iamthelorax

H! I've got all of you beaten! I don't even eat eggs; I'm vegan. Otherwise, scrambled with tabasco sauce and ketchup.

Well its nice to see that Jedi get something other than Treat injury and Awareness as class skills this time since you start as a jedi. Especially persuade. You had to start as Scoudrel to be able to accomplish many things in K1

I have no idea who MSG even is, but as for speaking Basic being a requirement for being Human, there was a human on Korriban in K1 who didn't speak decent Basic, so opted for Twi'lek.

Any commands and such in the New Testament supercede any contradictory ones in the Old. And each Testament frequently condradicts itself because it was written by a zillion different authors over probably a significant span of time. Furthermore, many of those contradictory quotes are certainly instances of different contexts, and diminish the overall strength of that argument against the Bible. Finally, the Catholic Church left the contradictions in when it assembled the Canon probably because it just didn't want to edit the "Word" for consistency (after all, it was all inspired by God, how could it be contradictory?) and/or because it wanted to have a Biblical quote to back up every piece of doctrine, even contradictory ones (usually at different times). Even given that, I, for one, disagree even with what's would be in a Dogma-friendly edit of the Bible. Which is to say that I disagree with the Church. As for the vegetarianism quote, that goes to show that even the New Testament is faulty, and that God, if IT exists, disagrees with some of it. And I imagine you can find veg-friendly quotes in the NT. I know you can in the Old.

As NPC's use your full name regardless of whether they know you well (party members) or not, it seems that your PC should have a one-word name that stands on its own and thus sounds alright in either context. Also neat if it works both male & female, dark & light. Revan is such a name. First time through KotOR I went with Barbarella. 'Twas a great choice. As I am not particularly creative, I'll probably have to search through "Hellenic" mythology to find a suitable name. Importing names from other full-fleshed fantasy universes seems weird. As would hearing everyone call you Darth *.* long before you establish yourself as formally Sith. Mythological names at least seem normal for their cultures. I might import from JK:JA though; Jaden sounds alright.

Akari, as a corollary to your comment on engine efficiency: is part of the framerate disparity between K1/2 and Halo on XBox because Halo was programmed very specifically for XBox in addition to KotOR's programming being more 'lazy'? On my 2yr old PC for which the CPU is the bottleneck, K1 ran fine at 1280x960 except during particle effects like smoke and grenades, while Halo PC, which has no nifty effects like grass blades and speed blurring (frame buffer FX) and rarely has necessarily high-poly surfaces like human faces, ran poorly at 1024x768 whenever there was anything reflective around (which was a good chunk of the time). No FSAA on either one and 32 bpp on both, as I recall. Or maybe I just pause too often during combat on KotOR to notice. Oh yeah, and can ya'll make higher-res textures for the blasters for K2 PC? K1's looked terrible, as do what I've seen of XBox K2's. I realize its third person, but jeez! Are you assuming that better textures would make the low weapon poly counts (e.g. square or hexagonal 'cylinders' as I recall) so obvious that the blasters would still look bad? Will we be able to get to game menus from minigames and game-rendered (non-PC dialogue) cutscenes? KotOR was the only game I ever had to regularly exit by killing it with the task manager. Will Alt-Tab'ing (or the game in general) be stable? Will K2 not randomly create corrupt/invalid auto and quicksaves? Don't get me wrong, I loved KotOR, but it was despite a lack of polish/debugging <_< . At least the 'empty' box moniker shows you've on the right track in the polish department. EDIT: OK, so from after forum reading it seems that many PC'ers had huge bugs, and many had absolutely none. So very varied hardware-specific testing seemed to be lacking. I am assuming that OE is using these 2 mo. between XBox and PC data being given to manufacturing to do just that this time.

Well, the PC version might not be off for manufacturing yet, and I only suggested minor polish stuff myself. And there's always patches for the patient/tighwadded among us

Well, the two best crystals (heart of the guardian and mantle of the force) you had to buy. Ones like 22500 and the others 22000. If you don't know where to get them, you is n00b. After those two babies, malak is a biznatch. :cool: <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually, at least with critical strike instead of flurry, Baragwin Assault blades (one before last map, one after) are better than lsabers, even with those crystals. Solari crystal looks great, but the game considers Malak's alignment to be neutral for some reason (check log when he lightnings), so it's no better than others. You can theoretically get 500 damage per round with dual B.A.B.'s. Once I had two, I only used a lightsaber when forcejumping on the 'outdoor' platforms on the SF. I did up to 230 damage on Malak per round, and could have done much more on any paralyzed peeps if they had the HP. Lightsabers ought to be the best though, and jedi ought to be better fighters than everyone else as in KotOR, except that the "everyone else" is a much larger group of people.

You CAN see the hilts, in the cutscenes, if they're shot anything like the cutscenes in KotOR.

Pazaak: By making the player always dealt a card first, the player is at an automatic disadvantage to her opponent. Implement some kind of coin toss to decide who goes first. Turret shooting: fix the friggin' turn speed, for cryin' out loud. It took several mousepads worth to swing around. I should have been obliterated by then. At least a couple of FPS games with vehicles have a separate menu option for 'vehicle turn speed.' (though it's usually keyboard turn speed). Or just apply the turn speed for the main game to the turrets. Racing: allow player to use speed, and have it thus go into slow-mo. Not really minigames, but: Player-Char-only fixing & hacking: allow non-PC's to do it, since I don't want to waste skill points on repair when I only want it to find out HK-47's story, and I don't like cheating. Et cetera.

Haven't any of ya'll noticed that the SF robes appear in the screenshots and/or movies that Obsidian has put out for TLS? Looks to me like they're back.

In KotOR, if you're talking plain damage, dual Baragwin Assault (vibro) Blades were the best, except perhaps against dark-siders, which seems irrelevant since the game considered Malak neutral (and thus everyone except maybe Bastila I would assume). But some lightsabers will probably surpass everything else in TLS, as they should. For style though, I would have to go with dual lightsabers, one blue and one green. For actual fighting, look at fencing: dual, with short off-hand.