History VideoGame / DiscoveryFreelancer

%%* [[Main/BattleshipRaid Battleship Raid]]: Bombers have a field day of it.
%%* [[Main/TheBattlestar The Battlestar]]: With the addition of docking modules, any ship with the hardpoint mount and cargo space can become one. The Liberty and Rheinland carriers take the cake, though, with their whopping six docking module mounts.
%%* [[Main/CoolShip Cool Ship]]: Par for the course, and a lot of them.
%%* [[Main/ContinuationFic Continuation Fic]]: Of {{VideoGame/Freelancer}}.
%%* [[Main/ContinuityPorn Continuity Porn]]: Carried over from the original.
%%* [[Main/DarkerAndEdgier Darker and Edgier]]: The mod introduces Synthetic Marijuana and slaves as tradable commodities.
%%* [[Main/AnEntrepreneurIsYou An Entrepreneur Is You]]: You can either trade like you did in the vanilla Freelancer, or you can set up your very own player-owned base.
%%* [[Main/FantasticDrug Fantastic Drug]]: Cardamine, from the vanilla, and Nox, from [[Main/OriginalCharacter Gallia]]
%%* [[Main/GameMod Game Mod]]: See above.
%%* [[Main/LightningBruiser Lightning Bruiser]]: The average snubship and most Bombers.
%%* {{Main/Metagame}}: Is frowned upon on the official server.

* [[Main/ShoutOut Shout-Out]]: [[ShoutOut/DiscoveryFreelancer Earned its own page.]]
* [[VideoGameCaringPotential Videogame Caring Potential]]: You can look after multiples of 200 people on your own space station, should you set one up, and see it grow into something great, or alternately, help your fellow players earn money so they can engage in...
* [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Videogame Cruelty Potential]]: You can pick up the [[Main/EscapePod pilots/captains/crew]] of ships you've shot down and [[MadeASlave sell them into slavery]]... [[DramaticSpaceDrifting Or leave them to freeze to death in the void of space.]] [[SinkTheLifeboats Or even blow them up.]] [[Main/YouBastard You bastard.]] Otherwise, you can just be a general pain to other players, pirating them, or ganking them, or otherwise being a dick.

* [[Main/BattleshipRaid Battleship Raid]]: Bombers have a field day of it.
* [[Main/TheBattlestar The Battlestar]]: With the addition of docking modules, any ship with the hardpoint mount and cargo space can become one. The Liberty and Rheinland carriers take the cake, though, with their whopping six docking module mounts.
* [[Main/CoolShip Cool Ship]]: Par for the course, and a lot of them.
* [[Main/ContinuationFic Continuation Fic]]: Of {{VideoGame/Freelancer}}.
* [[Main/ContinuityPorn Continuity Porn]]: Carried over from the original.
* [[Main/DarkerAndEdgier Darker and Edgier]]: The mod introduces Synthetic Marijuana and slaves as tradable commodities.
* [[Main/AnEntrepreneurIsYou An Entrepreneur Is You]]: You can either trade like you did in the vanilla Freelancer, or you can set up your very own player-owned base.
* [[Main/ExecutiveMeddling Executive Meddling]]:[[Main/SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] You know the old, original introduction to Freelancer? The one that Microsoft had cut? Well, according to the guys who do the updates, it really happened.
* [[Main/FanNickname Fan Nickname]]: Sometimes called Disco.
* [[Main/FantasticDrug Fantastic Drug]]: Cardamine, from the vanilla, and Nox, from [[Main/OriginalCharacter Gallia]]
* [[Main/GameMod Game Mod]]: See above.
* [[Main/LightningBruiser Lightning Bruiser]]: The average snubship and most Bombers.
* {{Main/Metagame}}: Is frowned upon on the official server.

* [[Main/TechnologyMarchesOn Technology Marches On]]: [[Main/InUniverse In-Universe]]: The [[Main/StealthInSpace Cloaking Devices]] from vanilla? They now need only one heavy cruiser or battleship power core.
* [[VideogameCaringPotential Videogame Caring Potential]]: You can look after multiples of 200 people on your own space station, should you set one up, and see it grow into something great, or alternately, help your fellow players earn money so they can engage in...
* [[VideogameCrueltyPotential Videogame Cruelty Potential]]: You can pick up the [[Main/EscapePod pilots/captains/crew]] of ships you've shot down and [[MadeASlave sell them into slavery]]... [[DramaticSpaceDrifting Or leave them to freeze to death in the void of space.]] [[SinkTheLifeboats Or even blow them up.]] [[Main/YouBastard You bastard.]] Otherwise, you can just be a general pain to other players, pirating them, or ganking them, or otherwise [[PrecisionFStrike being a dick.]]

Discovery Freelancer is a [[Main/GameMod mod]] and [[Main/ContinuationFic Continuation]] for {{VideoGame/Freelancer}}. It ranks highly on ModDb in terms of popularity.
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* PalleteSwap: Due to varying reasons, groups like The Core have cosmetically different but functionally identical ships to their counterparts Bounty Hunters Guild, or the Imperial Kusari Navy's ships are effectively Kusari Republic ships but colored differently.

Discovery Freelancer is a [[Main/GameMod mod]] and [[Main/ContinuationFic Continuation fic]] for {{VideoGame/Freelancer}}. It ranks highly on ModDb in terms of popularity.

* [[VideogameCrueltyPotential Videogame Cruelty Potential]]: You can pick up the [[Main/EscapePod pilots/captains/crew]] of ships you've shot down and [[MadeASlave sell them into slavery]]... [[DramaticSpaceDrifting Or leave them to freeze to death in the void of space.]] [[Main/YouBastard You bastard.]] Otherwise, you can just be a general pain to other players, pirating them, or ganking them, or otherwise [[PrecisionFStrike being a dick.]]

* [[VideogameCrueltyPotential Videogame Cruelty Potential]]: You can pick up the [[Main/EscapePod pilots/captains/crew]] of ships you've shot down and sell them into slavery... [[DramaticSpaceDrifting Or leave them to freeze to death in the void of space.]] [[Main/YouBastard You bastard.]] Otherwise, you can just be a general pain to other players, pirating them, or ganking them, or otherwise [[PrecisionFStrike being a dick.]]

* [[VideogameCaringPotential Videogame Caring Potential]]: You can look after multiples of 200 people on your own space station, should you set one up, and see it grow into something great.
* [[VideogameCrueltyPotential Videogame Cruelty Potential]]: You can pick up the [[Main/EscapePod pilots/captains/crew]] of ships you've shot down and sell them into slavery... [[DramaticSpaceDrifting Or leave them to freeze to death in the void of space.]] [[Main/YouBastard You bastard.]]

* [[Main/ShoutOut Shout-Out]]: Several.
** [[Film/DirtyHarry I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire that six seconds ago or five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Antimatter Cannon, the most powerful antimatter cannon in Sirius, and would blow your ship right to hell, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?]]
** [[Series/FireFly The Serenity (formerly Firefly) Transport.]] Bonus points for being readily available to literally anyone who can afford it.

** [[Series/FireFly The Serenity (formerly Firefly) Transport.]]

* [[Main/ContinuityPorn Continuity Porn]]: Carried over from the original

** [[Series/Firefly The Serenity (formerly Firefly) Transport.]]

Discovery Freelancer is a [[Main/GameMod mod]] and [[Main/ContinuationFic Continuation fic]] for [[VideoGame/Freelancer Freelancer]]. It ranks highly on ModDb in terms of popularity.