How to play as Blackbird and Supercollider

[Equi]

I'm new to this forum so I don't really know if this is the right place to ask this, but I wonder how to play with Blackbird, Supercollider and Iron Ox? I found out that you could get them if you added somethings in the init.py folder. So I did that. Now I have them on the charachters list but not in the roster menues. So how do I get them to the roster menues so I could buy them and be able to use them in the game?

[style]

You have to build up your in game prestigue points Because they cost a certain amount. Once you've reached that amount, you'll be able to scoop them up! :thumbup:

[Equi]

I know that you buy charachters using prestige points. I have already bought Bullet, but the problem is that they are't in that list were Sea Urchin and Law and Order, which I haven't bought yet are. So i wondered how you got them there so i can buy them?

[Previsionary]

Note: This procedure involves editing a game file; create a backup copy of
the file before proceeding. Certain game retailers are releasing a bonus
Freedom Force disc. This disc will give you more powers as well as three new
recruitable built in characters for campaign mode. They are Blackbird, Iron
Ox, and Supercollider. Use the following steps to unlock them without the
bonus disc. Use a text editor to edit the "init.py" file in the game folder.

Add the following lines to the file:

import ff
ff.CON_ENABLE=1
APP_ENABLE_XTRACHARS = 1

This gives you access to the console through the use of the tilde (`) key.
Using the console, you can cheat. Don't cheat. It only shortens a shortish
game.

To get the extra characters, you need to enter Campaign_Recruit('<name>'),
where <name> is replaced by supercollider, ironox or blackbird. You need those
apostrophes in there to make it work. These characters don't have origin movies
or any real dialogue, mores-the-pity.

[Equi]

I was almost afraid of that. Well thanks anyway. Seems like I have to manage without them then. It ain't the same if i can't get the original voices. Well maybe I will use them when I replay the game sometime in the future.

[Panther_Gunn]

Characters recruited in this fashion do have all of their normal voice pack lines, however there was never any *scripted* dialogue for any of them in the cut-scenes or mission briefings, nor was there ever any origin cut-scenes made for them.

I've only ever seen Blackbird unlocked & available for normal recruitment when I've played....don't know what needs to be done to get the other two normally.  Personally, after playing them quite a bit in the Danger Room, I find all three to be very limited in what they're capable of doing.  I just never found any of them interesting to play, very powerful (disregarding Supercollider's unoriginal brick design), or even able to make things easier on any particular mission.

[stumpy]

If you are talking about the regular Freedom Force game (not FFvT3R), then adding the three lines to ..\system\init.py is all you have to do. Just open that file in Notepad and add

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import ff
ff.APP_ENABLE_XTRACHARS = 1
ff.CON_ENABLE = 1
(The first line import ff may already be in your init.py file. You don't have to add it if it is already there.)

It is important that that ff. be in front of those last two lines. (It's best just to copy-paste them in.)

The characters become available later on in the game. As I recall, Blackbird is available only a few missions into the campaign, like after they beat Nuclear Winter. Iron Ox shows up after Shadow and Supercollider comes later on. If you are starting at the beginning of the campaign, you can wait for them to show up and recruit them normally, using prestige points without going to the console.

If you are already past the missions where they show up and don't want to replay them, you can use Campaign_AddHero() from the console to add them to the list of recruitable heroes.

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Campaign_AddHero('blackbird')
for Blackbird,

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Campaign_AddHero('ironox')
for Iron Ox, and

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Campaign_AddHero('supercollider')
for Supercollider.

[Equi]

Thanks stumpy your help was very useful. Now I have them in the lineup.

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

I will confirm what Stumpy said.  They became available later in the campaign on their own.

Blackbird by the way is quite useful, and is a good anti-dino hero.