this game was one of the reason that I became an aerospace engineer... I drew those space ships, fighters, battlecruisers.... maaaann it was cool, still it is
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Game ships inspired your real-jets designs or were you one of Freelancer devs? Personally hold Valkyrie as my queen of ship design there. That babe is absolutely georgeous. Though I honestly like Rheinland house ships in general, Banshee looks pretty, too.
That was 17 years ago, when we came here to experience a new universe. We've come a long way since then, we've grown older, we've seen graphical improvements, the rise of VR and the triple A's, but we will never forget... ...Freelancer.
I remember exploring the fringe star systems in Freelancer after finishing the main story (which is a timeless epic), exploring the Tau and Omega systems, finding hidden jump holes and eventually reaching the Corsairs homeworld. Learned their surprising history and bought the legendary Titan ship with their epic shields and weapons. Freelancer was way ahead of its time.
The game released pretty recently, but you should REALLY check out Everspace 2. Everspace 1 is also nice, but it's a rogue-lite. The combat system is the same, but it's mostly just relevant for the lore. It's worth reading the plot summary though if you choose to play 2. Everspace 2 has everything Freelancer did, but with modern graphics and controls. Plus it also supports Joystick and controller systems in addition to mouse&keyboard. They even say on the game's homepage that it's inspired by Freelancer.
@@Nerobyrne Pssh! As someone who played EverSpace 2, I entirely disagree. It may look prettier, but it's shit compared to Freelancer. It's also boring as hell on the lower difficulty levels, I found myself falling asleep during combat! Obviously its' biggest inspiration was Everspace 1, they just dropped the rogue-lite content.
i am glad that they didn't use this intro for the final game because it would have spoiled so much... i was a teen when i played Freelancer for the first time back in 2003 and i remember being very intrigued by the story. the whole time i assumed that there was some evil shadow organization planning to take over all of the colonies using alien technology. so when the story revealed the Nomads as not only still alive but being the actual antagonists who gradually infiltrate and influence/brainwash humanity, i was mind blown. the whole game up until that point was about you fighting humans with alien civilizations assumed extinct. then all of a sudden, alien reveal. that was such a great and awesome moment... i wouldn't have had that moment or the memory of it had this been the intro that the game shipped with 'cause it totally spoilers the whole Nomad reveal XD
Agreed. Nevertheless, I always wondered what became of Sol, Earth, and the Coalition. Pretty neat to finally know, 20 years later (I only just stumbled across this video). I'm curious where this "director's cut" came from though. An old hard drive of some random former Digital Anvil dev? EDIT: I found my answer in the comments (was on the DVD of the Australian release of the game, apparently)
The engine just feels good, but the graphics aren't what makes Freelancer so great. It's the sector design. Real universe is empty and boring so when you have a game that recreates realistic distances, e.g. Elite: Dangerous, it's not that enjoyable. Freelancer has all kinds of asteroid fields, ice fields, mine field, debris fields, junkyards, absolutely stunningly beautiful nebulas of all colours, nebulas with exploding gases, combinations of all of the above and much more. All this combined with atmospheric music, the game provides unparalleled experiences.
@@JAnx01 new tokyo to new berlin via the tau sectors where the pirates lurk, I was running diamonds. I always hired an escort, and made a fortune. I can't wait for SC MMO to be fully realised. I'd say 10 systems by 2023 now the tech and tools are built and in play.
I hear about so many remasteres and remakes of old games in recent years that I feel like this is most forgotten game ever. It's so sad. They should really remaster it. It was such a masterpiece for its time.
@@bicualexandru246 PLayed Crossfire extensively in the past. But last time i tried to install it it would just not do so without some sort of error, so i think that time is now past.
"The hope was for them to begin again, far from the war, strife that had befallen Earth. To start free from the prejudices that had divided us for so long." What's so ironic is that it really didn't change much. War and prejudice still reached sirius. Liberty, Kusari, Britonia and Rhineland were allies and yet by the time of the game they had been competing with each other and had come close to war several times. Rhineland had even gone to war with GMG, a Kusari faction.
Yeah the main story didn't even send you to every system, there was a lot more to see. I remember one Tau system that looked like a daytime sky...every system was really unique.
True its just a shame they rushed the content of the game, so many things missing that could have made the game really stand out and kept multiplayer uninque not a clone ship fest.
finding all the jumpholes was the best thing once you finished the story and wanted to do mass fast trading knowing the best jump path without having to use the jump gates and tradelanes made running stuff banned in most places a breeze to get past the police and navy forces and it was even easier if you were on good terms with other pirate factions and groups that worked against the navy or police as you always had a bunch of ships you could use to cover your arse while you made a break for a jump hole or if you had to gate oh the days of making over 300b in a single trade run due to how easy it was to change the cargohold size of ships
After so many years, this is the first time I see this extended intro version! Now the story makes more sense... That game was so fucking good and years after I was hoping somebody will make a sequel or something similar. I had to wait more than 10 years until 2015 to play the only game that comes close to Freelancer: Elite Dangerous.
Cyberion Yes, maybe... But don't hold your breath :) I was hyped about SC for the same reason a year before I even heard of ED, they said it will be released soon and we all know how that turned out :D 5 years later, still waiting for the full release, don't want to play alpha. That's why I jumped into ED universe, love it, reminds me of Freelancer but it's not quite the same..
Ya, I played all of it. After 60 hours in ED I became dead bored with the game. I'm the original back of SC and the first channel in Russia, that started reviewing it here. You can check some of my videos if you wish if you do not mind the russian mumbling :) Few times the guys from SC posted the news about my channel. It was a good time. However right now they shifted the scope more to business model rather than the community-oriented stuff. However they pretend to be very open to community. Their enemy right now is the scale of the project. I really hope that they can deliver the final product to at least 50% of their promises. Remains to be seen. Anyway after they release the patch 3.3 I'm gonna try it out again and see how did it change since 3.0, which was almost a year ago. I hope for some good sense of the progress.
I was 12 when this game came out and I played the shit out of it. Every system 100% . I even remember my last ship, a Titan very heavy fighter with Diamondback turrets. Damn thing was invincible.
@@myhorseisamazing5883 Don't wanna Google it, but Diamondbacks are in Rheinland territory, system is totally white, nebula with explosive gas, maybe a half a minute in.
@@NWA744 didn't the eagle accept less weapons and had lower hull/shields/energy? I remember the Diamondback needing enormous amounts of energy, and so did the other T10 weapons I had (don't remember the names now, but had the same shooting speed as the diamondback with a little less DPS and energy consumption)
@@ezequielmorales4221 The Eagle also carries 6 weapons. 9900 HP is still good, and when you consider the amount of damage high class weapons do, the loss of maneuverability isn't worth the 1 extra hit youll be able to take.
The CGI on the stardrives is amazing for the time...looks exactly like a real rocket. I wonder if somebody came up with an algorithm using real themodynamics and fluid dynamics....o.O Constricted exhaust plume at launch due to atmospheric backpressure (especially) with a dense, very luminous flow (2:37).Intermediate expansion levels as it leaves the mountain range (so a couple km up, probably) in 2:50 . Expanded, wide flow in low orbit with light not coming from the dilute plume but only the interior of the nozzle (3:15). Even flow instabilities and a certain streaking of the flow is clearly visible. Now check out a Falcon Heavy and a Delta 4 heavy launch. See what i mean ? Of course it looks *different*, but the various stages of flow expansion are here. Whoever directed this video actually did some research and it shows. The new SpaceX Raptor engines will have almost the same exhaust color, so if starship was a bit oval shaped it would be very close to this almost 20 year old game scene....mind..blown.
Wow, i never noticed that, thanks. But none of the moons of Jupiter has an atmosphere. Maybe the Alliance did some terraforming before because you can see an atmosphere on Pluto.
I appreciate the fact that you noticed it! Back when we first played Freelancer, we were probably kids / teens. Freelancer was ahead of its time in many cases! We didn't have planets / moons or even systems to scale but who cares ... we had different areas, locales, cosmic phenomena ... it was amazing!
I love the scream of success at 3:33 when they managed to break through the blockade, imagine the happiness you'd feel after securing a win for the last hope of humanity.
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Wow. I have finished this masterpiece game many times, but I have never seen this Intro, until now. It's beautiful!
Now that I have seen this video, which I did not know existed until I stumbled upon it, the decision to go with the shorter version was in my opinion entirely correct.
@@Cyber1on And unnecessary. For new players (at the time) it was closure to the Starlancer story arc. Also the last line about remembering worked well as a reference to the Coalition victory. It also did not hurt gameplay for the player to initially assume that they were facing a communist infiltration plot and Coalition invasion. I wondered myself and thought the plot reveal of ancient alien archeology to be have been premature. Ok the intro works as a foundation saga, which is fair addition and good for Starlancer players, but is otherwise irrelevant to the story. They could have made much more of this, and added a red scare or red herring (sic). I think 'will the Coalition follow us?' to be a good story arc, at least finally now know why it wasn't included.
@@nerdytom6881 In the Discovery mod, they eventually did follow them. The Sirius Coalition is the remnants of that Eastern Coalition that triggered the Western Alliance's exodus.
This must have been a bit depressing for those who played Starlancer because after all their hard work fighting the Coalition the Solar System was destroyed anyways.😅
I honestly was (and still am to some extent) disappointed that Freelancer nixed the story of Starlancer and didn't carry the war on from the point we liberated Europa.
Loved the hell out of this game, and in my opinion, much more accessible and easier to pick-up than X3 franchise without sacrificing any of the fun and immersion.
Данная версия ролика единственная в своем роде на просторах интернета, т.к. полноценный ремастер в формат Full HD никто никогда не делал. Аналогичный ролик можно найти на многих каналах, но в весьма низком качестве. Более того это не просто ремастер вступительного ролика, а ремастер полной режиссерской версии. Кроме полноценного ремастеринга под формат Full HD самого видео, звуковая дорожка также прошла ремастеринг и является полноценной качественной дорожкой в стерео в 44 кГц в отличии от оригинала. Конечно TH-cam пережал видео и звук и ухудшил изначально отрендеренное видео, но даже не смотря на это, ролика в лучшем качестве вы нигде больше не найдете. Смотрите с удовольствием и помните - в конце ролика спойлеры.
@@frunzeairship6885 Коалиция жива в виде кукастов и корсаров. Они саботировали испанию, по этому в игре можно найти только обломки этого колониального коробля
I once finished the entire campaign with just the Staflier. I also loved multiplayer. So many times I experienced the thrill of stalking another player from a distance. I think one of the best things about the game is that it is easy to learn quickly (though with more advanced techniques for down the road) and quickly allows you to have fun. I tried Eve once. I spent a lot of time, doing nothing, and then gave up on it.
Totally agree here. Freelancer is easy to learn and hard to master. Hooks you up on gameplay instantly. RP multiplier servers were the best. This was my best online experience way before MMO. The best spacesim for me.
@@Dethmeister The shortened version is the pov of the People who escaped on the Sleeper Ships. They never learned what happened to Earth. But this extended one gives us the WHOLE picture.
The crown jewel of my Video gaming empire of over 500 games. Played so many games yet Freelancer stands out 17 yrs since release as my # 1 all time game. Even in 2020, I still played it.
Indeed this is a great game that stood the test of time. I spent several thousand hours in its multiplayer and when I replayed the single-player not that long ago - I have to admit the game was still great as if it was the first time. True classics! I'm constantly looking on ebay to find a big box version of it in order to add it to my collection. Unfortunately its quite rare find. Saw it once and lost the auction :(((
@@Cyber1on Indeed. Its not available anywhere unfortunately. BUT, you can get the original disc + bonus DVD by scouring the net. There's Freelance Facebook page which has links to all materials. BTW, I recently did a playthrough of the game from Starflier to Titan with Widescreen patch & HD models(probably it was Swag pack). I will upload the videos in coming days. Hope you like it.
@@Cyber1on I have been thinking about delving into a remake. I have knowledge of UE 4 engine & I can easily import the Freelancer models using specialized S/W. I'm not sure though if I can code the AI. That I feel is the hardest part.
@@Arindam_Gaming Sure would be nice to see the video. I have a full playthrough on my channel as well. Widescreen, SWAG pack, etc... it is in russian though ;) As for the Big Box, I have a small box, originally bought it, when I was in the USA. The big box version was only published in Australia I think. Thus finding it a real pain.
@@Arindam_Gaming I'm been engaged in several fan-remakes and mods. The bad thing about them is that they are quite fun the first 2-3 months, than people become tired of the project or real-life issues arise and thus the project dies. So I would recommend strongly to reconsider ;) Those endeavors need full dedication. The only project that saw the day of light as a true finished product that I took part in is Privateer remake. privateer.sourceforge.net/ You can find me there in credits as Nikolay Ivliev. I also did a title screen art for it, that appears in the main menu.
I've been playing Freelancer since its Demo appeared until nowadays, not always actively and under the disguise given but an epic mod Crossfire 2.0, but its forever in my heart.
There is another cut of this intro, that was leaked decades ago. While the video footage was the same, MS and DA used copyrighted music such as Bishop's Countdown from the film Aliens.
Did anyone actually realize that the makers of the Mandalorian must be huge Freelancer fans? The Razor Crest is an amalgamate of the piranha/barracuda/hammerhead series regarding her cockpit and the engine system of the dromedary, at slightly different angles. One might argue if the hull might resemble any FL ship, but they even took over the concept of the protruding weapon systems. Unfortunately, the crest offers only a meagre two hardpoints, making her even worse than the beginner's starflier... But being the craft of an elite Mandalorian bountyhunter, one could argue that he might have secretly rigged the hardpoints to level 10. While, of course, displaying permanent understatement by flying around in a 2-hardpoint-ship... 😆😆😆
TFW you try to wipe out a species before they can be a threat to you but then they already settled in a new star system and then they wipe your species out. OOPS!
@@JAnx01 They were caretakers left behind by an ancient species. Really nothing more than an extremely advanced AI with messed up code from millennia of neglect by their creators.
@@ancientscars Yes, that was kind of my point. I love the Freelancer lore. There are great mysteries surrounding Nomads, but the fact we know barely anything about Daam K'Vosh makes the lore even richer as it creates a lot of room for our imagination and keeps the world alive in our minds even after all these years.
Freelancer fans, have you guys played everspace 2!?? It's the game most closely resemble freelancer! Kind of a spiritual successor!!! Spread the word!!!
I played this games for a year just to find Spania but i could find it. For some reason i was hoping that Nomads will return for revenge but nothing happen. But still i love this game more than any games ever made.
The Hispania is located in Outcast Space near the planet Malta. I was so stoked when I found it the first time, and I still get excited when I find it now.
Glad they didn't include this version in the final game. It makes no sense in context of the game's story. If the Nomads can just nova a star, then why the fuck play the clandestine game and worm their way into all levels of human society over 800 years to destroy us? There's absolutely no reason to do any of that shit if they can just pop in, drop a missile to blow up a sun and then pop out again over the scope of 2 minutes. Also the whole reveal of an alien antagonist was a cool surprise during the first playthrough.
Хорошо что в финальной версии вырезали этот ролик, он не имеет смысла и ломает всю логику: 1. расу, которая вот так просто способна уничтожить целую звездную систему, мы валим кучкой жалких истребителей, даже без поддержки капшипов. Почему тогда номады не проделывают тоже во время сюжета игры Фрилансер? Тогда игра сразу закончится?! 2. Когда-то давно играл в Старлансер, и помню что из себя представляют технологии коалиции: это капшипы неуязвимые для любых видов оружия кроме торпед и ионных пушек. Это ионные пушки, которые ваншотят любой космический авианосец, при это легко попадают по вертким истребителям, это и корабли со всережимной маскировкой, которые жутко раздражали (кстати во Фриле этой маскировке все удивляются - деградация технологий?). Коалиция бы просто порвала тех номадов, с которыми мы сражаемся во время прохождения Фрила. А с номадами из этой заставки воевать то бесполезно, вернее повоевать то можно, вот только чтобы при этом ещё и победить, играть придется за Ворлонцев из Вавилона 5, или вознесшихся Древних из Старгейта. А без заставки всё логично, коалиция живёт поживает. Номады оставлены сверхмогущественной в прошлом, но ныне не действующей цивилизацией. Корабли номадов не особо мощные и ваншотить системы не могут, и с ними вполне можно справляться человеческими технологиями. Короче этой заставке самое место на Ютубе, но никак не в самой игре.
я думаю что игра изначально должна была быть именно такой как на заставке, но видать не хватило бюджета или времени (игра ведь итак долгострой), сценарий игры переписали, а заставку переделали. Даже не знаю какой фрил мне бы нравился больше - такой как имеем сейчас, или такой как на этой заставке.
А я воспринимал историю иначе после этой заставки. Она бы обьяснила почему во вселенной Freelancer нет кораблей Коалиции (так как будто Коалиция исчезла). Что касается новой войны с Номадами, есть множество причин по которой они могли не желать уничтожать иные системы кроме Солнечной. Можно было бы предположить что в Freelancer был лишь первый бой с ними, а левиафан который уничтожил Солнечную Систему только надвигался к мирам колонизированных Альянсом. Много чего можно было бы придумать. Было бы здорово если франшизу возродили. Кстати за много лет поисков я так никогда и не увидел игры Starlancer, её нет на торрентах или в цифровых магазинах. Было бы интересно её оценить.
I always found the intro weirdly different to the game even the music wasn’t really the same. The extended version made it fit but I assume they didn’t want to have the aliens as a spoiler
...but we will never forget!" For almost 20 decade I'm confused by this statement. The colonists ran away from the prejudice and hate of the old and have a fresh start so I'm not sure why they are holding a grudge. I thought it was talking about the danger of repeating the errors of the old ways but much of the story doesn't touch on that. Now that I've watched the Director's Cut...oh, they're talking about the aliens. I've only watched the ingame intro before this.
Starflier -> Defender -> Crusader -> Barracuda -> Anubis -> Valkyrie -> Titan. I follow this sequence always. And it ends with Titan with 4 Nomad Energy Cannons, 1 Tizona del Cid & a Kraken Type 2, a Skyblast B turret, Sunslayer Torpedo/Hornet CD, Ripper Mine.
That was 18 years ago, when we came here to experience a new universe. We've come a long way since then, we've grown older, we've seen graphical improvements, the rise of VR and the triple A's, but we will never forget... ...Freelancer.
well said@@theleninator5739, now it has been exact 20 y and 7 months from its release! PS: Freelancer was a AAA, one of the first AAA games produced/developed by Microsoft.
@@elkaiser6833 Since when have writers of sci-fi ever aimed to do things deliberately so that they aren't shocking? And the whole Alliance Vs Coalition war doesn't really matter that much in Freelancer. It's just a backstory. Also, you're wrong. The events in the game take place roughly 800 years after settlements. That's when Humans first come across Nomads and awaken them in Sirius. It doesn't make any sense at all for a Nomad sunkiller to destroy Sol in the 23rd century. It doesn't make sense for Nomads to even appear in the Sol. They weren't roaming the universe, actively seeking civilizations to annihilate. That's not what/who Nomads were. The full-length intro was made before the single-player story was finalized. So they simply cut out the bullshit part for the released game.
@@JAnx01 Not to mention that, if the Nomads had such a weapon in the game, they could've easily enslave the Sirius sector, instead of trying to insert agents in the four governments. The story wouldn't make sense if the nomads had that kind of firepower.
@@Soulfly415 Also, recently I read that Chris Roberts blew $1 million to produce this intro in 2000. That was long before the single-player story was finalized. They cut this out from the game for a reason and it wasn't disk space.
It was never public. This is from the Bonus content CD. There is also ingame intro cutscene on my channel that was never used as well in the game. Check out Freelancer playlist.
@@fatumteam not really, there was a DVD-version somewhere, that had some bonus content on it. I do not really remember what region it was. Might be Australia, but I might be wrong.
Freelancer Warzone What the actual fuck? I stared at your comment for 5 minutes, wondering why I don't remember making it 7 months ago. Occasionally, I come across my comments own comments I made over 6-8 years ago and those usually surprise me because they sound like they're from a completely different person. This was different, though. Here I was like "Only 7 months ago? No way! I must be getting old."
@Freelancer Warzone Wrong They were designed by the Daam K'vash to guard the Sirius sector and other outlaying sectors of the galaxy. Since we send those sleeper ship to Sirius, they destroyed our solar system as punishment.
More or less. Yes, they're basically a bio-engineered specie designed as guard dogs, to protect the now long-abandoned ruins of their dead masters. However it didn't make sense for the sleepers ships to reach the Sirius sector before the Coalition wiped out the last remnants of the Alliance. Nor does it necessarily make sense for the nomads to go after the Sol system before they'd even deal with the ships and their colonists. It's also implied that the nomads only 'woke up' after some artifacts were activated. So, overall, those are the main reasons why the devs decided to scrap this video and use the shortened version instead.
JAnx01 That happens to me too, and sometimes I'm surprised when I realise a comment of mine has more than 20 likes. Oh wait, you wrote this a year ago, so....
@@stevehussein4259 But none of that happened in the actual game. The Nomads probably weren't even aware of the human presence in the Sirius until expeditions disturbed them.
I loved Freelancer, preferred Wing Command Privateer and they both owe homage to Elite. Chris Roberts is man enough to have never downplayed that and openly respects what Bell and Braben achieved. Even so I do prefer the setting design Roberts did to anything any of the Elite series, but technically Elite in all its forms has always been works of genius. You got a persistent multiverse on early 8bit and the whole Milky Way in the 90's, and its smooth then and now. The coding quality is way above anyone else in the business. Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen have similar end goals, and will eventually look more of less the same, No Mans Sky too. Walking in ships and on planets in an open universe. Elite Dangerous wanted to get the space sim game done first and add further modular content. Star Citizen wants to get it all done at the same time then add volume. No Mans Sky was more procedural, then hopes to add depth to the copypasta over time. Elite Dangerous has the better model or the three as it delivered a workable major game at launch, but maybe in five years time we are playing character based open universe with them all. I really hope they all make it, they deserve to succeed.
@@frag2k12 What? No. No I'm not meming. And I played this game so I know what I'm talking about when I say there were no aliens in the game, because I seriously can't remember fighting any aliens in the game.
@@stephenbyrne2170 Ah, well they were the real badguy behind everything, it was like a type of parasite that had infected the Rhineland people and they were spreading it around the colonies. The last mission was about locking them back in subspace or something like that. You could still find a few ships floating in an unknown system somewhere and earn the best weapons in the game if they dropped them.
4 years from still watching it every now and then... I'm confused by the term of director's version.. did this exist this whole time? was it just now dug up on 2015? or was this extended with fan help? it looks so neat and sharp, as if it were part of the original old intro in 2003 with the old animation style, but it feels, idk.. my mind and heart want to say yes this is an old treasure that someone found, but the other part says no, this just got some amazing fan treatment.
It was originally in the game, but before release they decided to change this to shorter version in order to avoid major spoilers about the Nomads. This video was available on the bonus DVD of the Australian version of the game.
Chris Roberts had ideas for this game, but it seems that Microsoft had to pull that plug and get the studio to finish the game the way we have it today.
And look now what is happening to star citizen. You have to consider a time frame for you project. If you don't, you end up like what star citizen is right now. The game is so ambitious, they keep adding stuff without any sort of deadline. I got my money back from them as they are taking so long. Even the apha builds are least playable!
Спасибо за проделанную работу! В первый раз вижу полную версию интро, даже в самой игре, почему-то, вдвое меньшая по длительности и почти ничего не объясняющая.
Её нет в игре, потому что: 1) спойлерит весь сюжет с самого начала 2) дырявит его. Ведь если колонисты были предупреждены, то какого черта приход номадов был неожиданным. Вроде как Order знал о пришельцах, но все равно чёт не то. 3) а кроме того, сам сюжет где пять рас выживают, а остальные дохнут, он немного... обидный, для тех, кто не американец, великобританец, японец, немец или испанец Короче, спорный ролик. Хорошо что его нет в игре.
Насколько я помню, сюжет (как и сама игра) окончательного варианта был заметно изменен, и потому ролик урезан. Да и то - не все успели к срокам. К слову, даже в релизном сокращенном ролике все еще непонятно, как летя к весьма близкой звезде могла так далеко затеряться Хиспания (и спустя 800 лет ни в одной звездной системе не видно туманности сверхновой - прямого логичного следствия).
xxxFreelancerxxx я бы сказал, что непонятно как находясь столь близко к Солнечной системе мы ее неразумная не видели и я так и не понял как колонизировали новые системы, как врата строили
@@xxxFreelancerxxx , А разве Испания не была повреждена во время эвакуации с Земли? Играл очень давно, но мне казалось, что в самой игре где-то говорилось об этом, нет?
Is it just me or does that one Coalition officer at 4:47 look a lot like Captain Foster from Starlancer? Their uniforms are also similar to the ones seen on lower ranking Coalition officers in Starlancer.
Freelancer is the sequel of Starlancer. The Sleeper Ships were launched during gameplay of Starlancer. That scene was Starlancer. 23rd Century Mankind Darkest Hours. The war has been raging for over 100 years. All we know is there were two sides The Coalition and The Alliance. The Alliance is evil and selfish.
@@c19firstrespondergamer20 The sleeper ships were not launched during the game-play of Starlancer. The ships were launched 100 years after the opening of Starlancer. And what do you mean the Alliance is evil and selfish?
7:00 adeques rockfort or something? i played freelancer but that was years ago, and since this is a director version, i assume the original game would have a guy mentioned but i can't remember him even by name
@@EgeSkywalker117 Yes.... But he means an actual ingame character with this name. There was none. Nothing that would make his mention in this intro meaningful.
Does anyone know where I can download a version of this game compatible with Window's 10? I would really love to play it again and relive those great memories of space flight.
Normal default one is compatible with Windows 10, in any case if its causing issues you can run in compatibility mode with W7. And if you want to live more, try out the mods for it, huge mods increasing story, graphics, the universe and everything for it made over all these years. Like Crossfire, Discovery, etc
So this was the initial intro cutscene for Freelancer. After seeing this, I feel that several unanswered questions regarding the story have been finally answered
Wasnt this from a mod? I remember seeing this on a mod I tried one time. I was under the impression that the modders made the extended portion. cant remember the name of the mod though.
@@RememberOfWasted автоматически работает перевод, если загружен и напечатан оригинальный текст. По крайней мере я посмотрел и это то, что мне написало в настройках. Заморачиваться в этом случае не очень хочу.
Wtf this intro changed everything. The original was just liberals escaping fasism/communism to galaxy far far away to start a new chapter, but the extra content here mixes up things still being official and loyal for the story.
this game was one of the reason that I became an aerospace engineer... I drew those space ships, fighters, battlecruisers.... maaaann it was cool, still it is
The Coalition ships are by far the best.
Me too!
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Game ships inspired your real-jets designs or were you one of Freelancer devs?
Personally hold Valkyrie as my queen of ship design there. That babe is absolutely georgeous. Though I honestly like Rheinland house ships in general, Banshee looks pretty, too.
As far i can remember, Eagle is the strongest ship you can buy in this freelancing.
@@KiR2RuN4FuN this is not hard to understand. The ships in freelancer, inspired him to go into a aerospace track.
That was 17 years ago, when we came here to experience a new universe.
We've come a long way since then, we've grown older, we've seen graphical improvements, the rise of VR and the triple A's, but we will never forget...
...Freelancer.
Dont u still play freelancer?
Indeed.
I still fondly remember moments from this game.
DEATH TO MICROSOFT! BRING BACK DIGITAL ANVIL! FUCK STAR CITIZEN!
@@slidetime7438 I reinstall it every now and then.
@@ORKSIZDABEST I am playing on the discovery freelancer server, pretty fun.
I remember exploring the fringe star systems in Freelancer after finishing the main story (which is a timeless epic), exploring the Tau and Omega systems, finding hidden jump holes and eventually reaching the Corsairs homeworld. Learned their surprising history and bought the legendary Titan ship with their epic shields and weapons. Freelancer was way ahead of its time.
eagle is better
Сабля лучше.
i remember also buying Titan, those times were so great...
Don't forget the Outcast systems. In their hone system, you can actually find the derelict of Hispania.
We will never forget Freelancer
It's a shame we don't have more games with this quality
The sequel of StarLancer where the Alliance managed to hold off the Coalition for a while.
The game released pretty recently, but you should REALLY check out Everspace 2.
Everspace 1 is also nice, but it's a rogue-lite. The combat system is the same, but it's mostly just relevant for the lore. It's worth reading the plot summary though if you choose to play 2.
Everspace 2 has everything Freelancer did, but with modern graphics and controls. Plus it also supports Joystick and controller systems in addition to mouse&keyboard.
They even say on the game's homepage that it's inspired by Freelancer.
@@Nerobyrne Pssh! As someone who played EverSpace 2, I entirely disagree. It may look prettier, but it's shit compared to Freelancer. It's also boring as hell on the lower difficulty levels, I found myself falling asleep during combat!
Obviously its' biggest inspiration was Everspace 1, they just dropped the rogue-lite content.
@@TheOneTrueDragonKing as someone who has played both, I know you haven't
@@Nerobyrne Actually, I have.
i am glad that they didn't use this intro for the final game because it would have spoiled so much... i was a teen when i played Freelancer for the first time back in 2003 and i remember being very intrigued by the story. the whole time i assumed that there was some evil shadow organization planning to take over all of the colonies using alien technology. so when the story revealed the Nomads as not only still alive but being the actual antagonists who gradually infiltrate and influence/brainwash humanity, i was mind blown. the whole game up until that point was about you fighting humans with alien civilizations assumed extinct. then all of a sudden, alien reveal. that was such a great and awesome moment... i wouldn't have had that moment or the memory of it had this been the intro that the game shipped with 'cause it totally spoilers the whole Nomad reveal XD
Agreed. Nevertheless, I always wondered what became of Sol, Earth, and the Coalition. Pretty neat to finally know, 20 years later (I only just stumbled across this video). I'm curious where this "director's cut" came from though. An old hard drive of some random former Digital Anvil dev? EDIT: I found my answer in the comments (was on the DVD of the Australian release of the game, apparently)
Agreed. This is a good easter egg for after you finish the single player campaign.
Or set a flag where this would only play if you had finished the story first?
to this day,i'm amazed of the game's playability,graphics,and overall stability.
The engine just feels good, but the graphics aren't what makes Freelancer so great. It's the sector design. Real universe is empty and boring so when you have a game that recreates realistic distances, e.g. Elite: Dangerous, it's not that enjoyable. Freelancer has all kinds of asteroid fields, ice fields, mine field, debris fields, junkyards, absolutely stunningly beautiful nebulas of all colours, nebulas with exploding gases, combinations of all of the above and much more. All this combined with atmospheric music, the game provides unparalleled experiences.
AND STORY!
Well, for starters they were making real games back in the days.
@@JAnx01 new tokyo to new berlin via the tau sectors where the pirates lurk, I was running diamonds. I always hired an escort, and made a fortune.
I can't wait for SC MMO to be fully realised. I'd say 10 systems by 2023 now the tech and tools are built and in play.
@@Nine-Signs
Waiting 20 years for a spiritual successor. Jesus Christ!
Now this is a game that deserves a remastering for current technology, maybe put in a bunch of the cut content that was left out in the end.
Remaster it and announce a next game freelancer 3.
I hear about so many remasteres and remakes of old games in recent years that I feel like this is most forgotten game ever. It's so sad. They should really remaster it. It was such a masterpiece for its time.
You can play a bit of Freelancer Crossfire to kill your time until ... whenever this may become a reality.
@@bicualexandru246 PLayed Crossfire extensively in the past. But last time i tried to install it it would just not do so without some sort of error, so i think that time is now past.
Just play Elite Dangerous instead of asking of a Remaster.
"The hope was for them to begin again, far from the war, strife that had befallen Earth. To start free from the prejudices that had divided us for so long."
What's so ironic is that it really didn't change much. War and prejudice still reached sirius. Liberty, Kusari, Britonia and Rhineland were allies and yet by the time of the game they had been competing with each other and had come close to war several times. Rhineland had even gone to war with GMG, a Kusari faction.
the only game that truly deserves remaster that never comes.
That game was massive, I remember exploring the galaxy for a long time even after completing the main story, it was a great experience.
Yeah the main story didn't even send you to every system, there was a lot more to see. I remember one Tau system that looked like a daytime sky...every system was really unique.
True its just a shame they rushed the content of the game, so many things missing that could have made the game really stand out and kept multiplayer uninque not a clone ship fest.
finding all the jumpholes was the best thing once you finished the story and wanted to do mass fast trading knowing the best jump path without having to use the jump gates and tradelanes made running stuff banned in most places a breeze to get past the police and navy forces and it was even easier if you were on good terms with other pirate factions and groups that worked against the navy or police as you always had a bunch of ships you could use to cover your arse while you made a break for a jump hole or if you had to gate oh the days of making over 300b in a single trade run due to how easy it was to change the cargohold size of ships
After so many years, this is the first time I see this extended intro version!
Now the story makes more sense...
That game was so fucking good and years after I was hoping somebody will make a sequel or something similar. I had to wait more than 10 years until 2015 to play the only game that comes close to Freelancer: Elite Dangerous.
I know how you feel. However Star Citizen should be the final answer to the question: Who will take the throne after Freelancer? :)))
Cyberion Yes, maybe... But don't hold your breath :) I was hyped about SC for the same reason a year before I even heard of ED, they said it will be released soon and we all know how that turned out :D 5 years later, still waiting for the full release, don't want to play alpha. That's why I jumped into ED universe, love it, reminds me of Freelancer but it's not quite the same..
Ya, I played all of it. After 60 hours in ED I became dead bored with the game. I'm the original back of SC and the first channel in Russia, that started reviewing it here. You can check some of my videos if you wish if you do not mind the russian mumbling :) Few times the guys from SC posted the news about my channel. It was a good time. However right now they shifted the scope more to business model rather than the community-oriented stuff. However they pretend to be very open to community. Their enemy right now is the scale of the project. I really hope that they can deliver the final product to at least 50% of their promises. Remains to be seen. Anyway after they release the patch 3.3 I'm gonna try it out again and see how did it change since 3.0, which was almost a year ago. I hope for some good sense of the progress.
Hey dude try everspace and rebel galaxy. They're the closest i've found.
no other game comes close ever to Freelancer
WE WILL NEVER FORGET! Decades later and I have never forgotten you
I was 12 when this game came out and I played the shit out of it. Every system 100% . I even remember my last ship, a Titan very heavy fighter with Diamondback turrets. Damn thing was invincible.
location of wrecks with t10 weps?
@@myhorseisamazing5883 Don't wanna Google it, but Diamondbacks are in Rheinland territory, system is totally white, nebula with explosive gas, maybe a half a minute in.
Stick with the Eagle. Not as much armor as the Titan, but twice as maneuverable.
@@NWA744 didn't the eagle accept less weapons and had lower hull/shields/energy? I remember the Diamondback needing enormous amounts of energy, and so did the other T10 weapons I had (don't remember the names now, but had the same shooting speed as the diamondback with a little less DPS and energy consumption)
@@ezequielmorales4221 The Eagle also carries 6 weapons. 9900 HP is still good, and when you consider the amount of damage high class weapons do, the loss of maneuverability isn't worth the 1 extra hit youll be able to take.
The CGI on the stardrives is amazing for the time...looks exactly like a real rocket. I wonder if somebody came up with an algorithm using real themodynamics and fluid dynamics....o.O Constricted exhaust plume at launch due to atmospheric backpressure (especially) with a dense, very luminous flow (2:37).Intermediate expansion levels as it leaves the mountain range (so a couple km up, probably) in 2:50 . Expanded, wide flow in low orbit with light not coming from the dilute plume but only the interior of the nozzle (3:15). Even flow instabilities and a certain streaking of the flow is clearly visible. Now check out a Falcon Heavy and a Delta 4 heavy launch. See what i mean ? Of course it looks *different*, but the various stages of flow expansion are here. Whoever directed this video actually did some research and it shows. The new SpaceX Raptor engines will have almost the same exhaust color, so if starship was a bit oval shaped it would be very close to this almost 20 year old game scene....mind..blown.
Wow, i never noticed that, thanks. But none of the moons of Jupiter has an atmosphere. Maybe the Alliance did some terraforming before because you can see an atmosphere on Pluto.
I appreciate the fact that you noticed it! Back when we first played Freelancer, we were probably kids / teens. Freelancer was ahead of its time in many cases! We didn't have planets / moons or even systems to scale but who cares ... we had different areas, locales, cosmic phenomena ... it was amazing!
@@xDerLuki you might want to check that again
I love the scream of success at 3:33 when they managed to break through the blockade, imagine the happiness you'd feel after securing a win for the last hope of humanity.
Wow. I have finished this masterpiece game many times, but I have never seen this Intro, until now. It's beautiful!
Freelancer remake PLEASE!
This intro makes so much sense. Never saw it till now.
Freelancer needs a remaster so badly....hell i would be happy for it to come out on gog
Now that I have seen this video, which I did not know existed until I stumbled upon it, the decision to go with the shorter version was in my opinion entirely correct.
True... otherwise it was a major spoiler.
@@Cyber1on And unnecessary. For new players (at the time) it was closure to the Starlancer story arc. Also the last line about remembering worked well as a reference to the Coalition victory. It also did not hurt gameplay for the player to initially assume that they were facing a communist infiltration plot and Coalition invasion. I wondered myself and thought the plot reveal of ancient alien archeology to be have been premature. Ok the intro works as a foundation saga, which is fair addition and good for Starlancer players, but is otherwise irrelevant to the story. They could have made much more of this, and added a red scare or red herring (sic). I think 'will the Coalition follow us?' to be a good story arc, at least finally now know why it wasn't included.
@@nerdytom6881 In the Discovery mod, they eventually did follow them. The Sirius Coalition is the remnants of that Eastern Coalition that triggered the Western Alliance's exodus.
@@NicholasManuelofMississippi I have never played Discovery, but hear good things about it.
Loved Starlancer, Loved Freelancer... games like these are not made anymore, sadly.
Well, if Star Citizen gets a release we will have that kind of game again.
nice good old game
This must have been a bit depressing for those who played Starlancer because after all their hard work fighting the Coalition the Solar System was destroyed anyways.😅
Thanks for uploading this extended version in HD!
My pleasure!
The story is really amazing and actually even today it gets my attention. The direction of this cinematic is really really good.
6 Nomads disliked the awesome video.
Haha... true story.
Could just be some Junkers for all I think
It really is an incredible game. Years of enjoyment from playing and modding with friends, did a playthrough again last year and still holds up!
I honestly was (and still am to some extent) disappointed that Freelancer nixed the story of Starlancer and didn't carry the war on from the point we liberated Europa.
Loved the hell out of this game, and in my opinion, much more accessible and easier to pick-up than X3 franchise without sacrificing any of the fun and immersion.
Данная версия ролика единственная в своем роде на просторах интернета, т.к. полноценный ремастер в формат Full HD никто никогда не делал. Аналогичный ролик можно найти на многих каналах, но в весьма низком качестве. Более того это не просто ремастер вступительного ролика, а ремастер полной режиссерской версии. Кроме полноценного ремастеринга под формат Full HD самого видео, звуковая дорожка также прошла ремастеринг и является полноценной качественной дорожкой в стерео в 44 кГц в отличии от оригинала. Конечно TH-cam пережал видео и звук и ухудшил изначально отрендеренное видео, но даже не смотря на это, ролика в лучшем качестве вы нигде больше не найдете. Смотрите с удовольствием и помните - в конце ролика спойлеры.
И Земли тоже :)
@Rourken эх, жаль
А я так тогда обрадовался, что мировая революция распространилась на всю систему, а жалкие капиталисты были выкинуты на Сириус ;с
@@frunzeairship6885 Коалиция жива в виде кукастов и корсаров.
Они саботировали испанию, по этому в игре можно найти только обломки этого колониального коробля
Это новая версия игры, или просто ролик? Понять не могу..
@@prostuff7 Это трейлер
I once finished the entire campaign with just the Staflier. I also loved multiplayer. So many times I experienced the thrill of stalking another player from a distance. I think one of the best things about the game is that it is easy to learn quickly (though with more advanced techniques for down the road) and quickly allows you to have fun. I tried Eve once. I spent a lot of time, doing nothing, and then gave up on it.
Totally agree here. Freelancer is easy to learn and hard to master. Hooks you up on gameplay instantly. RP multiplier servers were the best. This was my best online experience way before MMO. The best spacesim for me.
This intro is great but im glad they didnt use it. It gave away to much on terms of story.
But the shortened version doesn't make sense.
@@Dethmeister It does, but in different meaning.
@@Dethmeister The shortened version is the pov of the People who escaped on the Sleeper Ships. They never learned what happened to Earth. But this extended one gives us the WHOLE picture.
i've always thought that the damaged ship in the last part of the intro was weird, but after seeing this version, it makes so much sense now
The crown jewel of my Video gaming empire of over 500 games. Played so many games yet Freelancer stands out 17 yrs since release as my # 1 all time game. Even in 2020, I still played it.
Indeed this is a great game that stood the test of time. I spent several thousand hours in its multiplayer and when I replayed the single-player not that long ago - I have to admit the game was still great as if it was the first time. True classics! I'm constantly looking on ebay to find a big box version of it in order to add it to my collection. Unfortunately its quite rare find. Saw it once and lost the auction :(((
@@Cyber1on Indeed. Its not available anywhere unfortunately. BUT, you can get the original disc + bonus DVD by scouring the net. There's Freelance Facebook page which has links to all materials. BTW, I recently did a playthrough of the game from Starflier to Titan with Widescreen patch & HD models(probably it was Swag pack). I will upload the videos in coming days. Hope you like it.
@@Cyber1on I have been thinking about delving into a remake. I have knowledge of UE 4 engine & I can easily import the Freelancer models using specialized S/W. I'm not sure though if I can code the AI. That I feel is the hardest part.
@@Arindam_Gaming Sure would be nice to see the video. I have a full playthrough on my channel as well. Widescreen, SWAG pack, etc... it is in russian though ;) As for the Big Box, I have a small box, originally bought it, when I was in the USA. The big box version was only published in Australia I think. Thus finding it a real pain.
@@Arindam_Gaming I'm been engaged in several fan-remakes and mods. The bad thing about them is that they are quite fun the first 2-3 months, than people become tired of the project or real-life issues arise and thus the project dies. So I would recommend strongly to reconsider ;) Those endeavors need full dedication.
The only project that saw the day of light as a true finished product that I took part in is Privateer remake. privateer.sourceforge.net/
You can find me there in credits as Nikolay Ivliev. I also did a title screen art for it, that appears in the main menu.
I've been playing Freelancer since its Demo appeared until nowadays, not always actively and under the disguise given but an epic mod Crossfire 2.0, but its forever in my heart.
2003 year, no many interested, just inthusiasm and pure art.
There is another cut of this intro, that was leaked decades ago. While the video footage was the same, MS and DA used copyrighted music such as Bishop's Countdown from the film Aliens.
IIRC it also used music from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Did anyone actually realize that the makers of the Mandalorian must be huge Freelancer fans?
The Razor Crest is an amalgamate of the piranha/barracuda/hammerhead series regarding her cockpit and the engine system of the dromedary, at slightly different angles.
One might argue if the hull might resemble any FL ship, but they even took over the concept of the protruding weapon systems.
Unfortunately, the crest offers only a meagre two hardpoints, making her even worse than the beginner's starflier...
But being the craft of an elite Mandalorian bountyhunter, one could argue that he might have secretly rigged the hardpoints to level 10. While, of course, displaying permanent understatement by flying around in a 2-hardpoint-ship... 😆😆😆
TFW you try to wipe out a species before they can be a threat to you but then they already settled in a new star system and then they wipe your species out.
OOPS!
Nerobyrne Are Nomads even spieces? They're kind of like white blood cells, no?
@@JAnx01 They were caretakers left behind by an ancient species. Really nothing more than an extremely advanced AI with messed up code from millennia of neglect by their creators.
@@ancientscars
Yes, that was kind of my point.
I love the Freelancer lore. There are great mysteries surrounding Nomads, but the fact we know barely anything about Daam K'Vosh makes the lore even richer as it creates a lot of room for our imagination and keeps the world alive in our minds even after all these years.
didn't knew this game has an extended intro
Still playing going to buy hammerhead
This game never gets old
Still so awesome.
Definitely one of the games with the most unique alien spaceships.
Freelancer fans, have you guys played everspace 2!?? It's the game most closely resemble freelancer! Kind of a spiritual successor!!!
Spread the word!!!
I played this games for a year just to find Spania but i could find it. For some reason i was hoping that Nomads will return for revenge but nothing happen. But still i love this game more than any games ever made.
Only if there was a sequel but it was cancelled. ;(
The Hispania is located in Outcast Space near the planet Malta. I was so stoked when I found it the first time, and I still get excited when I find it now.
"Trent, you have to go faster!"
i got a titan A.E feels from this game and intro
love that movie
Wow!! I played Freelancer 15 years ago but this is my first time seeing this!! Thanks
You are welcome!
Glad they didn't include this version in the final game. It makes no sense in context of the game's story. If the Nomads can just nova a star, then why the fuck play the clandestine game and worm their way into all levels of human society over 800 years to destroy us? There's absolutely no reason to do any of that shit if they can just pop in, drop a missile to blow up a sun and then pop out again over the scope of 2 minutes.
Also the whole reveal of an alien antagonist was a cool surprise during the first playthrough.
I still play it.
Freelancer Discovery server mod.
It's still active
They should've used this intro it is so much better than the released version
Хорошо что в финальной версии вырезали этот ролик, он не имеет смысла и ломает всю логику:
1. расу, которая вот так просто способна уничтожить целую звездную систему, мы валим кучкой жалких истребителей, даже без поддержки капшипов. Почему тогда номады не проделывают тоже во время сюжета игры Фрилансер? Тогда игра сразу закончится?!
2. Когда-то давно играл в Старлансер, и помню что из себя представляют технологии коалиции: это капшипы неуязвимые для любых видов оружия кроме торпед и ионных пушек. Это ионные пушки, которые ваншотят любой космический авианосец, при это легко попадают по вертким истребителям, это и корабли со всережимной маскировкой, которые жутко раздражали (кстати во Фриле этой маскировке все удивляются - деградация технологий?). Коалиция бы просто порвала тех номадов, с которыми мы сражаемся во время прохождения Фрила. А с номадами из этой заставки воевать то бесполезно, вернее повоевать то можно, вот только чтобы при этом ещё и победить, играть придется за Ворлонцев из Вавилона 5, или вознесшихся Древних из Старгейта.
А без заставки всё логично, коалиция живёт поживает. Номады оставлены сверхмогущественной в прошлом, но ныне не действующей цивилизацией. Корабли номадов не особо мощные и ваншотить системы не могут, и с ними вполне можно справляться человеческими технологиями.
Короче этой заставке самое место на Ютубе, но никак не в самой игре.
я думаю что игра изначально должна была быть именно такой как на заставке, но видать не хватило бюджета или времени (игра ведь итак долгострой), сценарий игры переписали, а заставку переделали. Даже не знаю какой фрил мне бы нравился больше - такой как имеем сейчас, или такой как на этой заставке.
А я воспринимал историю иначе после этой заставки. Она бы обьяснила почему во вселенной Freelancer нет кораблей Коалиции (так как будто Коалиция исчезла). Что касается новой войны с Номадами, есть множество причин по которой они могли не желать уничтожать иные системы кроме Солнечной. Можно было бы предположить что в Freelancer был лишь первый бой с ними, а левиафан который уничтожил Солнечную Систему только надвигался к мирам колонизированных Альянсом. Много чего можно было бы придумать. Было бы здорово если франшизу возродили.
Кстати за много лет поисков я так никогда и не увидел игры Starlancer, её нет на торрентах или в цифровых магазинах. Было бы интересно её оценить.
I always found the intro weirdly different to the game even the music wasn’t really the same. The extended version made it fit but I assume they didn’t want to have the aliens as a spoiler
...but we will never forget!"
For almost 20 decade I'm confused by this statement. The colonists ran away from the prejudice and hate of the old and have a fresh start so I'm not sure why they are holding a grudge. I thought it was talking about the danger of repeating the errors of the old ways but much of the story doesn't touch on that.
Now that I've watched the Director's Cut...oh, they're talking about the aliens. I've only watched the ingame intro before this.
*Freelancer Discovery is free and.... Still alive !*
Awesome intro, this game was one of the reason I became porn movies producer hahaha
Starflier -> Defender -> Crusader -> Barracuda -> Anubis -> Valkyrie -> Titan. I follow this sequence always. And it ends with Titan with 4 Nomad Energy Cannons, 1 Tizona del Cid & a Kraken Type 2, a Skyblast B turret, Sunslayer Torpedo/Hornet CD, Ripper Mine.
Heheh deadly setup!
I restarted streaming the old version of this game, for the sake of nostalgia.
I started playing the campaign again with the HD mod.
@@batman_2004 where do I get the HD mode :( I cant find it anywhere.
@@krishnachandradas8386 The link I posted got deleted. Search for Freelancer HD mod on moddb.
@@batman_2004 Ty wow bud it seems like Hd includes all Mods :O cant wait to try them.
I play this game with the Discovery mod, it is a whole new game.
I am really shocked, 18 years later this game still gives me something new, this time, a longer (and maybe even better) intro. This was super!
The game came out in 2003, check your math!
@@Soulfly415 well yeah, but the game came out in March, and I wrote comment in October, so we were already in the 18th year
That was 18 years ago, when we came here to experience a new universe.
We've come a long way since then, we've grown older, we've seen graphical improvements, the rise of VR and the triple A's, but we will never forget...
...Freelancer.
well said@@theleninator5739, now it has been exact 20 y and 7 months from its release! PS: Freelancer was a AAA, one of the first AAA games produced/developed by Microsoft.
Sleeper Ships surely could do some damage...
Good job! Thank you
Still disappointed that after all that work we did in Starlancer, the Alliance still lost the war.
I Really Like this game !
This has weird ethnic undertones.
"Germany Japan Spain UK US fought against the World. They lost. They left. Then everyone else died."
+Cody Well, the founding nations.
Coalition didn't die. This intro is non-canon.
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Since when have writers of sci-fi ever aimed to do things deliberately so that they aren't shocking? And the whole Alliance Vs Coalition war doesn't really matter that much in Freelancer. It's just a backstory.
Also, you're wrong. The events in the game take place roughly 800 years after settlements. That's when Humans first come across Nomads and awaken them in Sirius. It doesn't make any sense at all for a Nomad sunkiller to destroy Sol in the 23rd century. It doesn't make sense for Nomads to even appear in the Sol. They weren't roaming the universe, actively seeking civilizations to annihilate. That's not what/who Nomads were.
The full-length intro was made before the single-player story was finalized. So they simply cut out the bullshit part for the released game.
@@JAnx01 Not to mention that, if the Nomads had such a weapon in the game, they could've easily enslave the Sirius sector, instead of trying to insert agents in the four governments. The story wouldn't make sense if the nomads had that kind of firepower.
@@Soulfly415
Also, recently I read that Chris Roberts blew $1 million to produce this intro in 2000. That was long before the single-player story was finalized. They cut this out from the game for a reason and it wasn't disk space.
Loved this game, especially the Babylon 5 mod. Too bad there's no real sequel to it...
Excuse me: How have I never seen this before? I've played the game 14 times. Where did this come from?
It was never public. This is from the Bonus content CD. There is also ingame intro cutscene on my channel that was never used as well in the game. Check out Freelancer playlist.
@@Cyber1on Bonus content? There was a collector edition?
@@fatumteam not really, there was a DVD-version somewhere, that had some bonus content on it. I do not really remember what region it was. Might be Australia, but I might be wrong.
@@Cyber1on thnx, u mentioned some altered intro in your channel, I tried to find it, but I wasn't very successful,
@@fatumteam here you go th-cam.com/video/McOKhPFSW18/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Cyberion
Did we ever find out about the nomads motivations?
Freelancer Warzone
What the actual fuck? I stared at your comment for 5 minutes, wondering why I don't remember making it 7 months ago. Occasionally, I come across my comments own comments I made over 6-8 years ago and those usually surprise me because they sound like they're from a completely different person. This was different, though. Here I was like "Only 7 months ago? No way! I must be getting old."
@Freelancer Warzone
Wrong
They were designed by the Daam K'vash to guard the Sirius sector and other outlaying sectors of the galaxy. Since we send those sleeper ship to Sirius, they destroyed our solar system as punishment.
More or less. Yes, they're basically a bio-engineered specie designed as guard dogs, to protect the now long-abandoned ruins of their dead masters.
However it didn't make sense for the sleepers ships to reach the Sirius sector before the Coalition wiped out the last remnants of the Alliance. Nor does it necessarily make sense for the nomads to go after the Sol system before they'd even deal with the ships and their colonists. It's also implied that the nomads only 'woke up' after some artifacts were activated. So, overall, those are the main reasons why the devs decided to scrap this video and use the shortened version instead.
JAnx01
That happens to me too, and sometimes I'm surprised when I realise a comment of mine has more than 20 likes.
Oh wait, you wrote this a year ago, so....
@@stevehussein4259 But none of that happened in the actual game. The Nomads probably weren't even aware of the human presence in the Sirius until expeditions disturbed them.
I loved Freelancer, preferred Wing Command Privateer and they both owe homage to Elite. Chris Roberts is man enough to have never downplayed that and openly respects what Bell and Braben achieved. Even so I do prefer the setting design Roberts did to anything any of the Elite series, but technically Elite in all its forms has always been works of genius. You got a persistent multiverse on early 8bit and the whole Milky Way in the 90's, and its smooth then and now. The coding quality is way above anyone else in the business.
Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen have similar end goals, and will eventually look more of less the same, No Mans Sky too. Walking in ships and on planets in an open universe. Elite Dangerous wanted to get the space sim game done first and add further modular content. Star Citizen wants to get it all done at the same time then add volume. No Mans Sky was more procedural, then hopes to add depth to the copypasta over time. Elite Dangerous has the better model or the three as it delivered a workable major game at launch, but maybe in five years time we are playing character based open universe with them all. I really hope they all make it, they deserve to succeed.
Space sims were always a gaming industry masterpieces and they shall remain so. I'm sure they all will succeed.
Hold on, there were no aliens in this game!
Are you meming in some way? Because if not there were aliens.
@@frag2k12 What? No. No I'm not meming. And I played this game so I know what I'm talking about when I say there were no aliens in the game, because I seriously can't remember fighting any aliens in the game.
@@stephenbyrne2170 Ah, well they were the real badguy behind everything, it was like a type of parasite that had infected the Rhineland people and they were spreading it around the colonies. The last mission was about locking them back in subspace or something like that.
You could still find a few ships floating in an unknown system somewhere and earn the best weapons in the game if they dropped them.
Dude on the comm at the beginning, is that David Schwimmer?
4 years from still watching it every now and then... I'm confused by the term of director's version.. did this exist this whole time? was it just now dug up on 2015? or was this extended with fan help? it looks so neat and sharp, as if it were part of the original old intro in 2003 with the old animation style, but it feels, idk.. my mind and heart want to say yes this is an old treasure that someone found, but the other part says no, this just got some amazing fan treatment.
It was originally in the game, but before release they decided to change this to shorter version in order to avoid major spoilers about the Nomads. This video was available on the bonus DVD of the Australian version of the game.
The release version is so much better.
The sound effects sound different, so does the narrator.. why? It sounds clearer somehow
brilliant.
So... was there a reason such a big part of the intro cinematic was cut from the production version?
Лучшая навсегда
Very много english-говорящих peoples.
Chris Roberts had ideas for this game, but it seems that Microsoft had to pull that plug and get the studio to finish the game the way we have it today.
And look now what is happening to star citizen. You have to consider a time frame for you project. If you don't, you end up like what star citizen is right now. The game is so ambitious, they keep adding stuff without any sort of deadline. I got my money back from them as they are taking so long. Even the apha builds are least playable!
Спасибо за проделанную работу! В первый раз вижу полную версию интро, даже в самой игре, почему-то, вдвое меньшая по длительности и почти ничего не объясняющая.
+rkhiller Рад, что вам нравится ;)
Её нет в игре, потому что:
1) спойлерит весь сюжет с самого начала
2) дырявит его. Ведь если колонисты были предупреждены, то какого черта приход номадов был неожиданным. Вроде как Order знал о пришельцах, но все равно чёт не то.
3) а кроме того, сам сюжет где пять рас выживают, а остальные дохнут, он немного... обидный, для тех, кто не американец, великобританец, японец, немец или испанец
Короче, спорный ролик. Хорошо что его нет в игре.
Насколько я помню, сюжет (как и сама игра) окончательного варианта был заметно изменен, и потому ролик урезан. Да и то - не все успели к срокам.
К слову, даже в релизном сокращенном ролике все еще непонятно, как летя к весьма близкой звезде могла так далеко затеряться Хиспания (и спустя 800 лет ни в одной звездной системе не видно туманности сверхновой - прямого логичного следствия).
xxxFreelancerxxx я бы сказал, что непонятно как находясь столь близко к Солнечной системе мы ее неразумная не видели и я так и не понял как колонизировали новые системы, как врата строили
@@xxxFreelancerxxx , А разве Испания не была повреждена во время эвакуации с Земли? Играл очень давно, но мне казалось, что в самой игре где-то говорилось об этом, нет?
Is it just me or does that one Coalition officer at 4:47 look a lot like Captain Foster from Starlancer? Their uniforms are also similar to the ones seen on lower ranking Coalition officers in Starlancer.
Freelancer is the sequel of Starlancer. The Sleeper Ships were launched during gameplay of Starlancer. That scene was Starlancer.
23rd Century Mankind Darkest Hours. The war has been raging for over 100 years. All we know is there were two sides The Coalition and The Alliance. The Alliance is evil and selfish.
@@c19firstrespondergamer20 The sleeper ships were not launched during the game-play of Starlancer. The ships were launched 100 years after the opening of Starlancer.
And what do you mean the Alliance is evil and selfish?
7:00 adeques rockfort or something? i played freelancer but that was years ago, and since this is a director version, i assume the original game would have a guy mentioned but i can't remember him even by name
General Atticus Rockford
he warned the alliance about the nomads
@@EgeSkywalker117 Yes.... But he means an actual ingame character with this name. There was none. Nothing that would make his mention in this intro meaningful.
@@Garother actually I don't think its all that important. I always like to think it's an old man who tells you a (biased) history lesson :D
I wish this game would come to GOG or Steam
It's abandoned. So never.
Best game ever
Does anyone know where I can download a version of this game compatible with Window's 10? I would really love to play it again and relive those great memories of space flight.
Normal default one is compatible with Windows 10, in any case if its causing issues you can run in compatibility mode with W7. And if you want to live more, try out the mods for it, huge mods increasing story, graphics, the universe and everything for it made over all these years. Like Crossfire, Discovery, etc
Doing spaceweed smuggling by purchase weed from Outcast then get robbed by Outcast in neighbor system.
So this was the initial intro cutscene for Freelancer. After seeing this, I feel that several unanswered questions regarding the story have been finally answered
Yape, indeed. IMHO this version should have been from the very start.
@@Cyber1on it contradicts the game plot, so it's not considered canon.
Wasnt this from a mod? I remember seeing this on a mod I tried one time. I was under the impression that the modders made the extended portion. cant remember the name of the mod though.
It is not a mod. It is 100% official. Shipped on a bonus CD with a special version of the game.
Question, was this ever released in any version? I have never seen this before....
M. .M it was bonus video on dvd
still have save files
If you guys want the sequel, check out the mod Crossfire.
Name of the narrator?
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Круть, давно искал это видео, с визитом Номадов к Коалиции. Благодарствую. 🙏🏼👍🏼
А на русском нету?
Нет. Увы нет.
@@Cyber1on Прискорбно. Ну хотя бы с субтитрами тогда? Или, если совсем времени жаль, то автоперевод для ролика разлочить можно.
@@RememberOfWasted автоматически работает перевод, если загружен и напечатан оригинальный текст. По крайней мере я посмотрел и это то, что мне написало в настройках. Заморачиваться в этом случае не очень хочу.
@@Cyber1onЖаль. Могли бы закрыть гештальты очень многим.
omg this is...extended.....
Actually I prefer the release intro.
movie has been cgi altered?
Any idea if I can play this on Mac via torrent?
I need to know the name of the name of the music
Wtf this intro changed everything. The original was just liberals escaping fasism/communism to galaxy far far away to start a new chapter, but the extra content here mixes up things still being official and loyal for the story.
yape, indeed.