This is an incredible find! I've found hours of content to keep myself occupied this entire day, and I've only done Korriban and Tatooine!
I am quite content with a large amount of side quests that don't serve a unified plot line. At least, beyond the commonality that they relate to the aftermath of the Jedi Civil War.
KOTOR II, as I've read it described, is essentially a "road trip from hell to absolutely nowhere, all the while pondering the void". To quote the cliche, "it's the journey, not the destination". This game is actually perfect to use for myriad narrative vignettes that are seemingly unrelated.
I look forward to playing more, and seeing what you may add! Keelah se'lai
The KOTOR mod builds are probably the closest thing we'll ever get to a remaster, therefore I consider them a must-have when returning to KOTOR.
However, the modlists are huge, and installing them by hand (let alone without a mod manager) is very tedious - I wasn't even going to bother trying till I came across this plugin. Since Mod Organizer 2 is my mod manager of choice, this plugin was a no-brainer.
And man did it deliver: it downloads, installs and patches every mod on the list in a matter of minutes, kinda like Wabbajack. The "Kotor Dialogue Fixes" mod had an older pinned version that I had to download manually, but everything else ran flawlessly.
The widescreen/resolution mods need to be installed separately, since they involve modifying the .exe and whatnot. I'm running the new KOTOR Modern Restoration Patch which seemed to work better for me than the mod builds setup for widescreen.
I'm several hours in and everything looks great. This plugin must've been an incredible effort, and I can't recommend it enough.
As a KotOR modder whose majority of mods involve editing DLG files, NeoDLG is the best DLG editor to date and it is not even a contest.
Firstly, NeoDLG (and Vriff's other Neo tools) support macOS and Linux, which means users of macOS or Linux (like me) are able to enjoy the software without using a compatibility layer like WINE.
NeoDLG's feature of exporting TSLPatcher/HoloPatcher instructions for dynamic DLG file patching is a real game changer for modding dialogue. In the old way of using DLGEditor to edit a DLG file then using ChangeEdit to generate the TSLPatcher output, if you add new dialogue nodes to a DLG file, the indices of those new nodes are fixed. This means a different mod that also adds new modes to the same DLG file can end up sharing the same dialogue node indices, causing the two mods to conflict.
On the other hand, NeoDLG's patcher instruction export feature makes use of 2DAMEMORY so the indices of new dialogue nodes are not fixed, thus TSLPatcher and HoloPatcher 2.0 (earlier versions of HoloPatcher does not support DLG dynamic patching) can patch DLG files when adding new dialogue new modes in a dynamic matter, which improves compatibility with other mods that patch the same DLG files. Not to mention, NeoDLG exports the patcher instructions faster than ChangeEdit when generating the GFF output.
Its the culmination of around two years of learning how to mod KOTOR2 thanks to some fantastic youtube guides, old lucasforum posts, decompiling/examining scripts, and some tutorials here (also Holocron is probably the most noob friendly modding kit I’ve seen, even if its not great for some specific instances). It also helps that kotor blender makes porting maps between 1 and 2 to be a breeze (most of the time). Also, a lot of fantastic modders resources and incredibly kind people here on deadlystream let me use their stuff when I asked them.
The mod has actually been out on nexus in early alpha for a while now (a few months), I just decided to release it here because I think most of the major bugs have been worked out.
As for a trailer, I’m not really sure what I would put in it, the focus is on standalone stories for your Exile to experience, its eclectic, but fitting for KOTOR 2 with the desire to not overshadow the main game. I could certainly put up more screenshots of conversations, locations, and encounters.