Fan remaster Project?

[Battousai]

Did anyone maybe already thought about combine forces and make Remaster of this game?
UE5 or something but keeping mechanics ofc. i know its a lot of trouble, but maybe we can at least talk about it? i have a lot of time now for thinking  haha

imagine:
- new textures
- new visual effects
- maybe new mechanics
- etc.

[GrayFox]

Kinda-sorta! Not a remake but a spiritual successor called Vertex is being developed in UE5. Can be found here! https://playvertex.com/ I had helped some with the early development.

[KanGy]

Oh how i've been dreaming of a JKA remaster.

 

I have zero applicable skills, but definitely would love to see it some day :3

 

[Link]

On 6/1/2025 at 12:23 AM, Battousai said:

Did anyone maybe already thought about combine forces and make Remaster of this game?
UE5 or something but keeping mechanics ofc. i know its a lot of trouble, but maybe we can at least talk about it? i have a lot of time now for thinking  haha

imagine:
- new textures
- new visual effects
- maybe new mechanics
- etc.

 

There's been quite a few over the years, Vertex as Gray pointed out was the most ambitious (Although it's kind of dead, and wasn't ever really going anywhere honestly). I recall seeing a really fleshed out Jedi Academy in UE4 which I think was teased to be MovieBattles III? I remember it getting canned and completely vanishing though.

 

The best rendition I've seen though is Primal Clarity's Jedi Outcast movie which is made in Unreal. I actually interviewed him back when I was on JKHub staff, really nice guy. If you want you can read it here https://jkhub.org/forums/topic/5981-jedi-outcast-the-movie-exclusive-trailer-interview/

 

 

[GrayFox]

6 hours ago, Link said:

(Although it's kind of dead, and wasn't ever really going anywhere honestly)

Actually, its only surface-dead. I thought it died too, but I recently took a glance and it turns out the devs have actually still been working on it pretty diligently, its just all out of the public eye because they were making a massive shift of redoing everything from UE4->UE5 and also have hired someone to do MoCap production for the animations which means carefully crafting those and taking their time. Zero updates in years, but when one does drop, it'll likely be very big.

The actual community there went dead silent but it seems they still do some pugs here and there. I can say back-end wise (since I'm part of the moderation team for the competitive arena there) it's been very quiet but there's been a little bit of discussion in recent history about a revival so maybe we'll get lucky and have a resurgence of the comp scene 😄

[Link]

Ah that's crazy, I didn't think anything was going on. Nice.

[neoxrave]

2 hours ago, GrayFox said:

Actually, its only surface-dead. I thought it died too, but I recently took a glance and it turns out the devs have actually still been working on it pretty diligently, its just all out of the public eye because they were making a massive shift of redoing everything from UE4->UE5 and also have hired someone to do MoCap production for the animations which means carefully crafting those and taking their time. Zero updates in years, but when one does drop, it'll likely be very big.

The actual community there went dead silent but it seems they still do some pugs here and there. I can say back-end wise (since I'm part of the moderation team for the competitive arena there) it's been very quiet but there's been a little bit of discussion in recent history about a revival so maybe we'll get lucky and have a resurgence of the comp scene 😄

Yeah, but lemme ask the real questions:

Can I main fast/blue?  

Memes aside, I do wish the website had some recent updates in a news section, or at least a gameplay video. It doesn't bode well for a project's image when the backend is well in development but it looks abandoned on presentation.

[GrayFox]

1 hour ago, neoxrave said:

Can I main fast/blue?

They deleted the whole style in Vertex 😂

But yea no, I get occasional DMs from one of the devs showing updates to the game behind the scenes, but they haven't pushed any public info in over a year now. Hoping they give us some more clear communication soon.

[neoxrave]

2 hours ago, GrayFox said:

They deleted the whole style in Vertex 😂

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[splat]

I hope vertex works out