Freelancer: HD Edition - Let's Play - Episode 1 (Hard Difficulty, No Commentary, 4K60) 

a remastered version.... ooooh how i would i love to see that. I spent hours, upon hours on this Game.

Right? I've played this game for 15 years almost, and never knew you could get extra credits for disobeying his order and killing the LRs

@@TheTrueCallen151 I may be remembering poorly; and you can for a bit. But if you take too long I think it is still a game over. Could be wrong though and maybe the HD edition changed that due to its increased view distance

100% dude, I would pay full price.

This one and Starlancer.

GTA ??HAHAHA gta is open World, but this Absolute not , is linear game no open World mit 100 of planets , elite dangerous is GTA like biggest open World ever

Awesome, have fun!

Hi, download this zip and extract the content to your HD Edition installation folder: drive.google.com/file/d/1EJ6QZHitZROxclOrsxt6tBzVzPiNnZGA/view?usp=sharing . That should restore the trade lane draw distances and the original navigation icon :)

@@BC46x Yes, these files worked perfectly! Thanks again :)

Compare to my Justice MK 3. Best gun I got, 6 of those against 8 gankers, 16 guns that do over double damage that mine can put out. It's all good though I just burn it as soon as I reach a destination and started avoiding the gate shortcuts.

Since then I've remapped the keys, Afterburn on the W key, backpeddling on the A and of course strafing to the S and D keys. It helps once you learn how to aim. I still take hits, no hit runs are probably impossible, but I can clear missions that used to be impossible for me and my biggest worry is picking missions that won't force me to use too many nano's or shield repairs, because at my current level they're far too expensive to rebuy (Basically my level 9 or 10 missions pays out 5,400-5,600 for reference, and 20 nanites cost about 4k) Decided not to use missiles because it wastes a gun slot, and instead I use mines on the middle mouse button. Honestly they seems fairly useless, though they certainly ruin my day when the AI spams them.

Coincidentally I just found out how storyline cutscenes can be skipped by doing a little bit of hex editing to the game's exe file. This feature will definitely be added to the next version of Freelancer: HD Edition!

Sure, we've upscaled plenty of Freelancer textures in this mod with ESRGAN, Real-ESRGAN and SwinIR. We are currently working on upscaling all the base interior textures.

​@@BC46x Hi. I have a suggestion. While using your 0.5.2 installer, I saw it allows graphical customization on many parts like Reflections, bloom etc. BUT, there's no way for us to know which one we should go for based on our taste. So, suggestion is you can add some comparison images for them either in installer or through imgur link.

@@Arindam_Gaming I appreciate the suggestion, that's definitely something we can add in the future! We are currently working on a launcher that allows you to customize all the options before launching the game. However, it's still far from finished. All the ReShade options can actually be configured in-game with a menu that you can view by pressing the "Home" key. This allows you to disable, enable, and even fine-tune the effect settings to your liking.

Hi @@BC46x again, While playing the HDE game, I found an issue. Is there any way to remove the Horizontal Black bars during cinematics, for example in your video at 19:14. I checked my own Freelancer videos & it wasn't there. That kind of a launcher would really help out a lot. About reshade, I am using HDR but turned off Bloom since as you said in launcher, it does lessen the details.

@@Arindam_Gaming Hmm, those black bars are pretty much an integral part of how the cutscenes are displayed in Freelancer. Look up any vanilla Freelancer playthrough and you'll see them there as well. Perhaps you were using an older version of JFLP? Since JFLP version 1.23 I believe, a change was introduced where the cinematic black bars have the same aspect ratio as they would in vanilla on 4:3. So if you want those black bars removed, your best bet would be to downgrade the JFLP dll to version 1.22.

The process itself of upscaling textures isn't that complex; you just pick an upscaler tool, give it some images in the right format, and wait until it outputs upscaled versions. From there you can play around with the model settings, experiment with different upscalers, and compare the results. There are however tricks I learned along the way to make the results as good as possible for different types of source images. I must admit that there are very few online resources available where these are explained step by step. Therefore, I think it'd be a good idea to document them somewhere.

@@BC46x Okay, thanks for the reply. I guess I just have to pick a starsphere, extract the textures and experiment then. I guess the nebulas are not so straight forward, they have alpha channels I imagine. I don't know a great deal about dds files other than some X2 ships I converted a few years ago, but they had to be dxt1 I think.

@@Timmy51m Here's a few hints to help you get started: 1. I'd recommend trying out general purpose upscalers first, since those offer consistent and natural-looking results. I really like SwinIR and Real-ESRGAN. ESRGAN is good too if you need specific models. 2. Have a look at some of the available upscaling GUIs. They give you a nice interface where you can easily compare different models and mess with the settings. Some also offer handy features like upscaling tiled textures to ensure they remain seamless. I recommend Cupscale. 3. When upscaling DXT-compressed images (.dds), definitely make sure to use a decompression model prior to upscaling. This'll get rid of most compression artefacts, leading to better and smoother looking results. You can find these decompression models on the wiki (Google "ESRGAN model wiki"). 4. Most upscalers don't handle alpha channel images well at all. They either completely ignore the alpha channel, or they use it during upscaling but make the edges too sharp and not so nice looking. When working with such models I remove all alpha before upscaling and apply it myself to the result using Photoshop and an alpha mask I made based on the original image. 5. When upscaling images for Freelancer, a tool called Freelancer XML Project is by far the best out there to bulk extract and insert textures. The textures will still have to be converted to .png before you can upscale them, since most upscalers don't support .dds nor .tga.

@@BC46x Appreciate the advice! Are you still working on your project?

@@Timmy51m Yeah we're still maintaining the mod, as a matter of fact. If you like you can have a look at the GitHub page to see some of the recent additions: github.com/BC46/freelancer-hd-edition. Though currently the development isn't as active since I've been a bit busy lately.

I'll release it before the end of this week

I just released it. You can download it for free here www.moddb.com/mods/freelancer-hd-edition

Just by strafing backwards and firing a missile.

As far as I know, the difficulty slider only changes the amount of damage that your ship will inflict from enemies and other hazards such as mines and volatile gases. Therefore, it shouldn't affect the NPC loadouts or random mission levels.

@@BC46x I wonder if it's based on net worth then? Or level, perhaps they level scale with you?

@@docsavage4921 That's possible, but I can't confirm that as of now.

@@BC46x Managed to pass tbe mission. Basically kept to the far outer perimeter, tried not to aggro too many at once, and kept on drifting at full speed while boosting away if it got too hot. Not even sure how much evasive tactics really throw them off, but I'm sure it won't help much when six at once are gunning for you.

Yes

@@BC46x alright thank you.

Before the end of this week

When recording this video, I was running version 0.4.1 of HDE which is now outdated. Back then those icons were the only ones the mod offered. You're most likely using version 0.5 of HDE, which uses an HD version of the vanilla icons by default. It still offers the possibility to use the same icons in this video, but you have to enable the "Flat Icons" option in the installer.

@@BC46x Many thx for your helpful response, I appreciate it very much! Yeah, I'm on 0.5 which plays nicely. Thx for the great video, helps me a lot on my playthrough!

Not sure if you already figured it out, but this video showcased an old and outdated version of the mod. Newer versions allow you to use high quality vanilla icons, which is also the default option.