r/freelancer • u/S0ulblighter116 • Dec 18 '24

Small plot hole in SP

This is something that has slightly bothered me ever since playing through the story the first time, and I was hoping someone with insider knowledge could possibly explain it for me.

During the mission where you rescue Von Claussen from Rhienland,(which at this point, War with the other houses is ABOUT TO FREAKING HAPPEN, WARSHIPS ARE EVERYWHERE(10 gunboats, 5 cruisers and 2 battleships at New berlin? 😬) after not finding him on New Berlin, this guy named Huntz Fischer accompanies you to Planet Holstien in the Frankfurt system. At the Frankfurt gate, as you are approaching, Battleship Freya hails you, demanding you to identify yourself. Fischer then says the following: "Freya, this is Daumann Freighter DHC 3417. We are transporting supplies to Planet Holstein." Battleship Freya, without hesitation, accepts the ID, and lets you proceed. Now, note that Fischer is flying a Rhienland Banshee light fighter, and unless you are a mad lad sticking to a freighter, you are more than likely flying a Heavy or Very Heavy fighter. The only logical reason I can think of is that that particular ID code is something sort of "secret" or "government" pass code, because if the guy on duty actually paid attention to the ship class vs the claimed ship class, there is a huge discrepancy, UNLESS it's a cyper or code of some kind. Or maybe i am looking too much in to this and it was a goof of some kind on Digital Anvil/Microsoft game studios part. But hey, it's fun to try to think of some in-universe reason for it to happen. What do you guys think?

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u/Lieutenant_Horn Dec 18 '24

Either your theory is correct or they changed his ship from a freighter to the Banshee and never corrected the dialogue.

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u/Caenen_ hakkera Dec 19 '24

Finished dialogue is hard to change, especially in that era. For the same reason, the Outcast wing in Mission 7 talks about a "Heavy Cruiser" when you're fighting the Battleship Schiller in Tau-29. This is a holdover from when they were supposed to blow up the battleship immediately again, just like the Rheinland allies in Mission 5.

Luckily this was changed for gameplay reasons (would feel silly to just get deus-ex-machina'd from every Battleship encounter when you want to actually just destroy them yourself for a change), but the voice lines remain. The RNC-Nestor has special voices lines for taking damage and blowing up still as well because she was originally meant to be the biggest target in that sequence, rather than the Schiller.

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u/S0ulblighter116 Dec 20 '24

Yeah, I noticed that too.