r/jediknight • • Feb 22 '25

META Getting Started With Jedi Academy

39 Upvotes

LAST UPDATED: Feb 2025

This is going to be the new pinned post here on r/jediknight since the old one was made by a moderator that deleted their account, making it unchangeable. Since it was pretty outdated, I'm going to instead link to the JKHub page that lists nearly all of the relevant links the old post did, plus new ones and an entire guide written out and a video explaining the basics on the state of the game right now.

Please comment here if I'm missing something you feel is important that should be linked and/or explained on that page.

Getting Started with Jedi Academy [Written guide]

Playing Jedi Academy in 2025 [Video]


r/jediknight • • 1d ago

PC Anyone playing the dark forces 2 remaster mod know how to change mouse sensitivity?

3 Upvotes

My mouse is all wacked out. It's super sensitive in horizontal movements but hardly moving in vertical. Is there a configuration setting to mod in a file somewhere?


r/jediknight • • 3d ago

PC Web-based JKDF2 and MotS

10 Upvotes

So last Friday was the 29th Birthday of Jedi Knight and JK member Tristamus started working on a Web-based version of JKDF2 that you can play through your browser. It does require game files to launch.

Give it a try and let us know if you run into any bugs. MotS is still being worked on somewhat we did run into some issues with it but JK is nearly complete

https://jkdf2mp.jkdf2mp-lobby.workers.dev/


r/jediknight • • 3d ago

PC Poor Yun :-(

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r/jediknight • • 4d ago

GENERIC Does anyone have models of these vehicles, from Jedi Knight 2; Jedi Outcast

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I took some screenshots of the vehicles from the Nar Shaddaa levels... but I couldn't really get good, crisp screenshots of them.

I've seen them in game, but they're always quite fast in motion...

The one I got the best screenshots of is the 'Pod car 1', I'm calling 'tall' pod car.

With the twin pod-car from the top right sketch... It looks yellow in-game, but it could also be blue. It's tricky to determine colors because the colors change when under different lights...

I've seen it moving backwards *and forwards in game... which is confusing. It looks like there's a gun on the back end of it... so does that mean either side can be the front of the vehicle?

Does anyone have better, high quality photos of the models corresponding to these sketches?

Concept art is by Jeffrey Moy.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/w6GRm6


r/jediknight • • 4d ago

PC Something I've been playing around with for a while

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66 Upvotes

modifying openjkdf2 to change engine behavior: locational damage/collision detection + ragdolls + some graphical effects too & more


r/jediknight • • 6d ago

PC 30th Anniversary JK Level Contest

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85 Upvotes

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🏆 ANNOUNCING: The Jedi Knight 30th Anniversary Level Creation Contest! 🏆

To mark 30 incredible years of Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, we’re throwing a year-long level building contest for the entire multiplayer community!

🗓️ Deadline: October 9th, 2027 (Jedi Knight's 30th Birthday!)

💵 Starting Prize Pool: $300 (Seeded personally!)

Whether you're a veteran level designer or picking up the editor for the first time, you have 1 full year to build something awesome.

📋 Quick Rules Overview:

• Game: Jedi Knight or Mysteries of the Sith

• Vanilla Compatibility: Maps MUST work on original/vanilla JK or MotS (cannot require OpenJKDF2 or SMITH) so every player can join in on the 30th birthday games!

• Type: Multiplayer maps only (Deathmatch, CTF, KTF, Co-Op, Assault, KOTH)

• Capacity: Must include 32 walk players for big games

• Quality: Must be fully playable and crash-free

• Fresh Starts: Must be a brand new project built from scratch

• AI Policy: AI assistance is allowed, but levels cannot be 100% AI-generated

💰 Become a Judge & Grow the Prize Pot!

Don't build maps but want to get involved? Anyone who donates to the prize pot earns a spot on the judging panel! 100% of donations go directly to the winners:

🥇 1st Place: 50%

🥈 2nd Place: 30%

🥉 3rd Place: 20%

Fire up your editors and let's see what you can create! May the Force be with you! 🌌⚔️

https://discord.gg/E4tYSRvgZ


r/jediknight • • 7d ago

PC StoryForce: A Cinematic Multiplayer Roleplay Mod with accounts, skills, world transforming tools, camera movement, community management and more!

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r/jediknight • • 8d ago

SWITCH Duel me on switch right now

13 Upvotes

Duel lobby open up on switch. Jedi academy. Let’s duel.


r/jediknight • • 8d ago

PC Lugormod from 2004

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40 Upvotes

IYKYK Lugor Mod was goated, playing on Clan Purple.

Playing music by typing !play Linkinpark Numb in the chat.

Hunting Credits as a Merc.

good times.


r/jediknight • • 9d ago

PC Somebody please combine the combat of Jedi Academy with the world and progression of KOTOR

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r/jediknight • • 9d ago

GENERIC Did anyone play with joystick?

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Found this relic in a box on the attic. Did anyone play the game wirh joystick? I never did


r/jediknight • • 11d ago

PC Kyle Katarn in Minecraft

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416 Upvotes

r/jediknight • • 10d ago

PC In need of a SP campaign ? I made a whole one !

50 Upvotes

Hello there !

It's been a while, and I've searched for a long time a community where to share what I've made with this game.

I've been playing this game since its release, and modding it for 19 years !

Basically, what I'm about to share is the fifth installment of my serie (Epic Challenge Mods), but the only one that has a real "Star Wars feel" about it.

It's called "Epic Challenge Mod V : Edge of the Force" : https://jkhub.org/files/file/4446-epic-challenge-mod-v-edge-of-the-force/

"Not long after Jerec's demise, Kyle and his apprentice Mara Jade are sent with Luke Skywalker to investigate a cosmic temple invaded by the remnants of the Empire. But they were unable to understand what they found at this time. They only knew it was a sort of holocron of the Light Side. But today, a cult of the Force called The Order of the Lost Flame is growing, and in a bold move, they have managed to steal the artifact from Luke Skywalker's hands. For the Jedi Order is not what it once was. The temple has burned, many apprentices were killed following a tragic betrayal, and few defenders of the Order and justice in the galaxy remain active. Kyle Katarn is no longer one of them. A lone wanderer, our veteran is now sixty years old. Yet, a vision from the Force puts him back on the path. The galaxy is in danger. One last stand will lead our heroes, along with a new generation, to uncover the truth behind the acquisition of the holocrons—revealed to be forgotten deities of the Force. Past, present, and future are intertwined, and a long, dark journey awaits Kyle, linked to the Clone Wars, higher realities, and many other secrets…"

Enter in a world between old adventure games and Star Wars lore, face cults and golems, and learn to use your new weapons, and force powers (Destruction, Elements).

I have put my hands in the code to improve force powers, create new content, new AI classes. Claude has helped me to settle things, but I was already doing code since the third installment long before the rise of LLMs.

A total of 14 new levels, If I remember correctly.

Teaser of the mod : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnVQ8i7FJkw

Now, some ingame pictures :

Lizards throwing exploding crystals at you, but you can launch an energy sphere to ripost !

Facing an Ice Guard in a creepy snowy planet.

Talking with your old padawan jaden with some SpaceEngine made sky.

Freeing Luke Skywalker from Flame Warriors, a Cult of the Force.

A crack in time ?

Underwater gameplay with sharks, new enemy mechanics !

Old temples and lava golems...

Some strange realms

Pyramids

Facing your inner demons in another realm...

A messed up place...

They fly now ?

Somebody using an old battledroid army from the Clone Wars...

Underground temple

Krykna spiders...

A first mission in MOTS era...

Flame warriors !

This is my humble contribition to this game I still play, as I'm now older. Maybe I'll play it with my son one day !


r/jediknight • • 11d ago

PC Kyle Katarn hates villagers

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r/jediknight • • 10d ago

PC Kyle Katarn becoming uncanny

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I made this meme 4 years ago and it flopped like Rosh Penin with the dark side.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc9Nn1qr-z8\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc9Nn1qr-z8)

So, if you want a customized "becoming uncanny" with Kyle Katarn, I thought this subreddit is the place, as I'm quite new on Reddit.

Enjoy !


r/jediknight • • 12d ago

PC This has gotten a little crazy

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111 Upvotes

Made most of the weapons behave like their apparent Quake3 Arena counterparts and borrowed quickswapping from DOOM Eternal.

Sith still put up with it.


r/jediknight • • 14d ago

PC The weapons are pretty close to DOOM Eternal's if you really think about it

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156 Upvotes

Added quickswapping....


r/jediknight • • 14d ago

PC Fett doesn't look too bad in 2x NR

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74 Upvotes

I dunno


r/jediknight • • 14d ago

PC Deep fried chicken 3x pass default preset with natural. (640x480)

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162 Upvotes

r/jediknight • • 15d ago

GENERIC Get this man a Ruby Bliels!

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Note; Referencing the scene with Kyle telling Lando he could go for a Ruby Bliels.
So before anyone can call me racist- I didn't choose it for the purpose of *grouping two random black characters together. I know they are completely different characters--I thought of the T'challa meme format **first, because it fit the scene.


r/jediknight • • 15d ago

GENERIC Jedi Knight Remake Soundtrack

67 Upvotes

So as many of you will know - the game developer ‘Ruppertie’ has been re-modding JKDF2 for some time.

I managed to persuade him to let me write the soundtrack for the game so with the mods permission I would love to share.

I played this game relentlessly when I was a kid and it’s always been my favourite SW game.

It’ll be up on Spotify etc at some point but, for now, please enjoy!

There’s a Kyle Katarn theme, Yun battle and even a Cantina Band style track.

Would love to know what you all think!

https://on.soundcloud.com/WXW3J1w50qRd5C1PSD


r/jediknight • • 26d ago

PC Jedi Academy 23rd Anniversary Event happening today from 1pm to 6pm EDT on PC!

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100 Upvotes

I am passing this along from Daggo, Wolfeye, Sazen, and others hosting this event, I recognize its very late notice to you redditors, as it is happening within the hour of my posting:

Hello everyone!

The JKA community is hosting a major event this Saturday, September 19th, between 1:00PM - 6:00PM EDT. To celebrate the 23rd anniversary of Jedi Academy, we'll be visiting the SkyTemple again (/connect 159.195.145.214). The server has been updated since the last event (info can be found here from that event).

We are going to try to break the 32 player cap once again, hoping to get even more players onto the server than last time (above 60). That means we need as many people as possible to come and aid us in this journey!

The (JAWA) Clan will be assisting with event hosting, and we'll even have some console-player presence courtesy of Bucky's crossplay work!

This time we are planning to hold a tournament for interested players during the event and maybe perform a mini-game or two if the situation permits.

We hope to make this another giant celebration for JKA as a community.

Summary:
Date: September 19th
Time: 1:00PM - 6:00PM EDT / 19:00 - 00:00 CEST
Server Name: [SkyTemple]
IP: 159.195.145.214
Discord: https://discord.gg/5rdKKWsEqB

Discord Event: https://discord.gg/ThdabPkbU?event=1550583870771175464

Livestream VOD can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/live/yRXhu6Zq4DA


r/jediknight • • 28d ago

SWITCH Servers online!

9 Upvotes

Hey, jedi academy server are now online versión nintendo switch


r/jediknight • • 29d ago

PC I remastered Jedi Academy with NVIDIA DLSS 5 neural rendering + 4K textures — 21 missions, vanilla vs remaster, same camera (free mod, Nexus)

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Watch it in 1440p to see the quality difference!!

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Free fan mod, OpenJK based. DLSS 5 neural reconstruction, skaybay's 4K texture pack with an alpha fix, depth-aware ambient occlusion, Palette Lock (keeps the original 2003 colours), saber grade, 60 FPS at 1440p. F8 toggles the remaster in-game so you can compare any time.

Vanilla vs remaster, 21 missions, same spawn and camera: https://youtu.be/v8MlQdtKylo

Full gameplay: https://youtu.be/1OCvDXdDzYo

Nexus Mods (clean drop-in, 0 executables): https://www.nexusmods.com/starwarsjediknightjediacademy/mods/145

Google Drive All-In-One (11.9 GB): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D6tvaMyc32Pk_IRKohAaT8cAi7kCL4d2/view

Setup help / bug reports: https://discord.gg/hqAMNZ5GtU

Requirements: GOG or Steam Jedi Academy, Windows 10/11, an NVIDIA RTX card for the neural pass (tested on an RTX 5060 Ti; on RTX 30 cards lower work_resolution in dlss5-feed.cfg). Everything else works on any DX11 card.