Hello everyone!

We have received numerous complaints regarding the fact that Virtual Warfighter requires you to open ports. We agree that this is not ideal for a modern game, and so we have begun work to make this necessity go away.

For the interested, we have the choice of either using the Steam master server list, which requires you to open ports, or using the lobby-based peer to peer matchmaking capabilities of Steam. We chose to initially only use the master server, but are looking into layering the lobby-based matchmaking functionality on top of this. This is not completely trivial, so it might take a while.

So, in the meantime we have added uPnP support to Virtual Warfighter, which means that if your router has this feature enabled, the relevant ports are opened and closed automatically on starting and closing the game. This feature is enabled by default in quite a few consumer routers, so we hope it will increase the connectivity of hosts. Also, please note that if you open ports manually, one additional port can be opened if your server cannot accept players, and that port is 8766.

Happy virtual warfighting!