Kotor 2

[BING XI LAO]

Guess I'll do 8 Dex 8 Str build, maybe 8 con too

Why?

So that I'm forced to use the items like shields and medpacks I guess ... so far fighting mercs in the telos grasslands and zapping the shit out of everything. 8/8/8 16/18/16 stats like I'm playing Planescape.
seems fun.

 

[NecroLord]

Guess I'll do 8 Dex 8 Str build, maybe 8 con too

Why?

So that I'm forced to use the items like shields and medpacks I guess ... so far fighting mercs in the telos grasslands and zapping the shit out of everything. 8/8/8 16/18/16 stats like I'm playing Planescape.
seems fun.

Jedi Consular?

 

[BING XI LAO]

Continuing the 8 str/dex/con playtrhough

have been instagibbed quite a few times including in this fight

I still think Peragus is cool, but holy crap, SO MANY DROIDS.

 

[NecroLord]

IT'S A DROID PARTY!
Peragus has some cool backstory/atmosphere, but it gets rather tedious, especially on subsequent playthroughs.

 

[BING XI LAO]

Was the Exile on the Ebon Hawk before the game started, before getting picked up by the Harbinger?

 

[Mauman]

Was the Exile on the Ebon Hawk before the game started, before getting picked up by the Harbinger?

Yeah, you can find his* unconscious body during the tutorial.

PSA - Also, that stupid made up star wars holiday is coming up. Time to get this if you haven't already as the sales have started.

*canon be damned. The exile will always be Star Wars Jesus as far as I'm concerned.

 

[BING XI LAO]

Was the Exile on the Ebon Hawk before the game started, before getting picked up by the Harbinger?

Yeah, you can find his* unconscious body during the tutorial.

PSA - Also, that stupid made up star wars holiday is coming up. Time to get this if you haven't already as the sales have started.

*canon be damned. The exile will always be Star Wars Jesus as far as I'm concerned.

The thing is that he was on the Harbinger before he was on the Ebon Hawk in the tutorial. It got damaged when the sith-occupied Harbinger fired on it. But what ship was he on prior to the Harbinger, was it the Ebon Hawk or some other one? Maybe Kreia is the one who showed up on the Ebon Hawk.

 

[Hagashager]

Was the Exile on the Ebon Hawk before the game started, before getting picked up by the Harbinger?

Yeah, you can find his* unconscious body during the tutorial.

PSA - Also, that stupid made up star wars holiday is coming up. Time to get this if you haven't already as the sales have started.

*canon be damned. The exile will always be Star Wars Jesus as far as I'm concerned.

The thing is that he was on the Harbinger before he was on the Ebon Hawk in the tutorial. It got damaged when the sith-occupied Harbinger fired on it. But what ship was he on prior to the Harbinger, was it the Ebon Hawk or some other one? Maybe Kreia is the one who showed up on the Ebon Hawk.

HK-50 amd the Harbinger audio logs explain this. The Exile was estranged on a planet somewhere when they were made to sign on with the Harbinger crew. During an initial stop an HK-50 assassin droid hunting the Exile was unknowingly allowed on board disguised as a protocol droid. Next, sometime in hyperspace travel, Harbinger got a distress signal. The ship was the Ebon Hawk being piloted by Kreia and T3-M4.

Shortly after the Harbinger recieved the Ebon Hawk the Sith Star Destroyer came into real-space to continue its hunt of the Ebon Hawk. During the attack on the Harbinger by the Sith the Exile, Kreia and T3-M4 were brought back aboard the Ebon Hawk by HK-50. At some point, the HK-50 lost control of the ship thus starting the tutorial.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

This is not a game that would benefit from difficulty mod.

The game would benefit from better enemy combat AI.
Them using their force powers more effectively, targetting your more vulnerable party members, etc.

They may be more effective from the mathematical standpoint, but not fun standpoint. Would it be fun trying to counter more effective AI in Kotor? You have a bad control of your party members.

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

Would it be fun trying to counter more effective AI in Kotor? You have a bad control of your party members.

Regardless, at the hardest difficulty both games could still stand to be 40-50% harder and they would still be manageable. At least to the point where you have a need to use all those hoarded grenades and stims and the niche buffing/debuffing powers.

 

[NecroLord]

Would it be fun trying to counter more effective AI in Kotor? You have a bad control of your party members.

Regardless, at the hardest difficulty both games could still stand to be 40-50% harder and they would still be manageable. At least to the point where you have a need to use all those hoarded grenades and stims and the niche buffing/debuffing powers.

Really the only grenades that stay useful throughout the game are the Thermal Detonators and the Adhesive Grenades.
Special mention to the Adhesive Grenades due to their entangling effect which also prevents casting of force powers.

 

[Andronovo]

I'm looking to play it (once I get an nVidia GPU cause AMD GPUs choke on KOTOR), but deciding on a modlist is getting complicated. I don't wanna overdo it, I've learned way not to. My priorities are:

1. The restoration patch, obviously
2. Balancing and improving the combat so it doesn't become dull 15 levels in
3. Maybe some of those texture, skybox, and UI overhauls? This isn't as important, the npcs don't look quite as shitty as KOTOR I

Recommendations, anyone?