[Freelancer Mod News]New demo of Freelancer: The Nomad Legacy released!

3 Well you can upgrade the tractor. Also should you be able to loot bats/bots during combat?

You can in theory, but before you upgrade it isn’t possible in practice because of very low range and very slow tractor speed, you basically need to stand still for 5 seconds in order to get anything.

That’s why in the lastcutscene of mission 1 Alaric says “BUY POWERPLANT”. I don’t know how avoid this issue. Only by changing of UI, but I can’t.

heh, the issue actually only arrived after I bought a new engine, lol.

That’s FL’s issue. Enhanced speed limits cause this problems. So… autopilot is dangerous in my mod.

That was less strict feedback and more telling of my adventures!

Rheinland mines has big shield damage. Current balance is based on 2 mines per faction and quantity of mines per ship. May be I can do this better. But later.

It is rather that these are the first mines the NPCs are using, and they turned out to be devastating. You could add mines for stronger NPCs only, or add weaker ones for earlier NPCs.

Ohhh… you are about “just play in mod without story”?

After story mission 3, yes, because the readme says that anything further in story won’t work. There is still that one side mission though.

Sorry for bad english.

Oh don’t worry, I am sure my Russian is worse!

If you are short on time…have you tried recruiting modders, maybe here or at the global FL discord server?

6 There are no old systems anymore. Which is also why FLMM format does not make any sense

FLMM offers more than just adding mods together, such as not having to have seperate installs for FL.

• Tau 4: Mislabeled tradelane near jumpgate
• Manuf. Platform -> Manufactory. Is cleaner. (Defunct equip dealer at battleship)
• Avalon: Prison has no equip dealer, but equip area- Planet Kil -> Planet Kiel

On a space adventure…
Start:
Discovered systems: About 5
Game time: Roughly 6 hours
Credits: About 37.000
Ship: Stiletto

Coming back to Bismark:
Discovered systems: 22
Game time: Roughly 8 hours
Credits: 128$
Ship: Titan
2 Lost weapons
Ships is a wreck
Lost a thruster too. :<

I really struggled also because I had no income. Overpowered enemies for me aside, I simply couldn’t take job offers because my reputation was too bad. :x

I would like to leave something pretty important. Motivational words.

I was just checking randomly some FL websites as I do periodically. I haven’t touched the game for years, except when I went for campaign again with the Trent the Monkey King-mod.

Yet, your mod pretty much sparkled my interest instantly. There was NEVER - to my knowledge - ever a (real/custom) fan-campaign of FL for all the 17 years! You can fully can term yourself as pioneers without a doubt!

I also prob didn’t expect too much. And boy, was I wrong! While I don’t understand a single word, the Russian VA sounds great! And I can’t even remember there being an option for subtitles to begin with, so I was quite baffled about that one, too!

You also don’t “only” came with a new storyline, but rather a whole new universe to boot. Also with some features FL was missing, like Engines or Power Plants, tractor beams and stuff (albeit were featured in many mods meanwhile). Also, a sidemission sounds intriguing.
You also made quite some surprising UI changes!

Also, take a jumping motivating cartoon filly! (GIF)

Jeider wrote:

Is this an exe hack? I can see where you changed the max_bank_angle values in the shiparch but don’t see how you ‘deactivated’ max_bank_angle.

Sorry, this is was a long time ago. May be I forgot, how I did that. Anyway, you already resolved this issue.

The question I still have is how did you keep the strafe feature with the roll feature? I can roll now but not slide left/right and when I try to map the keys in game I’m advised that the key is already mapped. When I try to map it in keymap.ini it doesn’t work, nor does it show as mapped in the options/controls page ingame.

(Also posted 2x on page2, in case you didn’t see it)

• Nanobots should be more in line in price - x10 price for x2 heal seems way too overkill
• Hornviper MK III has the same energy usage as MK II, at the very least in the tooltip.

Also, please contact me if you need any testers, or if I can help you getting some English VAs.

I will add a few paragraphs for FLHack and the generic base missions for the readme which you can copy.

So….aside of further focusing on new missions, I consider these stuff priorities to be done, either because of the impact and/or the low opportunity cost (time to work on it). In no specific order.

• Price fix advanced nanobots. I’d advocate for 2x the heal -> ~250% price of the previous
• Hornviper #3 energy usage fix
• FLHack inclusion, simply add the tool/files and leave everything in the doc else. Not coding or anything, just delivering along the mod.
• Inclusion of sold shield batts (if the work is not too much to do)

I have updated the readme file, included a short guide for FLHack and the generic destroy base missions. I also fixed some grammar and spelling errors from other sections. (attached on the post)

I also have a suggestion to make:
You focus on storyline missions and the like. There are likely only some very few people who can do some.

Meanwhile, get some other modders on-board. For good resource usage, it is best if others do the more routine and common modding and fixing; such as adding, fixing or balancing equipment, systems and the like. Of course, you are fully encouraged to communicate your visions and wishes.

For the same reason, I don’t think you need to be the one needing to translate. I bet there are tons of other people who could do such a thing. Same for spelling errors and maybe dialogues.

For getting modders, one place would be right here, others would be like the Global FL discord server (I can ask and redirect them if you allow me to).

Edit: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=00237162831566835514

velopment will destroy it… Only one way is possible - help me with translation.

Do you got the texts ready? I can see if I can find someone online for this.

And implement sounds without me - this is IMPORTANT. Implementing of english sounds required too many time from me, but this is really usual work

Do you mean recording or also included them ingame, aka coding them into files?

This is FEATURE. Sorry, but game balance - this is my job. You tried only demo version of my mod and don’t know about all planned and partially IMPLEMENTED features. So. My guns system. This is not just “level 1 > level 2 > level 3”. We have a Horviper. This gun has a 4 version: Hornviper Mk.I - basic gun Hornviper Mk.II - standart gun, 2x damage, 2x power Hornviper Mk.III - advanced gun, 3x damage, 2x power, SELF-DESTRUCTION Hornviper [Nomad] - advanced gun, 2x damage, 0.5x power

At the very least, this explains why they were like getting down so fast and over and over again! ._.

But you need to have limits in your interest. I don’t want to change balance.

Hm, I see. I would like to still give feedback on stuff like this, however. I think giving feedback is important, it is your choice what you do with it, and maybe you get some cool ideas by it or you develop a concern for something you didn’t think about before.

Jeider wrote:

The question I still have is how did you keep the strafe feature with the roll feature? I

Oh, sorry, forgot about it.

That’s easy. But only by ini edition. This is content from my initial keymap.ini:

[KeyCmd]
nickname = USER_MANEUVER_SLIDE_EVADE_LEFT
ids_name = 1956
ids_info = 3228
state = keydown, keyup
key = "A"

[KeyCmd]
nickname = USER_MANEUVER_SLIDE_EVADE_RIGHT
ids_name = 1957
ids_info = 3229
state = keydown, keyup
key = "D"

[KeyCmd]
nickname = USER_Z_ROTATE
ids_name = 1463
ids_info = 3300
state = keydown, keyup
key = "A"

[KeyCmd]
nickname = USER_Z_UNROTATE
ids_name = 1464
ids_info = 3301
state = keydown, keyup
key = "D"

Just 2 keys with same default keyboard buttons.

Yup, that’s exactly what I have but I only rotate, no slide left/right. Verified against a fixed object in space.

Jeider wrote:

Yup, that’s exactly what I have but I only rotate, no slide left/right. Verified against a fixed object in space.

Don’t forget. This is DEFAULT keymap. Real keymap always overrided in your “My Documents” folder. For take changes you need to remove overrided file or make changes inside it.

Tried it in both the keymap in the INTERFACE folder and in the keymap in the My Games/Freelancer folder.

Only the roll works.