Freelancer Demo

FrEnZy · March 17, 2003, 12:42:20 PM

I resently got a copy at i15, and im loving it. And i normaly hate space flight games.

*wanders off to ambush another frigate*

Stryker · March 17, 2003, 12:44:28 PM

is it possible we could run a server? whats the bandwidth usage like?

All I know is a server is a solarsystem.... I think, and all the servers are interlinked to form the galaxy, whatever....

smilodon · March 29, 2003, 03:59:26 PM

For those of us that pay for their games it's confirmed for release next Friday

OldBloke · March 29, 2003, 05:06:37 PM

I've been using Frenzy's 'try b4 buy' version and I like it so I'll be buying a copy

Stryker · March 30, 2003, 10:37:28 PM

I've won the game, well completed all the missions and story line. V nice game.

JonnyAppleSeed · May 16, 2003, 11:52:31 PM

I would just like to point out that this game has stolen what little spare time i have .......

Please can someone warn me nextime :roll:

A Twig · May 17, 2003, 12:27:51 PM

I hated this game??? Found it really slow, samey and linear?

Ah well, Space things aren't really my scene neways...

smilodon · May 17, 2003, 01:18:29 PM

Only played the demo, but one day they WILL remake Elite, but not yet it seems.

ChimpBoy · May 17, 2003, 05:49:52 PM

Highly recommended smiley - great game. Elite will be remade no doubt (see link below) but I wouldn't hold your breath. Another Condition Zero if you ask me.

http://www.frontier.co.uk/games/elite4/faq.html

QuoteI hated this game??? Found it really slow, samey and linear?

Twiggy, were you even playing the same game mate? It wasn't really linear as you could opt in and out of the central story any time you liked. There were loads of sub-plots to get into, you just had to fly off and delay the main story when it tried to pull you back in. Strange. Not sure what you meant by samey - don't all games suffer from an element of repetition? Then again if it aint your thing then it aint your thing

smilodon · May 17, 2003, 08:50:56 PM

Going only from the demo, they give you a whiff of free form play and then lock you out of so much potential. I wanted to land at the base or dock or whatever (maybe with a few docking radio messages). Then walk my character into the base and around the bars, ship suppliers, traders and whatnot. A bit like Baldurs Gate or Morrowind. I certainly didn't expect a trader to be a bloke standing on the landing pad next to a pile of boxes. It was as if they tantalised you with freedom of game-play and then didn't go the whole way. I felt a bit conned (or would have if I had payed).

Hey wait a minute.......promises of real freedom?......but locked down in reality?.......a game by Microsoft?........ahhhh it all makes sense.

Lets not go there though :wink:
Each to their own

ChimpBoy · May 20, 2003, 11:57:35 AM

Don't know bout anyone else, but I was having huge probs performance wise with this game - lots of slow down when flicking between menu screens and when engaging cruise engines, even on a high spec pc like mine (2.5ghz, 768mb ram).

I have an ATI Radeon 9700, and just updated the drivers, and now the probs are gone. Now nobody in space can hear me scream. Yay

QuoteGoing only from the demo, they give you a whiff of free form play and then lock you out of so much potential

I thought that was the point of demo's :wink: - to give a taster (which it does in fairness). Also, is it really such a big deal that instead of walking to some guy at the bar you just click on him? TBH it makes no difference, and given the size of the game these are minor quibbles. And you do get docking radio messages, plus random comms chatter from enemies in dogfights which is a nice touch :?

You can play through the campaign missions then continue playing free-form after this, or opt out of the missions at any point - the choice, as they say, is yours.

smilodon · May 20, 2003, 12:49:43 PM

It was something else? The space flight, branching quests, reputation amongst factions, sub plots and career paths were great ideas. I was just very disappionted with the way you I was restricted once on the ground. The freedom of movement within the bases wasn't there. The scripted dialogue and cutscenes seemed at odds with the rest of the game.

ChimpBoy · May 21, 2003, 06:21:21 PM

QuoteI was just very disappionted with the way you I was restricted once on the ground. The freedom of movement within the bases wasn't there. The scripted dialogue and cutscenes seemed at odds with the rest of the game.

All fair points, but I think you have to look at this game as a next-gen version of elite and frontier, not as an RPG. Those space games were very limited once you stepped "outside of the cockpit", and so is Freelancer. I'm sure the time will come when they can link both game elements (Star Wars Galaxies perhaps, after a few server upgrades and many expensive expansion packs :evil: ), but even the newest stuff like Eve Online doesn't allow much interaction on terra firma.

If you start comparing it to the vast free-form nature of RPGs like Deus Ex or the Baldurs Gate series then it will undoubtedly suffer from comparison.