Hello everybody
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Well, thanks for your seggestion
but I think I need the heavy fighter after the race to survive. That’s the point, a light frighter can’t compete with Mollys.
I will try but I’m quite sure I will die in the first combat after the race. Even if I saw that whatever ship you have in the single player game the max speed on the speeometer is always the same: it doesn’t change. Are you sure a cruise is faster?
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With cruise I mean cruise flight. As far as I understood you used thruster in the race? That’s your biggest mistake then.
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I have always won that mission on the first try yet…but I also always flew a cavalier light fighter.
I think you wont need a heavy fighter before you have left bretonia. After the cavalier I always bought a barracuda (in kusari). -
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Welcome To Our Worlds!
Another warning - Hovis will have his cronies (his bad pals) shooting at you near the end too!
So be sure you have some repair botts and shield batteries, and watch out!
It is hard, but keep trying and you will succeed!
We did - eventually!
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Well, I couldn’t beat him my first few tries either. In the end I had to leave the plot line for a while I flew around and made enough money to by a ship more appropriate to the mission. Then come back and beat the snot out of him. Had to do that a couple of times with various missions. that’s one of the nice things about the way FL plays in SP. You can always ditch the plot line for a while to do your own thing.
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hmm, i have never had this problem before, and usually use the bretonia heavy fighter. Also if you use your strafing you can go through the course faster than ever, i even on my last attempt beat hovis through the first section (you get different commentary if you beat him through the half way mark) but you definatly need to use cruise to beat him.
Ozed.
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Bas wrote:
With cruise I mean cruise flight. As far as I understood you used thruster in the race? That’s your biggest mistake then.just to know what do you mean with “thruster” and what do you mean with “cruise flight”?
what I know is that a thruster is an item to mount on the ship, but I really don’t know if it’s what I use with the “TAB” key or what else.
With “cruise flight” you mean free flight or what?
Please assume I’m italian and I don’t get exactly all that you write.
Another warning - Hovis will have his cronies (his bad pals) shooting at you near the end too!
So be sure you have some repair botts and shield batteries, and watch out!
It is hard, but keep trying and you will succeed!
Oh so he will shoot at me…damn it! Thanks for the warning. Obviously if I shoot him down I will fail the mission, I think.
Well, I couldn’t beat him my first few tries either. In the end I had to leave the plot line for a while I flew around and made enough money to by a ship more appropriate to the mission.
What’s the best ship for beat him?
Thanks to all of you men for your suggestions
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Thruster = tab(ulator), speed: 200
Cruise flight = Charged flight, Shift + W - That one with which you fly up to 300 speed -
Did you tried the race with cruise flight?
Anyways, you should be able to purchase police and civil ships at most at larger and important planets. -
and battleships, as well. the race is on vanilla settings possible with every fighter available until then. i managed it even with a cruise speed of 375 in only one try and without modding the course or the enemy. it is pure technique how to get the right vector in the last sections to get the next ring. also fleeing from the missiles is unnecessary, they do not deal too much damage. just start turning in the right moment and there you go. good luck.
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I tried with the cruise speed, it’s quite difficult for me. Maybe the problem is I used a 1st persone setting in vsual I’ll try to put it in 3rd persone…so I think I will be able to see a larger portion of space and where is the following ring. I’t quite impossible to turn so quick, fast and close with the 1st person visual.
I’ll try once more or so with this ship in 3rd person and I’ll let you know how it will go.
see you soon here…oh and thanks for your suggestions and advices
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Hi there,
I failed another two times on the race…my, I lost the last ring I couldn’t find it and so I was defeated.
Will try again…soner or later I will succeed in it…I hope.
Does anyone let me know something about the “multiplayer” online game? I don’t know if my laptop support it.
see you soon
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The Multiplayer option of freelancer is, in my opinion, the best way to play the game. If your laptop has a working internet connection, it should work just fine.
Also, 95% if Freelancer mods out there are mostly made for Multiplayer use. Like I said, it’s much more fun and challenging than shooting NPCs, getting money for a new ship, then shooting NPCs again.
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yeah, shooting npc’s might be the best training for the starter but once you feel strong after beating the final enemy you will get a newbie again after getting up on multiplayer.
'bout the race: try starting to turn in direction of the next ring even before you pass current, in the later sections of the lap. -
If you are feeling to tired to do the race over and over again you might want to upload the savegame so a other person might flew it for you (can’t be me, sry, my FL doesn’t work correctly atm)
And it is true…MP is the big FL world.
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As for the Mutiplayer what kind of chrateristic have to own my laptop?
It’s not new and it’s CPU is 1.6 Ghz only…I fear it’s not enough.Another advice please…I saw when I installed the FL game it showed me a code for the MP but I didn’t copy it…does anyone know where can I eventually find it?
As for uploading my saving I really don’t know how to do.
Thanks to all
see you soon
