Hey there folks!

Big things are happening at this very moment so I'll give you a rundown what's going on around here as well as throughout the XWA community!

TFTC News

Already a few weeks back, in early December, the TFTC Team has released the long-awaited Update 1.2 of the TIE Fighter Total Conversion! Towards the end of the year, the mod won the Editor's Choice of the ModDB Game of the Year awards, in the category Best Graphical Overhaul!

DDRAW 2.0 Preview with GPU support!

This one is big: Thanks to JeremyaFr we now have an experimental set of hooks that allows us to offload most of the 3D work from the CPU to the GPU. This means that almost all the 3D computations are now performed in parallel -- with a corresponding increase in performance.

Please, bear in mind that this version is still experimental: you're likely to see artifacts and there's no VR support yet. However, it's relatively stable and the increase in performance is substantial, so blue_max decided to share this preview with the community.

XWA in 2022

As announced with our last Update, the team is actively working on the next full version of the Mega Patch which will include everything the team has achieved so far and more! Several new ships as well as many substantial updates and improvements to existing ones, new features made possible by recent hook developments and much, much more!

Mean while Angel is hard at work on the TFTC Reimagined campaign, while Ilios creates a spiritual successor with his Embers of the Empire campaign!

Stay tuned for more news as the year progresses

That's all, now get out there and have fun!