Many of us experienced Privateer in the early 90's, the engaging space piracy and trading game that captured us with mystery and challenges.
Some contemporary efforts tried bringing back the Privateer joy of years past, but all have been limited by the blocky 320x200 pixel art in the game. The competing Privateer Gemini Gold has just released a new Open Source Privateer to all platforms with the inflight and ground art redone at 800x600 as well as with all the familiar controls that were baked into the base scenes and immersed the player in the scenes.
Just like the original, you start poor, with an old scout class ship in a sparsely populated system in the Gemini Sector. As usual, you must try to get money through various mission assignments from which you can purchase better ships and upgrades. It's your choice how to explore Gemini and align with the various factions, earn your money as a merchant, bounty hunter, traitor or pirate. Meet Sandoval in a bar on New Detroit and talk to him to trigger the original campaign and the newer Righteous Fire expansion.
What is new in this release:
- Righteous Fire campaign voiceovers
- High resolution interior/base graphics
- Perry Concourse with animations
- Mining Base Landing Pad animated light beam
- Mining Base Concourse with dust nebular and walking man
- New Detroit Landing Pad and Concourse animations
- New Constantinople Landing Pad and Concourse animations
- Some new damaged upgrade item graphics
- High resolution MFD graphics (cockpit displays)
- Privateer like communication options and radar colors for bases
- Shields power down when playership runs out of energy
- More detailed and better visible asteroid fields
- Savegames can be named
- Better readable Oxford Library computer screen
- Bugfixes
- Level of Detail (might cause performance issues during spaceflight)
- loading of a saved mission causes infinite new waves of hostile ships
- missile lock light always on while in gun or missile lock
- scrolling hud down affects all other huds as well
- landing after collision with eden moon
- hitchhiker won't leave playership
- mission MFD shows nothing.mission
- bases and planets are not neutral
- positive militia responses take longer than negative
- cargo space calculation is wrong when using cargo expansion
- hit autopilot while communicating in a centurion changes MFDs position
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