How to Forward Ports in Your Router for The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 is an Action, Adventure, and Survival game published by Bandai Namco Entertainment with a currently unknown release date.

The ports that need to be forwarded for The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 are as follows:

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 - Steam

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

We have guides that are custom tailored for The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 that will show you the incoming ports.

• The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 - Steam

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 includes the following styles of gameplay.

• Action games are usually a bit faster than other games and require quick reflexes. You frequently jump platforms, shoot enemy mobs, climb ladders, and
• An adventure game is where the player is usually the protagonist and plays through an evolving story. The storyline is the driving part of an adventure game.
• Survival games are usually focused on resource management, such as ammo and health, and occasionally include elements of stealth. They tend to be based on either supernatural enemies, have horror themes, or be post-apocalyptic. The primary gameplay mechanic is to simply stay alive.

When you are playing The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 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 intermittently 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 can forward a port you need to know the following things:

• The IP address of your network router.
• 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 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 easiest 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:

• Open a web browser and navigate to your router's IP address.
• Locate 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 matching boxes in your router.
• Sometimes you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

That's all it takes to open your ports. Want to learn how to create more port forwards? Check out our list of games and applications.