Ground warfare in FL

[Lanakov]

Eh,Grand Theft auto series are just Freelancer on a lower scale !
But that's right,it would be great to be able,when docked,to go and walk in the stations,planets...
I heard Mass Effect was a bit like that.
You guys should really take a look at Eternal Silence.
It IS freelancer.Nearly.It is worth the fun just trying.

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[jenya]

in Freelancer SP in the last mission you fight on some sort of alien planet, why not use something like that?

[Caribe]

That Aint a planet, thats a dyson sphere.

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Been here since Discovery 4.77 (lurk mode engaged)

I have recently met and discussed with Atalawohisdi the trader that flies the Caribe. Just so everyone knows, I engaged in Sigma 13. He flies through half the system before going back to New Berlin, where he cruises from one side of the system to the other, hugging the sun as close as he can. All the while, he flies near Battleships trying to scrape me off. I finally send out the white flag, and move back to Sigma 13. However, it was a ruse, and he bit. Knowing his trade route, I interdicted the trade lane and the chase began anew. It ended, an hour after it began, with me retreating, out of Countermeasures and getting very irritated.

He kept boasting how he has never been caught; I'd like to see him beat until he begs to pay, then beaten some more.

- Best day ever.

[jenya]

but its pretty close to a planet

[Lanakov]

Not really,you fight inside the dyson sphere.It has nothing to do with the planet since it is a structure made for collecting the sun's power.

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[Xing]

I think he meant we'd be fighting very close to "land" while still flying our space ship.

In any event, I don't know if it is really worth it. All the work, will be mostly based on our own point of view of what troops on land will look like. And since we really have no indication of what FL land warfare looks like, it is about impossible to know. For instance, do they wear modern warfare camouflage, or are they in clumsy armor like the stormtroopers, or are we back to the 17th century where people faced each other with bright uniform because camouflage is for noobs, etc.

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[Thor22]

...or are we back to the 17th century where people faced each other with bright uniform because camouflage is for noobs, etc.

Wow, the term 'noob' was around then too?

The more you know..:P

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[retnuh]

haha the term noob is timeless, i presume in reality, in the future there will be no people on the ground anyway there will just be remote controlled (or possibly sentient *gasp*) robots like the SWORD thing the US army is trying out now, and there will only be drones in the sky too!

As for the freelancer universe some sort of powered suit would be sweet like dawn of war, starcraft, unreal, gears but there is no evidence of such things in the original game, LSF security agents etc on stations dont even seem to wear armour of any kind so i'd say ground troops would be kitted out kinda like the rebels from empire strikes back

[Lanakov]

I'd see simple uniforms with body armor.Freelancer is not too flashy about this,everything stays sober and realistic.

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[Linkus]

If Freelancer were in real life, the Liberty Navy fleet would have enough gravity to distablise solar systems. Very realistic?:rolleyes:

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