The Best of Star Wars X-Wing Alliance

[@tregellis1]

Whoever can make a new game anywhere near as engaging as this can take my money.

[@starithm]

Same here. O god I hate EA so much. They can go to hell.

[@danieltaylor7638]

@@starithm Just $2.99 to unlock each star fighter. $9.99 to get the family missions. $7.99 for the training range, $0.99 to re-arm concussion missiles. Do you feel a sense of pride and accomplishment yet?

[@TheGlitch-X]

Starwars Roguesquadron 1, 2, and 3 better

[@Keihryon]

@@TheGlitch-X Negative.

[@TheGlitch-X]

@@Johannes9126 Anything you can do here you can do in Roguesquadron games, only with better graphics and better lighting effects everything better.

[@Seraphil1]

One of the best little things about this game is that it gave all this backstory to the cruiser Liberty. She's basically your home for the majority of the game, you fight alongside the squadrons aboard her and Commander Kupalo and Commander Zaletta are both notable characters throughout the game. And then you get the cutscene where the Death Star blows up the Liberty...

[@LupusAries]

Oh yeah that really got you going, you really wanted to blow that sucker up after that!

[@EMDakka]

Oh yes, When i saw that the laser blast takes out the liberty, I WANTED TO KILL ALL IMPS BY MYSELF!!! and i always weep a tear for the Liberty when i watch the movie.

[@Solarnova]

One of the most polished Star Wars games out there, and it's going to be 20 years old soon!

[@themartianmantis2694]

Its one of my favorite SW games, but it is NOT polished, I've ran into so many game breaking bugs in every playthrough, something that never happened in Republic Commandos or BF1&2

[@genesis_zennox2021]

Underrated 🗿🗿🗿😣😔😔

[@SudaPaul]

The seamless integration between the video games and EU books was the artistic apex of Lucasfilm.

[@LordGodfrey]

Played this as a little kid with a flight stick my dad found me. Some of my best childhood memories.

[@x-wingroguesquadroncomebac851]

20 years later, we're still without a Star Wars space simulator like "X-Wing" or more arcadish like "Rogue Squadron". Hard to believe. Then, some people say: "Hey, but there are space battles in Battlefront II, right?" NO, JUST NO.

[@AnakinIT]

When EA will release a similar XWA game: "Do you want to flight a Missile Boat? 20 €/month", "Call reinforcements more times in a mission? 2€/call"

[@mro9466]

just picked up this "old game" on steam and played it for the first time with a joystick, single player campaign is great ! it's like they really don't care about putting love in a SW video game, everything barebone

[@sly-cooper]

buy starcitizen

[@KABZProductions]

Press Shift + S to call reinforcements for $5. Ok There are no reinforcements available Fuck

[@jordanleaf5640]

well you got your wish (potentially) with Star wars squadrons... I couldnt agree more with your statement and im sure we both hope the new SW plays well

[@sonykroket]

One of the greatest games ever made. 20 years old and it still looks and plays amazing. I've been playing it again last few weeks and man, it sucks you in. I still feel games late 90s early 2000s were the best. Great movie, my compliments.

[@spearPYN]

Pretty much it was the peak, the last era when games were incredibly polished and complex with immersive gameplay. I love Atari era in the 80s, Amiga era late 80s/early 90s, PC DOS era (early 90s) and PC Windows era late 90s/early 2000s. After LCD monitors became the standard the games started to be garbage...

[@joaopaulodelimacapela3317]

I've always asked myself why the games industry seemed to completely forget the space flight sims genre. Games like X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Starfleet Academy and Klingon Academy (just to name a few) were hugely successful at their time, and there's plenty of players out there who would happily give their money for an up-to-date version of these games !

[@tetsuoswrath]

Ever played Colony Wars on playstation? :{

[@Duedain]

This was the best X-Wing game in the series. The Azameen family should be proud of Ace!

[@interlinkknight]

I think the same. X-Wing Alliance have the best graphics and a good campaign. Wasn't perfect, but in my opinion was the best.

[@dazooej5785]

@@interlinkknight I missed the cockpits from the older titles, but the overall improvement made this one of my favourites

[@mcspiehn4862]

IMO the best one was Tie Fighter. But of course it's even older, and so the graphics are even worse on todays standards. Alliance takes the second place :)

[@Jaya365]

Yup it was awesome

[@javkiller]

I mean, if you could upres Tie fighter to modern standards it would have this beaten, but this game was the best thing ever when it came out.

[@markr.f.2226]

Loved this game. A true classic! My favorite was the combat simulator where I spent hours making my own space battles with numerous space ships and fighters to choose from!

[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

I remember really liking the Azzameen family storyline: the strained ties, divided family members, the last minute evacuation, the correspondence with your siblings.

[@talaminia]

wow better than the last jedi movie.

[@cptairwolf]

Game: hit the spacebar to initiate hyperdrive. Me: So that's why they call it a space bar!!

[@interlinkknight]

lmao

[@gravytrader]

Memories of turning off collisions and just pinballing my way through the death star....

[@pqsnet]

Hahahhaha! Good one! There is however ways to get rid of the rubble.. :D Sadly with Shit Disney and EA we will never see games like this ever again in Star Wars :(

[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

I tried doing the death star 2 missions without any help as a matter of pride, but I just couldn't do it without either getting lost or crashing.

[@MightyMatt87]

I kept collision, but turned on invincibility... at the second barrel roll I always got stuck somewhere and killed all my companions that bumped my rear

[@Dankdalorde]

SAME

[@Cldayn]

Aw, it's so good to watch this again ♥ I'll never get tired of it. Again, GREAT WORK !

[@Myuutsuu85]

This actually gave me chills at time. Well done. Very well done.

[@1964ahdn]

The number of hours I spent on this game when I was younger....

[@laserbrain7774]

Thank you for the nice memories. Very well done.

[@williamprm]

Nice. Was a good trip down memory lane.

[@simonwillis1529]

Why can’t we get Star Wars games like this nowdays 😞

[@Gala-yp8nx]

EA.

[@stevenkimdmd]

Microtransactions and loot crates.

[@Nagrachlp]

Squadrons just realesed... and its actually good.

[@Ulyssestnt]

Squadrons is great,its very much a modern Tie Figher with the same game mechanics and ships.

[@simonwillis1529]

@@Ulyssestnt year later I come back and we got a good game

[@marckrieger3277]

God i love this game, impressive work putting this all togehter,

[@ChrisWEEZ]

By the way, EXCELLENT editing on this video! It was all the important parts I remembered.

[@theblackgoatofthewoods]

This game was intense!

[@AnnatarCarvour]

" NOW THIS IS PODRACING " 🤣

[@MitchRogue]

Revisiting the game with XWAU Project mod. Having a blast - from nostalgia, excitement and that bandit on my 6. The true spirit of Star Wars, a quality game and characters I grew attached to even though I only know their voices. Just amazing.

[@mwnciboo]

I remember being a daemon in the YT-2000, i used to turn off all laser recharge and max speed and shields then use the auto turrets to engage things. It was glorious, thing was damn near impossible to kill.

[@absboodoo]

This and Freespace 2 were the best space sims I have played.

[@TormodSteinsholt]

Very well done. I had hoped that Rogue One was a franchise reboot to pave way for a new XWing game with the good ol' Ep4-Ep6 time frame.

[@interlinkknight]

I am hoping the same, but not sure it will happen

[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

I hope something comes of it. After all, there's something much more compelling about the imperial era than the old republic or first order eras

[@koopanique]

Great video for a great game I liked the reenactment of the battle of Endor!

[@alshin5431]

I played this game a long time ago but had an weird crashing error with the game so I could not finish it. Brought back memories and great editing! It’s too bad that single player games like this no longer exist.

[@Anrighe]

Every time i watch this i get chills

[@SJHFoto]

That was thrilling! Thanks for the upload-I really enjoyed it

[@tzeffsmainchannel]

I never get tired of watching! :D

[@interlinkknight]

Yeah, I know what you mean. Me too.

[@1ochotnik]

Nice flying and directing :D

[@interlinkknight]

Thanks

[@bradhedgehog12]

Man with some of the music going I was burning with Fury in both this and X wing vs tie fighter. Felt like on Rebel Assault II

[@JMontP]

Damn I still have the original CDs for this. Good memories.

[@JTB198819962006]

I wish that there is a remastered version of this game!!!!! It is one of my favourite Star Wars games!!!!

[@trevorthueson6997]

Yes it exists! Check out xwaupgrade.com. People put thousands of hours into enhancing the 3D models. Install XWA using your old discs or STEAM, then run the free XWA upgrade package. I’m replaying the campaign, it’s great!

[@ChrisWEEZ]

God this was such a good game. I only hope SQUADRONS lives up to it.

[@marckrieger3277]

Beautyfull homage to a beautyfull game.

[@ZarrosUE5]

;_; tears in my eyes! That homage gave me goosebumps! I loved that game and now i experience it again, but in VR!

[@AvengerBB1]

I loved X-Wing, Tie Fighter, and XVT, but Alliance is above and beyond my favorite. I loved that they were able to weave a fairly interesting and original story into the events unfolding during the GCW. With the new mods from XWAU just damn.

[@Goldencoins]

Holy crap, these are some amazing action scenes for a 20 year old game!

[@MrGamer5682]

Brilliant. Just brilliant 👏👏👏

[@warchcosi]

I can tell I played this game way too much as I got angry when the B-Wings at 1:46 fires their torpedoes without taking out the shield generators first 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@goodcorwin627]

came here to post exactly the same thing, lol

[@liberatetutemeexinferis5902]

Sure brings lots of memories when I started playing these games on my Pentium 186.

[@javkiller]

These were one of the first two games we had on our first pentium 100, 25 odd years ago. We didn't even have a sound blaster in there yet, we had to make our PEW PEWs ourselves for a few months!

[@Kurayamiblack]

18:58 The Imperial Pilot flying through space qhen the TIE Fighter blows up! 😂😂😂

[@Captpolak]

Who here is checking out the older starwars flight games because they are better than the new Squadron game?

[@jeezed2950]

Thank you so much for this! Brings me back! I kinda wish you used the upgraded textures.

[@interlinkknight]

:)

[@joeloffing2113]

Oh the flood of memories. The graphics are so potato by today's standards, but X-Wing Alliance got so much of that Star Wars gravy just- *chef's kiss*.

[@tajulashikinjumahat2597]

The best experience ever

[@dulux2134]

16:28 Same as the film, Epic!!

[@TheJosep70]

I found the story in this game more engaging than any of the films after ROTJ tbh.

[@clmariano]

20 years ago. I Buy my first pc with graphic card. And the first game was X-wing Alliance. I just install and run the game so when i Saw the 3d graphics i scream WOOOOWWW and YEEESSSS. Súper fun powerfull game!

[@BrightOranje]

This game was freaking awesome. Had all of the action and excitement of the first 2 X-wing games and added an really compelling storyline to it, along with good side characters. A great addition to the EU. An expanded / adapted version of this story could have made an anthology film far better than what we got with Solo.

[@conniee.]

Wow, this was so good I almost forgot it was a game and I had fun reliving all those battles from the movies.😀🥰👍🏽👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@GTOAviator]

18:35 that hanger is incredible.

[@interlinkknight]

Thanks. I filled the hangar by myself so don't expect the model to be like that.

[@attilahodosi4536]

Végig játszottam, nagy élmény volt :)

[@Doubleolick]

Oh the memories.

[@YoungViz]

These expanded universe rebel ships…. look Disney, this is how space battles were supposed to look like. Worse quality and they still did a better Show than all movies 7-9 together. Yea 9 will suck too, dont even have to see it.

[@marckrieger3277]

At least we got an really good space battle in rogue one.

[@YoungViz]

@@marckrieger3277 yea at least that. Still prefer Kyle Katarn Story. But at least it wasnt filled with bullshit so it is an acceptable movie.

[@marckrieger3277]

The spacebattles in the prequels sucked too (espacilly in episode 1when a kid saved the day). I am a bit biased because i love the ot the most but it seems like it is the only era where good space battles hapened.

[@YoungViz]

@@marckrieger3277 yea its true…. Rouge one gave me/us the battle that I always wanted - like in Episode 6 return of the jedi. With X-Wings, Y-Wings, VS Tie Fighters, Rebels Cruisers vs Star Destroyers - EPIC, CLASSIC There is a Video on KZbin: Rouge One Space Battle with John Williams Music, you should see it. But the prequels meh… actually I really like Episode 1. I often thought about that movie, what should be different. Like instead of Jar Jar being clumsy, he should have been banned because he killed people, sounds way more badass. And for Anakin, he should have just been older already. It wouldnt have been so cringy with him being a 9 year old flying in space… I have no solution for the podrace though

[@marckrieger3277]

That sounds like an awsome video i will search it. I had seen the prequels and i found them so boring, episode 3 is the only good prequel episode.

[@Admiral8Q]

Excellent editing! I miss this game.

[@sten2897]

Amazing edit. Thank you.

[@WilhelmImperatorRex]

Even if there will now be Star Wars Squadrons, you really need to reimagine your vids with the X-Wing Upgrade Project. It's just necessary! :D

[@interlinkknight]

When i installed upgrades to my computer, the game run slow (drop FPS). I had a really hard time dealing with this because of the SSD that i used from the project. The video was about the original game, anyways.

[@kettch777]

So many great ship designs that could have been used in canon in the new movies....

[@CHEMAURO.]

the game of my childhood

[@crowmoon9556]

I broke SO many joysticks to this game as a kid, and boy my dad was PISSED! Lolz. All I really did were the simulations but this game is on my top 5 childhood favorites with Ocarina of Time and (If were including my teenage years) the ORIGINAL Battlefront 2 for PC and PS2. Other games on my childhood favorites: Jedi Knight and Mysteries of the Sith, Grim Fandango, and Full Throttle. Hail to the oldschool Lucas arts games. (I know Ocarina of Time is Nintendo, but it was that game and X-Wing Alliance that really sold it for me back then.)

[@interlinkknight]

Thanks for sharing your experience. Yeah, this game brings a lot of nostalgic feelings to many of us. I remember the first time I played this game. It was a demo that came in a gaming magazine. You know, those CDs fill with demos? I played that demo like 100 times. A few years later I had the chance to play the full game. It was the first game from the x-wing series that I ever played.

[@crowmoon9556]

@@interlinkknight Holy crap. Those were the days. Demo disks in magazines, wooh. But yea, I had so much fun just trying to fly every ship I could in tje simulations, then went to challenge myself against star destroyers. It took me forever, but I can easily say one of my greatest and fondest gaming memories was finally beating the super star destroyer solo. No allied ships, just me and it. I used a Skipray Blastboat loaded to the teeth with proton torpeedoes.

[@rooskiwolf1653]

Give me this game with today's technology including VR and I'm set for life. :)

[@PowerThirteen]

VR is included in the XWA Upgrade project. Check Google and you’ll find it. There are a couple of issues with the aiming reticule and field of view, but they’re doing a fantastic job modernizing a 20 year old game. :)

[@DickJohnson3434]

A new X-Wing or Jedi Knight game would be a nice surprise.

[@Journeyman107]

Hitting you with the ship's red alert on the menu screen is genius

[@interlinkknight]

:)

[@Backtomonarchy]

Best Starwars game ever....

[@AnakinIT]

Still hoping to see a "Star Wars: TIE Fighter Empire" game one day...

[@stevenkimdmd]

It will have microtransactions... You sure you still want it?

[@gravytrader]

I dont suppose you feel like remaking this awesome video with the XWA upgrade 2020 patch? :)

[@interlinkknight]

No

[@k_dawg7475]

Oh, how I loved that game! I think some of the ships looked a little strange, compared to the XWing vs Tie Fighter Game. But nonetheless countless hours of good star wars fun!

[@VenlyssPnorr]

Yeah I totally agree. Always thought the T/F 'pod' looked really bulbous and the X-wing cockpit was too shallow. Glad someone else noticed.

[@KuDastardly]

lol that pilot floating at the very end!

[@Anrighe]

16:58 Pretty sure the "Pressure is steady" guy was supposed to be Ace, since it was the same voice actor who also voiced him in the A-Wing Recon mission

[@doctoronishispsychosislab1474]

XWA was made with passion. Todays games are made for profit! "That is why you fail"

[@franciscop1192]

2020 This video is very satisfactory

[@grantcriddle1326]

Fantastic Game ! Should be reissued and updated

[@innerworth]

Lucas Arts made quality Star Wars games!

[@brendanmccallion2350]

1:49 Some KOTOR inspired shots there. Nice :P

[@richardathome65]

Graphics may have advanced in the last 21 years, but the gameplay and enjoyment factor haven't been beaten yet. No power ups, no different levels of weapons or ships, just here you go, fly it as-is.

[@primeoctober]

1:20 just look at how the tie fighters noclip from out of the ceiling there lol

[@jitengyang5418]

A question: How to get your game opening? Mine is escaping Hoth.

[@interlinkknight]

I don't understand your question? Game opening? You mean the start of the video? I did all the video with sony vegas. I took the logo image and use special effects to send it away like if the X-Wing hit it. That was your question?

[@jitengyang5418]

I mean the space fight from 0:09 to 4:10

[@interlinkknight]

All that was done recording gameplay of a custom mission a friend of mine created

[@jitengyang5418]

Thank you. That looks awesome.

[@interlinkknight]

I'm glad you like it. It was hard work. I play the game and record the replay. After that I play the replay moving the camera in the right place to screen capture the shot. After that is a lot of editing.

[@pho3nix-]

Lol I still remember that first mission with the wannabe Millenium Falcon's

[@baguettedepain3975]

Millenium Falcon itself is a classic yt-1300 commercial ship, very modified. The ships you pilot at the beginning are also modified yt-1300, just way less modified. You can see the difference, because at one point you can pilot the actual Falcon and it has 2 turrets instead of one and has better speed and manoeuvrability.

[@pho3nix-]

@@baguettedepain3975 You are correct, it is the Corellian Engineering YT-1300 transport.

[@saultube44]

Very well done

[@TheMysterDe]

This is an incredible action) I advise you to pay attention to Starlancer and Independence War 2) And link to the video - how you put waste on Star Wars Squadrons in the toilet

[@hayberdasher8625]

3:55 I had no idea that star destroyers were made out of giant rocks and logs

[@777akjuxta]

Well done.

[@Ben82077]

Rebel Fleet (comes out of light speed) : So we just came in blasting.

[@vinsmokesanji5909]

Is tha plane mouse control ? Since crosshair was moving with plane

[@AnnatarCarvour]

That ship at 12:13 looks alot like the Discovery from 2010 lol

[@jedirock2004]

great vid !

[@Ryan-mech-muffin]

A stellar game

[@AWACS_Snowblind]

Don't get me wrong, Battlefront was cool and all... ...but _this..._ _...this is what made me a man._ lol

[@LuiDeca]

this would look great in the newest version of the x wing alliance upgrade mod

[@HunterXMoon]

We need an HD remaster of this for modern hardware. Steam version missions are bugged to hell.

[@ToaCody1]

So much nostalgia!!!!!!!!!!

[@zwruble]

Was that imperial landing bay in the game? I never noticed.

[@interlinkknight]

No

[@DarthChehiko]

anyone else notice the yt-2400 at 13:24? or in other words the outrider

[@laurabarattucci3883]

3 things to ask (bc i'm dumb.) 1: How do you specifically get the SSD texture from XWAU, and not the other stuff? 2: What is the ship that appears in 18:40 ? (Asking because of hangar). 3: What does SHIFT+F do?

[@interlinkknight]

1. At least back then, in their website you could download only individual models. I'm not sure if they still allow this. 2. It's the SSD, but those ships inside the hangar I added manually so it's not like that by default. 3. SHIFT+F records everything so we can later replay the gameplay. This is crucial because first I play the mission and then I replay everything with a lot of control so I can capture the video.

[@laurabarattucci3883]

@@interlinkknight Thank you! Could you send me the file (if you have something like discord)? Or should I use The Wayback Machine?

[@interlinkknight]

What file?

[@laurabarattucci3883]

@@interlinkknight The file for the XWAU SSD.

[@interlinkknight]

I'm sorry but I don't have it anymore. But I'm sure you can find it in the official page

[@AllGamingStarred]

Sega: (introduces Blast Processing) X wing Alliance: *PC Blasts apart from Processing*

[@andyb1653]

Still better than anything in the Sequels, even with the PS1-lookin' low-polygon ship models.

[@flowinsounds]

the movie people really need to set up their scenarios in this game, get real humans to fly the missions, then re-render with better graphics. I've never seen anything to compare with a full on multiplayer mission. Epic