Connection to other players not working

Hello everyone,

me and a friend would like to play Tiberium Wars or Kayne's Wrath together. We got both games via Steam.

We are able to connect to the server, see each other, added each other as a friend and are able to open a game and join the lobby.

Then we are not able to establish a connection to each other. We always get the red sign that says that the connection isn't working.

Our IP in the game starts with 192, we entered the port 16000 in the game settings, also tried the "Send Delay"-option.

All ports for the games are open in the windows firewall, we also tried opening the UDP-port 16000 in our routers. Even tried it with the "Exposed Host"-Option (All ports are open)

Still the connection won't work.

Does anybody have an idea what we can do?! Is the VPN-thing the only option left?!

Thanks in advance.

Greetings,

MFZB159

Greetings,

Thank your for the detailed info that skips a lot of steps

seems like port forwarding isnt quite doing the trick for you guys but i can still give you 2 options here i can send you the full port list for both games or i send you the vpn guide for the vpn we use for the games 

Greetings,

Thank your for the detailed info that skips a lot of steps

seems like port forwarding isnt quite doing the trick for you guys but i can still give you 2 options here i can send you the full port list for both games or i send you the vpn guide for the vpn we use for the games 

Can you please post the info (Port list for Kane's Wrath + VPN guide?) I'm having similar problems as OP

alternatively, another thing you can try is downloading an ipv4 supporting vpn like windscribe free vpn https://windscribe.com/ for which you should then create and verify your account. Once it’s installed you should have a little windscribe window on your desktop, open it and in the upper left corner you should see 3 stripes, click them, and then locate the debug menu where you should find a switch called Ipv6 which you shouldn’t touch yet as windscribe underwent an update and therefore this guide needs some work, by default Ipv6 is turned on however we want to turn it off which will require a pc restart, after the restart  windscribe should pop up automatically and to get it working with the game do the following:

1. make sure that NOTHING is draining data in the background (with a verified windscribe account you get 10GB of data monthly for free which is sufficient for just playing the game)

2. activate windscribe and wait until it’s connected, as soon as it is you can check again if anything is draining data

3. launch the game

4. in the game’s main menu go to options -> settings -> network

5. change your online and lan ip to the second available option (that starts with 10 or the one that does not match any of your ips that you might have been using with Hamachi or something)

6. connect to generals/kw/ra3 online (note that it can take a few tries until the game will let you connect)

7. start a match with your mate and see if it works

8. if it doesn’t work then try to change host and change who is using windscribe (for example you use windscribe and he doesnt but if it won’t connect then he should try using windscribe and you should disable it)

9. in some cases it can change who needs to use it over time, sometimes even both players need it

For any questions etc. ping me

https://portforward....-3-kanes-wrath/  <----- this is the port list

Edited by ZF_Cervanthes, 30 January 2022 - 10:33 PM.