LadyCrimson

It's 5 to max out influence far as I can tell - I've counted - after that, they still do their cutscene reactions to something influential but you get no actual influence gain anymore. I max out Atton before I even leave Telos.

Atton left because he captured a jedi who touched him with the Force and threw him into mental confusion chaos - so he killed her because he hated her and loved her at the same time or something (for causing the confusion and making him see things differently) - and to save her from further torture maybe? - and then left.

Wow...another fan. I was blown away by Tigana. I still haven't read the Tapestry...even tho I bought it years ago. I mostly read sci-fi like Asimov or Jack Chalker, or fantasy...with a little horror and historical fiction thrown in (particularly the US Civil War period). But I became tired of never ending series syndrome and stopped reading, mostly, several years ago.

I got DS mastery and saw the bonus, but never tried to get any of my party to mastery so I can't comment on that. But I was noticing this evening, that I now have Light mastery and two converted jedis who seem like they should have it (their bars are the same and I have max influence with them), but they do not - certainly no bonus. I was assuming party members just don't get the mastery bonus, only Exile - but....*confused*...ah well.

Oh wait...sorry...yes it's the Exiles skill used to breakdown items - anyone else's skill can be used to create, but only Exiles is (supposed) to be for breakdown. Although, some say that's not true for them. Just more inconsistent glitches. P.S. The endless components/energy shield etc. tricks don't work on my PC version of the game.

You need a Repair skill of 20 to have an item breakdown into the same amount of components that it would cost to create. If you'er breaking down something that's worth only 1 component to begin with, 20 Repair won't make a whit of difference. But if you're breaking down an 'expensive' blaster or armor, you'll notice.

Once you leave Iziz/Onderon the first time you can't ever return 'normally'. You can't return to complete quests or play pazaak or...etc. You just return to fight.

Oh...also....about the smuggler quest....keep in mind that....

The two escaping crimminals quest - they never showed up on the planet for me either, but after finishing with the Handmaiden hideout I went back to Telos and talked to Grenn and told him I'd killed them (even tho I didn't) and the quest completed. But you don't even have to do that.

No. (edit - in terms of shopping/quests)

I'm no fan of purple/violet/pink hues, but I like that one much better than the 'violet' in the game.

Yeah I think I only had 2 or three influences to Bao and then he jumped to Jedi too. Got one in Atris lair. Got one on Dxun. If there was a 3rd I don't remember where - maybe Dantoon. I think in terms of number of needed influences he's fairly minor - but there's not tons of places where he's allowed to gain it and easily missed. Which causes the "I have 50 savegames per character" syndrome.....

Disciple (melee/force storm), Bao and Mandalore (both ranged) to Dxun - no problem. Atton refused to be seperated from his Exile so guess where he went. My current game I'll probably make Disciple the leader again (he really does make a crushing Jedi fighter type) but use maybe...HK and Mira. HK might be fun since I like ranged support. I think it'd be funny to pick all three droids for Dxun...

So the unpopularity of Disciple carries over even to this? lol Funny how I hated him at first and now I'm so attached to him. I couldn't say why, either. Contrast probably. *shrug* The voice-actor looks nothing like Disciple, IMO. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0254862/

Yes, Visa's hurts them...but she can't kill them. They'd get down to 1hp or something and then their lifebar would just pop back to about 1/10 full, repeat forever till she finally loses her half-health. And they are damaging Visas on their own. I didn't touch a hair under her veil. :D Edit - Disciple was the only one good enough to put her down in a few swipes. T3 took a while, and I wasn't going to wait for Remote's result. teehee

Intriguing. T3 & Disciple and the Remote all attack/follow her. But Atton can't get his skinny arse wedged out from behind his chair, and Bau-dor & Kreia take an attack stance but don't actually fire/attack. I love this game.

Nothing to add that hasn't already been said, but yes, I agree...he wasn't that difficult. None of the bosses were, since by the time I got to them I was lvl 26-29. Heck, those Veteran Mercenaries on surface of Telos near the Military Base gave me a harder time, for my chr. lvl/items etc.

Probably been mentioned before but it's the 1st time for me so I just had to laugh at it.... I'd noticed the first time I fought Visas on the EbonHawk that afterwards, as I ran around the ship, some of my party members had apparently turned on their energy shields (if I'd equipped them with one). So this time through, I'm fighting her in that little room, and all of a sudden T3 rolls up and starts shooting at her. I was thinking, "WTF?" So I re-loaded. When she charged me, I ran down the hall to Disciple's spot (lvl 12) in the medlab and stood facing the med-bed. When she came through the door, Disciple turned on an energy shield (with no prompting from me, since he wasn't in my 'party' on ship) and attacked her. Three swipes and she went down. Of course, the "kill me" bit ignored the location completely and showed herfainting onto the original room floor. :D Utterly hilarious. I have to try it with the other crew members to see how they fare.

Lvl 29. I don't think it's even possible to reach level 50 by just playing the game (no glitches etc). Once I won, I loaded up saves and tried the set/disarm mine trick just to see if it worked (it did - and you can do it anywhere/anytime), but that's also very tedious. Good way to gain a few levels very early on tho, if you really desire power-gaming for some reason. :D

I didn't have that problem in my DS game. If your influence is high, whenever your own alignment shifts much from getting DS/LS points (either way), theirs will too (if you have a lot/max influence they seemed to match your own all the time) - if you're quicksaving and immediately reloading, then it sounds like a bug. Otherwise it could just be some kind of minor delay in showing their reaction to some recent change in your own alignment.

I use whatever the game decides to offer me. <_< I gave Disciple a purple double-blade, because the game seemed obsessed with giving me purple. But I do like to make sure no one else has whatever color I chose for myself. And giving Atton one red and one white seemed symbolic of his dual nature (hard/detached & caring/littleboylost) to me. Not that I had him using sabers much. I avoid green. I don't like green.

I know that achieving DS/LS mastery nets you stat bonuses (and a new look). Is there any other reason to have it? Because it's really difficult to maintain it, what with all the influence stuff giving DS/LS pts etc. Do the rest of you try to keep that up all the time or are you just happy with enough to get the presitge class? I personally gave up and just tried to be 'mostly dark'.

In my initial run my impression is that most of the NPC's don't have much to say towards the end of (their part of) the game, or once you've made them Jedi or have full influence etc. - they all make the occasional comment here and there but the dialogue options don't change. There was a giant thread on these forums about the original plot ending, comlpete with the dialogue lines that still remain in the sounds folder...I don't have the link for it tho.

Hehe...yeah...that was bad. He occasionally said something else tho - I think they all have 2? - but I can't remember what it was at the moment.

It's all in the influence. If you don't have enough influence with those NPC's the dialogue options where they will turn to Jedi never comes up. Since you've finished the game once I'll direct you the XBOX faq/walkthru that has a lot of info about the dialogues that affect the NPC's influence (it also is wrong about a few things but....). The dialogues can be pretty tricky - sometimes if you don't hit exactly the right line at the time it comes up poof the chance is gone. Man I reloaded a ton....... http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox/file/s..._kotor_ii_a.txt