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TFTC (TIE Fighter Total Conversion) v1.0
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- njharman 5y agoDude, yes please.
- kjander79 5y agoIt's great, I've been really enjoying it. Everything you love about Tie Fighter, but feels thoroughly modern, has that feel, "this is just like the movies!". I just hope my 20 year old joystick survives, prices for replacement are off-putting.
- samstave 5y agoI would love to build a Tie Fighter Cockpit gaming rig some day
- ZeroCool2u 5y agoWow, this is really impressive. There's a huge number of scenarios and the assets look really good considering it's fan made. If this appeals to you, I'd highly recommend giving Star Wars Squadrons a try in a high end VR rig. The game overall isn't perfect, but it's by far the closest I've ever felt to feeling like I was flying a tie fighter or an x wing.
- kjander79 5y agoThis conversion has VR support as well, so you should get that same immersion, with the stronger gameplay provided by the Alliance game engine. I haven't played Squadrons myself.
- dstick 5y agoSquadrons was amazing, and amazingly disorientating at the same time. Really awesome VR experience though. Up there with HL Alyx in terms of “unique to VR”
- kjander79 5y agoI would think a cockpit VR experience would be much superior to a FP one.
- ethbr0 5y agoDoes whatever the current Mechwarrior game is support VR?
- kjander79 5y agoMy first response is, I don't know. But I guess it depends on what you consider the current MechWarrior game. I know of MechWarrior online, which I don't believe does, but I suspect there's a newer MechWarrior game out, or coming soon. There's also a newer strategy BattleTech game which I doubt would benefit from VR.
- cheschire 5y agoI wonder how many hours this will stay available before Disney sends a takedown notice to the server host for moddb.com
- cloudking 5y agoDo you think they are violating any laws? They aren't profiting from the mod and it requires a legit copy of the game. It's arguable that it actually helps Disney by increasing sales of the original game.
- shakna 5y agoNone of those things have stopped companies from issuing DMCAs in the past.
- pwdisswordfish8 5y agoDefinitely. The ability to create derivative works is one of the exclusive rights of a rightsholder as laid out by Title 17 from the US Code.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoTie Fighter is the golden standard of all space fighting games. Definitely worth checking out.
- cloudking 5y agoWow this looks impressive, I hope it starts a trend of remastering older games into the modern era. Many games like this from the 80s to 2000s were masterpieces in their time. I've seen an official example with Blizzard and Diablo 2: https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2/23658118/diablo-ii-resurrected-technical-alpha-experience-the-legend https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2/23658118/diablo-ii-r... Any other old games being remastered officially or unofficially?
- sedatk 5y agoMany, including most of the LucasArts adventures like Full Throttle, Monkey Island 1-2, Day of the Tentacle. Also strategy classics like Command & Conquer and Red Alert. For some reason, they still manage to feel old.
- kjander79 5y agoOn gog.com, remakes and updates come out pretty regularly. The quality varies wildly. But there's definitely an enthusiastic market for them.
- srgpqt 5y agoGames remade that come to mind, some from the same people or reusing the old codebase: * Warcraft 3 remastered * Theme hospital -> TwoPoint hospital * Dungeon Keeper -> War for the Overworld * Jones in the Fast Lane -> No time to Relax * System Shock * Descent -> Overload and also Descent Underground
- ethbr0 5y agoNice to see Descent getting remade. I remember the extra DoF (and later, indoor / outdoor environments) blowing my young mind. Also, TIL Volition was a spin off / successor of Parallax Software. Descent is still one of my favorite 90s-era boxes. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Descent_cover.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Descent_cover...
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- deagle50 5y agoI used to run home from middle school to play Tie CD. It's my favorite game of all time. This looks amazing.
- ethbr0 5y agoConfirming that I ran both home and down the neighborhood street to a friend's house for X-Wing. I doubt I would have ever gotten into computers if it hadn't been for Oregon Trail, Treasure Mountain, Escape Velocity, and X-Wing.
- deagle50 5y agoIf I got home asap I'd have at least 2 hours of gameplay before my parents returned and made me do homework lol.
- baq 5y agoTIE Fighter, for those old enough to remember it, must be the top 3 space shooters ever created. The campaign, the secret objectives, the little touches here and there. I don't remember playing anything close to that game. Freespace 2 was kind of but not quite there (it also is a great game, though!)
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoThe most amazing trick it pulled was how quickly it converted players to the imperial side. I was initially a bit hesitant playing for the bad guys, but by the end of the first campaign I couldn't wait to blast some traitorous drug trading rebel scum!
- shoto_io 5y agoAbsolutely! I loved shooting down Y Wings in particular.
- taneq 5y agoAfter all the Y-Wing escort missions in earlier games I can see where you're coming from. :P
- whatever_dude 5y agoSame! It felt like a weird premise for the game before I started and I was a bit uneasy about it. But it was a bit of a lesson on how things are not always black and white like that (the protagonists had actual motivations), and also on "hey you know what, it's just a videogame, why not be the baddie one in a while?" at the same time. Kinda ahead of its time, but very well executed.
- taneq 5y agoI had XWing CD and a school friend of mine had Tie Fighter. There was definitely some faction-based rivalry any time we discussed Star Wars. ... I bet if he ever played WoW he'd have been Alliance too.
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- gibrown 5y agoomg omg omg I played this so much on my pentium 100mhz as a teen. I think I broke multiple joysticks dodging xwings. My biggest concern is that it won’t live up to the memories I still have. I think I need to buy a joystick. I have much more disposable income and a lot less time… my six year old isn’t too young to join the Empire right?
- dugditches 5y agoHow does this play without an actual joystick. Was happy to see X-Wing etc come to Steam. But trying to play with a keyboard or controller felt awful. I remember Rebel Assault 2 needing a joystick for a few flying missions(freighter in the tunnel(3), tie fighter in the canyon(7), speeder bike in the swamp(9?)). But the X-Wing/Tie Fighter games just needed one.
- forbiddenlake 5y agoIt's still poor on a controller. I tried an Xbox controller on Windows 10, with no additional software (but I hear that third-party joystick/remapping software may improve this?) 1. The triggers are detected as an axis, the throttle axis by default. Hold LT for 0 throttle and hold RT for 100 throttle. Release them for 50 throttle. This is .. not ideal. They cannot be remapped to, say, use the triggers to fire your weapons. 2. The right stick's horizontal axis is not usable at all. 3. There's no support for button combinations. So you are very limited button-wise. 4. You can switch around the mapping for the axes that are detected, so you can put pitch/roll on the left stick.. but that leaves yaw on the vertical right-stick axis, or on the triggers. But TIE Fighter's flight model is not the same as a space sim's, so trying to fly it like one may not be advisable. I tried to play this like I play Elite: Dangerous, which has very robust controller support. But TIE Fighter really, really wants to be played on joystick and keyboard (which is how I played it when it was released). Alas, I don't own a joystick now and I am not sure I have room for one anyway.
- mappu 5y agoThe LT/RT being a single trigger axis is just something the default Xbox controller driver does for XInput (and under DirectInput they're just treated as buttons). If you install a different driver such as XBCD/x360c/x360wc it can be reported as separate axes.
- shoto_io 5y agoAwesome! I loved TIE fighter. I’m curious to know how copyright is handled?
- cable2600 5y agoDisney does not know about it yet.
- Al-Khwarizmi 5y agoA curiosity from someone that doesn't know the project: the host game for this mod is reported in Steam to be from 1999, so it looks like it should be... also rather aged. But the graphics from the mod look awesome (definitely not 1999 graphics). How come?
- forbiddenlake 5y agoIt is based on the X-Wing Alliance Upgrade project which is a major fan-made upgrade: https://www.xwaupgrade.com/ https://www.xwaupgrade.com/
- lencastre 5y agoI never got the hang of X-Wing but the tractor beam, the Tie Defender, the secret inner circle, made Tie Fighter a really good game! At least as I look through the rose colored nostalgia glasses.
- ChrisArchitect 5y agothis is incredible. I mean, I have fond memories of playing Tie Fighter (until a glitch with the floppies and an upgraded PC meant I couldn't install it again!!), I don't game or follow retrogaming land, so what is the background here: What is X-Wing Alliance? Someone 'out of nowhere' (is the code open sourced or something) decided to redo all the engine/graphics to be 'modern'? It's incredible to me that this could exist/that someone put that much work into it. If the code is open, is it a matter of simply updating the engine and then replacing all the 'sprites' and textures with updated stuff, so really just a massive graphics update?
- aceazzameen 5y agohttps://xwaupgrade.com/ https://xwaupgrade.com/ X-Wing Alliance came out in 1999. Fans on this website have been modding and upgrading its graphics ever since. There were campaign editors also. The holy grail was to bring the original TIE Fighter campaigns to XWA. It never happened, until now.
- koonsolo 5y agoI used to play Tie Fighter a lot when it was new. I tried the recent space battles of star was battlefield, but somehow I cannot get the hang of it (maybe I'm getting too old?) Would love to have the same experience, but maybe I'm doing something wrong or looking over something?
- rl3 5y agoThis looks amazing. If the author(s) are reading this, well done and thank you. :) The music in TIE Fighter was incredible. For those of you that want a nostalgia kick, this is (in my opinion) the best remaster I've found of its original MIDI score: https://soundcloud.com/laserschwert/sets/tie https://soundcloud.com/laserschwert/sets/tie 2:44 in the second track is probably the most iconic moment, although I'd recommend watching the original intro first if you haven't seen it!
- ckozlowski 5y agoA little note for the fans here, David Wessman, one of the original developers for the X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter games, has been working on a new title over the past few years called "In The Black". There's some Mechwarrior 2 talent over there as well. (I could have sworn Larry Holland was involved at some point as well, but it looks like I was mistaken.) Maybe worth a look if you're interesting in "what they're doing now". https://intheblack.gg/ https://intheblack.gg/
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- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoThat looks great. Bookmarked. Thanks for sharing.
- CapricornNoble 5y ago>>>There's some Mechwarrior 2 talent over there as well. MW2 had such an outstanding soundtrack...
- xen2xen1 5y agoSad, I don't have my PC joystick, nor do I have a PC game port. I'll have to order a real joystick.
- davelacy 5y agoBlown away! What a blast from the past... Loved this game when I was young and couldn't get enough :) Awesome
- Khaine 5y agoThis is amazing. Congrats to all involved!