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I see what you're getting at. Personally I like the idea of the exile making the companions more like themself, and sharing/forcing their unique abilities on them. Though I understand why you would like keeping them exclusive.

18 hours ago, Snigaroo said:

Force Sight, Breath Control and Beast Trick are fine. Battle Precognition, Crush and Enlightenment are a no-go for me, though--there need to be things that keep the companions (and the player) feeling unique. Force Sight is shown to be relatively easy to teach, but Battle Precognition is something that the Echani train their entire lives on and is simply not easy to pick up in a short period, which is precisely why the Handmaiden is so incredulous when she realizes the Exile is doing it subconsciously. As for Crush and Enlightenment, they are far too overpowered, them being unique to the Exile aside; giving them out to companions would just make the balance even worse for, IMO, no benefit in terms of flavor.

I'm not strongly wedded to training Precog, Crush, Enlightenment, though I think you are overestimating their power in the hands of companions (mostly for precog). Due to the distribution of equipment, and lack of the player crystal, followers are unlikely to get the obscenely high simultaneous Dex and Wis values that the player can get to. I think you are really overhyping Handmaiden's shock as well.

"{A little confused}You are already doing it. "

"If you do not know you are doing it, then training will make you a dangerous opponent indeed. "

"Perhaps it is your connection to the Force that allows such things, but I do not think so. "

There isn't anything in the dialogue or in the power description that implies Battle Precog is a super unique trait. Maybe not one possessed by all Jedi, but I don't see why combatants in a war wouldn't have it. You could make a strong argument for Atton having access to it flavourwise, and arguments could certainly be made for Bao-dur and Visas as well.

Enlightenment is strong, but largely a late game convenience option. Crush may be too powerful though. They also aren't available normally anyway, another mod would have to give the player access to them before the Enclave.

Regarding the companion training, I worked out something like this:

Fighting Techniques trains Unarmed Specialist up to the players current rank (this gets around a Vanilla bug where Handmaiden and Bao-dur do not continue getting Unarmed Specialist as they level up, because there specific feats entries check there current class level, and not there overall level), otherwise it tends to be a useless ability as the numbers are too low unless you save all level ups for Jedi.

Lightsaber Forms remains the same, but also allows the level up forms to be taught, so they dont get locked until Jedi level 13 (They are generally worse than the ones you could teach anyway)

For the powers, I changed it to the unlockable powers that aren't taken by leveling up (I loathe when the game invalidates a level up choice by giving it to you for free later)

• Affect Mind (doesn't do anything in the base game, but I don't see any reason to remove it IMO)
• Dominate Mind (ditto)
• Force Sight (not Visas) (I did this at one point, but there is a bug where if Kreia or Visas use Force Sight as a power, it turns off when they are in first person)
• Breath Control
• Beast Trick
• Battle Precognition (Handmaiden always gets this when becoming a Jedi)
• Force Crush (won’t be opportunity to train in normal game)
• Force Enlightenment (won’t be opportunity to train in normal game)

I also made it auto train everything that could be trained upon being made a Jedi for the first time as a QOL change.

The dialogue patching wasn't setup properly for Holopatcher at the time so I never released it, I will check the required features have been added at some point.

This is fucking incredible

A lot of force power descriptions are incorrect

It is not

A bunch of them probably are, but I'm not sure I would recommend reusing them

Pretty sure the manaan Ithorian should sell swoop parts

The original version of the mod released 14 years ago today on KotORFiles. I was originally angry about the unvoiced dialogue present in the existing Padawan mods, and set out to fix that. It was incredibly different from what exists today, but I am eternally grateful that I started working on it.

I've released a new major update, which reworks the mod substantially. It replaces Tutorial Remover as well, as you now have the option to not be a Jedi, so I no longer need to maintain separate mods with the same functionality. It should be much cleaner and more compatible, and uses a more modern installer, that has version for linux and mac if needed.

Thanks to everyone who has downloaded the mod over the years. I've gotten a lot of good feedback (and bad obviously), but I only really remember the good stuff. Thank you!

I forgot those were found. So 29 through 32 were almost certainly all Sleheyron

You can't add attributes, feats, or spells in K1. You can use hide items to simulate it, but it's not a perfect solution.

It's not clear what the lower shadowlands level had. There isn't anything left except the actual area itself. If you look through the list of K1 Modules, you can see plenty of missing letters and numbers though. These are the ones that are visibly missing based on numbering, but there are very likely others we will never know about.

• tar_m03ac (something in Taris Lower City, b and d are both present, so this very likely actually existed at some point)
• tar_m06 and tar_m07 (who knows, both numbers are completely skipped)
• tar_m10 (cut vulkar base level, this is the only basically finished cut level)
• tat_m19 (tatooine temple, in lost modules pack)
• m21aa (tatooine or korriban czerka depot, in lost modules pack)
• kas_m25ab (cut shadowlands level, only reason we know this exists is the models as it isn't obvious its missing, as there is no m25ac)
• m29-32 (who knows, between Manaan and Korriban numbering)

For the Great Hunt, I think having Deesra as a potential starter works fine. You talk to him, and get the great hunt meta quest, but if you find either of the journals first, it just skips that journal entry and immediately starts you on the Yavin part. I think structurally how you would get to Yavin is interesting here. I assume you still start by going to the station first? Would the planet then unlock on the galaxy map, or would you shuttle down from the station. I think either would be interesting. In the old days before new modules the shuttle would have worked quite well, as you could retexture the top of the Unknown World temple which has Bastila's shuttle there, but I can see how retextured modules are not desirable anymore.

9 hours ago, Snigaroo said:

 

Particular thanks to JCarter426, who made this entire mod at my request but then told me it would be funnier if I uploaded it like it was my own. Ok.

 

I was confused when I saw the author

On 9/12/2022 at 6:44 PM, InSidious said:

Module injection is less compatible, not more; WAV files are already setup to go to streamwaves and lip files have to go in Override to work for K1, IIRC.

 

I strongly disagree with this. I was looking at making this compatible with my mod, because I'm editing the k_player_dialog in the module file, so any changes that I make, are just overwritten by files you put in the override, even though they could be gff patched. Now I could change my mod to also put stuff in the override, but that is just kicking the can down the road. Anything else that gff edits modules will then be incompatible with my mod.

Similarly I have no idea if this is overwriting stuff from the community patch, as all of that is module injected. It's very likely overwriting something. I really think most of the edits should be moved to module injection, that's simply more compatible with how most mods are currently being made.

Legendary is less than 10 bucks on steam right now...

If you want to stick with the originals there were unofficial patches for those, but they mostly got abandoned for LE

Absolutely awesome, thank you so much. I'll give it a test and report back

Edit: I can verify that Achilles robe textures work fine with the new models. Thank you again

Two disguises wasn't necessarily the original intention. The party was originally the method to acquire the sith passcard to get into the military base (all the VO for this is in the game). You could also pay the same gender party goer to let you come (originally to get the passcard, later the disguise). 

I really enjoyed that. I think your videos are better when you are doing voice commentary.

Even simple hack and slash mods like this are really quite impressive considering the tools that they were made with. Anyone who tried to do module editing with KotOR tool will know what I mean. Hopefully we will get more new content mods now that we have really excellent tools like Holocron Toolset. The lack of them has always been one of the more unfortunate parts of KotOR modding.

One of the projects I've done a bit of work on is a mini TC that would act as a module starter hub for other mods, so people could make modules like they do for Neverwinter Nights or Dragon Age. I think little TC mods like this would benefit from having something like that as a framework.

Its not, its hardcoded, you can't change it

The feats can be controlled in feat.2da, but I'm pretty sure the powers are hardcoded

For the BaB mod, this is possibly related  (though goes a lot further than you wanted);

This is the changelog for a feat mod I'm working on. It's for both K1 and K2, but fulfills the same function. There are a lot of changes in there, but most of them are minor consistency tweaks between the games, restorations, or small fixes, similar to JC's Feat Fixes. There is also a ton of QoL edits and description changes to make the games more new player friendly (and also old player friendly because the game does a really bad job explaining itself).

For K2, the major changes are restoring BaB and restoring the K1 style AC bonus feats. Instead of scaling forever, you just get the bonuses up to +6 at level 12. I've also stripped the bonuses from the Soldier and Jedi Prestige Classes (only Scoundrel, Droids, and Starting Jedi Classes get AC bonuses). This reduces player AC by 4-8 at level 30, without affecting the early game, but I'd like discussion on it.

I've made the Superior Weapon Focus and TwF feats generic. Now that BaB is restored, the Weapon Master and Marauder don't need them to stand out.

I've also tweaked the Saving Throws for most classes. Starting Jedi Classes are now in-between the Jedi and Sith prestige classes in terms of Saving Throws. I kept the Sith having slightly worse saves as I like it thematically, while making sure the Jedi Prestige classes get better saves than their base classes

30 minutes ago, Snigaroo said:

Doesn't that require WMO? I seem to remember there was a project to do texture enhancements without model change requirements, but if it does require WMO I recall that I was not super fond of WMO's changes.

Yes it requires it. I don't find the melee weapon model changes that drastic, they match the aesthetic quite well, maybe give it a try (but make sure to install HQ Blasters after