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This community is dedicated to the games Star Wars: Jedi Outcast (2002) and Jedi Academy (2003). We host over 3,000 mods created by passionate fans around the world, and thousands of threads of people showcasing their works in progress and asking for assistance. From mods to art to troubleshooting help, we probably have it. If we don't, request or contribute!

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This game turned 20 years old this year, and it is still one of the greatest Star Wars games of all time. If you're new or returning from a long hiatus, here are the basics of getting started with Star Wars Jedi Knight Jedi Academy in 2023.

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JK3Files Shuts Down


If you have been around the Jedi Knight community for very long, no doubt you have heard of and have visited jk3files.com. It was the center of the JK modding scene. JK3Files.com was a "Network Site" of the FileFront community. They hosted many modding related sites, as well as a central forum. Eventually, they were picked up by Break Media, and FileFront became GameFront. Because of the turnover, the creators of the network sites weren't around to maintain them, and the new staff didn't know how or had time to learn how to maintain and repair the sites. Over time this became more of a burden than it was worth, and this week Break Media and GameFront have terminated the network sites.

 

What does this mean? JK3Files.com is gone. According to the GameFront staff, the files that were hosted are still intact in their file archive system, but not for long. Those too will be removed soon, and only the most popular ones will remain, most likely.

 

Bad news for us, because the most popular mods are already hosted here. One of the main missions of JKHub was to create a safe and functional place for those mods to remain, but we could only host them if the creators had given us permission to do so. We are slowly trying again in some cases but many mod authors are nowhere to be found with what little contact info we get in a readme file from 10 years ago.

 

It's sad to see the network sites like JK3Files go, but at least the Wayback Machine has them preserved for us to return to any time we like. You can access that here.

 

You can read the official announcement from the GameFront staff below or at this link.

 

 

Hey all,

 

While the fact that the Network Sites are now, suddenly, offline may come as a surprise to many, we all knew this day would come.

 

Of course, the websites were a big part of the history and overall contribution to GameFront for a lengthy period of time. They brought with them a thriving community based around popular titles of the time and files that couldn't be found anywhere else on the internet. (literally) Of course, we had our spats and occasional turbulent times, but in the end we all came together as one big family.

 

The problem is, the house we lived in wasn't built in a way that could allow those who didn't create it, to fix its issues properly. When you try to fix one thing, several other sections would break down. Of course, when you bring in a team that has never seen the network site code before and ask them to repair the issues, you're going to find that it's as daunting a task as asking a toddler to stop saying "no".

 

So, because of the difficulty and amount of work it would take to even learn how everything operated before anything could be fixed, it was pushed to the back burner to fix other portions of GameFront.

 

Now, I would like to say in the defense of our corporate overlords that they did return to the network sites to look into them when they could, but, as I said above about not knowing what made what work, they ended up not doing much of anything to fix the issues. It's not their fault, the way the sites were coded were never really meant to make sense to those who created it as they never expected others to ever look at it.

 

So here we are, a large portion of GameFront that hasn't been able to be updated in years, mixed with random issues that plague it such as screenshots randomly not loading even when they're physically there or the load balance issue that forced you to refresh the page until you were given a valid link to download a file from. It went from a symbol of gaming quality to a blotch on GameFront that made us look broken.

 

The sites were taken offline and will not return. Right now, we're working on getting the domains to redirect to their respective GameFront counterparts. But, the network sites as you knew them are gone.

 

I apologize to those who still used them and throughout the years of their use, I thank the volunteers that participated in making them work. Without your support, they wouldn't have lasted nearly as long as they have.

 

Thanks,

Jeff Mills

GameFront Site/Community/All-of-the-above Manager


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I check back...and then I find THIS....All of the Kotor 1 and 2 stuff....gone....:'(

Well, for the time being the files are still there: KOTOR/KOTOR 2. It's just the network page with the reviews and links to them that's offline.
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Well, for the time being the files are still there: KOTOR/KOTOR 2. It's just the network page with the reviews and links to them that's offline.

Then we better grab EVERYTHING that our spare harddrives can carry....

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Anywhere I can get a complete copy of the JK2Files/JK3Files file archives? I honestly don't care about the size.

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I honestly don't care about the size.

Then this statement was a tad false then, no? :P but yeah, it's a lot. I don't blame you. I'm more worried about downloading it than the space. My ISP is gonna ram down my door wondering what I'm doing. :D

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Then this statement was a tad false then, no? :P but yeah, it's a lot. I don't blame you. I'm more worried about downloading it than the space. My ISP is gonna ram down my door wondering what I'm doing. :D

LOL ! :lol:  Just 60 GB is nothing ! Is still available this torrent? I Want 'em All ! He can be 2 TB... no problemo ! Where is the link ?! :D

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The best are leaving the building...

 

First, PcGamemods, 10 years ago, maybe more, and now JK3files.

 

Help me JKhub, you are my only hope. 

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It's entirely BreakMedia's fault for allowing the filefront network to fall apart.

I fully agree, nothing was done to fix the fundamental issues that popped up in 2011 and the site never recovered because of the obnoxious problems of the site thinking it was March 27, 2011 or w/e.

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The best are leaving the building...

 

First, PcGamemods, 10 years ago, maybe more, and now JK3files.

 

Help me JKhub, you are my only hope. 

 

I think PcGameMods shut down in 2007

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I think PcGameMods shut down in 2007

Maybe, the same for me.

 

I had in time an old map called "Zag VasParty Map", it was fantastic, like a city with sewers etc... But I never found it again... :(

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Maybe, the same for me.

 

I had in time an old map called "Zag VasParty Map", it was fantastic, like a city with sewers etc... But I never found it again... :(

@@RJA I think I have that map somewhere, If you'd like I can send it to you once I locate it.

 

Edit: I think I found it, Is the one you're looking for called *VaS* Party Map by zag? There doesn't appear to be a levelshot though which I find very annoying.

 

I've uploaded it to my Google Drive, so feel free to pm me if you still want it.

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@@RJA I think I have that map somewhere, If you'd like I can send it to you once I locate it.

 

Edit: I think I found it, Is the one you're looking for called *VaS* Party Map by zag? There doesn't appear to be a levelshot though which I find very annoying.

 

I've uploaded it to my Google Drive, so feel free to pm me if you still want it.

 

Ask to JKHUB staff  if it possible to put it on JKHUB.

They try to contact the author, and if there is no response after 1 month, they release it.

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Have the complete archive now via torrent, will seed for as long as I can. I plan to upload the archive to box and delete my old mirror.

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Ask to JKHUB staff  if it possible to put it on JKHUB.

They try to contact the author, and if there is no response after 1 month, they release it.

I don't think I can as there is no email to contact the author with, I'll try to locate one from his other PCGameMod releases via the Internet Wayback Machine but as it stands there isn't a way to contact the author (that I know of).

 

The readme wasn't even included with the .pk3 I found, I had to create one based on information from the PCGameMods release page via the wonderful Internet Wayback Machine.

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Hey Nozy! Glad to see you've come over to JKHub. :) Wasn't sure if you kept up with JKA anymore.

 

Good heavens, its Kessno! Its been a long time mate! :)

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Hey Noz. ;)

It's been a long time for many of us. I'd forgotten just how many people I knew. Glad to see we still share a love of JK3.

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