Free lancer''s lost it''s mojo for me... What''s ganna bring

Sat Nov 29, 2003 7:09 am by Average_Joe

It's been a while since I played freelancer for fun. I have played it a few times this month, but that was all for mod testing. Whenever I do play freelancer (with a shiny new mod) I quickly loose intrest. This game was a blast the first time I played it, but ever scince I beat SP, That feeling that compelled me to keep going and reach new heights, well, left. Flying a dimond - filled freighter over and over again lost it's excitment. Dogfighting insane odds became so easy it wasn't enjoyable anymore. In short, the game was really boring.

When raymend's mega mod came out, that kept me playing for about a week. All the mods now are fun, but I can't play them with enjoyment for more than 10 minutes, then I'm interested in some other game. New ships are cool to dink around with, but that feeling of haven'tIdonethisbefore always comes back. Playing multi-player is horrible, because when I'm not dealing with cheaters I'm busy with the lag that totaly kills the fun from multiplayer. I'm on 640k DSL too, and I don't feel like shelling out +$200 a month for a T1 line.

Fokes, freelancer was fun for the time be-ing, but it's lossing its fun factor really fast. Any suggestions about what I could do to increase the fun factor?

Sat Nov 29, 2003 1:28 pm by Chips

Yes - play the SP game again.

Trust me, i didn't want to play it again after the first time, UNTIL i lost my internet for about two weeks. I had to play SP - and bloody loved it. Try it, do different things - try it in many many different combinations of ships, weapons and other things. Have a go with one of my openSP ones, where you can use a nomad fighter!

Try SP again - much better

Sun Nov 30, 2003 12:39 am by Gowserpaul

i finished sp for the eighth time now and its been fun everytime. I also like trying out new mods but chips your ones have been the best i've ever used and so i thank you for giving me some "interesting adventures and scenarios" in sp

"Make it so"
Captain Jean Luc Picard,Star Trek TNG

Sun Nov 30, 2003 4:02 am by Shadowtech

Try the rebalance Mod if you want a challenge, load it go to the freelancer directory, run the level 3 bat, then the open SP bat, launch into space and try to last 10 seconds, the battles are EPIC, massive battleship fleet on fleet battles, I remember when I was into TNG, then tried rebalance, launced into space in my starflyer, and was blown away in seconds by 50 battleships/gunboats/cruisers/ and a swarm of fighters. Never went back to TNG, if it had more systems it be perfect, but it has the coolest ships in rebalance, latest vertion 3.2 is on fileplanet now (Not lancer)

Edited by - Shadowtech on 30-11-2003 04:04:14

Sun Nov 30, 2003 7:03 pm by Ricardius

I'm currently working on something to hance Open SP or Self MP play on a LAN for those that like to run frieght and make cash the hard way. It uses outside programs like JoeBoomz's character editor, the Freelancer Cargo Computer program, a data base and a simple Dice Rolling Program. Together, this would create a at random frieght running missions, or assigned frieght missions, or independent missions for making cash . It will include fines for late delieveries, lost deliveries, bonuses for kills along the way and hard cash for support delieveries.

Sometimes, to make a game more interesting in its current setting, you have to think outside the game box and play the game more as a tool than just the game in itself.

Sun Nov 30, 2003 7:37 pm by barevaperjan

It's always fun to edit those DLL's and make names.

I replayed the entire SP, but instead of "King" his name was "Gaylord Focker"

There were no outcasts, just "a-holes"

etc.

Sun Nov 30, 2003 9:13 pm by Bob McDob

Wait for the Wing Commander mod. Download it. Play it over and and over. Make 1452341 copies for your friends. Repeat.

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Thu Jan 01, 2004 4:00 pm by Shawn Barry

play Chips evolution mod. it re-floated my boat.

If I'm not here accepting the things I cannot change, I'm off somewhere ranting and raving about not being God.

Fri Jan 02, 2004 3:52 pm by cloud9

yep, CHIPS' Evolutions it is.....just soooo nice to play FL the way the designers meant it to be, but stopped short of....God knows why all CHIPS' stuff wasn't in the original, it all seems so logical......TRUST US TRY IT!!!!!!!

~'Fly The Friendly'~

Fri Jan 02, 2004 3:58 pm by cloud9

oh, yeah... @ Ricardius: any ideas when you'll be finished? Delivery missions and transport runs are the only thing i really miss in FL...killing stuff's cool but variety in missions will be appreciated by ALL players, I'm sure...

Fri Jan 02, 2004 5:32 pm by Maverickdan

i havent played freelancer in months, but when i left its was because, i had started spending all my time creating mods, and with that i just got bord, i wuld sit playing, thinking what if i changed this and that would it make it more fun, but then i realised, the game is so repetative, no matter what you do its a fundermental floor in the game, but thats just me

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