Moving to 4.78

[Igiss]

Finally, the 4.78 beta development is almost over. I'm not revealing the full changelog now, will do that later... however, there are several important things that everyone should know about.

1. Original Freelancer ships

Switching ships is no longer recommended, but you won't get money for your previous ship hull if you bought an original game ship before 4.78.

2. Server Location

This time I'm intended to create a separate beta server that will be online along with the old 4.77 server. On the beta server you'll have larger starting money, but your characters from old server will not be transferred. Or even if they will be transferred, all your progress on the beta server will be lost after official server moves to 4.78.

There will be no player wipe. User database from 4.77 will be transferred to 4.78.

Everyone who wishes to test should be ready for downloading 4.78 beta at least twice, for there surely will be some changes along the testing. The file size of beta has increased almost twice in comparison to 4.77.

3. Discovery Mod Version

Like it was with previous releases, 4.78 beta will have the 4.77 version number. You will not be able to connect to beta server with old 4.77.