Protector: Tie Fighter Total Conversion: Reimagined - #5

[@sharkdentures3247]

"See? The Empire are the 'Good Guys'.". EXACTLY!

[@josephfenech9401]

It seems that the Imperials you are with are the good guys. The ones who worked their way up the ranks rather than through nepotism and bribery. Excellent choice.

[@Stringfellow-xo6do]

I played X-wing, Tie fighter and X-wing vs Tie fighter. The nostalgia is strong with this one.

[@TheGosslings]

Same. Also born in '83.

[@stormykeep9213]

X-Wing vs Tie Fighter was far ahead of it's time...Too far when it came out. I remember the Zone only allowing up to 4 players, and even that could be laggy as most people were still on dial up at the time. Would love to see a larger community back for that game, playing some of the 8-player missions like they were meant to be played!

[@tirirana]

Awesome mod and awesome playthrough. I still remember buying X-Wing and Tie-Fighter on 3.5" floppy disks and playing it as a kid

[@robertdubois3448]

I still have the Tie Fighter instruction booklet around somewhere. I liked how it gave you the background of your character.

[@Snowfox456]

You can just hit N on the keyboard to target the nav beacon. R for nearest enemy fighter, E for anything targeting you, and O for mission critical targets. That way you won't have to go through every single target looking for the beacon!

[@MagzGTV]

Good point, only not really practical for me since my Keyboard is 5 feet away from where I am sitting when I am flying. :P I'm flying this from my Simpit using hotas, If if the control isnt bound to my throttle or my flight stick it doesnt exist to me.

[@Snowfox456]

@@MagzGTV That's a fair point, maybe you can find a way to bind them somewhere? I think it would definitely make your life easier. Loving the series so far!

[@xanfulton]

​@@Snowfox456 Don't forget 'A' for 'target whoever is targetting my target'. IE., hit 'O' to grab a mission-critical target, then 'A' to find out who is targeting THEM. And watching these vids, binding that 'U' key also might make sense - 'target newest ship to enter the area'. Then F5-F7 are four 'saved target' slots, that you can slot something into with shift+F5-F7. Again very handy with more complex missions when you have a lot of things you need to protect. Probably worth binding all these keys to your HOTAS somehow - later missions get REAL hard to beat without them!

[@darksuit9035]

@@MagzGTV can maybe get a streamdeck, seen them used for star citizens multitude of button functions.

[@doctoronishispsychosislab1474]

respect to the guy who has redone the voice acting. it's soo close to the original. Bigup!

[@Chris_Lohmann]

TIE Fighter was the second PC game I ever played (the first was X-Wing). My original copy was formatted for DOS. That’s how old I am! 😆 Did you know you can transfer laser power to shields and vice versa? If I remember correctly, the original key binding was shift F10 and shift F9 respectively.

[@rayjaywong]

Wonder if the two pilots mentioned in Harkov's message end up being the two wingman in a mission waaaaaaay done the line involving the minefield.

[@willc1294]

blast them away now just to be sure 😉 Didn't realise the game had been remastered, getting some serious 90s nostalgia now...

[@Chaser617]

I know I’m waaaay late (end of the year schedules make things crazy) but these are great, and the TIE pilot propaganda poster after the last mission is actually production art from Star Wars Rebels. Its used in conjunction with a more up beat rendition of Imperial march ‘Glory to the Empire’ in a couple of eps.

[@travishillsthedarkangelbun504]

21:45 By the way that's a Star Wars Rebels Tv show poster featured in Season 1.

[@ImperatorRadec]

Hey Magz, as a recent subscriber - your content is really good and I really love the flow of how you do your videos with the TIE Fighter series. Quality content, please keep going.

[@saintuk70]

This is what I'd hoped Squadrons would have brought back to the genre - great conversion.

[@cmdrchilperic6706]

Love this! Just saw the thumbnail accidentally. When I read the title I hoped it's the System Patrol Craft Glas mission (not remembering its number) - and it was! Somehow the Sepan campaign always kept sticking in my mind. To include those other "old school" spacecraft is also very fitting. Cool stuff!

[@farmerjohn3468]

Just finished the fourth one and got excited when i saw 33 minutes ago that you posted this episode. Keeps me entertained while trying to stay awake

[@Arcalargo]

Ah yes. A special military operation. Those always end well

[@MagzGTV]

lol, I was thinking the same thing at the time.

[@Arcalargo]

Eyeballs, Squints, Brights, Dupes, Trips, Pointers, Wishbones, Crosses, Skulls, Slims, and Uglies.

[@Matthew10950]

​@Arcalargo What are " nick names of all my ex girlfriends?"

[@kspectre21]

Smooth operation, really love the double upload for the 4th and 5th.

[@kushanblackrazor6614]

I think Pargo Kuanson is from the strategy guide and Stele's background.

[@redsaints]

I still have the instruction manual that contains the story, I love how it sets it all up and tries to ground it all. Worth a read in my opinion.

[@josephfenech9401]

Wow! You are really rising up the ranks of the Secret Order of The Emperor!!

[@pelimies1818]

looks and sounds great. May the forceback be with you!

[@DoctorKrain]

"The Empire is the good guys" They always have been.

[@andrewmueller3391]

See, see, the empire are the good guys!

[@robertdubois3448]

A muliplayer version of this would be interesting. One group of players could be flying bombers and another providing escorts.

[@jukahri]

I had no idea this existed. Thanks for the heads up!

[@shade9272]

This is far better than Star Wars: Squadrons. 10/10 would play this over the new one.

[@TurKlack]

can't stop loving these type of missions. In my mind they are even a bit superior to the cmapaing missions of X-Wing Alliance, since they are... well... "normal" Missions that a military performs in ^^ Really makes me consider to get X-Wing Alliance for this mod.

[@MagzGTV]

Yeah, it's one of the things I love about Tie Fighter and the X-wing series as well. You are not some legendary ace pilot, at least not yet. You start the game at the bottom doing the kind of things that new pilots would do, flying the kind of normal missions that would be expected of an average fighter pilot in the empire. It's not until a few more battles go past and you spend a lot of time proving yourself that you start to get more elite missions and even then they fall into the bounds of what would be expected of a skilled pilot. We won't get to it for a while but one of my favorite missions in Tie Fighter is one where you fly Alpha 2 to Vader himself while escorting the Emperors personal Star Destroyer. . . that's all it is, your watching the Emperors ship and doing what Vader tells you to do. Just a cog in the machine, a valuable cog but a cog nonetheless.

[@franciscop1192]

Wow! I just can see people with same ideas as me. Love it!

[@davepowers3194]

“Electrobinoculars, not sure why they’d need them on a ship” Probably why they gave you them lmao

[@MagzGTV]

That is a good point.

[@Tuskin38]

you could always load up the ships in the combat simulator that you want to fly around. You can set them to stationary so they don't fly around or attack.

[@Lustvig]

Gotta scan each and every object to get those bonus points and missions. Don't let the scenario auto-end.

[@fulcrummando22]

Never underestimate Y-Wing superiority with those ion cannons!

[@tylerparker1567]

Link those F#&!ing cannons when engaging to concentrate your destructive fire power onto the fuselage of enemy fighters. Outside of that nice flying so far.

[@MagzGTV]

In the gunboats sure and I do as you can see, in the interceptors f#&k no, you can argue to your blue in the face that it's "better" but running quad linked in the /In just feels like crap when your using it so I'll only ever link the guns for very specific targets. Same as I won't duel fire the guns on the TIE/LN for pretty much exactly the same reason.

[@Elitex62]

"Empire are the Good Guys" Empire: Sweeps all the dust collected from Caamas to Alderaan under the rug called "propaganda"

[@MagzGTV]

I never saw anything XD

[@murasaki848]

It's best to crosslink all your guns to fire at once. Like most repeating weapons in games or IRL, your best aimed shot is your first one, and in this game you usually (in the case of the X wing and TIE interceptor) hit with all four. This means you do max damage immediately instead of waiting. The only exception to this is when you're trying to shoot down torpedoes/missiles/rockets. I seem to remember two changes in TIE Fighter over X-Wing that you could choose what your launchers are armed with when your craft was capable of carrying warheads. The other feature was being able to shoot turrets off of ships. Is none of this available in the reimagined version?

[@WanderfalkeAT]

I am pretty fine with the System they use here because it was the same I had when playing it in my youth. Its called Tie Fighter Total Conversion and not Elite Tie Fighter!

[@rokinz3270]

Interesting that they added in new ships to spice things up

[@Ben82077]

It’s weird when you’re the empire you think you’re the good guy, when you’re with the rebellion you actually are the good guy. I guess it’s from “a certain point of view.”

[@mco51193]

Anybody play this with the VR mod? I’d be curious about what the performance is like, and how the graphics look.

[@bobfromsoireegames4309]

G'day mate! No worries

[@tonydotnottingham]

Really enjoying this play through - guess I’ll be buying a HOTAS again…

[@Dansinglobster]

Victory Class have those sort of "wings" along the superstructure, and based on this game and other images of them I can see online it seems that they can be flat and "deployed" opened. What are the wings' purpose? Are they physically shielding turrets? Any one know?

[@Octopootie1]

I could be wrong but I believe that there are banks of concussion missile launchers in the trenches that the "wings" are covering

[@Dansinglobster]

@@Octopootie1 That sounds reasonable enough to me.

[@resurgam_b7]

I am quite thoroughly enjoying this :) Question though, why are the gunsights so wonky? The Gunboat's sight looks like it got dropped off the back of an AT-AT before being installed on your ship :P

[@TheUnhappyTroll]

yep, this is how we killed them TIE-I in old Xwing.

[@EnoTnaived]

I really wished that this game comes out for consoles. You PC Players are lucky People.😞

[@bigbossvagner5141]

That was some good flying, you think you could have handle the Gs from that maneuver? I'm not a pilot just asking.

[@Shoeg4zer]

Why do the briefing duplicate themselves? They say everything twice.

[@ange1uk]

Not quite, the map icon briefing is the condensed, animated version, giving you mostly more specific details of what to expect in the mission. The main long briefing at the start has more dialogue, context, lore to add flavour to the mission and you understand what's going on. Also the Secret Order dialogue can only play through this section. The problem is the XWA engine is strictly linear in how it approaches story. The original TF had characters you could interact with which allowed you to ask questions and get the narrative from there. So what we have now is the only way to accommodate a greater narrative.

[@gk9788]

How do i get this game

[@pickle4474]

Apparently you can play this in VR?

[@franciscop1192]

Harkov should be honored being kiled by Vader himself. Well it doesn't matter anymore 😅

[@zeroscale7766]

Revenge of the 5th time

[@48some]

i dont like the yellow colors in the Tie interceptor cockpit..

[@tuckeyuk]

Is there an option to keep the original voice overs?

[@MagzGTV]

As has been explained several times no, Since the re-imagined campaign changes the ship sets adding new ship types none of the original voice lines for the mission briefings would line up with the new ship sets so all of them needed to be redone. The original voice lines are used in the non re-imagined campaign as it's a direct 1 to 1 recreation of the original Tie Fighter however you also don't get any of the new ships, any of the new mission designs or re-designs and are limited to the original roughly 20 ships per mission at any one time limit of the first Tie Fighter engine.

[@motoerhead1990]

Hey Magz! I just wanted to let you know that I used to watch your videos pretty much every week but for some reason since over a year I didnt get any notifications from you anymore. To be fair with all the stuff on KZbin I didnt really noticed it at first but I stumbled over one of your videos today and than it really hit me. Also the Notifications had been turned off even when I used to follow you on every upload and I know it sounds wierd but I´m kinda upset and somewhat sorry that I couldnt support your content for nearly a year. Hope your doing well mate! I am sure to check in regulary again.

[@vintagemanV]

Possible VR?😶

[@MagzGTV]

Yes VR is supported and works, I may do a video on VR at some point soon.

[@ual002]

​@@MagzGTV So it definitely works, there are some reimagined missions that are a little dense and cause some slow down on my HP G2 Reverb. I'm in the process of upgrading my VR sim chair to also have a large monitor and move my track IR over to it, so I can play in either. But yeah basically VR works but at a noticeable performance loss in some scenarios. While I prefer reimagined over classic, I would guess that classic plays nicer with VR. But thanks to my moaning Bluemax at least got TrackIR working long ago so we have options.

[@vintagemanV]

@@MagzGTV GREAT,thanks ! 😀

[@ual002]

I also just noticed a bug where sfoils on craft entering hangars do not fold doesnt seem to be an issue on your build. Can you ping me your version number on discord?

[@franklinnash]

I love this conversion, but why do all the Imperial officers in the briefings sound like a middle-class teenager doing an impression of an upper-class toff?

[@ange1uk]

I'm a 40 year old Brit from Oxford doing a WWII era officer accent :P

[@VulpisFoxfire]

Is it just me, or did you get 'such and such destroyed' messages for all your gunboat wingmen?

[@resurgam_b7]

I haven't played the mod, but if the original game is anything to go by, it is not unusual to loose all of your wingmen in every engagement, they are not exactly ace pilots 😂 It's only an issue on the really long missions where you go against capital ships or multiple waves of fighters and can get hopelessly outnumbered with no one else around to take some of the fire for you.

[@VonSchpam]

This looks great! However, I can't shake the sense that hearing TIE pilots sans their distinctive Imperial English accents to be awkward and out-of-place ... :)

[@DoubleFreedom]

Is this using VR or TrackIR?

[@MagzGTV]

TrackIR in this video but VR is supported as well.

[@terrylandess6072]

I thought just maybe that's what Star Wars Squadrons would be and could've been - just remove the cringe dialogue and characters - make the player a faceless recruit whom advances rank and ship unlocks through missions without the drama. I have Tie Fighter still - on 3.5" disks.

[@laresial]

Wow

[@kangaxx4396]

You are losing firepower by not linking lasers