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
Star Wars Interworlds mod for X4 is also a great way to scratch this itch, especially if you want to build your own fleets and fly your own capital ships.
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.
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!
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'.
its the best empire game period. It's even better than a lot of the rebel stuff...try X wing? It's like a kid version of Tie fighter. Hit and run and then leave. No reinforcements and it was almost impossible to do anything without your leaders yelling at you on the intercom
@@ravinraven6913 Hit and run is the way you go when you're fighting a guerrilla campaign, which is exactly what the rebels were doing for most of the war. They gave you an accurate rebel experience.
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.
@@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.
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.
I remember a friend of mine brought the floppies over to my place when this came out. We made hand-written copies of that code legend to get past the DRM each time it started up so you wouldn't need the manual on-hand. Good times. 😂 I'm pretty sure I still have my X-Wing collector's edition CD kicking around somewhere, though it's probably scratched to hell and back at this point. As fun as that game was, TIE Fighter definitely felt like a noticeable improvement over it gameplay and QoL-wise.
I played the original TIE Fighter game. I'm getting old. I was in my early 20s when this game came out. It was one of first games on the first PC I paid for.
I dunno where mine came from but I was like 7 when it came out, 10 when I found it. It got me so into star wars! But then I played X wing and realized how good Tie fighter really was
Believe i must have been 17 at the time, good times. Along with X-wing. If there is one title i gamed the hell out of back then though, it was Dark forces.
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.
Too many newer games (or even technically middle-aged games, like Star Trek Online) portray capital ships as disposable things that show up in swarms once the player is reasonably powerful. Before you know it, you're committing virtual war crimes on a daily basis and annihilating the entire fleet of major galactic powers every few missions. While big explosions are fun, it soon feels strange and unlike the source material. X-Wing, TIE-Fighter, and probably a few other games in that lineage were some of the few that got it right. A Star Destroyer - just one - was a big threat. And even if your side had enough capital ships to take it on, the potential losses were huge so other methods were sought out vs. just smashing fleets into each other like toys. In the quest for every-bigger threats and forces to wield, something was lot along the way, IMHO.
@@matth.2916 I loved how the music in TIE Fighter would have varying levels of intensity based on what kind of ship had just jumped in. When something big like a Calimari Cruiser jumped in, you knew it right away
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.
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 ❤
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.
they came out with a 3rd iteration! I hated living in those days, no internet and no one trusted each other. They considered only creeps to use computers. Well this creep is more advanced than most people haha but jokes aside... I loved Tie fighter, I hated X wing. Is the 3rd game any better? I hated X wings hit and run, you couldn't just go in and destroy the station. You had to disable it and shoot down targets A and disable target B in less than 5 minutes. But Tie fighter you could fly around till you destroyed everything, capital ships included.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
This is amazing. TIE Fighter was one of my all time favorite games, and no space combat sim since then has quite had the same feel for me. Installing it now. Thanks for the heads-up about the mod.
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.
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!
this game is why my mom bought me more games. As some one with ADHD I couldn't focus. They used games as a reward and I did pretty good till middle school when I couldn't learn pre algebra. If you can't learn pre algebra in middle school, you are guaranteed to not learn algebra in high school and that means you will not graduate. Unless you get a teacher that passes you even though you didn't learn anything. I hate those teachers. But the USA is full of them, and teachers teaching subjects they themselves were not taught. Like Math teacher being a social studies teacher. A science teacher being the English teacher...no wonder no one knows the difference between Than and then, it was always about there, their, and they're. Or why are is plural and is, is singular...tenses was ignored till high school and I already had it ingrained in my speech.
I was 17. Bought it the day it released. Back then it was really hard to get your hands on games this early. It was also the game that helped me immensly with my english grades, because it was not available localized on release and therefore I had to play it in english.
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
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!
I have no idea how I was recommended to your channel but I am sure glad that I was. I am really looking forward to installing this and giving ait a go.
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
X-Wing was almost exactly like Tie Fighter except that you couldn't match speed to an enemy target and it came out 1 year earlier. But totally agree with TF being the best. Also the soundtrack for these 2 games was superb, to this day I consider their soundtracks to be the only canon Star Wars original soundtracks that weren't made by John Williams
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.
I loved that game, the way the Rebel space craft broke apart when destroyed was amazing, and I liked the missions where you had to disable a craft in order for another craft to capture and tow it away
those were the worst! Identify rebel transport carrying weapons...found them and I fired ion cannons to disable and they instantly hit light speed. I literally cheated and still lost lol Are we Navy officers or are we police officers doing a pat down? Im pretty sure this mission is well below the rank you get twards the end. That tattoo you get is so cool
@@ravinraven6913 ha ha. Yes I think you had to hit them with normal weapons to get the shields down before the ion cannons, or something like that. It was also annoying when fighters on your own side destroyed the disable craft. The worst missions involved having to destroy an A wing!
Oh my god, that is so cool. I grew up playing all tie fighter missions including the expansion set. I loved that so much. The tie defender was awesome. Just looking at the gameplay I already felt home. It looks all familiar and I remember pretty much everything from back then.
This is awesome! I absolutely played the heck out this game since I always preferred the Empire over the rebels. The timing of the missions was absolute perfection. Despite still having the original 3.5" floppies I decided to buy it on Steam but it was just unplayable on my modern gaming rig. So happy to ressurect an old friend. :) Thanks for the heads up. Subbed!
I agree, but my version of sick is bad...I loved the look of the star destroyer, now I know they open....I feel it looks very stupid. what does it even do? I can't find any info on it which usually means its completely Aesthetic.
@ravinraven6913 X-Wings are glorified 'space-airplanes' (without thrusters)... literally everything is aesthetic form over function. _Star_ _Wars_ is more Space Fantasy than "Sci Fi."
@@ravinraven6913 while closed they're "winglets" for additional stability/maneuverability in atmosphere. They open to expose batteries of missile launchers within, IIRC.
The ships look great, the sound is spot on, recognisable ships and characters that immerse you into the whole story - plus the nostalgia from playing this and X-Wing v TIE Fighter
I had no idea they had mods for this game! Holy crap, this game is one of my favorite sci-fi space flight simulators of all time, this looks so freaking epic!
Whow, I thought the Crossfire TC for Freelancer was impressive, but this is such a massive improvement over TIE fighter that it's just unreal! kudos to the team!
More than playing the bad guys, this game made sense. No secretly good guys or any of that. You are maintaining peace. From your perspective you are the good guys. I also am partial to the original tie fighter so I always play that whenever I have the option... Despite being at a disadvantage.
My brother and used to play this together when we were young. He would fly and i was the Astro Droid giving him targeting, refreshing his shields, repair damage and moving power from subsystem to subsystem based on need
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 :)
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.
more like a golden age, a revival of sorts took place with the EU novels, the video games, comics etc. culminating in the theatrical re-release with the special edition.
I played all of these games for hundreds of hours. I remember in X-Wing finally completing the Trench Run with a Y-Wing and feeling great accomplishment.
I tested this game back in the day when Angel was reimagining this. It was really fun and the graphics were top notch. The cockpits were so cool as well. Made you feel like you were in the movie. Fun fact. One of your TIE wingmen voice overs is from a TH-camr known as Get Off My Lawn. He plays and reacts to old doss games.
I am so glad that I stumbled onto this. X-Wing and Tie Figher games from back in the day were my favorite also. I recently tried to play it about a year ago not knowing about this mod and just couldn't do it. Not supporting HOTAS and the graphics being so extremely low resolution. I didn't recall the graphics being as bad as they are. I am so excited to get this mod working and test it out.
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. 🔥👾
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. ;-)
me too, and remember when you had to turn off textures because of only 1 or 2mb of video RAM? They don't know they are born these days, not having to select your soundcard or kepston joystick options!
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.
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.
Tie Fighter made me one of those SW fans that think the Emperor was a bad guy, but a lot of people in the Empire were truly working towards building a better society without resorting to the terrorism of the Rebellion. When one of the first missions has you preventing the Rebels from murdering people on a space station, it really blurs the good guy/bad guy line in SW. And the open ends of some of the missions that would unlock new aspects of the story really made the game something so much better than the previous X Wing game (which was also great). Good writing made it easily one of my favorite games and to see it get a new look for a new generation is really something special.
I have had this game in my Steam library for YEARS. Got it as a bungle some time ago so I could pick up Jedi Outcast 2 / Academy. Always wanted to give it a shot but just kept finding other things to do. Well. I'm downloading this TC mod and giving it the look it deserves now!
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
When I heard XWA had FFB about 3 weeks ago, I decided I had to grab it and see how it works with my VPForce Rhino. Short answer is, wow! It works, but it was definitely not designed for something with the strength of the Rhino... (and definitely make sure you've got your hand on the stick before jumping to hyperspace!) About 1/3 of the way through XWA Upgrade, but now you've reminded me, I need to jump into TFTC after I finish!
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.
Tie Fighter ... by far my favorite Star Wars game. Who knows, maybe it was what taught me to not see things in black and white. Being kind of the space police against pirates and those pesky rebels that want the galaxy to fall into chaos. Had a great time.
My friends and I bought this when sound cards were new! I got a Sound Blaster 16 for my birthday and CD drive. Tie Fighter sounded awesome. I wasn’t very good (I played on the easiest settings) but I still loved it. I also remember a big part of PC gaming at the time was constantly tinkering with the config.sys & autoexec.bat to configure the sound card and memory settings for DOS: it almost seemed like part of the game!
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
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
Star Wars Interworlds mod for X4 is also a great way to scratch this itch, especially if you want to build your own fleets and fly your own capital ships.
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.
Thanks for letting us relive our childhood 🙏
Awesome work!!
A stellar remake of one of the best space combat games of all time.
Any plans for x-wing or x-wing v tie fighter / bop?
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!
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'.
because it used to be created by people with mature worldviews, not the permainfants in charge now
its the best empire game period. It's even better than a lot of the rebel stuff...try X wing? It's like a kid version of Tie fighter. Hit and run and then leave. No reinforcements and it was almost impossible to do anything without your leaders yelling at you on the intercom
@@ravinraven6913 Hit and run is the way you go when you're fighting a guerrilla campaign, which is exactly what the rebels were doing for most of the war. They gave you an accurate rebel experience.
When you said 30 years ago I was like "NO IT WASNT!" then you pointed out 1994 was in fact 30 years ago and I died inside.
don't die inside! pretty soon you will just be a shell of death?
yea...I was 7 in 94. I remember it like it was just...10 years ago.
The fact that we don't have a modern, hardcore Star Wars dogfighting sim is a travesty
And selfless and hardworking true fans making a fool of big budget game studios is the cherry on top of the cake.
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.
@@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.
@@t65bx25 Those really aren't quite the same.
To be fair Squadrons was not terrible. Yes I did play the original X-wing, TIE fighter, XvT and X-wing Alliance.
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.
someone stole my disks, only have the Gold cd.
I remember a friend of mine brought the floppies over to my place when this came out. We made hand-written copies of that code legend to get past the DRM each time it started up so you wouldn't need the manual on-hand. Good times. 😂
I'm pretty sure I still have my X-Wing collector's edition CD kicking around somewhere, though it's probably scratched to hell and back at this point. As fun as that game was, TIE Fighter definitely felt like a noticeable improvement over it gameplay and QoL-wise.
This is what Squadrons was supposed to be! Real campaign, great storytelling, in the beloved Galaxy far, far away...
I played the original TIE Fighter game. I'm getting old. I was in my early 20s when this game came out. It was one of first games on the first PC I paid for.
I dunno where mine came from but I was like 7 when it came out, 10 when I found it. It got me so into star wars! But then I played X wing and realized how good Tie fighter really was
I remember playing the original one on the first PC. 94 is a long time ago.
Believe i must have been 17 at the time, good times. Along with X-wing. If there is one title i gamed the hell out of back then though, it was Dark forces.
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.
Freespace 2 was similarly amazing at the time. It felt like anything was possible.
Too many newer games (or even technically middle-aged games, like Star Trek Online) portray capital ships as disposable things that show up in swarms once the player is reasonably powerful. Before you know it, you're committing virtual war crimes on a daily basis and annihilating the entire fleet of major galactic powers every few missions. While big explosions are fun, it soon feels strange and unlike the source material.
X-Wing, TIE-Fighter, and probably a few other games in that lineage were some of the few that got it right. A Star Destroyer - just one - was a big threat. And even if your side had enough capital ships to take it on, the potential losses were huge so other methods were sought out vs. just smashing fleets into each other like toys. In the quest for every-bigger threats and forces to wield, something was lot along the way, IMHO.
@@powerdove you're right, I forgot about the Freespace games. They were probably the only game that came close to X Wing or TIE Fighter
@@matth.2916 I loved how the music in TIE Fighter would have varying levels of intensity based on what kind of ship had just jumped in. When something big like a Calimari Cruiser jumped in, you knew it right away
Freespace really plays similarly and even has a TIE Fighter and X Wing mod.
I still have joystick muscle memory from XWA the moment that laser target indicator flicks on.
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.
Dear god this should be national news!!! Installing tomorrow without a shadow of a doubt
TIE Fighter is my earliest memory of being truly immersed in a game!
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 ❤
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.
they came out with a 3rd iteration! I hated living in those days, no internet and no one trusted each other. They considered only creeps to use computers. Well this creep is more advanced than most people haha but jokes aside...
I loved Tie fighter, I hated X wing. Is the 3rd game any better? I hated X wings hit and run, you couldn't just go in and destroy the station. You had to disable it and shoot down targets A and disable target B in less than 5 minutes. But Tie fighter you could fly around till you destroyed everything, capital ships included.
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.
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.
@@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.
"Heir to The Force?" lmao... you mean "Heir to The Empire."
@@johnroscoe2406 you get what he's saying.
@@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.
This is amazing. TIE Fighter was one of my all time favorite games, and no space combat sim since then has quite had the same feel for me. Installing it now. Thanks for the heads-up about the mod.
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.
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!
this game is why my mom bought me more games. As some one with ADHD I couldn't focus. They used games as a reward and I did pretty good till middle school when I couldn't learn pre algebra. If you can't learn pre algebra in middle school, you are guaranteed to not learn algebra in high school and that means you will not graduate.
Unless you get a teacher that passes you even though you didn't learn anything. I hate those teachers. But the USA is full of them, and teachers teaching subjects they themselves were not taught. Like Math teacher being a social studies teacher. A science teacher being the English teacher...no wonder no one knows the difference between Than and then, it was always about there, their, and they're. Or why are is plural and is, is singular...tenses was ignored till high school and I already had it ingrained in my speech.
I was 17. Bought it the day it released. Back then it was really hard to get your hands on games this early. It was also the game that helped me immensly with my english grades, because it was not available localized on release and therefore I had to play it in english.
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
Oh my god.... I know what I am doing this weekend
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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
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!
May you live forever
I have no idea how I was recommended to your channel but I am sure glad that I was.
I am really looking forward to installing this and giving ait a go.
So good, loved this as well as xwing vs tie fighter. Aces over europe was also amazing.
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
X-Wing was almost exactly like Tie Fighter except that you couldn't match speed to an enemy target and it came out 1 year earlier. But totally agree with TF being the best. Also the soundtrack for these 2 games was superb, to this day I consider their soundtracks to be the only canon Star Wars original soundtracks that weren't made by John Williams
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.
VR support? Count me in! If only i yhad a flight yoke to closer represent the TIE control interface.
I loved that game, the way the Rebel space craft broke apart when destroyed was amazing, and I liked the missions where you had to disable a craft in order for another craft to capture and tow it away
those were the worst! Identify rebel transport carrying weapons...found them and I fired ion cannons to disable and they instantly hit light speed. I literally cheated and still lost lol
Are we Navy officers or are we police officers doing a pat down? Im pretty sure this mission is well below the rank you get twards the end. That tattoo you get is so cool
@@ravinraven6913 ha ha. Yes I think you had to hit them with normal weapons to get the shields down before the ion cannons, or something like that.
It was also annoying when fighters on your own side destroyed the disable craft.
The worst missions involved having to destroy an A wing!
I’m so glad I found this. Loved it back in the day. Thanks for the review and thanks for the remaster
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!
Oh my god, that is so cool. I grew up playing all tie fighter missions including the expansion set. I loved that so much. The tie defender was awesome.
Just looking at the gameplay I already felt home. It looks all familiar and I remember pretty much everything from back then.
This is awesome! I absolutely played the heck out this game since I always preferred the Empire over the rebels. The timing of the missions was absolute perfection.
Despite still having the original 3.5" floppies I decided to buy it on Steam but it was just unplayable on my modern gaming rig. So happy to ressurect an old friend. :)
Thanks for the heads up.
Subbed!
The old Victory Class Star Destroyer looks so sick with the open wings.
I agree, but my version of sick is bad...I loved the look of the star destroyer, now I know they open....I feel it looks very stupid. what does it even do? I can't find any info on it which usually means its completely Aesthetic.
@ravinraven6913 X-Wings are glorified 'space-airplanes' (without thrusters)... literally everything is aesthetic form over function. _Star_ _Wars_ is more Space Fantasy than "Sci Fi."
@@ravinraven6913 while closed they're "winglets" for additional stability/maneuverability in atmosphere. They open to expose batteries of missile launchers within, IIRC.
this is amazing. i loved TIE Fighters as a kid. it is still one of my favorite games of all time
Wow!! I forgot all about this thing, you showed those original clips and it all came back to me,,,, this looks amazing
The ships look great, the sound is spot on, recognisable ships and characters that immerse you into the whole story - plus the nostalgia from playing this and X-Wing v TIE Fighter
Woah this looks AMAZING! I played this back in the day and absolutely loved it.
Vice Adm Thrawn! and VSD Stalwart! oh man, the memories ..
I had no idea they had mods for this game! Holy crap, this game is one of my favorite sci-fi space flight simulators of all time, this looks so freaking epic!
Very Awesome, I have to admit I've been dreaming of this for quite awhile.
Whow, I thought the Crossfire TC for Freelancer was impressive, but this is such a massive improvement over TIE fighter that it's just unreal! kudos to the team!
More than playing the bad guys, this game made sense. No secretly good guys or any of that. You are maintaining peace. From your perspective you are the good guys. I also am partial to the original tie fighter so I always play that whenever I have the option... Despite being at a disadvantage.
My brother and used to play this together when we were young. He would fly and i was the Astro Droid giving him targeting, refreshing his shields, repair damage and moving power from subsystem to subsystem based on need
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 :)
Tie Fighter and Freespace have always been my top favorite startfighter games. I'll have to check out this mod.
Great video.
I played the original SW games.
This is truly phenomenal. Superb work, modding teams.
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.
Compared to now, we didn’t know we had it so good. Heir to the Empire, X-Wing, Tie-Fighter, Dark Forces….
more like the golden age. Thrawn trilogy easily beats prequels and sequels. X-wing book series beats them, too. What could have been...
more like a golden age, a revival of sorts took place with the EU novels, the video games, comics etc. culminating in the theatrical re-release with the special edition.
Still blows my mind that those books actually spawned some toys, back then.
I'm pretty sure NOW is the Dark Age of Star Wars.
I played all of these games for hundreds of hours. I remember in X-Wing finally completing the Trench Run with a Y-Wing and feeling great accomplishment.
I tested this game back in the day when Angel was reimagining this. It was really fun and the graphics were top notch. The cockpits were so cool as well. Made you feel like you were in the movie. Fun fact. One of your TIE wingmen voice overs is from a TH-camr known as Get Off My Lawn. He plays and reacts to old doss games.
I am so glad that I stumbled onto this. X-Wing and Tie Figher games from back in the day were my favorite also. I recently tried to play it about a year ago not knowing about this mod and just couldn't do it. Not supporting HOTAS and the graphics being so extremely low resolution. I didn't recall the graphics being as bad as they are. I am so excited to get this mod working and test it out.
Thanks for reminding me of this!
I'll install it again and give it another try this week.^^
TFTC is absolutely outstanding. A must-play if folks haven't already tried it out.
I am drooling over the screen, I love every bit of it.
This is so awesome! I played the heck out of the original Tie Fighter as a kid.
So much better than current games, pace is a bit slower and this is superb.
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. 🔥👾
XvT on Kali was my JAM!
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. ;-)
me too, and remember when you had to turn off textures because of only 1 or 2mb of video RAM?
They don't know they are born these days, not having to select your soundcard or kepston joystick options!
Lol same. Minus the joystick. I got It from a friend on school on a bunch of 3.5 inch floppy disk. I really loved the game.
Ironically, I've never played TIE fighter but I broke at least 3 joysticks while playing X-Wing: Alliance.
Just wow. I've been waiting so long for something this good...
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.
This made me remember that I used to like Star Wars...
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.
Tie Fighter made me one of those SW fans that think the Emperor was a bad guy, but a lot of people in the Empire were truly working towards building a better society without resorting to the terrorism of the Rebellion. When one of the first missions has you preventing the Rebels from murdering people on a space station, it really blurs the good guy/bad guy line in SW.
And the open ends of some of the missions that would unlock new aspects of the story really made the game something so much better than the previous X Wing game (which was also great).
Good writing made it easily one of my favorite games and to see it get a new look for a new generation is really something special.
I have had this game in my Steam library for YEARS. Got it as a bungle some time ago so I could pick up Jedi Outcast 2 / Academy. Always wanted to give it a shot but just kept finding other things to do. Well. I'm downloading this TC mod and giving it the look it deserves now!
amazing work on one of the most groundbreaking games ever!
Damn this is cool! I remember spending hours in X-Wing vs Tie Fighter as a kid.
As usual, this was not mentioned in the video, but X-Wing Alliance is available on GOG. A far superior source than Steam. 👍
incredible. I have it in my steam library, bought it with nostalgia, never replayed it.
I guess it's time !
I am sooooo getting this! Thank you.
One of my all time favorite games. Old Star Wars games were AMAZING!
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
Still the best Empire game. Loved this growing up. Xwing vs Tiefighter was good as well but this was the best
"For the greater glory of the Empire destroy everything!"
I was a xwing vs tie fighter avid player and this bring me to its atmosphere. Looking foward to play this one
When I heard XWA had FFB about 3 weeks ago, I decided I had to grab it and see how it works with my VPForce Rhino. Short answer is, wow! It works, but it was definitely not designed for something with the strength of the Rhino... (and definitely make sure you've got your hand on the stick before jumping to hyperspace!) About 1/3 of the way through XWA Upgrade, but now you've reminded me, I need to jump into TFTC after I finish!
Star Wars doesn't deserve such dedicated, talented fans.
TIE Fighter definitely does.
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.
This was amazing!
Wow! This looks even better than the last time I tried out the TC mod! I'll need to check out what is new!
I can only wish for more conversion mods for more 90's pc games.... What a thought...the possibilities...
This is lit.
I loved this game! This is giving me chills
I did not think much about this until you showed the OG, Holy Crap this is awesome.
Tie Fighter ... by far my favorite Star Wars game. Who knows, maybe it was what taught me to not see things in black and white. Being kind of the space police against pirates and those pesky rebels that want the galaxy to fall into chaos. Had a great time.
Install X4 with DLC, download the Star Wars Interworlds mod. This is the best Star Wars experience there is IMO.
X-Wing Alliance is also a fucking great game.
This is actually a heavily modded version of X-Wing Alliance (remaking Tie Fighter as a mod using that game as a base).
wow! this is amazing!
Gonna check this out, I love total conversion mods.
My friends and I bought this when sound cards were new! I got a Sound Blaster 16 for my birthday and CD drive. Tie Fighter sounded awesome. I wasn’t very good (I played on the easiest settings) but I still loved it. I also remember a big part of PC gaming at the time was constantly tinkering with the config.sys & autoexec.bat to configure the sound card and memory settings for DOS: it almost seemed like part of the game!
if i remember right this was built on top of the X-wing Alliance mod, which is also well worth playing
only by seeing this video, and the game interfacce, I'm pretty sure this is an XWA mod
OMG!! absolutely awesome!
Know what I remember? "Message from mission critical craft: They've been destroyed." Aaaugh! 😂
Thanks for this video.
trying to shoot tiny black ships in the dark of space is the very definition of hell
I´m in my 50s now and I loved to play in my 20s for hours!!!
I bought my first PC specifically to play X-Wing in 1994. I loved this series of games.
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
Retcon the Assault Gunboat, and TIE Avenger back into canon
the dual radar system and the pursuit speed tracking were top notch