How we discovered the glory of freelancer

Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:23 pm by franco428

I built a Heathkit H-89 and converted basic word type games to graphic games. Found Elite by chance and was hooked. From Elite, I went to Privateer & Wing Commander. Then I found the most awesome space based trading game ever...ProtoStar. Then Privateer cam out with add-ons and got too much "gee-whiz" with their story line. After a couple of years I saw an internet ad for Freelancer. It sounded like it could be fun and worth my time.

I've played through Freelancer at least ten times. Each time I make it harder to play and harder to win. Now, I'm having fun just modding my save game files with every kind of weapon, defense tool available. My latest ship, a Haidar with Dom'Kavash blaster cannons and twenty level 5 power upgrades. My railgun can reach out 25K to anything that wants to get frisky. I can kill a battleship in less than ten seconds. Nomads are good for target practice, not much else. Don't need a Uber shield with my Champion Shield lvl 10 and power supplies.

I hope by the time I retire next year, you youngsters will have finished OpenLancer so I'll have something to do besides servicing my wife and taking out the trash. When I got divorced a couple of year ago, I found a lady in The Netherlands that looked like Juni. She was awesome to look at, and several weeks later, during one long playtime, I accidently called her Juni. She looked at me real wierd like and said her old boyfriend called her that one night and she left him. I explained who Juni was. She told me that she need to find her old boyfriend. Good for me that she decided to leave, that cutie was wearing this old man out.

I knew I was playing Freelancer too much recently, when my new wife screamed for help, she had fallen in the kitchen. I yelled to her, "Let me land first and I'll be right there." She was not amused.

When I ride my motorcycle to work, I often think how much I enjoy flying my Ceptyr and Haidar. If wishes only came true...The Alliance Star Fleet would have ten thousand volunteers....and if you're reading this, you probably already thought of doing it too.

Take care and God Bless all you Freelancers, Privateers and Elite Plus Pilots!!!

Franco
Springfield, VA

Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:14 pm by cheese on toast

I saw my friend playing it when i was round his house, he was in WPx clan back in the day and he let me have a go on it and i was instantly hooked, (i so did not just go round his house to play FL >.>

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. Got the game after a he lent it to me to play and ive been playing since, that was about 2 years ago. then i found TLR, thats when i started modding FL

www.mod.pff-clan.us

Openlancer

VOTE FREELANCER!!!!

Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:03 am by SWAT_OP-R8R

like every SL player i also watched the development of FL and like most of them i didnt like FL (and still have my problems with it nowadays -> thats why im modding, to make it better)
well before FL was released i was pretty busy leading my SL clan and staying on the top of the player rankings but some of my friends came to me asking if i could create a FL clan and i agreed
so i did build it up until it reached more than 100 members after a few weeks, handed the clan over to one of my section leaders and went back to SL

half a year later MS decided to close the SL game rooms so i had no other choice than going back to FL

Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:24 am by realm

One of my friends told me about it, bout july 05. Bought it for £10 and am still adictaded

Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:13 pm by mustang

I was an old wing commander nut and being a fan of Chris and Erin Roberts work, of course I paid attention to starlancer and freelancer. I got involved in this site when freelancer was due for release the first time around, of course it got delayed and delayed and delayed and delayed again. So 2 or was it 3 years later I was pretty well much front and center and salivating on release day.
Actually started playing through the story again the other day for the first time in about three years. It's amazing, this game is still the best space trading game out there, and nothing has really touched it since. The production values are just head and shoulders above anything released since. Some people were disappointed with it when it was released but it was just way to over hyped to be truly embraced by the community at large, but I still say you won't find a space game as polished as this one, everything works as it should and it's not overtly complex, you can just jump in and play it.

Edited by - Mustang on 3/5/2007 9:24:14 PM

Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:02 pm by Orin_Hasting

I was reading and EGM issue and it got game of the month.

When I was shopping with my mom and gma I saw it at Cosco and my gma bought it for me.

Good ol' grandma

Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:32 pm by runtman

I actually *cough* found Freelancer in a torrent little over a year ago, read the review, sounded cool, downloaded it. Stunned. I promptly went out and bought it, and have been playing it ever since.

Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:41 am by OutlawLeo

I was looking for yet another game to last me another week of entertainment and saw "Freelancer" on a discount rack. I figured for $8 it wouldn't be too bad to try. Well here I am a couple years later still playing it, enjoying it, and even hosting my own server. Best 8 bucks I've ever spent.

Edited by - OutlawLeo on 4/19/2007 11:41:47 AM

Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:52 pm by India51A

I was looking at a Space Force 2 forum and saw Freelancer mentioned in one of the posts I was reading. I downloaded the demo and after a couple of hours playing it, logged on to Amazon and found a copy for £2! Needless to say I ordered it and am now waiting for it to drop through my letterbox.

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Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:32 am by Hahukum Konn

Some people I know started blabbering about "going to the Texas system" and things like that, and I started wondering what they were on about. Seems they'd seen this new game, Freelancer. So I thought, well, I'll give it a go. So I went and got the demo, and I quite liked it. Ended up buying the game and boy, did I have fun with the SP mission. Then multiplayer! Oh rapture!

Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:08 pm by Question Asker2044

2 years ago my friend forced me to buy this game.Now look where I am...."sigh"

QuEsTiOn AsKeR
Last Hope MOD

Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:04 pm by 007

I found this game through the Game Informer magazine. I was pawing thru an old copy one day, read the review for it, thought about it for a day or 2, went and bought it for 20$... monkeyed with SP for almost a year, then tried online, and played there for almost 2 years before I moved outa my parents house. finally got my own PC. nothin fancy but it handles FL fine. dont have inet on it, so i cant play online, but it was the first game I installed.. :-)

007

Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:51 am by Apocalypse89

A few years ago, I was visiting my cousin, who was bragging about owning a new amazing game which was absolutely huge. I asked him about it, and he introduced me to this little game called Freelancer. I started a new game, and 5 hours later they had to pry me off the PC to leave.

My FL obsession would have to wait a few months later though, when he finally grew bored of the game and agreed to give it to me.

Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:30 am by Mr Ed

I grew up in a scifi household -- watched the orinal star Trek first run space 1999 and ufo all the old classic's -- and went into fanasty gaming and space gaming early on

Played elite and all the wing commander's even the side ones like armada -- I loved privateer the trading and exploration end was so cool in the wing commander combat universe -

- fell away after that genre died ( what a bad bad movie ) and then saw star lancer come out -- and when they announced Freelancer i heard Privateer in my head and dived in -- picked it up and played it and explored --

I discovered the mods about a year and a half ago and have been enjoying myself ever since

Sat Sep 08, 2007 6:08 am by Teodor

Oh, it was a day of happiness when I discovered the glory of Freelancer. I remember my first game, first level. I discovered Freelancer from the internet while I was searching for a space simulator to buy.

As I said, I still remember clearly my first game and level. I didn't know who I must shoot and instead I shot my friends, not knowing that they are my friends and forgot about the Order. Next, I tried to fire a Liberty Rogue, but I could not because my cruise engines were online, I didn't understand that, I thought that my ammo has finished. But, two levels later, I realized that I was wrong.

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