Untold Prophecy

What have been or has become your favorite Lightsaber builds from the workbench? I've been playing around with some different ones lately and have come to appreciate a few nuances in both lore and gameplay. 

My got to for my last few playthroughs have been:

-Jenruax

-Green

-Upari

-Improved Beam Gem lens

-Expert Fencing Emitter 

-Telgorn Volt Cell III

This gives me pretty good damage and blaster defense, as well as let me hit some insane critical roles when running the Shien form with force speed + power attack. 

Another personal favorite I like to do it:

-Opila

-Blue 

-Ankarres Sapphire 

-Improved Vibration/Pontite lens 

-Expert Fencing Emitter 

-Ultimate Diatium Power Cell

This one is a lot harder to pull off due to the drop chance of getting the Ankarres Sapphire, but it gives you some really big damage without relying on critical chance (but still gives you good crits with Keen). I tend to use the Vibration Lens for Weapon Masters and Pontite Lens for Marauders due to the defense penalty you get with Fury. 

I don't really care to use the PC Crystal anymore because it's more fun to try to min-max a character without relying on it and going for a run reliant on pure random drops. 

What's some fun builds you've tried?

14 hours ago, DarthParametric said:

Seems the OdysseyTrimesh modifier had its mat colour overrides set to mid-grey, so that would be why. Try this one: 

Handmaiden_Head_Atris_Hair_Ponytail.7z 58.41 kB · 1 download

Do I just need this set of files or do I combine it with the other ponytail files? These don't seem to change the model alone.

5 hours ago, DarthParametric said:

Seems the OdysseyTrimesh modifier had its mat colour overrides set to mid-grey, so that would be why. Try this one: 

Handmaiden_Head_Atris_Hair_Ponytail.7z 58.41 kB · 0 downloads

Thanks, Darth! Appreciate it!

Is there a reason why you don't publish this one? I think it's worthy of it and would make it a lot easier to find!

On 11/10/2016 at 7:33 AM, DarthParametric said:

@DarthParametric do you still have this version of the head? The one I downloaded has the skin tone rather gray and looks like it's constantly in a shadow. I was wondering if you had an updated version?

4 minutes ago, 90SK said:

You'd have to strategically replace stuff already listed in the item code list. There are ways to interface with the system, but adding custom codes, like DarthParametric said, isn't possible. Familiarity with the KotOR Tool Templates.bif, Item section. Look at a_light /a_medium  / a_heavy / a_robe items. I wrote a Nexus Article about how those items are sectioned, by letter C through K, referring to model in the appeareance.2da

I'll take a look! Thank you!

I already released a mod that replaced the Ultima Pearl with the Krayt Dragon Pearl, but there aren't a whole lot of other items I'd want to outright replace. 

Gotcha, thank you for clarifying. 

I guess that's why @90SK's stuff is specifically placed in his loot mod. Hopefully we get a breakthrough in the next few years, but I guess I can always do hand placed items too. 

So I recently discovered the Holocron Toolset (I'm pretty late to the party I guess) and I've been playing around with it to make some small adjustments to items and NPCs. I would like to know how I can make a completely custom item and have it be able to spawn in a container as a random drop? 

I'd like to make 3-4 Jedi robes that are lore friendly and could spawn between levels 14-24. I've already learned how to create them (using Crado and Aleema's robes as the base) but need to know how they can be implemented as drops without manually adding them to a container or NPC's inventory. 

Are the icons from Kotor able to be dragged and dropped with a rename into Kotor 2?

For example: I'm working on a mod that renames the Ultima Pearl and changes it's description to that of the K1 Dragon Pearl. I want to bring over the icon from K1 as well and replace the Ultima Pearl's icon so it's a more "authentic" replacer. 

I tried already but couldn't get it to show up in game (name change and description worked at least). Do I need to do something else or would someone be willing to provide an icon replacement for me? 

I'm wondering if it would be possible/if someone would have interest in creating and publishing an edit to Crazy 34's new lightsaber blade modders' resource?

While everything about this mod is phenomenal, it would be nice if there was an option that altered the colors of the lightsabers to more closely resemble the vanilla blade colors. For example: blue and purple are so much darker in this mod vs how they originally look in vanilla Kotor. At the same time, silver almost looks white and cyan looks more like a light blue than actual cyan. 

Colors like red, orange, and viridian look much better than their originals, but many of the other colors I feel divert too far from their originals. In some cases, I feel like it takes away from Kotor 2's art style with colors being too saturated compared to the beaten down and drained backdrop that the game crafts for the setting. 

10 hours ago, JCarter426 said:

K1

• Speaker's Charisma modifier is added to Persuade skill checks
• Jedi's Charisma modifier is added to the amount of Force Points gained each level (minimum 1 per level)
• Caster's Charisma modifier is added to the Difficulty Class of all Force powers which involve a saving throw
• Caster's Charisma modifier is added to the amount of Vitality Points healed with the Cure and Heal Force powers

K2

• Speaker's Charisma modifier is added to Persuade skill checks
• Caster's Charisma modifier is added to the Difficulty Class of all Force powers which involve a saving throw
• Caster's Charisma modifier is added to the amount of Vitality Points healed with the Heal Force powers
• Caster's Charisma bonus reduces the cost of Force powers
• Party leader's Charisma modifier is added to attack rolls made by other party members
• Player's Charisma modifier affects alignment shifts of party members (except Kreia).

Not really. Persuade rolls are not typical d20 skill rolls in K1 (StrategyWiki) has a good explanation) and there are no Persuade rolls in K2.

This is only in K2.

All Force powers which involve a saving throw add the caster's Wisdom and Charisma modifiers to the Difficulty Class. This is mentioned in the description of each Force power. For example, in Whirlwind's description:

 

Thank you so much! 

I've been reading Reddit posts, Gamefaq posts, and others over the last few days trying to get a good idea of what exactly the Charisma stat does in both K1 and K2. 

I know it modifies your persuasion rolls, increases companions' combat performance, increases force point pool in K1, and reduces the cost of alignment opposite force powers in K2. But how does it affect force power potency? How is that different from the Force power susceptibility that Wisdom increases? Does Charisma even matter in Kotor 2 since your main character becomes so overpowered by level 25? 

Someone posted a very good video on YouTube a few years ago breaking down the Strength vs Dexterity lightsaber bonus in K1 using the combat log, so I'm hopeful someone can provide an explanation similar to that. 

Thanks guys! 

I had reached out to a few mod authors about this recently, but I was wondering if there would be any interest now 8 months later. 

Thank you! 

Some pics for reference: 

Would anyone be willing to port over Jolee's default outfit from K1 and have it replace the K2 Jolee Robes you can find? This design change plus removing the neutral alignment restriction would factor into a fun build I want to try in a consular playthrough. 

Funny enough, I almost made this thread again before seeing it already posted in requests!

If anyone might be interested in tackling this for me, I'd greatly appreciate it! 

Would someone be willing to replace Bastila's head with DarthParametric's Jaesa Willsaam head. I can do the swap with KSE, but was hoping to have something that covers the instances where she isn't a party member and will swap Sith Apprentice Bastila with Darkside Jaesa as well. 

Thanks!

3 hours ago, DeathScepter said:

New Headcanon: the Exar Kun's armor that we can get within game was his old Jedi Armor when he was a Jedi, not his Sith armor.

I really like this one! 

Same thing for Ulic's Armor in K2?

Hello,

I recently downloaded Kotor 2 on my new laptop and have run into multiple runtimes errors that have stifled my playthrough. The error I am getting specifically has to do with a C++ Runtime Error forcing the game to terminate in an unusual way. This started to occur when I would try to leave Citadel Station for the first time (which I resolved initially by removing the Movies folder) and now has me stonewalled whenever I try to travel to a new planet after leaving the Telos Academy (the issue is not tied to any Movies trying to play now). I have read almost every Reddit and Steam forum post and watched multiple fix videos on YouTube that have not resolved my problem. 

I have already tried the major fixes of updating/reinstalling drivers, repairing and reinstalling all relevant C++ downloads, downloading All In One Runtimes, uninstalling and reinstalling Kotor 2, and playing with various graphical settings in-game and in the EXE. I am completely stumped and am hoping that someone on here may have the one fix that I have not tried or some sort of file download that will fix everything.

Please help me if you can!

Processor    AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics        4.00 GHz
Installed RAM    16.0 GB (15.2 GB usable)
Edition    Windows 11 Home
Version    23H2
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Experience    Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22700.1003.0

Would anyone be willing to add some Darkside heavy armor variants to Kotor 2?

I'm thinking a few lore friendly heavy armor versions that don't restrict force powers but have some balanced weaknesses that set the apart from the Jal Shey robes?

Darth Vader, Warb Null, and other Darksides wear heavy armor without force restrictions, so I believe this could be something expanded upon to spice up gameplay a little.

Bumping this, hoping there's some interest.

M4-78 is a good start. You should get 2-3 extra levels from that. 

I also believe that Azgath N'Dul's Tomb is compatible with both of you wanted to install that. 

I don't think I've ever gotten above level 33 before fighting Kreia in any of my playthroughs. 

Are you playing with or without TSLRCM?

Would anyone have any interest in implementing the Krayt Dragon Pearl into Kotor 2? 

I understand why it was cut, but it seems odd being the only missing crystal from the first game. 

I have two ideas for locations where it should spawn:

1- Geeda's shop after completing Dantooine for 2500 credits.

2- Looting Ahrnell's corpse after killing him in the Crystal cave (similar to killing Komad Fortuna for it in Kotor 1). 

Thanks! 

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