Forward Ports on Your Router for Resident Evil: Revelations 2

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September 24, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is Capcom's Survival game released in 2015.

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 is a survival style of game. Survival games are focused on resource management, such as health and ammo, and sometimes include elements of stealth. Most are either post-apocalyptic or supernatural based, and many have a strong horror component. The primary gameplay mechanic is to simply stay alive for as long as possible. Many survival games have multiple waves of enemies that get harder with each wave. It is an extremely popular style for zombie invasion games.

How to Port Forward Resident Evil: Revelations 2

When you are playing Resident Evil: Revelations 2 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.

Before You Forward a Port

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

How to locate your Router's IP Address

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.

How To Forward Ports

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 normal process for forwarding a port is:

Ports Required for Resident Evil: Revelations 2

The exact ports for Resident Evil: Revelations 2 are as follows:

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 - Steam

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

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 - Playstation 3

  • TCP: 3478-3480, 5223, 8080
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479, 3658

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 - Playstation 4

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

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 - Switch

  • TCP: 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900, 29901, 29920
  • UDP: 1-65535

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 - Xbox 360

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 3074

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 - 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 Resident Evil: Revelations 2 simply follow one of these links:

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