What ports does Alien Swarm use?

Question

I keep on getting disconnected from Alien Swarm (after 10 retries the game auto disconnects) And I remembered that I'm getting very few ports to my computer. What ports should I forward to my computer so that I can play most effectively?

Asked by McKay

Answer

I believe 27015 is the port you should be forwarding for client connection. A server can be hosted on any port, but this appears to be the default one.

If you want to host a dedicated server, you would need to forward 27005 as well.

Alternatively, this post on Steam forums suggests enabling

• UDP 27000 to 27020 inclusive
• TCP 27020 to 27050 inclusive

Answered by Oak

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Is there a Nethack GUI client for OSX Lion?

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This should not be a dupe of this question. I am trying to get Nethack up and running on OSX Lion, and the QT client no longer works (goodbye PPC support).

I found the Nethack Cocoa project, however the tileset is both slow and not very attractive IMO (I was a fan of the smaller, quicker tileset).

My question is if there are any other non-PPC Nethack tile-based clients that work with Lion (other than the one I mentioned), and if not, any way to replace the existing tiles with the more standard Nethack tiles.

To be honest, if none exist I'll probably go back to the terminal...

Answer

Nethack Cocoa supports different (and custom) tilesets via the Game > Tilesets menu item. There's an ASCII mode as well but I'm not sure if it's any faster...

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Nethack GUI client for OSX Lion

Question

This should not be a dupe of this question. I am trying to get Nethack up and running on OSX Lion, and the QT client no longer works (goodbye PPC support).

I found the Nethack Cocoa project, however the tileset is both slow and not very attractive IMO (I was a fan of the smaller, quicker tileset).

My question is if there are any other non-PPC Nethack tile-based clients that work with Lion (other than the one I mentioned), and if not, any way to replace the existing tiles with the more standard Nethack tiles.

To be honest, if none exist I'll probably go back to the terminal...

Answer

Nethack Cocoa supports different (and custom) tilesets via the Game > Tilesets menu item. There's an ASCII mode as well but I'm not sure if it's any faster...

Check more discussion of this question.