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Thanks N-DReW! I do hope to make one for K1, but some features may need a little re-working since they take advantage of TSL-only features or script functions. In effect, yes, though it's all handled via script so that they don't actually have anything in their inventory (using SpawnMine, TSL-only function). But in effect, if an enemy NPC can see the player (or any hostile creature) they'll have a chance to place a hostile mine down directly in front of them and between you. They'll then move back a bit so they can't get hurt by their own mine. The chance of placing it depends on whether the potential blast area is clear of creatures or other mines, how far the nearest hostile is (they won't just place one at your feet), and a little RNG. Their "inventory" so to speak is handled in the script, so that different enemies have different lists of mine types they can randomly choose from. The number of mines each NPC can place is stored in an unused local number, though I just capped it at 1 for everyone. There's not really much need or opportunity to have them place more than one. I will admit it's a wee bit hacky since it's handled outside the standard combat AI routines, though this allows for compatibility with mods like Improved AI or others which edit the default creature scripts, and it seems to work well from my testing!3 points
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I, as other have said, understand your viewpoint as regards restored content and how you would like to have as much of it as possible. There's no issue with that, or with recommending such content to other users. However, with that being said, saying something specifically like this does not do your viewpoint any favors, because realistically what you're suggesting is almost certainly false. To my knowledge--and I have had many, many years to look--no KOTOR developer has ever come forth and stated that any content cut from the basegame was removed due to time constraints. There is reasonable indication that SOME of the content was cut due to technical limitations (be they engine or enduser hardware) or persistent bugs/unintended consequences with attempts to implement them (such as the Iriaz), but the amount of content to which that does--or even could--apply is miniscule as compared to the volume of restorations that K1R makes. As @N-DReW25 pointed out, fundamentally there are several parts of K1R which simply cannot be "intended" because there was not enough in the game files to even restore and most of the content as implemented is fanmade. But for the sake of making a good-faith argument I'll ignore those cases and focus solely on fully developer-produced content that K1R restores. Unlike in the case of KOTOR 2's development, KOTOR was not rushed. Indeed, far beyond not being rushed, BioWare actually deliberately took an additional six months of development time before the game's release to iron out bugs, polish content and ensure that the game released in a completed state. And I am not talking about the six-month delay after the Xbox release of the game before it was ported to PC, I am referring to a very well-documented six-month delay prior to the game's initial release, which BioWare employees specifically said was undertaken in order to deliver a fully polished and well-made product, even though the game was already A-Z playable at the time of the original intended release date. With this in mind, why would all this cut content exist? Sure, perhaps there would be some here or there that BioWare couldn't have gotten around to in the six months of extra time they had, but not the amount left lying around that K1R has available to restore, and as Drew notes K1R doesn't even restore everything there is! Why might this be? The most probable answer is quite simply that most of that content was cut entirely purposefully. This happens in game development literally all the time--if a sequence doesn't flow well (such as dragging on, or having an impact on the game's balance due to its existence); if a particular item is nonsensical or overbalanced; if a character is seen as superfluous or distracting. Game developers are not gods. Often they design things that they believe will be impactful and well-received at the point they design it only to discover in live testing that the implementation is simply poor, or functioning unintentionally. And game developers (especially game developers in the early 2000s, driven by a razor-thin profit margin) do not operate under the same philosophy of "any content is good content" that some modern players do. They have the entire scope of the playerbase to bear in mind, many of whom would prefer a trimmer, leaner and more coherent experience than one with more content but less direction. So what do they do in those cases? They cut anything they can which they believe doesn't work and would leave behind an ultimately more balanced, coherent and enjoyable experience. Given that no BioWare dev I have ever seen has discussed any content cut from the game due to time constraints; the simple fact that the game lacked any meaningful time constraints at all, and even had an additional half-year of development time; and the reality that many of the things which K1R restores are sequences which one can easily see a dev viewing as disruptive (the third level of the Vulkar base would drag on to a casual player; the pillar reward on Lehon was overpowered; Major Hurka allows the player to bypass most of the Leviathan, which trivializes the game's design in that area, just to name a few), it is overwhelmingly likely that at least 50% of K1R's restorations, and likely much more than that, were cut fully deliberately. This is not to say that that content is bad, that you are wrong for wanting to use it, or that others should not use it if they have a mind. Users should always play with what they want to. However, it is unreasonable to cite developer intent when wanting to use K1R where parts of K1R are entirely fanmade and at least half of it was quite probably restored in spite of the developer's intent, not in line with it. I say again: there is NOTHING wrong with wanting to use that content. The developers are not infallible, and the game they designed was, at the end of the day, the game they believed would be best-received by the widest audience. For those who view any amount of new content as a blessing, K1R is wonderful. But saying that it's all as the developers wanted is simply an unreasonable claim, unless you can dig up an example of a BioWare dev actually arguing that there were significant cuts made to the game that they didn't intend for.3 points
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Not really. When AFP first started it and it was just a collection of pre-existing fixes, there was no issue because the scope was pretty limited. It wasn't until JC and I got involved and the project changed from a collection of other people's mods to custom fixes that encompassed every facet of the game that incompatibilities started to creep in. It was just an inevitability when faced with two mods both trying to make fundamental changes to the same crucial components like OnEnters, plot-critical DLGs, and so forth. Add to that, once JC and AFP went AWOL and control of the project was ceded to me, there was never going to be any effort to try and address the incompatibilities simply because I have zero interest in K1R and what it does.3 points
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@HraithPlease read the whole post before answering. As I said, K1R has a main goal which is to restore content. K1CP fixes way more things, but it doesn't add everything K1R adds, obviously. Is K1R done ? Is it not ? Depends on the definition. You have no idea exactly what Bioware cut and what they didnt. K1R only restores what its team knew the existence of. Anyway, I'm pretty sure you didn't look at all of my links because I sent you to the Restored content project for K1CP which is in development right now. It already adds quite a lot of things actually, including this : You should take a look at it. I linked it to you in my first post. So no, it doesn't restore everything. But yes, K1CP+RC-K1CP is a better idea than K1R. "I can only assume you didn't link to the "other things that can be added to K1CP" because you couldn't find them either". Again, depends what we're talking about. I linked to the Iriaz restoration, because for me it's one of the best things, makes Dantooine way more alive, but I'm pretty sure there are other things out there, I'm just too lazy to look for them, however you can do it yourself. I feel like I'm providing enough here. You're not even looking at everything I link to anyway. K1CP is also way better because of compatibility. It's basically compatible with everything. Not K1R. I'm making the Pazaak tournament come back with a better quality and compatibility, so yes, there is restored content for K1CP, already existing and coming out regularly. If you really want the beer contest stuff, you can directly ask @N-DReW25 who's currently working on the RC-K1CP and he might include it. Perhaps I can make it myself, and include it as an option to the Pazaak Tournament. I just need permission to use the files. K1CP is a work in progress to make the game better, in bug and other issues fixing for K1CP as well as in content restoring for RC-K1CP, and it does that perfectly. Edit : The Manaan Pazaak Tournament restoration is done. You can take it and put it in your K1CP installation. It is compatible with RC-K1CP. Again, you can play the game with K1R, it's fine. It's actually what I'm doing on my phone. But do your computer a favour, make your PC installation K1CP / RC-K1CP. And bro, please tell me you're not the kind of guy who's saying this seriously : "Bastilla's bright blue eyes and slightly see thru lingerie"...3 points
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Where is your TJM installation? You would absolutely have to extract Sith Holocron's upscaled textures to a folder and then copy its contents manually into your TJM Installation directory which, if I may, could be either a Workshop installation folder for Steam, or your steam directory on your Hard Drive. Also, that invalid bumpmap error can be resolved presumably by deleting that texture and omitting it or finding another texture to replace it with and renaming that other texture to the problem file's old filename. Dxn_Tmp2b.tga should probably be removed from Override if its throwing errors in-game. I've gotten invalid bumpmap errors before and its unclear what causes the issue, but it will drop you out of game for the invalid bumpmap popup, although it doesn't crash the game.2 points
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Thank you !!! 1. In short I don't have the skills. I only know how to work on existing textures. 2. Yes I know. I fixed it on one iteration but I didn't like how it looked, weierdly looks better with the clipping (in my opinion, don't know why, something about the body proportions). Now I don't have time to work on it and also I'm kind of burned out with modding. When I will have some time I will give another shot on fixing it.2 points
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I'm afraid that is an RC-K1CP issue and one that is caused by you running the installer multiple times. The reason the patcher adds new NPCs instead of overwriting the .GIT file (which houses the NPC location data) is because if it were to overwrite the .GIT file it would be overwriting any previous modded content you've installed. Sleheyron Story Mode once used an overwriting system which is how installing SSM once broke RC-K1CP as, by overwriting the previously installed content, the installer would end up reverting all of the restored content back into vanilla content and thus removed most of the restored content added in my mod. By installing RC-K1CP multiple times, you have added Shuma, and an untold many number of other restored content, multiple times over. It is highly recommended that you keep a backup of your game files so that, assuming a mistake is made and/or a bug is found in the installer you can simply delete the ruined install, copy over the backup, and start again.2 points
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So there's some bad news and good news. This mod hasn't been properly updated since the 2010s, so MVE compatibility is very unlikely as of 1.1 as it stands now. 1.2, the next update that'll have Jekk'Jekk Tarr content, shall have MVE directly integrated into GenoHaradan Legacy alongside the Logical Jekk'Jekk Tarr mod. Compatibility shall not be an issue when that version drops as you won't even need to install MVE.2 points
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Thanks for your interest. Well, considering that I started playing around with A.I. upscalers around August 2020... it took me 4 & 1/2 years to get through 52% of the files I intended to fix. Suffice to say it will be a while; with no fixed date. I'm currently working on updating some of my earlier mods first before getting back to this one.2 points
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To be candid, actually, when I created the instruction sets, they were intended to be completely immutable. By design this *should* have been possible and the design shows the Proof of Concept. What I didn't expect was the moment the new builds dropped, 70% of the original links were completely removed.2 points
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The way the holograms are broken in the vanilla game does like this: Head models and body models are two separate models whilst the head model is animated meaning there are parts inside the head to animate the mouth and the eyes. The holograms makes the NPC transparent with a holographic filter, resulting in this 'hidden' bits being made visible to the player. Admiralty Redux fixes this by taking the two separate models and merging them into one to fix the inside of the neck being visible and it removes those bits inside the head so that they aren't visible in the hologram. Upon thinking about it, if you install ONLY the Proper Peragus Corpses and Peragus NPC Overhaul installs than this mod is compatible with the Admiralty mod. I'm actually going to update the mod page to specify this. For the Tiered Peragus Miners install, there would have to be a patch for it though since I don't know how to fix the NPCs like the Admiralty mod does than it would have to be done by someone else. DarthParametric would know how, though I doubt he would as he mainly focuses on the first game as he doesn't like the second game. If any other modder would like to try, I'm more than happy to take it to the PMs to discuss it. All you'd need to do is merge the Czerka body model and the Armored Flight Suit model to the correct Peragus NPC heads and try to recreate what DP did for the Admiralty when it comes to fixing the heads.2 points
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@SAO1138 Congrats on the release, however, there is one big issue with the release page here. You appear to have copied the text from the Nexusmods release page and pasted it for the Deadlystream release page. The problem with doing that is that you also copied a bunch of irrelevant Vortex junk from the Nexusmods release page and pasted it here on Deadlystream. You should probably remove them.2 points
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Off the top of my head, the most egregious bug that K1CP fixes is probably with Xor. There have been many attempts before, but none of the previous mods actually fixed him. Hell, I'm still not 100% sure even K1CP's multiple revisions of fixes have finally solved the problem permanently. Beyond that, there are a couple of minor soft-locks that people somehow manage to get themselves into, the Sand People disguise glitches, and things like that. But you're correct that there's no one big earth-shattering fix that makes K1CP indispensable. Rather, it simply tries to smooth out some of the rough edges. If people don't really notice, then that's actually a compliment. After all, the idea is to keep the game in line with the original developer-intended experience as much as possible. It keeps me amused and off the streets.2 points
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Hraith, you are partially correct in that K1R isn't obsolete and that it is complete. However, K1R isn't receiving content updates because its lead developers have vanished and the mod has several critical bugs in it (game breaking Lashowe bug etc), it is for this reason why the K1CP mod, a bug fix mod, didn't bother making their mod compatible with K1R. Since we can't get permission from the K1R team to make their mod compatible, I made RC-K1CP from scratch as an alternative to K1R for those who use K1CP. As The_Chaser_One pointed out, K1CP is very popular despite the lack of restored content and if I never made RC-K1CP thousands of players would prioritize K1CP over K1R. If you aren't going to use K1CP, you might as well use K1R if you're willing to tolerate the bugs - I'm not here to make you change your mind. K1CP will never include that because K1CP is a bug fix mod, not a restoration mod. RC-K1CP will eventually have it, but for now you are correct in that K1R is the only mod that currently has it. However, the logic of "the developers intended it to be there" is a bit disingenuous. My RC-K1CP mod restores a bunch of things that K1R doesn't, like both Impossible & Very Easy difficulties, upgradeable Davik's War Suit, female Republic Soldiers, gloveless commoner clothing, Carth's cut theme, the 4th Black Vulkar who threatens Calo Nord in the Lower City Cantina, Chadra-Fan on Tatooine, party dialogue for Kashyyyk Star Map, the green breath mask texture, restored armors and weapons etc. K1R isn't less complete because it doesn't have those I listed above, and K1R isn't bad because Major Hurka's appearance is fan made, the bartender in the Vulkar Sublevel is fan made, and 95% of the Pazaak Tournament is fan made. RC-K1CP includes both Impossible and Very Easy difficulties, I'm not going to turn around and trash talk K1R because it didn't include the Very Easy difficulty even though the "developer intention" logic applies to it. I would like to say that the see through glitch with Bastila is probably because all the Xbox textures were 256x256 and were low-res, it's possible that the Bioware developers messed up something when they upscaled Bastila's textures thus causing the transparency glitch.2 points
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@Hraith I'm afraid you're wrong. K1R is the one that's obsolete. K1CP still gets updates while no one's been working on K1R for several years. K1CP is also way more vanilla friendly than K1R as its intent is not to add content but to fix glitches, bugs and other issues within the game. You can see the whole list of changes here. Also, you might want to take a look at this if you like restored content. Come in the DeadlyStream Discord server for more information (PM me if you want the link to join). @luj1 The K1CP is by far the most important KOTOR mod in 2025. It fixes a tremendous amount of glitches, bugs and other issues, while K1R only adds some (some good, some not very vanilla friendly) content. Its main goal is to restore content. The K1CP is not only newer and a better companion for your game, but it has this if your thing is restored content. Then you can add as many mods (restored and added content included) as you want, since most of the mods here and on NexusMods are compatible with the K1CP but not K1R. K1R is in fact incompatible with quite a lot of things, which is why I'm restoring the Manaan Pazaak tournament as a standalone mod in order to give the possibility to players to have it in their K1CP installation. Furthermore, there are already things the K1R restores that can be restored independently, which means on a K1CP installation. For example, this one. For the best game experience, follow this guide for Widescreen and high resolution (if you have any issue, you might want to look at this), then download the K1CP and the RC-K1CP then you can get back to this guide for the textures, skyboxes and everything else. You should also download this amazing and underrated cinematics overhaul. Edit : I just finished my Manaan Pazaak Tournament restoration. You can take it and put it in your K1CP installation. It is compatible with RC-K1CP. May the Force be with you both, and if you need more help, I'm here.2 points
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Unfortunately this mod does not include K1CP's fix to GN_RespondToShout to prevent neutral creatures erroneously reacting to combat death shouts (e.g. here and here). This would be much more obvious if the author included the source, although it is apparent when comparing the bytecode of k_ai_master from both. @GearHead: I'd suggest you incorporate this fix in an update to your mod. And please include your script source for better compatibility going forwards.2 points
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Right! So, the reason is actually because I'm trying to make a PT-BR version of a list of great/essential mods for the game to share with other KotOR enthusiasts here in Brazil that don't speak English (version 2 of a project I've been doing ever since 2013). The translation has been available for a while and it works wonderfully with K1CP, but since the Manaan Pazaak Tournament adds a bunch of dialogue and what not, it wouldn't be much use for those that don't speak the language, but this minor add-on would certainly make its way into the list.1 point
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Thanks ... Telos is a pain sometimes and the Citadel station skip doesn't give items, crippling you in the future. The fact you gave items and exp is nice cause now I don't have to go through the savegame editor and be like "well, I killed about 25 people ... so that's this much exp ... and if half of them gave items ... and every 7 gave shields ..." ugghh.1 point