How to Open a Port in Your Router for Killing Floor III

Killing Floor III is Tripwire Interactive's First-Person, Action, Shooter, and Survival game with a currently unknown release date.

When you play Killing Floor III you will enjoy the following styles of play.

• First person games are viewed from the player looking forward. They behave much like simulations in that your controls are mapped to move the main player around relative to where you are looking.
• 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.
• Shooter style games are usually a fast action style game that is based on testing the players reaction time. Most of the time the player has a weapon held out in front that is the primary means of targeting other players and enemies. Single player shooters usually have a short story mode based on finding ammo and guns, while multiplayer shooters tend to have some amount of player advancement over time. Halo and Call of Duty are popular shooters.
• Most survival games are simply about staying alive. They tend to have elements of resource management, such as inventory of ammunition and health. Most are either post-apocalyptic or supernatural based, and many have a strong horror component.

When you are playing Killing Floor III 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 router.
• 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 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.

Don't have time? Use our Network Utilities software. It's the fastest way to both open and close ports in your router. Of you can do it manually if you want.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

• 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 proper box in your router.
• Put the TCP and UDP ports for your game in the matching boxes in your router.
• Sometimes you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

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The specific ports for Killing Floor III are as follows:

Killing Floor III - Steam

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

Killing Floor III - PC

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

Killing Floor III - Playstation 5

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

Killing Floor III - Xbox Series X

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

We have guides that are custom tailored for Killing Floor III that will show you the incoming ports that need to be forwarded.

• Killing Floor III - Steam
• Killing Floor III - Playstation 5
• Killing Floor III - Xbox Series X

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.