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Title: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Dooz on June 19, 2015, 10:13:23 am
A very familiar feeling jumping into this game/mod mutiplayer. Same shit troll community of a dying game, similar skill based combat except with a lot more options and dynamic gameplay, and a whole lotta fun. Attacks are based on keyboard movement instead of mouse (which I guess is also possible on mnb so maybe some people are already used to that), different fighting styles with different moves, combos, strengths/weaknesses, single dual or staff sabers available, and that's just the melee stuff. There's a bunch of other classes that pew pew lazorz and any given game is action packed, shit blowing up, jedis sith force powers, it's chaos and it's awesome.

Seriously though, the community takes as much pride in being oldmy old friend douche cunts as this one, so you should all feel right at home. Sure once every few days you might run into someone that's helpful or nice or at least not actively a horrific monster, but there are some of those weakling types hidden here too I bet.

Also the gameplay just reminds me of crpg so much. And the shit people do together in game, the way they're all tired of this game they've been playing for years but still hang around cause they've built an identity as a "pro" and don't wanna go back to being nothing without it. And plenty of funny shit that goes along with all that.

If you've never heard of this game and this mod, as I hadn't until about a week ago, you might like it if you give it a shot. It's like being a noob in crpg again, except without the level of entry barrier being quite as high just cause there's no grinding or levelling. It might still be tough cause of new gameplay, skills, etc. but at least you're on a statistically even playing field from the jump. And it's just a perfectly made, polished, professional mod with a whole lot of info in their built-in library system to cover all the intricacies and details of the classes and combat and everything else. And that's where this mod shines, like crpg. The nuances of the combat, the possibilities, skill based creativity allowing system that you can get as deep or shallow into as you want.

Oh and despite it being like a 100 years old, there's still an active community with games to be found 24/7 from what I've seen. Some servers more than others and depending on times, but duel and open team combat modes going almost all the time, EU and NA.
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Vibe on June 19, 2015, 10:41:26 am
Jedi Outcast/Jedi Academy has one of the best if not the best melee systems in a game. I personally prefer JO combat (having played it competitively in the olden days), but then again I didn't play Movie Battles yet, which complicates things even further. Surely recommend to anyone looking for a great melee combat system.
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Dooz on June 19, 2015, 10:52:47 am
it's practically a different game from vanilla. new systems, block/stamina/force whatever meters depending on class, mechanics for manual blocking and breaking guard, and it's all very well balanced to me. and a lot more details that make it all a very big, comprehensive combat system
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Mr_Oujamaflip on June 19, 2015, 05:27:19 pm
I played this mod for 8 years before I left. I was a leader of the BG team who are the oldest MB2 clan still around.
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: SeQuel on June 19, 2015, 10:08:36 pm
Damn nigga, did chad touch your baby dick or something?
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Dooz on June 19, 2015, 10:38:16 pm
if he did i wouldn't mind
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Mr_Oujamaflip on June 19, 2015, 11:19:59 pm
Problem with this mod were the dg guys taking over development and never removing dotf from the map cycle.
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Lennu on June 22, 2015, 04:46:03 pm
Movie battles was insanely good mod imo, but the community was just way too small.

And no offence, but getting banned from the BG server for being finnish didn't really help too much  :lol:
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Mr_Oujamaflip on June 22, 2015, 06:29:05 pm
Hey, it could've happened.
It could've been me that did it.
Maybe you should've changed nationality, then it wouldn't have happened for sure.
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Lennu on June 22, 2015, 07:12:40 pm
It's okay, I was more of a Sexy Server guy anyway  :wink:


About the mod itself. I never even bothered learning the jedi-saber combat properly, but the combat overall was extremely well balanced. As long as you didn't count in Droidekas  :lol: That shit needed to get countered by the EMP granades, and then gunned down by 4 other players  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Mr_Oujamaflip on June 22, 2015, 08:03:28 pm
When I started playing it Jedi and Sith could just duck in front of it holding block and deflect it to death. But then again it could also roll over people and knock them over.
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Leesin on June 22, 2015, 10:36:09 pm
Man I played this on and off for years but recently I have played it quite a bit, it's a very fun mod and has a great amount of customization and playstyles for each and every class.
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Dooz on June 23, 2015, 02:46:24 am
yeah there's a lot to it, and it's all really nicely balanced from what i've seen. everything has its purpose and way to play it and things not to do, all of which affects the team dynamic in every battle. and just a lotta fun.
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Senni__Ti on June 24, 2015, 08:43:44 pm
I have a friend that still plays it a lot, he plays under random names (was in Ce7, so get's the hacker/cheater comments a lot)
I've put a couple hours into it, but I'm pretty crap.

Last patch was a real downgrade imo, really messed up the saber system. (mainly from watching my friend play, red/purple/staff/dual = win, cyan is spammy as hell, yellow and blue now suck)

Love playing mando and glone trooper (forgive me!), also sith/jedi (but I'm very bad at it).
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Dooz on June 24, 2015, 09:55:14 pm
mandalorians look really damn fun, but i haven't even tried anything other than jedi. i suck cunt at dueling, but as a noob can contribute as support, pushing back nades, pushing down bogies to get shot up easier, guard friendly gunners and deter enemy sith from charging (if they don't know how much i suck), that kinda thing. and i've only used yellow style, but it's my favorite visually so i'm sticking with it.
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Mr_Oujamaflip on June 26, 2015, 01:54:55 pm
Quote from: Senni__Ti on June 24, 2015, 08:43:44 pm
I have a friend that still plays it a lot, he plays under random names (was in Ce7, so get's the hacker/cheater comments a lot)
I've put a couple hours into it, but I'm pretty crap.

Last patch was a real downgrade imo, really messed up the saber system. (mainly from watching my friend play, red/purple/staff/dual = win, cyan is spammy as hell, yellow and blue now suck)

Love playing mando and glone trooper (forgive me!), also sith/jedi (but I'm very bad at it).
Ce7? Wow they were known for hacking. When I was in BG we were beating them in a clan match and they all randomly disconnected from the server because three were wallhacking and the other two didn't know so they all bailed. Was very strange.

I haven't played it in some time but I kept getting disappointed by the bad patches ruining everything.
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Senni__Ti on June 26, 2015, 11:53:05 pm
Yeah, he was in Ce7 before the hacking scandal came along. He was pretty disappointed in the direction the clan took.
Sh0cker if you've heard of him; he's legit, though I'll never stop accusing him of cheating ;).

Still worth playing imo, still the best featured/balanced starwars game out there.
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Sebbl on July 06, 2015, 08:19:12 pm
whos playn yet?
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Mr_Oujamaflip on January 13, 2016, 02:12:31 pm
I played this for a little while yesterday. It's had a big boost of players since The Force Awakens came out and it's looking pretty good.
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Ikarus on January 13, 2016, 05:40:43 pm
gosh, remember playing jk2/ja multiplayer for quite a while, the fighting system is still a lot of fun

Reelo with pink sword was so much fun
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or orange reborn, seems as if I´ve always had something for orange hoodies
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whos playn yet?
Would install if there was a crpg jedimy old friend event  8-)
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Vibe on January 13, 2016, 06:05:38 pm
Quote from: Ikarus on January 13, 2016, 05:40:43 pm
gosh, remember playing jk2/ja multiplayer for quite a while, the fighting system is still a lot of fun

Reelo with pink sword was so much fun
(click to show/hide)

or orange reborn, seems as if I´ve always had something for orange hoodies
(click to show/hide)

Would install if there was a crpg jedimy old friend event  8-)

Honestly still one of the best melee combat systems even over a decade later.
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Tomas_Miles_again on January 13, 2016, 08:49:49 pm
Soldier class full close quarters all day every day
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Leesin on January 13, 2016, 09:29:33 pm
My favs for Rebel are Hero and Wook, for Empire it is Mando, BH and Commander ( Commander with T-21 and 2 fire grenades is my favourite setup just to be annoying and devastate a bottleneck )
Title: Re: Jedi Academy: Movie Battles 2 mod
Post by: Mr_Oujamaflip on January 14, 2016, 12:22:19 am
Playing today with Zerobot1, still fun. Didn't want to stop.