Rebalancing Freelancer

[Gol_Stoan]

I know that "Freelancer" is a swear word here, but I was wondering whether any of you have tried out the numerous mods available for Freelancer at Lancer's Reactor.

There are quite a few, ranging from single ships to total conversions, here are a few that I have tried so far.

Privateer: The Reckoning is a total conversion that completely turns Sirius into the Gemini Sector, with all of the original music, sounds, ships(including a few others from the WC series), and the entire map from the original Privateer game. The upgrade system is completely changed as well. Some of the inflight communications are a bit repetitive (as they were in Privateer). The single player campaign is turned off, as it would not work very well with a completely different map.

TIE Universe, as you might expect, converts everything into TIE fighters. All military, police, and corporate ships are converted into variants of TIE fighters, even going to the extent of the cargo ships. All of the pirate/insurgent craft are Rebel Alliance ships.

By far the largest and most popular of the mods is known as Rebalance , currently version 3.40 with 3.50 in beta. The number of ships in this mod is stupendous to the point of sheer lunacy. There are ships from Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Freespace, Wing Commander, Homeworld, and many many more. Nearly every base has a ship dealer and nearly all have completly different ships from each other. There are new systems, new factions (including Earth Force Alliance, and the Minbari Empire, among others) new upgrade types (armor, sensors, reactors, etc), new commodities (including pilots recovered from ships you destroy). The NPCs are more difficult to kill, they actually use the nanobots and shield batteries now, and capital ships have more hit points, longer weapon ranges, more factions (including pirate/insurgents)use them, and they regularly patrol in fleets. The gameplay experience is greatly improved over regular Freelancer.

[almostpilot]

The only thing that could make me player freelancer again is if i can use joystick to fly. Is there any mod for this ?

[Gol_Stoan]

My joystick (CH Flightstick Pro USB) comes with a utility that you can use to map the joystick to anything, mouse axis, keyboard commands. If you have more than one CH brand USB controller, like a separate throttle or whatnot, you can bind them together so that Windows treats them as one controller.

I have tried mapping my stick to mouse axis, but it is really awkward trying to play like that (It is entertaining to navigate Windows with a stick though). That program is CH brand specific too. You can't mix and match controllers from other companies.

I do not know of any Freelancer mods that can enable the joystick.

[jamotto]

Time to try Freelancer again.

Thanks for the link Gol_Stoan

For joystick support in freelancer you might try these emulators

JOYEMU

Joystick Mouse

Joy2Emu

I don't know how well they work though.

[almostpilot]

I will try, too with this Rebalance mod. Thanks

[shasla5]

Don't forget Evolutions. Great mod! I also like the Star Wars TC Freeworlds, but that is moving along very slooooooly.

[Guest $iLk]

I used to play on a server online... it's demoralizing once you finally get the best ship and the server decides he doesn't wanna host anymore.

The planet of monkeys was weird...