Markus Ramikin

My guess is you're no longer passing the Wisdom check. Cast Valor or wear some +wisdom gear.

My browser's giving me crap, when I went to update my password, about how the connection isn't secure and the site's certificate is out of date or improperly configured. It hadn't really occurred to me to give a damn before, but this being the 21st century, I figure at least I'll ask: is this by design or an unintended omission?

Only that they're useless. And they compete with other, more useful spells, since you can only take so many per skill column. So I imagine few players ever take them.

I don't always skip the credits!

(Mainly because I'm in them.

What? )

No, really?

Not bad writing, InSidious, fun to read.

Tbh. You probably need to play the game two or three times to understand the story

Ha. I've played it more than that over the years, and given it much thought as well.

The lines for the HK units are the same thing. In my version of Goto's Yacht, I've gotten rid of both those scenes.

Good point about the HKs.

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Thanks, good thoughts.

Aaand I just got to the part after Goto's ship, where Mira admits Zez-Kai hired her to watch over the Exile. Which doesn't mesh at all. Sigh.

Speaking of Goto's ship, this conversation, that I think was added by TSLRCM:
 

Zhug: The Zhug family will scour the galaxy for this Jedi... and then we will bring him here, to Goto.

Me: You're welcome to try, big-eyes.

Zhug: If we were not here before Goto, I would drill holes through your body like a nest of hungry sviro-worms.

Does this make more sense to you than it appears to me? The Zhug lines sound like something that would have been said in the bounty hunter meeting at the start of NS, but here I'm stumped. I don't see why they would promise to scour the galaxy to bring the Exile to Goto's ship, when the Exile is already on Goto's ship, speaking to them. Also, Goto is nowhere to be seen. And what does that last line mean, when they open fire at you anyway afterwards?

What I'd try is to remove all the mods (or just backup the Kotor 2 folder by renaming it, and reinstall the game+TSLRCM cleanly), see if the game still crashes on that save. If it doesn't, then add half the mods, check if it crashes, then add/subtract 1/4 of the mods etc so in 4-5 steps like that you'll know which mod does it.

Much quicker and more convenient than adding 1 mod a time.

Yeah, please do.

One wonders what the Exchange would even want that base for. They're not pirates, so not a naval base. They're not Czerka, so not gonna mine planetary resources. They're a crime syndicate; they need populations and economies to exploit. Dantooine has little of that.

Had to think about that a lot for my Nar Shaddaa Rewrite mod (currently on hold since I'm working on modding tools).

 

I don't think I managed to come up with a good answer.

Now that I think of it, it might be as simple as that she wanted to sell the Exile to the Exchange for the bounty. If the Exile just met with Visquis, no bounty for Mira, so she was just inserting herself as an intermediary, thinking that if she captured the Exile and only she knew where she'd hidden him, she could dictate terms?

Still feels dumb as hell when you watch Visquis turn the lightning trap on her. But that may be hindsight bias, since we know Visquis had betrayed Goto, and Mira hadn't known that before that scene.

That's why I suggested the binary search approach. You said you tried that? And what happened, couldn't you isolate which half of the mods the problem's in, etc.?

For those of you who feel deeply knowledgeable about the details of the story Kotor 2 tells, here are some things which I am not 100% sure I understand. Maybe I forgot too many details over the many years of my knowing this game. But I wanna hear other people's take on these:

1. What was GO-TO's plan for the Exile? He didn't want to release him because of the Exile's tendency to cause destructive incidents like Peragus. And yet he wanted the Exile to save the galaxy. Like, how, in GO-TO's model of reality, was that going to work?

2. What was Mira's plan when she went to meet Visquis? What was she hoping to accomplish?

3. Who was paying Azkul to attack Khoonda, and what was their motivation?

4. Why was the Exile on the way to Telos before the game began? Y'know, as a passenger on the Harbinger, what was he trying to do, what were his goals and plans? And what was the Republic hoping for when they gave him diplomatic priority?

(Where appropriate, please assume every question also ends in "... and how do we know that?")

I haven't the faintest, as I don't know most of those mods.

What I'd try is to remove all the mods (or just backup the Kotor 2 folder by renaming it, and reinstall the game+TSLRCM cleanly), see if the game still crashes on that save. If it doesn't, then add half the mods, check if it crashes, then add/subtract 1/4 of the mods etc so in 4-5 steps like that you'll know which mod does it.

At least this is what I've done in the past in situations like that.

Another thing possibly worth trying even before the above, is get a clean savegame from one of the collections in the download section, just in case those KSE changes messed something up (unlikely, but might be worth a shot), and see if it makes any difference.

And here's the part where I'll likely get the hate pushed on me . . .

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See, kids, reverse psychology works.

Hassat Hunter was and is the major hold out in changing the music.

Huh, what's the rationale?

Not familiar with that either. The area script fires when you load a savegame, or what? I never really looked into that.

1) When did the problem begin to occur?

On the Harbinger.

2) Did you install the latest version of the mod?

Yep

3) What version of the game do you have? (Steam, 4CD, KotOR Collection?) What region is the game designed for if it's the 4 CD version?

GOG, English version

4) Did you update your game as required by your game's region?

N/A

5) Did you install this over the previous version(s), or did you perform a fresh installation as required by the TSLRCM's read-me file?

Fresh

8) What other mods did you have installed? Please give an accurate list and provide links to each of these mods - even if they are found on this site. (We don't actually know them all!.)

Retested without any other mods. (I keep a clean TSLRCM install for this kind of stuff).

9) Can you be more specific about the error? At what point did it happen?

On the Harbinger it's possible that the sound of Sion breaking out of his cage will be heard totally out of the blue. Obviously doesn't prevent me from playing, but still, buggy.

It seems to happen after I load a savegame. Tried two different savegames.

I'm attaching a save which tends to produce the problem if I load it. Wait about half a minute after loading.

10) Have you tried re-downloading the mod?

Nope, though see question 12.

11) Have you tried using a different save game?

Yep

12) Have you tried starting a new game?

Not exactly, but I believe I remember having this in my 1.8.4 playthrough too, so this should count as a new game.

13) What Operating System do you use? (List Virtual Machines as well if you are using them.)

Windows 10 home.

000008 - Game7.zip

Interesting. Now if only I didn't need to turn frame buffs effects off in order for TSL to even work...

Go ahead, I'm fine with either method.

I know you do. Wouldn't stop me from trying it anyway, since "mysterious are the ways of the Machine".

Hm, that's unfortunate.

Tried this? "Locate the atigktxx.dll and atioglxx.dll file, change their names, move them to a different directory or delete them. Now check if the issue persists. If you are able to open the main menu, but the game crashed when you press Play. Please go to the options menu in the Graphics options go to Advanced and turn off Frame Buffer Effects."

Don't buy old games from Steam. GOG is for that. Steam versions of old games tend to be poorly packaged, unpatched, and generally I trust them not at all. I'm not the first to observe this, either - it was quite gratifying to run into a vid by TotalBiscuit (which I cba to find right now) talking at length about the poor quality control for old games on Steam.

Hell, Planescape Torment recently got released with a modern Enhanced Edition on both Steam and GOG at the same time - you'd think it'd be an equally good deal? Nope, the GOG version included other downloads - most importantly, the classic version (the one that community mods work with), Steam's did not.

At this point I just don't buy games from Steam unless it's a heavy discount or I need it to connect in multiplayer.

(I'm playing Kotor 1)

After all these years I've finally tried out Improved Energy Resistance. Now I'm in a situation where my main PC has it permanently on. It's supposed to last 120 seconds, but it lasts forever.

Now this has happened before with other powers, generally if I enter a new area or reload a save with something like Force Speed on. But in that case, all I need to do is recast Speed and wait out the timer, and it disappears. That doesn't work with Energy Resistance: even if I recast it, then wait it out with a stopwatch, it won't turn off no matter what.

In the immortal words of Hamlet: Wat do?

(Specifcally, I'm looking at Kotor 1 right now).

Like Dominate Mind or Force Sensitive, these abilities are only handed to the protagonist, not any of the companions. Where is that controlled? I looked at feat.2da and spells.2da and I don't see it. Suppose I wanted to make another spell or feat work that way, how do I do that?

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Same as the other mod for JK:DF2, but works for Mysteries of the Sith. Can be used with MotSE.

I did some work on the MotS-specific powers, too. Chain Lightning chains through enemies the way it should, Push is stronger and has an AoE effect, and thrown lightsabers reliably return to your hand. Kinda proud of these! And having fun with them.

I'm not even going to bother to try to salvage Project or Farsight, though.

Readme for version 2.0: