April 2025 update

As in terms of fixes to lights and hardpoints the reported list of ships felt incomplete. Therefore I have digged a bit deeper and tested a large number of ships.

Fixes are done to the following ships:

• Ragnarok Gunboat
• Ceptyr
• Scourge
• Bullpup MkI
• Bullpup Mk II
• Bullpup Mk III
• Hydra Mk III
• Bretonia Battleship
• Rheinland Battleship
• Kusari Battleship
• Osiris
• Transporter "Shavrov"
• Battleship 'Reliant'
• Bretonia Gunboat
• Kusari Destroyer
• Rheinland Cruiser
• Mining Ship
• Claw
• Antares Armored Freighter
• Dragonfly
• Celestis Dreadnought
• Prisonship 'Saladin'

Futher changes:

• Fixed a bug that caused the lights of a trade lane to never turn back on after the trade lane gets disrupted.
• Fixed a bug that caused waypoints to be cleared when the player reaches the coordinates in a different system.
• Fixed a bug that makes the player ship a selectable target for creating waypoints on the nav map.
• Makes the weapon flash particle effect play on all barrels instead of only on the first barrel.
• Fixed a bug for the one_shot_sound not playing when firing multi-barrel launchers.
• Fixed a bug for the ammo count not decrementing correctly when firing multi-barrel launchers.
• Fixed a bug that caused the use_animation entries in weapon_equip.ini to not work, i.e. enables weapon animations.
• Allows a gun's use_animation entry to be played on the parent (e.g. ship) if the animation name has a leading underscore (_); this leading underscore should not be included in the cmp file's animation name.
• Fixed a bug that caused the client to not send the correct engine state of the player's ship to the server.
• When playing on a server, ensure the client sends an update:
  • at least every 2 seconds;
  • when engine kill has been toggled;
  • if after every 0.25 seconds the ship's orientation has been changed to some extent.
• Sets the minimum time between client-server updates to 40 milliseconds (or 750 ms while in a trade lane) such that jitter is prevented when playing with a high or inconsistent framerate.
• Allow ui_music_test to play when the current background music has finished playing.
• Added support for playing the ui_interface_test and ui_ambiance_test sounds when adjusting the respective sliders in the options menu; these sounds should be defined in interface_sounds.ini.
• Automatically prevent crashes while adjusting the interface and ambience volume sliders in the event that the test sounds are not defined.
• While adjusting the ambience and music volume, mute other background sounds accordingly so that the volume can be fine-tuned more easily.
• Allows for up to 127 selectable resolutions in the general options menu; these are automatically determined based on the user's main monitor resolution.
• Fixes the problem where the general options menu can't distinguish two different resolutions with the same width.
• Makes the default resolution button in the general options menu select the user's main monitor resolution instead of 1024x768.
• Prevent Freelancer from running with resolutions beyond the main display's capabilities in terms of horizontal and vertical resolution.
• Sets the user's main monitor resolution as the default in-game resolution.
• Instead of checking if the available resolutions are supported each time the option menu opens, do it only when needed (optimization).
• Allows for the Ctrl + C hotkey to copy text from any Freelancer input box to the clipboard.
• Allows for the Ctrl + V hotkey to paste text from the clipboard to any Freelancer input box.
• Improved the slide-out animation for some UI buttons in the multiplayer menus.
• When the "You must be on friendlier terms to purchase this." message is displayed in the Dealer menus, allow the exact reputation requirement to be printed too.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Freelancer process to not always terminate after closing the game.
• Automatically set rotation lock and auto leveling to the default value when launching to space to prevent control-related issues from occurring (e.g. mouse flight not working).
• fix wireframes for custom weapons
• removal of the vanilla FL (legacy) shader option
• fixed the vanilla FL shader option
• fixed a minor misconfiguration of the launcher options
• fixed torpedo descriptions for alien factions
• minor fixes of various ship hardpoints
• improved turret camera settings
• improved mouse input for window mode
• Reshade update
• alternative bug fix of a lighting issue in DirectX
• improved dual mode target screen
• 3d model replacement for Renaissance guns
• 3d model replacement for various Coalition guns
• 3d model replacements for torpedo launchers
• 3d model replacements for cruise disruptors
• 3d model replacements for Codename weapons
• 3d model replacements for Codename MkII weapons
• OpenGL is set to the default launcher option
• player ship status added
• weapon groups toggle added
• included CFUIchanger Tool (switch UI option from installer without using the installer -> for now the only way to make changes or apply fixes to UI without releasing a new installer)
• fixed modern Crossfire UI maneuver bar not having an autohide function
• removed redundant code in modern Crossfire UI
• fixed several wireframe models of player ships
• fixed a minor rendering issue in certain base menus
• partially removed a workaround that was meant to fix wireframe issues but caused LOD issues on low detail levels instead (it is intended to fully remove that workaround with upcoming updates since a better fix was found)
• as result of the previously mentioned workaround issue, 178 ships got updated
• 99 ship hitboxes improved