New Frontiers Mod
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Hi everyone,
In 2006/2007 I created a mod for Freelancer as at the time I felt there wasn’t a mod out there for me. It is known as the New Frontiers. I see since then there is a great choice of mods and many are well polished. I still feel my mod has a lot to offer, especially for those that want the original Freelancer experience but with new places to explore.
Anyway recently I have added the finishing touches to the mod and I want some people to play test it for me to find bugs and give me some feed back. The mod contains around 50 new systems, 5 updated systems including omicron minor and major, 10 or so new ships and a selection of new weapons. The bases all have infocards, news, and rumours which reveal the underlying story behind the New Frontiers. The basic mechanics of the game remain faithful to the original except for a few additions such as the AI shields regenerating and the AI using some bats and bots (but not too many). Some areas are intended for multi-player co-operative but these are usually far off from the more civilised systems or deep in the asteroid belts and nebulae clouds.
The mod is based on the concept of the Sirius Sector around twenty years on from the single player mission. The four houses took it upon themselves to clean up any remaining nomads and that meant sending ships out to the Edge Nebula. During this process new systems and worlds were discovered and there was a race to settle the New Frontiers. It was then that the Nomads retaliated. They still had a strong presence in the area, a second base hidden and protected in the Edge Nebula. The race remains as enigmatic as ever and their motives unknown.
The New Frontiers are mineral rich and the Houses are intent on a period of expansion as the inner systems become depleted of the raw materials required to sustain the lifestyle the humans have come to enjoy. In the core worlds the people have been led to believe that the aliens were nothing but a myth and it was a coup in Rheinland that led to the build up of their forces and their attack on Kusari twenty years ago. Of course those serving on the frontlines in the Edge Nebula know the truth. Also Bretonia has expanded out beyond its territories into the Upsilon region. The Bretonia government claim that the area contains no economic worth. If so why are they refusing to let foreign shipping into these new systems?
A new beta version has been uploaded for testing and includes open SP. Please feel free to download for testing.
http://www.skidmoremedical.com/NewFrontiers/NewFrontiersSetupFiles.zip
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You have created a Freelancer Online Mod and i think it is very good Mod
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Dl’d and I’ll give it a once over in my spare time.
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TheDvDMan wrote:
Seems like the common consept of the average Freelancer mod… Nothing really new here: not graphics, not original models, not effects… Only a few systems and the stuff Freelancer2 would probably skip on in it’s concept (if it was).Were you not around in 2006/07?
Ale modding wasnt quite around then and as for new graphics, that essentially meant massive textures… iirc.And so what lol Its clearly stated its for those “that want the original Freelancer experience but with new places to explore.”
This is 2011 not 2007 lol, if your only looking for shiny shiny, go download any recent mod.
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You surely want to integrate some of adoxa’s stuff or some features from Flak88 - Maybe. For instance, ai wingmen.
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I wouldn’t be speaking so loudly if I were you DvDMan… Could come back biting you in the ass.
Looking down on people is not how you make friends.
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It’s just the DVDMan dishing out his daily dose of negativity, nothing to worry about! I think the only time I’d start to worry is if he starts singing someones praises for no apparent reason, then I’d be calling the doctor.
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Bas wrote:
You surely want to integrate some of adoxa’s stuff or some features from Flak88 - Maybe. For instance, ai wingmen.I would love to add to it but with work and family commitments it is difficult these days. I still hope that one day they release a game to replace Freelancer as everything else I have tried since has never lived up to it.
The mod was just collecting dust since the days me and my friends had a server running and mucked about with it. I thought it was worth people having a look at it. As pointed out the mod is about exploration and reading the infocards for a bit of back story. It was never about shiny new things and uber ships and guns. I concentrated on system design and trying to establish a reason for why something was where it was. I didn’t want a 100 new systems that were generic. There was no team of clever techies behind it, just one guy expanding on the original game to create some co-operative material and new places for people to explore. Incidentally 90% of the content is for end game where you have a decent ship and level 9/10 guns.
So if you want to give it a go then feel free if not then no worries.
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Guys guys, a bit criticism won’t hurt anybody… (only FF maby).
Anyway, the original Freelancer experience is not exactly what I’m looking for in a mod. I look for something maby not really new, but something that looks good, and has an interesting concept, a bit over Freelancer - another experience of a space advanture that can be achieved only with facing different stories all mixed up in one place.In other words (or if u don’t wanna read the whole story), the chance I’ll play a mod like that more then a week is pretty low.
Oh BTW don’t you have a forum, or a ModDB page so that I can see the pictures better?
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Criticism never hurt anyone when it is constructive. What you did wasn’t. It’s been a trend with you. He clearly stated exactly what the intent was, and then you went and commented on how the mod wasn’t the opposite of what he said he wanted it to be. Read the walls of text occasionally, you’ll be surprised by what you learn.
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That’s no excuse for being rude or childish.
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It’s just DVDMans nature, surely there’s no need to beat him up just for being himself. I would have thought we’d grown used to him by now.
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Let them think themselves experienced… Its the only thing I can say before the ban… I’ll just leave freelancer for once and for good, cuz its the only community I wasn’t banned of.
(TLR for “we don’t wanna tell you”, Discovery for cursing admins, SWAT I just don’t wanna come back there and so on…)FriendlyFire will write:
Now you tell us how poor you are, and how mizerable your life is, but its still not a reason why you can do souch and souch, and thats why this and that… and many more head-drilling about how inappropriate that is and will end with “we don’t need people like you in our community”Fare well friends, thanks for the support Timmy, and good bye.
Ah… I hate communities… (FF will comment on that one too) -
You should very well know by now that we don’t ban people.
sigh
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Nova broke the forum rules and then proceeded to make his case even worse. We are lenient most of the time, but he crossed obvious borders. You haven’t done so, despite how annoying you can be.
