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I do know how hamachi networking has to be used; that I have to give clients the hamachi ip, and that they need to look for games on that specific ip. That does not work. With firewall/Windows Defender off on both ends.

Gibsonm, Sean was suggesting clearing the external source port number (which is cleared on the screenshot), not external port number. Forwarding ports without specifying the external port is pointless, and would not work. Again, we have stopped trying to connect through WAN to eliminate possible issues with port forwarding, therefore we are (unsuccessfully, as of yet) trying to connect through hamachi. My router is DG8245V, known for issues with port forwarding, which is another reason for us trying to connect through a VPN. Furthermore, all 3 of us were trying to host the game, ports forwarded or not, through WAN and hamachi, with all tries unsuccessfull. This led us to wonder if SB is looking for hosted sessions directly, or indirectly through some main SB server somewhere.

Thanks everyone for trying to help. I know Gibsonm advised not to post my local ip adresses, yet for the sake of convenience I have decided to do so. We have abandoned connecting through WAN for now, because of my ISP being somewhat known for issues with hosting games i.e. we cannot even ping eachother's router's IPs through WAN, let alone ports, as well as eliminating the possible causes with port forwarding. We have also tried hosting the game on 3 different PCs with 3 different ISPs. None worked, ofc. For now we're trying to connect through Hamachi to eliminate possible problems with bypassing NAT, port forwarding, ISP, etc. Response to Gibsonm: "Looking for games" means searching for games in SB > multiplayer > as client > searching for games on port 2400. Yes, we can ping eachother's IP without ports being specified through hamachi. However we cannot ping specific ports (with PowerShell Test-NetConnection <hamachi-ip> -p <port>), which might be part of the issue. We tested that with firewalls off on both ends. Response to Ssnake: As I mentioned earlier: We can ping eachother's IP through Hamachi, but not specific ports. Firewall being off, at the time of testing. Response to Volcano: .100.5 is my local IP address: and it is properly specified in forwarding ports: As I mentioned earlier, we ditched trying to connect through WAN, so port forwarding is not our issue atm.

We are connected by a VPN (Hamachi), we ditched connecting through the external address. We have tried searching the whole LAN for games as well as looking for games on the specific local hamachi IP.

Quick update: external source fields cleared. Didn't work. We have switched to hamachi as the main means of connection and we're still unsuccessfull. Hosting other games (DCS) through hamachi worked correctly. 1.Are there any extra steps to host an SB server through hamachi? 2.Is there any way of direct connection, instead of the built-in server "browser" (the 'looking for games' thing)?

I cleared the external source field and we're gonna try again through WAN this weekend. Weird thing is it: does not work through hamachi.

My point is: We have tried using methods other than connecting through WAN, such as hamachi and zerotier, to eliminate the issue with forwarding ports, and the issue still stands. Therefore I reckon the problem lies elsewhere.

The XXX.XXX.XXX.86 was my friend's PC on a vpn, that we tried to ping while testing anything we could. My PC's static LAN IP is xxx.100.5

Thanks for the reply Gibsonm, i have edited the screenshots as per your advice. Ports were forwarded to my PC's static IP adress, which was cropped. I have not set the external source IP adress, as i understand it is dynamic, controlled by my ISP. I have made sure that on each connection attempt i was giving my actual IP address.

Me and 2 friends cannot connect/host a game. Ports 2300-2400 TCP/UDP and 47624 UDP forwarded, firewalls checked, game versions checked. None of us can neither host nor connect. We also have tried Hamachi and ZeroTier, none working. We also tried pinging ports 2300 through zerotier which pinged the machine, but not the port. (firewall is still supposed to be off)