Freelancer

[mattstint]

Lesson learnt, I'll bear in mind the innuendo-seeking member of the forum in future.

I strike when you least suspect it

No, acutally you are expected to strike. Not striking would be unexpected (British layland ex?)

There is a difference between expecting something and suspecting someone.

Young whippersnapper, you will learn one day

[BDStyle]

I still think so many, including here, could learn from FL, you really felt part of something. Online, well I did that alot, so long ago. Now I think I will wait until my new system (March) and then join up to EVE for a year.

Aye me too, played for 2 years online only pvp all the way.

Jolt, Moo, Jojo+Dice, Ioncross and many more..... many servers have seen the names [WCRDs]Morgan, [Corsairs]Morgan and [Shogun]Morgan

I played with [Black] and [Owl] as a smurf chars and helped with the pvp academy at jolt.....

Damn good times and I miss them a lot. The game is now to stale for me though, I go back every now and then and despair at the standard of pvp these days

[Senator Vrax]

It's a game i find myself drawn to time and time again. I just need a fl fix every now and again.
I can't play vanilla anymore tho. After trying just about every mod out there for it, vanilla is just too limiting - and slow.

*Shameless plug*
If you still want familiar ships/systems/factions then i'd recommend Tekagi's Treasure server.
If you'd like something a little different, then you should try Nightstalkers Universe TC mod on the Olympus server. - As good as a mod can get for an ageing game like this is.

[mdimasso]

It's nice reading you remembering such good times with Freelancer, but I still have no server!

I've installed the game, 1.1 update, then 1.4 (unofficial) update. The game says 1.0 when I play it though.

I create a server with the FLServer. When I see the message server ready and waiting for log in, I start the game, join multiplayer, but I see nothing. Both LAN and Internet lists are empty... (and port 3200 is open).

[Artemis404]

If I had my copy of Freelancer handy mate I'd install it and find out for you, but I'm afraid I'm about 30 miles away from it.

Try this page from Lancers Reactor: That is the usual place for FL info, but it seems to have been down for a bit, so that page is a Google cache. The stuff is about two thirds of the way to the bottom.

That patch issue sounds unusual though. Try asking about where you got the unofficial 1.4 from.

[Asmayus]

I loved freelancer, played the storyline all the way 4 times, and played a ton online as well for a while. However, compared to the "latest" it feels very limited, both in single and multiplayer.

Never touched online play, but the computer suffered a catastrophic crash every time we finished it (or shortly after)
So we played it again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and... wait for it... again! shock! horror! awe!

Last time I played it was about a year ago. I knew that after playing X3 for a minute I'd never be able to look at Freelancers aging graphics again, so I spent a night jumping around the universe blasting the crap out of anyone.

I was flying a Titan with Level 9 Reavers and 2 Diamondbacks, and... *thinks* what was that turret? Salamander? -anyways, up against Liberty/bretonia/Kusari/Rheinland police a Lvl 10 shield shrugged off almost everything they could throw at me.

[Memories:]
Remeber Stealthblades? Awesome weapons. And the unknown systems were amazing -well, one was especially awesome, a huge mine field covered the system, shillouetted against a star over 200km's away against a beautiful nebula in the background -and the music there was something else altogether. You really felt as if you'd gone beyond the known systems and deep into Nomad Controlled space. It was a wild, lonely, and very beautiful place. Oh, if you flew to the sun there was a chance you might see dead sleeper ships resting in the system, and even if you didn't, you could bounce off the sun for a while

(Damn my memory. Why won't it work as well for collage stuff I don't know....)

Trade Lanes were a brilliant thing -All the core systems had them. The further you got from civilisation the sparser they became until everywhere was Cruise engine only.
Some of the Outcast systems were beautiful places, where high end equipment and deadly missions went hand in hand.

And the music throughout the game was just perfect. They nailed every nation's 'feel' so right. Like, when you were up against the Rhineland fleet in the magellen system, fighting along side Hackers, having to take down gunboats and intercept torpedo bombers,

Damnit. *goes to play freelancer*

[Lite]

good ole freelancer apparently sierra was trying to buy the rights to make a sequal but MS was asking far to much for it...
sighs
what a beautiful game it was..
it has so much potential for another game at least.

Apparently Freelancer 2 was in development but when digital anvil was merged into MS all development stopped...

[Mailo]

No, acutally you are expected to strike. Not striking would be unexpected (British layland ex?)

/screaming voice on
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!!!




Sorry, couldn't resist

Is there a page where one could read up on the story of Freelancer? I refused to buy the game when they announced it wouldn't have Joystick support

[Carlo the Curious]

I was flying a Titan with Level 9 Reavers and 2 Diamondbacks, and... *thinks* what was that turret? Salamander? -anyways, up against Liberty/bretonia/Kusari/Rheinland police a Lvl 10 shield shrugged off almost everything they could throw at me.

What, no Nomad guns?

[mdimasso]

Thanks Artemis404, but that's what I'm doing when trying to create the server... I'll check that 1.4 patch though (downloaded from Gamespot).