Saw this mod picture online and it does look pretty cool……
Imagine if the extract for its unlock was true? 
would be pretty cool for those veteran players like us! 
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The description is just from the original purpose of the coin. They made three ET coins for H2 (like they did for H1) but never used them and have just been sitting in the game data since the H2-era.
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The mod implementing the coin only being able to use a placeholder description, or model is the main reasons I think the coin was purposely not in Freelancer at release, and not a bug.
Freelancer was supposed to have its own live service fed content release. I think we know that not all locations were supposed to be available from the start. But staggered released in packs.
I would guess the seasonal cosmetics were in this plan. And from its name, I would guess the coin was supposed to be one of the last farewell of it. “Outstanding Service, thank you, here is a our last gift, time to go”.
Then Freelancer was postponed for a year, Ambrose came first (the order of the two was reversed). Freelancer was released all at once.
The coin and seasonal cosmetics might then have been forgotten about, left behind with the abandoned plan.
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Would be odd that they didn’t remove the slot from the briefcase, since they updated it at some point anyway. There was a secret test that they did with some players before the CTT in November 2022 (I think I heard somewhere this test was in March 2022), and in that test the briefcase had slots where the Leader agenda phones could be stored if you brought them back previously.
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I think that the plan is still to have the coin be a future reward, on purpose. So leaving the crate slot in. Or at least it was when Travis and Clemens were there.
They were too wink wink nudge nudge about it.
The question then becomes, when will it be released. And how. But that’s an internal question.
Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was supposed to be a final reward for the end of the live service.
And that currently IOI does not know / did not know until recently the actual plan for the next years of the game. Putting it in limbo during Year 3 to keep it as the final farewell, always “for later”.
And then forgotten in Y4.
It might all go to 007 and Fantasy, and maintaining a stream of content to drive a bit of revenue until they release/are revealed.
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Well, do you have the patience to fish for the fishing line? Because that is a very cool fiber wire.
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Yeah it looks ok, or at least better than the sthetoscope… but it’s a pain to get. I wish we had the classic fiber wire available in the costume room or something like that (maybe put the coin there too since they’re both part of the default loadout). Right now there’s too much incentive to go for the sthetoscope sadly 
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Wouldn’t that break the design of the fiber-wire we have on the weapon wall?
For what you want to do, I think using this one is the intended incentive path.
Wouldn’t say no to an end-game unlockable coin+fiber-wire spawn though.
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There are already tons of subpar items that get superseded by free unlockables. Like why would you take the hammer or the police baton when you can get the newspaper or the baseball? Why would you take any of the non-epic knives when you can just use the scalpel instead? The only reason to take the fiber wire from the wall instead of the sthetoscope, aside from RP, is that it costs a bit less so you can potentially bring another item alongside it. Personally I rarely go above 10-12 capacity so there’s basically no difference for me… except that the sthetoscope feels really lame as an assassin’s weapon when we could have a functionally identical item, that would cost the same capacity, but be a lot more flavorful for 47. I wish we had gotten that instead of a bunch of merces and other useless stuff in the late mastery levels
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Personally, outside of RP, I use the fiber-wire, because:
- 1 gear capacity
- epic melee item (can be used for the prestige objective)
- as a weapon wall item, it stays in my inventory between mission for the whole syndicate and doesn’t ask me to run around the safehouse every-time
- I embraced the “sod it we are doing it live” side of the mode.
Agree with you on more useful item spawn being a missed opportunity of the mastery system, and of the mode.
It is the basis of my constant coin spawn ask.
I also remember how disappointed I was when I unlocked the final cosmetic of the infirmary and saw that they did nothing when the mode came out.
(by the way @urben, or any of the mods, maybe this conversation should be transferred to the freelancer topic, from Patrick_McColloch (not included) onward)
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If IO wanted the coin to be in Freelancer, it would’ve been in the game before 2024 began. Either it is such a low priority fix that they haven’t gotten round to it, or they simply can’t be bothered. I don’t think there’s any grand plan to release it.
Better known as being cryptically unhelpful, but more playful!
It’s just as annoying, and it’s why so many requests from the community were ignored – And not just about this coin either.
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1 gear capacity
Unless you are doing something extremely specific, this is not an upside. The other reskins are 2 gear capacity and is certainly easy to accommodate around when building a loadout. By the time you get the fiber wire from either a drop or from a courier, it’s kind of superfluous.
epic melee item (can be used for the prestige objective)
Pretty much one of the few reasons to take it tbh.
as a weapon wall item, it stays in my inventory between mission for the whole syndicate and doesn’t ask me to run around the safehouse every-time
Getting a stethoscope from the med bay is not that big a diversion; might actually be quicker than picking and choosing some weapons off of the weapon wall.
I embraced the “sod it we are doing it live” side of the mode.
Not completely sure what that has to do with the fiber wire. But I do think it is better suited to this mode than the base game (every other small unlock is either more useful or more nuanced in use).
I can’t see them being truly abandoned? After all, IOI did show off the Seasonal Safehouse decorations in the ‘How to Play’ video a few months before Freelancer’s launch, so clearly they are in the files somewhere. Not to mention, we’ve seen loads of things kept in the files for a prolonged period of time that have eventually seen the light of day.
As for the coin, I know @Combatglue has acknowledged not that long ago this was resent back to the devs, so hopefully that will also seen the light of day soon as well 
I just can’t see IOI leaving the coin out entirely? Either a future patch should remove the coin holder in the loot crate, or we actually see it added to Freelancer.
I’ll be glad once we get the final bit of acknowledgment on its fate to be fair. I know I’ve mentioned it in my post above, but the last we heard, Combatglue sent it back to the devs.
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Could say the same about the PS5 saving icon bug that has been getting stuck on the screen since June 2021. And its still not fixed.
@Combatglue Is there any word on this PS5 saving bug? The last time we heard about this particular issue was in the October 2023 patch notes where it was said “We are still investigating a potentially similar issue on PS5” when it was fixed within three months on Steam. PS5 players have been waiting over three years for a fix.
Long standing issues like this should really be detailed on the Known Issues page on Zendesk so people know where things are at - but this page hasn’t been updated since May 2023.
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The decorations are in the files (they’re actually fairly easy to activate via modding), but the coin, AFAICR, isn’t. If I’m remembering correctly, the coin is simply a placeholder, and if it is, I have a sneaking suspicion it’s being delayed because IO don’t want players having what is clearly meant to be a limited time reward for ET completion.
Also, just because something is in the files, doesn’t mean IO will do anything with them. There are other things in the files that would cause bedlam if they were released (and yes, I’m being deliberately vague here), and it’s good IO do this just in case they have a HWK21 situation (where they replaced that gun with the Striker V3). The decorations are exactly that; decorations. They’re not exactly something players will notice missing unless they watched a comparatively obscure video from 2023. A coin being permanently given a blank space in your freelancer tools however, is going to be noticed.
Note my wording. I never said IO were not ever going to release it, just that there’s no grand plan to. It’d probably be released in an update as a bug fix, not as a new feature. I’m sure they’ll get around to it eventually, but IO don’t exactly have the greatest reputation when it comes to fixing long-standing issues in a timely manner.
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To be honest I don’t like the idea that new comsetics replace gym. I liked the idea that every DLC comes with new cosmetics that are dedicated to different rooms. Now we need to replace The Distruptor cosmetics, bleh. They could add that “new studio” to room in basement.
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Very interesting. Have you activated them yourself? Would be interested if you have and wouldn’t mind you sending some pics across via DM 
When I saw the Safehouse was getting extra content as part of the Drop DLC, I always thought the new cosmetics were going to be aimed for the studio area in the Safehouse basement as well.
I’ve been away on holiday and only got back to this roadmap now but honestly pretty happy with it.
First off they gave us the drop permanently which was something I was wondering when they brought the undying back (could this mean we could get The Wildcard back too)
I think the vinyl discs as legal shurikens is actually pretty cool and really fun instead a recolour of something we already have
The sets that you can change in freelancer with the pack are also pretty cool designs too like the hot tub and music room
So happy we are getting the super fan as a suit it’ll be like playing as a ghostface running around causing carnage
A proximity micro taser and oil can are things we’ve wanted as unlocks for ages and we’re getting them
All in all this is probably the best roadmap we’ve had in a while in my opinion
The only thing I’m not crazy for is the Rerun elusive targets that I’ve played a billion times I know they are slowly stepping away from hitman and I’m very happy they still update the game 4 years later but I think giving us all the Elusive targets we have in a permanent mission would be better and then every roadmap give us a new elusive target or Special Assignment esc mission something small but new something where maps that didn’t get elusive targets can get a bit of love on. And I’m not saying every single one has to be celebrity elusive targets either like give us new or even cut elusive targets to keep it fresh
Well done IO
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I love how people keep asking this, as if adding a controversial celebrity absolves a previous controversial celebrity’s appearance in the game. Two rights do not make a wrong and two wrongs do not make a right. It’s not going to happen. If it does, I will be very surprised.
Honestly, if it does happen, it’d say a lot more about IOI’s need for any kind of publicity, good or bad, more than anything to do with re-licensing Gary Busey.
Annoying you can’t enter the hot tub. I wanna fix this, so watch this space.
So happy we are getting the super fan as a suit it’ll be like playing as a ghostface running around causing carnage
I’ve actually softened up on this, primarily because my idiot brain forgot that disguises and suits lose their special abilities once a new TEMP for them has been created. I still think a recolour of it would help dispel any confusion about how it works in The Author (not to mention potentially making it look cooler, Striker V3 style).
The only thing I’m not crazy for is the Rerun elusive targets that I’ve played a billion times
Hear hear!
(Okay, I’m done, I swear!)
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I’m unaware with what Gary’s done outside of the game and solely thought the reason he wasn’t added back was due to the licensing agreement they made with him but if they were able to bring back the Sarajevo Six and The Undying after telling us they can’t then it could’ve been a possibility
But yeah shame you can’t walk up to the hot tub and use it and with the outfit/disguises I never thought about that will we be able to use our suit and do the story mission without having to take out the super fan?
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