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ModDB runs a Mod of the Year contest every year, and Discovery Freelancer has made it into the Top100 this year for the first time since 2012!

First releasing in 2005, it's been consistently developed since, releasing incremental updates to continue a real time story for its hosted multiplayer roleplay server.

As one of the mod's writers, getting into the Top100 is a really happy moment for the dev team and the wider community. I put together this compilation of clips from the last month or so as a celebration.

We get to find out where we ranked after voting closes next week.

https://www.moddb.com/groups/2023-mod-of-the-year-awards/top100#vote8017

I posted a trailer for Freelancer's Discovery mod relatively recently, and since then I've got into some very basic video editing myself.

This is a compilation of a few of the more eye catching fleet battles that happened on the official server over the last month. Hopefully I'll be a bit less amateurish by the time November's is due.

Also if seeing these clips starts getting repetitive, by all means let me know and I'll tone it down. :)

Freelancer is one of my favourite games, and Discovery is my favourite Freelancer mod. Thought you fine folks might want to take a look at the trailer they've just put out.

Freelancer is effectively abandonware at this point, so... free. It's definitely worth a look, and Discovery is an amazing pick if you're interested in a sci-fi RP server.

Seems pretty unbeelievable. If you've seen an apiarist behiving suspiciously, consider giving the police a buzz. If it leads to the missing hives, maybe you'll hornet a reward.

Haelian published a video a week or so ago setting out the probabilities for why it was so unlikely that this difficulty configuration would ever be beat: https://youtu.be/S-VUzcJHWF0

Which of course was taken as a challenge, with runner Jade clearing heat 64 yesterday, using an unseeded and unmodded run: https://youtu.be/0mo-kXjasZs

(For context, the seed is the way a particular run is generated, and players can meticulously generate seeded runs to ensure certain things do or don't spawn by taking very specific sets of actions. Dying and respawning - rather then reloading from the menu, which is quicker - resets the seed. That's why challenge runs always start with a death and respawn to show that a pre-configured seed isn't being carried over from previous runs.)

Here's Haelian's reaction to the whole situation: https://youtu.be/5L7_3MrG_08

Insanely impressive, and I don't know if we'll get to see it again.

Unless I'm missing an obvious option, it doesn't seem like there is a way to check where a post hyperlink is going to send you without clicking on it.

It'd be great if long pressing or clicking on a hyperlink would open a text box that previewed the link URL and let you click through to the site, copy the URL, or share it.

RIF on Reddit had a similar feature which was extremely useful.

The Kerch Bridge connects Russia to the Crimean Peninsula. The Russian military is heavily dependent on the rail link that crosses it to supply the illegally occupied territory in southern Ukraine. It's not currently clear how it was hit and to what extent it was damaged.

I suspect Russia is probably going to use this as a pretext to refuse to renew the Black Sea grain deal that expires today.