Spring Roadmap 2023 Thread

[_jrok]

@lukefsje

All items in your inventory, all Freelancer gear, all weapons on the weapon walls and all Merces will be reset to 0

It will also reset your inventory.

[pending]

Other games have prestige things where you get reset and it’s fine because you regain your stuff really quickly. Hopefully the increase to xp and merces rates make it so you get all your weapons back quickly

[pending]

@Monwil

some sort of inbetween option that’s challenging yet not that punishing

Maybe the normal game mode but on master difficulty like hardcore, so not everything is alerted so don’t get reset to the start all the time, and you don’t reset all your tools.
I don’t know if that would be good, there’s probably more creative ways of increasing the difficulty rather than just changing it to master

[empressofpersia]

Ah damn you right. Well f that noise. I’m not interested in grinding all my gear all over again. At some point it’s just busy work.

[Morty7]

I like the new prestige incentive, because well, I would benefit from it.

I got up to the level 50(ish) prestige and haven’t touched the game in a couple months.

Having a gamble that allows me to level up faster definitely sounds nice. I could see how people who rose to level 100 already would not be interested.

[Charlie_Farmer]

Just as long as this new freelancer thing actually gives you alot of XP and Mercers then it’ll be worth it, not at all unless

[Franz]

A small digit on a trophy does seem rather underwhelming as an incentive.

[thrison]

Especially since the blog post says there are five trophies to collect - which makes it sound like they’re seperate from one another.

[pending]

i assume there will be five separate trophies, but the first one you get also has a counter on it

[Monwil]

Especially when it’s a two digit count, so it’ll look extra weird after it maxes out at 5.
Unless they just meant there’s a challenge for prestiging 5 times (and maybe a hard cap on prestige income bonuses as well), but after that you can still prestige just for the sake of seeing a small number go up.

[pending]

maybe the later trophies have bigger counters (like a trophy for prestiging 100 times would have a 100s counter, but lets hope there isnt one for that)

[BRYN]

Prestiging is fine for more experienced players that have everything already. Should allow me an easier, and at least a less mind-numbing, grind to Mastery 100. But I get the trepidation for most players who struggle with getting though a full Campaign.

The mode is meant for the long term, for better or worse.

[Patrick_McColloch]

Perhaps adding more mastery levels and new unlocks might be good.

[thrison]

It will be interesting to see if the patch removes those odd camera scanning things that show on the minimap across certain locations in Freelancer (like the servers in Miami or the phones in Dubai) - or if they get addressed in some way with the full notes as being future content.

[47saso47]

@Khakiasp

best part so far is the fact they fixed the assassine choice to lock your starting suit in carpathian mountains, berlin & patient zero

But why not Paris in the auction? Why do I need to use the tuxedo without gloves? Sigh.

[47saso47]

@empressofpersia

Does this count the ones in those cosmetic packs? Cause if so, I’m never going to get access to that Prestige Level.

I think some of you are not catching the full picture here. As you level up in prestige, you earn more money faster so you’ll be able to collect weapons again but in a much faster way.

[lukefsje]

I’d support new mastery levels added past level 100 if:

• There are actual items/suits to look forward to unlocking, not just more safehouse cosmetics.
• The XP bonuses gained from prestiging are actually significant.
• The new levels need 150000 XP max like levels 90-100, and don’t need even higher amounts of XP.

[Rimland]

@lukefsje

There are actual items/suits to look forward to unlocking, not just more safehouse cosmetics.

This right here. I don’t think I’d even need extra mastery levels. I play FL rather sparsely, am around lvl. 50 and only have 3 campaigns completed. Right now I see the Prestige levels mainly as a crutch to help grind the GOAT and EotY challenges, since I can imagine one’s determination drops quite significantly after reaching lvl. 100. But I want there to be (good) item/suit unlocks along the way to keep me going. Rewards beyond unlocked challenges and wall trophies.

[empressofpersia]

I still don’t own the cosmetic packs that include extra weapons that DO have a space on the walls. I have zero plan to BUY said cosmetic packs, therefore i will never technically fill up the walls. Therefore I will never be able to do the prestige levels.

Hope that clears it up.

[47Agent]

I don’t think that new mode will count the DLC weapons. So we should be good. Just overall, Freelancer had (and now will have even more) cheap, bullshit, grinding trophies.