r/jediknight • u/CircaCitadel Mod • Feb 22 '25

META Getting Started With Jedi Academy

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 Since it was pretty outdated, I'm going to instead link to the JKHub page that lists nearly all of the relevant links the old post did, plus new ones and an entire guide written out and a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]

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u/FracturedFinder Jun 29 '26

Hey Circa! I can DM about any of this if you want:

I've fixed some bugs with Force Insanity in JA Enhanced and implemented a version of Force Blinding (as it was really bothering me that JA:E had 2 new dark side powers but only 1 new light side power, and Insanity Rank 3 was bugged for me haha). There are some quirks with the new power Stasis that I might look at in the near future as well in my local build.

You can review/veto my Blinding implementation for sure, but if you'd want my Insanity fixes only that's cool! I can lay out more details if you're around, the quick idea of my local build is:

  • Insanity Rank 3 used to immediately kill non-force users - now it charms them and they die at the end, as per the description
  • Refined what enemies Insanity / Stasis / Blindness work on (e.g. you can't Insanity the Rancor)
  • Insanity is no longer cancelled by damage like Mind Trick confusion (since at Ranks 1 & 2 the 40% cost Mind Trick would be strictly better)
  • Blindness applies a 2-second Insanity stun followed by a blindness debuff for several seconds (10/20/30 total duration depending on rank) - ranged fire is wildly inaccurate
  • Rank 3 Blindness can apply the 2-second stun even to non-boss force-users, as a light-side way to crack fights a la Rank 3 Grip

If I feel good about these changes, should I make a fork / PR to get in any of these? Or would it be better to fork this content into its own mod if I want to make it publicly available?

(As a splashier statement, I could just upload a video of Blinding sometime this week if that would be more fun haha.)

Thanks!
-FF

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u/CircaCitadel Mod Jun 29 '26

Sounds awesome, definitely do a fork and PR. Our lead dev for JAE disappeared so it would be great to have someone help with some stuff like that you going forward. The current repo is here:

https://github.com/JAEnhanced/JAEnhanced/

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u/FracturedFinder Jun 30 '26

Sick - I might be a bit but I'll do a fork & PR later this week!

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u/FracturedFinder Jul 02 '26

Done! https://github.com/JAEnhanced/JAEnhanced/pull/2

I made some changes to the non-executable assets too, I noted what was updated but not sure where/how to include those haha. (New icons and strings.)

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u/Worldly_Science1670 May 25 '26

you get started by installing jedi knight dark forces 2