Alrighty!
After a long pause, I finally reinstalled FL, and this time there's about 70 versions higher then last time!
YAY!


This mod... rules.

lol, thought I recogized your name. Nice to see you back. XD

And yeah, the RC count is getting a bit silly. Oh well, at least it keeps improving, sorta.

Yeah, I went on the online server, and low and behold, there was other people online!
WOOHOO

So, do I actually have to reinstall and uninstall every time there's a new RC?
Because honestly... that's frustrating.

Also, MAKE AN AUTOUPDATER.

i've only reinstalled fl for flak once

just delete the old mod form the manger and u should be good

true, it may be recommended to do a fresh install but, it isn't necessary
just deactivate the mod and activate the update
you only need to worry about reinstalling FL if the mod played fine but, seems buggy after the newest update

Yeah, sorry, just one of the quirks of Beta development. The message is intended for people playing Flak for the first time. I'll amend the notice. =P

YOU CAN'T HANDLE AN AUTOUPDATER!!!! ::goes back into his coma::

When 88flak gets updated, I cry with sadness and joy... at the same time.

Finally got around to revamping the Asteroid Fields to how I always wanted 'em. It isn't QUITE what I pictured, but pretty close - the biggest problem is that they look a little strange when shot, however asteroids now move out of your way when bumped. The fields are exactly the same as they were before the asteroids were of the "dynamic" type - I took no shortcuts here, unlike, say, TNG, which simply replaced a normal field's dynamic asteroids with one from the normal field and deleted the rest.

I was hoping to get some mass into the asteroids, but not only is it a hard-coded limit, but they don't appear to have mass at all. I changed the mass on the Patriot to 0.1 for testing, which had me cruising at about 10k/sec, but I still bumped through asteroids no problem at 10m/sec, so they must have just simply no mass as far as the FL engine is concerned. Oh well, the fields look much better now, and after a while you'll forget how weird it is that asteroids bounce off your ship (and damn, it's mighty handy for large ships, and looks pretty cool =P)

Mines have also been fixed. FL didn't like my system of asteroids before, so mine fields were a little glitchy - this has been fixed, and mines do slightly less damage now. Non mine-maze minefields have also been opened up a bit, so bases like BPA newgate can be exited in any direction (still gotta look out for 'em though =P). This also eliminates any possible death-by-mines-in-jumpgate due to lag.

Hmmm...
this new update makes FL unable to connect to the global server...
Time for a reinstall!

Bizurker, sometimes the global just goes down. It's been doing that a lot for me recently; it seems to kinda come in waves.

I'd suggest running Freelancer like this:
"C:\(blah)\freelancer.exe" -sfreelancer.servegame.org:2303
This will enable a direct connect to the server, regardless of rather the master's up.

o rly?
Ill test that out

Yeah, I don't even bother with the master server, it's usually pretty useless as-is.

Well, I logged in, then ctd'd. reinstalling now
silly FL being amazing and touchy.