Freelancer: HD Edition is a mod that aims to improve every aspect of the game Freelancer (2003) while keeping the look and feel as close to vanilla as possible. Experience enhanced visuals with HD textures, high-quality soundtracks, and seamless gameplay with bug fixes and quality of life improvements. The mod is fully compatible with the original game, allowing for seamless integration into vanilla servers. Easy to install and customize, it revitalizes the beloved Freelancer experience for modern systems.
This mod was made possible with the help of the Freelancer: Nomad Legacy developers. Thanks to them for providing us their station textures.
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- HD Space Stations
- HD Ships
- HD Planets
- HD Effects
- HD Asteroids
- HD Character Models
- HD Base Interiors & Planetscapes
- HD HUD & Icons
- HD Nebulae
- HD Starspheres
- Maximized Draw Distances
- Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering support
- ReShade
- HQ Music
- Windows 10 & 11 compatibility fixes
- Jason's Freelancer Patch
- Full Widescreen support
- Improvements
- New features
- Bug fixes
- flplusplus
- No-CD Patch
- Official 1.1 Patch
- Tons of additional bug fixes
- Additional gameplay improvements
- Easy customization
- Full vanilla Multiplayer support
To learn more about all the changes made in this mod, please refer to the Changelog.
Visit this link to view the installation instructions.
Due to the large file size of many textures used in this mod, some users may experience significantly longer load times during gameplay. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to install Freelancer: HD Edition on an (M.2) SSD. Moreover, having a somewhat modern dedicated GPU is ideal to ensure the game runs smoothly with all the included graphics-related enhancements.
For the best vanilla Multiplayer experience with this mod, check out the Zoner Universe server. Also be sure to have a look at the following projects which are all compatible with Freelancer: HD Edition:
- Freelancer: HD Edition Installer
- Source code for the Inno Setup script which is used to install Freelancer: HD Edition.
- Content that is free to use in other mods or anything else, no questions asked:
More related projects can be found on the FLHDE organization GitHub page.
Have something to contribute to make the mod even better? Feel free to create a pull request or feature request! We are always open to new suggestions and improvements. Making the repository public has allowed us as a community to create the best possible HD mod for Freelancer out there since many modders from around the world have contributed to this project.
- BC46
- HD Base Interiors and Planetscapes (Mirror)
- HD Character Models (Mirror)
- HD Cockpits
- HD HUD
- HD Nebulae & Fog
- HD Ships
- HD Vanilla Starspheres
- HD System Map
- HD Vanilla Asteroids
- HD Vanilla Planets
- Many general HD and effect additions
- Many misc fixes
- Many misc improvements
- Maximized Draw Distances (Mirror)
- Text Strings Revision (Mirror)
- BC46 & Aingar
- Bolte
- Support
- Testing
- Buck Danny
- Unofficial FL SP 1.4 patch (included in Jason's Freelancer Patch)
- CallumDev
- crosire et al.
- Daniel Stenberg et al.
- Dege
- dmutlu
- DragonFire
- Player engine trails and fixes
- HQ Music compression
- Support
- Testing
- Elisha Riedlinger et al.
- Freestalker.fl
- FLHQmusics Remaster
- HD Asteroid Textures
- New commodity icon
- DAVENAT0R
- Jason Hood
- Jean-loup Gailly & Mark Adler et al.
- Jeider, RenderG & Whiskas T-Mech
- Laz, Jason Hood & BC46
- Louva-Deus
- Freelancer SDK/QuickFix (included in Jason's Freelancer Patch)
- M0tah
- Microsoft
- Raikkonen, Keenan Weaver & BC46
- Installation script
- Support
- Testing
- Ruppetus
- Planetscapes Fixed for 16:9 Resolutions
- Many other .thn fixes
- Skotty
- Additional text fixes
- Bug fixes
- Thaddeus
- Fixed models
- w0dk4
- Why485
- XxSARGExX
- Civilian engine effects
