Fixing any Issues with Hosting:
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Written by The Escape
-=Firewall – Possible Issue #1=-
As for a lot of games, you are given a Nat type such as open, restrictive,
etc. If your firewall is not allowing any connections this would be why your
friends are unable to join. Open up you firewall and navigate down to Inbound
rules on the left side. You should now see a list of applications on your
computer in which you want to scroll down until you see The Escape. When you
see The Escape right click on it and go to proprieties and see if it is being
allowed. It should show allow, if not switch it to allow and try to have friend
join. If you’r friend still can not join move down to the other step.
-=UPnP – Possible Issue #2=-
Our networking tries its best to automatically port forward the ports for
you to allow the other players to connect to you. This is done by using UPnP
which is an option for every router which can get disabled. If this is disabled
the game will not be able to automatically port forward for you which will
result in no one able to join your game. If you do not want to follow the steps
to turn this on or this doesn’t help you please move down to the last fix. To
check if this is turned on you will have to go to your routers website by
opening up your web browser and typing in 192.168.1.1 which will then prompt
you to log in. Once you logged in you are going to want to find where your
UPnP is located mine being under Advanced > Advanced Setup > UPnP in which
mine was switched to on. If you can not find this don’t worry you can just
follow the last fix which will solve all issues for most multiplayer games.
-=Port Forwarding – Possible Issue #3=-
As said above this will 100% solve the issue you are having and this will
never have to be done again unless you IP changes. As said above you are
going to want to open a browser up and navigate to your routers default
gateway by typing in 192.168.1.1 which will then prompt you to log in. Once
you are logged in you want to navigate you your port forwarding section and
open up port 7777 for both TCP/UDP. Every router is different but it should
be a very simple process and should solve you issue with your friends not
being able to join.
