Forwarding Ports in Your Router for The Shapeshifting Detective

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October 17, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

The Shapeshifting Detective is Wales Interactive's Adventure game with a release date in 2018.

Since The Shapeshifting Detective is an adventure game you can expect to follow your character through a story, where you are the one who discovers the plot, solves the problems, and ultimately decides the fate of the game. Adventure style games tend to be longer than other styles of games and focus on the story. If you enjoy a game that has a large story element then you will most likely enjoy playing The Shapeshifting Detective.

Port Forward The Shapeshifting Detective

When you are playing The Shapeshifting Detective 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 find 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

An easy way to do this is use our Network Utilities software. It can open your ports with just a few clicks. Then when you are done you can just was quickly close your ports again. Alternatively you can do it by hand.

The process for forwarding a port is usually:

Ports To Forward for The Shapeshifting Detective

The ports that need to be forwarded in your router for The Shapeshifting Detective are as follows:

The Shapeshifting Detective - Playstation 4

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

The Shapeshifting Detective - Steam

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

The Shapeshifting Detective - Switch

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

The Shapeshifting Detective - Xbox One

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

We have guides that are custom tailored for The Shapeshifting Detective that will show you the specific incoming ports.

That should do it; your ports are now forwarded. Need something else forwarded? Check out our list of games and programs.

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