Kotor leveling issue

[Big Earl 0]

Hello my new friends,

I didn't post this in one of the mod related forums (at least not yet) because my issue was not caused by a mod but it may become a topic for mods if my issue can be resolved by modding. Lol.

I have been playing the GOG version of Kotor 1.  I played many years ago on the original Xbox and really enjoyed it. My version is 1.03. I started a game, made it off the Endar Spire and down to Taris. I played long enough to win the swoop bike race. I didn't catch it at first but I began to notice that my party was gaining experience and leveling up but I could not choose their feats, skills, etc. Also, my character portrait in the bottom left of the screen will show an arrow pointing up to notify me he has leveled up but I get no arrow notification for Mission, Zalbaak, Bastila or Carth. They gain experience and levels but I never receive any notification that they have leveled up and no menu to allow me to choose their skills.

Also, I prefer to use console commands to make it easier as I don't get much free time to play so when I do, I like to advance as fast as possible in the game. I enabled console cheats while still on the Endar Spire.

 Is this a glitch? Is it something that can be fixed with mods?

 Thank you

 

 

[DarthParametric 3,794]

11 hours ago, Big Earl said:

They gain experience and levels but I never receive any notification that they have leveled up and no menu to allow me to choose their skills

You enabled auto-levelling.

[Big Earl 0]

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9 hours ago, DarthParametric said:

You enabled auto-levelling.

Hi Darth, thank you for the reply. I actually considered that. Since my party were leveling up but not allowing me to choose skills, feats, etc., yes early on I chose auto leveling a couple of times. So I decided, if that was the issue, that I would start a new game.

 So I started over and on my 2nd playthrough I intentionally avoided auto leveling. Once Carth gained enough experience to level up, I hoped that the game would then give me the menu to choose his skills, feats, etc., but even on my 2nd playthrough, I still received no notification that he had leveled up and I went into his menu but still no option to choose his skills, feats, etc. I am stumped.

[DarthParametric 3,794]

It's a global setting in the options menu, not save-specific. It will apply to a new game unless you disable it.

[Big Earl 0]

Ok thank you. I shall check it next time I play!

[Big Earl 0]

22 hours ago, DarthParametric said:

It's a global setting in the options menu, not save-specific. It will apply to a new game unless you disable it.

Thank you DarthParametric. I found auto leveling in global settings. You were right, it was enabled. After I turned it off, everything works great now!