Posts by Chancletudo

    If it's difficult for you, why not enable the God Mode? I understand that it's a form of cheating for the simple reason that you may not have spent years of fighting like us here in this community, so I understand that CF might be a bit challenging for you.

    Ahhh very kind of you .


    But sadly I will have to pass.


    It is not about difficulty, but the subtlety of the original "feeling" and the endless quest , futile as much as any other, to approach a perfect sense of originality with a new touch of modernity but without crossing the imaginary limit of a moment.


    Balancing a game is ... to put it succinctly to make a new game, in this case Freelancer with many other mods. Crossfire is for me a literal different game using Freelancer as a base, which is good, again, I must reiterate, there is nothing wrong, but not what I am looking for.


    Same with many other mods that simply do "balances", tweaks, additions, subtractions off the original by the mindset of a creator that has a particular view of how something should be, the whole spirit of Modding per se.


    The beauty of Vanilla Freelancer is how unbalanced (to some ) it was and the recreation of a time long past moment and "Feeling" the pursuit of some modders, myself included.


    It is about "Ambience" to make it clear, not "challenge".


    I have talked of this in other forums and the closest I have gotten is to reinstall original freelancer and add some bug fixing patches , the swag pack and some enbs/reshades plus some very vanilla like mods, things that add without altering the overall package much, a couple ships here, equal in power to the progression of the campaign/zone racial/cultural area and what I found enticing was some of the new commodities and some ship hulls, not all off Crossfire, which I am now slowly importing to my own game.


    Just wanted to see if someone had something like that before to not work twice, but seems I have to rebuild everything from scratch.


    It might sound odd, but I actually enjoy playing old games with light touches, most of them cosmetic and very minor alterations to certain mechanics or way of doing things in them.



    Not all mods are complete Rebalances or Expansive Projects, some mods and modders like myself just like very delicate changes to reexperience a particular moment until it can no longer be achieved or you are sated.


    Like a small dose of emotional drugs.


    But again, thanks for the saves! Personally I believe the game ended perfectly and just want to recreatet the feeling of escalation it gave during the vanilla campaign. The slow trudge from low tier ships until the end and the Sphere.


    I usually stay fixed on the map before rheinland opens. Best emotional middle ground for me, a world full of possibilities and the dreaded closure still too far in the future.


    In Crossfire I flew over some interesting areas, found the wormhole maze to reach the base idea novel, but again, it is something beyond freelancer, quite good, but not what I am looking for, but Crossfire has so many good things in them you can take away to make something else, but sadly an extremely slow process as I have to literally make something new out of scratch, which is extremely time consuming, and time my friend, is one of the most precious commodities in the universe, something no one has enough of despite any material wealth you might have.


    I found out in the download section some amazing little mods that gave Crossfire some of its glamour, like the small mod to make VIPs and Prisoners commodities and some ship packs, these I am slowly inserting into my own vanilla personal mod as well.


    But I have reached a solid ground of what I wanted and currently playing the Vanilla Campaign with a lot of glorious visual imagery not possible back in the day keeping part of its original spirit intact.


    I really need to explain this as some people sometimes see me weirdly, there are other projects that try to recreate for example a game as it was, like Project1999 with the current Everquest Green server which will historically unlock expansions as they went back in 1999-2000 and forward until a definite cap at Velious, keeping or adding even some of the original bugs as a design choice!


    Or some Enhancement Projects for Morrowind like Tamriel Rebuilt that aim to enhance not modify the original Morrowind or many other communities that try to keep a vintage game as close as possible to the original with perhaps QoL improvements but without touching the core, the soul of it if we try to wax and wane poetic.


    Some people, like me, like to relive and enhance old games keeping them as close as possible as they were, like virtual museums of sorts fixed in time and space but with a small peccadillo of extravaganza with perhaps newer textures without touching much the original game as it was delivered.


    That is all 8)


    Hope you all have a wonderful day and a big hug from South America to everybody!


    Glad to see people still have interest in Freelancer, so hope this mod keeps on giving for many many years as well!


    Cheers!

    Hi Guys!


    I have been enjoying Crossfire lately but was a bit bummed out the low tiers of play from the original campaign are destroyed by the added difficulty and exorbitant prices of the mod for some items when buying and selling, not a bad critique, but simply not to my taste, it is simply too much.


    Nothing wrong with the mod, it is quite good but a bit overwhelming when all I need is a nostalgia trip with some extra goodies, so I decided to simply install vanilla freelancer and replay the campaign only with added visual enhancements, so was wondering, since Crossfire has so many ships and commodities if there is any mod out there that adds some the Commodities and some of the low tier ships to the Vanilla Campaign?


    Something Lore friendly and not too OP.


    I have been looking at the Mods already out there but they all seem bent on adding T10 ships with several turrets or ships from other obvious franchises like Elite , Star Wars and Wing Commander, which are good but not what I am looking for ... I am mostly looking at mods like the ones that let you have a buyable CSV for example with about 100 cargo hold or one that adds a couple ships for each faction in the same price ranges and power of the vanilla ones.


    Is there even such a mod? One that just enhances and expands vanilla without going overboard for Single Player?


    Some of the new commodities added in Crossfire are interesting and some ships as well , so I wonder if there is something like an extremely Lite version of Crossfire that only adds to Vanilla Campaign a handful of ships and commodities?


    Just want Freelancer "version 2.0" with some new commodities, some ships lore compliant for their zone during the campaign trip and perhaps a sprinkle of extra systems? Or a "Crossfire Ultra Lite Redux Version for SP Vanilla Campaign 1.0" of sorts hehe.


    Just wondering 8)

    Saludos de Peru :) Same problems with internet here, only way to speed up downloads is using Hotspot Shield VPN. But bad ping times makes most games unplayable. Only way for me is to play over cellphone-connection, there I get a good ping.

    Hi! I do not bother with online gaming due to the irregularity of the service where I live, even 3G/4G is unreliable and we all have quotas /data caps on them , so yeah I only play single player to relax, specially when the power goes out and I run on battery and the power I get from a small generator when battery dies.


    Hence why I truly dislike some of the bundled songs of the mod, they are truly atrocious to the overall feeling, my only complaint of Crossfire 2.0 to be honest, besides SOME (not all ) of the music it is actually a pretty good mod and the single player campaign is quite enjoyable with the added enhancements on combat ai and availability of ships.


    Be well!

    When you have to touch theese files anyway, is there a chance you can pitch down the volume of this specific prison-song?
    At the moment it sounds like double the volume of any other sound in the game.

    I agree with this as well, one of the main reasons i hate that song besides being repetitive and boring is the fact it warbles out from the speakers due to non normalized audio peaks.


    There are several pieces of software that can normalize abnormal audio peaks on audio files to make them more smooth, it shows it is either a bad rip or a very poor bitrate copy of the original song, I noticed this distortion during my trip into the audio folder on several of the .wav files used for some of the songs and voiceovers as well, some pretty big offenders in there.


    Levelator works wonder for this for example, which is something a lot of people use , specially for youtube.


    3000-2170_4-197650.html

    Ahh I see ...


    Well you might not believe me, but yes, I only use SP, I live in Venezuela and internet is pretty bad down here, can only do stuff via VPNs and then mostly to download games and mods.


    Thanks for letting me know you will encrypt the files, I just need a working copy of Single Player to play when there is no connection (90% of the itme) so I guess I will make a backup of game as it is and play like this for the time being.


    You can of course provide for people like me server compliant alternate music files that can be used in lieu of the originals? some of the non lore music is quite jarring to the mood of the game, but then again it is your mod and it would be a hassle, so just a suggestion.


    And though you might not believe me, I truly have 0% interest in Multiplayer. I mostly play the game to relax on my lappy and some of the choices people suggest, while good are simply fixed by removing the specific utf file and supplanting it with another.


    fact is, I have mixed your mod with other music/ship mods without issues as well, same as editing some variables to make sme ships better or tune them down as well, but that is beyond this post, but if you want to add a layer of decription to utf files just to avoid any legal complication it would be an extra layer of protection for nothing. All of that music is easily found elsewhere in in much more open and friendlier formats.


    But also amazing mod man, perhaps it is language but I was not meaning to imply I want to pirate it or redistribute it?


    Just wanted to change some of the ingame music without resorting ot external software. Also its only very specific music, so having to MUTE all music for a few tracks is honestly a bit of a hammer to crack an eggshell approach, since I like almost all music of the mod, except some of the ones that I mentioned before are simply sticking out like a sore thumb in a manicured finger party haha.


    So if someone reading this can remove all non futuristic music off the game in a mod for crossfire it would be amazing, though I know it is wishful thinking, I still dont know why Star Wars or Danger Zone music is in the game either, it is a bit of a wonky musical aesthetic but that falls on issues of taste which is a very broad zone.


    Hope everyone has an awesome day and a big hug from South America.

    As a small sidenote to this, some of the .utf files have a lot of amazing tracks that I have never heard before in game and are quite moody and fitting to the setting, wonder which places have some of these, there is even a nice vocal song of a lady singing a capella that I enjoy a lot.


    Have not progressed much in the game, and last time I played crossfire was back in 2016, so a lot of music is new to me 8)

    Well I dont think they own the copyright to play the Music Track of a Movie and many other mp3s in there for several well known artists.


    All I want is to mute or change a specific set of songs.


    It is a bit annoying to me and finally found after some hours the culprit song for the prison background.


    It is a .utf file which VLC can play without issues, not all of them are audio, but the one called "prison.utf" is indeed the one assigned to the prisons.


    I replaced it without issues with one of the ambient.utfs in the audio durectory, one that plays some interesting lore compliant or at least modern enough to my tastes.


    I think you can alter practically all .utf files and replace them with others without issues as long as they are sound based, but that goes beyond what I want to do, mod is pretty good as it is right now and just wanted the non futuristic music out of it.


    I mean, more power to people if they enjoy that of course, but nothing wrong in altering some music files for your own personal enjoyment.


    Cheers!

    Hi Guys! Due to personal preferences the game is almost flawless except for some of the Environments background music which is a bit jarring to my ears and not very lore friendly, like the Great Escape movie music PLAYING OVER AND OVER AND OVER again when you are in a Prison. I mean, I get the idea, super fun! But after exactly the 2nd loop begins it is grating, annoying and gets me out of the mood of playing Freelancer with the Crossfire mod. I mostly play Single Player and do not care if it will break when I update the game , because I never do once the patcher downloads all single player files. Was looking at all the .wav files but cant seem to find that particular piece of music, which is for me the worst offender. Would rather have silence or the classical vanilla eerie music in the background. Any ideas which file is the culprit? under what folder?