@@Cos-mos0call speaking softly buddy, you don't want his voice to be deep asf in a video where he's teaching if you can comprehend, learn to property spell before an insult pal.
Just getting back into this game after over a decade and only now have I learned about saber collisions not being random 😂 That being said the only multiplayer experience I have is playing splitscreen as a kid. Thanks for uploading this
Figuring out this was probably my only advantage I realize looking back, I used to play dual sabers and I used to bait people then parry to dmg/kill This is such a great game, I recently played through the single player again, considering picking up the MP again too
Despite having only played Moviebattles II, I still found this video & your others highly entertaining and informative. These are damned good tutorials, man. Whenever I see gameplay of base multiplayer I never know what the heck is going on, but this definitely sheds some light on it.
Haha thanks man. The base game is still alive and kicking, you could always drop in and check it out sometime. Currently it's fairly active due to an ongoing 3v3 tournament. Once that concludes it will likely slow down for a bit again, that's kind of the cycle.
@@vladums I spent my whole childhood and half teenage years playing JKA, I remember playing the base game multiplayer, Movie Battles 2, KotF, ForceMod3 and RPG servers based on LugorMod damn these were my prime gaming years in terms of how much fun I had, I think I spent like 8 years playing this game, I believe i was in top players in 1v1 duels tho I never heard the names and methods you mention in the video tho, I remember the best and obviously abused method was using red style and swinging it from side to side while making tiny moves with your mouse very quickly in order to multiply the damage. glad to hear the game is still alive and it's fucking sad we never got another sequel and instead we got shitty games like Force Unleashed or Fallen Order ;_;
@@Boldo921 yeah it would seem we'll never get a proper sequel for it. Though, even if we did it would likely not be very good as is the way of modern gaming now lol. JKA has a very long history of competition, and I wasn't around in the old days, but if you played on the official ladders at all back then you'd be familiar with some of the people who still play the game today. Some people are insanely good at it now, after so many years competing.
I had several thousand hours of gameplay in jka and always wondered how these guys who block nearly everything do it. I am going through all videos you uploaded. Easily the best videos and takes on jka I saw all time. Thank you for putting these together. You rock
Hey thanks man, I appreciate it. There's so many more videos that could be made for the game. Maybe one day I'll get around to doing a few more, I just haven't had too big an interest in JKA for awhile now. But there's nothing quite like this game out there. So it always pulls me back in eventually, lol
Very helpful video. I was trying to teach my son to play and your video was the best tool thanks a ton. Reminds me of back in the day having landline battles with my friends back in high-school. I used a joystick and it made lightsaber battles too easy but so much fun. Never had mote fun playing against other people on any other game. Ever. Best lightsaber dueling game ever created. They need to make everything based off this games mechanics.
Thank you very much. I have seen many videos explaining how combat works, but I have never seen one that teaches how to block or parry. I don't play online, so I never knew those mechanics. I just thought they "randomly" moved when attacking, and that's all. Even in the manual, it's like: "students can block and parry and bla bla" "Yeah but how" "idk"
No problem man. JKA's combat has all sorts of little nuances to it that people have learned over the years, eventually I'll have videos up explaining as much of it as I can.
It would be pretty sick. There is a command, if you're on PC. Open the console and put in /r_picmip 10 I think it was 10, anyway. It kinda makes the game look almost cartoony. Not perfect but its kinda fun to play on anyway.
I have beaten this game dozens of times but I feel like a total scrub now. It explains at least some of the insane feats I have seen from speedrunners.
oh, that's the TFFA version of it. Umm I can't remember off the top of my head what the console command would be.. /model cw_fisto/red maybe? and /blue for blue ofc. Basically if you can find out what the model name is, just add a /red or /blue to the end and it should work.
Could you make a video about how do you(or just the game) knows who's gonna get through opponent's block, *stun* him and possibly deal damage? Me and my friend were just attacking the same way at the same block position and sometimes defender gets stunned and sometimes he doesn't, idk maybe there is some hidden stamina parameter or something : D
Swing power is determined by stance, timing, and speed, so you can help your odds by controlling those. Timing: Swing power ramps up throughout the beginning of the animation and back down throughout the end of the animation, so the strongest part is right in the middle of the swing. On a D swing this is typically right when it crosses in front of you. If your opponent is early/late in their swing animation and you're at the sweetspot of yours, you would likely have an advantage over them Speed: Strafing into your swing with your mouse & keys (i.e. strafing to the right on a D swing while turning your mouse right) gives you higher velocity and can also increase your swing's collision power compared to a slower moving opponent Generally though, you can never expect 100% consistency with collisions due to ping and certain code nuances. If you play at max range and hit with just the tip of your swing, you can react and dodge if you lose the parry battle
Does this work differently in Single Player? I've been trying to apply these to Single Player and have not been getting consistent results. Maybe I'm just that bad, lol.
@@CramerGamer99 as far as I know both the movement and saber mechanics are completely different in single player. None of my videos will apply at all to the SP side of the game
@@vladums I see, well that would definitely explain why absolutely none of the many guides for Jedi Academy lightsaber mechanics I find online seem to reflect or help me in my single player gameplay! Thanks for letting me know, I wish I knew this sooner.
@@CramerGamer99 yeah that sucks haha, sorry cant be of much help there, I've only ever played the SP once way back in like 2004 when I was like 14 years old xd
Yeah JKA is a game that takes most people months or years to truly "get good" at. And even then you'll still have a really hard time vs veteran players lol. But if you do get to that point, theres nothing else quite like it. JKA truly is a one of a kind game
Staff / duals / single are all viable if you put in the time. Single is the most popular by far these days I'd say, followed by staff. Not many people really "main" dualies anymore, but a number of people are capable of using them. It's one of the things I always liked about JKA though, you can use any saber you want to a high level. Just gotta put the time into them.
How do I download mb2 and how can I drill with you guys? So far I’ve only played the JKA campaign and played the KR server but those guys are kind of Cultish…
This is just the base game multiplayer, no mods. Also we dont really run drills or practice ever. Theres a public base server called base lounge, but activity these days is hit or miss. I dont really get on the game very often for quite awhile now myself
I do. This is playing on the eternal JKA client via steam. 80 tpr and 90 fov, 100 packets. I play on 250 fps most of the time, just cuz I have a 1440p 240hz monitor. My sensitivity I change basically whenever I'm bored, but lately I've been using 3000 dpi 12 sens, default yaw/pitch. I don't use any scripts as I consider that to be cheating, personally. Lemme know if there's something else you wanted to know about config wise, those are the big ones though, I guess xd
oh lmao, i haven't logged into my account in awhile. if you mean the sort of cartoonish look, that's not a mod. just type r_picmip 10 into the ingame console. you'll also need to do a vid_restart after to have it take effect
tbh you'd be better off asking some of the guys from console about that, I can't really say, since I've never played that myself. I've heard that some of the PS4 guys learned a lot from these videos, but I can't say whether or not it all works on there, sorry.
I use a couple of HD mods to make the game look a bit better. jkhub.org/files/file/825-bgmod-better-graphics-for-jka/ and jkhub.org/files/file/1839-episode-3-blades/ in case you wanted to try them out yourself. And I also have all the graphics settings up high, with dynamic glow turned on
it's in the clone wars cartoon pack, here jkhub.org/files/file/504-clone-wars-cartoon-player-models-pack/ this also comes with a cartoon saber reskin, I personally don't use that. it's a separate pk3 file though, so you can just delete that one if you don't want it :)
There is.. unfortunately the community has long been attacked by a small group of DDOSers. This has required us to take a few precautions, I don't have the ability to invite people to the discord server, and we keep the IP addresses to the in game servers hidden and private now. But you can add me on discord, and I can see about getting you an invite link to the server if you want: vlad!#7824
What is mouse one on controller? I play on console so your button expressions mean nothing. I have to just assume it's the attack button why can't you say attack? Or force power. Jump. See I didn't even need to say a button which makes it universal
@@TheAsmodianleader it's part of the clone wars cartoon pack, can find it on jkhub if you know that site. As for servers, if you dont have the eternal jka client I think you probably need that now to even see servers. Just Google eternal jka github and you'll find it. That said I'm not sure how active the game is atm, I havent played in awhile
@@vladums Looks to me like you would wreck it in no time, even on the highest difficulty. I have figured out how to outsmart (more or less lol) the AI but this is on a completely different level. And since this is only the basics, it means that I have a very shallow understanding of the game mechanics, despite beating the game dozens of times over the years. I always found saber duels so random but this explains why multiplayer is so popular, even in a 20-year-old game. It feels really weird, having spent 20 years with a game, only to realize it is way deeper in it's design than you could ever have imagined.
@@Sandlund93 haha yeah there's a surprising amount of depth to the combat in multiplayer, it's pretty crazy. And there are people who are WAY better at it than I am. I've played off and on since around 2018, but there's people who have played fairly consistently for the last like 10 years or more. Tournaments still go on semi-regularly as well, which are always cool to see.
Lol no it doesnt theres 60 active players in that game and half of thm are aimbotting healthsmth cheating walling or pblock scripting shit experiance and half the cheats are made from the devs themselves
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Bro your voice is more like that your almost cry
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@@vladums anyways sorry if it insults you
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@@Cos-mos0call speaking softly buddy, you don't want his voice to be deep asf in a video where he's teaching if you can comprehend, learn to property spell before an insult pal.
@@poes-masquerade *property*
Just getting back into this game after over a decade and only now have I learned about saber collisions not being random 😂
That being said the only multiplayer experience I have is playing splitscreen as a kid. Thanks for uploading this
Figuring out this was probably my only advantage I realize looking back, I used to play dual sabers and I used to bait people then parry to dmg/kill
This is such a great game, I recently played through the single player again, considering picking up the MP again too
This is why we love this game
unfortunately most of the techniques don't carry on to other games because rarely any of them has depths such as these
Despite having only played Moviebattles II, I still found this video & your others highly entertaining and informative. These are damned good tutorials, man. Whenever I see gameplay of base multiplayer I never know what the heck is going on, but this definitely sheds some light on it.
Haha thanks man. The base game is still alive and kicking, you could always drop in and check it out sometime. Currently it's fairly active due to an ongoing 3v3 tournament. Once that concludes it will likely slow down for a bit again, that's kind of the cycle.
@@vladums I spent my whole childhood and half teenage years playing JKA, I remember playing the base game multiplayer, Movie Battles 2, KotF, ForceMod3 and RPG servers based on LugorMod damn these were my prime gaming years in terms of how much fun I had, I think I spent like 8 years playing this game, I believe i was in top players in 1v1 duels tho I never heard the names and methods you mention in the video tho, I remember the best and obviously abused method was using red style and swinging it from side to side while making tiny moves with your mouse very quickly in order to multiply the damage. glad to hear the game is still alive and it's fucking sad we never got another sequel and instead we got shitty games like Force Unleashed or Fallen Order ;_;
@@Boldo921 yeah it would seem we'll never get a proper sequel for it. Though, even if we did it would likely not be very good as is the way of modern gaming now lol.
JKA has a very long history of competition, and I wasn't around in the old days, but if you played on the official ladders at all back then you'd be familiar with some of the people who still play the game today. Some people are insanely good at it now, after so many years competing.
I had several thousand hours of gameplay in jka and always wondered how these guys who block nearly everything do it.
I am going through all videos you uploaded. Easily the best videos and takes on jka I saw all time. Thank you for putting these together. You rock
Hey thanks man, I appreciate it. There's so many more videos that could be made for the game. Maybe one day I'll get around to doing a few more, I just haven't had too big an interest in JKA for awhile now.
But there's nothing quite like this game out there. So it always pulls me back in eventually, lol
@@vladums same. I keep reinstalling it after a while. Nothing like 1 on 1 saber duels or tffa. Anyway, thanks again and have a great week!
Very helpful video. I was trying to teach my son to play and your video was the best tool thanks a ton. Reminds me of back in the day having landline battles with my friends back in high-school. I used a joystick and it made lightsaber battles too easy but so much fun. Never had mote fun playing against other people on any other game. Ever. Best lightsaber dueling game ever created. They need to make everything based off this games mechanics.
Man that Parry combo is nice at 1:47
haha thanks man
You are very good teacher. I am a member of JoF. I recently started playing again and your videos are very informative
Thanks man! And welcome back to the game.
Ayy i just became an adept with JoF!
Very interesting videos. As a FFer since 05 I’ve recently switched to single from staff and plan on trying stuff out from these videos
Nice man good luck, hope the videos help a bit!
old timer on this game and still learnt some stuff, thanks ! Really good tutorial
Thank you very much. I have seen many videos explaining how combat works, but I have never seen one that teaches how to block or parry. I don't play online, so I never knew those mechanics. I just thought they "randomly" moved when attacking, and that's all.
Even in the manual, it's like:
"students can block and parry and bla bla"
"Yeah but how"
"idk"
No problem man. JKA's combat has all sorts of little nuances to it that people have learned over the years, eventually I'll have videos up explaining as much of it as I can.
maaan if this game had a mod that turned its entire graphs into that of your kit fisto character, it would be awesome.
It would be pretty sick. There is a command, if you're on PC. Open the console and put in
/r_picmip 10
I think it was 10, anyway. It kinda makes the game look almost cartoony. Not perfect but its kinda fun to play on anyway.
Just got into JA, this helped a ton! thanks
Yo vlad, Supra here. Awesome to see you’re doing some tuts. I could def use a brush up and learn some new things.
nice tutorial!
I made it in the video!! -> splat
Holy shit I new blocks weren't random. Thank you! Only love for jka
Nice video. Great dragon fear! Im coming for you D:
I have Jedi academy on console and its a nightmare but this looks amazing lol
I have beaten this game dozens of times but I feel like a total scrub now. It explains at least some of the insane feats I have seen from speedrunners.
Hey! How did you get the Kit Fisto with different colored shorts (such as Red and Blue). I only have the base model with brown shorts.
oh, that's the TFFA version of it. Umm I can't remember off the top of my head what the console command would be.. /model cw_fisto/red maybe? and /blue for blue ofc. Basically if you can find out what the model name is, just add a /red or /blue to the end and it should work.
please tell which mod this is.the textures of the maps and characters are smooth and cartoonish please the names of the mods/skins
I always come back to JKA and play on the knights reborn server if i remembered the community name correctly
Could you make a video about how do you(or just the game) knows who's gonna get through opponent's block, *stun* him and possibly deal damage? Me and my friend were just attacking the same way at the same block position and sometimes defender gets stunned and sometimes he doesn't, idk maybe there is some hidden stamina parameter or something : D
interesting
Swing power is determined by stance, timing, and speed, so you can help your odds by controlling those.
Timing: Swing power ramps up throughout the beginning of the animation and back down throughout the end of the animation, so the strongest part is right in the middle of the swing. On a D swing this is typically right when it crosses in front of you. If your opponent is early/late in their swing animation and you're at the sweetspot of yours, you would likely have an advantage over them
Speed: Strafing into your swing with your mouse & keys (i.e. strafing to the right on a D swing while turning your mouse right) gives you higher velocity and can also increase your swing's collision power compared to a slower moving opponent
Generally though, you can never expect 100% consistency with collisions due to ping and certain code nuances. If you play at max range and hit with just the tip of your swing, you can react and dodge if you lose the parry battle
@@sloom-- and a little bir RNG
Does this work differently in Single Player? I've been trying to apply these to Single Player and have not been getting consistent results. Maybe I'm just that bad, lol.
@@CramerGamer99 as far as I know both the movement and saber mechanics are completely different in single player. None of my videos will apply at all to the SP side of the game
@@vladums I see, well that would definitely explain why absolutely none of the many guides for Jedi Academy lightsaber mechanics I find online seem to reflect or help me in my single player gameplay!
Thanks for letting me know, I wish I knew this sooner.
@@CramerGamer99 yeah that sucks haha, sorry cant be of much help there, I've only ever played the SP once way back in like 2004 when I was like 14 years old xd
This is so damn hard...i like star wars but this is pain.
Yeah JKA is a game that takes most people months or years to truly "get good" at. And even then you'll still have a really hard time vs veteran players lol. But if you do get to that point, theres nothing else quite like it. JKA truly is a one of a kind game
Is the red style saber the only truly viable weapon in multi? Or can compete with duals as well ?
Staff / duals / single are all viable if you put in the time. Single is the most popular by far these days I'd say, followed by staff. Not many people really "main" dualies anymore, but a number of people are capable of using them. It's one of the things I always liked about JKA though, you can use any saber you want to a high level. Just gotta put the time into them.
this is vanilla combat no? this game is fking amazing
Yeah just the vanilla multiplayer, no mods
@@vladums man combant looks to fking deep, no wonder with siths on singleplayer fk me over so hard xd
Now, are most of your videos displayed on JA+/Pro server settings or respectable and honorable base server settings??
Base my good Deezy
@@vladums goodshit, by the way its YoungMutt 💯
@@YungPapiiChulo-_- Oh I know, I could sense your power
@@vladums easy money 😎💯
How do I download mb2 and how can I drill with you guys? So far I’ve only played the JKA campaign and played the KR server but those guys are kind of Cultish…
This is just the base game multiplayer, no mods. Also we dont really run drills or practice ever. Theres a public base server called base lounge, but activity these days is hit or miss. I dont really get on the game very often for quite awhile now myself
hi, do you play via Steam? I am wondering what your config is
I do. This is playing on the eternal JKA client via steam. 80 tpr and 90 fov, 100 packets. I play on 250 fps most of the time, just cuz I have a 1440p 240hz monitor. My sensitivity I change basically whenever I'm bored, but lately I've been using 3000 dpi 12 sens, default yaw/pitch. I don't use any scripts as I consider that to be cheating, personally. Lemme know if there's something else you wanted to know about config wise, those are the big ones though, I guess xd
Why tf don t medieval directional games take this as template for combat system?
literally try-harding on finding this texture mod and this vlad wont tell me...
oh lmao, i haven't logged into my account in awhile. if you mean the sort of cartoonish look, that's not a mod. just type r_picmip 10 into the ingame console. you'll also need to do a vid_restart after to have it take effect
Amazing! Does this work on ASPYR servers though? I’m on console, and wanted to know
tbh you'd be better off asking some of the guys from console about that, I can't really say, since I've never played that myself. I've heard that some of the PS4 guys learned a lot from these videos, but I can't say whether or not it all works on there, sorry.
@@vladums ps guy here and it’s all seemingly applicable as long as you can translate controls from PC to Ps4/5
Why Jedi academy look so remastered ??
I use a couple of HD mods to make the game look a bit better.
jkhub.org/files/file/825-bgmod-better-graphics-for-jka/
and
jkhub.org/files/file/1839-episode-3-blades/
in case you wanted to try them out yourself. And I also have all the graphics settings up high, with dynamic glow turned on
Thanks bro I’m definitely trying them out 🥹
man what is that model, cant find it
it's in the clone wars cartoon pack, here
jkhub.org/files/file/504-clone-wars-cartoon-player-models-pack/
this also comes with a cartoon saber reskin, I personally don't use that. it's a separate pk3 file though, so you can just delete that one if you don't want it :)
do you have a discord server for this game?
There is.. unfortunately the community has long been attacked by a small group of DDOSers. This has required us to take a few precautions, I don't have the ability to invite people to the discord server, and we keep the IP addresses to the in game servers hidden and private now. But you can add me on discord, and I can see about getting you an invite link to the server if you want: vlad!#7824
Does this work on console?!
honestly I can't stay, I've never played JKA on console. :(
What is mouse one on controller? I play on console so your button expressions mean nothing. I have to just assume it's the attack button why can't you say attack? Or force power. Jump. See I didn't even need to say a button which makes it universal
which game is this?!? i dont remember jedi academy looking so smooth and modern, can someone tell me where to get it from?
wats dat skin ? where can i find people ons ervers to play?
@@TheAsmodianleader it's part of the clone wars cartoon pack, can find it on jkhub if you know that site. As for servers, if you dont have the eternal jka client I think you probably need that now to even see servers. Just Google eternal jka github and you'll find it. That said I'm not sure how active the game is atm, I havent played in awhile
Does this work in the singleplayer as well?
I honestly couldn't say, I haven't touched the SP side of the game.
@@vladums Ah no worries then
@@vladums Looks to me like you would wreck it in no time, even on the highest difficulty. I have figured out how to outsmart (more or less lol) the AI but this is on a completely different level. And since this is only the basics, it means that I have a very shallow understanding of the game mechanics, despite beating the game dozens of times over the years. I always found saber duels so random but this explains why multiplayer is so popular, even in a 20-year-old game. It feels really weird, having spent 20 years with a game, only to realize it is way deeper in it's design than you could ever have imagined.
@@Sandlund93 haha yeah there's a surprising amount of depth to the combat in multiplayer, it's pretty crazy. And there are people who are WAY better at it than I am. I've played off and on since around 2018, but there's people who have played fairly consistently for the last like 10 years or more. Tournaments still go on semi-regularly as well, which are always cool to see.
dude whats the fistu skin called?
I play on console. These techniques are a lot harder with a controller lol
are youy from Ro ?
@@TheAsmodianleader I'm from Canada, family is part Russian
Is this jedi academy vanilla or movie duels?
Basejka
you forgot startswing blocks and red vs red interrupts, but otherwise nice video!
Hey was that my boi captain bongrip u killed that's one of the guys who taught me
It is the legendary ripper of bongs. He plays with us a lot on PC
TRAITOR!!!
Look mom I'm on TV
Play movie battles 2. Actually requires skill
damn, my eyes have been opened
Lol no it doesnt theres 60 active players in that game and half of thm are aimbotting healthsmth cheating walling or pblock scripting shit experiance and half the cheats are made from the devs themselves
also half the clans are pedo rings
@@maikatiemuj2706 the base game, without cheats, requires skill
@@austinbyrd4164 yeah but when half the lobby is cheating the skill requirments are nullified