Open Ports on Your Router for Humanity

Humanity is a Third-Person, Puzzle, Action, and Platformer game published by Enhance released in 2023.

Humanity includes the following styles of gameplay.

• 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.
• Most puzzle games require the player to solve puzzles such as word puzzles, logic puzzles, and pattern searching and matching. They can be both timed and untimed. Some puzzlers involve level progression, but many are more of the arcade style where all progression ends when the player stops playing.
• 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.
• In a platform style game the player jumps from one platform to another, and sometimes is required to do various acrobatic stunts. Many early games were platformers, such as Metroid and Donkey Kong.

When you are playing Humanity 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.

Use a VPN Instead

Have you considered using a VPN instead of forwarding a port? For most users, a VPN is a much simpler and more secure choice than forwarding a port.

We use and recommend NordVPN because not only is it the fastest VPN, it includes a new feature called Meshnet that makes forwarding a port no longer necessary for most applications. With NordVPN Meshnet, you can connect to your devices from anywhere in the world, completely secure, over a highly encrypted VPN tunnel.

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• Check that your VPN will not affect your speed.
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Once you've set up your NordVPN account on multiple computers and enabled Meshnet, you can seamlessly access all of your devices as if they were on the same network. You don't even have to log in to your router. It's very simple.

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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 to forward.

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.

The fastest way to forward a port is to use our Network Utilities suite of tools. With our software you can quickly and easily turn your port forwards on and off for multiple programs at any time. Or just keep reading to learn how to do it by hand.

The normal process for forwarding a port is:

• Login to your router.
• Locate 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 matching boxes in your router.
• Intermittently 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 Humanity are as follows:

Humanity - Steam

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

Humanity - Playstation 4

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

Humanity - Playstation 5

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

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

• Humanity - Steam
• Humanity - Playstation 4
• Humanity - Playstation 5

That's all it takes to get your ports open. Don't forget to check out our growing list of games and programs.