Freelancer Mods

Post by **Dog Pants** » May 24th, 2007, 14:51

Seems there's a shitload of mods for Freelancer, some of which look pretty good. Are we interested in these, seeing as I assume we'd all have to install them?

I've seen stuff ranging from remodelled ships (BSG Viper is lovely), added stations, factions and commodities, playable NPC ships, up to total conversions.

Couple that I like the sound of are a total conversion that lets you choose which faction you start working for (including NPC factions like Corsairs and the Order), a Star Wars conversion, and a Privateer conversion (the ships look so much nicer).

There's a big list <a href="http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/forum/t ... ing&M=True" target="_blank">here</a> if anyone fancies a look

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 24th, 2007, 14:54

Anything to make the game bigger/better is good, just depends what people want from it (personally I want one of those hooj freighters)

Chickenz · Post by **Chickenz** » May 24th, 2007, 15:26

A MILLENIUM FALCON PLS K THNX

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 24th, 2007, 15:46

I've made a server backup as of 16:30 today.

Then installed The evolutions mod 1.30 , you'll need This to start the game with the evolutions mod.

All your progress should be intact/safe

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 24th, 2007, 16:10

So far the only downside with this mod is that the money is on a totally different scale to FL original, but I've kinda worked around that

Post by **Dog Pants** » May 24th, 2007, 16:32

Okay, well first up we'll need the <a href="http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/downloa ... asp?id=927" target="_blank">Freelancer Mod Manager</a> to make turning stuff on and off easy. After that it's just a matter of picking the ones we like. Here's some that look good, in order of my preference:

<a href="http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/downloa ... asp?id=898" target="_blank">FLRebalance mod:</a>
Adds stations and planets, makes it harder to advance in levels. Seems to be a very common and well tested that's gone through several versions, adding lots of extra content.

<a href="http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/downloa ... asp?id=759" target="_blank">Starting mod:</a>
Allows the player to start as any faction, rather than just Liberty Police.

<a href="http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/downloa ... asp?id=889" target="_blank">Freelancer Evolutions mod:</a>
This mod adds more of pretty much everything in the game - ships, weapons, missions, commodities, systems, and probably more.

<a href="http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/downloa ... asp?id=967" target="_blank">Wasabe Missions:</a>
Extra missions, required on the server only. Battleship missions and harder missions added to Manhattan. Apparently very stable.

<a href="http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/downloa ... asp?id=957" target="_blank">Privateer Mod:</a>
A total conversion mod that changes the universe to Wing Commander/Privateer. The ships look a lot nicer and it adds a lot of extra stuff like rotating planets and different ship mods. Mentions a few bugs, but I don't know how game stopping they'd be.

<a href="http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/downloa ... asp?id=871" target="_blank">Proxima mod:</a>
Makes everything ten times more expensive and makes the NPCs tougher.

Personally I think we should avoid all the "OMG this ship is l33t!" stuff - you should still have to work for the good ships and weapons. Extra locations, better models, and stuff to buy can only be a good thing though. Right? I'd say go for the FLRebalance and see what can be added on top of it, as I'm not sure they're all compatible with each other.

Chickenz · Post by **Chickenz** » May 24th, 2007, 16:35

As long as the Firefly and Millenium Falcon are added I'm happy

Post by **Dog Pants** » May 24th, 2007, 16:41

They're pretty much the same thing anyway. I have to say, I'd love a BSG Viper.

Post by **FatherJack** » May 24th, 2007, 16:46

Are we just making these up, or are they actual mods?

I'll have the USS Defiant, a Borg cube, The TARDIS, The Eagle out of Space: 1999 and Liberator from Blake's 7.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 24th, 2007, 16:50

the USS Defiant is certainly in a mod

eion · Post by **eion** » May 24th, 2007, 16:56

I want the Starship Heart of Gold.

And Lexx, just to anger Berk.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 24th, 2007, 17:33

Playing with the FLRebalance mod on the server.

Seems good.

Post by **Dog Pants** » May 24th, 2007, 18:13

I'm not sure I like it.

1. Everything's a shitload more expensive. Eveything was too cheap before, but ships are about 20 times more expensive now. Maybe not too bad, but combined with...

2. Now that the enemy can recharge shields and repair hull combat takes bloody ages. It's possible I was taking on too difficult a mission though.

3. I don't like the new ships - they seem to be either ugly as sin, uninspiring and badly modelled, or well done but out of character (Star Wars stuff).

I shall persevere later though.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 24th, 2007, 18:29

money is a *LOT* easier to make in this mod, i've gone from ~200k, to 1 mil, via 2 ships in new york system.

The ships are kinda meh, but better than the originals.

The starwarsy ones are kinda out of place, but do look reasonable in space.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 25th, 2007, 1:07

Removed all mods now, had to manually reset some ships/locations.

no-one should have lost money, maybe a few weapons.