Anyway I think the Prestige system is great for people who mastered the system.
Not me tho lmao I keep forgetting and losing weapons on missions RIP and I wouldnāt want a full resetā¦ at least for now.
I donāt do Contracts Mode much anymore (Freelancer is a great āsingle playerā alternative where I donāt need to search too hard for content. But Iāll be glad to check out some stuff on the Yacht finally.
Spycam HUD toggle is great, more puddles is great (Spider-Man PS4 in shambles right now lol) and more start points with suit selection is awesome.
I know what Iām gonna do to Edwards once this patch is liveā¦
Was wondering as well. I guess it shouldnāt though, because those are optional DLCs and preventing people from doing the Prestige levels without them doesnāt make sense, especially towards those who only buy the base version of WoA. Similarly, if The Coin turns out to be an unlock for these, then it also has to be excluded from the checklist.
Frankly, Iād rather see some of the base game weapons get added to FL rather than the cosmetic packs. There are plenty of rifles from the SA mode (the black Druzhina in particular) which havenāt been made available, or the X2000 Stealth which actually had a slot in the CTT (although it STILL doesnāt have its own unique model). Some of the 7DS unlocks would be cool here as well, which makes me wonder if they can be made available in FL without having to own the DLC.
Good changes. They havenāt really mentioned any bug fixes (but there should be around 80, so thatās good) so I hope weāll see more of it next week when patch comes out.
Dear IOI, GTFO of here with that inventory reset shit. I have to arbitrarily just flush my 2 million Merces, full gear boxes, and full weapon wall, including the DLC packs, just to advance in this new set of Prestige levels? Just stop, please.
Itās already annoying enough losing all my gear when failing a campaign, and itās already annoying enough being forced to flush my gear to switch back and forth from Hardcore mode. Now I have to be ready to flush EVERYTHING? No, just no. I enjoy walking around the Safehouse and looking at everything being full.
This doesnāt make Freelancer any harder or more challenging in terms of level difficulty. Iām good enough at Hitman that I can drop into any level and complete nearly any mission starting with nothing in my inventory - itās not even a challenge. But thatās not fun. Itās just annoying, stupid, and grindy for nothing but the sake of being annoying, stupid, and grindy.
I donāt have a lot of time these days to play Hitman, and when I do, I want to sit down, relax, and have fun. I donāt want to reset everything and grind through collecting everything again and again, 5 goddamn times.
How about adding things to Freelancer to make the mode more fun? Like the ability to use Merces to buy outfits, or buy starting locations, or re-roll stupid prestige objectives, or bribe NPCs, or buy intel on your targets, or customize weapons? I would actually enjoy any of those, but I think Iāll be passing on this new Prestige Level system.
Weāre adding a new āPrestigeā feature to Freelancer that will give you more reasons to play and earn elusive Safehouse trophies for your collection.
At that point, three things will happen:
The base Merces payout and XP gain for completing missions will increase
Adds a Prestige trophy to your Safehouse for each Prestige Level (5 in total)
All items in your inventory, all Freelancer gear, all weapons on the weapon walls and all Merces will be reset to 0, as if you were starting fresh. Your safehouse customisations will not be affected.
Prestige in Freelancer is all about risk/reward.
Just to be clear, does it mean it works like the stock exchange? You click on laptop and surprise! You can be rewarded or scr**ed. Definitely not my cup of tea.
Right now, Iām not really convinced by this systemā¦ Let see how it works after patching.
You could just not play this new mode and not get affected by it.
What interests me about this new mode is that the notes said it increases XP earned as you go. Iām almost at level 70 mastery right now; does this mean if I start playing this mode before getting to 100, the increased XP earned can help me get to 100 faster? If so, I may start playing it right away. If not, like Hardcore mode, Iāll ignore it until I complete mastery and then decide how to spice things up.
Iām surprised there arenāt as many HC changes as I thought there would be, unless more will get revealed when the patch comes. I donāt mind Hardcore staying ultra difficult, but some sort of inbetween option thatās challenging yet not that punishing would be great.
No mention of the Coinā¢ as well. I hope it just got thrown into the bin of mundane fixes that didnāt get listed here.
Prestige, is fine, I guess. XP boost may help with getting level 100, but this is far from being the modeās grindiest challenge. Will probably max it out anyway since why not.
Freed suit options are a welcome sight, but Iām worried that Berlin will still lock the firearm and thus lose some value. (IOI please add some of the new Berlin FL entrances to regular game)
Considering this update will add a new safehouse trophy in the basement ā and this wasnāt even mentioned as a special bonus in the roadmap ā I wonder if the other two updates this year might also have some FL additions.
We know thereās 4 empty slots after finishing 10 of each syndicate, and this Prestige trophy looks like itāll take 1-1.5 slots on a shelf.
So hopefully we could be seeing room for 2-3 more trophy additions later this year?
There are 5 empty slots in total : 4 in the basement, 1 on the upstairs shelves.
There is also the shelves in the Office, that has the an empty top row, but I donāt know if itās indicative of anything, or an aesthetic choice.
Besides, as the Ave Maria / meditation trophy shows, you can have trophies outside the shelves.
Iām curious about the prestige trophy for a very stupid reason : I wonder if the digital counter will be used. Will we have 5 different trophy, or one that has the counter tick up everytime ?
This is strange - youāre supposed to be able to activate that option when you have unlocked everything but on the video you can clearly see theyāre missing a couple of handguns (unless they just picked them up?).
Also apparently the DLC packs donāt count since the first case is empty, and it starts by removing the contents of the second case so I guess that answers the question about DLC packs?
I was wondering whether the tools were required to activate prestige levels but I forgot about the existence of the coin - since we currently canāt get it and IOI didnāt mention anything about it I guess full tool briefcases arenāt required either? Although I did complete my current campaign and bought everything to fill those briefcases just in case :x
So if you unlock the buried case with the extra Merces, fiber wire and silverballer, but donāt collect them, then activate Prestige mode and wipe away your inventory, but it does not affect your mastery unlocks, does that mean that after activating this mode and losing all your tools, you could then go out to that buried cache and get the items you left alone there and begin with them from the beginning? Anyone willing to try this experiment when it goes live?
Hmmmm. I had a thought. 47ās inventory is, for all intents and purposes, infinite. Yes? Sooooooā¦Would it not be possible to just pick up everything and then switch to the āPrestige Modeā? And then put everything back. Yeah, the game would complain that your inventory was too full to start a mission, but who cares. Youād still have all your stuff and be able to do the Prestige Mode.
Itās just a thought though. I have no idea if this would even work. I do think it is very possible, since when I switched back to normal from hardcore, I kept some tools on me and they stayed instead of disappearing. But all the weapons on the walls are, well a lot. Might risk a game crash or something.
Edit: I forgot the long guns. I rarely use them, so i kinda forget about them. Damn. Those would still be lost, except for one.
Bug fixes: good! Iām sure the missing coin will be a part of these.
Prestige: curiousā¦ Iāll have to see it in action. Iāve dropped off the game this past month or so, but Iāve still got mastery to go and this might be a good reason to jump back in.
Perfect Shooter change: not my preference actually. I personally think the cameras being off limits for shooting adds to the challenge ā and I say this as someone whoās forgotten and fucked up countless times. But I understand that many in the community feel the other way. Will this change also apply to contracts, or will there be two sets of rules? Because that could get confusing and annoying.
Starting suit: great! But I do wish for a full inventory on Carpathian Mountains. I share @Heisenbergās skepticism but I hope @Urben is right.
I am fine with that change but I wish the complications were consistent through the WOA, the āno bodies foundā failing with accidents was very frustrating too.
dang
