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~Free Download~ Wing Commander Privateer Remake 1.0 Released

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Originally posted by: theangel24
freelancer's nowhere near as good as the original privateer. Does this have the righteouf fire expansion too?
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I didn't say it was. I'm just saying that not so 640x480 graphics give it some major bonus points in my book 😛

I've wasted far more hours on Privateer than Freelancer though. Without doubt.
 
Having never been much of a gamer, how would you rate this in terms of "family-friendliness"? Violence, gore, language, sexuality, etc.

Sorry if I sound lame--once you get kiddos, you'll understand. 😎
 
Thanks, OP! I never played the original Privateer, but I loved Privateer 2 (which was an inferior game according to reviews).
 
Thanks SG. Great post.

I remember playing this game loooooong ago, it was awesome.
Looking forward to trying this out.

TD
 
Privateer Remake establishes a connection to itself (127.0.0.1)
many firewalls are incorrectly configured to block such connection (norton firewall, windows firewall) because such connections cannot cause harm to your computer since localhost is your own system (if your own system is infecting itself it has other means ;-) )

sometimes these firewalls will popup annoying messages about privateer connecting to itself--and sometimes this causes your video drivers to crash because a fullscreen app was interferred with by a popup window.

Properly configuring your firewall averts this condition.
For those of you who are unsure about how to properly configure a personal firewall you can tell privateer remake to pierce your firewall
by editing vegastrike.config and adding a line
<var name="pierce_firewall" value="true"/>
to the audio section

other options include a) playing in windowed mode
and b) playing without music (sad)
 
Help. I"m hooked. Never played the original. Downloaded the thing and have been playing it for a day and a half. Must say the learning curve is rather steep, but the trade or fight / good or bad aspects are rather engaging.

Thumbs up for the find.
 
Cool.

My very first PC game was the original wing commander on a 386 w/32Mb RAM and integrated graphics. God, i've been smitten with gaming ever since.....

I remember waiting for a game that was coming out a year or two later by the same team (chris roberts???) that was based on a conflict in the US where you could play as a sort of mercenary for hire. I can remember a pic of a jet fighter climbing straight up out of a ball of fire....

Anybody remember that game? Was it any good? It's killing me that I can't remember the name!
 
Originally posted by: SkyBum
Cool.

My very first PC game was the original wing commander on a 386 w/32Mb RAM and integrated graphics. God, i've been smitten with gaming ever since.....

I remember waiting for a game that was coming out a year or two later by the same team (chris roberts???) that was based on a conflict in the US where you could play as a sort of mercenary for hire. I can remember a pic of a jet fighter climbing straight up out of a ball of fire....

Anybody remember that game? Was it any good? It's killing me that I can't remember the name!
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strike commander, it sucked!!!!
 
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