Turret Mode! Turret Mode!

Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:14 pm by Guru George

Yeah, TN was such a totally immersive game (all Looking Glass games were, the System Shocks, Thief, etc. ), and Freelancer reminds me of it in this way - the sense of really being out in there in space, not on this world but on another, alien soil.

My favourite thing about games is those times when you realise that, just for a moment, you were totally in this other place, your brain was fooled (or your disbelief had been suspended, as the saying goes). I like the "gamey" side of things too (the shooting, the adrenalin rush, and the upgrading and winning side of things, when you get little jolts of satisfaction from succeeding in small, measurable steps), but immersion's the main reason why I'm still into games at my age. (That's my excuse anyway :-)

Sat Mar 20, 2004 1:40 am by GaryT

Hey Guru George....46 years old here. Man, I have to say, I share your enthusiasm!!! This game is turning out to be an amazing journey for me. NEVER played any games in MP except Diablo II, so I think after I get more practice in the SP game, I'll broaden my horizons and play online. I hope you enjoy the mods too...their pretty awesome.

Welp...back Freelancing!

Oh the pain....the pain.

Sat Mar 20, 2004 9:26 pm by MM3K

i like turret mode for screenshots and covering my azz when some cocky corsair or outcast is bothering be while i go trade lane, but to be honest, cockpit suits me far better than any other mode. i dunno, i guess it's because i gree up of first-person shooters like the Quakes (sacrifices a ship of cardamine to id), the dooms, UT, and other games like that. but i do see how you can feel so very...well...THERE when you go into turret mode. especially when you go through those wierd floaing ring formations. are those things *supposed* to be there?!? but yeah, the game is almost as addicting as the first-person shooters i play half my time =^.^=
i have to say though, multiplayer isn't quite my thing. maybe when no one who plays is an azzhole and no one uses stuff other than system ship and weapon mods i will, but i doubt that's coming soon. until then, i'll stick to the grey-haired chicks in SP mode. they're better looking than juni anyways. *gets out of fanboy moment*
but yeah. that's my two cents. you trade? well then. good luck out there!

I'M ABOUT TO GET DODGEY!!!

"For every spirit there is a proper place in Hell!"
Herr Von Clausen

Edited by - MM3K on 3/20/2004 9:29:30 PM

Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:24 am by ~Corsair#01~

I use turret view a lot. Usually when I'm in no danger of attack or docking or stuff.
PS- How do you go into cockpit mode anyway (default)

Corsair likes to refer to himself in the 3rd person.

Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:25 am by Megistos

Press Ctrl-V to toggle between the cockpit and outside views

"There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't"

Sun Mar 21, 2004 1:02 am by TommY_4_life

Back in the "still demo of fl" days i always used a rhino... went to planet manhattan and started shooting everyone, including police in turret mode, i think this is one the best things in the game.

The only thing they should make better is the turret range, i think there should be weapons specially for the class (freighter turrets with long range slow refire and light fighter weapons with low range and high refire for example) since thats one thing i miss from priv.2 those militia destroyers....

TommY out

Movin' in for the kill

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