About This File
Contains two changes to the Harbinger docking sequence on Peragus. Install either or both, your choice:
Harbinger Arrival: Free Cam
Unlocks the camera during the Harbinger arrival animation, so you can have the eerie experience of walking alongside the huge ship as it pulls closer. I think it's more ominous this way (and as a bonus, if you're replaying and don't want to watch again, you can rush through without waiting for the whole animation.)
Harbinger Arrival: Restore Movie
TSLRCM replaces the single movie when the Harbinger arrives at Paragus with a 3-step sequence: a movie, an in-engine cut scene, then another movie. This puts the original movie back while keeping all the other TSLRCM changes.
Why do that?
The main reason to prefer the in-engine cut scene is that the original movie looks awful - space shots of the ship arriving can get away with a fuzzy low resolution, since they're so different from the gameplay, but the middle section really suffers by comparison. But, Naelavok's Remastered (Upscaled) Cutscenes improve the movie quality enough to compete with the rendering.
PapaZinos' Harbinger Arrival Performance Enhancement mod does a lot of great work to make the cut scene smoother and fixes a lot of glitches, but on my machine (with the upscaled movies) there's still a loading delay when switching from a movie, to an in-engine rendering, back to a movie. The single movie has smooth fades, so it has better pacing for this important scene. I still recommend the Performance Enhancement mod, though, because it fixes a lot of other glitches in the sequence, and it greatly improves another brief cut scene after the Harbinger arrives. To make sure PapaZinos' hard work on the in-engine rendering doesn't go to waste, I used it to add a little improvement to that cutscene as well...
Compatibility
- Restore Movie isn't needed with vanilla KOTOR2. Free Cam works with it.
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Both work with TSLRCM with or without the Harbinger Arrival Performance Enhancement.
- Install this after both of those, and anything else that modifies the Harbinger arrival sequence.
- Tested with the KOTOR2 Spoiler-Free Mod Build (which includes the Performance Enhancement), but it should work with the Full Mod Build too.
Other Recommended Mods
- KOTOR2 Spoiler-Free Mod Build: https://www.nexusmods.com/kotor2/mods/1186
- PapaZinos' Harbinger Arrival Performance Enhancement: https://deadlystream.com/files/file/2027-harbingers-arrival-performance-enhancement-for-tslrcm
- Naelavok's Remastered (Upscaled) Cutscenes: https://www.nexusmods.com/kotor2/mods/1066
- Malkior's A Darker Peragus REDUX: https://deadlystream.com/files/file/722-a-darker-peragus-redux
- JoeNotCharles' Streamlined Peragus: https://deadlystream.com/files/file/2470-streamlined-peragus
