How would i change my nat to open?

[EASY PETE]

It always says it is moderate.

[winter]

For me it always says "Regular". Perhaps someone could explain what exactly that means? Can not all ppl join u when ur NAT is set to anything else than open?

[Segovax]

NAT means Network Address Translation and I suspect in this case someone is using the acronym incorrectly and really means port forwarding.

NAT basically makes your private network addresses routable. For a very basic example, a private address of 192.168.0.2 goes to your home router with an internal address of 192.168.0.1 and then the router sends it on. Before doing so it wraps the packet and uses its own public IP as the source. In order to differentiate between multiple private addresses on your home network, it selects a random high port number as well, so it would effectively be [public IP:port number].

Most games have defined ports to connect on. Lets say Doom uses port 666. If you want to connect to your friends server, you put in his public or visible (they are the same) IP as well as the port, like X.X.X.X:port.

I believe Open, Moderate and Strict are router defaults depending on the model. I suspect that Open NAT would be allowing any source address to connect to your machine on a given port number, medium would allow only specific source addresses to connect to your machine on a given port, and Strict would deny anything that didn't originate from your machine in the first place.

[winter]

Thanks for the answer.
So when its on "Regular" everyone can join right? Or do ppl who have their NAT on open not?

[Segovax]

I'm guessing it's Windows 10? I'm not familiar with the specifics its categories, but I would guess "regular" would mean anything out, nothing in except return traffic. If you have 'open' nat I'm guessing that's a one to one and anyone from anywhere can connect to your machine on that port.

[Alexoferith]

Originally posted by HerrComrade:

I'm guessing it's Windows 10? I'm not familiar with the specifics its categories, but I would guess "regular" would mean anything out, nothing in except return traffic. If you have 'open' nat I'm guessing that's a one to one and anyone from anywhere can connect to your machine on that port.

Hi, so what port does Dying Light use? I get moderate NAT so I cannot play coop according to other posts on this Forum. They explained that because my router is supplied free by my ISP and free router has s h i t t y port forwarding function. I haven't enabled port forwarding yet.

[Segovax]

I spent a little time searching but it looks like there are several ports, and I can only find that information from non-official sources; my own machine lists entirely different ports, and I don't generally feel it's a good idea to randomly open ports up to anyone on the internet - you may want to ask on the official forums.

This should only be an issue hosting peer games, if you're trying to connect to a dedicated server you shouldn't be seeing this stuff at all.

[Rizzly]

Originally posted by Al Sah-him:

For me it always says "Regular". Perhaps someone could explain what exactly that means? Can not all ppl join u when ur NAT is set to anything else than open?

what is your router model?

I've spent weeks trying to open NAT on Dying Light. It won't work no matter what you do, it's based on router model like someone said already. The easiest way to get a open NAT and test is using DMZ function in your router... Don't bother with specific ports, they don't even tell us which one they are.

[winter]

Got the "Fritzbox 7390". I think its a pretty new one. Anyway thanks for all the helpfull answers guys. I just got the feeling that recently there are a lot less nighthunters in DL. So i was wondering if it might have somethin to do with that NAT stuff. Unfortunately it looks now like the game is just dead atm, at least the pvp part.

[EASY PETE]

Hm, or maybe we could request the devs to fix it?

[Rizzly]

Originally posted by SnarlyTrain:

Hm, or maybe we could request the devs to fix it?

yeah right..

[Alexoferith]

Coop is close to being dead because of a problem after 1.11 patch. Game will crash sooner or later. But it seems that Techland has not or is not coming up with any solution. It is a shame really. I don't like BTZ but I don't mind giving others some help if they so required.

[Shiba87]

I asked them about coop problem and ports and they gave me this:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8571-GLVN-8711

It doesn't work for me, but it's something ¿^^

[Alexoferith]

Originally posted by Shiba87:

I asked them about coop problem and ports and they gave me this:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8571-GLVN-8711

It doesn't work for me, but it's something ¿^^

I am sorry to say that this didn't work for me but thank you very much for putting it up here. Thanks.

[Alexoferith]

Oh, sorry, I forgot to say one thing. I very recently, last weekend I think. I help a friend to get his last achievement - last one standiing, something like that by completing Bozak and he killed me. The first and second attempts ended in my game frozen up. Have to ctrl+alt+del to get out. After trying to use 3rd party software, Evolve which didn't work. What we tried was that both of us have the VAC turned off. Needless to say, it worked and he got his last achievement. I have to add that I didn't have the game open to public but only "Friends only". I do not recommend having it off if you want to play with unknown users. Well, I have just finished downloading the latest patch. Let's hope that Techland has fixed this COOP connection problem (causing game to crash) with VAC on.

[Rizzly]

Originally posted by Shiba87:

I asked them about coop problem and ports and they gave me this:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8571-GLVN-8711

It doesn't work for me, but it's something ¿^^

doesn't work for anyone not just you

and 1.11.1 didn't fix anything about NAT , even if you open those ports you won't get regular NAT