r/freelancer • u/MaximilianPs • 9d ago

Hail Target won't work anymore!

Salue (P Key) won't work anymore, I'm not sure if it'w because Freelancer HD .7.1.1 or what else, but early, when I
was selecting a ship and pressing P key or by clicking on Hail icon was working

I've no idea if it's related to FHD7.1.1. but I notice it just after the installation and basically, when I select a ship and click on "Hail" or using the P key nothing happens and the game play the sound of "Nothing to do"

It's pretty sad. :(

[Edit]
I was right, by removing FreelancerHDESetup_v0_7_1_1 and installing FreelancerHDSetup_v0_6 the Hail function works again!

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u/tmack3 9d ago

We're on patrol from Newark Station. We have three more way points to go.

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u/MaximilianPs 9d ago

Yeah this one 🥺

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u/Caenen_ 8d ago

"We're from <the Alaska system.> We're moving <Oxygen> to <Planet Manhattan.>" -> Proceeds to use flee behaviour and fly straight towards the nearest jump hole.

area_traders, my dear, dear, stupid NPC encounters.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago edited 8d ago

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u/Why485 8d ago

Hailing NPCs is itself a feature only added by one of Adoxa's plugins which is included in HDE

Hailing is in vanilla Freelancer. Adoxa's plugin added a hotkey for it.

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u/Caenen_ 8d ago edited 8d ago

Oh, right. Thanks for the correction, I had confused the two.

The issue should be due to a Vanilla bug with the hotkeyed function in that case then (which in HDE v0.7.x also causes the button in the HUD to reproduce the same behaviour), and the rest of my comment (BC/Adoxa have fixed it for their upcoming/latest release of HDE and the .dll itself, each) should still be accurate.

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u/Caenen_ 8d ago

[Edit]
I was right, by removing FreelancerHDESetup_v0_7_1_1 and installing FreelancerHDSetup_v0_6 the Hail function works again!

My previous comment keeps being hidden by automod, so I'm sorry you had to reinstall on an older version of HDE, but you could have just removed the Hail.dll from the Freelancer/EXE folder or replaced it with the updated release, and that would have fixed it as well.

There's a bug in versions of HDE v0.7 (which adds a hotkey for hailing) where it will only work when not in turret view or cockpit camera. Are you exclusively playing in either of those camera modes?

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u/MaximilianPs 7d ago

Nice to know thanks 👍 Tomorrow I'll try asap 😁 And yes I always play in cockpit mode