Forward Ports on Your Router for Hard West

Hard West is a Turn-Based, Strategy, Role-Playing, Action, and Adventure game published by Good Shepherd Entertainment, Forever Entertainment released in 2015.

Hard West 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.
• In a strategy game the player is required to use skillful thinking and a strong focus on planning ahead in order to achieve victory over their opponent. They can be either single player against bots or multiplayer against other players. They come in both turn-based and real-time versions, the former allowing each player a chance to complete their turn, the latter having a continuous running clock without stopping. Resource management and exploration are common themes in strategy games.
• In a role playing game, or RPG, the player takes on the role of the main character and helps the story line to unfold. It usually involves a very long play time, inventory management, and a deep leveling system. RPG's are usually the longest style of game. Skyrim and Fallout are amongst the most popular RPG style games.
• Action games are fast paced and tend to put the player in the middle of the action, requiring you to jump over obstacles, climb ladders, and shoot things.
• In an adventure game you generally play through a story, usually as the protagonist. They rely heavily on story telling and can be inspired from books or movies.

When you are playing Hard West 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.
• Your gaming machine's IP address.
• The TCP and UDP ports that need to be forwarded.

The easiest way to locate 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.

Our Network Utilities software makes port forwarding a breeze. You can be done in just a few minutes.

The process for forwarding a port is usually:

• Login to your router.
• Locate your routers port forwarding section.
• Put the IP address of your computer or gaming console in the correct box in your router.
• Put the TCP and UDP ports for your game in the matching boxes in your router.
• Intermittently you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

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The ports that need to be forwarded for Hard West are as follows:

Hard West - Steam

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

Hard West - PC

• We do not know the PC ports for Hard West yet. If you know them please send us a message using our Message System.

Hard West - Switch

• TCP: 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900, 29901, 29920
• UDP: 1024-65535

Hard West - Playstation 4

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

Hard West - Xbox One

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

We have guides that are custom tailored for Hard West that will show you the necessary ports.

• Hard West - Steam
• Hard West - Switch
• Hard West - Playstation 4
• Hard West - Xbox One

That should be all you have to do to forward your ports. Check our growing list of games and applications for more port forwarding guides.