Hosting a game locally?

(Cep) #1

Hi

Just need some clarification on how you host a private game? What ports and traffic need to be allowed through a firewall to allow steam/brink to allow others to play alongside me?

Cheers!

(Smooth) #2

The default ports are (all UDP):

27015
27016
8766

(Smoochy) #3

when we tried last night to create a game (with cep and others) i had to use other people’s abilities. how do we get a game to let people use their own abilities. i couldnt see where this was set up

(Crispy) #4

What server config is your server using?

It sounds like you’re using custom cvars to force all clients to have the same abilities (they use this in competition environments, such as the ESL).

(Cep) #5

Are these all two way traffic or certain ports inbound or outbound only?

I think Smoochy may be thinking of a game we joined on a public server, not a hosted game.