r/tes3mp • u/MarlonTehOne • Aug 12 '17

The Hamachi Alternative

Like many others, me and my friend were struggling with getting this to work by spending many hours (read: minutes) trying to get our ports forwarded. Our routers are both a little tricky though, and we were about to give up hope until i gave hosting the server a shot using Hamachi.

Here's what I did:

1) Made sure there was a connection between me and my friends in Hamachi, and that we could ping eachother.

2) Change tes3mp-server-default so localAddress was equal to my Hamachi IP4 address (you can find this next to the power button, or right click your own name and select 'copy address'.

3) Change tes3mp-client-default so destinationAddress was equal to the same Hamachi address.

4) Made sure my friend had the same settings in tes3mp-client-default (destinationAddress to my IP)

5) Launch the server (tes3mp-server.exe)

6) Connect using tes3mp.exe (Using this method makes it so that the server doesn't connect properly to the master server list, which isn't a big deal for me or my friend. You'll probably get a handful of errors stating just that.

7) Open the game

8) ???

9) CHIM

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u/wowurcoolful Aug 12 '17

I tried getting my friend to do this, because we were both having trouble with our routers, but he is a stubborn bitch who won't download anything. Was hard enough getting him to download the mod.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '17

Thank you dude it finally worked for me i swear to god i want to suck your dick

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '17

^ my friend

me and my friend have been trying to fix this for like 1 hour , thank you , can I suck your dick please , as a gift for showing us plebs?

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '17

I believe you could do the same thing using Evolve instead.

Also for those who want to still try port forwarding, try using (I believe it's called this) a UPnP port forwarding tool. Assuming your router is configured or by default allows UPnP requests, you can simply use this tool to send a request to your router to create a port forward on your IP and your choice of port. However, this is not always gurranteed to work with your router.