Blog #21 - Top 5 Modders with Projects Languishing in Development Hell

Sith Holocron

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Now that it's 2016, let's review a list of works in progress that we haven't seen an official release or even a recent update for. When I say recent, I'll be specific. If it's been over 6 months since the project lead has commented on a project, it's not a recent update. No pictures of the mods are included here. Links to the appropriate posts in their announcement threads are listed - and they do have pictures.

This thread is going to annoy some people. Sorry about that.

In no particular order, let's get started on my list!

1) K1 - The Night and Day Mod

First announced on Lucasforums way back in February of 2012, the Night and Day Mod is supposed to do the following: add a day to night cycle in the skyboxes on Knights of the Old Republic I.

Last update for this? June 2015, on DeadlyStream.

2) Quanon's many, many, many projects

He certainly announces a lot of projects but most of them don't quite get released, do they?

(Notable exceptions - released in 2014 - can be found here)

What hasn't been released yet? Here's a brief overview:
- Scrapyard Games (Yes - I know - this one is being worked on)
- Nar Shaddaa: Crazy Nights project
- Korriban Expanded
- Darth Bandon, reskin + helmet
- Lightsaber Pack
- The "City of Light" project

Let's hope at least one of these gets released in 2016. More than one would be better!

3) Rhen Var - A new planet mod for Knights of the Old Republic II
 

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Now, you will land at the Rhen Var spaceport, and be given the task of finding what happened to the expedition to Ulic's tomb sent by the University of Koros Major/Cinnagar (is that right?). Other than that, things will proceed as previously planned, 'cept something rather different with the people you'll meet, and I intend to re-assemble the tomb using different rooms from different modules (most of them from 711KOR, if I can position them right). This should speed the mod up a little (in theory).


Darth InSidious - at least give us an update, will ya?  Besides this one...

 

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- T3-M4 clean version (K1-Style)
- T3-M4 worn out version (K2-Style)
- Mandalorians
- Kreia
- TSF and Lt. Grenn


Are any of these near release?


5) Darth Hayze's Unfinished WIPs.

After a well received Extended Enclave release, more projects were announced. Namely:

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2. No Headgear in Cutscenes: for those who like their headgear, but hate how it blocks faces in cutscenes, this is for you. This mod modifies every dialog/cutscene in the game to disable the headgear until the convo ends. No more faceless exile!!!

This one should be coming soon as well, after I get one or more of these others out.

3. HK Repaired Chassis: This is an update of Ecce's HK chassis mod released on Kfiles. I loved the idea of making HK look like he's assembled with different parts from different models, but the original mod applied the texture to his every appearance. This will use appearance.2da to fix that.

4. No Tutorial Prologue: I like playing the prologue in TSL, I rarely skip it, and one thing that became increasingly grating was the presence of the Tutorial dialogue and voice-over. This mod will remove all dialogue telling you about game systems or story details you know like the back of your hand, in a few places there is still some of the computer's VO, but only where it felt right.

5. Twi'lek VO for Kaevee: TSLRCM added in the lost and confused padawan Kaevee into a questline on Dantooine, while the quest itself is fine, alot of people have expressed dissatisfaction with the VO. This mod will very simply replace her Basic VO with Twi'lek VO.

6 . Awakening: This is a big one. I've talked about it with only a few people, but it's the project I'm most looking forward to really getting off the ground. Most of us were disappointed with the final outcome of the Revan novel. While this mod won't be addressing that, it will lay the groundwork for something. This is basically going to be a playable version of Part 1 of Revan. You'll get choices and scenarios for dark & light, male & female. It's currently in the writing stage, as I plan out all the dialog.


Oh modder, where art thou?


Not seeing the mod you thought you would? Well - after you PM the author for an update, feel free to post your comment on a seemingly abandoned project below. (Seriously though, do PM the author.)

If any of the authors wish to either provide an update or cancel a listed project or projects, this is probably a good place to mention it as well. (If announced on DS, we can arrange to lock the thread if you so desire.)

So . . . How many of you took this way too seriously? ;) (Comment if you get the humor. )

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Quanon has brought to my attention that the Lightsaber Pack in his list above has been available since 2014. I have therefore updated the link for it and lined out the entry.

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