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Well, first of all there is a new system in which all the old freelancer fighters can be purchased (no cargo ships, not that you would have any need for these anyway)

Trading has been "balanced." Largest gains now are 3x, half way across the galaxy on relatively cheap items. Even in a corvette you'll be hard pressed to make as much as you would in a humpback in the original freelancer. Plus, there really aren't any starter routes. So I suggest you don't even bother.

Caps ships no longer have supercruise (but you can upgrade your engines like they were fighters).

Battleships have had there turret range cut in half (to 1500m) and made less powerful. Now B-wings can sit 1500m out of turret range and rain torpedo death down on any battleships. Shadow cruiser and White Star cruiser now have no real match so I suggest you don't even bother with battleships (why deal with all that extra fuss?).

Iron Duke:

You make it sound bad....

Yes I did make it so you can't be rich in 20 minutes. Is that so bad for people? Why do people need to get money so quick. Then what? You get bored.

Cap ships are being redone. Your example are a prime why.

As far as the bwing goes, if BS have 3k range a fighter will never get close enough to touch them. That is not very fair. The bomber is called so for a reason. It is only generally effect against caps as you are hard pressed to dog-fight in that thing.

As far as the shadow ships, how many times do I have to tell you people! They are NOT that powerful! You thinkt he shadow cruiser and WS are so powerful, wait until you lose your beams and CANT buy a new one. Also you DON'T have any range whatsoever. Anyone with a torp can kill you. They are masters at close range combat, but are at a HUGE disadvatage with range. PLus they only have 1 weapon. That can get very boring. I'll be more then happy to demonstrate how powerful the other ships are. I dueled 3 shadow ships at once in my sith ship and destroyed them all.

There is ALOT that has gone into this expansion, more then you know. I've also corrected about 90% of the original FL bugs. There are hardly any console errors except on certain missions.


Reynen Starfyre
Project Leader: Starfyre Studios
Freelancer: The Next Generation

Thanks for the explanation but what about the acual missions? Are they completely redone?

Cash isn't real importance to me. Can I get an example of a mission?
I've seen the list of features but that doesn't really tell me anything about the gameplay.

Sorry for sounding like such a ****, I didn't mean to be. You've convinced me, just look at my response on battleship turrets on the starfyre forums.

Aww, J-e-r-k is filtered?

You will LOVE the new missions.

For example in the nexus, you can go up against HUGE battlestations.

You can also go up against massive fleets of ships. The nexus missiona entirely group based and are VERY fun. There are also solo battlestip, cruiser, and gunboat missions. I am also adding in random shadow attacks which make it even funny. You will really like the nexus missions especially in 1.54. Alot of people spend alot of time in that system.

Reynen Starfyre
Project Leader: Starfyre Studios
Freelancer: The Next Generation

Hmm, that does sound like fun.

I take it you changed alot of AI?
What about the original campaign? How much is changed?



I hope you don't mind me asking so much.

All I can say it try it and see for youself. 1.54 will be released later this week.

I don't want to spoil it all. You can download 1.53 and read the readme. I make my manuals very detailed.

Reynen Starfyre
Project Leader: Starfyre Studios
Freelancer: The Next Generation

Fair enough. Thanks for the info Reynen! I will download the 1.54 version when its released.