Can anyone mod FreeLancer to be like Privateer?

Tue Jun 03, 2003 12:37 am by Joey

That game is a classic.

Privateer 2 sucked. Though, privateer, has been one of the best games i've ever played. Graphics, Game play, Story Line, etc.

I was wondering if anyone could make a mod for FreeLancer to make it like Privateer, game play, story line, etc. I know this is asking a lot, but for those who played the game and finished it, I think it would be worth it.

Also, make all ships avaliable. And the impacts, if you hit an asteroid head on you're screwed.

Tue Jun 03, 2003 4:15 am by defaultuser

Actually, I found Freelancer to be closer to Privateer than any other game.

The only things I noticed missing:

Autopilot, that's obvious. But with so much pretty universe to see, tradelanes were a nice compromise.

Weak collision damage. No, it's not just the weak asteroids, it's everything. The fact that you can bounce off a solid space station is ludicrous.

Ships? Honestly, you can see the correlation:

Rhino ~ Tarsus
Orion ~ Bloodhound
Galaxy ~ Clyesdale
Dagger / Stiletto ~ Centurion

What else do you want?

Tue Jun 03, 2003 12:29 pm by Perseus

Why not just go buy Privateer

Wed Jun 04, 2003 6:51 am by [[]WP] HoOn

No autopilot? Isn't goto enough for u?

Wed Jun 04, 2003 3:58 pm by Legend

You'll notice that even the singleplayer game is very similar...

"Give me the loot..."

Thu Jun 05, 2003 3:39 am by 1337

the go to thing is seriously retarded...i would fly at a planet and stop right before going into atmosphere, then take its time to turn around, recharge cruise engines, and go around, sometimes it stops again before completely getting around

Thu Jun 05, 2003 4:33 am by defaultuser

"No autopilot? Isn't goto enough for u?"

Obviously, you've never played Privateer.

Privateer featured waypoints similar to Freelancer, however, transport between those waypoints was much faster.

All you had to do was select ANY waypoint in a system, and if no enemies were around, you hit AUTO and you flew instantaneously to that waypoint.

Only enemies or asteroid fields could interrupt your autopilot travel, and once they were gone, you could hit the autopilot again.

But Freelancer is not like Privateer. Privateer had an empty and ugly universe. Freelancer's univerese is pretty, you don't want to miss it. So the tradelane is a compromise over Privateer's instantaneous autopilot.

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