01
Dec
In 2018 Freelancer itself will turn 15 years old. That is an remarkable age and even more impressive is that players still enjoy this game. Help us to promote this incredible game.
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24
Nov
…On November 20, 2007, Mass Effect was released for the Xbox 360. Presenting the premise of a cinematic space epic, the sprawling action RPG put players on a galaxy-saving quest across the cosmos, making alien friends and difficult plot-altering decisions along the way. The game’s interactive story and vivid design has received wide acclaim from critics, also kicking off the formation of a massive fan collective.
Background
During Mass Effect‘s three-year development cycle, nearly one fourth of that time was spent achieving a distinct sci-fi look, BioWare taking influence from iconic film properties such as Star Wars, Star Trek, and Blade Runner. Much of the remaining months laid the foundation of the project’s core gameplay of tactical shooter combat, space exploration, and advanced “digital actors”. Envisioned as a trilogy, this heavy initial workload was to ensure minimal development time between any
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15
Nov
Display MoreWe've just released a small patch. Here's the list of changes
Tweaks- Don't allow energy consumption mod on energy discharger
- Encounters: When dying in the Okkar homeworld, you will not be able to retrieve your wreck
- Fixed some issues with offline play
- Fixed invisible Encounters button being selectable in ingame pause menu
- Add more safety to preventing Okkar Forces from jumping in during cutscenes
- Fix Okkar Gunship MK2 occasionally hitting itself with own projectile
- Encounters: Fixed voice audio not being audible on Linux
- Encounters: Fixed re-engineering removing 3 Viridian Energy instead of 2
- Encounters: Fixed Coalition not attacking the Okkar
- Don't allow energy consumption mod on energy discharger
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10
Nov
Discovery Freelancer ver 4.89 Final is now LIVE: Battlecruisers, Superheavies and More
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Today we bring you the last part of the 4.89 update, part Final. Take a look what it has to offer!
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07
Nov
…We've just released a new patch with quite a few tweaks and bugfixes. Here's the list of changes:
Tweaks- Decreased drone disassembler resource drop quality and quantity, added fuel drop probability
- Slightly increased energy consumption and decreased effect of target decelerator
- Outlaw Snipers can no longer be affected by Mainframe Override
- Encounters - Removed Sentinel class restriction for Seeker missile battery
- Encounters - Engine Boosters no longer affect ship steering sensitivity
- Encounters - Reduced Engine Booster MK2 and MK3 efficiencies
- Encounters - Randomize Mod now has a higher tendency to yield beneficial values
- Encounters - Highlight freight containers in Eleks second mission
- Encounters - Changed Viridian Energy drop chance of Okkar Corvettes from 80% to 100%, also reduced drop amount in hardcore mode
- Encounters (VR) - Adjusted HUD element
- Decreased drone disassembler resource drop quality and quantity, added fuel drop probability
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24
Oct
…We've just released a new update. It comes with a few tweaks and bugfixes as well as two new devices and one new consumable. It also makes our first major expansion "Encounters" available for purchase.
Unfortunately this update is currently not available for XBox One and on the Windows Store. We currently don't have a working Windows store version after upgrading to Unreal Engine 4.16 and can't give you an estimate when we will be able to release it.
New Features- Made Everspace Encounters expansion available for purchase
- Added new device: Drone Disassembler
- Added new device: Target Decelerator
- Added new consumable: Plasma-Powered-Jump
- Added "target nearest hostile" functionality (not bound to a key by default)
- Outlaw Drone Carriers will no longer override player drones
- Outlaw hangars will no longer spawn ships if there are too many outlaws present already
- The ARC-9000 will no longer
- Made Everspace Encounters expansion available for purchase
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24
Oct
…Encountersis the first major expansion for EVERSPACE™, enriching the game world with new story characters and questlines, a brand-new player ship, freighter-loads of novel equipment, additional enemies, and much more.
This expansion is as of now available on Steam and GOG. We currently can't give you a release date for the Xbox and Windows Store, as we currently don't have a working Windows Store version.
A NEW RIDEImpress your peers with the new Colonial Sentinel, a medium fighter craft, and make use of its powerful shield and advanced electronic warfare capabilities. Mileage may vary.
NEW FRIENDS?Play five new quest lines and meet new characters, each with their own motivations and agendas. Ever met a robot bounty hunter with a French accent who would rather create than destroy? Of course not. Or an alien scientist who sends you on a hunt for space creatures? That's right. Creatures... in space.
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14
Oct
The summer update focuses providing some updates to the owners of battleships. There are special depots spread around in the Canis and Inner Core sectors, once you loot them you will have to gain one of tree update parts, which will boost your battleship performance for either weapons, shields or engines.
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14
Oct
The summer update focuses providing some updates to the owners of battleships. There are special depots spread around in the Canis and Inner Core sectors, once you loot them you will have to gain one of tree update parts, which will boost your battleship performance for either weapons, shields or engines.
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13
Oct
I just want to announce that dented_ship and Ajay volunteered to help keeping this Portal save and clean. Thank you guys.
Both have joined our Moderator team.
Thank you also to all the other Moderators, Super-Moderators, news writers and contributers.
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13
Oct
If you were wondering why the Portal was offline today... well, yeah... HDD number 4 died this night. It meanwhile got replaced and backups were put in place.
If the components keep dying at this pace, we will have a brand new server in less than 2 months.
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05
Oct
…Attention, Pilots!
A major expansion is approaching fast (scheduled for end of October). It will feature a new player ship, the
Colonial Sentinel, a medium fighter class ship, which will impress with some sophisticated electronic warfare capabilities and a special shield, featuring twice as much capacity as the standard model. You will also be able to use a plethora of new weapons, devices and consumables to fool, distract, and defeat enemies in new ways.
All-new factory space stations add further gameplay mechanics to the game experience, by offering special on-the-fly services, like refining and converting resources, upgrading ship capabilities or minor repair jobs. Furthermore, you will even be able to pay the Okkar Homeworld a visit. Along your journey, you will also encounter new story characters, who will offer individual questlines.
More details about the content and the pricing will follow soon.
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04
Oct
It is October 2017 and it is time to look at the progress made over Q3 for the Discovery Freelancer Mod.
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03
Oct
…Hello,
Thanks for all your continued feedback – we’ve been listening carefully and have continued to make a number of improvements. In this patch we’re introducing an overhauled save system, which makes managing saves between game modes much easier.
This patch is available now on PC and PS4. Read on for full patch notes!
New save system
- You will now be presented with 5 save-game slots (each of which can be used for any game mode). Your existing saves will be mapped into these slots
- Selecting an empty slot will start a new game, allowing you to then pick which game mode to play from the mode select menu
- There are now two sub-slots for each save-game – one for automatic saves and one for manual saves.
- Automatic saves occur when exiting your ship, dying, purchasing a Freighter or claiming a base
- Manual saves occur when interacting with a save point (these can be built from the build menu), or a beacon found on
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15
Sep
…Hello,
Today we’re releasing Patch 1.37, which introduces a number of improvements including a new ship control scheme for PC players, an upload all discoveries option and improved trade product prices. This patch will be available today on PC and PS4 – read on for full patch notes!
PC control scheme
In this patch, we’ve added a new tethered ship control scheme for PC mouse & keyboard players. This option can be toggled, and changes ship controls to be cursor based, meaning you’ll be able to direct your ship easily using your mouse. In addition, PC mouse and keyboard players can now look around the ship’s cockpit by holding the ALT key. This new option will be active by default, and can be toggled back to the original control scheme via the General Options menu.
Other changes and improvements
- Allowed economy Scanner to be used from the Quick Menu to locate an outpost
- Improved prices trade outposts offer for trade
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13
Sep
Howdy!
Accolade complete: this webserver has killed its 3rd HDD
Thanks to the people that gave me a notice earlier today via email and moddb.
The damaged HDD meanwhile is replaced and backups seem to be working. It will take some time for the server to rebuild the cache for all the pages so it will be a bit slow in the next few hours.
If any chars got banned due to the failed CF updates I will unban tomorrow in the morning after the daily updates ran through.
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01
Sep
…Hello!
Patch 1.35 is here and introduces a number of quality of life tweaks and changes, while also fixing some of the remaining issues you’ve reported to us. The patch will be available on both PC and PS4 today! Here’s a closer look at what you can expect:
Features and changes
- Introduced ship handling variances between types/classes. Each individual ship now has procedural handling and speed characteristics, based on their type and class
- Handling is now displayed as a value on the ship statistics screen
- It’s now possible to craft multiples of the same product at once
- Added the ability to craft more of the same product on top of an existing stack
- Improved transferring items between inventories
- Added a toggle to switch from buy to sell screen on the trading menu
- Added variance in handling between ship types
- Improved the appearance of popup menus
- Improved speed and smoothness of user interface page transitions
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31
Aug
Display MoreToday we’re taking a moment to appreciate some of the awesome screenshots you’ve been taking so far in Update 1.3: Atlas Rises, so we’ve pulled together a gallery of some of our favourite shots from Reddit and Twitter.
Take a look, and keep sharing your creations!
slammedek1 – Reddit 
@SimranD1502 – Twitter 
Noderpsy – Reddit 
Kizonachi – Reddit 
ivXtreme – Reddit 
@Crisdaru – Twitter 
@chadwhynot – Twitter 
@BAMbam757Gaming – Twitter 
@AlandalieNMS – Twitter 
abcliveFR – Reddit 
Don’t forget to check out our Atlas Rises Facebook album for more of your screenshots (which we’ll keep updating!).
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31
Aug
Display MoreThis will probably go down as the month of patches... Here's another small one for you:
Tweaks- Adjusted sector 2 environment colors
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- VR: adjusted the mouse crosshair position to be properly centered
- VR: fixed that the aiming could be offset in gamepad mode after using the mouse
- Berserker enhancement: Do not interrupt jump focus when boosting, reset kill timer when destroying shield generators
- Fixed "Handle with Care" handicap not having any effect
- Fixed player drones having full health after each jump regardless of any perks
- Mac: Fixed German audio not being available during flashback movies
- Adjusted sector 2 environment colors
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25
Aug
…Hello!
Thanks for continuing to share your feedback and reporting issues to us – we’ve been working hard on our next patch which is coming to both PS4 and PC today! Here’s a look at the fixes and changes you can expect:
- Fixed an issue where large numbers of portal visits would be added to save files, greatly increasing the save size and impeding the ability to save the game. We’re aware there are still some players experiencing this issue, and we’re currently investigating any remaining reports.
- Prevented the terrain editor draining in charge when editing empty voxels
- Prevented players being able to edit terrain outside their base radius for free while standing inside their base
- Fixed responses made to Artemis and Apollo at times being incorrectly tracked
- Prevented players being blocked from progressing if they decline to enter glyphs into a particular story portal
- Fixed instances where Atlas text was appearing
