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Yeah, however I don't recall any items outside armor which provided armor defense bonus. Defense bonuses were usually 'dodge' defense, not armor. Perhaps if an item adds armor defense bonus by mistake, the other bonuses aren't stacking. Am I making any sense here? I found a similar bug in K1 in which defense would not go past a certain number. I can't seem to remember the exact number but it was pretty high. I encountered this bug only playing with some mods so I assumed that had been the cause.

Well, don't say I didn't warn you. I would recommend you read some reviews about it first, before you waste your money.

Yeah, I suppose if you're into games which have no point whatsoever, it must be fun. Nah. People want to be Jedi to feel powerful. They want their cyber alter-ego to be the bully with a bad attitude they can't be in RL. They want to be the invincible munchkins everyone is afraid of and nobody wants to mess with. I have had more than my share of online gaming and I know what I'm talking about. It's called the 'Greater Internet F*ckwad Theory'. Uh, yes, of course... whatever it was you were trying to say. Next time try to make some sense. It really helps when you are making a point.

You trying to use logic? In these boards? I would think you know better... " He probably meant that he's seen the same problems in K1. I don't think his comment had anything to do with beating the game but with being a veteran of the KotOR community. I might be wrong but that's how I understood it. Anyway, if you're feeling witty, then don't let me stop you.

If you had the slightest idea what you are talking about you dumbass, you would know that it is actually *easier* to play a cracked/pirated copy of HL2 than a original one, if only because you don't depend on Steam to validate/decript/activate your game. With all their anti-piracy measures, an illegal working copy of HL2 was reported to be around about two days after release. So much for uber security measures. Next time you might consider growing some brains and getting a clue before you call someone a thief. Different, yes. Better, not at all. The fees are the same. Unless you are interested in getting the craptacular Half-Life: Source or a special T-shirt, the packages offered through steam are worthless.

Such a thing is a mathematical impossibility. ^_^

Looks like you just ran into your first *really* annoying bug. " Sorry for you.

If the only games we are going to get for the PC are Xbox conversions and HL2 & Doom3 look-alikes, I'm going to be buying less and less games until one day when I will quit gaming altogether.

That was most likely due to the influence of Caine.

Sure, ultra-fast acquisition of Valve games, at the same freaking price they are sold at the shop. Only you are forced to waste your bandwidth downloading it, and are subject to data losses, corruption, system malfunctions and other pleasantries. Greed above all things. On the other hand, the advantages are... um... eh, well there must be some, I'm sure. Yeah, digital distribution is the way to go. To hell, that is.

I thought you had been warned by the moderators already. I sure hope you keep doing these remarks on a regular basis, so you will get the ban soon.

Uh, did you actually manage to uninstall it? I had to delete it manually, because after uninstalling HL2, then Steam, the Valve folder would still be about 5 Gb. Neat stuff, this Steam, huh? Anyway, If some other developer ever thinks of something like Steam, I don't think they will be very forthcoming about it. That makes um... well, a whole lot of us.

Not as badly as some of the latest spam that's popping up lately... "

Yeah, that's one of the things I didn't like about BL. Even though it's true that the Sabbat usually Embrace en-masse to get shock troops and loads of cannon fodder, the higher echelons of the sect and those carefully chosen for the Embrace have a longer unlife expectancy. Only the 'shovelheads' appear in the game, unless you count Andrei, and yes, those tend to die rather quickly and gruesomely. :ph34r:

This discussion is beginning to feel familiar... Unfortunately, we are in a minority with respect to the gamers that want easy games. I don't hold my hopes very high in regards to games becoming as hard as they used to be, or at the very least, harder than they are now.

Right, the key words here being 'this game'.

I have yet to see a single idea that might be good for a MMORPG. Maybe it's just the whole MMORPG idea is flawed? "

Obsidian Entertainment - A division of Bioware Corporation.

It's more of a problem with how Jedi classes are balanced in the D20 than anything else. Usually, a character's power is divided between their equipment and their abilities, but that is not the case with Jedi. These guys are deadly with no equipment at all. Not really. The battles should be designed in such a way that the player's weaknesses were exploited. Be it attacks needing a successful Will save, cornering the player and using carbonite projectors, or whatever. I don't like the idea of having buffed out enemies which don't make sense storywise just so they are a challenge for the player.

Yes, I've noticed that anything that's not in harmony with your preconceptions is irrelevant to you. Very sad if you ask me.

That's assuming a whole lot. Even though the game mechanics allow for uber munchkin PCs, that doesn't mean there can't be challenging situations. A couple of thermal detonators could mean trouble for the player, for example. What I saw in K1 is not as much a problem with game mechanics as it a lack of creativity when designing battles. Usually no enemies will make use of anything else that whatever it's on their hands. Not even combat feats FFS! I don't like the level cap being raised past 20, but if they were going to do it, they should have balanced it with something. Be it more complex battles, or a completely different level scaling system. Anyway, I will not judge a game before I play it, unlike you do. Prejudices are always a bad thing.

Yeah, I didn't try to take the blame away from Obsidian. If Obsidian decided that there wasn't enough time for the Live features to be in, and LA allowed it, then both are to blame, obviously. However the final decision rested in the hands of whoever is in charge at LA.

You should email Valve telling them of your problem. It would be nice if you let them know the incredible amount of ass Steam sucks, too. Maybe next time they will think twice before trying to authenticate personally evey f*cking copy of HL2.

ROFL. And what exactly have you seen? A bunch of biased reviews? It's been a long time since I have actually seen a review which actually said a game is bad. At most they will say something like 'wasn't as good as expected' or something like that. I find it really sad when people allow others to define what's good and what's not for them. It seems to me like you are pretty biased yourself and the hype as gotten to you already. Too bad for you. Err... Hades man, you know I usually agree with you in these matters but this is somewhat irrational. You haven't even seen the PC version yet and you already consider it crap. Chill man, it's still not out there. There might be hope for K2 yet.

I'm not sure as to whom was responsible for leaving the Live feature out. I think I remember some dev post saying that since they didn't have enough time to do everything, Live was going to be left out, but LA probably had something to say about it.