Cheat Codes: ———— Update by: Nadine Dommecent God mode: ——— Use a text editor to edit the «perfoptions.ini» file in the game folder:
Change the «DIFFICULTY_SCALE = 1.00» line to «DIFFICULTY_SCALE = 0.00».
Finding secret bases and jump holes: ———————————— When you are looking for hidden jump holes to other systems, turn on your Nav Map, then select the «Show Patrols» map. The lines that appear show popular paths that the AI ships use. Almost any path that stretches out beyond the normal trade-lane traffic of a star system will lead to a hidden starport or even a hidden jump hole. Fly out to where the line leads to and turn on the «Solars» option on your targeting computer. You will usually find a place of interest. However, in places with reduced sensor ranges you will probably have to rely on visually looking for something. Also, to find all the paths, make sure to look at the «neutral», «hostile» and «friendly» paths in the patrol paths map. Be wary of stumbling upon an enemy’s base.
Easier battles: ————— For slightly easier battles when attacking, select a hostile ship as your target then ignore that ship. Focus instead on the other hostiles but do not select them as a target. Even though they are not selected you will still be given the blindfire marker (the crosshair you aim with), although it will be smaller. Sometimes an untargeted hostile will just sit there, waiting to be shot. Other times, it will remain on a straight course and will not maneuver too much. The AI will eventually catch on to you and will alter its techniques or will send in more ships. Also, you will not be able to use missiles like this.
Cheat: —— Change the «DIFFICULTY_SCALE = 1.00» line to «DIFFICULTY_SCALE = 0.00». in the «perfoptions.ini» file for GOD mode, but to make little bit easier you can change the «DIFFICULTY_SCALE = 1.00» line to «DIFFICULTY_SCALE = 0.50» and you will take only half the damage, or you can change «DIFFICULTY_SCALE = 2.00» if you wish to make the game harder.
Gametip: ——— Submittedd by: slimjim
To make your self imortal locate the string DIFFICULTY_SCALE = 1.00 in «PerfOptions.ini» which is located in C:\My Documents\My Games\Freelancer\ Simple change the 1 to a 0 to make your ship invincible or change it to 2 for a more challenging game.
Hint: —— If you need to install the codec for freelancer you can play the game and hear everything. If you don’t install the codec you can’t play finish the game but you can’t explode when you are 2 close to a planet because you can’t hear the alert message that you hear when you fly 2 close. ps: the game is depending on the codec.
Quicker way to get money: ————————- Buy a Cargo then go in to space and jettison the cargo and get it back when you get it back you’ll notice it say 2x do this till ya cargo get the the max then go back and land or dock and sell off the cargo.
Hints: —— * Sit around Essen and Dortmound station for the Red Hessians. Kill the Hessians and sometime they drop Niobium. Dortmound pay over 1k for a single piece of Niobium, but you dont even have to move far.
* Must be Enemies with the Hessians: ps best way to level up fast too, also junkers attack every now and then but they drop Barragers Mk3s and lancer missles.
Recommended weapon combination: ——————————- Note: This requires v1.0 activated. It does not apply to The Next Generation expansion. If you start on a single player or in a multi-player server, make sure to get at least 5,000 credits to begin. In single player, that should be no problem. In multi-player mode, just run a few missions. When you earn the desired amount of money because you have a Starflier, start off like this. Fly over to Baltimore Shipyard and go to the Equipment Room. If you do not have a new weapon for the one empty weapon slot, buy a Stunpulse or Advanced Stunpulse (recommended). The Stunpulse is 770 credits. The Advanced Stunpulse is 1,650 credits. These will allow you to wipe out an enemy’s shields easily. Then, have two Hull Damage Efficient weapons. If you like how this combination works, take note. For every two Hull Dmg Efficient weapons have one Shield Damage Efficient, such as the Stunpulse. For example, if there are three gun slots(as seen on a Starflier) equip two Hull Weapons and one Shield. If there are six gun slots, equip four Hull weapons and two Shield weapons. To make this combination much easier to manage and energy friendly, go to the options then to «Controls». Look in the «User Interface Keys» and go to the bottom. Assign keys to «Assign Weapon Groups 1-6″ however desired. Then, separate your weapons into two different groups; Hull Damage Group and Shield Damage Group. Make sure to set your «Activate Weapon Group 1-6» to however desired. By doing this, you are not wasting away energy on weapons that will do no good during the «Timeline of Battle». Use this combination to the advantage of every battle; Shield first, switch to Hull, then finish them.
Easy money: ———— In order to get easy money, you have a good relationship with the Rogues, Hackers, and Outcasts. Go to Mactan Base in the Magellan system. Save the game. Exchange your ship for a Dromedary. Buy as much Cardamine as you can. Leave Mactan and go through the old jumpgate from Magellan to New York. Staying in the Badlands, fly from the jump gate to Buffalo Base. One there, sell all of the Cardamine. Leave, go back to Mactan, and repeat. By the time you can buy a entire cargo bay full you will be making more than 100,000 credits each time.
Profitable trade routes: ———————— use following is a cheap and easy trade route. It only applies to Freelancer v1.0 (v1.4 Cap ships mod is acceptable). Make a new ship/character on a multi-player server (or if you want to test it, try a single player game if you have completed Story mode). This may not be the fastest method, but it does work for when you start out with only 5,000 credits (if the server does not edit that). Fly to the Leeds system and go to Stokes Mining Station. Buy Ship Hull Panels for 80 credits each (1,600 credits for 20 units with the Starflier, your starting ship). Then, fly back to the New York system and land in the Baltimore Shipyard. They will sell for 560 credits per unit (11,200 credits for 20 units). You can now buy at least a Rhino and sell even more at once. Repeat this as many times as desired.
King is Docking: —————- After completing the early story mission outside of Pittsburgh and you’re free to do what you like for a bit quickly dock with the Jump Lane to Fortbush and you’ll see King docking with it!
Modify Difficulty Level: ———————— This cheat will let you change how easy/hard the game is. the file you need to find is under you My Documents folder, not the Freelancer Game folder. «My Documents\My Games\Freelancer» is the path name. Once there, open the file named PrefOptions.ini. *Note*: This cheat has to do with modifying this file. It is suggested that you make a backup of the file first. Once you’re in the file, look for a line that reads «DIFFICULTY_SCALE = 1.00». It’s possible that the number is different. Change this setting to be higher to make the game harder, or lower to make it easier. Make it 0.00 to be invincible.
Earn Millions and Levels in Minutes: ———————————— Go to the sigma 19 system (if not fund go to Hnshu system and find the jump gate) go to the jump hole in sector E3 (note; u Must be nutuel with outcasts) Then shoot at the PATHFINDER and tractor in the goods (sector E5) Then do the same on the Hoshu Maru (or sumthing like that in sector E4) sell the stuff u get at the base nearby. Also one of the hoshu maru escorts have wepons in it, get the and sell them too. Once you have sold them you can do it again. This gets u approx 200,000 credits each time and advance 2 levels each time aswell, takes on 3 minutes each run. Make sure you do the PATHFINDFER first each time.
How to use Turrets: ——————- Everyone knows a Turret mounted on a Turret Point is like having another weapon when shooting at enemies. However did you know that if you press H and then swing around to look at your enemies you can shoot back at them with the Turret! Handy for making a quick getaway.
Docking made quick! ——————- As you know sometimes docking can take a long time however with docking rings you can dock a lot quicker. If you fly close enough to the gap between the two arms which open to let you dock and then dock with it you’ll go straight through with out the arms even opening! This also means that you can dock in funny ways!
Make the most of your weapons! —————————— To make the most of your weapons you should do two things to make sure you’re playing as efficiently as possible. 1. Multiply the re-fire rate by the damage to hull and shield to see how much hull and shield damage you can do each second with each weapon 2. Multiply the re-fire rate with the energy usage to see how much energy it takes to do this Try and utilize weapons which don’t drain your energy to quickly but at the same time provide you with decent fire power at either a slow/fast rate depending on what you prefer.
Easy money: ———— Hang around in the debris fields and use turret mode, etc. to shoot the floating canisters. Haul in the scrap metal, and sell it at Baltimore Shipyards, if you can. You will get about 20 credits per piece of scrap metal, and you can get easy money this way, if you do not mind waiting.
Use the z: ———- When attacking stations use z to attack across the entire length of the station. Just line ourself up and turn accordingly its amazing how many people dont know about z.
Trading Commodities: ——————— Every commodity that you can jack off of pirate or cargo ships can be traded for credits at various places. It depends on how much they willing to pay for them. Most of the commodities in the game can be traded throughout the fringe systems, on planet Malta or any Corsair base. Beware, you must have good relations with the Corsairs, or they won’t let you in their base. Luxury foods are popular with planet New York and so is gold and diamonds as well.
Finding lost ships: ——————- Most of these ships can be found in gas clouds or asteroid fields. If there are any type of those in a star system, you should go explore and find those cool weapons.
Dock Backward: ————— Docking doesn’t have to be straight forward, though it’s tricky to achieve. You have to be right in front of the two arms of the docking ring (therefore this only works with planets) and centered to the gap between them. If you turn around to put your back to the ring before docking, if you do it correctly you will descend backward onto the planet.
Using Patrols to Find Secret Places: ———————————— Using your nav map, you can look at the patrols for enemies, neutrals and allies. Looking at them, it’s well worth checking out areas which are far away from any trade lanes, planets, stations etc. You will likely come across a secret base or jump hole you never knew about!
Easy Money: ———— First you will need to travel to Omega 11, a system characterized by a mining belt surrounding a big red sun. Here you can shoot the floating by rocks to find diamonds and then simply tractor them in. You do take hull damage though, so make sure to monitor your hull health and use nanobots or restock at the mining station nearby to ensure your safety. Then sell them somewhere where they’re highly valued like New Tokyo.
Money: —— When u play Nightstalker’s Univers buy a F 626 Adv Interceptor and buy 8 Phish stree «red death » cannon then go to avalon an let u irradiate then go back to lanteea and repair your weapons the u will have money.
The following is a cheap and easy trade route. It only applies to Freelancer v1.0 (v1.4 Cap ships mod is acceptable). Make a new ship/character on a multi-player server (or if you want to test it, try a single player game if you have completed Story mode). This may not be the fastest method, but it does work for when you start out with only 5,000 credits (if the server does not edit that). Fly to the Leeds system and go to Stokes Mining Station. Buy Ship Hull Panels for 80 credits each (1,600 credits for 20 units with the Starflier, your starting ship). Then, fly back to the New York system and land in the Baltimore Shipyard. They will sell for 560 credits per unit (11,200 credits for 20 units). You can now buy at least a Rhino and sell even more at once. Repeat this as many times as desired.
Zone 21 jumpgate: —————— If you want to find the zone21 jumpgate go to the battleship misuri and find what looks like a debris field go to stop outside it and go to your nav-map put your courser on the field and you’ll find out it’s a minefield now heres the problem you can’t get into the minefield without exploding if you can find a way in post it at this website.
Impossible to get to Zone 21: —————————— I tried with the invincible hack and got through thw field,then i dock with the jumpgate it freaking says «access denied»,so quit trying to get to the Zone 21 jumpgate.
