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Bravo! This is a complex system you've created, but the end result is something very simple for the user.

What do you think guys? I'm glad that this series continues to be proliferated, but obviously this platform outlaws modding...unless there is a file manager app for iOS, which I sincerely doubt given how little control Apple wants to grant its customers over their own devices.

MY HERO! I already posted in the video comments, but this is a huge step in the right direction. Suggestion: Have it affect the Exile, but be visibly shrugged off.

Just looked up this application. $100! O.O

I've never understood why whatever LucasArts does has ever mattered to KOTOR modding. Way I see it, our headcanon is superior and impervious to any retcon or other corporate decision regarding narrative, and we've always succeeded in creating excellent KOTOR experiences where LucasArts has failed (TSLRCM and Solomon's Revenge being the big examples of this). The last big decision by LA on KOTOR was TOR, which revised the narrative of TSL, but for me that revision just doesn't...exist. Fact is, everyone is mourning the hypothetical death of Star Wars/Star Wars EU due to decisions by Disney, but why should we KOTOR lovers care? TSL is nothing but a gigantic slam of traditional Star Wars narrative. As long as we have these games and our mods, screw whatever happens in any other EU era!

Make me an army?

Uh, who moved this to the M4-78 EP section? And why? o.O

O.o I remember him sending me some message about LucasForums along those lines. *facepalm*

Yeah, I played LS Female Exile, so I never helped Czerka. Even in the rare instance of playing DS Exile, I loath working with Czerka and I'm a capitalist.

Aw, I'm sorry! Yes, I should have recognized you for the huge amount of work you've put into the mod. *fixes original post* I'm not sure what you mean by the Corrun Falt quest. Isn't he already part of the main Citadel Station quest? Bao-Dur's story needs some closure. After M4-78 gets polished, this should be the primary item of the restoration, even if it ends up being a separate "Enhancement Project." We can live without the GenoHaradan, but this is an obvious gap in the story. Oh yeah, you did work on the Factory! And of course I am biased. Everyone is inherently biased. But I still say it is the best part of TSLRCM. And yeah, I stick by what I said about Peragus. It's not your fault or anything, Obsidian somehow just made the most boring starting level possible.

I added this to my impressions, but the M4-78 droids never appeared on Citadel during the Battle of Telos. Can't really elaborate on that, to be honest.

So if you haven't seen my introduction page, this is the brand new account/semi-new personality of Lord of Hunger. I was a beta tester for TSLRCM back in the era of the 1.3 release, before Stoney ever made this mod available and relieved our community of the stress of waiting around for TSLRP. To this day, I am still grateful to Stoney and Zbyl2 for letting me into their inner circle of people working on this project (EDIT: including Hassat Hunter and VarsityPuppet in particular), and Sith Holocron for getting me in touch with those two in the first place. I have not played a complete playthrough of TSL since finishing TSLRCM 1.6. I have never finished 1.7. However, when I saw that M4-78 EP 1.0 had been released, along with TSLRCM 1.8.2, I felt obligated to reinstall TSL and do a playthrough. Having got over the depression that took me away from the community, I also rejoined DeadlyStream and am writing this review of my experience. Later on, I intend to do a philosophical review of TSL (given the much more complete experience we have available to us), which include a comparison with Knights of the Old Republic I and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Specs The following is my gaming rig/work computer/web browser/second brain. Gigabyte Motherboard 4.2 GHz Quad Core AM3+ Socket AMD FX CPU Nvidia EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2 GB GDDR5 Graphics Card 16 GB DDR3 (4x4) Kingston RAM 700 Watt PSU 128 GB Kingston Solid State Drive 64 GB Samsung Solid State Drive 1 TB Hitachi Hard Disk Drive NZXT Case These specs meant that I almost never had to worry about crashes. Mods TSLRCM 1.8.2 M4-78 EP 1.0 Widescreen Hack 1920x1080 Windows Vista/7 fix Sound and Music Improvement Mods I could have installed additional mods, but I actually wanted a purist experience. I admit, I was very tempted to replace the lightsaber hilts, but for some reason I never went through with it. Now, let's get down to my actual playthrough experience. I went with LS Female Exile Consular/Master (99.9999999% of my playthroughs, but why not this time around?). Most of the time I was on normal difficulty (I went down to easy on a few difficult sequences). Peragus To Stoney and Zbyl2's credit, Peragus is very polished. However, I'm afraid no amount of improvement will make Peragus interesting. As I will elaborate later on, Malachor is now more captivating than Peragus, and the whole section up until Telos is a complete chore. If I ever do another playthrough, I intend to investigate any Skip Peragus mods that might exist. Nothing more need be said here. Telos On Citadel, nothing has really changed since my previous playthroughs. I was glad to see the Duros assassin work this time around, though. The cutscenes inside the shuttles on the planet surface were a nice touch, though they need a little more polish. For example, in the second cutscene inside the shuttle on route to the Polar Region, the shuttle is internally damaged before even being hit by a missile. Also, if the shuttle is damaged in those cutscenes, the party members should be physically reacting to it. Aside from those nitpicks, Telos is a complete experience at this point (minus potential GenoHaradan related material, which I PERSONALLY consider optional to a complete TSL experience). Dantooine Again, not much has changed since TSLRCM 1.6. The Battle of Khoonda is a little more polished. Yet another complete experience thanks to TSLRCM. Nar Shaddaa The Party rescue sequence was much better this time around. This time the mod doesn't use a new module, but rather just closes the existing module doors. Enemy waves are better placed. Goto's Yacht worked well, save for the caveat that the dialogue triggers were immensely bugged after the Exile was rescued. Dxun/Onderon There's nothing to restore on these worlds, so nothing need be said. Korriban/M4-78 I have already written my impressions of M4-78 EP elsewhere, so I'll just reiterate the most crucial points (WARNING: SPOILERS). The beginning and middle of M4-78 ranges from satisfactory to great in quality. In general, the mod doesn't feel like a mod, but rather part of TSL proper. The ending, however, is poor. Vash and Kaah just...die. Without any good reason for two trained Jedi. Kaah's death is especially bad (assuming you spare his life), he just takes an single, well-anticipated blaster bolt from a lone battle droid to the chest. As I stated in my impressions, this ending could use the Nihilus vs. Sion cut content sequence. Onderon Civil War Again, nothing restored. I should note that by this time, all the spare levels from M4-78 had made my Exile and companions ridiculously powerful...and I don't consider that a bad thing. Dantooine Academy This sequence is usually the highlight of TSLRCM's work. It is pitifully short in vanilla TSL, but gets slightly better with each iteration of TSLRCM (some extra lines of dialogue keep getting added). All that needs to be said is "Well done!" Atris This scene had quite a bit of new dialogue that clarifies major TSL plot points that barely get mentioned otherwise. Another "well done!" here. HK Factory This is where TSLRCM 1.8.2 (this version specifically) shines. The end cutscenes were much better this time around, particularly the HK-51 speech given by HK-47. The difficult posed by the HK-50s is a bit overwhelming on normal, I had to turn it down to easy. I could have gone on normal if I had bothered to purchase every repair kit in the game, but perhaps that is a modder choice. Ravager Only one flaw: I have said repeatedly that the "Injured Mandalore" scene needs to be improved, but it hasn't. The scene remains glaringly nonsensical, as Mandalore is spontaneously attacked by an explosion. This needs to be fixed. Malachor V I really wasn't expecting Malachor to be as good as it was in this version. With VarsityPuppet's hiatus, I believed any attempt to make Malachor a halfway decent segment of the game was more or less over. However, it looks like quite a bit of content got restored here. There is some dialogue from the party members' minds before touching down on Malachor that is a nice touch. The Goto vs. HKs scene hasn't changed since the last time I played it, nor does it need to. The party rescue sequence is a good touch as well. The best part, however, is that the "Taris civilian" models remain gone. Seeing that makes my day. Some additional content would help Malachor, but at this point it has acceptable length. Post Game Thoughts This playthrough of TSLRCM was very complete. I find only one overall fault remains: The Bao-Dur story thread. He suddenly disappears off screen during the Battle of Citadel Station, with a mere mention by Atton and Grenn. In the party mind dialogue on route to Malachor, there is a repeat of Bao-Dur's thoughts during the Dantooine Academy sequence, but the camera just sits on the Hawk's engines. I don't get what this is supposed to imply. This is a glaring peace of cut content that needs to be addressed somehow. Verdict Despite the Bao-Dur issue and M4-78's ending, this was the best playthrough of TSL I have ever had. Maybe after all this time it was a little fresh, but I think there is more to it than that. TSLRCM 1.8.2 and M4-78 EP have granted me a very complete experience of TSL, and I can only expect future versions will yield more completion. 9.8/10

That is an accurate assessment, InSidious. 5% of the cut content (Darth Atris, Visas takes Kreia to Nihilus) fleshes out Malachor V, but conflicts with the established plot. Having just finished Malachor V with TSLRCM 1.8.2, I can say that the ending is remarkably restored since the last full version I played of TSLRCM (which was 1.6). Full review coming tomorrow (maybe). I am curious though: Are there any VO lines for the "Vistas takes Kreia to Nihilus" scene?

Looks like he hasn't been in the modding scene for awhile, so I guess he won't be. It would be a pleasant surprise if he did. Just remember that one should never count on anything in the modding world: It's done when it's done.

Maybe a script is supposed to fire and is not doing so? Check the mod documentation.

One problem with Exile's version of the scene is that the pace is slow as hell towards the end. Also, I love this scene, but it should be relevant to gameplay. We never get to see the Sith Assassins really hunt the Exile. Perhaps that should be added in a la HK-50s, and if this scene happens that pursuit ends on an account of a mini-Sith civil war.

Don't play The Old Republic. EA poisons everything they touch, period. And yes, you will have to remove TSLRCM to play ROR. My suggestion? Backup all your TSL game files (as in, all of them), reinstall TSL afresh, and install ROR, then back up the game files ROR. Swap between backups as needed.

I see. Ambitious, which is both needed for a large mod and can endanger such a project. But you're obviously familiar with the many incidents of vaporware that have plagued our community. My only suggestion is to release this incrementally in the same way TSLRCM was released. With all due respect, I had some free time so I took your prologue and made some grammar corrections. Grammar is everything when it comes to rhetoric (I'm finishing a Reason and Rhetoric minor this term at my university). https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hW36O3p0snYFSQS0px9GEi6QGl8o8XzmtEa46aB7DK8/edit?usp=sharing

I'm a little unclear as to what the actual mod will be. Are you going to change the scripting of the game to create the scene in what you added? If so, how will you get the voice acting for Atris (I presume this is Atris), and how will it make sense for female Exile?

@cOMA: You're most welcome! Glad to help. @cOMA and Sith Holocron: These corrections and the atmospheric textures will definitely help the game narrative. However, as a side note I do think that there is another problem with the game atmosphere: The music. A lot of the normal level music is fine, but the battle music in TSL is just horrible. It's not a question of the sound quality, I've already got better versions of the sound and music files. It's the music itself. I just thought I'd mention that as long as this mod's effort is going into improving the game atmosphere. TSLRCM's restored content has already improved my experience in this regard, but there's still more that needs to be done to reach the "perfect TSL experience"...which will never be reached anyway! ;P

To be honest, Nihilus vs Sion was my favorite part of this mod in any form and I would love to see it restored in some shape or form.

Bravo! TSL really needs this, given the graphics cards and other games of today. I especially approve of the fact that you are making the textures more atmospheric. The Telos Residential District fits with Citadel being on its last limbs so much of the time.

Sadly, the GenoHaradan cut content seems to be cursed. I heard that TSLRP got into trouble from devoting too much time on it instead of ironing out the HK Factory (don't quote me, my memory is not the best with these things!!!). When I was working on the script for the "GenoHaradan Revisioning Mod," I fell into depression (unrelated ) and left the community silently. Exile007 worked on it for awhile, but seemed to drop it. Now Sapiens has lost interest. I have two recommendations: 1) Anyone who does work on it should make their resources completely open source, so if they do lose interest someone else can pick it up. I don't count because I don't have anything other than a bare bones outline. 2) This, like Darth Atris, might be cut content worth retiring. I've been playing TSLRCM 1.8.2, and Nar Shaddaa is no longer short of material. Also, it makes little sense to me (now that I give it some more thought) that the GenoHaradan would get involved with another Galaxy influencing figure like the Exile after what Revan did to them. And speaking of Revan, I remember that Revan having to be Dark Side to give this content continuity was a major problem when I was writing that outline. My only solution was to make Revan's choice irrelevant to the outcome, which contradicts what TSL is all about: Meaningful choices. There is still a lot of content I would like to see make it that hasn't been added to TSLRCM, like the Holocron Hunt with Mical. But this is just my opinion. If there is demand for this mod, let it happen.