New in Crossfire 1.8

• Inner Core system and black hole
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• 8 new factions (GMG Expedition, Ancients, Warrior, Savage, Sentinel, Dom’Setek, Dom’Nepesh, Dom’Razak) related to the Inner Core story
• highly extended storyline based on many quests
• custom NPCs including ones which represent the Crossfire dev team


• Destructable Bases and Solars
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• New splash screen
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• New menu screens
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• SuperFlame Missiles
• New engine trails
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• Battle dust
• 40+ new cockpits
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• 600+ realistic and very detailed infocards for Systems and Bases
• 2nd licence slot activated
• 39 new high detail suns
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• 10 new intro scripts
• New Crossfire intro movie
• Alternative FL Intro included
• FL Story prequel movie included
• Starlancer: Sol War trailer included
• 2 new interfaces (Blue, Green and Red + Orange and Dark Blue)
• New clan logo billboards
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• ENB bloom shader included
• Dynamic lights
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• Rebuilt Earth’s atmosphere
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• Organic Station decks
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• Optional particle colours
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• Fluid Space Concept
• Screen capture option
• FLMM activation procedure improved
• Installation instructions included into FLMM
• CrossFire Guide
• New jump tunnel effects
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• Optional Vanilla Starspheres
• Optional effects choices
• 4 Movie options
• Dynamic Economy added to SinglePlayer mode

Detail improvements

• Much more detailed planets and asteroids
• Higher rendered detail
• Higher detail on vanilla planet rings
• Highly improved Vanilla effects
• New high detail explosion effects
• New high detail transparent nebulae with real dust effects
• Heavy detail improvements on both Vanilla and CrossFire content
• Max sound channels increased to 32 (for 3d sound)
• Detail improvements on Sol system
• Simulated bump mapping
• Motion blur
• Planet Lost Paradise Isles improved (high detail)
• Planet Lost Paradise water improved (high detail + waves move into correct direction now)
• Planet Lost Paradise pyramids improved (high detail)
• New high detail Jump Gate and Jump Hole effects
• Reflections added to the oceans
• Weather effects added to Planet Lost Paradise
• Ocean sound added to Planet Lost Paradise
• Higher draw distance for Dimensional Rift

Minor additions

• Flame atmosphere burn effect
• DomKavash ass kicked and gone from Sol
• New FLConfigDatabase
• New ZLib
• Hit sparks effect
• New mouse cursors
• 40 new Starspheres
• Seltos Roid miners added
• More than 100 coalition depots and wrecks added to Altair
• New Navigation Maps
• New Alien Organisms
• New planet rings
• CrossFire logo in Manhattan
• New explosion for DomKavash ships
• New weapon models for Phoenix Projection Cannon, Dom’Kavash Annihilator and Coalition Gattling
• Redundant ship hardpoints to all CrossFire ships
• Defying Gravity theme
• 25% inertia to all Nebulas
• Minor interference in Nebulae
• New damage effects
• Flak explosions
• 20 new weapon models
• 5 new missile models
• SWAT-Portal Recticle Mod
• Music in prison stations
• 548 solar objects added to the rumor database
• GMG research facility and Hypergate
• Power and Communication satellites
• New Dimensional Rift effect
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• Full market information about Stations and Planets (just like on Vanilla bases)
• Thousands of rumors about CrossFire content added to the bases of Sirius and Altair
• Damaged Station cores
• MP Welcome message
• New clan logos
• Atsugi Naval Shipyards added
• Juneau Shipyard made dockable
• Sounds added to the clan logos (giving a warning)
• BG clan logo at the NY gate
• 6 new engines with new visual effects added to Ships and Battleships
• New Freelancer DataStorm warning
• 61 detailed BMG infocards
• Dom’Kavash Energy Relay Station
• New planetary docking rings
• 37 new custom planet models
• 2 Ancient Stations
• Ancient drone
• Ancient Energy Cannon added and lootable on Ancient drones
• Ancient cruise disruptor (NPC only)
• VHF fighter encounters added to various sirius factions
• Stationary Ion Cannons
• 221 anomalies
• Light flicker in X-3043
• New CrossFire icon
• Rusty Coalition Warpgate
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• Bremen holoprojector
• Ulysses holoprojector
• FLListServer support
• Freeport7 turned into a warzone
• Freeport7 station debris
• 132 mineable fields
• 5 Tradelane Construction sites added

And more than 55,000 other changes, including bugs fixes, code improvements, spelling corrections, balancing and additions!