Original Freelancer Playthrough

Your flight’s definitely improved on part 9 - all you need now is to get practice flying and shooting

Just remember to use e-kill often because that lets you be on the move constantly at much faster velocities. You’ll notice that you get hit most often when you’re going at standard thrust (80), whereas while thrusting it’s much easier to dodge shots. E-kill makes you go at like 120-170 most of the time, which is way better, and you can just tap on your thruster to change course, which is very economical and throws the aim off of anyone trying to shoot at you.

Looking at your cursor though, you could always tweak the mouse sensitivity. FL happens to have that setting, which can be very useful if you’re shaking a little. If you bump it down a notch or two, you’ll increase your precision at a slight penalty in speed (which, to be honest, is negligible in single player).

Also, a little trick for the hotkeys:
WASD lets you move, you already know that. Think of cruise as an extension of your movement and then Shift+W will be a natural shortcut for it.

The shortcut for missiles is Q. This is just so you can easily access it from your normal configuration. Likewise, mines (when you get them, though they aren’t all that useful) are mapped to E by default. Cruise disruptors (which are a key component of PvP) are Shift+E and torpedoes are Shift+Q. You’ll run into them later on.

For the main actions, see it this way: F2, F3 and F4 are mapped to Goto, Dock and Formation. The buttons up top are in the exact same order and mapped following the same pattern (I know free flight isn’t F1, but apart from that!). This is a good way of remembering which key does what.

Also, I don’t think you’d want to do that in the video, but in the top right corner, one of the buttons which looks like some sort of star is your personal log. This contains a series of quick log entries which “you”, Trent, have made. They can offer additional insight into what’s going on if you feel lost, or merely curious. They’re a very nice touch that’s often overlooked. Same thing can be said about news pieces in the bars. While in MP they’re static, in the storyline they’ll follow events as they unfold around you.

And finally, I think people merely forgot about that battle near Willard. Trust me, you’ll encounter far, far bigger battles before the story ends

Doing much better. And I knew about Willard, but what fun would that have been, telling you.

Nice! So long since I played the SP, its really fun watching you

w0dk4 wrote:
Nice! So long since I played the SP, its really fun watching you

Yeah, the good times… I enjoyed the SP so much, I even played it about 4 times in different mods. Now I’m creating my own storyline… Its been some time since I last saw that starsphere in-game…

BTW It was the very same place where I started enjoying it too!
Say, why is your Nav-Map so small? Widescreen mod side-effects?

I hope you’ll like where it goes further: more action - more fun!

In case you were wondering, the order Walker gave you was to kill the Rhineland Bombers. You didn’t kill the bombers quickly enough (they were denoted with Rhineland Bomber instead of a pilot name and given special brackets), so they managed to kill a cruiser before you finished the fight. That’s why you lost money.

If you ever get lost on an obvious ordered objective, tap N.

4th Gun - Hell to the Yes. Having a missile at this stage of the game isn’t worth it, its just a resource drain.

I don’t know how much further you go with the story in this sit down, but before you go ANY further, GO TO THE BATTLESHIP MISSOURI, AND GET A DEFENDER.

You’ll thank me later.

Also, on the matter of ‘Current Worth’

Current Worth is based off of statics, like your ship, equipment, bots/bats, ammo. They are things that have set prices. Commodities, however, have a dynamic price, depending on where you sell them, that’s how much you get for them. The Current Worth counter wont count commodities till you’ve sold them, and then its just counting your credit total.

Also, I’ve noticed that after every kill, while beaming in cargo, you tend to sort of… pause… for a few seconds. Don’t do that, you’ll die. Always keep moving.

Also, you really need to just try out engine kill outside of a combat situation to see how it works. Right now you’re only engaging it to drift away, but the problem is that NPCs rarely follow when you do that.

What e-kill is used for is to use thrusters solely. Engage e-kill with Z, then do not touch S or W again. If you want to move forward, press or hold Tab. When you release, you’ll start drifting again at a high speed.

This is how you avoid getting obliterated in later levels. If you’re not always moving fast, you’re an easy target, and drifting away is slow.

You use the “Go To” wrong. You should select the waypoint first, and then press “Go To”. This way it will automatically navigate your ship to the waypoint.

Still loving these videos.

While fighting use the A and D keys to strafe, this makes you harder to hit. Also use the opposite strafe to your turn, for faster turning… so…

if your turning left use D, if your turning right use A.

Keep up the good work

Get a Crusader from a Bretonian battleship then, that should be your next stop on the way.

Damn, I miss playing Freelancer so much! Maby I’ll try to get unbanned from Discovery or something…
Anyway, FF is right. Go to Manchester maybe and buy a Crusader, its better.

Finish this instead. I demand you do it.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/fls

I’m still working on FL-TK, so you’ll have to wait. Sorry. Maby if I’ll get some help I’ll make it faster.
Maby you can help?
Now don’t get too much off-topic.

Watched part 14 and now please please please listen…

1. STOP BEING A SITTING DUCK! Seriously, I was scared through half the video that you’d get nuked in half a second without any possibility of reacting. You’re getting in the real part of the story now; you can’t stand still shooting at stuff anymore. You need to be constantly on the move, and not just with standard engines, because 80’s not gonna cut it. You need to be thrusting, moving with engine kill and constantly dodging. If you don’t, you’ll die often.

Your foray with the battleship was very very dangerous. If it had actually required you to destroy it (as opposed to Walker’s cruiser doing most of the job), you would’ve died from the constant pummeling of the heavy guns. Keep a move on, please!

2. USE CRUISE. We’ve already told you, but I’ll repeat: cruise is faster, and when you’re running for your life with dozens of ships firing at your ass, you need to leg it, fast. Thrusters won’t cut it; they’ll run out quickly and then you’ll be entirely hosed. Cruise has a charge time, but it’s quick and then you’re flying fast enough to avoid gun shots. Look at Juni, she was cruising the whole time. The game was balanced so that a cruising ship is just about impossible to hit, so take advantage of that, especially since you don’t encounter cruise disruptors unless you’re not supposed to go in cruise. Remember, it’s Shift+W. Stop using the UI, it’ll slow you down too much.

Watching those clips is really fun, but I’m pulling my hair out when I’m seeing you getting out of things by a hair. You don’t need to be an ace, but just doing that will give you more breathing room.