Posts by gpcady

Loading a previous save worked. This will allow me to finish and move on to Crossfire, but I do lose the credits and ship already earned. The offer to help complete the race for me is awesome - I'd be humbled for sure. I attached the file here. I had to change the extension to .txt. It will need to be changed back to .fl.

Also, thanks for the info on the cross-hairs! I will look for this - it should make a huge game play enjoyment improvement for me.

Cheers

Interesting... the installation instructions seemed to say I had to start with a clean start to Freelancer... that the game save file had to be empty. Can I simply load one of my previous play-through saves, and turn that into a Crossfire save?

For the record, I did catch the several comments about needing better skill in Crossfire. This is quite apparent playing new ships in the vanilla campaign. Against 5-8 ships, they can't drop my shield more than 25% or so, but I have to basically kill one enemy 5 times before it is actually dead. As the enemies' level increases, I will not be so invulnerable, yet it will still be a PITA killing enemy ships.

To make matters worse, the aiming square is now impossible (for me) to see, especially when under a lot of fire,or with different color backgrounds. I am partially colorblind - half the time it takes me 2-5 seconds just to locate the square. I then continually lose it while trying to target the enemy... Such an obviously easy fix, even one that gives you options on different types of target squares. I suppose this should be put into the improvement comment section...

Anyhow, thanks again. I will try to load from a previous vanilla save game. Shame to have lost all that time and the bank I accumulated... but if this works, I can make that up.

Seriously, thanks for all your responses. All very good info. Much of it is all stuff I had to learn to get through vanilla, though. At the 450 speed in Crossfire, my ship is all over the place. No control at all. I don't have the coordination, patience nor the interest to play FPS or racing games. I respect that you and others can complete this race, but it is not in my reaction time. This used to upset me to no end, but I am okay with it now. I'm an 'old guy', and I have my preferred genres.

Perhaps this race is a test for newcomers to the servers... but I am playing single player. Do the mod designers only want elitists enjoying their content? Whiners suck, indeed - I hate 'em... truly sorry if I sound like one. I am just really frustrated that a.) I have to go through the vanilla story just to get to the new content, and b.) after investing many hours grinding to get to this point, I will not actually be able to experience that new content.

Thank you again for your comments. I take it that there is no way to fix the speed..? This is what I came in here for - there is no chance I will complete the race as is. I will not even try; the frustration is not healthy for me. As I am playing single player, I would have no issue with a 'cheat' - especially for something that is, in my opinion, broken. Honestly, this would more appropriately be called a patch. Does such a fix exist?

Cheers

Thank you for the reply. I have played the vanilla game 20+ times. The race is a breeze at a cruise speed of 300. In Crossfire, they all seem to be 450 (all that I remember flying). I have an A-100 Stormrider. I even replaced it with the low-end ship sold there at the race battleship (Cavalier). This ship did provide tighter turns, but at that speed, it made no difference on the second half of the race. Do other ships have a slower cruise speed?

I was really looking forward to trying something new with Crossfire, but this will end the game for me if I can't find another way past it. *Way* too aggravating for what I consider to be the least interesting part of the original game.

I am new to Crossfire. The increased speed makes it impossible to finish the race, especially towards the end. Is there any way to reduce the cruise speed?