Freelancer

Man I miss that game. Used to play it heavily online via the Jolt 64 player servers back in the day. Absolutely loved the single player campaign too!
 
Never really played it much for the multiplayer (apart from a couple of LAN games with mates) but have played the campaign a few times. Reinstalled it again some months ago and played for a bit but, with so many games in my library, keep getting distracted. I did install a mod for it (Jason's Freelancer Patch). No idea if it it's any good as I didn't play for long enough/take a lot of notice.
 
TNA said:
That actually seems to be having the opposite impact. It seems like more money they have the bigger scope gets and more they drag their feet.
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I remember years ago either PC Gamer or PC Zone did a double page spread on Chris Roberts failure on whatever project he was working on then.

Interestingly he has a pretty decent resume for film production - maybe he should stick to that (EDIT: Oh I see there was dodgy money involved so he had to get out of that).
 
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Rroff said:
I remember years ago either PC Gamer or PC Zone did a double page spread on Chris Roberts failure on whatever project he was working on then.
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If it was around 2000-2003, then that was Freelancer.
Eventually Microsoft ousted him, just so they'd get something that was finished enough to release... which it did 3 years late and with numerous features missing.
 
ttaskmaster said:
If it was around 2000-2003, then that was Freelancer.
Eventually Microsoft ousted him, just so they'd get something that was finished enough to release... which it did 3 years late and with numerous features missing.
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Could be - it certainly wouldn't have been after 2003 as I stopped my magazine subscriptions around then when I moved out of my parent's house.
 
Wow, I didn't expect to open this forum and see a thread for Freelancer on the first page. What a throwback. I loved this game and I'm still waiting for something that hits the same spot. So many space games manage to make freelancing so boring.
 
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Wow, I didn't expect to open this forum and see a thread for Freelancer on the first page. What a throwback. I loved this game and I'm still waiting for something that hits the same spot. So many space games manage to make freelancing so boring.
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There ain't anything. Closest is Everspace 2 but that ain't quite the same and they want silly moneys for it right now so I will wait until it is sub £20.

Install the HD mod and play again. I am enjoying it myself.
 
Gave it a replay a while back but got stuck at some mission where you need to wait around until a gate opens but there's a massive fleet that kills u before u get to the gate.

I remember it being an issue when I originally played it, but this time round I didn't have the patience to keep trying.
 
Will see how it goes. Last I played it was 10 years ago so I remember very little. Certainly don't remember a fleet.
 
I see this is downloadable as Abandonware.

Will have to give it a go.
 
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