"Random hints" collection thread
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Also, we are looking into adding a new feature to the website: a “Random Hint” section on the left menu with trivia and tips/tricks about the game. This would be another project new staff members could take on to fill (or moderate submissions for).
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“In the unmodded Freelancer many wrecks, jump holes and bases can be found at the end or at crossings of NPC patrols.”
“A wreck of probably the Hispania can be found in Omicron Alpha.”
“Even after the storyline ends nomads can be found. Are you tough enough to face them?”
“Many artificial project weapons were designed for the Thirty Years War in Sigma-13 in which the Rheinwehr fought against the Gas Miners Guild.” <- Not sure how the Rheinland military is named in the English version.
“In the unmodded Freelancer multiplayer neutrality to all factions can be etablished with one hour, starting from a new character.”
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With three, Sigma 17 is the only system with more than two stars.
Planet Kurile is the only habitable planet inside a nebula.
There is no Freeport 3 or Freeport 8.
Freeport 4 is the only Freeport that doesn’t directly belong to the Zoners, in this case it belongs to the IMG.
There’s an Interspace Commerce base in every house capital system.
The Battleship Westfalen is the sole remaining Rheinland battleship and the only place to purchase the Valkyrie.
The Junkers have five bases, all in debris fields.
The most destructive weapon available, the Sunslayer, is available on only one (quite unlikely) base.
In the assault on the Nomad City, Von Claussen’s Valkyrie is the sole non-Anubis in the Order’s ranks.
If you look above the blue star in Tau 37, you’ll see that elusive second star that appears on the navmap.
There’s a rare typo to be found in the Liberty Battleship’s infocard, F9 the Unity and look for the word “buy”.
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The largest asteroids in Vanilla Freelancer can be found in the Tohoku system.
Ames Research Station is the only Zoner station which does not follow the Freeport naming convention.
Juni flies an unbuyable version of the Defender Heavy Fighter with a third vertical wing replacing the spoiler.
The Blood Dragons fly an unbuyable version of the Dragon Heavy Fighter which is recoloured red.
The Hood is the only battleship owned by a commercial faction.
The corona of the Yellow Dwarf star in Tau-37 doesn’t damage the player.
Vogtland base is the only selling point for a Very Heavy Fighter in House space.
Freeport 9 is the only selling point for the Eagle in Vanilla Freelancer.
Freeport 1 was founded 60 years prior to the events of Freelancer’s campaign which is set in 800 AS. However, Freeport 2 was founded in 650 AS making it older than Freeport 1.
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The atmosphere of the Planets Honshu and Gammu are non lethal
In Sigma 17 you can find a lost nav bouy.
In Tau-37 you can find a lost gravity bouy near the sun.
The people in bars can tell you many interessting things.
There is a destroyed Tradelane in Kepler
Before the “Dallas accident” there were no jumpholes in Texas.
You can find some debris of the Dallas accident.
A day on New Berlin is very long.
Around 300 A.S. the Town Mühlheim on New Berlin was destroyed by a laser which was supposed to lighten the dark side of New Berlin.
Since the elemination of Mühlheim Rhineland celebrates the “Kaiser Pausback”-Day. A day where you should do something insane.
Borderstation Pirna is the only place to buy Class 9 Rhineland weapons.
In open game you can find 163 Bases, 45 Systems and 118 holes.
There is a jumphole from Hokkaido the Tohoku, but it doesn’t work.
In Tau-23 you fly arount 5% slower than in every other system.
You can buy good on miningstations - but you can’t dock there.
Interspace Commerce has no NPC Ships. (Except scripted one in Mission 1)
There is no missions after Nomad City.
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Isn’t it also called Rheinland in the English version?
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Rheinland, yeah.
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Two bits of trivia that it appears no-one knows about any more
The bartender on planet New Berlin is named after the original founder of Lancersreactor.com - Christian Koerner (Bargib).
Tachyon, one of the moderators at the original Lancersreactor.com, appears in the Freelancer manual playing / chatting with the developers.
