Help, Bug? Please? I wanna play this game...

Sun Mar 16, 2003 12:06 am by Che

I am stuck on mission 3(!) When I escort the artifact to the secret research center (or something), and than try to leave with yuko zane (???) to the planet where I met her to start the mission (*planet name*), when we arrive there's a cinematic with 3 rhineland

fighters. They do nothing, and I don't know what to do. The mission status is waiting for the mission update... I can't DOCK anywhere and I am soooo stuck.
CAN ENYONE HELP ME???
PS I am a noob (as you can see

Edited by - Che on 16-03-2003 01:52:37

Sun Mar 16, 2003 1:11 am by ohazar

i just have the same exact problem. also finding an answer. so, it was just to say you, you're not the only one with this. if you have solution pleaz answer me

Sun Mar 16, 2003 2:02 am by stryx

Those Rheinlanders are supposed to turn hostile and attack you. Sometimes they remain neutral and the game is stuck. I had the same problems. Simply keep reloading until it works out. For me it took something about ten tries...

Btw.: Are you experiencing speech problems during some cutscenes?

Sun Mar 16, 2003 2:32 am by Che

Yeah, sometimes (very often) I don't hear the sound of voices, only the enviroment. What's with that?
I have an integrated sound chip maybe that's the problem?

Sun Mar 16, 2003 2:46 am by RunOrDie

Follow the instructions in the Readme.doc. It fixed all sound problems with me (missing speech, music, etc).

Sun Mar 16, 2003 3:31 am by Mathias

Yeah I have the same problem with mission 3 but only there I found any answer thanks I'll try reload my game till it works,You say about 10 times?Oh my godness!

Sun Mar 16, 2003 4:19 am by stryx

My problem with the speech during cut scenes was due to a wrong audio codec that was installed on my pc (like they said in the readme). I had to kick all the unused codecs from my system and then it worked (after a new installation of Freelancer, of course). You can reuse your old savegames but since I had to follow the whole story through the neuro log I played it again. This time with speech. It was a whole new experience.

Sun Mar 16, 2003 4:40 am by jhmarshall

Another workaround is to simply ram the ships until they are destroyed.

Tue Mar 18, 2003 1:38 am by MattBlack

Hi - had the same problem. The audio codecs are indeed the cause. For some reason, having no audio during the cutscene with the Rhineland Valkyries stopped them attacking. If I attacked them, gameover. I couldn't land anywhere, or use any trade lanes after the cutscene.

Just follow the readme.doc in the game folder. Basically it involves getting rid of Fraunhofer MP3 codecs (that were probably installed with some other dodgy software...), and reinstalling the proper Microsoft ones.

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