As a big fan of TF2 it was absolutely crucial that when I moved to Mainland China (not Taiwan or Hong Kong) that I could play. I moved to a small city about 3 hours north of Hong Kong. When I attempted to connect I found that my ping to regions outside of the mainland were always terrible. I learned later it was a routing issue. Since Chinese telecoms have made it so expensive to route to the mainland, there are very few of these routes. Because of these routing issues, I was getting pings over 100 to a server in HK that was relatively very close. In America, where I am from, a server the same distance away would have produced pings of 30 or 40 at most. Luckily today I was introduced to a Chinese program for gamers that alleviates these routing issues. Using this program I have not only lowered my ping, but I have also increased the amount of available servers by over 1000.

I felt like this was a big deal so I am going to guide other English speaking expats on the mainland through the installation process. I don't speak any Mandarin, so I gotta give smeS a shoutout for the help.

Here's the website: http://uu.163.com

Step 1: There is a big button that says "Free download".

Step 2:

http://i.imgur.com/pb3cVFo.png

The first tick box is for the agreements and licensing. Keep that checked. The second box is for creating a desktop icon. The third box is for starting on boot up. After checking the right box, hit the blue oval.

Step 3:

http://i.imgur.com/lusMIhB.png

Make sure you are on the "rocket ship" section of the sidebar. Click the square with the + sign in the middle of it.

Step 4:

http://i.imgur.com/xkrKuSf.png

Using the search bar, find TF2. Typing Team Fortress 2 won't work. Click that and wait for it to load up.

Step 5:

http://i.imgur.com/8wLMw0r.png

Click the light blue bar underneath the box with Chinese characters inside of it.

Step 6:

http://i.imgur.com/pSg78PZ.png

Click the center square in this picture.

Step 7:

http://i.imgur.com/Upl5Ko8.png

Click the link next to that tiny arrow.

http://i.imgur.com/XDW3dqD.png

This is what it should look like. After this, go to TF2 and check your pings.
inb4 Chinese spyware and my computer is now part of a botnet.

TO UNINSTALL:

1. Make sure the program is closed.
2. A dialogue will pop up giving you multiple boxes to check for why you chose to uninstall.
3. Click the top left one and hit the big light blue oval button. It should then uninstall.

edit: m4ngol apparently knew about this first and wanted tf.tv to know.

Ping from Mainland China to anywhere that isn't mainland, including HK is not good. It's a routing issue. I live in Zhuzhou, which is closer to HK than my city in America .is to Chicago. In America, I can play on Chicago servers with about 60 ping. From Zhuzhou to HK, my ping is typically 100 to 250.

With that in mind, there are a few decently populated mainland Chinese pub servers with okay players, but it tends to rotate between Harvest and Dustbowl exclusively. These servers also don't usually get populated until around 7 to 8pm.

...or maybe you're not even going to China.

Maybe I'm out of the loop, but does downfragging affect anything on the website? Will I get banned if I hit a certain number of negative frags?

GG

I'm thankful that my ancestors murdered the fuck out of the natives.

edit: also pumpkin pie and fam. lmfao

Haha, fuck yea. If Valve isnt willing to pick up the damn slack that Overwatch is grabbing, then fuck valve. They dig their own grave. Let's see some hustle, valve. I'm not waiting for your shit anymore. Do this or die.

Oh, yea, I know I've played a center or two with you. Word for the cognisance.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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No they don't.

Who is your favorite rapper?

Jort swag.

The legend is that Future had to give his tongue to satan for the success he would achieve.

DS2 was better from a purely Future perspective. Putting Drake up on the kind of beats Future usually raps on sets the theme for some really energizing tracks. This is some club music, take your girl on a drive music, daily commute to work music, drinking 40s with the homies music.

They told me I couldn't rent a car since I was "visibly intoxicated" or some shit. idk

I don't really consider people who steal cars or break into homes as a "part of the community" in the same way I don't consider these scammers a part of our community.