Star Wars Tie Fighters, 30 Years Later With the Total Conversion Mod

[@Enigma89]

Thanks to the TFTC Team for letting me relive my childhood. If you want to go down memory lane or experience probably the best Star Wars Space sim experience then go here: sites.google.com/view/tie-fighter-total-conversion Their discord is here: discord.gg/GFVjySqEfm

[@ange1uk]

Hello, Angel here. I'm there project lead for TFTC. Thank you for putting a spotlight on us! We all hope you continue to enjoy our content and what the future holds for TFTC 🙂 Just to add, there are actually two versions of TFTC - Classic and Reimagined. Classic features all the OG missions, including audio, dialogue etc and is as close to the original as possible. Reimagined is just that - a reimagining of the OG campaign, but much more expanded, bigger battles, updated story, more consistent narrative etc.

[@Enigma89]

Thanks for letting us relive our childhood 🙏

[@NY-Vice]

Awesome work!!

[@rolinthor]

A stellar remake of one of the best space combat games of all time.

[@anomalousresult]

Any plans for x-wing or x-wing v tie fighter / bop?

[@Darkmouse20001]

Incredible stuff! Tie fighter was my favourite game on my Dad's 386. 30 something years later, as a military pilot, I'm more excited to install this than go to work tomorrow 😂! Thanks Angel and team. PS. Reckon I could do a pretty good job of Imperial Officer VO's if you ever have a need!

[@pppppffffffmmmmmmmnn]

The fact that we don't have a modern, hardcore Star Wars dogfighting sim is a travesty

[@DavidCastillejos]

And selfless and hardworking true fans making a fool of big budget game studios is the cherry on top of the cake.

[@johnroscoe2406]

It's not what the "modern gamer" wants, and no, no one commenting in here is in the majority so you can't go by our comments. The average 16-35 year old doesn't have the attention span or the ability to appreciate an X-Wing/TF style dogfihght sim. Also, there's no way to monetize that past the retail sale, so no publisher wants to. Those days are over. They tried to fool people with Squadrons, and you saw how bad that went. They wanted to appeal to "us" but they still had to make it watered down, too arcadey, prioritized MP over SP and monetized like every other game.

[@t65bx25]

@@johnroscoe2406I know it being Star Wars is different, but War Thunder, DCS, Ace Combat, and and even Nuclear Option are all quite successful right now and are each filling quite different niches. I genuinely believe there are enough of us.

[@johnroscoe2406]

@@t65bx25 Those really aren't quite the same.

[@Wilhuf1]

To be fair Squadrons was not terrible. Yes I did play the original X-wing, TIE fighter, XvT and X-wing Alliance.

[@SpenzOT]

This game is still by far the best story told from the Empire's side in Star Wars gaming media history. There is no rosy language or high ideals beyond the propaganda you are fed, you take part in battles and civil wars that feel justified for the Empire to fight, and best of all, you do not turn against the Empire. No bait and switch cop out where you are an Imperial for 5 minutes then say 'stuff is bad I'm out'.

[@shagrat47]

This is what Squadrons was supposed to be! Real campaign, great storytelling, in the beloved Galaxy far, far away...

[@MoleUK1]

X-Wing vs Tie Fighter was one of the first MP games I cut my teeth on, it was truly glorious. While EA's Squadrons was pretty solid, it's unfortunate they chose to limit it's scope and not continue the series for now. Been following this mod for a good while, it's a hell of a passion project. It having VR support really clinched it for me, had a blast with it.

[@gungriffen]

Star Wars Squadrons could have been beyond great but EA immediately Abandoned it upon release. Star Wars was so Magical before Disney. This reminds me so much of when I was a kid reading Heir to the Force and about the Tie Fighter Pilot Qorl.

[@ttenor12]

The Expanded Universe, now known as Legends, has a bunch of great stories. As you mentioned, Star Wars truly felt magical before Disney's acquisition. It's such a shame the way things went.

[@GeneralArmchair]

@@ttenor12 It's just so sad to see what happened to star wars. How Disney managed to so quickly kill such a beloved franchise. It's like a case study on how to &#$^# up. All that they had to do was take the story from Heir to the Empire and put it on the big screen. The easiest possible move for free money and they botched it.

[@johnroscoe2406]

"Heir to The Force?" lmao... you mean "Heir to The Empire."

[@ttenor12]

@@johnroscoe2406 you get what he's saying.

[@scimbrelo]

@@johnroscoe2406actually he meant “Heirs of the Force” by Kevin J Anderson and Rebecca Moesta. Google it. Don’t sit there in your own arrogant ignorance.

[@awger90210]

I still have my original Tie Fighter in the box ... came on 3.5" floppy. Also have the collector's edition on CD-ROM. Good times, will have to check this out.

[@EH_JaggedFell3]

One thing I would like to mention is that you said it has a "quick mission" builder, but the tools to make the full missions are open source and free for anyone to make their own missions and battles with audio and briefings

[@AxiamWolfe]

VR support? Count me in! If only i yhad a flight yoke to closer represent the TIE control interface.

[@Titere05]

The original Tie Fighter, in my mind, shares best-star-wars-game-ever status with the kotor series. Can't remember how many times I played it back to back

[@jts0221]

Oh my god.... I know what I am doing this weekend

[@Enigma89]

🤣

[@redslate]

The old Victory Class Star Destroyer looks so sick with the open wings.

[@wysoft]

What I loved about this game was the massive feeling of the space battles when you had multiple capital ships in play. There was no other space sim game like it the time, or really ever since.

[@powerdove]

Freespace 2 was similarly amazing at the time. It felt like anything was possible.

[@Creep.-]

so glad to see you boosting this!! this was my favorite game as a kid and playing it in VR with a hotas and rudder pedals is the biggest dopamine hit of pure nostalgia and joy i have ever had ❤

[@ThatSlowTypingGuy]

I still have joystick muscle memory from XWA the moment that laser target indicator flicks on.

[@tmseh]

I played all of these games starting with X-Wing. This looks awesome. The original games had amazing replayability. Straight forward and simple back then. ThanQ for sharing.

[@holomatrix]

Along with X Wing Alliance, and X Wing vs Tie Fighter on Midnight Editors (to give it a bit more of a challenge), TFTC is basically one of the main games I've been playing for the past 2 years. Angel's work is just, absolutely outstanding. With the graphical improvements and complete overhauls, they've completely transformed the game, giving stabilisation improvements over the original game that Totally Games & Lawrence Holland should take note, and LucasArts should consider giving Angel legitimate employment. It's everything that Squadrons should have been. 🔥👾

[@tb7771]

53 year old gamer here and Star Wars fan since 1977. I was always a fan of the Empire, so when this game came out I was so excited to play it. One of my all time favorite games! I think I still have the box and disks for it. I miss the good old days of going to Best Buy looking through the 4 aisles of PC games. Making my ex-wife drive home while I read the booklet. Good old times indeed. Cant't wait to play it again!

[@Decimus-Magnus]

This is amazing. I was just thinking about TIE Fighter the other night and how it's sad that it is still one of the best Star Wars games ever produced and nothing had ever come close.

[@Outshinedsg]

This looks incredible! Back in the day I played this so much that I wore out my cheap plastic flight stick, lol. One of the things I loved about this game are all the interesting secondary/secret objectives in the missions that you could discover and complete for added difficulty. The ability to increase your rank and get medals was really cool too. It felt very immersive for the time it was released.

[@sim.frischh9781]

I have played that game for SO many hours... got the CD version that had some add-ons included. This is such a gem, the mod gives the whole thing an immense optical overhaul.

[@arithex]

Vice Adm Thrawn! and VSD Stalwart! oh man, the memories ..

[@Ubernewb111]

trying to shoot tiny black ships in the dark of space is the very definition of hell

[@RidiculousBadgerGames]

Dude I used to spend a ton of time on this game as a kid. I played with a group of people over the internet-- lots of custom battles, etc. Thanks for helping me relive some of my childhood!

[@taxman3749]

Star Wars doesn't deserve such dedicated, talented fans.

[@-Markus-]

TIE Fighter is my earliest memory of being truly immersed in a game!

[@BrokenFistX]

TFTC is absolutely outstanding. A must-play if folks haven't already tried it out.

[@dewolfeFSP]

Wow! I was in my 20s when x-wing came out. I blasted through all these titles. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. We need a Clone Commandos redux next.

[@chaoticzer0]

Man this is amazing. I absolutely adored X-wing and Tie Fighter growing up as a kid. Wish someone would do this with X-wing but I'll take Tie Fighter

[@JohnDoe-gg6kc]

So good, loved this as well as xwing vs tie fighter. Aces over europe was also amazing.

[@smokeymoe842]

I can only wish for more conversion mods for more 90's pc games.... What a thought...the possibilities... This is lit.

[@Taffer-bx7uc]

Star Wars games during the 90s was pure kino sex

[@somthingbrutal]

if i remember right this was built on top of the X-wing Alliance mod, which is also well worth playing

[@martindione386]

only by seeing this video, and the game interfacce, I'm pretty sure this is an XWA mod

[@clarasdk]

Thank you for sharing, that was one of the best games ever made together with the other star wars space games before it. I need to get that mod up and running :)

[@c0lonelmustard14]

Cool video and thanks for letting me know this mod is here. SW squadrons was first VR experience so I’m glad to see the mod supports this!

[@mikem.s.1183]

Great video. I played the original SW games. This is truly phenomenal. Superb work, modding teams.

[@ryann6067]

Assault Gun-boats make me all tingly inside

[@jar-jarnotbinks7685]

incredible. I have it in my steam library, bought it with nostalgia, never replayed it. I guess it's time !

[@cmdrpanorpa8631]

One of the best mod projects out there for sure, such good fun. Not an easy game by any means in some missions, but never feels impossible, just have to stay on your toes flying fragile tie fighters

[@chrisgoblin4857]

I never played the original TF but when my family got our first PC, X wing vs Tie Fighter was the big game at the time. I am definitely going to have to give this a go.

[@artfact2]

Thanks for reminding me of this! I'll install it again and give it another try this week.^^

[@Solbadgreg]

Wow! This looks even better than the last time I tried out the TC mod! I'll need to check out what is new!

[@luizcastellar]

I was a xwing vs tie fighter avid player and this bring me to its atmosphere. Looking foward to play this one

[@Nortonius_]

Massive epic nostalgia reaction to seeing this ! Why did I get rid of that usb joystick, hopefully a gamepad will approximate the 1990s feel of this game

[@jeffmadrid5437]

Back in the day, I played this on a 486DX266 with a TURBO button. LOL. I can't remember remember the manufacturer of the joystick, but the "sound card" was Creative Labs. Pretty sure, if I remember correctly, the computer had 6MB of RAM. Ohhh how far we've come. What I find amazing is that our minds filled in all the pixels and this game look beautiful back then. The original isn't even close by todays standards... but neither are the storage requirements. ;-)

[@NordicDan]

I need to get a HOTAS setup and play this. GAWD how I miss these games.

[@Haegemon]

Wow, I played that game back in the day.

[@-Zevin-]

Now it's becoming popular and better known I'm just waiting for Disney's lawyers in Stormtrooper uniforms to march in and try to shutdown the entire mod....

[@RikkiSan1]

Seeing how this game is still sold I think so long as the devs behind this say you have to buy the game first I don't see Disney having a problem...then again corpos gonna corp so what do I know.

[@ange1uk]

@@-Zevin- we got a LOT of media attention when we first released in 2021, all the major gaming media outlets and then some highlighted us (IGN, PC Gamer, Kotaku etc) so Disney are most likely already aware of us. As this is a Star Wars mod for a Star Wars game and other Star Wars mods for other Star Wars games have never had any issues I think we will be fine as well. I also refuse to accept any kind of financial contributions as well to minimise the risk.

[@LordVader1094]

@@ange1uk Good on you :)

[@Maegnas99]

@@RikkiSan1 They came down hard on the people remaking Kotor and kotor 2. They waited til theyd done like 90% too before they shut Everything down.

[@tristanmiskwa6830]

@@ange1uk That's cool keep up the good work, you guys are doing great!

[@kasmiller9289]

I loved this game! This is giving me chills

[@sukhoi25]

Its hard to explain to younger fans... the early 90s were the dark ages of star wars, the Thrawn trilogy was huge, then this game. It was pretty much all we had. I played a demo of Tie Fighter on 3 1/2 floppy disks hahaha. Great memories. The newer games have great graphics, but something just doesnt stack up.

[@rrwholloway]

Compared to now, we didn’t know we had it so good. Heir to the Empire, X-Wing, Tie-Fighter, Dark Forces….

[@TheOrdomalleus666]

I am sooooo getting this! Thank you.

[@SierraSierraFoxtrot]

YOU HAD ME AT VR!

[@RobertBerrier]

wow! this is amazing!

[@joshDammmit]

Retcon the Assault Gunboat, and TIE Avenger back into canon

[@LooxJJ]

Admit it, we all dreamed about this!! :D

[@AlexPatterson-co4gh]

This is awesome. I always wanted Tie Fighter 2 but this will do great, if not better. I have a sneaky suspicion if EA did the sequel in our current times, they would find a way to antagonize gamers with it, then blame the gamers for the resulting poor sales. We are living in some weird times of companies with open hostility towards their own customers.

[@rdubayoo]

Total conversion? This is a new game!

[@thebiggestoneyouveverhad]

I can play this in VR?! Yes.

Great! I hope you'll also cover the XWA upgrade mod!

[@davidbradley3227]

I’ve got the stormtrooper aim down pat. This’ll be easy

[@LordVader1094]

You mean precise beyond measure I expect :)

[@Leon-bc8hm]

Nice good old times.

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

I can't believe we stopped getting these amazing star wars games, talking about the X-Wing series on PC. I did enjoy the Rogue Squadron games on N64 and later Gamecube and it is also a shame the studio that made them, Factor 5 went under.

[@RetroMono]

This is GREAT. I enjoy this mod but it would be nice to have this kind of remaster also of the original X-Wing. I think it is on the way too.

[@ilejovcevski79]

Let's hope Disney doesn't kill this one

[@flare242]

Oh wow! I need this baaaaaaaadly!

[@tuhkathri9126]

This reminds me of those darn Lusla missions 😂❤

[@LeftIsBest001]

As usual, this was not mentioned in the video, but X-Wing Alliance is available on GOG. A far superior source than Steam. 👍

[@monostripeexplosiveexplora2374]

Lovely.. the game was also awesome back then!

[@bravalloy]

The og 1994 Tie Fighter is a great game. There are newer versions but they changed the missions and, I guess, some starcrafts and weapons.

[@starfleethastanks]

X-Wing Alliance is also a fucking great game.

[@randlebrowne2048]

This is actually a heavily modded version of X-Wing Alliance (remaking Tie Fighter as a mod using that game as a base).

[@NicoGrosso78]

doesn't even look like the same engine how the hell did they do this

I broke my first joystick playing X-Wing vs TIE fighter. Ah, the memories...

[@boraonline7036]

"Back in the days" You had those great space games that brought you so much immersion, even if graphics are "crapy", compared from what we have today! The Wing Commander Series with it's "Spin Off" Privateer. Then X-Wing, TIE-Fighter. Today you have great graphics, but games are often lacking depth and conplexity (without beeing complicated!) The PC was the platfom to go, if you cared about games that are more than arcade games where the the goal was to brea some high scores!

[@vaporfreedom]

I highly recommend the mod that uses this one in VR.

[@rempha]

Waiting to see you mastering pvp fights in Elite Dangerous , flying combat ships with Newtonian physics.

[@Enigma89]

I have that game and while it runs super well and is super pretty holy hell the grind for pvp is too much for me

[@pulsifide]

The radio chatter reminds me of IL2 1946

[@dogjutsufpv3813]

So annoyed that they tried to make Squadrons 'Battlefield in space' instead of a sim-lite -- the thing they made the Squadrons game could have still been an option, but if it had done a real campaign + good PVE options + a mission/campaign editor + mod capability.. it could have been a generational mainstay vs the husk it's become.

[@KrazyTrumpeter05]

Whoa, VR support, too???????????

[@Darkrunn]

I want Project Aces to make a Rogue Squadron-like game with 2 campaigns, 1 New Republic and one Empire or Imperial Remnant. I know it'll never happen but I can dream. 😂😢

[@conscript900]

Oh man if they get it functional for coop... thatd be so awesome

[@twilightfox4503]

Hey, this is pretty neat. Thank you for posting. Unrelated note: I thought TIE fighters and bombers didn't have hyperdrives, but clearly that one jumped into hyperspace. Maybe different variants? I know asking about fictional fun like this might be kind of silly, but I'm just curious if anyone knows if it's even been incorporated into the lore of the franchise.

[@ange1uk]

Hello, the TIE Fighter, Interceptor and Bomber cannot hyperspace in this game, however the TIE Advanced and TIE Defender can.

[@twilightfox4503]

@@ange1uk Thank you, I was unfamiliar with these vehicles.

[@blueluny]

Amazing stuff. great game

[@weirdguy564]

The old X-wing vs Tie Fighter games were fun back in the day, and I still love them. But, as I replay them I found I didn't like that my fighter was doing literally 50% or more of the work, and that only warships and star bases gave you a challenge.

[@Runescope]

Is there a "total Conversion" for the original X-Wing game? I know there is one for X-Wing: Alliance, but I can't find one for the original X-Wing game.

[@GrimdarkCrusader20th]

Seeing the VSD laying into the rebel fleet does things for me, I might have to give this a go assuming I can make it work with my basic HOTAS. I wonder if I can trick it into thinking the paddle on the back of the throttle is a set of pedals.

[@EH_JaggedFell3]

No need to "trick" it. It has a full joystick configurator

[@AGenericAccount]

man..... i loved xwing alliance. this makes me go helllllllllllllllll yeah

[@swordbrotherplatt9392]

Take my money!!! NOW DAMN IT! … this is as far as I’ve gotten 1:41 .

[@EuropeanSpaceA2]

Oh wow, cool!

[@paulclarke4776]

This game would kick ass if remade nowadays!!?? With the graphics n shit available, this would be a smash!!!

[@michaelbennett7561]

Install X4 with DLC, download the Star Wars Interworlds mod. This is the best Star Wars experience there is IMO.

[@smeghead765]

This was the first game I ever owned.

[@jtjames79]

Not a bad guy? I believe it's the very first mission where you kill a bunch of orphans.

[@Enigma89]

I was playing the reimagined campaign and you don't do that on the first mission. The first missions could be different between classic and reimagined so that is a funny misspeak if so!

[@anomalousresult]

You shoot freighters and transports fleeing Hoth.

[@ange1uk]

@@anomalousresult You are ordered to captured a freighter carrying Rebels yes, not to destroy them. All other transports you are only expected to inspect them.

[@datastorm75]

I miss legit space fighter sims with lengthy and interesting single player stories. Don't make em like they used to.

[@Nightmareof94]

This is what squadron’s should of been like

[@midairflyer]

wow! i remember my 1st online player vs player game.......X-Wing vs TIE Fighter

[@andrewhaight2888]

whaaaaaaat. I hope they do Xwing vs Tie fighter also

[@NephilBlade]

It's nice that people have modded Tie Fighter, but for me, the original graphics are best.

[@_vortech_]

Now if they can do the same thing for Bridge Commander!

[@rockybeats8682]

I AM IM ON THIS!!!