Rukil Dialogue

[JDub96 54]

So, I was on Taris and got to the quest to locate Rukil's apprentice in the Undercity. I like to do a bunch of stuff at once so I explore all of the outer Undercity and get the Rakghoul serum, meet Canderous, and recover Malya's journal. I get the next part of the quest where I'm tasked with finding the journals of Rukil's father and grandfather so I grab them out of the sewers. Normally, I wait until I clear the Vulkar base to give them to Rukil but I decided to go back. And Rukil acts like I never found Malya's journal in the first place. At first I thought the issue came from installing the Bendak light side bounty mod halfway through Taris so I did a fresh run but the issue persists. My mods are:

- KotOR 1 Community Patch

- Sabers of the Old Republic

- Sunry Murder Enhancement

- K1 Bodies Stay

- JC's Saber Effects

- JC's Blaster Effects

- JC's Back in Black

- Helena Shan Improvement

- High Quality Blasters

- Iriaz on Dantooine (I do NOT have KotOR Restored Content Mod)

- K1 Diversified Star Forge Prisoners

- K1 Diversified Soldiers on Taris

- TSL Ported Animated Swoop Monitors

- Remove Force Armor Restrictions

- Canon Galaxy Map

- JC's Robe Adjustment

- K1 Faster Scuba

- JC's Security Spikes for K1

- JC's Dense Aliens

- K1 Lite Upgrades

- K1 Party Leveler

- K1 Ported Alien Voices

- Spectral Ajuna Pall Canonical Appearance

- Traditional Mandalorian Blades

- Training Sabers

- The Real Vibroblade

- Realistic Visual Effects

- Balanced Pazaak

- Leviathan Differentiated Dialogue

- Sandpeople Disguise Fix

- AI Upscaled Movies

- SWTOR Revan Voice

 

None of these mods seem like the type to cause these issues, but I am out of ideas. I have a few more that I can't remember right now but I will update once I'm home. I posted the ones I do remember in hopes it'll give some guidance as I've never had this issue before. That said, I did also make use of Flawless Widescreen but uninstalled it and replaced it with Unwis before I ever entered the Undercity.

 

EDIT: Completed mod list.

[DarthParametric 3,785]

Open your save in KSE and go to Globals -> Numerics. Check what the value of Tar_Rukil is. And presumably you still have all 3 journals in your inventory?

[JDub96 54]

To clarify, I can complete the quest just fine. My issue is that every time I talk to him after turning in the 1st journal, he repeats the history of Taris instead of the usual "You have returned."

[DarthParametric 3,785]

Ah, I see the problem. The starting conditional in question is k_ptar_rukil10+. Not sure which one it is, but you are using a mod that is editing tar_m04aa.mod with an old version of TSLPatcher that has a bug that causes it to delete any files with characters like + in the filename when it repacks the MOD. This issue will affect multiple modules throughout the game, as Bioware used that convention a lot. One example from experience with my own mods is the Upper City Cantina. K1CP uses a fixed version of TSLPatcher that resolves this bug, but Fair Strides never publicly released it as far as I am aware, and it's only a few years old anyway. The only way to resolve it is to start again from a completely fresh install and replace every single mod's copy of TSLPatcher.exe with the one from K1CP (renamed INSTALL.exe) before installing any of them.

You'll want to go through your mod list and see which of them (aside from K1CP) edits tar_m04aa.mod and inform the author/s of the issue and the solution.

[JDub96 54]

I'm pretty sure the only one I have that modifies that particular .MOD file is K1CP. I've done a clean install. Vanilla Rukil behaves properly so far. I'm going to reintroduce K1CP first and see what happens.

[DarthParametric 3,785]

K1CP doesn't touch Rukil's DLG, or any of his scripts, so it shouldn't be that. You only have two other options. Either some other mod is directly editing those, or has broken the MOD.

[ebmar 893]

On 6/19/2021 at 7:28 AM, JDub96 said:

EDIT: Completed mod list.

I'm quite surprised that I don't see K1R on your mod-list because that issue was what happened to me as well on a PT with the mod installed.

What happened when you install K1R [or potentially anything that causes this] is it hard-overwrites the relevant MODs with theirs which -as DP had pointed before- have removed any -mostly conditional- scripts that has special characters [such as -/+/!] on their name from their pre-packed MODs -- as on this case, the tar_m04aa.MOD one.

This is how they setup their installation --

[install_folder4]
...
Replace31=tar_m04aa.mod
...

-- and when you open the MOD you will not find k_ptar_rukil10+ which check for that event --

int StartingConditional()
{
	int iResult = (GetGlobalNumber("Tar_Rukil") >= 10);
	return iResult;
}

Or, only to make sure now -- you can open tar_m04aa.MOD that is installed on your end and see if the said script is in there or not. If it's there, then we might know where the problem comes from. But if it's always been there all this time, then that's another case...

[JDub96 54]

Thaanks, Ebby and DP.

I've done a clean install of the game and all mods using the INSTALL.exe from the latest K1CP and all my tests thus far have resolved the issue. Now it's just a matter of hoping it doesn't go wrong elsewhere.