VICTORY FIGHTER MK2
Christmas present from General Trageton is here! It is new Victory Fighter Mk2 with base, exterior and nice cockpit. The Victory Fighter is fast, agile but still well armed and protected it holds an ideal balance for any type of mission. The Victory Mk2, an advanced version of the Victory Fighter has been given two extra engines, better shields and a larger warhead capacity. You can download this OPT from General Trageton's page Blue Phantom Project.

CORALSKIPPER FROM NJOP
The very first OPT from New Jedi Order Project was released. Coralskipper is main fighter of the extra galactic alien invaders. Grown naturally like seeds, the ships are protected by a bizarre system of black hole generating creatures, making them extremely difficult to destroy. The Coralskipper OPT is made by JC Wolverine, Sean, David "Terribly Mauled" Mather. For download and informations about NJOP visit  New Jedi Order Project site.

UPGRADED PREYBIRD FIGHTER
Darksaber has released new version of Preybird Fighter. The model was originally made by Wraith1, the pilot was made by Saxman, the Hull textures where made by M&M (Jonathan Eloff) and the Cockpit & Pilot textures where made by Darksaber. This is also the first fighter to have a coloured Pilot, also instead of a Xmod its in its own EXE file. For download go to Darksaber's X-Wing Station or X-Wing Alliance Upgrade site.

NEW PAGE DESIGN ON XWAUPGRADE.COM
Forceflow, webmaster of X-Wing Alliance Upgrade site, has made new design for X-Wing Alliance Upgrade site. The new design is quite nice, although I prefer older version. Check it out.

ULTIMATE CRAFT PACK v1.1
Darksaber has relased new version of his Ultimate Craft Pack. This version 1.1 has fixed all texture bugs, TIE resolutions bugs and few other items. Darksaber also added Marco's Cloakshape Fighter and Escort Shuttle, the Container Transport and two of Gringlas's yet unreleased XWAUP Containers. The Calamari Light Cruiser was fixed due to a problem with AI craft landing on it. The last news is that Z-95 and Y-Wing are now fitted with LOD's (finally!!). For download go to Darksaber's X-Wing Station.

ANOTHER UPGRADED CLOAKSHAPE FIGHTER
The great new 'OPTer' Marco Antonio Malheiros has finished his upgraded version of Cloakshape Fighter. This craft comes with Base, Exterior and Cockpit OPT and looks really fantastic! For download go to Darksaber's X-Wing Station or X-Wing Alliance Upgrade site. R.I.P. Atx's version of Cloakshape Fighter.

UPGRADED CONTAINER TRANSPORT
Another upgraded OPT from X-Wing Alliance Upgrade project has been released. It's fantastic looking Container Transport made by great Darksaber (using JC's container brick). You can download this OPT from X-Wing Alliance Upgrade site or Darksaber's X-Wing Station.

ULTIMATE CRAFT PACK
Darksaber has finally relased his Ultimate Craft Pack. It includes in total 264 enhanced opts, which include exterior, base, cockpit, hangar, stations, starships, shuttles and transports. Depending on which configuration you have chosen between 250 and 253 will be installed. You have the choice of hangar and concourse you wish to install, Rebel or Imperial. Darksaber has also included enhanced sound effects and all the Ship Dat pictures have been remade too. Total size of the UCP is 178 MB, so good luck with downloading. For UCP and information about it visit  Darksaber's X-Wing Station.

TIE VAMPIRES
Collaboration between General Trageton and Darksaber brings us 2 new OPTs: the TIE Vampire and the TIE Vampire MkII. The TIE Vampire is fast, agile and well balanced it is an excellent multi-role fighter. The TIE Vampire MkII is an advanced version of the original fighter. You can download both OPTs from Darksaber's X-Wing Station or General Trageton website Blue Phantom Project.

TIE FIGHTER TOTAL CONVERSION FOR XWA
Ol has started new project called TIE Fighter Total Conversion. TFTC is a project that intends to convert as much of the content from the classic LucasArts game TIE Fighter to X-Wing Alliance. Ol has released Beta 1.4 for download. It includes battles 1-3 and several training missions. For more informations about project and download visit TIE Fighter Total Conversion Site.

EMPEROR'S COMMAND TOWER
General Trageton has released his next OPT. It is Emperor's Command Tower. You can download this OPT from General Trageton's page The Blue Phantom. General Trageton has also opened new Progress section on his site. Check it out HERE.

MTD INDUSTRIES CAMPAIGN
The day before yesterday I forgot to notify you of another DTM's work: MTD Industries Campaign. It is an experimental campaign with a large use of athmosferic OPTs. Story is about two brothers, a jedi padawan and a engeneer, owners of a family shipyard called MTD Industrie in Episode II times. The campaign has 2 battles with 13 missions (without briefings). You need download XWAVI Campaign (65 MB!) before installing this campaign. Installation isn't very easy so read readme.txt properly. You can download this campaing (6.5 MB) from MTD Industries (section MTD Industries, Enter MTD Campaign).

FINAL CLOAKSHAPE FIGHTER
Atx has released final version of his the Cloakshape Fighter OPT. After some beta versions and revisions is CF finally completed. This features Koollook14's Base model, Atx's original textures (Base) and Darksaber's LOD model, SHP file, with additional textures and texture enhancements. You can download this OPT from ATX's Navbouy site.

CORUSCANT JEDI TEMPLE
Master Qui-Gon has released his the first OPT. It's Coruscant Jedi Temple. The original tk-204's model was redone by GT and textured and opted by Master Qui-Gon. I hope that this OPT will be used in some surface missions soon. You can download this OPT HERE. At present is Master Qui-Gon working on Death Star surface and Cloud City.

NEW NEBULON B CLASS FRIGATE AND MODIFIED FRIGATE
DTM from MTD Industries page has released upgraded Nebulon B Class Frigate and Modified Nebulon B Frigate. This OPTs comes with new models and textures. You can download it here:
http://www.eheh.it/esterni.htm. Great work DTM!

X-BEYOND THE FRONTIER GOLD ON LEVEL CD/DVD
New LEVEL magazine (#106) from Czech Republic has X-Beyond the Frontier GOLD as full game on cover CD/DVD. This game by Egosoft had very good rating in all gaming magazines and we recommend it too. GOLD version includes X-Beyond the Frontier a X-Tension add-on. Releasing on cover CD/DVD is very smart promotion for upcoming sequel X2: The Threat.

UPGRADED ESCORT SHUTTLE OPT
Marco Antonio Malheiros has finished his first OPT. It's Delta Class JV-7 Escort Shuttle. New OPT has X-Wing Upgrade quality and looks absolutely fantastic! You can download it from Darksaber's site: http://www.darksaber.freeserve.co.uk. We can't wait for Marco's future work!

NEW VERSION OF JEDI STARFIGHTER
DTM from MTD Industries page has upgraded his Jedi Starfighter to version 3.0. New OPT has new Model, textures and cockpit. You can download it here:
http://www.eheh.it/esterni.htm

IMPERIAL CONCOURSE FOR XWA
Ender mBind has released Imperial Concourse. This patch includes Imperial Concourse, Imperial Cursor, Emperor's Hammer Ranks and Emperor's Hammer Room Names. You can get the patch at
http://www.minos.net/~sco/files/xwa/IMP-XWA.zip.