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Discovery Freelancer - Mod of the Year finalist 2023 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Don't know if you've tried this before, but there at a few guides for getting the mod working on Linux. This might help?

https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=147190

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Discovery Freelancer - Mod of the Year finalist 2023 (youtu.be)
 

ModDB runs a Mod of the Year contest every year, and Discovery Freelancer has made it into the Top100 this year for the first time since 2012!

First releasing in 2005, it's been consistently developed since, releasing incremental updates to continue a real time story for its hosted multiplayer roleplay server.

As one of the mod's writers, getting into the Top100 is a really happy moment for the dev team and the wider community. I put together this compilation of clips from the last month or so as a celebration.

We get to find out where we ranked after voting closes next week.

https://www.moddb.com/groups/2023-mod-of-the-year-awards/top100#vote8017

Here, have some more Freelancer in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The mod has been consistently going since 2005, so they've had a lot of time to build up assets! There's a lot of snazzy new features, but everything still aims to integrate with Freelancer's original setting and lore. Mixed success, but it works more often than not. There's a community Discord if you wanted to take a look around or ask questions.

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Here, have some more Freelancer (youtu.be)
 

I posted a trailer for Freelancer's Discovery mod relatively recently, and since then I've got into some very basic video editing myself.

This is a compilation of a few of the more eye catching fleet battles that happened on the official server over the last month. Hopefully I'll be a bit less amateurish by the time November's is due.

Also if seeing these clips starts getting repetitive, by all means let me know and I'll tone it down. :)

Discovery Freelancer Multiplayer - Official v5.0 Release Gameplay Trailer in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know where that link happened to be? I'm wondering if it could be dredged up with the Wayback machine.

Discovery Freelancer Multiplayer - Official v5.0 Release Gameplay Trailer in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We've got a Discord server if you want to drop by and take a look around. :)

Discovery Freelancer Multiplayer - Official v5.0 Release Gameplay Trailer in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

Discovery Freelancer Multiplayer - Official v5.0 Release Gameplay Trailer in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

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Discovery Freelancer Multiplayer - Official v5.0 Release Gameplay Trailer (youtu.be)
 

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.