Freelancer 2 (?)

Yes, the OBJ converter is definitely good enough to do everything we need. SURs are no more an issue with this.

However, please remember that this isn’t the thread to talk about that. Feel free to make a new topic (or even better, continue the OBJ->SUR converter topic) about it.

i am doing a little something in my man cave right now. as for a name i am calling it the alaska expansion it looks pretty neat. i replaced the mine field with junk and replaced the pointy anoying things in alaska with ice. i have about 5 bases added that have missions including juno and prison base mitchell. i have beta testing it my self for months still need time to edit info cards and names. would like to play around in the unknown section . it ir only open single player right now.
http://evilempirerevolution.forumotion.net/t168-new-freelancer-mod-i-am-working-on heres a link to my videos
but all of our mods are freelancer 2 we dont need a free lancer 2

WhiskasTM wrote:

SilentAssassin82 wrote:
The rings you can fly through and so on.

Whta?! You can fly through between those two rings? In my cases suchlike constructions with spaces were capped with polygons, wtf…

If I remember (from like 3 or 4 years back) there was a trick to get around the poly count. Had something to do with creating the base into sections and then joining them, then the total mass can far exceed the polycount. Don’t ask me how modelling has never been my thing but I believe the basic work was done by some guy that created those “modular bases”.

FriendlyFire makes a good point. Freelancer 2 would probably have to take it to a new level.

The part that fascinated me the most is not the action, but the thousands of background stories explaining where all the faction came from, why a station is placed here and there is even information on astronomical objects (clouds, asteroid fields, etc.) You can communicate to any neutral and friendly spaceship and it will communicate back. The illusion that the whole universe is a breathing system is there!

You won’t find this in ANY space game in such a beautiful detail. And you know why? Because no developer is ready to spend this amount of energy and time into such a game as Digital Anvil did. Heck, they even had to “cut” because Microsoft pressured them to release the game. I can only imagine what the game could have been if they got the time.

Also, until today the view of the planets haunts me. I think if there ever was a Freelancer 2, it should allow the player to walk around on those planets, or at least the capital.

Emmanuel wrote:
The part that fascinated me the most is not the action, but the thousands of background stories explaining where all the faction came from, why a station is placed here and there is even information on astronomical objects (clouds, asteroid fields, etc.) You can communicate to any neutral and friendly spaceship and it will communicate back. The illusion that the whole universe is a breathing system is there!
You won’t find this in ANY space game in such a beautiful detail.

Hmm, till now I really couldn’t put my finger on the thing that makes Freelancer as good as it is, however now that you mentioned it, you’re absolutely right. All these “details” really make up a great living universe around you and thus a great gaming experience.

Part of freelancers success is that it failed its goals during development.
It was meant to be a MMORPG.
I guess they didn’t plan to release the server software - but after microsofts “cut” they had to release what they had.
Thats why we have such a feature rich freelancer AND the ability to mod it.

And thats the reason why nobody released something better yet - its simply to expensiv without adding a monthly fee.

“It was meant to be a MMORPG.”
source?

Bas wrote:
“It was meant to be a MMORPG.”
source?

ummm, actually freelancer is a mmorpg. Not very massive maybe and not very RPG. Qualitatively it is a RPG, it just has not that much quantity of RPG in it.

IMFHO.

Bas wrote:
“It was meant to be a MMORPG.”
source?

http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1999&pub=2&id=184
Ausgabe November 1999

I think Microsoft games probably has a list of game ideas on some chalkboard at somewhere, and then there’s the accompanying printed documents regaurding the freelancer sequel which was scrapped sitting in a gray cabinate at someones cubicle which has been handed down from Department to Department, as well as the accompanying files for the source code sitting in a mapped drive like this …

Z:\Projects\Backup\Old\Retired Games\Microsoft Games\Digital Anvil\Users\hj3894\Users\Desktop\Freelancer2 (Copy 5)\Source\Bin\Debug\Old Stuff ({32890730892738027-3289070372–378289390238927389.}).zip

Which is password protected by something like P@ssword

Not a MMO… but a early scaled down MMO / Space / RPG with persistent world stuff… really RPG heavy though… at least that was the original design intention was (as far as i have read in the past)…

I know it’s been stated before… as that was the catalyst (finding that out) that drove me into modding InSaNiTy… hehe

I just found this videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KTaoWBhQcM&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbOX9nwHLcM&feature=endscreen&NR=1

Hunor wrote:
I just found this videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KTaoWBhQcM&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbOX9nwHLcM&feature=endscreen&NR=1

???

Very interesting.

Seems like some kind of russian guy according to username
(although youtube says he is from UK)

I think he just likes playing IL2 a lot

i like what he did with the valk but i really really do not like how he has the flight dynamics setup. the camera should be locked to the ship, not floating on it’s own to a large degree as it appears in those videos.

Anyone know something about this? A web site, some description, any information?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBi54cfVvQ

Freelancer: Mad Hunter’s SOUL mod –-> try too google this.

So who is that guy??

I dont have a clue

looking around his YT channel i found this -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Jjf70suDA

and looking around @ lancersreactor i just found this:
http://www.lancersreactor.org/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=45083

so there definitely some guys out there who just started doing things

Im pretty sure the first video has no ties to Swat Op’s “FL2” since that one is based on Unity AFAIK, like Why’s experiments.

Vital wrote:
Freelancer: Mad Hunter’s SOUL mod –-> try too google this.

So who is that guy??

it’s me

as for my FL style game remake here’s some of it’s implemented features:
-> login server with account database, character creation, startup char templates.
-> world division by zone servers (a single ZS can run several systems) + master zone server.
-> world synchronization(creation/modification of any object), smooth physics, working PvP.
-> customizable ship appearance depending on equipment
-> .ini based data scripts like FL has(visual effects, systems, equipment, ships etc)

so basically it has much more than what is presented on my few videos