Newbie Guide to Setting up FL as LAN

MovingTarget

I want to create a vanilla LAN server for my next LAN party. I’ve downloaded the Freelancer, Discovery MOD 4.85, and the Freelancer Mod Manager. I’ve played the single player for a while now and think that it would be really fun to have ship-to-ship PVP.

When I run C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\EXE\FLServer.exe then start Freelancer, the Version in the lower right hand corner states 4.85 (which I assume is the Discovery 4.85 version number) I see my Freelancer Server but it is showing up as a Version 1.0 (in red lettering) server and no matter what i do, I cannot connect.

As far as I can tell from reading the forums, I’m in the right spot but cannot find anyone else experiencing the same specific issues.

Some troubleshooting that I’ve tried are

1. use the FL Mod Manager v1.3 and enabled Discovery Mod v.4.85 and then disabled it. - did not work

2. tried DLing and installing FLHook to see if that might be the issue but version is still incompatible and listed in red

Thanks in advance for any and all help

Bas

OS?

Quarks

Make sure that the Discovery mod you downloaded also includes the server files, as some mods do not contain them.

Alex.

Discovery contains everything you need to run a server. I’ll guess I’ll resist the urge to comment on mods that don’t. However, depending on your OS, you may need to disable IPv6.