![]() Male bounty hunter in the Palan blockade.įemale bounty hunter in the Palan blockade.Įven the Kilrathi want to talk to Dr Lemuel Monkhouse. Male bounty hunter looking for a finder’s fee on Oxford’s rare books.įemale bounty hunter looking for a finder’s fee on Oxford’s rare books. Male pirate cracking into Oxford’s libraries.įemale pirate cracking into Oxford’s libraries. His first name is clearly not his job description. …as if anyone would take Lynch’s word for it. ![]() Perhaps Regis is not so innocent after all… …especially one with a fake English accent. Hard to find someone with such good manners these days… The poor guy Lynch is “disappointed” with. The loud-mouthed fool whom Tayla ‘dumped’ in favour of the player. From nowadays viewpoint, when clock speed is counted at hundreds, nothing important, but in 1993 this was rather annoying when you just owned a 25 MHz machine.Oh dear, looks like the Privateer has been a naughty boy… ![]() But on the first pages of the manual suddenly they wrote that the minimum is a 386 DX with 33 MHz. On the box of the German disk version of privateer there was as hardware minimum requirements announced a 386 DX with 25 MHz. Player characterĪccording to an early Origin press release the player character (brownhair)'s name is Grayson Burrows. The story also explains his relationship with the Retros and adds a more somber tone to the game, particularly to it's add-on, Righteous Fire. The Frontiersman: Interview With A Privateer was the account of an interview conducted to our very own Brownhair (with all names changed to protect the innocent, of course) and which told us his story to the point were he sets sail to the Gemini sector. ManualĪlthough Privateer's player's guide was quite run-of-the-mill compared to other Origin game manuals it did come with a short story. Information on how to access it can be found in the hint section. Then all of a sudden they started talking back and forth about the game and its creators! Hidden game When you finish the game, your character was having a conversation with the admiral. Genre: Simulation - Space trading and combat.While there is a central plot, the player can deviate from it somewhat and can continue playing the game after completing the main story missions. The game is set in the Wing Commander universe, but is more of a free-form game similar to Elite. Missions can vary from search and destroy to Fedex (i.e. Use spare cargo room to trade commodities to further add to the account. Take on missions (multiple sources, from the cheapest mission computer, to fixers who has the toughest but most rewarding missions) and earn money for upgrades. Buy optional equipment such as armor, engines, shields, weapons, launchers for torpedoes/missiles, and more. Start with the lowly scout, and upgrade to one of the three other superior ships: Galaxy (superior cargo space), Orion (superior protection), or Centurion (superior offense). The player assumes the role of a privateer. Wing Commander: Privateer is a space trading and combat simulation. In the darkness, a battle between ships has woken up something ancient, powerful, and deadly. On the fringe of Human space, near the Kilrathi border, the industrial machine is running full-tilt to feed the war effort, and there is a lot of shipping - but also a lot of pirates, Retros (religious fanatics who want to destroy technology), military, militia, merchants, mercenaries, and privateers.
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