Toofy

Buy it, and tell other people to buy it. Fresh concepts from good developers need to be rewarded, not destroyed by critics that are biased towards the high budget-mediocre game.

I think Alpha Protocol deserves a sequel, or at least an expansion pack to make this game so much better. It's a unique concept that hasn't quite picked up steam yet, who knows, in time this game may become another one of those "cult classics". Holiday season is coming up too, that means gamers are going to have extra money to spend and they may want to try something a little fresh. I love the concept of a spy RPG, this needs to be expanded on by Obsidian. The whole no DLC is very upsetting, though there doesn't seem to be an option in game that hinted that there would ever be DLC (granted something like this always seems to be patchable). Though maybe Obsidian is also tricking us into thinking there won't be any "DLC", but blindside us and release an expansion pack we can download or buy in stores. This would be an amazing move. It's a shame to see Sega treating this as if it were a dismall failure, but I don't think this game is. I think it's a fresh new concepth tha should be improved on with future releases, they have said that they want to take their time to compile data, maybe they also want to take their time to compile sales data as they come in. It's still early. I think the gaming world and the publishers and financers and metacritic having too much say on what constitutes a "success" have spoiled us with high budgeted, highly polished "mediocre" games that, truth be told, have similar if not worse issues than this game, then a slightly lowere budgeted, not as polished but makes up for it with great storytelling and honest to god great gameplay regardless of bugs or glitches or just plain "I dont like the gameplay style" critics that bash the game because it doesn't play like Gears of War or Mass Effect 2. Obsidian is not Bioware. Let's stop comparing the two and trying to have one live up to the other. Lower your tastes in gaming, don't let the Modern Warfare 2, Gears of War, Mass Effect high budget gaming have an effect on how you perceive gaming, there have been many technological terrors released upon us in the past two decades of gaming that have gone on to receive high praises for amazing storytelling and fantastic new concepts. This will be the next one. If I have to win the lottery to buy a million copies of this game myself, or to even just hand a share of it to Obsidian to be able to consider making a sequel or even at the least a expansion/DLC then I would. If any of this seems nonsensical or poorly edited, I apologize, I typed it all in haste and had no direction in terms of compiling my thoughts to be put on this board, I typed as it came to me, but these are my opinions and speculations. Alpha Protocol deserves better than what the so called "critics" have been treating it as.

I will definately purchase if patched, unfortunately I did make my decision based off reviews and the only thing holding me back was the fact that this game was pretty buggy and had some balance problems. Though if Obsidian were to release a patch that fixed any issues and it looks as if this game will have some support, then I will invest once again in Obsidian. I truly believe Obsidian is one of the most talented developers on the market today, they just don't get enough credit for their work. These are the guys that were involved with Fallout and its cult success, I'll always give them a chance because I still enjoy that game even today and I still own the first release copy of both Fallout 1 and 2 to remind me what an amazing RPG can be like. Hell, even those games were buggy and had some serious flaws, but that didn't stop it from being a huge success. I'm sure with time Alpha Protocol will pick up steam.

Well I went to that side first, picked up the behavior datapad for the HK 51, and then nothing...the computer terminal on that side is locked and I can't do anything other than go to the HK 50 side, am I missing something or did something wrong? Or was my game bugged and didnt know it...

I still can't seem to figure this out, what are the differant paths that you can take with the HK Factory? nowhere have I been able to upload this datapad or use it in any way, does anyone know what its for and how to use it? I heard you can get the HK-51s to side with you, how do you go about doing this?

If he's already done all that the patch wont work, he has to patch it before he gets to nar shadaa, here is how to fix it after you've already been to Nar Shadaa. Download the saved game editor for KOTOR, Save your game while on the landing pad, not while in the Ebon Hawk. Then open the editor, go to Globals > Numerics > 301Nar_Red_Eclipse_At, set it to 0. Apply and save changes then load up that save, re-enter Ebon Hawk, and it should be fixed.

What sort of Lightsaber crystals you using? are you using any? what's your wisdom modifier? are you using force powers for Knight Speed? Heal? Do you have Shields that absorb energy? 47 DEF sounds pretty high and they shouldnt be getting through you alot, but it sounds as if you have low STR and CON and maybe dont have the toughness feat for the extra damage resistance and HP, I sported a 36 DEF using only 1 Saber and heavily invested in Knight Speed and Flurry, that's almost a must have. But if you don't want to go down that route, use shields and knight speed, is your treat injury high? then I'd suggest making Life Suppor Packs, they're cheap and you can get rid of some crap equipment to make a ton of them. If you can stun them (Force Push, Stasis or the Dark Side variants) I think you get your sneak attack bonus to that, so try and put some effort into getting your opponent stunned or frozen or whatever and then hit them while they're stunned/in the back. You picked a build that makes you do work, I dont suspect you can slug it out one on one without a good strategy. That's what I would do.

Hey all, new to the board, but have just rekindled my interest with KOTOR2 and I have to say, this story is even more amazing with this mod installed, but I have a couple quick questions. In the HK Factory, when I pick up the HK 51 behavior datapad from the dead HK 50 in the office, where do I use this? the terminals are locked and I cannot access them and the terminal with the HK 50's only allows me to upload HK 50 behavior core and combat upgrades, other than that I am forced to shut down the factory and that's it, is that all there is to it? does this have an effect on the ending with HK 47 and GOTO? Also, I received the part of the ending where GOTO makes HK47 go after remote, what was I supposed to do to have HK47 take out GOTO? Thanks anyone and everyone for any answers.