I don´t think you will have much chance of playing the game. When it comes to FPS gaming China is pretty far behind and new western releases are rarely played. You might find servers within China (assuming it gets released here, I don´t know about it but releasing games here is usually very difficult), but not many. For e.g. I tried playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 here, but there are no more than 3 servers that are populated. Sometimes you can play on russian, japanese or korean servers but most of the time the connection is pretty bad (meaning your ping is basically too high to play in any serious way). Forget about joining us or euro-servers, it is simply unplayable.

I basically gave up on western fps, rts are playable though. Or you stick to the local stuff.

Have anyone played SWAT 4 online..? it was damn good game,,very addictive...I enjoyed playing it more than battlefield donno why..

The ping should be okay/playable, but I don´t think it is gonna be that popular. I don´t know why, but BC2/BF2 weren´t really popular too, only a bunch of servers..

Oh yeah, Korean and JP servers were all unplayable for me.

Generally Aus servers are better than JP or Korea from here.

Doesn't make sense, just the way it is.

I've been playing the Battlefield 3 Closed Beta.
I know this is a long shot but... anyone else?

Thoughts?

Needless, but I'll say it anyways: SuperVPN is a scam.

Wish I could, seems like a better version of BC2. But sadly it doesn't run on my computer & connection..how is the server situation? Is it getting popular in China? (doesn't seem like there is one game aside from WC3 that is popular in China)

Guess I still have time to save up for that sweet alienware.

Still, seems to me the folks back home are having a blast. I personally loved BC2 and watching the gameplay videos of BF3..

Are there servers though? Last time I checked there weren't any with a decent ping..?

Will be a bitch to reinstall (have it on steam) but I could run steam a couple of nights to get it again..connection is too bad for playing & skype at the same time though. Otherwise I'd love to shoot some russians (or Charly as I have VC but I think there will be even less servers).

/e man I miss online gaming. Will have a blast over Christmas back home..

What is not bad for you? Afterall they are more than 5000 km away. I just pinged some servers in Australia/NZ and even with just 32 bytes had around 300-400 ms minimum.

Best I could do was Russian servers (32 bytes / 88ms) which should be doable. I'll download and then try..

In the meantime we should play some Starcraft 2 with that other dude..

So I've been away for a bit and now that I'm back to playing on Chinese servers the amount of cheating over here is really striking.

Not hacking, though I'm sure there is plenty.
Admins will literally reset the whole match if they're getting their ass kicked.

I'm just back and I've already seen it like a dozen times

Pitiful, selfish crybabies, is there really no end to this attitude?

Nice to see such an old thread still alive!

Looking to form a foreigner based BF3 and GRFS squad. Anyone interested? Get some practice sessions going in the evenings. Non-Chinese nationales only please.