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I just remembered a quote from the end of the EGM article. Avellone jokes, they reserve the right to change anything that they showed us. "There's a little asterisk next to everything we've said that says, 'Year away from launch,'" Avellone says.

Big fan of the first kotor but there were a couple of things that I think would make the sequel even better. 1st) Occasionally while playing the first kotor there were times when I was trying to leave or enter a door only to find out that I was unable to because one or both of my teamates were snagged up somewhere. I'd have to backtrack to get my guys unhooked & then go back to the door. Even though my guys are offscreen while I'm running somewhere, they shouldn't be further than 3 steps away. 2nd) After finishing the game, I think there should be an option to be able to run faster when I play it again. 3rd) I'd like to see some cool jedi-like abilities when my character reaches a certain level. (Examples: deflecting a lazer blast with my hand, tossing stuff that's lying around at your enemies with the force, and absorbing a sith electricity bolt & tossing it back at them ala yoda in episode 2.) 4th) I would like more detailed info about weapons, armor, & items. There were some expensive pieces that I bought in the first kotor that I wasn't even sure how much it actually improved my stats. I'd have to enable the item, then go to my stats window, try to remember most of it, disable the item, go back to my stats & try remember what went up or down. I think to improve that for example; say I'm about to purchase some piece of armor, I'd like to see a visual before & after representation of my stats to see what benefits or disadvantages it would have on me if I were to purchase it. (I'm kinda in a Apple state of mind with the nice, clean interface.) 5th) I'd like an even more in-depth facial character creation tools. Like Tiger Woods times 2! 6th) I also think it would be cool to see more cool light saber animations. Slicing off an appendage or head for example. Also, I think rare cool finishing animations would be sweet if your building your character into an exceptionally evil badass. An example of this would be to finish off an enemy by slicing off the limbs, head & torso in a quick saber movement & then use the force to lob the pieces in opposite directions all while laughing like an evil bastard! I can't stress enough that you should only be able to see a particular finishing move only a few times throughout the game so you really appreciate when you do see it. That's all I can think of at the moment. I really hope some or all of these suggestions are really considered. KOTOR ROCKS! Edit: Do the guys working on KOTOR2 actually read these forums or are the game's features already locked? According to the EGM article, there is still a year of work before it's ready.