How to Forward Ports in Your Router for Dead Island: Definitive Edition

Dead Island: Definitive Edition is Deep Silver's Action, Adventure, Survival, First-Person, and Open-World game released in 2016.

Dead Island: Definitive Edition has the following styles of play.

• Games that are considered action are all about centering the player in the middle of an evolving situation.
• An adventure game is where the player is usually the protagonist and plays through an evolving story. The storyline is the driving part of an adventure game.
• Survival games are usually focused on resource management, such as ammo and health, and occasionally include elements of stealth. They tend to be based on either supernatural enemies, have horror themes, or be post-apocalyptic. The primary gameplay mechanic is to simply stay alive.
• First person games are played from the perspective of the player. They typically have a gun or other weapon held out in front, but this is not always the case. Many first person games are sometimes called "shooters" because the primary goal of the game is to shoot other players or creatures, but this is not always the case.
• In an open world style of game the player is allowed to roam freely through a normally massive environment. This style of games is usually not on rails, meaning that the player gets to go anywhere and solve problems in the order that they choose.

When you are playing Dead Island: Definitive Edition you might need to forward some ports in your router. Forwarding ports is a useful trick in gaming because it can really help to make your network connection most stable and intermittently even faster. Routers were not designed to allow incoming network requests and some games can play tremendously better if an incoming connection is forwarded through the router to the game.

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Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

• Your router's IP address.
• The IP address of the device that the game will play on: either your computer or your console.
• The TCP and UDP ports that need to be forwarded.

The easiest way to find your router's IP address is to run our free Router Detector utility. It's a part of the Network Utilities suite of tools and it's completely free to use.

An easy way to do this is use our Network Utilities software. It can open your ports with just a few clicks. Then when you are done you can just was quickly close your ports again. Alternatively you can do it by hand.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

• Login to your router.
• Find your routers port forwarding section.
• Put the IP address of your computer or gaming console in the proper box in your router.
• Put the TCP and UDP ports for your game in the corresponding boxes in your router.
• On occasion you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

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The required incoming ports for Dead Island: Definitive Edition are as follows:

Dead Island: Definitive Edition - Steam

• TCP: 27015, 27036
• UDP: 27015, 27031-27036

Dead Island: Definitive Edition - Playstation 4

• TCP: 3478-3480
• UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

Dead Island: Definitive Edition - Xbox One

• TCP: 3074
• UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and Dead Island: Definitive Edition simply follow one of these links:

• Dead Island: Definitive Edition - Steam
• Dead Island: Definitive Edition - Playstation 4
• Dead Island: Definitive Edition - Xbox One

After following those steps your ports should be forwarded. Head to our applications and games list for more port forwarding guides.