Forward Ports on Your Router for Shadow Warrior 3

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February 04, 2021 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 3 minutes

Shadow Warrior 3 is Devolver Digital's First-Person, Action, Adventure, and Shooter game with a release date in 2022.

Shadow Warrior 3 artwork featuring series protagonist Lo Wang
Shadow Warrior 3 artwork featuring series protagonist Lo Wang

Shadow Warrior 3 has the following styles of play.

Forward Ports for Shadow Warrior 3

When you are playing Shadow Warrior 3 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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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

Our Network Utilities software makes port forwarding a breeze. You can be done in just a few minutes.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

Ports Required for Shadow Warrior 3

The specific incoming ports for Shadow Warrior 3 are as follows:

Shadow Warrior 3 - Steam

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

Shadow Warrior 3 - PC

  • We do not know the PC ports for Shadow Warrior 3 yet. If you know them please send us a message using our Message System.

Shadow Warrior 3 - Playstation 4

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

Shadow Warrior 3 - Xbox One

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

We have guides that are custom tailored for Shadow Warrior 3 that will show you the specific ports.

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