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At this point no. In fact, if you're on the Ravager, you won't even get to see him, let alone get him in the party for the remainder of the game, so you really shouldn't worry about it now. Just remember it for the next playthrough. HK-47 is not important to the plot at any point I recall as such (though that is mostly due to all the cut content of TSL). That said, you can learn a lot from him, particularly about Revan, though naturally that requires you build influence with him, and since he is such an evil entity, that means taking DS points. I built influence though I played LS, though. And he has some wonderful cutscenes with T3 and G0T0. As mentioned, you get two parts of him before you leave Telos and can get the last two on Nar Shaddaa. That means that if you go to Nar Shaddaa after leaving Telos (as I always do for exactly the following reason), you can repair HK-47 and get him in the group by the time you finish the planet and so have him active on Dantooine, Korriban, and Onderon/Dxun.

First, if you don't already know it, you find the KSE here: http://www.starwarsknights.com/tools.php#Kotor Then install it (unzip) and run the program. It'll find your savegames (for both KotOR and TSL). You'll have to identify the correct save yourself, either by unique name you gave the file (recommended) or by location or both. Making changes after that is pretty simple and self-explanatory. It shouldn't cause you confusion - the most difficult part is really looking through the huge lists of items in the game and finding the right one. Choose any stuff you want and hit 'apply' in the end to save the modifications to your savegame, then restart the game and reload. I recommend making a backup of your savegame or saving in more than one point first. I've never had KSE foul up a savegame for me, but I've heard it happen for some people, and you don't want to become part of that minority.

Solari or Qixoni? Oh whatever, I'll just spoil them both...

Oh that bites, because it means you forgot to search the HK-50 unit you killed back on Peragus. You see, that's the piece of HK you get, and since it's back on Peragus, it means you now can't get it, seeing as how the place is now blown to kingdom come (or more to the point, the game won't let you back there). The second piece is the control cluster, which you find on the plateau at the north pole of Telos after you destroy the HK units there and then enter Atris' secret hideout. However, you can also buy it from Akkere the sullustan droid merchant on Dantooine. The third piece is the droid processor, which you can buy from Kodin the aqualish droid merchant on Nar Shaddaa, while the fourth piece is the chassis, which only T3 can get after destroying the HK units confronting him in Vogga's warehouse. So yeah, unless you want to start the game over or return to a save from way back on Peragus (if you have one), there is no choice but to use KSE if you want HK-47 activated.

I don't consider it flavor text. Also it is just one of many things I dislike 4e. if you think that, then I guess you won't like the upcoming PCRPG-s based on 4.0 neither That is not necessarily the case. I also dislike a great number of things about 4e and will not buy the books nor will I run the game in PnP, but that does not mean that I will automatically dislike CRPGs based on 4e. The electronic medium is simply different. I am to a significant degree a simulationist DM, so 4e is not for me in PnP, but CRPG computer games, by necessity, come with the world pre-simulated already, so I won't have to do it with the sub-par (compared to 3.5e) tools that 4e provides for that. That does not mean I will prefer 4e CRPGs to 3.5e CRPGs and indeed I would hope for more expansion packs to NWN2, but it does mean that when there comes a point when only 4e CRPGs will be made I will not reject them on that basis alone. I agree. I dislike 3.X D&D and all its D20 tabletop ilk, but that does not stop me from playing and enjoying the KotOR games, which are based on the same rules. Computer games need rules that are frequently simplistic and inflexible. Everything that happens in a computer game is planned beforehand, which means the writers have complete control over their story, and all the potential outcomes of the choices in the game are predetermined and known. Tabletop RPG is different - that's why you have a GM to evaluate each situation and weight the relevance of the choices and factors involved, and adventures/modules for RPGs reflect that. They frequently have "what if this happens" sections in them to advice on unforseen choices and consequences. For example, TSL does not need to consider what happens if Atton tries to stab Kreia to death early in the game to prevent her from revealing his secret, because that cannot happen. But in an tabletop RPG, Atton - as a major character - should be played by a player in the game and so it does become a viable option even if it is an unanticipated one, and so is not covered by the descriptions. This is one reason why I will always prefer tabletop RPG to CRPGs, at least until the day science has advanced to the point where we get neural networks to substitute for GMs. CRPGs can be fun, but they are a substitute for the real thing, and their plots will always be fixed unlike a real RPG, where you truly can change how things evolve by your choices and how you influence others. I CRPGs, you can make only those choices that are already predetermined and planned by the developer. So we don't need a character profile for the motives and goals of Malak or Nihilus, because we can be certain we'll never get into a situation where the GM would need such information to find out how they would respond to an unforseen choice or event. In a true tabletop RPG situation, however, that would be possible and so such information would be required for the GM to be able to consult.

Six was posing as a co-worker. He was duped, like the rest of humanity. He could even be the biggest victim of all. According to Baltar, sure. However, as Six points out, he knew or at least suspected full well that she was playing him for her own purposes to gain access, and he went along with it because he just didn't care or just cared more about their personal time together than he did about planetary security. Being duped does not absolve a person of gross negligence, especially not in the case of Baltar, who is a virtual genius. Actually, as Six tells him, even in the face of the destruction of his race, he still cared more about the possibility of death penalty for his actions than he did about the millions that would due because of what he had done. But that's why I like Baltar and would be disappointed if he turned out to be a cylon. He is the most human character on the show, since he embodies all the characteristics of humanity that we loathe. He is simply too much of a pathetic, whiney, self-absorbed human derelict to be a cylon IMHO.

Fascinating. I like the Telos surface, but not Citadel Station.

Worth only money and perhaps a few xp (not sure). Not missing out on anything if you skip it, though. There is little or no need for money in TSL, and you can easily get the same xp in other ways, so it's only important if you absolutely must turn every little the stone the game has. I happen to be one those people, though

Well, I don't have it. Not my favorite part of the game, but I do count it better than most.

Well, I'm ambivalent about Kreia myself. I love her as a character and respect her as an insightful teacher. Her dedication to the truth despite norms and her defiance of the will of the force are inspiring and admirable. That they might be misguided only makes her efforts more compelling. But she is willing to sacrifice the innocent and abuse and manipulate others to achieve her goals, which ultimately stains her intents beyond redemption IMHO. So I'm not surprised if she has made hard choices in the past. She seems to used to it and too cold and indifferent to the resulting suffering, so if she is Kae, then it only underscores that point to me that she was also willing to give up her own daughter. It would even explain how she got to be so cold and calculating - what can be more numbing and damaging for a mother than having to give up her own child to appease the status quo and the norms?

We saw Baltar's imaginary Six push him forward when Roslin tried to outlaw his religious meetings. In fact, she forced him on to such a degree that people argued there was no way should be simply imaginary. However, we've also since seen Baltar meet an imaginary version of himself, so I suspect both are really just an extension of his own imagination. After all, Baltar is about the most pathetic, loathable and cowardly example of what humanity has to offer, but he is also brilliant and would not be able to dismiss his own transgressions and crimes so easily. So I suspect some evil "other" and then blamed that for all the bad things he has done. That he has begun seeing himself instead of Six could mean that he is finally begin to take some responsibility for his choices, which is about time. As Adama said at one point, you cannot make Baltar accept his own crimes, because in his own eyes he will always be the victim. It'll be interesting to see if Baltar will continue to see imaginary versions of Six or himself, after he confessed to Roslin that was the one who gave the cylons the access codes to Caprica, virtually causing the doom of the human race.

Yes. I'm just saying I think LA cared a good deal more about the xmas-sale $$ than they did about impatient fans. Actually, I suspect they cared so little about the latter that it was virtual non-factor...

Actually, I've always jokingly referred to Kreia as mommy, because she's just so motherly toward the Exile the whole damn game. I don't approve of you being too lightsided. I don't approve of you being too dark sided. I don't like the way you've been hanging out with all the girls (if you're a male Exile). So her wanting SO much for the Exile (and I truly believe she loves you, too), but abandoning Brianna, w/o a single thought seems weirdly inconsistant to me. Sure, the Exile's a wound in the force, and Brianna just you run-of-the-mill Jedi, but, what? Well, you're stuck with that problem regardless of whether Kreia is Arren Kae or not. Kae was thrown out of the jedi order about the same time as Kreia, which was around the time when Revan split the order. However, according to Kreia Kae was exiled because it was discovered that she had a child. Now, this is almost a decade before TSL takes place, only Brianna is a lot older than that. According to Avellone, she is 25 in the game. If Kae having a child went undiscovered that long, then she can't have been a significant part of her daughter's life for at least her first fifteen years. And after that, Kae was assumed dead at Malachor V. Either way, Kae gave up her daughter and let her live and be raised by her father with her half-sisters and their mother. So I don't see that as something that speaks against Kreia and Kae being the same person.

At the end of TSL, you're so overloaded with feats, powers, magical items and upgrades that killing the enemy becomes a one-sided walk through the graphics and conversations, even at the highest difficulty setting...

Revan didn't "reunite" the Sith - the founded a new Sith order by corrupting the jedi who followed him. Another problem is that Revan's alignment is fixed as LS in canon. But yes, K3 might shed light on this. Since Revan's alignment is optional, however, I doubt he'll turn out to be the sith'ari. But time, or more likely George Lucas, will tell, I guess

It's fair enough to like him BECAUSE he's cheesy. I still think a better villain would have been more fun, and thus Malak hurt the game IMHO. It's still good, he didn't ruin it, but he hurt it, I think. Few things are worse than the disgustingly clich

So LA looking ahead and seeing ROTS on the horizon and looking back seeing xmas-$$ wasn't a deciding factor? Come on...

Me too. I suspect Revan of deliberately falling to the dark side (unless he already was) and then become part of the true Sith to make a claim for the position of dark lord. Those in power would naturally resist this, and so civil war ensues, weakening the true Sith and buying time for the Republic.

LA knows how to target their primary demographic, I guess But honestly, I find Shaak Ti's attire in this to be rather tacky. She's supposed to be a jedi, and look at what eye-candy she's been reduced to

It says that it's restricted to DS, and it is if you don't put the <FULLNAME> crystal in the same lightsaber, which I'm telling you I've done while being LS. I just checked again, and it works. It doesn't tell you it'll work - it tells you the opposite - but it does. And I didn't cheat to do it either. ill have to check that out, but my point is they made a ds crystal, why not a ls one as well There is the Solari crystal. That's restricted to light side, isn't it? Then again, it's generated randomly, unlike the Qixoni which is bought on Onderon, so you could play many times and not get it.

I can believe this. But that makes Kreia a HORRIBLE mother. Why would that surprise you? She's not exactly too lovable to being with

Have you heard Malak's laugh?

Yeah... You know what that means. I am saving that one. Funny as hell. If you like that, make sure to click at the bottom of my sig for a good... well, an argument anyway

It says that it's restricted to DS, and it is if you don't put the <FULLNAME> crystal in the same lightsaber, which I'm telling you I've done while being LS. I just checked again, and it works. It doesn't tell you it'll work - it tells you the opposite - but it does. And I didn't cheat to do it either.

I would be one of those. The reason is pretty well illustrated here: http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/KOTOR%202/Up...2058/index.html