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And in other new LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars Nintendo 3DS has been released!

Hi, I'm a spokesperson for 'Team Epic,' A Jedi Knight: Dark Forces editing group. You can check us out over at http://www.jedinights.com/e21tc. Here?s a preview of some of our mods.

Epic: Episode I Total Conversion-

Yep, a total conversion. You know you've heard this name in the past, and heard it fail in the past as well. We plan to get over that obstacle. This mod will contain the entire story of Episode 1 from the council room, all of the way to the parade. We've got a brand new saber system nearly finished, and we also plan on allowing the player to pilot the Naboo Starfighter, the Gungan Submarine, and Anikin?s Podracer.

Epic: Podracing Multiplayer & Single Player Partial Conversion-

A much smaller mod, as we're including the choice of over 13 podracers with specific strengths and weaknesses for each racer. We also plan on support for multiplayer bots, and SP bots. The physics of the podracing is correctly tuned to fit the show.

Epic: Starbattles Partial Conversion-

Once again, a smaller mod. This time, you play through all of the multiple starbattles featured in the movies. All of the way from the Naboo battle up to the last battle. We?ve got it all.

Now, I know that that seems like a lot, but each one plays off of each other. Both of the PC's cogging is embedded in the TC's. We'd love your support, and any assistance we can gain from you.

I'd also like to point out a few very special people. Snookey, for developing the wonderful website, Blokemon for being the only texture artist we could get our hands on, and finally Decent Pilot for being such an amazing cogger.

Also, you guys should stop off at our mIRC channel at the server irc.holonet.org #Epic_Mods

-JediKirby

MP CODE
Since we started the mod, we have continued the Saga side of the project mainly, it then came apparent that we should really also include some mod for the MP game itself. It was at this time that I was given a unique chance.
Many of you will be used to using ProMOD and have enjoyed using it. Well, you will be sorry to hear that Artifax has stopped developing the mod and has released his final version 3.1 to the public.
It was at this time that Artifax offered the source code to myself to develop and expand into AOTC:TC, and so with this, ProMOD will be part of the MP code that will be used in the TC.
We will support the mod as much as we can and [the] updated version and the current version will be available from our site and the support will be found on the forums.

The Site AOTC:TC
After bouncing between servers for the last couple of months, and losing a lot of fan base because [of so], we have now got a great deal on the server and are able to do what ever we want with, it pretty much.
I'm sorry that you have all been messed about and that we haven't been able to keep you updated, but now it's our home for the distant future and there will be no downtime or anything else like that ever again.

Files and Maps
My friends at the TC having been working thier socks off trying to get maps finished off and completed, with the server move abouts its been difficult to get everyone back and find everyone again, hopefuly everyone will re-find us and we will be releasing the Betas of the maps sooner rather than later.

Staff Positions
Yep, with the move, we have also found out that we have lost a few members of staff - they have left due to workloads at school/college/uni - but we will now have the chance to recruit more staff into the TC. The more staff we get, the quicker we will get it all done. You can find out more by going to the site and reading the news as [well as] the links; [they] are there about the staff positions.

I hope that this will bring most of you back and asking us about development etc. It would be great to see some of the familiar faces back on the forums.

In chat yesterday evening, Pommy suggested that Level of the Week be voted on by you, the visitors of the site. So now, on each level information page, you will find a link that allows you to vote for level of the week. You are allowed to vote once per week. Levels can only be level of the week once. Thus, the site now keeps track of which levels are level of the week (it starts now, so any previous levels of the week are still valid). Once a few levels have been featured in this new system, we will have a level of the week archive page. Get your votes in now, they will be tallied every weekend starting Saturday!

By the way: no, I don't work here. No, I'm not coming back. I was bored and I thought it was a good suggestion, so I asked blujay if he'd be interested.

Update: You must be registered in the level commenting/rating system (or the EC - it's the same user database) to vote.

LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC is pleased to announce that Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast has Gone Gold and is approved for manufacturing. Expect it at fine retailers everywhere March 29!

There are plenty of times when JK II resembles Tomb Raider in terms of frustrating timed-jumping sequences, and I would happily see a number of the 'match the symbols' tasks dispensed with too. It's obviously a technique used to extend the lifespan of the game, but I really don't believe them necessary; a criticism that could also be directed at the couple of brief Starfighter-style arcade sequences and the downright lazy pair of crate-filled levels and pitch black, tortuous mazes.

[Question]
Baleine: Seeing how some elaborate swordplay-oriented mods were released for JK1, and probably knowing a lot of people are anticipating a responsive and natural feeling attack/parry/etc system, can you safely say you took that into account and do you believe you will please the fans who will almost exclusively be playing with the lightsaber only and who are probably expecting much (MUCH!) out of the lightsaber fighting system?

[Answers]
Kevin S: Our aim with saberfighting was to make it a big part of the game. We wanted the controls to be simple but the effects and results to be very cool. That's what we got!

Graham F: That saber one is a tough question to answer quickly. You have a large number of saber moves at your disposal, but MIke Gummelt, our lead gameplay programmer has done a fantatic job at making sure that the saber combat is fun, easy, and manageable, while at the same time being extremely cool.

Kenn H: There are multiple styles and moves and acrobatics that can be performed with the saber, but it's a very intuitive system to use. You guys will love it...