01-10-2019, 02:42 PM
Hello, players of Discovery Freelancer.
My name is Hannigan Smith, in game. My real life name, Mihai Sebastian Petre. Romanian. And I can't seem to find a boxed copy of Freelancer in any store in the country where I live.
Many years ago, my father had a friend in Germany who gave me a disc, that wasn't however from a boxed copy, and that had its content burned from an official disc, in English, with exactly that one game, Freelancer, and before I got that disc, I got a demo of the game Freelancer in a magazine I can't find in my house anymore. I enjoyed the whole thing. Until, in 2009, I encountered a problem, that gave me my first ever Blue Screen of Death. I had to reload via the autosave after meeting the Freya and going through the Jump Gate. The plot stopped. No mission waypoints. After a while, I managed to get the bug. And made it to Bruchsal. Most likely the BSod was because of the NVIDIA card I had. Then I started playing the mods after finding ModDB. Then, found Discovery. And everything I knew about Freelancer changed. Forever.
I just happen to love sci-fi too much. Binge-watching Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, Star Trek, series and movies (all of them, until Into Darkness, which was still in cinemas by the time until it came), watching Babylon 5 on disc (yes, I also enjoy Star Wars, but everyone knows they love Star Wars), and playing sci-fi. From Freespace to Freelancer, not a single sci-fi game escaped my eyes.
But eventually, I have to say a lot about sci-fi and science recently. Just lost Stephen Hawking. Personally, in FPS sci-fi, Half-Life was like the first game I ever played.
And rest in peace just about everyone in sci-fi who died recently. For Carrie Fisher, I will never forgive anything about her death. May the Force be with her, always.
Love you all.
A pen friend from Romania,
Mihai Sebastian Petre
My name is Hannigan Smith, in game. My real life name, Mihai Sebastian Petre. Romanian. And I can't seem to find a boxed copy of Freelancer in any store in the country where I live.
Many years ago, my father had a friend in Germany who gave me a disc, that wasn't however from a boxed copy, and that had its content burned from an official disc, in English, with exactly that one game, Freelancer, and before I got that disc, I got a demo of the game Freelancer in a magazine I can't find in my house anymore. I enjoyed the whole thing. Until, in 2009, I encountered a problem, that gave me my first ever Blue Screen of Death. I had to reload via the autosave after meeting the Freya and going through the Jump Gate. The plot stopped. No mission waypoints. After a while, I managed to get the bug. And made it to Bruchsal. Most likely the BSod was because of the NVIDIA card I had. Then I started playing the mods after finding ModDB. Then, found Discovery. And everything I knew about Freelancer changed. Forever.
I just happen to love sci-fi too much. Binge-watching Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, Star Trek, series and movies (all of them, until Into Darkness, which was still in cinemas by the time until it came), watching Babylon 5 on disc (yes, I also enjoy Star Wars, but everyone knows they love Star Wars), and playing sci-fi. From Freespace to Freelancer, not a single sci-fi game escaped my eyes.
But eventually, I have to say a lot about sci-fi and science recently. Just lost Stephen Hawking. Personally, in FPS sci-fi, Half-Life was like the first game I ever played.
And rest in peace just about everyone in sci-fi who died recently. For Carrie Fisher, I will never forgive anything about her death. May the Force be with her, always.
Love you all.
A pen friend from Romania,
Mihai Sebastian Petre