Freelancer | Patch 3.170.1 | Bugs and Imperfections

Yes i think so

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There are some NPCs in isle of Sgail that have the dialogue of a courier but are not couriers. Killing/KO them wonā€™t give you any merces

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Theyā€™re extra NPCs added in Freelancer, they can be selected as couriers (or even as targets) sometimes. Although I suppose that speaking those lines when theyā€™re not selected as couriers is probably a bug yeah.

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Why does master assassin 47 love to default to punching people in the face? Just blew a Silent Assassin Prestige Objective because instead of subduing a guard around a doorway like I intended, 47 just decided to pop up and instead punch him in the face and start combat. That was 40 minutes well spent before that sneaking around alerted Marrakesh trying to get both the Silent Assassin prestige objective and the Hide Target Bodies objectiveā€¦

I wouldā€™ve been so mad if this was the reason I lost a Hardcore campaign!

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Marrakesh corner subdue turning into face punch? Been thereā€¦

Wonder if it was the same location for youā€¦

But you could always do the old Alt+F4/Close App thing if it would cost you a campaign. I donā€™t think anyone would judge you for doing that when a game bug screws you over.

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Haha, no, Iā€™ve played enough Hitman by now that I never attempt to subdue anyone anywhere near stairs because of the punch glitch. It was actually in the consulate parking garage. I was trying to lure a guard into the center storage room and subdue him around that roomā€™s doorway, but 47 had the better idea to punch him instead.

Iā€™ve done a lot of Alt-F4 closes playing Freelancer. Itā€™s usually more of a rage-quit over something stupid than outright wanting to cheat.

I havenā€™t played Hardcore Mode yet. Does Alt+F4 still work for a failed prestige objective, or does the campaign fail immediately?

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In Hardcore Mode when you lose the prestige objective, you still are inside the mission even when there isnā€™t anything else to do if not exit from the location.

So in short, yes you can do alt+f4, objective failed or not.

Personally i refused to do alt+f4 and, after I dont know how many times iā€™ve replayed the campaign, I managed to complete it, legit, without force closing the game. For me is like cheating, but due to crashes and stability issues, who am I to say what someone should do.

I just hope IOI fixes the game, since this patch there are too many problems that should be resolved ASAP.

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Who needs to alt-f4? Just choose your show down to be in Dubai and the game will crash at least twice by itself.

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Yeah Dubai has some stability issues. I crashed there like 5-6 times, but i also noticed that after I got all guns, Dubai now crash less.

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I found that this also happens on other maps too. Iā€™ve seen them on Hokkaido and Mumbai.

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One of the bedroom customization options has some misaligned meshes. Posted another one just below it for comparison.


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This keeps happening to me as well.

Also, the wall on the left side to the Gym door has a habit of switching the photo/canvas print every time I load the game up as well?

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Thankfully Lucy in the sky wasnā€™t the target, but the ā€˜arrange meetingā€™ objective also failed to trigger and ruined my otherwise perfect run

edit: just realised the Nvidia screen record takes the audio from whatever was playing, rather than the game directly, hence the reason the clip has random audio from the BBC show ā€˜Death in Paradiseā€™ instead of Hitman audio :laughing:

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What platform you on my dude? Iā€™m on the PS4, which is probably why it always crashes.

Yeah, something is bugged with the ā€œArrange Meetingā€ prestige objective. Sometimes Iā€™ll trigger a suspectā€™s phone to arrange a meeting, but the objective just wonā€™t mark complete. The last time I had this objective, it didnā€™t register when I used a phone to lure the Leader to a secluded bathroom - but it did trigger when I used the Leaderā€™s phone to arrange a meeting with another suspect after killing the Leader!

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I just failed my ā€œDo not Pacify objectiveā€ for throwing an explosive golfball at my targets head.
Yeah sure I knocked him unconscious, pretty sure being stone dead means youā€™re not conscious anymore. Still, please fix.

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Many times now I have been unable to poison drinks bacause the prompt to poison doesnā€™t appear.

This has been reported already but Iā€™ve had many Silent Assassin POs failed because NPCs can see through walls. Most recently, Imogen Royce was able to see a body that was one floor below her.

As I keep finding bugs without even looking for them Iā€™m starting to wonder what were all the delays for? Clearly It wasnā€™t for polishing. The last upate seems to have added more bugs instead of fixing them

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IO were in a bit of a ā€œlose, loseā€ situation. They couldā€™ve pushed back Freelancer again, completely pushing it out of Year 2 and releasing it over a year after it was announced, or release it as-is, bugs be damned.

There was a blogpost where they said the delays were partly due to deciding to have all the locations in it at launch, instead of slowly adding them in. Plus I guess they came up with other changes they thought of to work into it too.

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Well, that makes sense. Still, itā€™s frustrating that this update broke the game so much. Letā€™s hope we get a patch soon because it desperately needs one

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Agreed. The game became much more rough around the edges compared to what it was before the January 26th patch.

It seems like they put most of the focus post-CTT into fixing the bugs that really needed fixing ASAP, and everything else got pushed to the next patch. Thankfully they fixed the issue where if you left the safehouse to a location with an item in 47ā€™s hand, more often than not it would vanish from your inventory when the location loaded.

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