Mephiles550

While giving Nihilus Death Field does make him annoying sometimes, I do enjoy the extra challenge and I think it suits a character of his prowess more than just drain life.

Yes I agree that he was way too easy for a sith lord that destroys planets.

I always thought that a party member should die in that fight.

The mere thought of playing TSL without TSLRCM is a very frightening prospect indeed.

Sure, it's easy. You can start it and you can see the ending. Therefore, the game is complete.

The more I think about possibilites, the more times I remember that HK-47 says you can get to the HK-50 factory when you really can't and that Malachor is a giant mess of a plothole.

AAAAARGH STEAM. Is there a potential fix?

Nvm, so apparently adding spaces in between each word of "Disable Vertex Buffer Objects=1" fixed the issue. Wtf?

Yeah I don't know what the deal is with that. Could be Aspyr changed something in their code so it changes the way it reads swkotor2.ini

Lots of nvm's lately

If you mean from my status update requests than ya I noticed that also. Sith Holocron was a big help.

Oops, I actually confused you with SH. My bad 0_o

Player heads?

https://www.darthparametric.com/images/K1_Player_Heads_K1.jpg

https://www.darthparametric.com/images/TSL_Player_Head_Chart.jpg

I think there was another version where I also included the unused ones.

Edit: SH posted them here - https://deadlystream.com/topic/5501-the-missing-heads-in-tsl/

That's interesting, thanks for clarifying.

The question popped up after seeing the latest topic about porting Juhani to TSL, I always thought those player models were already there. 

A bunch of heads got remodelled/re-uv'd, others just got outright replaced, so it's a bit of a mixed bag as to what remains. The most well known example is mullet man being turned into one of the Hispanic male heads.

Original 4CD FTW!

Statement: I still do it that way. Though I've been forced to install with an image of my K2 play disc, I still use the CD to play the game.

I have my 4CD copy of Kotor on a USB stick since I hate having to switch the disks every time i reinstall

Rather simple, actually. Step 1 is to always grab Halo Custom Edition for it, which was made by Gearbox, the people who ported Halo CE to PC. Custom Maps you literally just download the file, then drag it to the "maps" folder, and it should be able to play. Currently, I've been hyped about a Single Player mod called "CMT SPV3", which is still in development.

You misunderstand me, I know how to install mods but I don't know how to edit mod files.

Ah... damn, sorry about that. I have no experience in that front unfortunately. I would assume there's at least some tutorials on the Halo Maps forum.

You could always use RedHawke's Rodian Elder Merchant mod.

"This simple mod spawns Gviian Sluupor a freindly stranded Rodian Merchant, as well as a Workbench, on entry to the Elder encampment on the Unknown world, you will find him on the other side by all the Metalboxes and Plastic Cylenders. I hated that there was no place on the unknown world to sell the items you could not use and also have some killer items to buy, so here he is. This mod is also fully compatable with all of My Mods and just about everyone else's mods as well."

The limitations refer to using the Workshop. Avoid doing that and just stick with typical modding and you'll be fine. The Workshop implementation is ass anyway, it will just lead to headaches for anything more than simple overrides like textures and so forth.

Standard Copy & Paste procedure and the TSL patcher work just fine as normal? Good, thank you!

Yes, just use the Steam install directory as you would for the GOG or CD version. TSLPatcher won't handle automatic lookup because of different registry entries, but you can manually point it to the right location.

Are you talking about utc's? If your kotor tool detects the correct registry paths for k1 and tsl it should detect custom appearances

Enable the option for it to use the Override folder and it will pull data from any custom appearance.2da, etc.

Thank you DP, I wasn't aware of that option before. That saves some headaches.

I found BOS rather difficult but maybe thats just me.

Yeah BOS is a bit tougher than base-game.

That doesn't mean I need a set of light armor from Czerka that turns me into a hulk. BOS isn't really that hard. The only time I thought it was tough was during the stealth part with the droid and Shadow's visions, all of which limit you to only a handful of items and whatever you find. Solomon's fight may have been a little tough, but nothing unbeatable.

Yes it is. I actually got the installer all finished (with no errors running it!) this last weekend... But the hard drive physically failed literally the next morning. :( So I need to re-do the installer from scratch, again. *sigh*

My sympathies FS.

It's likely down to the way the engine is coded, although it's odd that issues persist with entirely new Intel integrated GPUs a decade and a half later. Perhaps ndix UR could provide some insight based on firsthand poking under the hood.

My guess is that something in Intel drivers just doesn’t like KotOR’s engine.

I'd have to run the GPU caps viewer on the Intel driver to say specifically, but the short answer is that the game uses old OpenGL extensions, often NV_ or ATI_ namespaced ones. The big two have kept those features in their newer packages while Intel has, presumably, not gone back and implemented every historical OpenGL extension. Especially since OpenGL is the ignored stepchild to Direct3D on Windows. Long story short, it is unlikely to ever get better and it's not a hardware issue.

Maybe the big Rancor lacks animations and it crashes the game due to either a missing model or missing model data, did you manage to see the Ranor before the game crashed and did it do anything (Walk, Run, Attack etc)?

I saw the rancor at the size I expected and it had regular idle animations. It stood where the big storm beast spawns. But it wouldnt move forward at all so the game crashed after like 2 or 3 seconds looking at it 

Actually, I just tried it again and this time it worked! I didn't do anything different either. The fight is actually a lot more intimidating now!

The only bug I occasionally get when trying this fight is that sometimes, after I kill it, I randomly die. That makes no sense to me.

Probably legit. He tried to jump into someone else's body in the last film...

... It was stupid.

Gotta be

https://www.cnet.com/news/we-now-know-palpatine-was-a-clone-in-star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker/

Eh, it's a prank.

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In the recently released book The Art of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

What needs patching?  Will you be releasing these fixes?

No because all of the fixes would only be relevant to my own personal override folder's contents, it would be useless to anyone else and would probably just cause more problems.

Most of the glitches I encountered were related to the 2da files, with some objects here and there likely not having been in their right spot, e.g, Akirkon at the last fight was a czerka employee, the force cage at the end was a rock, and solomons grave was a puddle of oil, etc. They werent common, but noticable. Those were really the only problems I had. 

I will say tho that I would genuinely pay money to have someone with a decent VO and microphone replace all of Shadows twilek lines with actual english. Its seriously unbearable hearing twilek speak in moments that are actually well written. 

You could always try fiverr.com and see if you want to hire a voice actress. 

They need to be constantly pumping out filler material for Disney+ in order to keep people subscribed. Hence the string of Star Wars and Marvel TV shows. Quality is well down the list of their priorities. The only way they'll stop is if the financials stop making sense, as happened with their Star Wars theatrical plans.

Whilst I am a nerd who can never get enough content, I'm missing independent movies sometimes. And TV series that have original concepts. Whilst I'm not bored at this point in time I can completely understand why some/alot of people are getting bored of it all.

Disney acquiring both Marvel and Star Wars is a gift and a curse. We'll get a lot of exposition, but disneyifing everything will get very boring soon.

You know what they say about quality vs. quantity...

Early 30s?

47. How? Idk.

Yeah. I never dug the screenshots for that mod. Oldflash's vision for the game aesthetically didn't jive with mine. Never used it.

I mainly used it for the saber hilts, the new remote model and some other robe skins. The mod kicked ass, even if I didn't really care for some parts of it. The Mandalorian model kicked ass.

Cool! It always bothered me that he never finished it up until now...

With some of Inyri's weapon models and a couple of other weapon models available here on DeadlyStream, I'm trying to replace every single ranged weapon in TSL with higher quality ones, the majority of which being ToastyFresh's models. Maybe I'll eventually get to updating some melee weapons at one point, but my priority is on ranged weapons.

The texture is C_DrdWar01.tga if that helps.

Found it, it's "stuntdroids"

thank you anyway, Holocron. I'm now deciding which model to change it with. I really hate how Obsidion decided to include so many low poly models in the game. Now I have to replace them all. Ugh

What mods are you using?

A bunch of graphics mods, several small mods, bits and pieces from other mods, and my own personal tweakings. It all looks balanced and polished in the end, but let's just say I couldn't use K1R for compatibility reasons. I did download it so I could get the script files for the restored rough-cut Wookie crystal for example.

Good to hear! What do you have in mind?

I've already, for the most part, fixed my issues with wearing Darth Bandon's armor by modifying 2 different 2da files. I've also made some edits to lightsabers and their crystals via the upcrystals.2da file and I've made some old mods that use an appearance file manually compatible by only taking some parts of what I want from them.

I like the referenced Kotor 1 items you get in it. But you do get Force Crush too early if you play it as a 1st/2nd planet.

I mean you could exercise restraint and not use them? o.O But yeah I had the same issue, I just installed http://deadlystream.com/forum/files/file/874-k1-and-tsl-difficulty-options/ this mod to fix that issue.