How to Open a Port in Your Router for Metal Gear: Survive

Metal Gear: Survive is Konami Digital Entertainment's Action, Adventure, Survival, Stealth, and Open-World game with a release date in 2018.

Metal Gear: Survive has the following styles of play.

• Action games are usually a bit faster than other games and require quick reflexes. You frequently jump platforms, shoot enemy mobs, climb ladders, and
• Adventure games are very heavily story driven. You are usually the main character and are the one who discovers the true plot as the game progresses.
• 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.
• In a stealth style game you use hiding, disguises, muffled clothing, and shadows to overcome antagonists. Sometimes in a stealth style of game you get the choice of taking the quiet approach or the direct approach of attacking the enemy. Stealth games frequently feature a strong strategy component as well.
• Open world style games are usually not on rails, meaning that the player gets to go anywhere and solve problems in the order that they choose. The player is usually allowed to roam freely through a normally massive environment.

When you are playing Metal Gear: Survive 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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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.

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Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

• The IP address of your router.
• Your gaming machine's IP address.
• A list of 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 do this is to use Network Utilities. Network Utilities can forward your ports in just a few clicks, and close them back down when you are done just as easily. You can also do it the manual way.

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 correct 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 Metal Gear: Survive are as follows:

Metal Gear: Survive - Steam

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

Metal Gear: Survive - Playstation 4

• TCP: 1935, 3478-3480
• UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

Metal Gear: Survive - Xbox One

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

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

• Metal Gear: Survive - Steam
• Metal Gear: Survive - Playstation 4
• Metal Gear: Survive - Xbox One

That's all it takes to open your ports. Want more? Check out our growing list of games and applications.