no you dont, freelancer is its own game with its own story

its just loosly based in the same world

That's right, you don't have to play SL before playing FL, but it's just nice to have some background info when you start playing Freelancer.

BTW, welcome to TLR Bananko



" Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable "

You still could buy it
its just about 1.99$ at eb
so if you get your fl copy from eb, you could just add sl on it ^_^
its a good game imo

but well you do not need it, fl is based about 1000 years later, so you will not miss really anthing important of the story if you did not have play starlancer, starlancer explains just more or less how the great war in the solar system started.

yeah im only new here aswell, i forgot ot ask, is this community australian, uk or just about anywhere?

cause by eb you mean electronics boutique right? so thats aus dollars? or not?

The Lancers Reactor is based in Denmark, but the site is open to one and all

Do you have to play Starlancer if you wanna enjoy Freelancer? NO!
Did you miss something when you didn't play Starlancer? YES! You've missed one of the best games of the genre. i just pity every poor soul that hasn't played it.

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"In all likelihood you're going to die out there. We're all going to die out there, but none of us needs to be reminded of that fact. So you die, you never existed." - Lt. Cmdr. 'Angel' Devereaux

Yes you do have to play Starlancer before you play Freelancer...
Otherwise you miss out on one hell of a bug...

(Coalition of Starlancer... technologically more advanced then the Houses of Freelancer???)
(It's about the cloaking... man, the biggest bug in the entire game! )

Yeah, starlancer was one of my favorite games. And I bought it because I had to buy a game (an irritating thing of me, I can't resist the power of a budget title )


This post has made me Flight Lieutenant, yay



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Edited by - Pozo on 04-03-2003 18:16:19

Na!

Starlancer is a good game....but Freelancer is a much diffirent kind of game. You will get enough "headsup info" at the start of Freelancer. Besides the world of Freelancer has advanced so much that using a joystick is silly.

You don't have a background with Chris Roberts games I take it

Are you familiar with Wing Commander? With WC, Origin, and Chris Roberts, create the WC universe. Privateer was a non linear space exploration/trading/shot-em-up game based in the WC universe.

When Roberst left Origin and started Digital Anvil, then was purchased by MS, MS had Warthog of the UK developing a space game, that was altered to become Starlancer.

Why? Freelancer was the big game DA was developing, and in so creating a new gaming universe. So the idea with StarLancer is to introduce players to the history of how the Freelancer universe came into being. So with StarLancer you are fighting in the war mentioned in the beginning of Freelancer, trying to help the Alliance keep from being exterminated. Just like all normal flight sims, i.e. the WC series, the X-Wing, Tie-Fighter types, etc., SL is a mission based, go from one mission to the next with no flexibility design.

So SL = WC in this new universe from DA. Freelancer = Privateer. Freelancer is the go anywhere, do whatever game for this universe. Allows for more replayability with this design

So do you need to play SL? No. Should you? Yes, if you'd like to experience what leads up to the sleeper ships needing to get the hell out. SL doesn't get you up to the sleepers, but it lays the groundwork for why you would know the alliance was in bad shape and would want to leave


regards,

RogueOne

every thing you need to know about starlancer to understand free lancer is in that 3 minute intro but i got a brand new starlancer for 2 bux at eb so you should buy it!!!!!!!