ya i agree, i acctualy found the game in a booksale thing i got in grade 6. loved the game the second i started playing it
still one of the best storylines for any space sim game ive ever played! would love to have a mod for freespace 2

Yeah, I got one of the 2,000 copies of the Game of the Year Edition (1,647 if I remember right). It came with the Freespace Editor and some other extra stuff, like noteworthy bonus maps and mods. I think making a mod of Freespace wouldn't be too difficult. You've already got three factions, which you could change to Human, Vasudan, and Shivan. Then there's a boatload of ships (ha?) that can be added, plus brand new fighters, superweapons, and bases. The only problem I think you might run into is finding models. I've never seen a Freespace mod for any other game, and don't know how I'd come up with them, besides making them on my own.

I've never tried to mod this game before, but I have prior modding experience with EaW and BFME, and after taking a look at what the modding tools for this are like I'll see if I can't piece together a team and start on a mod.

Yes, the Freespace games are available legally for free. There's even a custom installer that installs FS2 along with several mods and unofficial patches for FS2, and the installer comes with a complete port of Freespace 1 over to the FS2 engine, so its a major win. And, a FS2 mod ws made for Homeworld 2 BTW, it's called FS2: A New Age and I think the maker might let a modder use his models. Oh, and FS2 is getting a mod made for Universe at War so that guy might be able to help you out. Anyways, FS2 is undergoing a revival on the mod scene, and I hope they turn out to be good. FS2 in Sins would make my day though.

Freespace was brilliant, its 1 of only 5 games i have ever played right thru to the very end!!!

Would love to see a Freespace mod for Sins

Yup, my friends at Wing Commander: Saga are doing a great job on pushing FS2Open to its limits. Check them out

lol you mean your wingmen that are either yelling for help or busy pwning something?

I've found the voice acting to be very well done, actually. It all sounds believable, not like they're reading a script or something. The AI was pretty intelligent too, it wasn't the best, because it couldn't be, but you could count on them to cover your back for you or distract the enemy when you needed it.

Only thing I see with this is that there are far too many individual ships, and some with far too many weapons.

In Sins, or Freespace?

I'm fairly confident that you could get Freespace equivalents for every Sins class, and the small craft don't have to be different, just vary the models, so sometimes you get ulysses, myrmidons, ares, etc.

You could always make up your own ships in the style of Freespace, or, if there isn't enough Vasudan stuff for a standalone race, simply cut them as an independent race and put them in with the Terrans.

Ehhhhh. A whole NTF vs. Vasudans vs. Shivans would be good, except it just doesn't look very good. The GTVA has the Colossus, Hecate, and Hatshepshut as capital classes definitely in-game, however a valid point is do we need to fill up all the slots? The answer is YES! In my opinion, all the FS2 destroyers get moved to Sins capital-class, corvettes and cruisers to Sins cruisers, and fighters and bombers to individual Sins frigates.

After all, what is Freespace 2 without Myrmidons, Erinyes, Hercules Mk. II's, Basilisks, Dragons, and Maras all duking it out to pave the way for the Sekhmets, Medusae, Nephilim and Taurvi to drop their loads? If the devs would get rid of the hardcoded limits on ship build slots, then we could really have some fun with FS2 ships, because FS2 is all about fulfilling your thirst for massive ship battles without having to give George Lucas your money

But as to too many weapons, you are correct. The Myrmidon (when I fly it) has 6 Prometheus S cannons, a slot of Tornadoes, one of Trebuchets, and one of Rockeyes. An Erinyes has 8 Kayser cannons, Tornadoes, and Trebuchets. And your standard Perseus has Harpoons and Tornadoes, plus 4 of whatever is best, Prometheus S or Kaysers. Basically, FS2 has more weapons on a corvette than Sins has on a capital. A Deimos would rip a Kol to shreds, to say nothing of a Hecate.

To make a very long story short, it would be awesome, but lag would ensue as Sins tried to handle all of the beams from your Fenris strike wing hitting the enemy Ravana, not to mention your fighter cover and theirs, all blowing each other to hell. Believe me, I tried it in the Homeworld 2 FS2 mod, and a Hecate vs. a Ravana lagged like hell due to reasons stated above, namely Kaysers, Prometheus, and Shivan lasers all flying around from fighters, plus the cap ship confrontation itself, and the missiles from said fighters as well.

Search for Freespace, the code got released as freeware and there is a lively community devoted towards improving it. Check it out, their progress is impressive as well as the huge following the series still commands.

Well Sins is a lot better than Homeworld when it comes to resource hogging, meaning it doesn't hog resources. In Sins it might work, although Freespace certainly doesn't lack for weapons and the havoc they tend to cause. If anyone wants to give it a try, I'd love to beta/alpha test for them, me having no modding skills of my own.

I'd do it myself, it's just I need a team for all the models, skins, textures, and stuff. I can do general coding and direct people easily, but I won't be able to do it alone.