After several weeks of multiplayer beta testing, Discovery Freelancer 4.81 is ready! The mod is available for download from our forums and was already submitted to Lancer's Reactor and ModDB.com.
Version 4.81 introduces almost three hundred new systems into the mod, 29 of them clan systems. Many original Freelancer limitations were removed: maximum item price is now 1 billion instead of 10 million, player credit limit increased to 2 billion. Capital ship shields and turrets have several ranks now, making balance issues a thing of the past. 4.81 also features a number of notable new ships and items, everything carefully tested.
Hosting change for Discovery forums was completed today. The board is now fully functional. Database was restored, all posts, users and attachments are still available, so you may post just like before. Discovery Wiki will be restored during the next few days.
Global server where all available Freelancer servers were listed is offline for quite a while now. As Microsoft was planning to drop support for Freelancer in the next months, current problem doesn't look like an occasional failure.
However, there are alternative ways to connect to Discovery Freelancer 24/7 (and any other Freelancer server) easily.
I. Change Freelancer shortcut
First of all, you need a valid Freelancer shortcut. The shortcut should point to Freelancer\EXE\Freelancer.exe file.
Amend Target: field of shortcut properties with ip:port, so that it looks like
After you double-click this shortcut, Freelancer will launch like it always does. However, when you'll select Multiplayer in main menu and choose either LAN or Internet, you'll immediately see Discovery server, if it is online. There's no difference between LAN and Internet options, except when using Internet the game will attempt to connect to global server.
After installation, open this link in any browser:
freelancer://207.192.239.85:2302/
Freelancer will launch, and Discovery will immedately appear in server list, like described in (I). As an alternative to the link, you may use this internet shortcut:
Discovery 4.80 Final is now available! Beta testing is over, and this version will be submitted to Lancer's Reactor if no notable issues will be found by players during the next day. All known bugs were fixed.
Additional details and Open SP details are available from this forum thread:
![[Image: Discovery.jpg]](http://discoverygc.com/images/Discovery.jpg)