To anyone got the same problem, don't tick Static port box in Outbound rule (other games may need it). It took me a few days trial and error XD

@striker-pl well after hours of investigation, turning off Storm Control on my switch solved the issue. Posting here in case it helps anyone else.

@mcury
Thanks for the help but no luck. Ill just give up on the box preforming a port forward. I'm moving soon but wanted to get some better game performance without all the packet losses. I will be thrilled to have a better ISP provider than the local one here or the other terrible option of Spectrum.

@stacyann33
Nope, we 'play' pfSense.
And you're the first one using the word 'HiRez' on this forum.
pfSense it's a firewall that assures that there are no holes. Nobody want holes in a wall. If there were, there is no meaning of putting up the wall in the first place.
pfSense can let you make 'holes', to devices that run programs on your LAN. It seems to me that Smite Hires doesn't have any public documentation - otherwise you were reading that doc instead of asking here , and do what they were asking you to do, like NATting a port(s) to the PC that runs the game.
By default : do nothing.

Btw : https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2pvfen/why_is_smitehi_rez_studios_often_ridiculed_in_the/ make sme understand that, if your host your own 'server' version of the game, you should make that service accsible to the outside world == you have to "open ports" == NATting ports.

Google doesn't know anything about it, so there is only the documentation that can help you.

This looks like some great points about the game. I love all Battlefields and the multiplayer is the best you can get for any shooting game. I don't think that Call of Duty can really be compared to it! The only Battlefield I have found really hard and challenging to play was battlefield 5 as the difficulty bar was raised way too much. I'm a bit ashamed to admit it, but sometimes I have to use bf5 hacks in order to be able to stay competitive. Of course I don't use them on online multiplayers.

I updated to 2.5.0 a few days ago, hoping the changes to UPnP would solve some of these issues. However, COD MW3 still won't work using UPnP. I guess it comes down to the way the game and perhaps the Demonware servers uses the ports, so port forwarding is still a must.

Playing with only one PC in the house, I can get along with just port forwarding 3074 to that PC. But for two PC's using MW3, the solution suggested in this thread (with remapping to 3075 for one PC) is the one that works for me.
However, I do have Default deny enabled for UPnP, with the gaming PCs listed as ACL entries.

The PC having 3074 forwarded gets Open NAT, and the other one gets Moderate. I have tried adding a third PC using port 3076 in the same manner but that results in Strict NAT on that PC (which can be ok provided that player connects with others on Open NAT).

If anyone should stumble across this post, check out my reply https://forum.netgate.com/post/954396
Opening port 1900 isn't enough, you'll also need to open up 2189 and 5351 for uPnP to work.

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I've had to allow uPnP (ports 5351, 1900 and 2189 to the firewall) and IGMP (to 224.0.0.2) to make this work, since my Xbox resides on my IoT VLAN which has limited access.

Following the manual on https://www.amixa.com/blog/2020/04/02/how-to-get-open-nat-with-xbox-or-xbox-one-and-pfsense-firewall/ and adding these rules now NAT is detected as open by the Xbox.

@kurt-angle
This isn't a community to help with games, but to help people with issues running games or internet issues when playing games behind a Pfsense configuration.

you might have better luck on a gaming community

Yep, and Windows 10 as well, though you need to run a netsh command in Windows to get Teredo to use a specific port. But it does work. :) I'm up to a gaming laptop, gaming desktop, Xbox One X, and Xbox One, all with open NAT in the Xbox Live network test.

Though the Xbox One gets kicked to the curb next week. 🙂

Actually my PCs are working fine but that always depends on the game I suppose. Don't play much P2P based things that have bad netcode that won't work with NAT.

Thanks Rod-it and Plissje for your info. It will help me to unblock other website. I believe upgraded pfblocker and pfsense to the newest version solved the problem.

SOLVED!!!!!!!!!!
I woke up this morning. Looked at the outbound port mapping again. I just realized, there is an "Auto created dynamic port mapping rule for my LAN to WAN".
I moved the static port mapping above the auto created one. and it is NOW Working.

That, or multiple public IP addresses and doing outbound NAT for each switch to its own IP address.

Ok, you are not going to believe this, but I fixed it. Found a random post on the internet suggesting to disable all lan cards not being used. I diabled my hyperv nic and all others not in use and it worked perfectly.

Yes, I would have expected that to show open. I would think 99.9% of connecting clients are behind NAT.

You could try opening UPnP without any restrictions and see if that allows it. Then check to see what it's actually opening.

Steve

Sorted - didn't reboot the switch and it was running on its DHCP address instead of its fixed IP. All good, I'll see if I can close this topic.

Hi - Did you ever get this figured out? I am having the same issue. PS4 1 works fine, PS4 2 has issues in online games, specificly COD.

Can I ask why you are going to let them connect directly, and not just have your servers listed in the Steam Client? I run Ark boxes as well, and all mine are listed in the Steam client for them to use. This is how the game is designed to run, and is probably why you are seeing this problem.

Change NAT type from Strict NAT to Open NAT on your PS4 or Xbox console. Enabling UPnP is simple as it can be enabled through your router.

Hi all,

I got it working now. I put the router into AP mode instead of router which gave it a 192.168.1.0/24 address instead of a 10...*/24 address. After that, I set up a static IP and changed the NAT type to hybrid for the specified IP. Mods, please feel free to close the post as I should have read the pinned thread to begin with.

Exactly😂

@DaReaLDeviL simply google it, you can find all the stuff that you need.

This thread became a spam trap ....

I found this command on reddit it seems to work if on PC with Xbox App:
netsh int ipv6 set teredo enterpriseclient
https://www.reddit.com/r/killerinstinct/comments/4cklwu/fix_for_teredo_error_client_on_managed_network/