Freelancer: Losing half my bank

[Schnitzer]

I understand why I would lose all the weapons I bring and all the money I collect from a mission when I fail, but why in God's name must I lose half my bank? This money is (presumably) tucked away somewhere safe and has nothing to do with the mission I'm currently working on. It's so frustrating and seems like an arbitrary penalty to "raise the stakes" but isn't at all grounded in reality. It's made this game mode extremely disappointing to me and I no longer play because of it.

[Attache]

Maybe it is, you are a hired hitman and you failed. Your client don't pay you and you have to pay for your travelling, preparing, etc. ;-)

[36 bald fat lives with parents]

Or more like the agency had to cover the costs of erasing this incident from media and governments. Their contract with 47 says - you pay half your money. we pay the rest...

But yeah, it is a dumb mechanic at first, but mostly because it isn't long into your venture in freelancer before you have no further need for money.

[tmwfte]

47 doesn't trust banks or vaults or safehouses and keeps his Merces in his shoes.

[Attache]

These are the hospital costs.

[36 bald fat lives with parents]

Originally posted by Attache:

These are the hospital costs.

Only in America

[talloyer]

Originally posted by 36 bald fat lives with parents:

Or more like the agency had to cover the costs of erasing this incident from media and governments. Their contract with 47 says - you pay half your money. we pay the rest...

But yeah, it is a dumb mechanic at first, but mostly because it isn't long into your venture in freelancer before you have no further need for money.

There is no Agency anymore, only Diana... perhap she deviates money for her own bank account using 47's failures as excuse??

[DyD&Marina]

Originally posted by Schnitzer:

I understand why I would lose all the weapons I bring and all the money I collect from a mission when I fail, but why in God's name must I lose half my bank? This money is (presumably) tucked away somewhere safe and has nothing to do with the mission I'm currently working on. It's so frustrating and seems like an arbitrary penalty to "raise the stakes" but isn't at all grounded in reality. It's made this game mode extremely disappointing to me and I no longer play because of it.

The gamemode is really rushed and Developers not haved time or not cared to flesh it out in more than a way.

The lose money is a normal thing for rogue like/lite gamemode, developers do a compromise with lose half money.

They started with idea of rogue like in mind where you lose all and then started to make it more adapt to casual players, introducing collector edition of some items and give money simple complete mission.

But not haved time/not care of give an explanation, adapt it to the story.

There a similar situation with tools too.

A normal feature for rogue gamemodes but isn't adapt to the safehouse feature.

Developers rushed the gamemode and tried to mix too many things without the experience and have done some errors.

[macadamstreet]

i lost 90% of my whole money because the target flee...

i still noticed tho...

if you are injured and wake up from hospital bed, you'll find a good amount of money left at the bottom of the bed.


but it's still way too hard. I m fine to be punished for failing, but at this rythm, i'll never get weapons or else (god the Ak cost +9000 :O)

[Attache]

I posted because I was frustrated like you.
My game is bugged.
I died with no reason. No one around.
And sometimes, as soon as I killed anyone, the mission was fail.
And I had prestige targets to choose, no one of it I could do. For example Open safe with explosive and there is no safe, And the other two were same, not possible.
But I was bombed with comments -' I don't know the game mechanics. '
36 bald fat lives with parents - There are some humans in this world , it is time waste to talk/write with them.

[36 bald fat lives with parents]

Originally posted by Attache:

I posted because I was frustrated like you.
My game is bugged.
I died with no reason. No one around.
And sometimes, as soon as I killed anyone, the mission was fail.
And I had prestige targets to choose, no one of it I could do. For example Open safe with explosive and there is no safe, And the other two were same not possible.
But I was bombed with comments, I don't know the game mechanics.
36 bald fat lives with parents - There are some humans in this world , it is time waste to talk/write with them.

I wholly agree. And I try my hardest to ignore him specifically, but it really bugs me that people just trying to talk will always have to sift through a huge wall of that same spiral no matter how much they didn't ask for it. Sometimes, I end up engaging and doing exactly what I claim he is doing - ruin threads.

But yes, the game has plenty of bugs. I haven't yet seen one that couldn't be escaped with alt f4, but I have just let myself die out of insult before. Spawning in engage mode did that to me a couple times, but way in the beginning when it made no difference to lose half my money because the $1500 or so on the bed would pretty much cover the loss.

I just lost $750,000 the other day though because someone saw me pull an execution in an alley in Marrakesh even though from what I could tell there was nobody in sight. That map loves to tax me the most. But I bet that was solidly my fault. I thought the crowd would shield the bullets and I could make an exit 15 meters away. Definitely not. But eventually, the money means nothing. If I can afford to lose $750k, then I can buy back the junk I lost.

The money part of the game would benefit from extended use. It doesn't take long before you have no use for it, and the only thing it is there for is to incentivize more cautious play because you don't want to lose it. At least that's what I gather from it.

[Attache]

Originally posted by 36 bald fat lives with parents:

Originally posted by Attache:

I posted because I was frustrated like you.
My game is bugged.
I died with no reason. No one around.
And sometimes, as soon as I killed anyone, the mission was fail.
And I had prestige targets to choose, no one of it I could do. For example Open safe with explosive and there is no safe, And the other two were same not possible.
But I was bombed with comments, I don't know the game mechanics.
36 bald fat lives with parents - There are some humans in this world , it is time waste to talk/write with them.

I wholly agree. And I try my hardest to ignore him specifically, but it really bugs me that people just trying to talk will always have to sift through a huge wall of that same spiral no matter how much they didn't ask for it. Sometimes, I end up engaging and doing exactly what I claim he is doing - ruin threads.

But yes, the game has plenty of bugs. I haven't yet seen one that couldn't be escaped with alt f4, but I have just let myself die out of insult before. Spawning in engage mode did that to me a couple times, but way in the beginning when it made no difference to lose half my money because the $1500 or so on the bed would pretty much cover the loss.

I just lost $750,000 the other day though because someone saw me pull an execution in an alley in Marrakesh even though from what I could tell there was nobody in sight. That map loves to tax me the most. But I bet that was solidly my fault. I thought the crowd would shield the bullets and I could make an exit 15 meters away. Definitely not. But eventually, the money means nothing. If I can afford to lose $750k, then I can buy back the junk I lost.

The money part of the game would benefit from extended use. It doesn't take long before you have no use for it, and the only thing it is there for is to incentivize more cautious play because you don't want to lose it. At least that's what I gather from it.

Lol. Yes. Absolutely!
But I am not interested on the money or money keep.
I would be so happy if I could open a door with 'E' as soon as it shows the 'E'.
Now I am waiting for a mass of explanation, why a door can't be open with 'E' and I don't know the door mechanics.

[DyD&Marina]

Originally posted by 36 bald fat lives with parents:

No, you stuck your neck out again to say the same dumb thing you always say.

This IS a public forum. But YOU use it like a therapy session where you latch your own problems and total hatred for the game mode and the developers on every post. You descend whole unrelated topics into childish bickering and you never actually defend your claims with real facts. You dead end the second you post that steam chart and act like you pulled some big ol GOTCHA when all you did was ruin another thread and waste everyone's time.

Seriously, DyD, why can't you just talk about what people are talking about without all the casual, cod, failed opinions? You obviously have a lot of experience with the game, and you can hold your own in conversations about how to play it. You might actually contribute in some way if you left all the personal hatred sh*t aside and acted like a normal member of a community. You know what jokes are, right? Then you can tell the difference between a post someone is making out of frustration and an actual attempt to contact the developers, whom by the way, you DON'T represent. You are not one of them, but you act like you speak for them, and for all of us.

You don't need to make every post about you. You can actually converse with people without it always being a regurgitated lure to scream at people and leave long rebuttles that still never make a solid claim.

And no, this is not an invitation to do it again. You're not beyond use, DyD, but every time you post on a thread, it's like watching Rudy Giuliani try to fumble his way out of another public scandal. I hate to use the word cringe, but yeah, that's about right.

Really if you can't accept how the gamemode work and the consequenses, maybe don't read people talk of how the gamemode work.

The gamemode have various problems and bad choice designs for even only for to be a rogue gamemode, better not talking to be in an hitman game.

This lead to the big drop in playerbase, now below the peak of january before the unification of the game and launch of freelancer.

Developers already haved doubt on the future of this gamemode at the end of january when the playerbase situation was better.

If people will not complaing about this gamemode, will be soon forgotten and abandoned by developers too.

And we will not see anything new for hitman at least for 2027/2028, if we are lucky.

Is complaining now or wait years.

[Cosmic Cowboy]

Originally posted by Kattegat Twin:

Well said. That DyD guy is incredibly irritating. Him and that guy who does nothing but talk about how VR should be 3rd person (I forget his name) are the absolute worst things about this forum.

I wouldn't worry too much, to be honest, I think he is just sore because the developers were happy with how the Freelancer release went.
The first person to ever get blocked in nearly 2 decades, so near and yet so far.

[36 bald fat lives with parents]

Originally posted by Cosmic Cowboy:

Not sure why anyone presenting a reasoned argument should be kicked from a forum myself.

I don't know either, but I would take the bullet to alleviate the rest of the community of this crack factory. It would take the choice out of the equation for me and probably bring a greater sense of peace.

[Piano man]

Originally posted by Kattegat Twin:

Well said. That DyD guy is incredibly irritating.

No offense, but that DyD guy is correct. Freelancer was a great idea in principle, but poorly fleshed out and rushed. I've poured a couple dozen hours into it, and honestly - killing (mostly) NPC's isn't fun, especially when half of them seem to just wander around the map almost aimlessly with nothing really interesting about them.

It was a rather lackluster attempt to pad out the game - much like their Exclusive Target Arcade and Escalations. Clearly IO are putting in the minimal effort to try and keep the rather level of polish we got in Hitman 1 (despite it being episodic, which was a big ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mistake) and are definitely focusing more on their new James Bond game, which I doubt will be any good.