What do YOU miss in freelancer?

Sat Jul 26, 2003 4:34 pm by angelicx

I miss the fact you can't be part of something 'bigger' once the storyline is finished ... i would really like to join the corsairs in their attempt to capture some Rheinland planets, or help the Red Hessians to completely remove the corsairs from that one place where those 2 are always fighting, or capture New Berling with a couple of junkers, etc etc etc

The game would be a lot funner if you could actually capture cities / space stations, destroy the stationed battleships after sp missions, create your own faction, ...

I know most of this is not natural towards freelancing, but yet it would make the game better in my humble opinion

Maybe mp fullfills some of my wished, but i haven't encountered a nice server yet (with nice being, no cheaters/ship modders, peepz who help lower peepz instead of killing them, and just a lot of fun

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I suppose a topic like this has been posted already, but i read the first 2-3 pages of topics, nothing to be found there, and since there is no real keyword i couldnt use the search function

Sat Jul 26, 2003 5:14 pm by [steel]

the name of the game is FREE lancer ie you take missions here and there trade pirate etc as you see fit
the set story line is more a prelude to this than being the entire game
plus im sure fitting on 1 disc also was in m$ mind

Sat Jul 26, 2003 5:15 pm by |Shodan|

1. A good buddy list
2. Being able to turn off the "A player has died: Blah" or "Departing player"
3. More difficult AI.
4. Better cheat protection
5. Missions on par with my lvl. In other words: I don't want to do 3K missions in Liberty with my heavely equipped Sabre against sill Startrackers.
6. Not being able to camp at Manhattan with a souped up Sabre killing HUNDREDS of Police/Bh's/Cargo ships and still I don't die.
6 More various missions. Not like now: Detroy station, Kill all ....., Kill him and bring the escape pod back, kill him and destroy/tractor loot.
7. A better chat funtion.
8. More systems and possible ships.
9. Being able to see who killed who. Not like "A player has died" More like "Entropy killed Blah."

I think that's it for me, well, maybe. Heh

Edited by - -Entropy- on 26-07-2003 18:15:38

Sat Jul 26, 2003 5:19 pm by volodja

shouldn't there be a permanent thread on top of the list,
which take care of these wishes?

Sat Jul 26, 2003 5:27 pm by volodja

1. more variation between ships. as it is now, almost every ship
have the same speed (80kph or whatever the unit's in) and
same cruise speed.

2. instruments should be damaged. if it's possible in
wing commander, it sure should work in freelancer.
like, the radar being destroyed, the cruise engines
start malfunction and such things.

3. easy and short communication options with other chips.
"help me out of this!" "form on my wing!" "loose your cargo!" etc.
and bases and other ships could ask for your help when being attacked etc.

Sat Jul 26, 2003 5:34 pm by [steel]

a cloak , of sorts ie similar to that in starlancer in operation and constraints

Sat Jul 26, 2003 5:35 pm by |Shodan|

TAUNTS!!!!!! That's what I missed in MY list, hehe

Sat Jul 26, 2003 6:35 pm by Nukenin

I don't play FL multiplayer, but if I did, a good "quickchat" system like in Tribes for quickly conveying messages, commands, and taunts would be invaluable. Especially in a furball, I wouldn't have time to type out "Die, you Xenos-hugging bastid!" but I could quickly hit a three-key sequence to spit out a suitable voice taunt.

FL could also benefit from more mission variety. Where are the escort missions? Courier missions?

--/\/

Sat Jul 26, 2003 6:40 pm by volodja

it feels like freelancer isn't finished. isn't it that guy
i don't remember his name who also did
wing commander + starlancer, behind this?

Sat Jul 26, 2003 10:14 pm by Sybot

Chris Roberts was, I think he is who you talk about, but IIRC he left halfway through development which could explain the missing features.

"I'm not a Corsair, I just spend my time taking work from them"
Child of the Hispania- http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1404122

Sat Jul 26, 2003 11:55 pm by volodja

too bad. i really miss him, chris roberts.

Sun Jul 27, 2003 6:10 am by ejlott007

yea but even with chris roberts gone MS has done several good games like MSFS and combat sim too but i think this was a tester game for somthing bigger later on. oh and to stay on topic i miss the no joystick support because my wrist start to hurt real bad after about and hour of play and i like to play games all day on rainy days. so this is really a medical issue with me. i do think that being able to go and do more like helping the corssers or something like that would be a good addtion but the name of the game is freelancer too but if you had the option of taking any carrer path you chose and quit at any time i still think it could hold to the idea of the game and a dynamic economy would be nice too

Sun Jul 27, 2003 6:17 am by ejlott007

oh a bit off topic any one have any sugestions for contacting the developers??

Sun Jul 27, 2003 7:17 am by MrSpock

Yeah, the what we would like to have seen has been discussed before, but besides the things i have posted previously in another thread, forgot which one, I missed Trent being a less gay, actually smooth and a true representative of men, instead of a bumbling idiot who Juni references several times to as having a big ego, when he never once shows any of that at all.

Live Long and Prosper.

Sun Jul 27, 2003 8:06 am by |Shodan|

Trent should ally himself with the Xenos. They would be called "Dumb and Dumber"

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