Question Can't open ports after getting rid of cgnat and switching to static IP..

[rustynetwork]

I mostly play peer to peer games, but when i hosted no one would join my sessions since i was in cgnat, my Router IP was not same with the one in whatsmyip site, now i've switched to static IP, so both IPs are identical, whenever i tracert my own ip it only shows one hop, so no more cgnat right? But my problem still persists people still wont join my sessions, in games like Elden Ring, Ready or Not, helldivers etc..

So i tried to open ports, disabled modem firewall, windows defender firewalls, enabled dmz, no luck, i just dont understand whats causing this, but whenever i use a vpn, people can join my game but this time their pings too high.. Black ops 6 is coming and i really wanna host some zombie lobbies, what am i missing, i just dont believe my ISP blocked all the available ports on their end this would be unreal,

 

[rustynetwork]

And also for what its worth i have 1 gbps connection

 

[lantis3]

1. I don't play games.
2. cgnet won't let you do port forwarding
3. See if Radmin VPN works, plenty tutorials on YT. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Radmin+game+VPN
4. ZeroTier / Tailscale might work too.