K1 and TSL Difficulty Options 1.0

Original review from FileFront

"Time flies when you’re having fun and let’s face it. The Knights of the Old Republic games have been around for a good number of years. The original Knights of the Old Republic is about to have its four year anniversary. Can you believe it? The sequel, Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is about to have its two and half year anniversary. Those numbers seem big, but yet it doesn’t seem that long ago these games were released.

Anyway, as time goes on and we keep playing our Knights of the Old Republic games, it tends to get easier and easier to play. We keep playing them because of the good storylines and being a Jedi or a Sith, using Force Powers, and building a lightsaber is just cool. Sometimes we need new challenges when playing our favorite games, wouldn’t you agree?

Darth Shan is back with another mod that gives you the options to increase the game difficulty level for both Knights of the Old Republic games. This mod is meant for advanced users. If you’re new to playing these games as some of you are I’ve noticed, I would make sure you’ve learned all the skills you can before trying this mod or you’re going to be very frustrated with it. Hopefully this mod will breathe new life into wanting to play them again for those who are bored of it, but lurk around here seeing what’s new. Well, this is new, so give it a shot.

As mentioned in the last paragraph that this is for both Knights of the Old Republic games and there are folders that are labeled which games they belong to, so make sure you install the right files for the right game in order to keep your games functioning properly. Get ready for a new challenge. Enjoy the mod advanced users!

Note: Please leave the author feedback, especially if you download this mod and use it. It really helps encourage the author to make more mods in the future.

-Shem"

For those of you wanting to know whether or not this is worth it? 

Look no further!            Basically this mod allows you to use other mods, without feeling like you cheated or that you are overpowered. It brings You to your KNEES. 

                         You want a challenge?

                                                Want to feel like Revan is truly the most Powerful Sith/Jedi ever!

                                                                This will bring back the epicness Kotor 1 and 2 Need.

This is a necessary mod and will break you! 

                                                  If you think he can beat Kotor 1 with your eyes closed? Open them and install this. 

You.        Will.               Never.            Be.               Able.                 To.              Close them.

Says universally compatible in the description, but the author didn't check it off as TSLRCM compatible. Anyone tested this out?

Could it be is not compatible with TSLRM because it uses a custom dialog.tlk? hmm i wonder if it will work with Dustil restoration added since it uses an updated dialog.tlk alongisde tslrm...

Could it be is not compatible with TSLRM because it uses a custom dialog.tlk? hmm i wonder if it will work with Dustil restoration added since it uses an updated dialog.tlk alongisde tslrm...

The only reason it tinkers with the dialog.tlk file is simply to have the name for ""Choke" and "Horror" from the Force Powers entries. So compatibility is universal," this means that it only uses that file to grab the name, which is non-essential.

Just don't use the dialog.tlk file and it should stilll work. In my experience, I did not install the dialog.tlk file for either kotor or TSL, and didn't have any problems.

You don't need the dialog.tlk file. (Actually it was originally needed for non-English versions of the game to make this mod work.)

TSLRCM was an ever-evolving project, so there was no testing at that time. If you are not asked to overwrite something, this will still work with any other mod.

Thanks for the mod! Just tested for TSL that difficulties past Difficult (Choke & Horror) don't have correct skill requirement DC's and actually have lower than Difficult. (For example, picking a lock at Difficult was 26DC vs horror + choke's 21DC). Thus, choke and horror gives less xp for skill checks. Not sure if this also affects dialogue checks and xp rewards.