Posts by Blake00

Hey guys!

I'm looking to engage the various Freelancer communities to help me build an ever improving list of Freelancer related games out there.

Long story short, in 2014 I created a Freelancer section on my oldschool retro website paying tribute to the original Freelancer games along with the great many successful & sadly unsuccessful Freelancer related fan projects out there to make sure that they are never forgotten and can inspire talented Freelancer fans to create new Freelancer projects in the future. For that list I collected pics, vids, demos, and information for as many of the projects as possible. I could use some help from the community with this list as I'm sure there's more I don't know about. This is my latest summary of the website list below.

Website:
Blake's Sanctum - Freelancer Legacy Games
(Note: Originally built in 2001 this website is still deliberately very late 90s early 2000s retro in design. So if you’re not nostalgic for old retro websites with music, animating gifs & left click browsing then you probably won’t like it)

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Freelancer related game projects list (Updated 01/01/2017) :
Large scale mod projects that expand the story
- Crossfire Mod - Huge MPlayer & SPlayer expansion to Freelancer

- Discovery Mod - Huge MPlayer expansion to Freelancer

- The Void Mod - Huge MPlayer expansion to Freelancer

- Shadow of Fear Mod - Huge MPlayer & SPlayer expansion to Freelancer
- Rebirth Mod - Huge MPlayer expansion to Freelancer
- Freelancer 2: Continuum - A standalone fan sequel being created by the Crossfire Team

Very Similar Games
- Star Citizen - Chris Roberts next big Freelancer style game
- Wing Commander Privateer Series - Chris Roberts original series that inspired Freelancer
- X Series - One of the greatest space combat & exploration series out there
- DarkStar One - Space shooter very similar to Freelancer
- Everspace - Very similar gameplay & graphics to Freelancer (made by Galaxy On Fire team)

Similar Games
- Eve Online - Massive online multiplayer space shooter similar to Freelancer
- Galaxy On Fire Series - Space shooter similar to Freelancer
- Rebel Galaxy - Space shooter similar to Freelancer
- Starpoint Gemini Series - Space shooter similar to Freelancer
- SpaceForce: Rogue Universe - Space shooter similar to Freelancer
- Zigfrak - Space shooter similar to Freelancer

Sort of Similar Games
- Elite Series - The original space combat & exploration series that inspired them all!
- Starflight Series - If Freelancer was a top down 2D game with planetary mining & more aliens then it would be Starflight! An awesome classic space exploration, combat & trading series.

If you know of a game series I've missed that's very similar to Freelancer, a fan game based on Freelancer, or a large scale mod project related to Freelancer please let me know!

Out of curiosity what engine was the original demo below built in. Looks different but I can't tell if it's unity as well.

Freelancer 2 - YouTube

Amazing to think this video is 5 years old now as it still looks great today. Especially that red planet background.

Thanks guys.

Glad you like it Wanderer! It's retro style is loved by most but not everyone haha.

The music on the website news page is called Aurora's Theme from the French scifi action film Babylon AD staring Vin Diesel & Michelle Yeoh. The film was a universally panned box office bomb but I've always liked it, especially the sound track.

Here's the song on youtube:
BABYLON A.D. - Aurora's Theme(Agnus Dei) (Soundtrack) - YouTube

Hi guys!

Just realised I should have introduced myself before posting elsewhere yesterday lol! Was chatting with SWATOP in another forum and he mentioned that the Continuum project was alive again. I was so exited I charged on over here and signed up to post in the project thread straight away haha.

I'm a huge Freelancer fan and have been lurking this & other FL forums for years. Completed the game multiple times and quite enjoy modding its graphics to take away some of it's age. I guess I can't call myself a superfan as I don't play any FL multiplayer as I've always been more of an old fashioned single player with most games. Although I quite enjoy watching videos of Discovery & Crossfire multi games. I've only ever mucked around with Crossfire but in the next year or so after I get a new graphics card I plan to play through all of Crossfire combined with my favourite Darkened ENB mod (hopefully ther'll work nicely together lol). I also have a 'Worlds of Freelancer Tour HD ENB' video series on youtube that I'm looking forward to adding Crossfire worlds to.

I can't program and I'm not much of an artist but I'm not too bad with pixel art and retro stuff so I try to help fan projects where I can. I'm the creator of Star Trek Doom & Quest for Glory IV 3D Hexen which recently got some attention on Rock, Paper Shotgun and PC Gamer which was a nice surprise considering the simplicity of my work haha.

I run a retro Freelancer Legacy gaming website that covers the official game and a lot of the big fan made addons I can find out there as there's such an amazing fan community here creating so much cool content. Will post more about it in your Freelancer discussion forum at some point as I'm always looking for fan help on spotting large scale addon projects I don't know about.

In the meantime it's good to be here!

Thanks for letting me know that the Continuum project is alive again SWATOP. Just tried the demo.. amazing!! So much potential!!

As much as I'm looking forward to Star Citizen I doubt I'll enjoy it as much as Freelancer. A new FL fan game with updated graphics and new story elements but with the old style FL interface and mechanics would be a dream come true.