Freelancer is one of my favourite games, and Discovery is my favourite Freelancer mod. Thought you fine folks might want to take a look at the trailer they’ve just put out.
Freelancer is effectively abandonware at this point, so… free. It’s definitely worth a look, and Discovery is an amazing pick if you’re interested in a sci-fi RP server.
Freelancer:
Trent - “Have anything for me?”
Any fucking NPC - “we don’t own this place…. But we have an understanding with the people who do”
Hell yeah! I don’t play it very often, but Freelancer gets installed on every (Windows) computer I own. I’ll have to check this out.
Can I host my own server of this, or is only the client mod released?
You can host your own server too, although there’s a few steps you need to follow to get FLServer working properly. There’s instructions on the Discovery forums for that.
Wow, they’re still releasing new versions of Discovery? That’s crazy! I can’t believe it’s been 20 years of Freelancer modding now.
Yep! Discovery alone has been going since 2006, and has had a 24/7 multiplayer server running consistently that entire time (barring minor outages from faults and attacks). Pretty incredible really.
I also don’t like thinking about it because I first registered an account on their forum in 2007… really puts the inexorable march of time into perspective.
Shit I used to love Freelancer years and years ago. Can you even buy it for legally anywhere anymore?
Nope! Download away! In 2012, Microsoft used to even have a self hosted download link acknowledgment of its abandonware status but it’s gone. So it here
Do you know where that link happened to be? I’m wondering if it could be dredged up with the Wayback machine.
I can’t seem to find it but I remember it was offered
Looks cool! This reminds me of Freespace, another beautiful space fighter game
How did I not know about this? Thank you!
We’ve got a Discord server if you want to drop by and take a look around. :)
