[K1] Yavin IV Planet Mod 1.0.0

I really wish I could write a positive review, and in my defense I really tried hard to like this mod, and have played through it twice in it's entirety. 

To begin, the story, quests, action, etc are not bad, which is why I gave it 2 stars. Although some of the content can be confusing at first, like the door in Exar Kun's tomb.

Now the reasons why it's 2 stars instead of 5.

This mod is a mess. It alters things that it has no reason to, creating conflicts where there shouldn't be any.

It adds placeables that add to the overall limit when it doesn't need to (there are alternatives that don't affect the limit). 

But the biggest problems are the items and textures. For one the items that it adds are incredibly overpowered. Every one of them might as well be called "God's Robes", "God's Lightsaber Crystal", etc.

Next, it replaces items and textures without any disclaimer or warning that it does so. It also edits items, once again without any warning that it does so. For example in order to have the new lightsaber crystals work with the vanilla sabers, the authors of course had to include edited uti's for these files, but they added a +2 to attack to the double saber, effectively nullifying any penalty when combined with TWF. Again this change is made without making the end user aware of it. So for your entire playthrough you have a +2 to attack if you use double sabers.

It adds a set of Revan's Robes into the module, and edits the existing set, for the existing set it replaces the vanilla textures with new (ugly) ones. For the new set it does add a new uti that uses a new texture variation, but it changes a bunch of lines in appearance.2da to use this new model/texture, which messes with other Revan Robe mods. And there was no reason to do this, the mod already has new robes and didn't need to recycle (and change) Revan's. 

Next, it changes republic armor. I don't mean that it adds a new set for the player to wear, I mean that it changes the model/texture of the existing armor the republic soldiers uses to an ugly dark blue version and edits appearance.2da to have all republicsoldiers use the new version. Again, it just does this with no disclaimer. The creator of this mod clearly loves the color blue, because they added it into everything. 

It also adds armor which overwrites vanilla models and textures, using new ones instead (even more blue).

Some of the items it adds are cool, but as I said above they are extremely overpowered and are more or less cheat tier items. Just to make these items usable I had to edit every single one of them. I also had to do an absolute ton of editing to undo all the texture and model changes.

After all the work I did just to undo all of the unnecessary changes this mod makes, and to rebalance the items (I don't like playing on god mode), I replayed it. And after replaying it, I decided it simply wasn't worth the hassle and re-installed my entire modpack (it's massive) without this mod.

I wish I had more positive things to say, but I don't,  this mod is extremely shoddy work. I highly recommend that people avoid this mod, unless you are ok with all of the problems I outlined above. 

Opening doors that usually lead elsewhere in the game kinda caught me off guard and I do like the story. And I gotta say- the ending twist... I would never have expected that. Excellent work.

A very nice mod, it adds a whole new planet to explore, with lots of new quests, areas, characters and some very powerful items.

I highly reccomend it!