How to Port Forward Gears Tactics in Your Router

Gears Tactics is a Turn-Based, Strategy, and Tactical game published by Xbox Game Studios released in 2020.

Gears Tactics has the following styles of play.

• In most turn based games each player has a turn to play while the other can simply manage their options for when their turn comes around.
• Strategy games tend to focus on planning and skillful thinking in order to beat either real players or bots. They can be either real-time in which the play clock ticks continuously or turn-based where each player has a dedicated turn to finish their action. It is not uncommon to include exploration and resource management.
• Tactical games are a subgenre of strategy games that focus more on operational warfare, military style tactics, and troop placement. They focus more on logistics and production than on combat, and can at times feature complex battlefield tactics.

When you are playing Gears Tactics 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 sometimes 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.
• Your gaming machine's IP address.
• A list of 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.

A smart way to forward your ports is to use Network Utilities. Since Network Utilities allows you to both forward and un-forward ports easily you can keep your network security maximized, and then forward ports only when you need them. Alternatively you can do it by hand.

The process for forwarding a port is generally:

• Start by logging in to your router.
• Find your routers port forwarding section.
• Put the IP address of your computer or gaming console in the applicable box in your router.
• Put the TCP and UDP ports for your game in the corresponding boxes in your router.
• Frequently you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

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The ports that need to be forwarded in your router for Gears Tactics are as follows:

Gears Tactics - PC

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Gears Tactics - Xbox One

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

Gears Tactics - Steam

• TCP: 27015-27030, 27036-27037
• UDP: 4380, 27000-27031, 27036

Gears Tactics - Xbox Series X

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

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and Gears Tactics simply follow one of these links:

• Gears Tactics - Xbox One
• Gears Tactics - Steam
• Gears Tactics - Xbox Series X

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