Whats the deal with no ability to host a coop game w/o port fw or buying server?

[Mr.Crane]

As the title says, this game has great potential and me and my 4 buddies would love to play it but none of us can be bothered to port forward, purchase a server, or play with randoms on already existing servers (because people are stupid). Is port forwarding or purchasing a server seriously the only way to play this game in a non-solo manner? If so that's pretty lazy given how long Bohemia has been in this space and how much money they've made. You cannot seriously tell me that they don't have the money to buy servers to let you play with friends. There's too many other games out there that simply let you load into the main menu, invite a friend, play the game. There's no reason for Bohemia not to have it other than being lazy or penny pinching for no reason.

[Bastard Children]

Just use hamachi brother, takes like 5 mins to setup. Make sure you copy the ipv4 address of the host to the servers IP when creating the server. Everyone else joining needs to direct connect using that Ipv4 address. I agree its annoying though

[Rick James Bish]

Is the ISP of the person wanting to host using CGNat? That is the only situation I can see where port forwarding is an issue, otherwise it literally takes less time to open the two necessary ports than it took you to type your post.

Even if the person wanting to host is CGNat, just call your ISP, tell them you want to bypass their modems router and have a static IP. That is what I did so I would have full control over my network.

I also would not want to use a VPN. Reforger already needs every advantage it can get when it comes to online performance.

[DigDog]

"port forwarding"

It's easy unless your provider restricts it. Then you use hamachi.

Hosting your own server has mostly been the same for decades.

[micro-impact]

I bought Reforger a couple of days ago to play coop with my brother and was honestly "shocked" that I have to deal with things like port forwarding in 2024. Doesn´t matter if it´s easy or not.
Reminded me of Win98 days when we had to configer our networks for the quake parties.

[DigDog]

Originally posted by micro-impact:

I bought Reforger a couple of days ago to play coop with my brother and was honestly "shocked" that I have to deal with things like port forwarding in 2024. Doesn´t matter if it´s easy or not.
Reminded me of Win98 days when we had to configer our networks for the quake parties.

I don't agree with you. This is a basic thing I want access to. The games that manage this for you don't let you have control which I would not play the game then. Also They will likely not run a vpn system like hamachi just for reforger.

This is like asking your mom to peel your orange.

[micro-impact]

You can´t neither agree nor disagree with the fact that I was shocked

[DigDog]

Originally posted by micro-impact:

You can´t neither agree nor disagree with the fact that I was shocked

I just did. It's like being shocked you need to pump your own gas. That does not mean you should have someone pump it for you.