network.

If only there was some sort of thing that could like automagically handle stuff like this for us. you know, like some sort of standard or something. that allows for us to just plug our stuff in and play universally. like some sort of Universal Plug and Play service that would just automatically configure our ports for this stuff.

It is a mistake to not have any form of network configuration options or tools on a game that advertises network play. This game should have had support for UPnP, or at least show the info saying your NAT is bad and you should fix it.

"this game came out in 2024, and it needs port forwarding"

The year does not dictate how servers interface with your network.