I take my hat off to you for this. I play Freelancer a hell of a lot, but it’s taken me absolutely ages just to collect everything back after just one Prestige and I still haven’t got everything back yet.
Once I have, I don’t think I’ll be doing it again! 
Think I’ll just stick to enjoying playing Freelancer with a full inventory.
Patch today, everyone! Let’s see what happens and what they do in Freelancer (if they do make changes). 
The notes have been published, for Freelancer the largest changes gameplay wise are :
The rest are bug and QoL fixes.
This seems like an odd one to focus on. Were people doing this? And why would it be a Freelancer-specific change?
Probably speedrunners. 
Or anyone apparently. I guess it’s too easy to use to get a sedative poison objective.
This is where the aim with a coin at their feet and switch to chloroform as you throw would come in handy. This way it won’t lock onto the target and melee KO them.
Speaking of coins : still no news about the Coin. 
Yeah, it also looks like we still won’t be able to choose which briefcase we want to use in Freelancer 
Had no idea. So that creates a sedative KO?
Quick question about hardcore mode: i do the silent Assassin objective but I’m not sure if i was recorded by a camera and i don’t want to leave and probably screw myself over.
Does the objective change to “delete evidence” or whatever in hc mode too or do i have to destroy the surveillance recorder just to be safe?
It changes to “destroy evidence”.
Alright, good to know, thank you!
Found an easy way to identify the leader:
-set the HUD objectives to auto;
-whenever you interact with the world in any way for the first time, the objectives HUD will show up;
-bump on the suspect NPC;
-if the objectives HUD show up when they where distracted (with a “?” above the head), that’s the leader.
I think every NPC will get a ? above their head if they are distracted.
It is not about the ?, read again. 
And please also spoiler a comment if you decide to write one please.
I so wish that was an option, especially as we’ve got about a dozen of 47’s briefcases stacked on the shelves in the Safehouse basement!
Yes, it’s very unfortunate how that has worked out. My two biggest issues with Freelancer has been the existence of the objectives, narrowing the options perfectionist players can take, and the fact that the entire inventory of suits, weapons and tools found in the main campaign cannot be used in Freelancer, and that there are some items in Freelancer that can’t be used in the main campaign. They should be able to share across the two.
I always thought there should be a button to press to disable ‘lock on’. Sometimes I just want to throw a propane tank in between some npcs without throwing it at their head.
@Travis_IOI can you make this happen? 
Sometimes I wonder why ppl play “video games”. 
Sometimes I wonder why ppl make posts revealing exploits like this when the game is still being actively updated… All it does is lead to it getting patched out in the next update - just look at what happened to the “target jingle”.
Well if you’re not going to use such an exploit, or share it with others to use, then what’s the difference if it gets patched out? Use it while you can.