The modding scene for F2 seems to still be somewhat active, with updates to the mods (and, hopefully, new mods) still being worked on/released. Lo and behold, I found a nifty app called " Knossos" that wraps around your game files to allow easy mod/ additional campaign management. I dogfought, intercepted, and bombed through a few missions, before coming to a conclusion that, much like a double cheese/jalapeno/potato pizza at 2 AM, this is going to give me less pleasure than expected.īut then I thought to myself - "dude, there was a pretty cool mod you've played a few years ago, so it might be worth checking if the community spun anything else up". It's always pleasant to re-read a liked book, but when part of the charm is the mission structure and having to react to changing conditions on the fly, as well as not being 100% aware when you can actually make a difference, and when some event is scripted, this becomes a problem. Problem is - while the main campaign is written very well, by now I knew it by heart. I've had a few free evenings a while ago and stumbled upon a discount for it on GoG, so I thought 'eh, why not'. Sure, X-Wings and TIE-Fighters were all solid, very good games and all, but I'd always pick F2 over any of those. Graphics now looks MUCH MUCH better and if you downloaded the improved briefings and visuals, the game will look pretty darn modern.Īny way, enjoy, and if you have problems getting it to run, share the problems and we'll work it out.It always felt to me like Freespace 2 is the definitive space combat sim, to which very few games came close. There are a TON of options and it's beyond the scope of this note to explain them all, but now you can run the game natively in 1080p (or beyond) instead of using NGLIDE to scale up the ancient 640x480 graphics. WX has more options, but YAL is much simpler. Have patience.Īfter stuff had been downloaded, you can use either WXLauncher, or YAL (Yet Another Launcher) to build up the command line to launch the game itself. It will then download all the various files. If you want the max enjoyment (and lots of downloads), get the FSPort 2014 Media VP. You can also download the improve visuals, new 720p briefings, and so on. But there are a TON of good user campaigns from the FS Community you should try them out out. You will need SOME of the mods, notably, FSport, which are the FS1 and FS2 missions ported into FSOpen engine. (For Steam, it's probably Steam/Steamapps/common/Freespace or Freespace 2)įourth, follow the prompts, and it will prompt you to download the bare minimum of files, and/or the mods. Third, run the installer, and install it into your Freespace or Freespace 2 directory. You will need to install Java first, if you haven't already. Note: This installer requires Java, but it's for Windows. Second, download FreeSpace Open Installer from What you need to do is NOT that complicated.įirst, you do need to own this game (and Freespace 2 as well, really) That's right, folks, you can play this game with a modern DirectX compatible engine that was open-sourced by Volition a long time ago, called FSOpen! So what should you do? Play it with a MODERN engine! For people who complain that this game doesn't support modern machines.
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