Uninstall the game, delete the freelancer folder, then reinstall the game, and do a search, there is a mod to bypass the race, then finish the game in vanilla, ie no mods to effect it. Don't give up so easy.

I don't know, Darkstar One should be coming next month, so maybe it's just too late for Freelancer. And are you saying that mod caused this Hovis suicide bug?

No, you just have to work out flying first, then working with the cruise engine to get use to flying the rings for the race. I use more thruster for the race rather than the main engine. The Hovis race mod, does not effect the game other than the race. So you then can move on with the story. Don't give up so easy on freelancer. ther's a lot to enjoy. Do the game a couple times over choosing differnt ships to see the play from that perspective. Then either try MP which has no story line, or choose a mod, like Tie Universe, that replaces all ships with star wars ones, or Hostile Universe that adds new systems and mysterys. There is a great deal to do, down to as simple as exploring every system, and trying to land/dock with every base. Over coming hiostilities will be needed for that one.

I checked out Darkstar One and don't see it raising the bar like Freelencer. I'd go to X3. Can't stand EVE lol.

That's what you get for trying a mod out without playing vanilla game, and if you hadn't guessed that maybe the issue was the mod - then uninstalling and missing out on an awesome game is your just deserts.


I keep saying it ad nauseum - why the hell do people get a game and instantly download someones mod that completely unbalances and spoils the game I do not know.

You are right, I was stupid to use a mod, I never liked mods(Morrowind..), they ruin the whole structure of the game, riddle it with bugs and cheapen the game itself in the process. But this time I read at gamespot that this is offical mod that offers extensive graphics improvements, gameplay, etc.

And someone said that Darkstar One doesn't raise the bar from FL, from everything I saw I think that is a pretty dumb statement, X3 with it's complexity and photorealistic graphics and DSO with it's user friendly FL-like setup will be at the top of this genre for a long time.

Edited by - xtrak on 5/16/2006 6:09:29 PM

Well, I gave it another shot, just "installed" 1.4 unofficial patch and I just can't believe how the game feels so much better, starting from the Trent's clothes, realistic priceing, looks of the ships, weapons and weapon stats, making freighter runs as supposed to bounties finally worthwhile, docking rings and animations of entry, intro cinematic...
All this time I was thinking about these things and now when I have a clean game it's just as it was supposed to be.
I can't believe I was such an idiot to install a mod, I swear I will never use any mod in any game ever!


Edited by - xtrak on 5/16/2006 9:24:36 PM

btw is there any way to make the objects always have every texture on them so when you are closing in you don't see the textures abruptly appear?

Edited by - xtrak on 5/16/2006 11:40:20 PM

After playing the single player plot for the third time I got the Hostile Universe mod from Giskard's respawn mods page and I'm running FL v. 1.0, this is quite alot harder than the single player game but it's fun for that reason. The 1.4 patch sounds good - I'll have to have a look.

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xtrak - you'd need to do some tweaking in the ini files with the "LOD" ranges available. It would take quite some time to edit the two files required for this, and whether you'd see much difference (for example, some ships you cannot make out the detail at when 2k away - because they are small, so you can't actually see them, let alone the details. Only when really close can you see the detail, so the level of detail uses changes with the range to the ship.

I'd love to know where on gamespot it says official mod, because they need correcting!

I am very interested in making this "far view" changes, because it really isn't a pretty sight when you are approaching some station or a big ship and the textures keep appearing in blocks. So if anyone knows exactly how could this be done....

Edited by - xtrak on 5/17/2006 2:17:17 AM

Is it normal that game crashes almost every time I jump from system to system, and it's some hardcore crash, the monitor turns itself off and I have to use reset button, I never encountered this kind of heavy crash from a game.

What is your computer specs?

QuEsTiOn AsKeR
Last Hope MOD

AMD athlon64 3.2GHz, 2GB RAM, NVidia 6600GT 128MB, win xp pro SP2