[MOD] Freelancer Variations

Ah whoops, just realised I didn’t fix the hard bricks of Colorado with the Nexus download version of the JSON :grimacing:

So assuming you don’t have Lighting Ultimate on, I’m gonna take a guess it was an alerted territory?

I’ll update the Nexus download after my dinner, but in the meantime you can go to the variant picker website in first post and just hit “Generate” and save it over the current file you have in retail/mods

EDIT: Now updated on Nexus

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Yeah, I don’t have Lighting Ultimate on (I don’t completely understand its compatibility with FV). If I remember correctly it was just a normal territory.

Thanks for the fix!

I stream your mod everyday almost, I even had 49 viewers once lol which is a record for me ( I don’t do the webcam thing, just gameplay)

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1.7.16 - Miami Improvements


Few small things fixed/tweaked, but the main changes are improvements to night Miami: Less dark areas, better lighting in indoor areas (specifically the Driver’s Lounge building), way way more targets in Territory Takedown, and the variant now takes place well after the race with crowds gone and only the hardcore sticking around at the end of the night (Just ignore the fact the podium ceremony is still happening… it provided too interesting of a shakeup to NPCs routes for me to bypass… plus I couldn’t be bothered setting every NPC to post-podium state).

Changelog

  • Hawke’s Bay - Nightcall: Removes Haven viewcones for all but 4 beach guards
  • Whittleton Night: Invisible muffin box obstacles near van deleted
  • Whittleton Variants: Alerted Mode Janus guards are now correctly FBI Agents
  • AHBOS: Territory Takedown – Can no longer disguise as ‘The Vulture’
  • Miami Night: Removes crowds, adds more lights, improves lighting in the Lounge building, adds ~45x NPCs as targets, fixes Moses Lee’s podium script
  • Miami Sunset: Adds a buttload of NPCs to target list
  • Romania: Updates files to match standalone mod (i.e. blank minimap)

No JSON update required.

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The mod’s been out for a while now, what are your favourite variants? (Pick 3)

  • Paris - ETs/Christmas/ToD
  • Sapienza - ETs/Bonus Missions
  • Marrakesh - ETs/AHBOS
  • Bangkok - ETs/The Source
  • Colorado - ETs/The Vector
  • Hokkaido Snow Festival ETs/Patient Zero
  • Hawke’s Bay - The Politician/Nightcall
  • Miami - ET/Special Ass
  • Santa Fortuna - ET/Special Ass
  • Mumbai - ToDs/Special Ass
  • Whittleton Creek - ET/Special Ass Night
  • Isle of Sgail - ETs
  • Haven Island - Night + Server Crash
  • Hantu Port
  • Dubai - ET Midday
  • Dartmoor - ETs/Garden Show
  • Berlin - ETs/Easter
  • Chongqing - ET/Noodle Massacre/Core Meltdown
  • Mendozer - ETs
  • Romania - Passenger Train
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(Would only let me do 20 options so Ambrose and NY ToD variants are excluded due to minimal change.

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I love the changes to the atmosphere the ToD variants bring (might actually have picked daytime Ambrose :wink: along with nighttime Haven for the contrast to the originals), but what I probably appreciate the most in this mod is the added maps, so I voted Hawke’s Bay, Hantu and Romania.

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Some floating food in a showdown on The Source variant of Bangkok

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Some toilet-related NPC quirks:

Poisoned this guard/target near the stairs up to the ship. He walked all the way to the toilet area but used the ledge to vomit.

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The train guy is aware how to avoid drown prompts!

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More importantly, he’s aware of how to stand far enough from the door that it autocloses!

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Yes what is this? I want to know!

1.Chongqing noodle
2. Romania
3. Landside sapienza
4. Hantu port
5.Bangkok the source/Berlin Easter egg
6. Isle of sgail day
7. Haven island night
8. Hokkaido snow festival
9. Chrismas paris

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Some more random and inconsequential stuff I noticed:

I was not able to lock onto this NPC/target in the office area with a throwable until I woke him up (it was possible with the sleeping NPC in the passenger area).


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Just looking through some of the latest posts and how I wish these modded versions were available on all platforms! :smiling_face_with_tear:

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Something I’ve been noticing as a frequent flyer of this mod that @Kevin_Rudd might want to playtest:

Frequently, if I cause a bunch of suspects to flee, especially on Miami variations (though I tend to use this a lot for showdowns, so it could be confirmation bias to blame this map), a number of them will be in the fleeing state, but utterly stationary and never figure out where to flee to.

Hmm, due to Miami having no bonus missions it’s still using the vanilla Showdown file. Unless The Undying or Silver Tongue delete an exit I had no idea about then it’s probably a vanilla issue, like suspects failing to flee on Dubai (which this mod fixed). I’ll look into it another time

Can’t believe this hasn’t come up before now, should be able to fix that at a later point. Don’t know what’s going on with the sleeping guy tho… maybe too many props close to his head

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Having played it extensively without the mod, whilst possible, I’d be very surprised that I’ve had such an error-free experience when FV isn’t installed.

On that note, on some of the variations, one of the steps down to the underground parking on the water-side has a black chunk, not sure if IOI managed to introduce that, but maybe it’s related.

Clipping crate on Hokkaido with Patient Zero

Spooky courier without textures (I hope it’s a bug and not my graphics card :sweat_smile:)



I did not notice this occurring with any other NPC on the map, including two other couriers.

PS:
I have some suit mods applied. Could a suit and this NPC share some texture, causing this issue?

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IIRC that issue with the courier is what happens when the game tries to load an NPC outfit or variation that either doesn’t exist or hasn’t been loaded on the map. It uses that placeholder NPC instead. It doesn’t actually have anything to do with the texture, so it’s probably not that.

Most likely it’s either that they were assigned an outfit that exists in Situs Inversus but not P0 (if there is one) or that Rudd tried to use an outfit from Dubai/Training/some other universally accessible place, but forgot to tell the game to actually load it.

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