5 Games With Amazing Star Wars Mods That Are Better Than Official Releases

Back successful the day, determination were dozens of Star Wars games to play. Lately, it feels similar there's been a dirge of titles for the IP, with fans near wanting more.

Thankfully, with the powerfulness of these astonishing mods, you tin alteration non-Star Wars games into games that each franchise instrumentality wishes we could've had.

The infamous XCOM 2 is simply a crippled with a steadfast modding scene. There's an highly progressive assemblage contempt the game's property (this astir apt has thing to bash with the deficiency of an XCOM 3). Needless to say, determination are a ton of Star Wars mods for the crippled arsenic well, to the grade that you tin astir wholly alteration it into a Star Wars experience.

You tin person each of your enemies to a Star Wars faction, alteration each weapons to due blasters, download dependable lines matching conflict droids, clones, oregon stormtroopers, unlock a full Jedi class, and overmuch more.

There's truly nary 1 circumstantial mod to constituent retired here. Unfortunately, you'll person to bash a spot of digging to find each the mods you privation for your peculiar game. But you're spoiled for choice, and if you privation the ordeal to beryllium a small easier, you tin ever look for thing similar the XCOM 2 Star Wars Total Conversion Collection, which is conscionable a large postulation of compatible mods for you to consider.

I personally emotion to crook my XCOM soldiers into Delta Squad from Republic Commando, implicit with dependable lines ripped from the game. Watching them teardrop done each sorts of conflict droids connected clandestine missions creates a unsocial Star Wars acquisition fans person ne'er gotten from an authoritative game, and that's conscionable the extremity of the iceberg. You tin besides mod successful Star Wars euphony and adjacent person the Lost into infected Death Troopers.

At immoderate rate, if you've ever wanted a Star Wars turn-based strategy crippled focusing connected squad tactics and strategy, converting XCOM 2 into that acquisition is the mode to spell for now, due to the fact that it'll astir apt inactive beryllium a portion earlier we get that caller authoritative Star Wars crippled from Respawn Entertainment.

4 Squad: Galactic Contention

Do you emotion milsim games? Do you privation Star Wars Battlefront was a spot grittier and much realistic? Well, the likelihood of america getting an authoritative milsim Star Wars rubric is beauteous low, but thankfully, immoderate mods person made the acquisition a world anyway.

In particular, the mod Galactic Contention for Squad creates, arguably, the astir realistic Star Wars combat acquisition available. If you aren't acquainted with Squad, it's a batch similar ARMA successful the consciousness that it's a super-realistic combined arms warfare game. Galactic Contention wholly transforms the crippled into a massive-scale Star Wars battlefield, with capable chaos to lucifer the large movie battles we each cognize and love.

Dropships transportation players astir the battlefield portion strafing the force and taking AA fire. A squad of 50 players whitethorn dice holding a elevation oregon advancing done a barrage of blaster occurrence to instrumentality one. Specialized tools are needed to instrumentality connected armored vehicles, and unsocial classes play peculiar roles successful supporting triumph for the team, portion commanders and squad leaders effort to nonstop everyone connected the vigor arsenic they pore implicit elaborate maps.

What separates this benignant of acquisition from astir casual, arcade-style shooters is the information that getting changeable is overmuch deadlier. It's not uncommon to get killed by a azygous blaster bolt, and if you bash past it, you'll astir apt beryllium earnestly injured and find yourself tending to your wounds connected the ground.

That benignant of lethality is not everyone's cupful of tea, but it surely adds a interaction of realism and breathtaking hostility to the acquisition that you conscionable can't get with immoderate authoritative Star Wars titles close now. While I emotion the authoritative Battlefront games, I person to admit that Galactic Contention for Squad is the closest I've ever felt to being successful a existent Star Wars battle.

3 Men astatine War: Assault Squad 2 Galaxy astatine War

Star Wars has had RTS games before, specified arsenic Empire astatine War, a rubric I'm rather fond of myself. But the options person ever been a small limited, and EAW itself is rather old. Admittedly, Men astatine War: Assault Squad 2 is besides beauteous old, but with the close mods, it tin service arsenic an fantabulous ground-combat Star Wars RTS that's adjacent much realistic than Empire astatine War, akin to games similar Sudden Strike oregon Company of Heroes.

This crippled is benignant of similar playing a milsim from an RTS constituent of view. You bid full armies of soldiers and vehicles, with the quality to get arsenic circumstantial arsenic commanding 1 idiosyncratic trooper among thousands if you truthful wish.

Threats to your troopers are beauteous realistic successful this game—direct hits from force occurrence and adjacent explosions are highly deadly. Your infantry volition get chewed up extracurricular of cover, and adjacent the toughest conveyance mightiness get taken down by an anti-tank onslaught to a anemic spot if you aren't careful.

This is existent adjacent without converting the crippled to a Star Wars experience, but slapping a Star Wars tegument implicit those mechanics with the Galaxy astatine War mod makes for an acquisition that the IP conscionable hasn't offered successful an authoritative game. It's similar being capable to bid the biggest, astir awesome movie battles from a bird's oculus view, implicit with the chaos of thousands of troops, a veritable tempest of blaster fire, and explosions galore.

The lone downside is that it mightiness fry your machine if you truly privation to spell each retired and marque the biggest struggle imaginable successful skirmish mode. With the quality to make your ain monolithic battles, adjacent the astir almighty computers tin beryllium overwhelmed.

2 Stellaris: Star Wars New Dawn

There are tons of Star Wars mods retired determination for Stellaris, and I can't anticipation to database them all. Instead, I'll absorption connected a singular full conversion mod called Star Wars: New Dawn. It overhauls the full Stellaris experience, not lone aesthetically changing the crippled to lucifer the Star Wars universe, but besides adding caller mechanics specified arsenic communicative events, situation chains, vessel types, species, and a batch more.

New Dawn specifically sets the signifier close aft Revenge of the Sith, pursuing the emergence of the Galactic Empire successful those years betwixt it and A New Hope. You tin play arsenic a assortment of factions from the clip period, engaging with caller features similar Hutt cartels, Mandalorian clans, uncovering exertion from past civilizations, and institutions, arsenic good arsenic a vessel status system.

New Dawn adjacent has immoderate features that enactment unneurotic with authoritative Stellaris DLC—for example, if you person the Apocalypse DLC, you tin summation entree to the Death Star, and the Nemesis DLC volition let Hutts and Mandalorians to prosecute successful unsocial covert espionage operations. Though these features are added if you person the DLC, you don't really request immoderate DLC to play the New Dawn mod.

Star Wars has ne'er truly had a 4X strategy crippled with the level of complexity that Stellaris offers, making this full conversion mod a large mode to get that acquisition if you've ever felt the IP wasn't delivering. Empire astatine War is the closest Star Wars ever got to that benignant of game, but adjacent it was beauteous elemental successful examination to astir 4X strategy titles. Just carnivore successful caput that you whitethorn person to rollback your crippled to a mentation that is compatible with the mod.

1 X4: Foundations

X4: Foundations is simply a abstraction combat and trading game, rather akin to Elite Dangerous, though X4 is much of a sandbox experience. It's 1 of those living, actively evolving worlds with thousands of ships, abstraction stations, pilots, and encounters. It's truly much close to telephone it a simulator, 1 successful which the subordinate tin unrecorded retired their abstraction dreams—anything from being an ace combatant aviator to commanding a elephantine battleship oregon moving an empire.

You tin fundamentally bash thing you privation successful this simulated galaxy, fighting, building, trading, and exploring arsenic you seamlessly modulation from cockpits to abstraction stations and bearer decks. Now, wouldn't it beryllium beauteous awesome if we could get that benignant of sandbox acquisition for Star Wars? To beryllium capable to aviator astir immoderate ship, to enactment arsenic an adept starfighter aviator oregon an experienced smuggler, oregon adjacent the commandant of a Star Destroyer successful a perpetually changing universe?

Yeah, of people it would beryllium cool. Thankfully, the mod Star Wars Interworlds transforms X4 into precisely that Star Wars experience. It's benignant of similar the sandbox acquisition Star Wars Galaxies was, but with much absorption connected space. Getting to unrecorded retired your Star Wars fantasy beingness successful this simulation is incredible—it's the lone clip you'll get to instrumentality nonstop power of a Star Destroyer and unleash your horde of TIEs connected the enemy, and not successful an RTS sense. You truly are the commandant of the singular vessel.

And it's not similar this mod conscionable slaps a clump of Star Wars ships into the X4 universe. Appropriate locations are added arsenic well, and determination are tons of submods compatible with Interworlds to marque the acquisition adjacent much robust, adding communicative events, jobs, much factions, points of interest, and overmuch more. All successful all, Interworlds for X4 is 1 of the astir implicit Star Wars experiences successful presumption of abstraction exploration and combat.

The lone downside is the information that Interworlds requires each of the X4: Foundations DLC to work, truthful if you're funny successful this experience, you'll request to driblet a full batch of wealth if you don't get each of it connected sale. But for the terms you pay, X4: Foundations will springiness you thousands of hours of playtime, and that's adjacent without immoderate full conversion mods.

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These are conscionable a fewer astonishing games that tin beryllium converted into an unthinkable Star Wars acquisition with the close mods. There are acold much retired there, and adjacent these games unsocial whitethorn person aggregate Star Wars mods you could usage them with. Hopefully, we tin get immoderate official Star Wars titles offering these experiences successful the future, but for now, these games and their associated mods basal gangly arsenic immoderate of the champion Star Wars experiences successful gaming.