Kobal2 posted:

Watching those videos, everything just floods back... and I finally can put words to something that annoyed 17 year old me but I didn't have the words to understand or describe it then. Namely : in this (and many, many other space pewpews) it's goddamn impossible to have any strategic or even tactical sight picture whatsoever. Your entire engagements are dictated by tunnel vision : you target the nearest rear end in a top hat, effortlessly get on his 6 (maybe do a mutual game of chicken first), match speed, shoot at it until it blows up, then hit the "next nearest target" and so on.

You have *no idea* what anyone else is doing, or where you're going. You're just a space goldie, constantly chasing after the next mailman's truck. And there's really no other way to fight or play the game.

Gothsheep posted:

Hey, King isn't so bad. Though I guess he did lead us into an ambush without telling us that was the plan, and then later when Trent called him out on it his response was 'yeah and we ain't done killing yet!'

Rocket Baby Dolls posted:

if people are still okay with the bar scenes I will keep them in.

Rocket Baby Dolls posted:

Groetgaffel posted:

in peace, random research assistant.

Gothsheep posted:

Wasn't there a guy at Freeport 1 who was offering to fix your Outcast rep?

Rocket Baby Dolls posted:

It should be working now.

Psion posted:

Well, Freelancer's inspiration was Privateer and Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is extremely Privateer, so .. that's about all I got. I should go pick up RGO again and try my hand at the ship painter again. What a ludicrously overengineered tool, I love it even though my output is terrible

unless you want to delve into questionable mobile ports? Then we can make fun of Galaxy on Fire 2!

Psion posted:

I did, yes. I remember it being weird, having some planet landing CG clips that I thought were a really cool 2.5 seconds, and was otherwise really not that good of an actual game experience.

I don't remember crashes as it's been a while but everything back in the Windows 95/98 era was crashing every 15 minutes anyway?

Veloxyll posted:

Privateer 2 was SPECIAL
You had to be really careful about what you loaded into the 640k of memory or it just wouldn't launch.

Night10194 posted:

Privateer 2 is worth it just for the bonkers cutscenes.

Rocket Baby Dolls posted:

After several attempts, I've completed a test run of the next mission and it's going to be a messy one

Rocket Baby Dolls posted:

I'm torn between three titles for the next video:


I'm a hero, but I'm back to freelancing

I never got paid

I'll never get used to Liberty Ale


Right now I've titled it with the first option.

Rocket Baby Dolls posted:

I've got a chipped tooth
...
I will actively engage in piracy

Kazinsal posted:

Ha, that reminds me of one of the perennial favourite systems in the Discovery mod (and ultimately one of the reasons it became so newcomer-hostile), Connecticut.

Being a 24/7 roleplaying server, Discovery Freelancer had some pretty strict rules about staying in-character. The only systems this wasn't applicable to were Bastille (where the admins would teleport you if you were being naughty) and Connecticut (commonly abbreviated as Conn), which didn't exist in-RP and was for PvP training. There was a neutral station there you could buy ammo and restock nanobots/batteries from, and there were rules of honour about not shooting people who didn't agree to be shot at by you, but other than that it was a lawless realm of pew pew. Not long into Conn's existence did people realize that if they barely won a fight and lost a wing or two (a problem that affected some of the most popular ships in the mod, the Eagle and Sabre, because they were still vanilla ship models with complex multi-part hitboxes) and had expensive fancy class 10 CODENAME weapons on their ship, they would permanently lose them if they docked.

So a mod update put a planet next to the neutral station so you could smash yourself into it and respawn at the station with your guns intact. This was super important in Disco because the existence of capital ships and armour upgrades created a highly inflated economy where a single CODENAME weapon could be worth five to ten times as much as the ship hull itself. An Eagle with a full loadout of CODENAME 2.00s and a top-tier fighter armour upgrade had the same credit value as a gunboat with a standard combat armour upgrade, so losing a wing and then docking meant you were out an enormous amount of firepower and an equally enormous amount of money.

e: also please let me know if my stupid anecdotes about freelancer mods are unwanted and I'll shut up. or (much less likely) let me know if you want to hear more dumb ramblings about it

Rocket Baby Dolls posted:

In this video, I engage in a little pirate activity and talk a bit about the reputation and map system. I've kept things pretty basic and just kept to my own knowledge of things. Which, admittedly, is not a lot.

Rocket Baby Dolls posted:

In this penultimate video I pay a little visit to the upper Unknown system and say hello to the people who inhabit it. No idea where they come from but they keep popping up. This system contains only a single star and a lot of radiation.