Freelancer - General Discussion

Wait, Heisenberg wants the tactical turtleneck with gloves and no hat?

Jeez, he could have mentioned it.

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I really like the one With the hat, but to each their own.

I also really like the Ancestral Hunter suit but I wish the boots werenā€™t rubber.

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Gimme the Maldives swimsuit with cowboy hat, rubber boots, and mittens, and Iā€™ll be happy.

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Just completed my very first Freelancer speedrun. Pretty happy with a sub-40 minute time. Also I found this exit mission screen mildly amusingā€¦

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Why is a vacuum available to turn on and why is it illegal to turn on? Is there something to this?

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Itā€™s fer immershun

Also the scalpel in your own infirmary is illegal to pick up. I donā€™t think the golf club is, though.

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I thought there was gonna be suit left behind penalty. Is there and Iā€™m missing it?

Would have been good that we can lose suits if we donā€™t bring them back as well and use merces to buy them back. But always have the default suit for each location so we still have something.

Every time I think of the potential that freelancer had, I get sad. :frowning:

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There is not. You are not missing anything.

There is a ā€œonly one disguise changeā€ objective, that would become suit only / lose your suit under those circumstance.

Timed disguise wouldnā€™t be fun too if you had to loop back to the start every time. In general having to loop back every time would get old fast.

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I think it depends on which weapon you choose first that will get the briefcase.ā€¦I think. Cuz I choose the sniper first, then choose the oil canister and when I start, the sniper is in the briefcase and the canister is in my hand.

So did you choose the bat first then sniper?

So, Iā€™ve played a dozen or more campaigns now and this is the first time Iā€™ve seen a suspect wearing body armor. This turned out to not be by target, but I was curious if the body armor would actually make him more resistant to bodyshots like armored guards are or if itā€™s just cosmetic.

Why do I start a new contract in the campaign, and some of the maps are already alerted, when the previous map and contract did not raise an alert?

Did anyone ever get a blond target?
I got red, grey, brown, black and bald, but never blond.

Best explanation is that I can think of is that because the four Syndicates you select are working together and have links to one another (as per Dianaā€™s dialogue that plays when you complete your first ever Syndicate) - word is spreading that Syndicates are getting eliminated and so the alert slowly gets raised.

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Yep, had multiple Blond leaders in my playthoughs.

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Can someone understands the ā€œperfect mission bonusā€ (2500XP) award?

I thought that you must complete in a single mission all objectives (the three optional objectives AND the prestige objective).
But Iā€™ve recently done two missions where I didnā€™t complete all objectives (I failed one paid objective) but I was awarded the bonus XP. I checked and the failed objective was shown as failed (written in red).

Is it a bug or is there something that I donā€™t get?

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Given that the Freelancer suit selection is tied to what suits you have unlocked and available in the game as a whole, I think this would be a bit difficult to implementā€¦

Like thrison mentions, itā€™s because the four syndicates work together, so word gets out if theyā€™re getting knocked out. And itā€™s also a means of raising the difficulty bar as you progress through the campaign.

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Honestly I canā€™t remember which one I chose first, it was ages ago since I now ignore the bat prestige objective unless thereā€™s a bat to be found on the map :x

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More Freelancer Speedruns on Hardcore Mode!

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Well, frankly, thatā€™s bullshit, because IOI only ever said territories get alerted when you raise an alarm or get compromised. They never said anything, as far as I recall from any info given about the mode, that youā€™d have alerted territories the next contract you pick regardless of whether you raised an alarm or not. If thatā€™s the case, thereā€™s no reason to even bother trying to be stealthy in a showdown; the next contract is going to have alerted territories anyway. Might as well just snipe all suspects from a distance and be done with it. God, theyā€™re pissing me off with the stupid decisions theyā€™ve made on this. That original announcement video was like typical advertising; much better than the actual product you get.

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