Is there a way to block ports on R1 (for solo Destiny 2 on Xbox) ?

[OzQuant]

Hi! My main use for the R1 is to use it to have solo instances on Destiny 2 so that I can play it without getting bothered by other players. I used to set my 'home' on the R1 to the middle of the Indian Ocean and have the radius be small as possible (120km?). It used to work great.

Now with the recent switch to Steam Datagram Relays on the Xbox One, this method no longer works

I know that on PC, you can block certain ports to allow for solo instances. I use a Powershell script.

Is there a way to do this on the R1? Perhaps using port forwarding to forward the ports to a non-existing IP address, away from the Xbox IP address?

Also, does anyone know which ports to block on the Xbox One? Bungie lists the ports here:

https://help.bungie.net/hc/en-us/articles/360049496751-Advanced-Troubleshooting-UPnP-Port-Forwarding-and-NAT-Types

But blocking them does not seem to work. That webpage may not be recent/updated, or that I'm not doing the port blocking properly. Is there way to figure out what ports D2 on Xbox uses (Wireshark?) ?

Thank you.

[Netduma Fraser]

In theory, I suppose if you were using the 3.0 beta and you figured out the ports you could use Traffic Controller to block specific ports then it could work but I wouldn't know what ports you'd need to block.

[OzQuant]

On 4/7/2021 at 1:18 AM, Netduma Fraser said:

In theory, I suppose if you were using the 3.0 beta and you figured out the ports you could use Traffic Controller to block specific ports then it could work but I wouldn't know what ports you'd need to block.

Thank you for the reply. But what I'm doing now, using port forwarding to route ports to a bogus internal address, will that effectively block the ports for the xbox? Does it only work for incoming traffic? I can sometimes get a solo session, but other times not. It's very inconsistent.

I see in other threads that you guys are investigating how the SDR works for Xbox, which is cool. Thank you.

[Netduma Fraser]

I mean in theory that could work yes but it depends if UPnP would try and overwrite this as it could see the device wasn't online. That's why I think the Traffic Controller method would be better as it would actually block the ports.

You're welcome!