Ingame Tips and Tutorials

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Thanks!

Yay, finally did it! Thank you so much for all your help!!!

@roadbum1660

You know you can set CM’s to automatic fire don’t you?

You have to make do when your internet access relies on cattle pulling trailers!
Nah, on a more serious note, it’s good that it’s been necroposted, because this way, I could find that thread in 2019 without some massive digging.

From installed, via registry (part of LibFL).

It’s only effective in 16bpp modes, ignored otherwise.

If it’s my console (try about) you can use the name of the base, as well as the nickname. If you don’t know the exact name, use show to put all the bases on the Nav Map.

Howdy,

I was just looking through some the posts and noticed this one. Yes, there a lot of good starting mods available.

Here on TSP in the downloads go to the “T” section and go to page 18.

There are 4 trentstartingships mods which will allow you to start with freighter, light fighter, heavy fighters and very heavy fighter. All are designed for the vanilla version.

There are also a lot of good tutorials around. Making your own starting ship is not difficult, though when a beginner, it can be tedious. Biggest worry is the cinematic view, which is the equipment room and the launch cut scene where you meet King.

The info I have for that was, I believe from a post. Here is the title;
Changing the Cinematic Ships by Blaster @ SWAT Portal

If need be I can post it. It is only 9K in my text file.

Pascal05

Wait, so you made a topic to rail on a 4+ years old mod that’s not been in active development since then?

Just delete the mod from your computer and move on, wow.

@sizer, why is referring to one particular explosion in the video, not the explosions from Itano circus or the effects pack.

wasabitoy wrote: [VisEffect] But I only use and change all to " gf_capital_explode_yellow " for explode colors.

How have you changed the colours, by editing the effect in explosions.ini or have you messed around with the ale itself?

The crc errors wouldn’t have stopped the explosions working, as you can see in Itano circus they work just fine.

I’m going to be blunt, in one of your posts you describe seeing a small explosion before the debris, this is the original vanilla explosion and usually this is because you haven’t removed this:

Look in data/fx/effects_explosion.ini

[Effect]
nickname = explosion_li_fighter
effect_type = EFT_EXPLOSION_SHIP
vis_effect = gf_explosion_li_ship01
snd_effect = med_explosion1
lgt_effect = elite_flash_to_red <–----------------remove
lgt_range_scale = 30<------------------------------remove
lgt_radius = 30<--------------------------------------remove

But we’ve already spoken about this and you say you have, so I’m going to assume that’s not it.

At this point I think we will just be going around in circles as we’ve already mentioned everything worth mentioning, you’ve simply screwed something up.

Scrap what you’ve already done and start again. Throw away the big huge effects pack and forget about version 2, that’s not the answer. Everything you’re after is in Itano circus and it works, use that code instead. I’ve done it myself many times and it’s easier that way.

I take it the silence means there are no missions to fly against those factions… 😉

It’s non vanilla and deinitely not in the default install. Just delete any reference to it . Like i said i know where that entry is from and it’s nothing to do with vanilla in any form.

A few notes I’ve picked up on weapon groups:

The ACTIVATE WEAPONS GROUP keys switch your active weapons to those in the selected group. Weapon selections for groups are automatically saved, there is no need for the ASSIGN WEAPON GROUP keys, although they will let you copy the currently active weapon group.

The FIRE WEAPON GROUP keys behave exactly as stated and fire all the weapons in a group without needing to activate the group.

Weapon group 1 is the default weapon group, and is active every time you launch or log into Freelancer (not when jumping between systems though).

Whichever weapon group you have active when docking or logging off will be overwritten with weapon group 1. Therefore always dock or log off with weapon group 1 active.

difference between FLCompagnon and FLDataStorm is that a modder or server admin can decide to block FLC which is good for RP communities and mods that use hidden stuff

I usually have my W key set to afterburner, and S set to reverse thrust A and D set to left and right strafes respectively.

My turning style is quite quick, heres how I do it:

As I’m passing an enemy if I’m turning left, I will hit engine kill and when I have turned 50% around I hit reverse thrust and right strafe, then when 75% hit left strafe and all the while turning with mouse.

Sounds complicated but it does get you turned around pretty fast.

But the key to good turning is controlling your distance and speed effectively which a lot of players fail at / make mistakes doing

U should say that this is from vanilla FL, some mods include NPC where this tactic is called suicide ;D

In my vanilla times (lol long time ago) I’ve used the Bounty Hunter fighter “Hammerhead”.
Its less powerfull than the Titan, Eagle or Sabre and it can only carry lv 9 guns but with a bunch of reaper or skyblast i killed some of the best eagle and sabre pilots on DFLS.