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 Textures
- Increased Draw Distances
- Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering support
- ReShade
- HQ Music
- No-CD Executable
- Official 1.1 Patch
- Jason's Freelancer Patch
- Full Widescreen support
- Improvements
- New features
- Bug fixes
- flplusplus plugin & FLSharp plugin
- New features
- Quality of life improvements
- Bug fixes
- FLHook
- Server-side enhancements
- Tons of additional bug fixes
- Additional gameplay improvements
- Windows 10 & 11 compatibility fixes
- Full vanilla Multiplayer support
- Easy customization
To learn more about all the changes made in this mod, please refer to the Changelog.
Supported operating systems: Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 7, XP, and Linux (via Wine).
Visit this link to view the installation instructions.
Note that the Freelancer: HD Edition Installer and the included version of FLHook will not work on Windows XP. To install the mod on Windows XP, please perform a simple installation as described in 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 Universe mod and server
- Leuchtfeuer
- Frontierspace
- Project Reforge
- Freelancer Co-op Campaign Mod
- 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 vanilla improvement for Freelancer out there.
- BC46
- HD Base Interiors and Planetscapes (Mirror)
- HD Character Models (Mirror)
- HD Ships
- HD Cockpits
- HD HUD
- HD Nebulae & Fog
- HD Vanilla Starspheres
- HD Vanilla Nav Map and System Map
- HD Vanilla Asteroids
- HD Vanilla Planets
- Many general HD texture and visual effect additions
- Many misc fixes
- Many misc improvements
- Reverse engineering
- Extensive cutscene fixes
- Text Strings Revision (Mirror)
- FLSharp plugin
- Bidza
- Regeneratable NPC shields
- Bolte
- Support
- Testing
- Buck Danny
- Unofficial FL SP 1.4 patch (included in Jason's Freelancer Patch)
- Caenen
- Sun death zone fixes
- Rumor fixes
- Loot chance fixes for regenerating NPC shields
- Callum McGing
- crosire
- Daniel Stenberg
- DAVENAT0R
- Dege
- DF & OutCast
- dmutlu
- DragonFire
- Player engine trails and fixes
- System ini improvements
- Visual engine effect and sound effect additions
- HQ Music compression
- Support
- Testing
- Elisha Riedlinger
- FireFlyEx
- Freelancer SDK/QuickFix (included in Jason's Freelancer Patch)
- Storyline loadout fixes
- Patrol path fixes
- Freestalker.fl
- FLHQmusics Remaster
- HD Lava and Ice Asteroid Textures
- New commodity icon
- HD targeting icons
- IrateRedKite
- Planetscapes Fixed for 16:9 Resolutions
- THN script fixes
- ALE effect fixes
- Jason Hood
- Jean-loup Gailly, Mark Adler & zlib-ng contributors
- Jeider & RenderG
- Jeider & Whiskas T-Mech
- Laz, Jason Hood & BC46
- M0tah
- Microsoft
- Raikkonen
- Workflow script for automatically downloading the latest FLHook release
- Support
- Testing
- Raikkonen, Keenan Weaver & BC46
- Skotty
- Text improvements
- Texture improvements
- General vanilla Freelancer bug fixes
- General improvements
- Weapon animation fixes
- Skotty & Gibbon
- Emissive Manufacturing Platform windows
- Thaddeus
- Solar and weapon model fixes
- The Starport
- Venemon
- Reverse engineering
- Why485
- w0dk4
- Worldwave
- XxSARGExX
- Civilian engine effects
If you notice anything missing from the credits section, please raise an issue or contact us on Discord.