Can you continue a Mission in Freelance?

[[BR1] 》Billynair]

I stayed away from Freelance for a long time and decided to give it a try, got in for a few minutes and it was kind of overwhelming since I didnt really know what I was doing and quit. Now its a couple weeks later and my Plane Tickets say "No Destination Set" and the world map says "Abort Campaign". How do I continue where I left off? or is the only option to Abort and reset everything?

[IPWIW]

you have to select at that map screen table again,the mission is still reseted

[TheGreenman]

Progress isn't saved in Freelance until you finish a map and return to the safehouse. It's meant to be a rogue-lite, so the more you're used to the maps from the normal mode the better you'll do in Freelance.

[[BR1] 》Billynair]

I guess im not understanding, I know you cant save (cant go back to a location with the progress you have done, similar to Arcade Mode) but if you quit for any reason, you lose half your money?
for example, a mission takes longer than expected and in real life I had to do something and quit, I cant just go back to the start of the mission?

And, let say I finished the first 2 missions and dont have time for the 3rd, it is counted as a fail and I lose everything from the first 2 missions?!? This cant be right

[[BR1] 》Billynair]

Ah, found it, on the ACTUAL map itself, it was lost in the background (i was only looking on the desk). It says "Examine Territories". yeah, it didnt make sense that you lose everything if you dont complete all 3 levels at once. Thats a relief...

[Chris!!]

Originally posted by 》Billynair:

I guess im not understanding, I know you cant save (cant go back to a location with the progress you have done, similar to Arcade Mode) but if you quit for any reason, you lose half your money?
for example, a mission takes longer than expected and in real life I had to do something and quit, I cant just go back to the start of the mission?

And, let say I finished the first 2 missions and dont have time for the 3rd, it is counted as a fail and I lose everything from the first 2 missions?!? This cant be right

Your progress is saved when you finish a mission, and you can leave the game when you're at the safehouse and continue where you left off without penalty.

You get penalized if you leave a mission without killing all your targets or if you quitting to menu / desktop regardless of your completed objectives, but those missions should usually only take at most 10 minutes to accomplish, so if you need to go either just go speedrun the mission or pause the game.

Alternatively you can ALT+F4 and the game will not penalize you, but don't overuse it to cheese the missions because that's kinda lame.

[supersand]

when you quit out of the map the first time it counted as a loss in that map (unless you force quit)

[agentkido]

Originally posted by 》Billynair:

I stayed away from Freelance for a long time and decided to give it a try, got in for a few minutes and it was kind of overwhelming since I didnt really know what I was doing and quit. Now its a couple weeks later and my Plane Tickets say "No Destination Set" and the world map says "Abort Campaign". How do I continue where I left off? or is the only option to Abort and reset everything?

freelance is honestly pretty ass. theres to many bugs thatll ♥♥♥♥ you over.

also they might as well have left the save/load feature in the game since you can Alt+f4 as many times as you want.

[supersand]

Originally posted by agentkido:

Originally posted by 》Billynair:

I stayed away from Freelance for a long time and decided to give it a try, got in for a few minutes and it was kind of overwhelming since I didnt really know what I was doing and quit. Now its a couple weeks later and my Plane Tickets say "No Destination Set" and the world map says "Abort Campaign". How do I continue where I left off? or is the only option to Abort and reset everything?

freelance is honestly pretty ass. theres to many bugs thatll ♥♥♥♥ you over.

also they might as well have left the save/load feature in the game since you can Alt+f4 as many times as you want.

yeah this is true, just last night I had a bug in Freelancer Hokkaido where the first time I loaded it my sniper rifle spawned out of bounds so I had to alt+f4 (this just seems to randomly happen unless you idle / pause before taking any action in the mission), then when I tried again a couple hours later after doing escalations first every briefcase pacify caused NPCs to die when hitting the ground as if there was water, then the corpses would ragdoll into a wall with a lot of force, it was difficult to grab them without them zipping back.

This isn't even mentioning how cheaty hardcore freelancer can be. Guards just magically know your exact last known position and will even shoot hiding spots for no reason if your last known position is near there (I went AFK in a Santa Fortuna bin and came back dead despite not even being compromised / hunted and no one seeing me enter the bin, I even waited 5 minutes before going AFK and had no heat).

Its extremely common to see a guard that knows nothing about you or what you have done come running at 100mph from their post to your exact location on hardcore, even if no one could even report that position (like being behind multiple doors / walls).

They will be extra quick to go into combat too its not uncommon to get hardcore guards to start open firing at seemingly nothing. I've been hiding in a bin and had guards on the other side of the map start open firing at nothing and draw other guards attention (assuming it was a bugged last known position).

And yeah a save / load system would be very nice they could just make it cost merces / add a merce penalty to your score and only give you one save + load. Or you can preemptively buy a save slot in the safe house for that mission so you can still have the edge of freelancer without every map being able to save / load. Syndicate Leaders will always have saves disabled. -2,500 Merces in the safehouse,-25% Merces / xp on map completion and all civs have their kill cost tripled if saves are enabled (-150 per civ kill). Basically you pay to lower the risk but lower the reward too.

[agentkido]

Originally posted by supersand:

Originally posted by agentkido:

freelance is honestly pretty ass. theres to many bugs thatll ♥♥♥♥ you over.

also they might as well have left the save/load feature in the game since you can Alt+f4 as many times as you want.

yeah this is true, just last night I had a bug in Freelancer Hokkaido where the first time I loaded it my sniper rifle spawned out of bounds so I had to alt+f4 (this just seems to randomly happen unless you idle / pause before taking any action in the mission), then when I tried again a couple hours later after doing escalations first every briefcase pacify caused NPCs to die when hitting the ground as if there was water, then the corpses would ragdoll into a wall with a lot of force, it was difficult to grab them without them zipping back.

This isn't even mentioning how cheaty hardcore freelancer can be. Guards just magically know your exact last known position and will even shoot hiding spots for no reason if your last known position is near there (I went AFK in a Santa Fortuna bin and came back dead despite not even being compromised / hunted and no one seeing me enter the bin, I even waited 5 minutes before going AFK and had no heat).

Its extremely common to see a guard that knows nothing about you or what you have done come running at 100mph from their post to your exact location on hardcore, even if no one could even report that position (like being behind multiple doors / walls).

They will be extra quick to go into combat too its not uncommon to get hardcore guards to start open firing at seemingly nothing. I've been hiding in a bin and had guards on the other side of the map start open firing at nothing and draw other guards attention (assuming it was a bugged last known position).

And yeah a save / load system would be very nice they could just make it cost merces / add a merce penalty to your score and only give you one save + load. Or you can preemptively buy a save slot in the safe house for that mission so you can still have the edge of freelancer without every map being able to save / load. Syndicate Leaders will always have saves disabled. -2,500 Merces in the safehouse,-25% Merces / xp on map completion and all civs have their kill cost tripled if saves are enabled (-150 per civ kill). Basically you pay to lower the risk but lower the reward too.

I heard hardcore they can hear sound so maybe they followed that but when them being able to see me through walls and such in standard I won't even attempt hardcore because of it.

And unfortunately I don't think the devs even bugfix anymore so that kinda sucks as well.