How to Change Your Region in Free Fire (2024)

Have you just started playing Garena Free Fire? Want to play with your friends in another country? Or maybe you’ve just come back to the game, but the Free Fire got a few huge updates, and now you can’t seem to play with your friends anymore.

Well, things have definitely changed in the game, and switching regions has gotten a little more complicated than it was before. Luckily for you, I’ve prepared an up-to-date guide on how to play on Free Fire servers that are far, far away from you, both with a VPN and without.

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How to Change Servers in Free Fire with a VPN

Changing servers with a VPN is by far the easiest way to do it. Here are the steps:

1. Sign up for CyberGhost VPN.
2. Download the VPN app for Android or iOS.
3. Before you connect to the VPN network, start your game.
4. Go into settings, and log out of your account.
5. Close the game.
6. (Optional but potentially helpful step:) Purge the cache for Free Fire in your phone’s settings.
7. Open up the CyberGhost VPN app, and connect to the country of your choice.
8. Open the game, and log in with a new account. This can be a Google, Twitter, Facebook, or VKontact account.
9. Your new account will be locked to the region of your choice, so just start playing.

Pros

• • 👍 You can play with your friends anywhere in the world.
  • 👍 A VPN can actually help reduce your ping, under the right circumstances. This works by creating a more direct connection to the game servers, which can bypass congested networks, misconfigured ISP servers, and other issues. It’s especially helpful if you’re playing on game servers far, far away.
  • 👍 A VPN hides your IP address from hackers and even the game servers, which can help prevent DDoS attacks.
  • 👍 Your internet traffic between your phone and the VPN server is encrypted. This serves the dual purpose of adding a layer of security for your data, and it keeps network admins and your ISP from throttling your game speeds.

Cons

• • 👎 Changing servers in this way requires you to essentially give up (albeit temporarily) everything you have earned in the game. This includes your rank, friend list, and inventory.
  • 👎 You’ll need to create a different account for every region.

How to Change Servers in Free Fire without a VPN

There are actually two methods, though I wouldn’t consider either of them to be perfect solutions.

Change Your Region In-Game

The steps for this are almost the same as the process above, with a few key differences.

1. Open up the game.
2. Go to the settings.
3. Change your language to that of the region in which you want to play.
4. Use the button on the lower-right corner to log out of the game.
5. Restart the game, and again, log in with a different account.
6. The game will give you the option to play in the region where your phone is, or the region for the language you’ve selected. This will be happening in a different language. If you can’t really read it, you should probably use the option on the right. Good luck.
7. At this point, you can change the language back to your own, and restart the game while staying logged in to the alternate account.
8. Play.

Pros

• • 👍 You can play with your friends anywhere in the world.
  • 👍 It’s free. There’s no denying that.

Cons

• • 👎 Again, you forego everything you have unlocked on your main account.
  • 👎 You’ll still need to create a different account for every region.
  • 👎 You have none of the advantages provided by a VPN, such as DDoS protection and possibly even a lower ping.

Change Your Region Through Customer Service

This one is quite a bit easier, but a bit more… not permanent, per se, but definitely not as easy as switching accounts to switch regions.

1. Open up your game.
2. Go to the settings page.
3. Next to the Logout button, you’ll see the Customer Service button. Hit it.
4. Use the customer service form to request an account transfer to the region of your choice.
5. Wait.
6. Check back every so often. If the region name in the lower left corner of your screen has changed when you log in, you’re good to go.

Pros

• • 👍 You can play with your friends anywhere in the world, one region at a time.
  • 👍 Also free.

Cons

• • 👎 You can’t just change your region as much as you like, and it will take time.
  • 👎 As long as your account is assigned to one region, you likely won’t be able to play with friends back “home.”
  • 👎 You’ll need to create a different account for every region.
  • 👎 You still don’t get all the benefits of using a VPN. In fact, this method is probably best used if you’re actually moving to the country in question.

Where Are Garena Free Fire Servers Located?

This is difficult to tell sometimes, as this information isn’t exactly made public, or easily accessible. The most recent estimate puts the number of servers, or server locations, around 16. These are located in the following countries regions:

• • Africa
  • Bangladesh
  • Brazil
  • Europe
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Malaysia
  • Mexico
  • Middle East
  • Pakistan
  • Russia
  • Singapore
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • United States
  • Vietnam

The most popular of these regions seem to be India, Southeast Asia in general, and Latin America. There’s an especially active player base in Brazil, if you speak Portuguese. Or even if you just like hearing other people speak it.

Conclusion: It’s All About Tradeoffs

As much as I would like to tell you that you could just use our fancy VPN to change regions at will while using your main account the whole time, that’s not the case. The developers of Free Fire have, for reasons unbeknownst to man or God, decided not to make it that easy.

That said, CyberGhost VPN can make it easy for you to play with your friends via multiple accounts while keeping your connection as fast as possible, and safe.

So give it a try. Then get out there and loot that gear, stay inside the circle, and stay low. May you see other players before they see you.

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