How to Port Forward in Your Router for Hawked

Hawked is a Third-Person, Open-World, Action, Adventure, Survival, and Shooter game published by My.Games, The 4 Winds Entertainment with a currently unknown release date.

Hawked offers the following styles of play.

• In a third person game you typically run around looking over the shoulder of the main character. They are frequently shooters like Gears of War or platformers like Tomb Raider or Assassins Creed.
• When you play an open world style of game you are usually allowed free movement throughout the game environment and not restricted to any sort of order set by the game developers.
• Action games are focused on physical challenges such as jumping over obstacles, climbing ladders, and shooting enemies. Reflexes play a large part in action game play.
• The main concept behind an adventure game is that you are the main character and you follow the game through a story that unfolds as you play.
• In a survival game you simply need to stay alive. Some have waves of enemies that get harder with each wave. Many are horror based, supernatural, or post-apocalyptic. They generally focus on conserving resources such as ammo and health, and sometimes employ elements of stealth.
• Shooter games are fast paced action games that are based on testing the players reaction time. They usually involve the player holding a weapon in front of them and attempting to shoot other players or characters. Some shooters are short lived arcade style, but most have both a single player mission series and some have a large multiplayer following. Common shooters include Call of Duty and Battlefield.

When you are playing Hawked 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 on occasion 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:

• The IP address of your network router.
• Your gaming machine's IP address.
• The TCP and UDP ports that need to be forwarded.

The easiest way to click the links to get to 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.

Use our Network Utilities for a quick way to get your ports forwarded. Network utilities makes it easy to enable and disable your port forwards to keep your network security as tight as possible. You can also do it by hand by following these steps.

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 appropriate 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 connection ports that need to be forwarded for Hawked are as follows:

Hawked - Steam

• TCP: 27015, 27036, 5020
• UDP: 20000-32000

Hawked - PC

• TCP: 5020
• UDP: 20000-32000

Hawked - Playstation 4

• TCP: 3478-3480, 5020
• UDP: 3074, 3478-3479, 20000-32000

Hawked - Playstation 5

• TCP: 3478-3480, 5020
• UDP: 3074, 3478-3479, 20000-32000

Hawked - Xbox One

• TCP: 3074, 5020
• UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500, 20000-32000

Hawked - Xbox Series X

• TCP: 3074, 5020
• UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500, 20000-32000

We have guides that are custom tailored for Hawked that will show you the required ports that need to be forwarded.

• Hawked - Steam
• Hawked - PC
• Hawked - Playstation 4
• Hawked - Playstation 5
• Hawked - Xbox One
• Hawked - Xbox Series X

That should do it; your ports are now forwarded. Need something else forwarded? Check out our list of games and programs.