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1. #WING COMMANDER PRIVATEER DIMENSIONS OF SYSTEM UPGRADE#
2. #WING COMMANDER PRIVATEER DIMENSIONS OF SYSTEM FREE#

#WING COMMANDER PRIVATEER DIMENSIONS OF SYSTEM FREE#

Once you gather enough money to buy the jump drive (and star maps), you are free to explore the rest of the galaxy. At first, you can only fly around the first system (Troy), which serves as a tutorial area. By not having a jump drive, the game prevents you from traveling to other systems. By visiting the bar, you can gather rumors that will lead to the story missions.ĭue to your starting with a bad ship, you start without the jump drive. Each of them has a 1000 credits joining fee, but they offer better payouts. There are two guilds in the game: Mercenary and Merchant guild. Missions can be taken from the mission computer (patrol, bounty, delivery, etc.) and form guilds. Trading can be quite lucrative if you buy low, sell high and piracy can be done by blowing up freighters, but they usually have an escort guarding them. There are several ways to make money in the game, and they consist of trading, piracy, taking missions from the mission computer, joining guilds and story missions.

#WING COMMANDER PRIVATEER DIMENSIONS OF SYSTEM UPGRADE#

You can upgrade your ship until you can afford a better ship and can do this in a variety of ways. It’s an old and obsolete ship, that only has one laser, a missile launcher, bad radar, and no jump drive. From this point on, you are free to do whatever you want.Īt the beginning of the game, you start with the ship (Tarsus), that you inherited from your grandfather. The backstory is told in the manual, and it explained that you inherited an old ship from your grandfather, and after the “Scarab”, the ship you worked on got ambushed and badly damaged, you decide to start working as a privateer. The story is set in the year, 2669 sometime after Wing Commander II, and instead of a Confed pilot, you play as a “privateer” (canonically known as Grayson Burrows, but you can enter your name), the newest freelancer in the Gemini Sector. It was designed by Joel Manners, and it was helped by Chris Roberts, who at the time was working on Wing Commander II, Strike Commander and Privateer. The game uses a vastly improved Wing Commander II engine, with some features that were also used in Strike Commander, a different Origin game. The working title for the game was “Trade Commander”, and at one point Origin Systems considered naming all of their games with the suffix “Commander”. Released in the Fall of 1993, Privateer had an interesting development history. It can be looked at as Origin Systems take on open-ended gameplay, and their take on the legendary Elite (1984). Wing Commander: Privateer or simply Privateer. After the success of Wing Commander II, the franchise received its first spin-off game.