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Rebalancing of the Taris duelists. SUMMARY This mod re-equips and rebalances the Taris duelists, aiming to give them more variety, smooth out their difficulty curve, and make the fights a bit more challenging and engaging overall. Almost all duelists have had their stats or equipment tweaked to some degree to make them more distinct in both appearance and combat while ensuring a natural progression in difficulty between fights. Twitch has undergone the most extensive changes and should now be significantly more challenging. Each of the human duelists gets a different set of level-appropriate light armor, instead of all wearing the same armor as they do in vanilla. Certain duelists have had their AI tweaked for improved behavior. Detailed changes to each duelist are listed below. This mod is not intended to dramatically alter the difficulty of the dueling arena but it will make it harder overall. Note this mod will only work on saves from before entering the Taris cantina for the first time. DETAILS For consistency, all fighters have had their base HP set to 8*level. For most fighters this results in minor changes and is only noted below where the difference is a significant fraction of the original HP. Deadeye Duncan Duncan is supposed to be bad, so no changes. Gerlon Two-Fingers CON: 10 -> 12 Armor: Light Battle Armor -> Zabrak Combat Suit Gerlon is equipped with a Zabrak Combat Suit, increasing his defense by +1 compared to vanilla. His CON is raised from 10 to 12 for a little extra HP and Fortitude. Ice Armor: Combat Suit -> Echani Light Armor Grenades: CryoBan Grenade Ice is equipped with Echani Light Armor, increasing her defense by +1 compared to vanilla. Ice is supposed to have the Power Blast feat but doesn’t use it due to an AI bug. She now has an updated AI script which let her use the feat to deal some extra damage. Going along with her theme, she will also use a CryoBan grenade in combat. Marl Feats: Master Critical Strike -> Improved Critical Strike; Armor: Combat Suit -> Cinnagar Weave Armor Marl is equipped with Cinnagar Weave Armor, increasing his defense by +2 compared to vanilla. His Master Critical Strike feat which he technically shouldn’t have at his level is replaced with Improved Critical Strike, reducing his critical chance from 20% to 15%. Twitch STR: 12 -> 14 CON: 14 -> 16 Base HP: 66 -> 72 Feats: Two-Weapon Fighting -> Improved Two-Weapon Fighting; Rapid Shot -> Master Rapid Shot; Master Power Blast; Improved Power Attack; Dueling Armor: Light Battle Armor -> Reinforced Fiber Armor Melee Weapon: Vibroblade -> Vibrosword Grenades: Adhesive Grenade Twitch has several vanilla issues which make him feel pretty underwhelming for being the dueling champion. For one, he has multiple attributes lower than Marl, despite everyone else having at least equivalent stats to the next lowest ranked duelist. On top of that, while Marl and Bendak both have multiple high level combat feats, Twitch has only a single low-level combat feat which he doesn’t even use due to an AI bug. Finally, Twitch is built for dual-blasters but very poor at melee, with low STR and no melee feats, letting you drastically reduce his difficulty by rushing him with a vibroblade and forcing him to switch weapons. It makes sense for him to have a weakness, but he’s just too exploitable in vanilla. To address these issues, Twitch gets a number of changes: his STR and CON are raised to match Marl, his vibroblade is upgraded to a vibrosword, and he gains the Improve Power Attack feat so he can deal some meaningful melee damage. His HP increase now places him more squarely between Marl and Bendak. A new set of Reinforced Fiber Armor allows him to fully utilize his DEX bonus, granting an additional +2 defense over vanilla. He also gets the Dueling feat which slightly boosts his attack and defense while using a single weapon. Making sure his dual-blaster skills still stand out, Twitch also gets Improved Two-Weapon Fighting, Master Rapid Shot, and Master Power Blast feats and his AI is modified so that he’ll correctly use them. Finally, adhesive grenades give him a way to delay getting rushed by melee users. This should make him significantly more challenging, less exploitable, and hopefully more worthy of the title of champion. Bendak Starkiller Feats: Dueling Melee Weapon: Vibroblade -> Vibrosword Bendak is already plenty tough, but to make sure he is still a clear step up in difficulty from Twitch, he also gets the Dueling feat and his vibroblade is upgraded to a vibrosword. AI Changes This mod gives certain duelists a customized AI script to fix some issues and improve combat behavior. Duelists will now correctly use their ranged feats. Twitch and Ice will use grenades but not needlessly spam them if their effects are already active. Flurry and Rapid Shot feats are broken for NPCs in certain situations; Twitch and Bendak have these feats but will use them selectively to avoid such cases. For the sake of compatibility and the scope of this mod, these changes are applied only to these duelists and will not affect other NPCs. INSTALLATION To install, run HoloPatcher.exe. Unaltered copies of any modified files will be placed inside the backup folder in the location of HoloPatcher.exe. (Optional) Run the compatibility patch if you have Effixian’s Taris Arena Changes installed. UNINSTALLATION Remove the following files from Override: tar02_bendak021.utc, tar02_gerlon021.utc, tar02_ice021.utc, tar02_marl021.utc, tar02_twitch021.utc, m_ai_dueler.ncs, m_att_dueler.ncs, m_dmg_dueler.ncs, m_htb_dueler.ncs, m_per_dueler.ncs, m_rnd_dueler.ncs, m_spn_dueler.ncs, and m_udf_dueler.ncs. If any files were created inside the backup folder, move them to Override. Alternatively, you can run the uninstall script via HoloPatcher (Tools > Uninstall Mod) COMPATIBILITY May conflict with other mods that edit the same NPCs. Install this mod after any others that edit these NPCs to minimize incompatibility and ensure its full changes take effect. Compatible with Effixian’s Taris Arena Changes but install order is critical. Install Taris Arena Changes first, then Differentiated Duelists, then apply the included compatibility patch. Due to this mod installing to override, it will overwrite changes to the duelists made by K1 NPC Diversity Pack by N-DReW. Compatible with Bendak Starkiller Emblem Armour by redrob14. Twitch, Ice, and Bendak will not be affected by combat AI changes from other mods. PERMISSIONS Feel free to do whatever you want with this mod as long as credit is provided. CREDITS offthegridmorty HoloPatcher - Cortisol TSLPatcher - stoffe, Fair Strides KOTOR Tool - Fred Tetra DeNCS - JdNoa, Dashus Mods in screenshots: High Quality Blasters by Sithspecter HD Fire and Ice by Cinder Skye JC’s Blaster Visual Effects by JCarter426 Taris Dueling Arena Adjustment by DarthParametric Taris Reskin Pack by Quanon Ultimate Character Overhaul by ShiningRedHD Ultimate Taris High Resolution by ShiningRedHD

This mod is a simple recolour which alters the colour palette of the female Republic Soldiers to resemble the female soldiers represented in the LS endgame cutscene by the Stunt_Crowd02 texture. The blue used is slightly paler than the reference material, as I felt it looked a bit nicer. Installation: Download and install JC's Republic Soldier Fix first: The new textures included in my mod will NOT work on the vanilla female Republic Soldier model. They will ONLY work if you use JC's new model included in his mod. Once installed, replace the textures from JC's mod with my own. There are two separate folders included in the download and whether you take the files from one or both depends on whether you've used the option to replace player clothing with JC's mod or not. The textures in the NPC's folder will also work for KotOR 2, if you've downloaded the KotOR 2 version of JC's mod. Thanks: Big thanks to JC for his original mod which not only corrected errors on the male Republic Soldier model, but also replaced the female model with a nicer one using the male version as a base. Permissions: This mod may not be uploaded either in its entirety or in part to any site other than DeadlyStream other than by myself or by someone who has already obtained permission. No part of this mod may be included in other works without permission being obtained via Private Message on DeadlyStream first. THIS MODIFICATION IS PROVIDED AS-IS AND IS NOT SUPPORTED BY BIOWARE/OBSIDIAN ENTERTAINMENT OR LUCASARTS OR ANY LICENSERS/SPONSORS OF THE MENTIONED COMPANIES. USE OF THIS FILE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK AND THE ABOVE MENTIONED COMPANIES OR THE AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED TO YOUR COMPUTER FOR THE USAGE OF THIS FILE.

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Knights of the Old Republic - The Sith Lords ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Effixian's Zeison Sha / Jal Shey Reskin 2020 AUTHOR: Effix(ian) CONTACT: PM me on the forums or find me on Steam ------------------------- INSTALLATION ------------------------- Extract the zip, move the files from the folder to your override folder. ----------------------- DESCRIPTION ----------------------- Yes, I wasn't quite done with trying to give you another (better? I hope) version of the Zeison Sha and Jal Shey Armors. Like my 2010 version it has more neutral colours and again it's inspired by the Clone Wars era Obi-Wan. I felt the Malak armor needed to reflect its darkside requirement more, so that has red instead of neutral colours. Not compatible with my other Zeison Sha/Jal Shey mods and other mods that replace them. New feature this time: In the vanilla game the Jal Shey Neophyte Armor and the Jal Shey Advisor Armor use the same texture and icon. I've changed that in this mod. However it won't change a Jal Shey Advisor Armor item that you've already acquired in a save. That said, you don't need to start a new game if you want to use this mod, if you do already have the Jal Shey Advisor Armor then it will simply look the same as the Jal Shey Neophyte Armor. What is what (info on where to get them is from gamebanshee.com): - - Brown cloth, white pants, black boots - - Zeison Sha Warrior Armor (item: a_robe_16) • This item is either very common or randomly placed throughout the game. Files: PFBM01, PMBM01 & ia_ClassZS_001 - - Beige cloth, white pants, black boots - - Zeison Sha Initiate Armor (item: a_robe_06) • Dantooine (Enclave Courtyard) - Purchased from Daraala Files: PFBM02, PMBM02 & ia_ClassZS_002 - - Beige cloth, black pants, white boots - - Jal Shey Neophyte Armor (item: a_robe_07) • Onderon (Merchant Quarter) - Purchased from Gegorran • Nar Shaddaa (Refugee Landing Pad) - Purchased from Geeda after opening up trade routes Files: PFBM03, PMBM03 & ia_ClassZS_03 - - Brown cloth, beige pants, white boots - - Jal Shey Mentor Armor (item: a_robe_20) • This item cannot be obtained through any conventional means. Files: PFBM06, PMBM06 & ia_ClassZS_004 - - Brown cloth, black pants, white boots - - Jal Shey Advisor Armor (item: a_robe_11) • This item is either very common or randomly placed throughout the game. Files: PFBM07, PMBM07 & ia_ClassZS_07 - - Black cloth, black pants, black boots, red armor - - Darth Malak's Armor (item: a_robe_26) TSLRCM only, this item is not random loot in the vanilla game. Files: PFBM05, PMBM05 & ia_ClassZS_005 It is possible to rename filenames to swap textures. --------- BUGS --------- None ------------------------- UNINSTALLING ------------------------- Remove from your override folder: a_robe_11.uti ia_ClassZS_001.tga ia_ClassZS_002.tga ia_ClassZS_003.tga ia_ClassZS_005.tga ia_ClassZS_006.tga ia_ClassZS_007.tga PFBM01.tga PFBM02.tga PFBM03.tga PFBM05.tga PFBM06.tga PFBM07.tga PMBM01.tga PMBM02.tga PMBM03.tga PMBM05.tga PMBM06.tga PMBM07.tga ------------------------------------ DISTRIBUTION NOTES ------------------------------------ You may NOT: Use the material from this mod in your own mod without giving me credit, implying it was your creation. You might: Use the material from this mod in your own mods if you simply ask me. -------------------- THANKS TO -------------------- Fred Tetra for KotOR Tool --------------------------------- THIS MODIFICATION IS NOT MADE, DISTRIBUTED, OR SUPPORTED BY BIOWARE, OBSIDIAN, OR LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LLC. ELEMENTS TM & © LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LLC AND/OR ITS LICENSORS. --------------------------------- My mods are free. If you would like to show your support then you can buy me a coffee at ko-fi.com/effix