Nomad Legacy 1.1 dropped on January 11th — a single day after the new year settled in — and it's worth knowing about if you're a solo player who finished the vanilla campaign and wanted more of the alien storyline.
Background first: Nomad Legacy is a story expansion mod for Freelancer focused on the alien thread that the base game opened and left unresolved. The campaign's Nomad storyline ends with the immediate threat neutralized but with significant questions unanswered — what the Dom'Kavash were, where the deeper Nomad presence comes from, what the Omicron systems are hiding. Nomad Legacy extends the campaign with new systems and new missions that continue where the base game stopped.
Version 1.1, according to the ModDB release notes, includes "useful changes for new players" that are not mandatory for players who've already played earlier versions. Based on the notes, this release addresses friction points in the early portion of the mod's missions — places where new players got stuck or where the setup wasn't clear enough — along with general stability fixes. It's a QoL update to make the mod more accessible to players picking it up for the first time.
If you've been considering Nomad Legacy and were waiting for a good moment: 1.1 is that moment.
Two things worth being clear about. First: Nomad Legacy is fan content. It is not part of vanilla Freelancer canon. The lore it adds — the extended Nomad story, the Dom'Kavash content — is the mod team's creative interpretation, not Digital Anvil's. It's good work, but label it correctly in your head. Second: you need vanilla Freelancer installed and patched before installing Nomad Legacy. It is not a standalone game.
The vanilla canon perspective on the Nomad storyline is in the Lore Deep Dives section. The Nomads article covers everything the base game shows — and explicitly separates that from mod-expanded content like this one.
ModDB hosts Nomad Legacy. Search the name directly.