Antares Expansion
Freelancer Mod
= VFF Productions=
From the Vanguard Federation, the cutting edge of gaming, VFF Productions presents the Antares Mod for Freelancer.
With the aid of the enigmatic group known only as The Order, Freelancer Pilot Edison Trent sent the Nomads away, enabling Mankind to win the Nomad War.
Fifty years later, the Nomads are back with a vengeance. Uncountable wave after wave of Nomad Battleships, supported by armadas of Nomad Gunboats and vast numbers of Nomad Fighters, have swept aside the once vaunted Fleets of the Inner Houses with appalling ease. In their wake is a trail of wrecked ships, vaporized bases, and entire continents crushed and burned, millions of lives lost and millions of citizens left homeless.
The enigmatic faction known as The Order has led a handful of survivors in a rag-tag fleet of the few surviving warships, every freighter, and every fighter that could be made space worthy, across a Nomad infested wasteland known as the Zeta Corridor to safety on uncharted worlds behind a mysterious ancient alien Hypergate.
The governments and corporations of the Four Inner Houses have put aside their differences for the moment to rebuild their industries and military strength in the apparent safety of the Antares Sector. In a move to force co-operation, The Order has made the Four Houses begin their rebuilding efforts in a strange system known as Novus Spes, which has four habitable planets in a harmonic equilateral orbit.
The two Houses of the Hispania, the Outcasts and the Corsairs, have both faired better than the Inner Houses in the aftermath of the opening salvo of the Second Nomad War. They too have begun building their infrastructure in the Antares Sector, as well as in their home systems in the Omicrons.
They have banded together under the banner of the Confederation Hispania, and they have an agenda of their own.
Opportunities for fame, adventure and wealth abound for daring Freelancer Pilots in this brave new world. Will you seek your fortune ferrying refugees across the Zetas, a dangerous stretch of space marked by such ominous trails of wreckage as The Trail of Tears and The Devils Corridor? Will you make your fortune by capitalizing on the rebuilding efforts of the House Corporations? Will you seek your fortune instead by flying mercenary missions deep in Nomad occupied space in the Sirius Sector? Or do you have plans of your own?
The Antares Mod has the unique feature of allowing players to make use of their hard earned millions of in-game credits by actually helping to shape the very star systems they play in. Build unique and distinctive bases, terraform planets and name them and choose their landscape. Wish you had better thrusters? Design new ones. Wish you had a more maneuverable fighter, a better freighter? Choose from hundreds for your bases and planets or help design new ones. Want more firepower? Design new missiles, guns, and torpedoes.
There are hundreds of ships to choose from, and with the unique ability to completely customize with different combinations of reactor type and size, engine design, thruster choice, armor and shields. Ever wish that you could arm your Patriot or Drake with Cannonball Missiles or Nomad Blasters? Now you can.
The sky is no longer the limit. The only limit is your own courage, determination, intuition and creativity.
The Vanguard 2 server requires the Antares Expansion MOD to be installed and running to connect and play on this server.
To run the Antares Expansion MOD you need to install the following files in the order listed.
Vanguardfreelancer.org
The Microsoft Freelancer 1.1 patch
Vanguardfreelancer.org
Freelancer Mod Manager
Vanguardfreelancer.org
The Freelancer SDK 1.3 (installs to the Freelancer folder)
Vanguardfreelancer.org
The Antares Expansion MOD File (107MB file) (installs to FLMM)
After installing all the above file/programs you will need to activate the MOD using FLMM and run Freelancer from there.
If you intend to be playing on both modded servers and unmodded server it is recommended that you use separate copies of freelancer for each to prevent accidental banning from FLMM not completely shutting down a MOD you were running and thought you turned off.
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Hi Everyone,
Just a heads up, the folks at Antares Rebirth are working on reviving and re-launching the Antares Expansion mod! Unfortunately the original expansion is no longer being hosted or developed, but the re-launch has a new ModDB page that can be found here.
Fly safe out there!
-VFF Productions
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Antares Expansion - March 2008 edition
Full Version 3 commentsUpdates for the March 08 Edition 75 New Bases 5 new weapons Rebalance Power Plants giving each a unique market nitch Fixed range issues with a couple...
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what happend to this mod does anyone know where achilles , OCKillerB and Ruppetus Went ? would like to speak with any off them About this mod Would like to bring it back to life and Bring it back to its former glory if i ever do manage i will give credit where it is due but it would seem they just abandoned it so i cant give credits to them without knowing what happend with them and the mod and if i even would have permission to take it on...would someone ...anyone get back to me on this subject
Reply: I've managed to get back in contact with the VFF Team Antares is being worked on and is running again check the article above to find us Thank you!!!
Well, I did everything that needs to be done (Downloaded everything). I also copied files from SDK to Freelancer/DATA/. I even deleted all my save games. Activated mod with Freelancer Mod Manager. Still-wont-work
Come on guys, start pushing the mod. I know a lot of you troll around the net, so do a bit of advertising.
WoW, this thing is still around in Cyberspace. Awesome how the original author isn't mentioned (before the name change of the mod). At least that respect should have been given since they left the Freelancer Community. Yes a lot has been added to it, but you always give respect and mention to original authors.
The Antares Mod doesn't support SP; in point of fact I highly recommend that after you activate the mod, you rename your modded game and then reinstall vanilla Freelancer.
You can copy the FL icon and then rename for the modded copy of FL:
eg. in my comp I renamed the modded folder 'Antares Mod'.
Then right-click the icon and select 'properties'.
Under 'properties' change the 'target window' to microsoft games/Antares Mod/exe.
where it originally says microsoft games/Freelancer/exe.
Do the same for 'start in'.
When you finish, you should be able to double-click the icon renamed Antares Mod to start the modded game, or double-click the original icon to play vanilla or whatever else you change it to in the FLMM.
This isn't necessary to play the modded game, but its a lot quicker and more convenient than waiting around for FLMM to switch it back. Antares is a BIG mod!!
If you wish to play the Antares Mod offline, you can use the FL server icon to start a private game.
For a guide to playing in the unique and challenging Antares Mod try reading
The Adventures of Alvin Noob, a V2 IC Tutorial Vanguardfreelancer.org
Part One: A. Noob Lost in Space
The blare of an alarm klaxon awakens him from a nightmare of mangled bodies adrift in a black sea of wrecked ships, a hellish black sea infested with blue demon sharks. He lifts his head from the control panel of...what? He is shaken by the concussion of missiles detonating around him as he wipes blood from a label on the corner of the instrument panel. He reads aloud,
"RKM Rheinlander Escape Pod SN 824567
Do not exceed +12 or -8 G's
Not aerobatic rated
Not atmospheric re-entry rated."
He shakes his head saying, "What the bloody blue devil am I doing in a Rheinlander Escape Pod?" As another explosion reverberates around him he answers himself, "Escaping!" As he fires the thrusters he wonders what a blue devil is, before the sudden acceleration makes him black out again.
He blinks back awake from the nightmare of blue demon sharks. He looks around at a strange and unfamiliar starscape and wonders, "Where in the blue devil am I?" As he activates the navscreen he wonders again what a blue devil is. He looks at the navscreen in confusion. "Why it's nearly as blank as me noggin. Now what?" As he spots a large moon orbiting a gas giant he answers himself, "There we go mate, if we're going to be lost we might as well be lost over there, what?" He engages the cruise engine, lines the pod up in the direction of the large moon, then switches to turret view to have a look around. Fading in the distance behind him is the wreckage of a Rheinland Cruiser. He rubs his head in confusion, then winces in pain as he touches a welt in his forehead.
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i just downloaded this mod (first mod since my computer died) and i was just wondering wether this mod works on single player?
how to install mod ??
edited *its okay i diddent see top part on how to install
This Wont Work On My PC So I Cant Tell Anything About It