Posts by iceXIV

How do you assign weapons to individual groups?

I would assume you select which weapons you want then press they key for it, it works the first time but then if I try to select group 2 then back to group 1 nothing changes.

Does anyone have any tips for a new player?

The ship im using at the moment is the Rhino which I plan to get rid of as soon as I have jump access and upgrade to the Defender.

I've just completed the part where you take out the guy who you think is Ashcroft, this took me the best part of 30 - 35 minutes (due to him outmaneuvering me) and the next bit involves 8 fighters and as King is the biggest load of crap in the existence of ANYTHING I have to take them out myself, taking out the sheilds isn't a problem as I have two turrets for that but the 3 Lavablade weapons (Mk. III I believe) barely leave a scratch and as far as I am aware are the best weapons for delivering hull damage that are available at the moment.

it feel's like the learning curve for CF is less of a curve and more like wall and I'm getting close to pulling my hair out because of it.

I've got around the issue of the supposed virus but whenever I try activating the mod I either get the message

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Error: problem activating 'Crossfire Mod 1.81 Client Edition' Error: SHCopyFile failed ('C:\Program Files\Freelancer Mod Manager\mods\Crossfire1.81\EXE\Freelancer.exe' to 'C:\Users\User\Documents\My Games\Freelancer\EXE\Freelancer.exe')

If I try to activate it in safe mode it gets further along when activating but it I get this message...

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Error: problem activating 'Crossfire Mod 1.81 Client Edition' Error: SHCopyFile failed ('C:\Users\Simon\Documents\My Games\Freelancer\Data\Missions\M01A\m01a_01.thn.flmmbak' to 'C:\Users\Simon\Documents\My Games\Freelancer\Data\Missions\M01A\m01a_01.thn')

I'm starting to get pretty annoyed with this now [3]

I've recently been having trouble activating v1.8, after I finally managed to activate it I now can't open it as it's being flagged as a trojan.

I downloaded it from here so i'm pretty sure it's not actually a trojan.

Has anyone had this problem before? If so, any ideas on what to do now?

At first I thought it might have been something to do with needing admin allowance because FL was installed in the 'Program files' folder so I reinstalled it in a different folder and changed the setting in FLMM.

Now when I try to activate the mod my anti virus flags it up as a trojan, the file it flags is the same file that causes the problem in FLMM.

Done both of those...

I've been following the guide but when I try to activate 1.8 I get this message.

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Error: problem activating 'Crossfire Mod 1.81 Client Edition' Error: SHCopyFile failed ('C:\Program Files\Freelancer Mod Manager\mods\Crossfire1.81\EXE\Freelancer.exe' to 'C:\Users\User\Documents\My Games\Freelancer\EXE\Freelancer.exe')

Any more help would be appreciated

I have recently downloaded V1.8 but when I try to turn off V1.7 the bar completes to about 50% quite quickly then slows down alot and then freezes altogether.

would uninstalling it via the programs and features control panel option have the same effect or would it be best to uninstall FL altogether and then activate V1.8?

Would using V1.4 of the mod manager work better then switch back to 1.3 to activate 1.8?

Finally, if there is going to be V1.9 would it be really too much to ask that an option be inplemented so we can switch the NPC use of nanobots and shield generators to extra health for NPCs instead?

I can't tell you how infuriating it is spending 5 or so minutes getting one enemies health down really low only for him to quickly change direction and by the time he's back in my sight he's back to full health and have to repeat it 3 or 4 times.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!