How to Create a Port Forward in Your Router for West of Dead

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June 18, 2020 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 3 minutes

West of Dead is an Action, Adventure, Survival, and Shooter game published by Raw Fury released in 2020.

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When you play West of Dead you will experience the following styles of play.

How to Port Forward West of Dead

When you are playing West of Dead 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 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 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.

How To Forward Ports

A smart way to forward your ports is to use Network Utilities. Since Network Utilities allows you to both forward and un-forward ports easily you can keep your network security maximized, and then forward ports only when you need them. Alternatively you can do it by hand.

The process for forwarding a port is generally:

Which Ports Does West of Dead Require

The connection ports for West of Dead are as follows:

West of Dead - PC

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West of Dead - Steam

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

West of Dead - Xbox One

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

West of Dead - Playstation 4

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

West of Dead - Switch

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

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

That's all it takes to get your ports open. Don't forget to check out our growing list of games and programs.

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