Keep in mind this guide is for Windows PC, Mac, or Linux. Not much will apply to the console versions (PS4, Switch) except for the lightsaber basics. Console versions do not support mods, custom clients, or console commands.

@rooxon7344

Жыл бұрын

Ah the good old ... years, to be fair, I spent modding and playing JKA. Great guide!

@MikeDchy25

Жыл бұрын

Best saber mechanics I've played, really made you feel like a Jedi not to be f**d with. 😎

@DanikxGrey

11 ай бұрын

Do you know if the fan port for android support mods?

Jedi Academy has the best lightsaber fights hands down. Dark Forces II, Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy just get better and better. Jedi Knight saga is an amazing set of games.

@roberth4395

3 ай бұрын

Strongly disagree. Idk how old are you, but I was there at Jk 2’s release date. Played Jk 3 as well and back then the wast majority of hardcore Jk players agreed that Academy is a very big downgrade from Outcast when it comes to story and lightsaber combat. On top of that it was agreed that jko patch 1.0 is the best as the newer patches of Jk 2 made the game more similar to Academy. One interesting fact is that what made you a skillful player in Outcast was frowned upon in Academy. If you want to see the best Star Wars lightsaber conbat try Jk 2 1.0. It offers the most control over the lihhtsaber.

@MikeDchy25

3 ай бұрын

@roberth4395 Whoever told you Jedi Academy was a downgrade in lightsaber combat was either a veeeeeery small group of people or your imagination created by your own nostalgia. I've never heard anyone say that crap besides you.

@MrAvenger1975

2 ай бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed both (all 4 games, actually), but I thought JK2 was certainly the better game. In my experience Jedi Academy was simply too easy and not as much fun as Jedi Outcast. Both have their strengths.

this game never died. still has best lightsaber combat

It's not hard to get into older games if you never stopped playing them

@JD..........

6 ай бұрын

"Getting into" means never having played XD

Nice video! Thanks for playing on our server for recording! Always happy to see new players in this retro game. See you around!

@MasterChiefpettyofficerJohn117

Жыл бұрын

I love this game, grew up on it. I will hopefully be joining you on your server soon...

One of my favorite games growing up. Twi'lek female was almost always my choice to play as.

Wow it has been SO long since I last heard or used the word "laming" :D

@afraidofmyownlegs4318

Жыл бұрын

It was truly the biggest social faux pas of any online game

@Tashyp

Ай бұрын

"Courtesy, your friendly neighborhood Lamer-Man!!"

Jedi Academy is one of my favorite games, and it also has one of the best melee combat in gaming so far. It is a pity that has not created a trend, unlike the Soulslikes that I do not like in general.

@GodMajik

6 ай бұрын

You could’ve said all that without whining about another genre, if you don’t like it, don’t focus on it. I like both and I wouldn’t run to videos of games I don’t like to whine about them or vice versa. Just quit bitching about games and play what you enjoy.

@rizogamers4915

5 ай бұрын

Yeah me too. We need the remastered one.

@jilliebean6312

4 ай бұрын

@@GodMajikdamn your triggered why not ask why he doesnt like them im wondering why because i love souls like games but i see his point this game should have been a trend for other games especially starwars games but at one point gaming companies didnt like the idea of “copying” other games to keep originality or because the game didnt do good enough, for other reasons other than the gameplay be it bad marketing or other aspects of the game that didnt do well so they just assume it was everything about the game, but nowadays it seems like developers have no originality anymore and dont mind making clones upon clones for profit

@GodMajik

4 ай бұрын

@@jilliebean6312 you’re the triggered one, clearly. Too many people waste time saying they dislike one thing just to say they like another, if you like it then you like it, who gives a fuck about the semantics.

god damnnnnn, when you said 20 years i flashed back to first downloading JK2 in 2005 and JKA in 2006 respectively and... really felt the sands of time go by.

Great vid, I hope our beloved games holds up for the next 20 years, I am always amazed by the sight of new padawans joining a server.

@saltywater5097

Жыл бұрын

What server?

As a veteran of this series for over 21 years, this is an excellent video. Very well done!

As a man who loved Jedi Academy as a kid, I’m both happy and nostalgic to find a channel dedicated to the game, I hope Star Wars would have a remake of the game

JK Hub was so helpful putting the Mod selection for JK-XR (Academy / Outcast VR for Quest 2, Pico 4) together. Thanks for keeping the community together for all those years.

Great video! I've play this for many many years. I stopped a few years ago. I'm excited people still play this. I need to login and work the rust loose. Thanks for taking the time to make this. I hope it draws more attention to this game. It's always been a favorite of mine.

thank you for helping keep this game alive!

@jilliebean6312

Жыл бұрын

Its a true travesty that this game has never been surpassed in gameplay by any starwars game

Okay, I'm only here because I'm playing JA on Switch and just today... just now... after playing this game since I tried a DEMO at Target AND pretty much having MEMORIZED Jedi Outcast in the years prior.... Just today, I learned you can lock-on

im playing the game in vr and with motion controls game truly ahead of its time so groundbreaking

@TheRogueJedii

Жыл бұрын

Nice

@gavku8850

Жыл бұрын

and vr has mod support

Everyone gushes about the lightsabers, but I don't hear much about the little things. Those being: Kyle "You're Joking" Katarn's joyous glee in delivering an ass-whooping to his foes, Stormtroopers and goons alike screaming as they fall to their death, aerial foes being shot upwards as you zap them with lightning, Jawas being Jawas, and the many ways the player can approach most situations.

I don’t have anything but a laptop with integrated graphics right now and I can play this game w mods that make it look and feel unlike any other Star Wars game out currently. I will always love this game for that!

Just joined one of the servers and played a bit, full of nostalgia! great game and great tutorial!

Excellent video. Very helpful

Great video! I used to play this a lot and missed the community...

I still love this Game. Playing on an Off since in release. From Xbox to PC to Switch now gonna have it on my Rog Ally.

I still very much prefer the Jedi Academy experience to Jedi: Fallen Order, which felt a bit more like Force Unleashed with all those button combos you have to nail... This is way more straightforward, way more satisfying and I wish Fallen Order felt more like Jedi Academy.

@igorthelight

Жыл бұрын

100% agree!

@prodtr3v

Жыл бұрын

Jedi survivor would have been so much better w sith force abilities

Best video ever thanks!

Still my favourite Star Wars game... Love it!

back when star wars games had a soul...

great vid!

Great Video Circa! I cant believe that this game is 20 years old this year O.O

@bart558

Жыл бұрын

Long time no see :D

Real ones remember jk3 files, good times

OMG!!!! I MISS THIS GAME SOOOO MUCH! I used to be a daily player back in the early 2000s

@Cybernaut76

Жыл бұрын

Feel free to play. This still works in some Windows 10 machines.

@igorthelight

Жыл бұрын

@@Cybernaut76 Works fine with OpenJK ;-)

I will always love this game since it was announced. Is the perfect star wars game for dueling and the star wars vibe. I always hoped for a game like this one to have a recent sequel but we can't get everything in this life. Nice video

@sethdiedalongtimeago

Жыл бұрын

i do personally enjoy the Jedi fallen order and jedi survivor games though they tend to run a bit worse of course. but forced unleashed and unleashed 2 were pretty fun. this one has to be the best overall for what it is. it is great

Great vid love the lofi soundtrack. Bought on sale but getting lots of motion sickness

Missing the siege mod. Loved it so much back then. Content quality is really good. As a former semipro :D I approve.

Thx for everything, for years.

This is my best multiplayer star wars game with best combat system ever made in game history.

I find older games more sought after than newer games because they are just factually more enjoyable than newer games in some aspects.

@igorthelight

Жыл бұрын

Modern indie games have the same feel ;-) Not all of them - google "best indie games of "

Havent played in years gonna download again soon

Man remebering jk3 files coming back from school everyday checking out new mods and posts That was 15 years ago.....fuck

Hay un mod para expandir la personalización de personajes en la campaña de JKA?? 🤔🥺🙏🏿

Remember playing this game ages ago. Is it possible to make private servers or is there any guides on how to make one? Also, can remember if was able to enable dismemberment on multiplayer?

Happy birthday Jedi Academy!

They made 2 battlefront games recently, invested so much money into those games, graphics are beautiful.. still, best lightsaber online combat BY FAR, is Jedi Academy, its the reason ppl are still playing it after 20 years.

Which mod is it that you have for the dismemberment in multiplayer?

The Jedi Academy mods I recommend are: Escape: Yavin IV. Escape: Yavin IV - The Lost Maps. Epic Challenge Mod series. Nina Anthology. Wild Force.

About mods: even if you want to play game without any changes - OpenJK is still a MUST HAVE! It makes the game work so much better on modern systems!

This was so good on Xbox Live back in the day.. holy shit was it fun times

Is there a mod for Jedi Academy which changes the cutscene map(Academy1) with the Jedi Outcast counterpart(Yavin_temple)? Thanks in advance!

Yup great video!!!

Nice video :p

Awesome, thanks for making these! JO and JA are still super fun after all these years, maybe one day they'll get some light remasters that would implement basic updates, fixes, engine and rendering improvements and make them more accessible right off the bat after installation, without the need for any manual tweaks.

I haven’t played it in months but I still play it on the OG Xbox.

is there any mod that makes single player difficult but also limits the cheese moves like the crouch swing spam ?

Jedi Academy was the best SW game. Especially live multiplayer.

Nice little video that the Algorithm just showed me. Just wonder how it was going since the video was made? Wonder why the youtube is showing me this very old vid.... (look at date...) 12 days? It was made last week? Damn... I must go into that now.

Movie Battles 2 is the GOAT

What's funny, is that it's been years since I've quit playing JKA, but people still hate the butterfly...

Any total conversions or new adventure mods for this? I also wish there was Jedi Academy 2 continuing the story of Jaden Korr. What a pity it ended here and seems like the new owner of the franchise, Disney, is none too interested. In some sense, this is better than Cal Kestis series.

Love this video. Cant seem to find a mod to customize lightsaber colors (im looking for a silver saber mod)

I still Play Rebelt Assault 2 on my ps1 :D

@MrAvenger1975

2 ай бұрын

Dude! lol I still own a PC copy but haven't played it since it released.

ty

There's a JAMP server with new players everyday (JoF) that is more active than ever before, with over 200 active players

I installed mods from the reccomended list and the game is broken, "can't spawn x npc" happening constantly. Are there tools that help you find which mod is breaking?

+1 comment for support this channel. :)

Graphics is not a problem at all, these games still look good when it was a good graphics back in the day. Some games are just ugly, always were ugly and always will be ugly, but it's not the case of Jedi Academy, it's just retro and it looks good. And controls and everythinging else was mostly better than in today games, it's very simple to just jump in and play it, it's not complicated like today games where you need to learn how to play it for like 10 hours before you can actually start to play, I totaly hate this about modern games, it's just getting too complicated, older games from around 2003 were simple to play, you had full control over your charecter so when you died, it was 100% your fault. In modern games when you die, it's very often fault of bad cover system or some auto climbing or something which always destroys what you want to do. I just prefer older games with no such features because it's simple and you can focus on what is really important - to play the game, not learning 5 hours how to use cover system and be scared by going around some wooden box because you don't want to accidentaly trigger a climbing script during a fight if you know what I mean. Some modern games are such a pain to play. Even my father was able to play these 20+ years old games, but there is no way that he could play today games, first - his English is not good enough for that (today games mostly don't have official translation, it's just in English only) but that's not the main reason, main reason is that games are just too complicated now. Even 11 years old kid who didn't speak English at all was able to play these games 20 years ago, you will not even start a new game in modern games without pretty good knowledge of English, which means that games are too complicated now - complicated to install, complicated to run, you need to have milion accounts to milion clients, 90% of them only in English again, constantly some problems with those clients....It was just so simple 20 years ago, you just inserted CD, typed serial key, clicked on next next next and clicked on PLAY and that was it, it was that simple, even 60 years old villager who doesn't speak English was able to do that. Today? Even I in my 31 years have sometimes problem to start some game when it's running thru some obsolete client which just doesn't work at all, you buy the game on steam and it starts another 50 clients from steam and then you have to register your game again inside of game, what the hell is that? I am probably already too old for this. 😀

@martinrejzek6281

Жыл бұрын

I agree...also the simplicity of directional swings, only found it in Mount&Blade, Mount&Blade Warband and Mount&Blade Bannerlord games. Nowdays they develop games that in trailers and pre-release gameplay traielrs looks like you are able to customize your gameplay to your liking, your character looks and level the gear, the abilities you choose etc. But in the end you just pick one of the three variants for lets say Jedi Knight or Jedi Consular, you pick his look and gear but thats all, every Jedi Consular plays the same skills, every Knight plays the same skills, those are games like SW:TOR, those with quickbar which I start to hate cause of the rigidity of the world and rigidity of gameplay, not to even mention the horrible stories and quests... Games like Skyrim,Oblivion, Jedi Academy, Gothic 1,2 , in these games you really felt like connected to the gamestyle you have picked..if it was passive approach with stealthing and camping (not just crouching and running around map backstabbing enemies like AC:Oddysey or LOTR:Shadow of War) or you picked to be the taunt who may be killed 20 times in 10 minutes, but will probably make a lot of frags too. I agree that where the game industry went is unpleasant...

Or go for jedi academy mod galactic legacy as it enchances the game way more then those who just add for effects you can litterly play as almost any charactor in this mod from whole sw

theres like 2 servers that are always populated with real people, one that has lightsaber only no force powers, and the other one has everything enabled. (i forgot the actual name of those serves) The rest varies, sometimes they're filled with ai bots, sometimes empty. Should be the two top ones

Anyone remember the sp mod where you play as neo and he tells rosh “how about I give you the finger” 😂

This might not be the place to say this but would OpenJK be able to implement map/mod downloads like in source games? JK has so many awesome maps and such but they're just not played. It bring the multiplayer to a new level if players didn't need to search for maps online just to play them.

@igorthelight

Жыл бұрын

OpenJK is fully Open Source so I see no reason why wouldn't they be able to do that!

@drifter402

Жыл бұрын

@@igorthelight Right? Has anybody done it though and if not why not? It would be the best thing you could ever do for the multiplayer mode. That one feature was MASSIVE for Valve games and it's what made it's modding scene so incredible. JKA has tones of maps custom maps and nobody plays any of them.

@igorthelight

Жыл бұрын

@@drifter402 OpenJK tries to not change anything... Maybe adding this feature requires more changes that they are willing to make. I'm mostly a C# programmer but maybe I would look at OpenJK. Downloading custom maps and adding new rendering features would be interesting to try ;-)

Really wish this game would get remade

The only thing I really dislike about this game is the end lag on movement and the customization, neither of which I can really hold against the game considering the era which it was released in.

I remember stealing the cd demo from a magazine at a grocery store

its been a longggg time

God bless you

With mods, are the graphics greatly improved to look at least like a ps3 game?

@igorthelight

Ай бұрын

You could improve textures and lighting a little bit. Screen Space Path Tracing would also work, I think ;-) Game would still look old but it's fun!

Is jedi academy online only? Been thinking of buying it but not because of the online because im sure almost nobody is playing it

@igorthelight

Ай бұрын

A few things: * Jedi Academy has a pretty fun Campaign. You could also play Jedi Outcast to know Kyle Katarn's story ;-) * It's not a very popular game for sure but there are always some players to play with

turning 20...!? ... i remember getting this day one...

Is there a discord for console, or is this old game cross play?

@igorthelight

Ай бұрын

Consoles doesn't support mods so it's more alive on PC - that's for sure!

I like playing older games

this game needs a new remake with the same combat

I really would like to be able to play the mods on my Steam Deck

@igorthelight

Ай бұрын

You probably can! ;-)

best sw game in history

This game rocks...I wonder why they did not use this story as a hint for the plot of the new trilogy, instead of making that trash I remember when I made a character just to hunt down lamers in servers xD such fun

@turdferguson9452

Жыл бұрын

Loved running online characters with full absorb just to counter the guys trying to electrocute everyone

Arriba JKHUB 💪

The graphics part never had an issue went from playing god of war to a game from ps2... graphics are not an issue retro type how ever I have an issue with but I don’t need a graphics mod

Outcast is the best game though.

@c.jonahabbott2831

Жыл бұрын

I disagree, I find the story of Jedi Academy much more engrossing. Also the returns to iconic Star Wars locations make my soul happy.

@TheRogueJedii

Жыл бұрын

I love it but the maze like structure of the levels makes my head spin and I can't go through it without a walkthrough which is a bummer

@AshleysBrother

9 ай бұрын

Honestly admiral fyyar as a boss is way better than whatever jedi academy has to offer

Play movie battles 2

Playing JKA in 2023? What is this madness.

@turdferguson9452

Жыл бұрын

Crazy enough, the console ports are still alive despite the company that ported it shutting down servers. The community made their own back door to enter PC servers from the main menu lmao

Movie Duels is literally all you need

I feel like the Jedi Knight games completely ruined star wars games forever because nothing was as good.

@igorthelight

Ай бұрын

It's not their fault that other games are worse ;-)

Yo the people who play on and run the KR server are some stuck up tight wads. I put KR in my name and they made me take it out. I lamed people, got booted. I said a swear word, got a strike. I played as Rosh, EVERYONE started gunning for me. 😔

No better star wars game. Ever. .... ever.

This is sick.

is there a openjk on switch like openmw??

@legocreator768

Жыл бұрын

Not on switch no... I would just get a steam deck.

@DarkBlueHaze

Жыл бұрын

@@legocreator768 eh think the switch port on the eshop might still be good i'll mess with that openmw is fun as hell on switch tho

Real ones remember jk3 files, good times