It's entirely unbelievable that the Selkath could take over Hrakert station. No matter how many more of them there were down there than the Republic crews, most don't use weapons, most are confined to individual rooms (and none are simply wandering around), there are absolutely no ambushes or unanticipated encounters, and you even see them attacking one another. They're slow, weak, and not coordinated. A mercenary team could've easily blown through them, and it's cripplingly immersion-breaking that the Selkath are spoken about in such terrified tones when they're some of the easiest fights in the game. It's made worse by there being hostile droids down there--there's no reason for those to be present. The Selkath went insane when the Firaxa sent out its call; they don't have the mental capacity to have reprogrammed the droids.

I don't know exactly what needs to be done to resolve this idiosyncrasy, but something is definitely needed. Just making the Selkath more difficult to fight would not, I think, resolve the issue (nor would it necessarily make any sense; they're not exactly built for combat, seemingly). I think giving them all weapons and preventing them from attacking one another is at least a start. It might also not be a bad idea to treat Selkath sort of like the K2 Sith Assassins, where they spawn when you're already within a room, cloaked at the very edges, and then turn hostile and rush you once you're already inside. That would at least make the assertion that they came out of nowhere and swarmed the mercenary parties realistic, implying that they're coming from vents or hatches and attacking anything that moves and isn't a Selkath. There should also probably be many more of them, and they should rush the party in large groups as compensation for the removal of all the hostile droids in the area.

Salk's Swoop Bike Upgrades mod is a step on the road to this, but what I'd really like to see in a comprehensive swoop racing mod is something which shakes it from being the basically free credits it is right now. As it stands, although Salk's mod makes winning the races easier, it's still possible to race perfectly with a default swoop, win the races without any investment and pocket all the money. Swoop racing is basically just a free money printer for players which they've grown to accept is an inevitable financial injection.

I'd like to see two things: first, changed swoop racing times which make purchasing at least some upgrades mandatory to be able to win the top tier of races. Second, more upgrades, preferably with some interplay between them (for instance, maybe an accelerator reduces your top speed and vice-versa, so you need to buy a separate module that increases top speed to offset it if you want to get real benefit out of it). A system like this would take swooping from being a given to having a significant financial buy-in to gain high-end rewards. It should still be profitable, but once at least SOME money is required to be put down to be a serious contender, the calculus changes and it becomes less of a rote expectation in players' calculations of their income and progression.

The Leviathan Command Deck is way too easy. It might not be the Star Forge, but the approach to the bridge of a fleet flagship should be one of its most heavily-defended points. They know you're coming and an alarm is blaring, but you have to fight nothing but a few patrols and, OPTIONALLY, two barracks full of men? There should be a lot more difficulty here--pop-up minefields, doors shutting and locking behind you, additional patrols pouring into the level. If possible, the player should feel heavily pressured to get out as soon as possible.

Now, with that said, I am generally against eternal spawns. I don't like it on the Star Forge, and at best I tolerate it on the way back through the command deck going down to the hangar. So rather than patrols constantly spawning, it might be best for entry into certain rooms to trigger a patrol to "come up" through the elevator, and you'd get an ingame cutscene of them pouring out and then rushing to your position, where they'd begin to engage you. So each room would have a risk of traps, as well as a new patrol rushing you.

Ostensibly, anyway. All you need to do right now is throw some fodder at a bantha and kill a couple of Tusken and it dies in a cutscene.

Some level of player agency needs to be added back into the dragon encounter, even if all it boils down to is Komad asking the player to be the one to put down the minefield. But I'd much prefer it if there were an actual element of skill and a risk of losing the fight. I imagine that fighting the dragon is entirely impractical due to its size and a lack of animations, but if any method could be found which would give the player direct agency over some aspect of the encounter and run the risk of a potential loss, that would be huge.

They call it the quick and easy path, but really in KOTOR playing DS isn't all that easy. As a DS player the main attribute that you benefit from is meant to be STR, just like LS focuses WIS. But unlike the Qel-Droma Robes and Circlet of Saresh, which are both best-in-slot for LS casters (at least until you get the Star Forge robes), DS players get... Marka Ragnos's gauntlets, which give less STR than either the Geno'Haradan gauntlets or the Dominator gauntlets, both of which are better in-slot and don't even have alignment restrictions. And Tulak Hord's mask lets you... resist fire? I guess? Cool?

DS equipment fucking sucks is what I'm getting at. Their gear is geared towards melee but is worse at it than items which have no alignment restrictions, and they have absolutely no caster gear to speak of. Although I think Ragnos's gauntlets being worse than the other two is kind of unforgivable and would like to see the progression be Geno'Haradan at 3, Dominator at 4 and Ragnos's at 5, that's not what this request is about. Rather, this is about giving DS casters something to work with, since right now in the original game they have nothing at all.

The Dark Side is all about seduction: lying to others and yourself as you fall irrevocably deeper into its embrace. In this context, I think it makes sense for a few new (or modified) items to give CHA to a DS player, so that DS casters can benefit. The totals should not be able to reach the benefit that WIS gives for LS casters (in other words, no more than 5 CHA distributed across maybe 2 items), but it should be enough to give a DS caster some options, and some additional DC to their Force abilities that leaves them less out in the woods when it comes to items that fit their build.

I grant that by the time Saul knows you've broken out the route to the bridge is already cut, so he can't get additional reinforcements. I feel like the bridge is ludicrously under-defended even still, however--again, even sitting in the middle of nowhere camping a hyperlane without anticipating encountering enemy forces, this is still an extremely advanced starship. There should be a few additional pop-up turrets at minimum, and potentially also a couple of additional troopers.

Star Forge spawns are awful and we all know it. I know there's at least one mod out there that tries to add some sanity to it, but I think all it does is cap spawn numbers, which isn't the full problem as I see it. Presently there are two primary problems with the system: enemies can spawn directly in your line-of-sight, and they spawn infinitely. What I would like to see, ideally, is a system which guarantees that enemies will never spawn within the player's scope of vision, and which also caps enemy spawns in given spawn zones to a certain number of waves. This would help players who are DS (and thus forced to take Bastila with them) from having to try to drag her away from infinitely-spawning waves of enemies to get to the module transition point while still retaining significant difficulty.

Dueling is not a bad feat; there is a niche for it, but it is a very, very small niche--a niche where the player choosing Dueling cares more about a small Defense bonus than they do significantly higher damage output, which is basically never. Even a Jedi who is focused on Force abilities has no real incentive not to dual-wield anyway, unless they are catastrophically feat-starved (in which case they wouldn't pick Dueling anyway).

I'd like to buff Dueling in a maybe unconventional way, but one that I think makes sense. Most characters who use single single-bladed sabers in both games are Consulars, although in Kreia's case I suppose it's not by choice. Regardless, I think there's some logic to this: by using a single saber the Jedi is minimizing distractions in combat and disassociating themselves from offensive use of their weapon in order to focus on the Force, be that offensively or defensively. I think it would make sense to give each level of dueling a small increase to the DC required to save against the Duelist's Force abilities, to represent their emphasis on the Force as their weapon: 1/1/1, 2/1/1, or 0/1/1 would all make sense depending upon balance concerns, and I leave that to the modder's discretion. I also think a +1 passive regen to Force points on the final tier would make some sense, again to represent the Jedi's overwhelming focus on the Force over and above conventional melee combat.

I realize that these are all buffs which apply only to Jedi, and does not improve Dueling's utility for anyone who isn't a Jedi. That's a valid criticism, and one I can't think a way around. Giving any bonuses which would help non-Jedi would just make the Jedi buffs overpowered when they're already quite strong, and giving the tree general improvements rather than focusing it on Force-users makes less sense, in my opinion, and also runs the risk of simply making the tree too strong (like dual-wielding is presently) rather than something which fits a specific niche. I am open to alternate suggestions, however.

I don't know about everyone else, but in my experience Twitch is much easier to beat than Marl. The rest of the dueling arena on Taris has a pretty logical difficulty curve that feels very natural, but Twitch is just inexplicably easy.

I'd really like a difficulty mod for Twitch that makes him feel properly more difficult to defeat than Marl, without making Bendak feel like he isn't a big step up in difficulty in comparison. The entire progression, from Duncan to Bendak, should feel fairly linear in difficulty increase.

Sentinels have all the proper class skills they should with the K1CP, but they have poor actual skills per level (Scoundrel gets 3 at 8 INT, whereas Sentinel gets only 1). This limits their effectiveness even further in a game where skills are already very weak, and giving them more base skills for their class would be a simple buff to make Sentinels more useful.

Bastila is the sole person that the entire Sith occupying force is looking for on Taris. They know what she looks like, they know she's a Jedi, and they're hunting her with all of their will. However, dozens of troopers in the upper city just miss her running around with her lightsaber out, or killing half of them in the Sith base. Uh-huh.

I would very much like a no-frills mod which requires Bastila to wear headgear which hides her face while on Taris, as well as preventing her from equipping her lightsaber (whether that's achieved by scripting or simply not giving her her lightsaber until Dantooine, either is fine with me). I know there's one mod at least that already does this, but I wasn't super fond of its particular implementation, so I'd very much like to try someone else's take on it.

When you land on Kashyyyk, Zaalbar tells you early on that he was exiled from the planet, and why. When you meet with Chuundar this is affirmed, as well as confirming that Chuundar and Zaalbar are brothers, and sons of the chieftain Freyyr. But if you have Mission in your party when first meeting Freyyr, she acts shocked that Zaalbar was exiled, exclaiming that he never told her that, as well as being incredulous that he's some kind of "Wookiee prince" and that Chuundar was his brother.

Now, these responses make sense if Mission wasn't in your party for Zaalbar's story or your confrontation with Chuundar, but she says these things even if she was. It would be nice if there was a check to see if Mission was present at either conversation; if only the first she shouldn't interject with her line about being exiled, and if she was present at both she should say nothing when you're speaking to Freyyr at all.

I should preface that I'm not even sure if it's possible to do this, but it frustrates me when I can finish a race just a couple of milliseconds short of the record time and the entire crowd will laugh at me and the race organizer will mock me for a bad run. It just doesn't feel realistic; close races like that are great. I'd love it if there were three tiers of reaction rather than two: cheers for winning and boos for losing like there are now, but also a more mixed reaction if your time was very close to the record: nodding from some, clapping from others, shaking heads or anger from a few, with the organizer congratulating you on a close time. Let's say that reaction would proc if you were within 50ms of the record, whereas the current loss reaction would become the reaction for a "bad loss" and would be for any time 51ms or greater over the record time.

Items like Exar Kun and Darth Bandon's armor exist, yet have dubious utility, both for their ostensible owners and the party itself. Though Bandon is shown to be able to cast in his armor, the player can't. And while both suits can be upgraded, there are other, better armors out there for non-Jedi party members. Long story short, Bandon and Exar's armors are just above-average sets with limited real utility to any party member, Jedi or not.

I'd like a couple of things here. First, for immersion's sake, I'd really like Exar's armor to be moved from its current merchant and either moved to a world drop or given to Suvam. It makes very little sense for a random merchant to have the armor, and it would make more sense for it to be lying unclaimed somewhere, or most likely for Suvam to have it, since he's explored Yavin IV.

Second, I'd like to see all armors which are explicitly attributed to Jedi or Sith be universally nerfed, BUT allow Force abilities. Ideally none of these armors, even with both upgrades slotted in, should have more than 5 defense, so upgrades should not give any AC. They should probably also come with some sort of penalty for casters, maybe a reduction to WIS, to represent the difficulty of casting Force abilities while encumbered--it should be allowed, but discouraged for offensive use. But their presence would then make a certain amount of sense--they would fill a specific niche this way, unlike they do now, in that they would be attractive to Jedi builds which don't rely on offensive Force powers but would benefit from higher AC while still being able to cast buffs.

How, exactly, does Calo know that Bastila was with the player if the player elects not to take Bastila with them to Davik's estate? The same question goes for Carth. Based on the dialogue when leaving Davik's estate, the rest of the party is still in the hideout at this time. Not only is that kinda stupid, it also leaves no way for Calo to know you have Bastila with you if you, say, only bring Canderous and Mission to the estate. It makes even less sense that the party is at the hideout when you consider you can swap the party at any time while in the estate.

I think a sensible way around this is to cut any lines referring to going to pick the party up with the Ebon Hawk while also having the whole party run in behind the player when Calo holds up his thermal detonator. This way Calo would have seen everyone together, been able to identify Bastila and Carth, and there's no weirdness about where the party is during all this mess and why you can hot-swap out.

Logically, why would a Sith guard stopping civilians from entering the lower city look at somebody in Sith armor and a random civilian behind him and just think "this looks legit"? If you're going to sneak down to the undercity, you probably need to look like a patrol, not a random soldier with a civilian hanger-on. That just screams suspicious.

Parametric made a mod for this a while back, though it was never uploaded on Deadlystream. That mod has some bugs, however, the most glaring being that, although the guard properly stops the party if only one of them has armor on, you can simply walk past him and interact with the elevator anyway, which defeats the purpose of the entire mod. I'd really like another look at something like this which forces the player to find gear for both Carth and themselves and to both have it equipped to be allowed down into the lower city.

Geno'Haradan leader Vorn Daasraad is found next to the corpse of a Krayt Dragon he had killed. There's no Dragon remains in or surrounding it, which implies he'd already taken his prize from the corpse, and logically that he should have at least one pearl on him. It's not said that every single dragon would have a pearl, but this one looked to be a big one, and the larger dragon in the deep dune sea had two.

Since almost nobody ever uses the pearl to speak to the Tusken storyteller, the presence of another might hopefully incentivize players to do so.

The Twi'lek merc you encounter when first entering the Hrakert station says emphatically he's going to wait right by the submersible for you to fix whatever's driving the Selkath and sharks crazy. Yet if you clear the entire station of hostiles and return to leave, even if Manaan isn't your third planet and Bandon doesn't come down to kill you, the Twi'lek is just gone. No corpse, just gone. It doesn't make sense; he should still be there, and come with you back up to the station, unless (if possible) you left any Selkath still alive before going out to the underwater section. In that case you should find his corpse, just as you should if Bandon comes down to face you.

You can convince Jagi, Canderous's old war compatriot, not to fight on the basis that Canderous's actions were correct. However, even if Jagi admits that he was in the wrong and commits suicide, his two hired goons fight you anyway. For what possible purpose? Lotta loyalty for a hired merc.

I'd like them to just sort of glance at each other if he kills himself and then run away toward Anchorhead, so the player wouldn't be required to kill anyone if they successfully resolve the situation with Jagi via dialogue.

When you get rid of the Czerka poachers in the Shadowlands by disabling their sonic emitters, a Tarentatek appears to drive them off. While there is a Tarentatek on the planet, he's in the lower Shadowlands beyond the Czerka energy barrier. Jolee does say that native fauna are climbers that can get around those barriers, but Tarentatek aren't native to Kashyyyk, and even if they were Freyyr makes it clear that the Tarentatek is smart--it doesn't hunt large groups, and that's why they have the ritual to draw it out. It doesn't make sense for it to go after the large and well-defended Czerka camp under any circumstances, and it makes even less sense that the player would just let it happen without engaging it. I'd like for the Tarentatek to be replaced with something more fitting for the area--probably a Katarn pack, although if the modder wants to be exotic a Maalras pack could be taken from KOTOR 2, just to capture the same sort of sense that the Tarentatek conveyed originally: that there are exotic threats in the jungle which they have not seen.

You can sneak into the Tusken enclave by wearing Sand People robes, sure. But why exactly do the other Tusken who are walking around in front of the Enclave not notice if you happen to walk up to one of them and casually murder them like 20 feet away? That seems very odd.

I suggest that, if the player gets discovered by any of the Tusken outside their Enclave or sets off any of the mines in the vicinity, all the Tusken in the area should turn hostile while they receive a notice that the enclave turrets will activate in 10 seconds, and they must get far enough away by that time so as not to be instantly killed. If this happens they will have to return again and try to sneak back in later. This makes revealing yourself to the Tusken an actually bad decision, unlike the free XP farming it is in vanilla.

The "energy laser" thing the Rakata chanters cause to happen to unlock the Temple is flat-out hokey and weird. I would like the laser and sound effects to be removed entirely, and for the barrier on the door to simply go away after a brief time of them chanting, with the player and party rushing in while they continue to chant to keep the barrier down.

Okay maybe not under normal circumstances, but for the Mandalorian on Korriban it is. If you ask him how to help him, he specifically asks you to put him into shock so he doesn't have to reveal his stash. If you then comply with his request and put him into shock you... get DS points. Huh.

If you put him into shock without actively convincing him you're trying to help him, you should get the DS points. However, if you convince him you're trying to assist him and put him into shock as he requests, you should get LS points.

When you're assassinating the Geno'Haradan leadership, you believe (or at least, can believe) that you're doing it for good reasons. But almost unique to K1, to complete this quest at all you're required to take DS points, and a significant amount. But why would the player be evil for taking actions they think are for the greater good? Assassination is distasteful, and I'm not suggesting they should be out here getting LS points or anything, but if they truly believe what they're doing is for the good of the galaxy and don't realize that they're being misled or revel in the deed, I don't think they should get the DS points.

This would work, as implied, based off of the player's dialogue with each target. If they simply don't care about why they're doing the assassinations or take pleasure in hunting or goading their targets, the DS points should remain. But if they're dispassionate and maintain that they're only doing what they are for the sake of the galaxy, they should not gain DS points until Hulas reveals to them what they've truly done, at which time they should get a single DS shift (to represent their tortured conscious at the revelation of their actions).

Especially for new players, I think it would be beneficial to include something which indicates to the player that there's a reason to come back to speak with Yuthura every time you gain prestige. Perhaps an unvoiced ingame popup at the end of her mandatory dialogue with the player after entering the Academy which reads something like, [Even though she has confided her plan to you, you get the sense that Yuthura isn't willing to trust you yet. As you gain more prestige and it becomes obvious you will be the prospect selected to become Sith, she may open up more to you.]

This would be an absolute ton of work, and is probably the most unrealistic request of everything here. It would also be one of the most difficult to achieve in a way which would allow for mod build inclusion, given the scope of the changes it would necessarily involve and how seamless they would need to be. Nevertheless, I list it here in case someone else might be thinking along the same lines.

One of the most popular requests on the subreddit, either in a wishlist for the remake or as a standalone mod presently, is to make Yuthura a companion. I broadly agree with this; the game has a dearth of actually DS-aligned party members, and not a one of them being Force Sensitive. Yuthura is also in the unique position of having the potential to be redeemed already, so you could feasibly recruit her either as a Sith or as a redeemed Jedi, and either would have a unique perspective.

The nature of this mod would require massive changes across much of the game, however, and I'm aware of just how daunting a prospect that is. Writing new dialogue with her and party banter between her and the other companions and recording it; integrating her into existing scenes; taking T3 out of the party and putting him as an NPC on the ship; finding a way to work her into the Temple sequence when you already have a full party. It would be a tremendous amount of work. However, I can promise that, if the attempt is made, I will take a serious look at integrating it.

This one would be tough, and is perhaps a bit of a pipedream, but one of the things I am generally most frustrated about in KOTOR is the lack of party dynamism. KOTOR 2's influence system is an abomination in many ways, but at least it actually makes your party feel like a living thing. In KOTOR you can bait Juhani, you can be ruthless to Juhani, you can make her feel rage and anger and hatred for the man who killed her father... and she will end up saying "nooo don't become a sith your so sexy good at heart haha" at the Temple. Bitch what?

For the most part, I feel the companions in KOTOR at least have suitable reasons to behave as they do. HK, Canderous and (to an extent) Zalbaar will follow you no matter where you go, because you're their natural leader. Carth, Mission and Jolee will always stand against you if you turn to the Dark Side, and all have a wealth of experience in their lives to tell them that's the right thing, and they shouldn't budge. But not Juhani. Juhani is consumed by doubt and rage when you find her, and even when she is calmed, that rage is never far from the surface. If the player worked with her to bring her to peace, then her words at the Temple would make sense. Yet if the player had worked to prey on her anxieties, had deliberately made her feel her rage and give in to her temptations to kill Xor, we should not be seeing a Juhani who repudiates the Sith. In short: Juhani, like Revan themselves, should be able to truly fall.

By necessity a mod such as this would require either a perfect Juhani impression or, more likely, AI VO. It would likely also require at least a decent amount of writing, to convey Juhani's changing outlook across conversations as you tempt her closer and closer to the Dark Side, eventually culminating in her fall when Xor is killed and her betrayal of Jolee at the Temple mount. But I think giving Juhani that dynamism would instantly move her from being regarded as a C-rank companion at best to a fan favorite.

T3 in KOTOR could at best be called a sort of pathetic joke. He opens the door to the Sith Military Base and then, if you try to talk to him after that, his dialogue is essentially a polite way of saying they didn't write him any dialogue. He's clearly the weakest link in the game, which is why I think it would be acceptable to make him an NPC and replace him with Yuthura in the long-term.

With that said, T3's unimportance in the original game is the pure inverse of his importance in KOTOR 2. He's got such a central role in the sequel that I think it's whiplash-inducing how much you can totally forget about him in the original after you get off of Taris. I would like for a mod to take a stab at making a sort of "build-your-own-T3" concept, except instead of actual physical construction what you're building is his personality, through dialogue with him over time. A lot of this would necessarily be forced to turn out the same way--for instance, KOTOR 2 doesn't work if T3 doesn't idolize the player, so no matter what the little droid would need to get very attached to Revan. But there would be room for some nuance, such as how exactly that idolization comes about, as well as for some genuinely variable sequences, for instance in how T3 views Bastila and your other companions. I think giving him some dialogue and a budding personality over the course of the game will help players grow their attachment to him, as well as make it less strange when KOTOR 2 gives him such a huge role and defined personality where KOTOR had none at all.

Zaalbar is shown to be... impressionable, to put it politely. After just a brief time in his brother's company he suddenly starts to question his entire world-view and wonder if slavery is maybe not so bad after all. Given how absolutely moronic Zaalbar appears to be, this got me thinking. You're fully free to drop him off with Chuundar, leave Kashyyyk, and only go get him back at the very end. What if he was with Chuundar all that time, and not just a few brief days?

I'd argue that, if you leave Zaalbar with Chuundar and go complete other star maps, there should be consequences. Zaalbar should become less LS-aligned, and eventually become DS-aligned as Chuundar poisons his mind. If Zaalbar is left on Kashyyyk before the first star map is completed and only recovered last, he should be so far gone that he refuses to support Freyyr even if you do, and instead backs Chuundar (though he could be spared after the player wins, in this scenario he would refuse to acknowledge Freyyr as chieftain and be banished again). This route would also allow Zaalbar to betray and execute Mission without rebelling against the player after, as he has been so thoroughly corrupted to respect only strength.

Best of all, all of this should be achievable without needing any VO, just some new writing for the Wookiees and the player. It would add much-welcome dynamism to the party and another potential route to consider for DS players, while not having anywhere near the same overhead as other companion requests.

Your companions are REMARKABLY blasé about their fearless leader being the meat sack of the mind that once waged a war of unbelievable brutality against the Republic. Carth is the only one who really takes it seriously, and even he honestly handles the revelation better than he probably should! I would very much like to see a lot of additional reactivity to the player being discovered to be Revan, achieved through the use of AI VO. It would be nice if the initial revelation isn't as much of a hugbox, with the party more seriously grilling the player about how much they remember and whether they've actually changed, especially if they've taken DS actions to that point. It would also be nice if, after the revelation has occurred, there was additional interjection dialogue in encounters where companions can talk positively about LS choices showing that the player has really changed, while DS choices bring trepidation and warnings.

Difficult for limited benefit, and thus very low priority, but almost every user on the subreddit agrees the sewers are the worst part of the game. I think a consolidation of the two sewer modules into one by cutting several of the side paths and having Mission's force field door lead straight down to the Rancor room without need of a module transition would help speed things up and make an otherwise annoyingly long part of an already annoyingly long planet work better.

There's a gap in door geometry leading into the Manaan Sith embassy at the top of the door (you can see into the interior of the elevator while the door is closed). Also a small gap to the bottom left and right side of the door at the base of the walls where you can see water moving beneath, if standing at the embassy desk.

There are a lot of Kinrath. Kinrath in the Dantooine crystal caves, Kinrath on the Great Walkway (despite them being miles up, and Kinrath being a burrowing species...) and Kinrath in the Shadowlands as well. Replacing the Kinrath on the Great Walkway would increase ecological diversity on Kashyyyk, which after all is meant to be a planet whose ecology is quite literally on overdrive, while also reducing the over-use of Kinrath as an enemy type. Unfortunately, the only candidate I can think of for this replacement is another burrowing species: Laigrek, from KOTOR 2's Dantooine sublevel. Alternately one could replace the Shadowlands Kinrath with Laigrek since Laigrek are shown to be more universally a burrowing species than Kinrath, but that would require editing the baiting sequence for the Tarentatek to have a Laigrek drop the corpse bait and replace the corpse icon with a Laigrek rather than a Kinrath.

I should start out on this one by saying I would, of course, prefer handmade textures. But the reality is that that's a ton of work, and even for a game of KOTOR's size it's unrealistic to get that. AI makes upscaling the games environments feasible, but there are problems with this--principally that almost all AI upscales out there today are either poor quality, completely butcher textures' alpha channels, are far larger than they need to be to the extent that it exacerbates the game's memory leak, or an unholy combination of all three.

I would desperately like to work with someone who could coordinate with me on making an AI upscale for the basegame which is aligned with the mod builds--that is to say one which values the vanilla design; is double-checked by hand to ensure that alpha channels on each texture are handled properly after the upscale; and which specifically includes compatibility patches for several of the texture/model mods which the mod builds already include. This is naturally going to be a large amount of work, as each time the builds undergo a Revision new compatches would need to be made, but the most significant time and labor investment would be for the first version, and after that only a few texture mods would need to be taken into account for each new Revision.

Currently there are many player heads which are situationally used to replace NPC heads to add to the game's variety, but there are also many player heads which aren't used at all, and many, many NPCs which could benefit from more unique appearances. It'd be nice to see a mod make full use of all the alternate player heads on existing NPCs, to make more of the NPCs you interact with over the course of the game visually distinct.

Think USM, but with better balance, consistency, and less bloat. I would love to see a comprehensive take on a lightsaber mod which includes proper unique hilts for the game's most important Jedi and Sith, while also including a variety of unique hilts that the player can find, craft and/or modify. The landscape for hilt mods has been far too limited to this point, I feel, with much of the focus either being solely on unique hilts for NPCs or tying redesigns to color crystals, rather than a comprehensive joining of both concepts. And, of course, most mods are old enough that they didn't have the opportunity to take advantage of @Crazy34's excellent saber lighting, nor the ability to back-port KOTOR 2's color palette into the original.

@JCarter426 is cooking something here and could use help, but with no disrespect intended to my co-author I'm not fully wedded to his concept. I think there are multiple ways to do a good saber mod, and whether in the form of assistance to JC or a standalone shot at it I would love to see some attempts made.

For being a ship that's imminently in danger of exploding, the Endar Spire is a remarkably clean and functional vessel. Sure, they are a few piles of rubble and a tiny little bit of sparks, but the ship blows up literal seconds after you leave. With that in mind, it is a remarkably visually undamaged. I'd love to see a mod which presents the Endar Spire as a more obviously damaged vessel which is under imminent threat of destruction.

We have SithSpecter's incredible HQ Blasters, and about a billion lightsaber mods of every variety. We have AI upscales of every area in the game (of dubious quality though many are), and almost all the characters. What we most decidedly do not have is a comprehensive and high-quality texture (and, if necessary, model) improvement package for melee weapons, which seem to languish. At best there are a handful of standalones, but oftentimes these standalones aren't broadly respectful of the aesthetic design of the vanilla weapons, and even those that are only cover a small proportion of the weapons available ingame. This would be a major visual consistency improvement.

To be clear, I am generally not looking for AI work in this request (such projects already exist). I'm also not asking for SithSpecter quality here, because his blaster mod is hard to top; just a human touch which enhances the visuals of each weapon while preserving their general appearance. I say human touch specifically because, since many of these weapons are very low-res, a direct AI upscale would probably just make them look like garbage, with garish colors or patterns. A human eye will translate the underlying intent of the design without making it look terrible, I feel.

The One, despite being effectively the leader of the largest Rakata nation, a latently Force-Sensitive Rakata, and an unparalleled warlord is a pushover to fight and his only visual distinction is that he's slightly more pale than the other Black Rakata. He rules hundreds of islands and has scavenged gear from at least dozens of ship crashes, but he fights in a glorified tunic with common vibroblades.

Thematic The One, a new mod by JC me, at least addresses some of the ease with which The One is dispatched. But I would also like to make him more visually distinct, with an appearance that reflects his warrior nature and his accomplishments of conquering dozens of other tribes. Ideally, I'd like to see a new model/texture combo for The One which includes an armor set made up of piecemeal bits of other armors: scraps of different combat suits, Mandalorian greaves, maybe some hollowed-out Rakata skulls as vambraces to show his brutality--that sort of thing. Something which conveys that he's a warrior who has defeated many different space-faring cultures, as well as many of his own people.

I'm a big fan of Ol' Cappy's Companion Starting Armors for K2, the goal of which is to give the party armored variants of their default clothing which let them retain their unique looks a bit longer before the starting armor becomes superseded by better loot drops & more difficult enemies. I do think Cappy's armors are slightly better than they should be, but in all I love their mod.

I know that there are some mods which attempt similar things for K1, but for each I either dislike the implementation or think that the starting equipment is too powerful. I'd love a no-frills mod that functions similarly to Cappy's while maintaining lore-friendly descriptions and only moderate bonuses, so switching off the starting gear becomes logical by the midgame.

Presently, on widescreen resolutions the GUI for your swoop bike--that is, the HUD which shows the borders of your swoop cockpit, your boost level, and so on--doesn't extend to the borders of the screen, but cuts off awkwardly. This video is a good example of what I mean. A small mod to fix this would be much-appreciated.

I've spoken before--multiple times in this thread, in fact--about the concept of the "illusion of urgency"; the impression that you are in a life-or-death race with the ever-expanding strength of the Sith, and that any delay could bring about the failure of your quest. This is, of course, not how it actually works ingame. However, the sensation of this urgency, irrespective of its reality, is an important structural element of KOTOR, I feel, and enhances the atmosphere of the game considerably. My preference for maintaining this illusion is why I am generally against multi-planet quests in KOTOR, because how can an illusion of urgency be maintained if you're spending weeks in hyperspace to deliver a box to a Hutt?

There isn't much that can be done with the Geno'haradan to make their quest "urgency-compliant", nor with Motta's delivery without substantively changing what's being asked of you. Yet, with that said, I think Yavin can be "fixed."

In the vanilla game, the player has no reason to go to the Yavin system whatsoever; there's no signal or quest pointing them in that direction, they just fly there for no reason and find the best merchant in the game. Yeah right. Instead of this unprompted unlock, I would prefer that the player discovers something which suddenly makes travel to the system make sense. I'm open to alternate ideas here, but my proposal would be that the player discovers rumors that Tarentatek are still lurking on Yavin IV. This would be revealed to the player in datapads on the corpse of the Tarentatek of Kashyyyk, or the Qel-Droma corpse on Korriban, both of which would discuss the hunting party's shared concerns that Tarentatek on Yavin may have survived. Picking up either datapad would unlock the system.

Now this leads to the much harder part of this request: going to Yavin IV. In the context of this request, one can imagine that the idea for a DS player is to loot artefacts of Exar Kun, while the LS player wants to find and eliminate any remaining Tarentatek. Yet either way, regardless of alignment the player will have reason to go down there, and thematically I think it hooks well into KOTOR's narrative anyway, due to how frequently Exar Kun is discussed as the immediate antecedent--and perhaps indirect cause--of the Mandalorian Wars, and thus the Jedi Civil War. Players would need to be able to land and explore at least two modules, both of which would have to be substantively original in design; reusing elements from either game would not work here, especially since I think everyone can agree that one module should be a Massassi temple. Because of this, I imagine it would take a team to complete this request in full, and I recognize it's a tremendous ask. I put it here in hopes it might inspire someone.

As we see in KOTOR 2, Dantooine was not utterly destroyed as Taris was. This makes sense; Dantooine is a rural world, and even with the power of the Sith fleet they could do little more than fire on the small buildings they could find. They wreaked havoc and killed many, but it's not quite the same as being able to target the huge spires of a giant planetwide city, killing millions by dropping the upper levels down on the lower.

Yet despite this the party never inquires as to the state of Dantooine--whether there may be any survivors, or whether they might be able to assist. Realistically, even with the assumption that the Enclave had been completely destroyed I feel as if the party still would have attempted to return and help the survivors if they could; even a DS player likely would have done this, to loot the ruined Enclave if nothing else.

Being able to back-port areas from K2 helps tremendously with this request, as the ruined Enclave façade and perhaps parts of the interior of the upper-level (though it would need to be much more significantly damaged than the K2 restored Enclave is) could be used. The biggest troubles that I can foresee are finding a place for the 'Hawk to land (I assume using the open field right next to the Enclave might not be a terrible idea); having the Enclave upper level be even more damaged than what we see of the restored Enclave in K2, yet still having there be people there the party can try to save and a bit of loot for the player to grab; and finding sufficient other things to do on the planet to make a return worth it. I think here that the player bringing the wounded to the Matale Estate, gathering survivors there and doing quests to find lost loved ones would be one way to accomplish this, while also subtly implying that that's how the Khoonda government got started in the Matale building: the triage efforts of the K1 party there organizing most of the area's survivors there. Hell, Terena Adare from K2 might even be justified in making an appearance. There could also be stealthed Sith commando units still on the planet trying to harass locals and hunt down the last Jedi, giving the player something to actually fight while there.

The main things I'd like to avoid with this request are: entering the sublevel (we know from K2 that it's untouched, so it should remain inaccessible in K1, at least after the Sith attack--I have no problems with it being accessible to the player prior to the Leviathan); giving away that too many of the Masters survived (you should meet either Vrook or one of Dorak or Zhar, but the survival of at least two of the Masters, and especially Vandar, should be withheld until endgame, with the surviving Master you meet unsure of whether their counterparts fled successfully); and, strange as it may sound, there being too many bodies to find. There should be very few survivors but also very few corpses: remember, Malak took many of them with him to the Star Forge.

In its most recent release, the K1CP altered the star map animation on each world to be a static ingame cutscene which the player cannot move around during. I much preferred the original option of moving about while the star map opened, and would like a patch to revert this behavior.

Multiple NPCs mention muttered rumors of a Hutt on Dantooine, controlling the local economy and, it's implied, perhaps even funding Sherruk and the Mandalorian raiders terrorizing the settlers. This all comes to naught in vanilla, and I'd rather it... not. I think the idea of a Hutt on Dantooine is an interesting one, especially when one considers what his possible angle could be in organizing the Mandalorians and interfering with the local economy.

I don't have any particular ideas myself about the restoration--either how to do it in module terms or what this mystery Hutt's goal would actually be. The only requirements I would have for such a mod is the avoidance of reusing existing K1 modules (at least unless very heavily modified).

I don't think more than one additional cave is actually needed, but just in case someone wants to get fancy. While being careful not to hand the player crystals of mass destruction and make the game trivial, I do think K1 has a dearth of useful lightsaber crystals and that it's somewhat disappointing for the Jedi on Dantooine to warn you about running across crystal caves only for you to encounter exactly... one.

What planet to put the new cave on I leave entirely up to the mod fulfiller, as I could see arguments for every planet, even Manaan. An underwater cave system with crystals in it would be really cool, actually. My main requirement for such a mod would be that only a few crystals from K2 be back-ported into K1, if any are whatsoever, and none of them among K2's rare crystals. Most of the crystals used for this project, ideally, should be original crystals unique to K1, so both games retain their variety.

It's implied by the Elder Rakatan researcher that you could reach a peaceful solution with The One and bring him to the Elders for them to study. Whether this was actually planned and walked back or simply a flavorful line of dialogue for what is ultimately an impossibility, it annoys me that it's presented as an option and then you simply can't achieve it.

I'd like it if there was a mod that made it possible to talk The One down, if you speak to the Elder historian and learn the full history of the Rakata. I think it would be difficult, with how aggressive the Black Rakata are, to actually talk them into a fully peaceful solution, but if you have a good idea for this I wouldn't be opposed. My personal take on how to achieve this would be forcing the player to fight the Black Rakata as normal if you side with the Elders, but upon reaching The One you could reveal to him the true history of the Rakata and present him an ultimatum: death at your hand, or surrender and the possibility to elevate all of the Rakata back to the stars. This would require a high persuade to succeed.

This wouldn't be a true "peaceful" solution I suppose, but it would be a way to complete this quest without having to kill the only latently Force-Sensitive Rakata out there. This modified quest would also need to be tied into the existing quest to return the genetic data from the Temple to the Elder Researcher, and I'd prefer for the player to be able to do both.

This is an extremely general category because I don't necessarily have amazing ideas for it myself, and is included at least partly for brainstorming purposes. There are areas in KOTOR 2 (such as the Enclave sublevel, or Ludo Kressh's tomb on Korriban) which are inaccessible in the original game but could be ported over, potentially with great benefit. This is merely a thought experiment and I believe Kressh's tomb specifically would be better to retain as a KOTOR 2 exclusive, but just for argument's sake, imagine that Revan entering Kressh's tomb would force the player to confront jumbled and amorphous threats from their past, both as Revan and as the programmed identity the Jedi gave them--a hint that not all is what it seems. And, while the player wouldn't be able to take loot from the same containers the Exile can loot in K2 (unless the Star Wars universe comes with spontaneous item genesis), Revan could at least get to Kressh's actual burial chamber and do something there to leave an echo of themselves, something that would--implicitly--explain the vision of Revan the Exile encounters there years later.

I think reusing these areas in careful and intentional ways would be a great way to expand the game's content while keeping the quality high.

It's strongly implied that initially there would be a way for the player to successfully sneak into the Sith base without being detected, get the probe module and get out. I think adding in this possibility would be very interesting, as well as being a helpful way of letting the player have more agency overall. The biggest question to my mind is how the sneaking in would work practically, and how the player could handle the situation with the Selkath children if they were in the base incognito. These are surmountable issues however, I feel.

It is, perhaps, a stupid thing to get angry about. But I mald every time I go out of my way to get the Rakghoul serum before talking to the Republic soldier at the downed escape shuttle, and he has a grand total of ONE extra line of dialogue before he runs DIRECTLY INTO A PACK OF RAKGHOULS AND GETS HIMSELF KILLED. There's no reason that he has to die other than that BioWare didn't want him as a party member so he couldn't be allowed to stick around.

But why does he have to be a party member, actually? I'd love a mod where you can actually cure him from the disease and save him from the attacking Rakghoul, and if you do he escapes from the undercity and makes his way to your hideout in the upper city. He could just chill there in a corner as an NPC, and eventually escape from Taris with the crew, disembarking on Dantooine to return to the fight.

Not only would this cure my irrational annoyance, I think it would also add some believability to the circumstances on Taris. Most people don't save this guy, but if you do there's someone who will never join your party who nevertheless makes it out and lives another day because of you. Your narrow party won't necessarily be the only survivors of Taris.

As of right now, I doubt enough VO of this guy actually exists to train an AI model to give him the lines he'd need, however. A voice actor would likely either need to be found, or the soldier would need to be made an alien and given alien VO for this to work.

Revan may have brain damage, but I think even then it's a stretch that they don't realize what Marlena means when she says she's "done planning" to kill Tanis. And all you can say is UHHH WHAT IF HE HAS A MESSAGE FOR YOU? Come the fuck on BioWare. Anyone older than six would realize what's happening, and a Jedi would try to detain Marlena until they could get a grasp of the situation.

I know a mod like this already exists, and indeed I used it for a while, but I have some problems with its implementation, and especially its writing, that I think a more modern take can fix. An LS player should be trying to detain Marlena (after which she may resist), while a DS player should either try to kill her outright or recognize exactly what it is she's doing and deliberately let her go to let her get away with it. In the past that would've been difficult due to VO constraints, but the possibility of using AI VO or seeing if a volunteer would revoice Marlena entirely is viable these days.

If you bring Juhani or Jolee with you to Korriban and try to gain access to the Academy through Yuthura, when you call them your slaves Yuthura should be incredulous--they are Force Sensitive! That should set off alarm bells that not all is what it seems to her, and she should decline to support your entry, forcing you to get in by fighting one of the other groups of prospects in Dreshdae. I think this should be pretty easy to implement, the only issue being a trained Yuthura AI model for the little bit of extra VO it would require.

I am going to controversially add "or something."

The Dune Sea is a war crime against game design. It's visually uninteresting and it's physically empty, with virtually no landmarks outside of the sandcrawler. It desperately, direly needs something else going on out there to make it more visually distinct and to give the planet as a whole more dynamism. Whether that comes in the form of a restoration of the Rakata Temple as such or a partial modification to that concept to restore those modules in another way, any well-thought-out and well-executed area mod on Tatooine would be a huge improvement.

It always struck me as extremely strange that, in the fabulous logic of the Force, killing a murderer for a legitimate planetary government is evil but stealing a poor, downtrodden alien's last possessions is just fine.

I already have a mod that fixes Bendak, but I don't have one that handles stealing yet, and I think doing so would greatly enhance the game. The Dark Side is an actively seductive force, not stronger than the light yet presented as a quicker and easier path, yet in KOTOR the Dark Side is just "be a dick for no reason." It's not presented in that seductive capacity well, but tying looting to evil acts will place the player in a situation where they feel pressured to take the quicker path in order to sustain themselves.

Of course, if every single case of looting what may be somebody else's possessions was punishable by DS points, it would be virtually impossible to avoid going DS. As such, that's not what I'm suggesting. I suggest that, once per module, looting any container in a room occupied by innocents whom you cannot kill should give DS points. This would not apply to modules belonging to factions which you have either pledged your allegiance to, or which have pledged you their support (for instance, the Beks when they agree to help you, or the Dantooine Enclave when you become a Jedi).

 So, to use examples from Taris: looting the Twisted Rancor Trio case is fine, because the room is currently empty (you have no way of knowing if the occupants are still alive). Looting Dia's room is also acceptable, because you can kill her (and then the loot wouldn't be stealing, and you'd have already eaten your DS points besides). However, looting the room of the lone Ithorian in the apartments would give DS points, because he is both innocent and unkillable. The room is occupied, he can never die, and it is clearly stealing on the player's part.

Aside from making the mod itself, I think the hardest part of this mod would be clarifying ingame the conditions in which you would receive DS points for stealing.

One of the worst parts of the original game is how little skills factor into... anything. The only time that skills matter is in narrow and almost always directly combat-related purposes: security to open areas and loot, computer use to hack and make fights easier, repair to fix droids to make fights easier, treat injury for healing, awareness and demolitions to see and remove mines. Persuade is the only skill that's useful outside combat, and it's no surprise it's what everyone dumps points into.

All those uses are important, but it would be nice to have a game that's more like KOTOR 2, where skills can be beneficially used outside of fighting. HK-47 has this with your capability to repair him, and it would be welcome to see it applied elsewhere. The exact implementations of this I completely leave up to any modder taking up the banner here, though I think there's probably room for beneficial changes both in existing NPC interactions (such as locking existing options behind new skill checks) and new content created specifically to satisfy this purpose by making skills more useful.

A system I very much like from K2 and believe is under-utilized is bashed containers resulting in broken loot drops. Aside from missing out on the XP for using security, there is no actual downside to bashing containers in K1 (and little enough of it in K2; the system isn't used frequently enough). But I very much like the idea of a risk of losing loot if you can't open a container properly, and I'd like to see it introduced in K1 (I'll also be requesting it be expanded in K2 in the K2 request thread).

Because the loot in K1 is largely static, I'm hoping that implementing a system like this might not be as difficult as expanding the system will be in K2, due to its dynamic loot. Whereas in K2 presently only consumables are ever at risk of being broken (as far as I'm aware), I would very much like it if the risk extended to virtually all item types in this expanded system, so the player is at risk of losing armor, weapons, implants and so on when bashing.

The Shadowlands are referred to as this extremely dangerous zone of wild beasts and treacherous undergrowth, difficult to navigate and nigh-impossible to survive in. Except the only animals you see are Tach, Katarn and Kinrath, none of which are particularly threatening, and you very conveniently have a map the entire time.

The difficulty I don't believe can be solved adequately because it would take either making Katarn and Kinrath unrealistically difficult to fight OR adding different animals to the planet, none of which I think are more suited. There is the possibility of back-porting a small amount of Hssiss from K2 into the lower Shadowlands, I suppose, but I can't see any other creature from either game that would make sense down there, and a couple of Hssiss doesn't really solve the overall problem.

I am hoping that traversal, at least, can be addressed however. Removal of the map would be great; removal of the map until you get Jolee would be even better, with Jolee's presence restoring the map to you. I know the map can be removed per-module in K2, so I'm hoping removing it is at least possible in K1, but if the map absolutely can't be removed then adding in a modded map which is almost entirely wrong would also be an interesting way of going about this, where the player can't rely on the map to navigate because it's lying to them. That won't do much, due to the smallness of the area, but it's something.

I'm confident that everyone else in the entire universe hates this system as much as I do. It would be fine if your companions were not actual morons who get stuck on the tiniest pebble in the road and force you to spend minutes of your time waiting while they walk their slow asses over to where you are. Any means of addressing this reliably and in a compatible way would be much appreciated.

Malak may look like an idiot, talk like an idiot and behave like an idiot, but the game assures us that he isn't an idiot. If we presume he's not, why does he only send a Rancor hunter and a baldy to stop you from finding the proverbial keys to his kingdom? Malak should be sweating the moment that Calo is taken out, and the second star map should be defended, as well. Bandon should bring more than just two little Sith to his confrontation with you--try a platoon instead. And your final star map should look like the subway at rush hour.

In other words, as you get closer to accomplishing the main thing that Malak would never, ever want you to do, you should be faced with progressively stronger threats and traps to attempt to keep you from succeeding. The last thing he wants is to see you confront him on the Star Forge itself.

Why, exactly, would the Sith guards in the Academy be alright with you openly breaking into Uthar's room and rummaging in his stuff? If you're seen breaking in they any guard that catches you should turn hostile to you and force you to be taken to Uthar, who should praise you for your ingenuity but chastise you for being caught (this would of course require AI VO, probably both for the Sith guard and Uthar), and you should lose prestige the first time you're seen. As far as I know there are no other mechanisms by which you can lose prestige, so this would be an interesting mechanism of punishment which would force you to do more on the planet to be selected the victor.

If you threaten to unseat Hukta Jax's time in the swoop races on Manaan, he'll threaten you. If you actually do it, he'll tell you he's going to ambush you when you least expect it. Clearly he's a master at this, because he does the least expected thing possible--he never does it at all.

Some ambush by Jax being put in would be welcomed.

A simple request, I think--if you enter the room of any of Davik's guests and convince them not to attack you or call the guards, but then go on to loot the contents of their rooms anyway, they should turn hostile at that point. All of them demand you leave their rooms at once, not go steal from them. The only exception, if possible to implement, would be if the player opened the containers within their rooms while stealthed.

I feel like this is a false memory, but back when I played on the Xbox I always felt like the emergency medical supplies in Ajuur's corner of the Taris cantina spawned a new medkit every time you won a duel. Even if that never happened, though, I actually really like the idea of that and would like to see it implemented. Each time you win against a duelist, the container should refill with a new medkit. If the player doesn't pick one up, a new one shouldn't spawn (that is, there should always be a max total of 1 medkit in the container).

Unless I'm missing something it's not possible for the Tusken of the Deep Dune Sea to drop Gaffi Sticks, or if they can not every warrior does. This doesn't make much sense to me; Czerka contracted you to kill the nearby tribe and not the deep-desert tribe, sure, but there's no way that a dispassionate Czerka corporate jockey would care enough about Tusken culture to be able to differentiate the two. The Deep Sea Tusken should drop Gaffi for you to trade to Czerka as well.