Opening Ports for Streets of Rage 4 using Your Router

Streets of Rage 4 is an Action, Beat-Em-Up, 2D, and Arcade game published by DotEmu released in 2020.

Streets of Rage 4 offers the following styles of gameplay.

• Games that are considered action are all about centering the player in the middle of an evolving situation.
• Beat 'em up games are a video games featuring hand-to-hand combat between the protagonist and an improbably large number of opponents. They games typically take place in urban settings and feature crime-fighting and revenge-based plots, though some games may employ fantasy, historical, or sci-fi themes.
• A 2D game features flat graphics and are usually either side view or top down view. Side view 2D games are sometimes also called "platform" style games because they main objective is to travel from one platform to another.
• In an arcade game you usually have a limited number of lives and will at some point in time either run out of lives, time, or beat the game. They are usually short games that can be beat in under an hour, but some are longer.

When you are playing Streets of Rage 4 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 can forward a port you need to know the following things:

• Your router's IP address.
• The IP address of the device that the game will play on: either your computer or your console.
• 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.

Quickly get your ports forwarded using Network Utilities. Then when you are done you can just as easily close your ports back down to keep your network as secure as possible. You can also do it manually.

The process for forwarding a port is generally:

• Open a web browser and navigate to your router's IP address.
• Find your routers port forwarding section.
• Put the IP address of your computer or gaming console in the appropriate 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 required incoming ports that need to be forwarded for Streets of Rage 4 are as follows:

Streets of Rage 4 - Steam

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

Streets of Rage 4 - PC

• We do not know the PC ports for Streets of Rage 4 yet. If you know them please send us a message using our Message System.

Streets of Rage 4 - Playstation 4

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

Streets of Rage 4 - Switch

• TCP: 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900, 29901, 29920
• UDP: 1024-65535

Streets of Rage 4 - Xbox One

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

We have guides that are custom tailored for Streets of Rage 4 that will show you the ports.

• Streets of Rage 4 - Steam
• Streets of Rage 4 - Playstation 4
• Streets of Rage 4 - Switch
• Streets of Rage 4 - Xbox One

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