Posts by Spaceman15

Sorry guys, what do you mean with IC exactly?

maybe?

About the weapon setup/equipment:

So i'm flying my chimera right now, but I think i'm going to check out the Rhineland VHF and the Coalition Saber as well. I think either should work fine, but the 2 sunslayers from the Chimera sound nice to me. Anything else I really need to proceed?

Well, maybe someone can help me as well. I am currently playing the campaign and i think i'm in the latter half already or even close to the end. I'm probably at this point in the game:

So far i've been flying a sabre, which is a bit old fashioned, i admit. Still i'm not seeing ANY chances in combat anymore. The

just rip me apart. I've been playing Freelancer for many years now and i think i have quite some experience (mostly online, but story as well), but i really think, my ship is far to weak by now. I even had the chance to purchase a cruiser before, but i didn't take it. Maybe I should have? I see, that the sabre isn't state of the art anymore, but the other VHF in this thread aren't *that much better* than a sabre, or are they? (Talking only about the use vs npcs! - Singleplayer!)

Tl;dr version: Can someone recommend me a good ship (fighter or gunboat prefered) to end the campaign with? Which stands a chance? (I understand, that CF is significantly harder than the original FL singleplayer) And maybe also give some hints about equipment i should get? My loadout is still pretty vanilla, no shield reactor boosters or anything. But please no spoilers about the story or what is yet to come

Edit: And i kinda like the Bullpup MKIII Freighter. It has a lot of firepower for sure. Would that be an option? Or is he far to big and slow to stand a chance against whatever the story is yet to throw against me? Loadout suggestions (for the MKIII or whatever ship you recommend) are also highly appreciated

Hey Wanderer,
thanks for your great reply! This his pretty much solved all my questions! Awesome!

About 8: i'm only wondering why the game keeps updating these 2 files every time i start? For me this looks like the update fails everytime and isn't actually installed? But well, i guess it has it's reason. At least, the mistake is not from my side there

And about 1: for me it's a bit strange that there is a 4:3 HUD and a 16:9 HUD for the CF-Style, when the vanilla HUDs seem to work with any aspect ratio? Doesn't really make sense to me, or am i missing something? I'm still not sure which HUD and Cursor i'm going to use - i really love the Vanilla FL (And *definitely* wont change Trent or Juni ), but i also seem to like the crossfire style. Ah well, guess that's something i have to decide for myself

Hi folks,

i've been a huge freelancer fan for over 10 years now, and played the story countless times. I also played online for a few years, but these days are over Anyway, i've just replayed the campaign and i loved it. And with pure coincidence, i found Crossfire, and it's just plain awesome! The graphics are stunning and i can't wait to play the campaign one more time and see how it will continue (And if, for me, crossfire lives up to it's name of the unofficial freelancer sequel )

Anyway, i've already got it running, but I still have some issues. Please note, that right now i'm only interested in singleplayer and the campaign. Whenever i want to change something in FLMM, it seems like i have to do a complete reinstall, as deactivating and re-activating the mod will only cause problems. So after 3-5 attempts by now, i want to make it finally right and start playing. So here are my questions:

1. As i'm playing on 1920x1200, i put widescreen support on. But there are 2 hud options, one being 16:9 and one being 4:3. The 16:9 one seemed to work good, but what if i want to use the classic hud? Will i encounter problems? I try to keep everything pretty vanilla, so classic Trent and classic Juni were a nobrainer for me! (Although i must say, good job on the crossfire trent - graphics wise)

2. The new cursor didn't really suit me, but the classic one still doesn't seem to be the vanilla one? What is going on there, and which one should i pick? Are there any comparions? I don't really want to reinstall the game 7 times just to take a look at 7 cursors. I think the crossfire cursor (default option) is quite....well, would certainly take it's time to getting used to it.

3. "Render low nebula clouds" = What exactly does that mean? My PC is quite powerful, so i want as much eyecandy as possible. But does that improve the quality or not? I'm a bit confused

4. "Display Roleplay Licences" - I guess that does not effect singleplayer at all, does it? And if so, what should i use for the best Singleplayer experience?

5. Ingame it doesn't show my shipspeed in the HUD anymore? Is this intended? (Don't really see a reason behind it..) Or did i do something wrong with the installer? Or is it just my 16:10 resolution?

6. The font appears to be quite big - almost too large sometimes. So some textboxes need additional lines and so on. Once again, is this intended, or did i do something wrong?

7. Tools like Freelancer Explorer or Freelancer Companion crash when CF is activated. I guess freelancer is just too big now? Or is there anything what can be done about that? Or should i just....deal with it?

8. The Crossfire Launcher seems to update 2 files everytime i want to start SP. Anything i can do about that? Is this a known bug?

I would be very thankful if someone could help me with my questions. After all, i'm still stunned about replaying the first Mission in such nice graphics and i can't look forward to finish the crossfire story. But i want to make sure, i get (technical wise) the best experience possible

Best regards!
Spaceman15