Were these droids ever seen in TSL?

[Sith Holocron 2,478]

I can't recall but were the droid models in this Nexus mod ever seen in TSL in normal game play?   (Pay no attention to the textures for the droids as they were apparently something tweaked by the modder.)

[Vriff 21]

No, they are not. They were featured in the original Prima guide in place of the mining droids on Peragus. They may have been featured in other early promotional material also. Looks like they were preliminary models of the mining droids that were later replaced.

[Sith Holocron 2,478]

It just seems that if they're in the game, that they are a perfect opportunity for DarthParametric to replace them with one of his superior models from his Droid Foundry.

 

I'm pretty sure that DP probably is very aware of this as he knows all the droid models in the game.

[N-DReW25 1,336]

While I am not the expert on this sort of stuff I do know a little bit about those droids.

 

Those droids where the two original mining droid models, to my knowledge they were seen in promotional screenshots similar to Sleheyron. The first set of mining droids that look like a spider could hold actual weapons such as an actual mining blaster, this to me makes sense as in the start of Peragus you pick up a mining blaster off a mining droid though as the final version of the mining droid had inbuilt blasters picking up that blaster didn't make much sense. The second droid that stands on two legs according to the screenshots used the mining blaster rifles unlike what this new mod shows in its screenshots.

 

Those droids where textured so I could make my own mod using the vanilla textures so it feels more like a restoration but there is one major problem. The first mining droids when I tested it couldn't fire their weapons for a mysterious reason, they held their blasters and did the firing animation but they couldn't shoot anything (I changed the mining droids utc to the unused appearance and not change the mining droid model to the old one as this modder has done if that means anything) and the second mining droids have barely any animations, I think they can walk and do a deactivated pose but that's it. It has no attack animations whatsoever.

 

If someone could fix those animations then this mod could be done.

 

Fun fact: The second mining droids did appear in M4-78EP as deactivated Sith War Droids Mark 4's in line in the industrial zone.

[Mutilator57 140]

No, they are not. They were featured in the original Prima guide in place of the mining droids on Peragus. They may have been featured in other early promotional material also. Looks like they were preliminary models of the mining droids that were later replaced.

And thank goodness for that. They look absolutely terrible, not least of all due to the ridiculous way they hold their weapons.

[Guest]

I think the second one looks truly awful. However I like the first one quite a bit, aside from the blaster hand.

[DarthParametric 3,783]

Weren't they used in the E3 demo?

 

And yes, I am aware of them, but no, I don't have any plans to use them. Aside from the fact that they only exist in TSL, their animations are more or less the same as the final game mining droids, so there's nothing to be gained from using them as a base.

[Sith Holocron 2,478]

Gotcha!

[N-DReW25 1,336]

Weren't they used in the E3 demo?

Judging from the small number of clips of said Demo I've seen I'd say no.

 

Aside from the fact that they only exist in TSL, their animations are more or less the same as the final game mining droids, so there's nothing to be gained from using them as a base.

Not to mention their animations are more or less broken so if anything you'd lose rather than gain if you used them.