There are many and they are differnt. Tie Universe, Hostile univers, rebalance, Star wars ship pack, Zorg Starfighter from "The Fifth Element and soforth. Each is differnt but challenging. Tie is a starwars converstio, Hostile has new systems and a mystery to solve to new systems. The size of the mods will very from 200kb to 210mb, so your internet conections will play a big part to what you can get.

Edited by - Finalday on 4/10/2005 7:25:07 AM

I bought the game few weeks ago and before I got chance to install it, HDD of my new PC messed up. I'll get it back tomorrow in working condition (I hope) and first game to play on it shall be Freelancer. I don't even want try the game with this outdated piece of junk I'm using right now.

I have heard about 2 Star Wars mods, which are mostly MMO type multiplayer: Freeworlds and Tides of War. I would like to know what other mods of that caliber exist. Name, description and what game modes are available: SP, MP and/or MMO. Feel free to tell shortly about other (smaller caliber) mods.

What I have heard about Freeworlds, it is MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) type game. There is at least one server which is always available and stores details about players. So player can play, make small fortune, quit and return to continue where was left. There are quite number of different factions including civilians, New Republic, Empire, Black Sun and many others. Available ships range from TIE Fighter to small freighters (YT-1300) and light starships (Corellian Corvette and Dreadnaught). Mod staff has also made up some weird fighters including TIE Vampire and TIE Raptor. Heavy starships act as stationary bases. Scheduled events include Territorial Engagements where starsystems (or part of one) change hands. Available game modes are MP with few players and MMO type server. I have heard single player to be possible but there is needed some trick to get it work and there might be problems with it.

Tides of War sounds more promising. Heavy starships are available for players including Star Destroyers. Factions are limited only to 5 including civilians and gameplay weighs more towards war. MMO type server is available. I don't know about other game modes.

General opinion seems to be Tides of War is better than Freeworlds. But I guess it really depends what you want to play. If you want to be something like Han Solo, Freeworlds could be better choice. Tides of War is more (but not only) for war players.

Edited by - Matti Kuokkanen on 4/11/2005 12:11:58 AM

The ones I list abouve are all SP mods. The Tie one, replaced the fixed battle ships, like missouri, with star destroyers. Its quite good.

the rhenland battleship is really cool lookin in Tie, but it is really hard as your shaields aren't made to handle the laser strength

There's also Star Wars Time Distorted, which was going to put everything (as in 300 ships) into one mod, but I believe its pretty much dead. Freeworlds and TOW are the only Star Wars RP mods. TIE Unvierse is only SP, as was said. Porsche's ship pack seems to all be in FW anyway.

There also seems to be the SW Crossover mod. From the comments this seems very corrupted. It seems to be SP only as well. Click here

So it's pretty much reduced to TOW, FW and TU. TOW rules anyway (I'm Talon by the way)

Edited by - Outcast 1-1 on 5/1/2005 2:05:27 PM

Just a thought about Tie Universe mod, it is single player AND multiplayer. Just need to find a server running it.

the easiest way to get more enjoyment out of freelancer is with the flmm installed and search through the mods downloaded on lancers reactor you will be amazed at the ammount of different changes you can make in sp gameplay /if you are going to play on a server read the server top 20 then choose one .
remember to follow the rules of any server you join .

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