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I don't know what to say. I used 1.1b of the mod, as linked by Darth, and got the problem. *shrug* the KSE fix worked fine though.

I have that version and it didn't work for my recent playthrough with the mod. I got stuck. The only solution in the sticky (I tried them all) that got me past the Telos Academy bug was: "The solution requires to set the global variable 262TEL_Atton_Talk" to 1 with KSE." Worked like a charm. No other problems other than, obviously, the game getting confused about your character's gender.

I know that in my current game I got Shutdown and Overload (and Diagnostic) for commands in the first section before the audience chamber. I got control programs for the cells and turrets as well. Maybe the turret control was in one of the containers? I just can't remember. Kreia and T3 make a good team for this scenario. As a bonus, T3 will get an upgrade from the first terminal.

I've found that taking Kreia helps quite a bit. I always max out Destroy Droid by then on her. But that's not any help if you're stuck with non-Jedi Atton and an unleveled Mira. That's tough ... off hand I can't think of a worse situation for that battle. I'd say try to get your Exile free ASAP. Getting the turret controls and setting them to fire on both friendly and hostile helps a LOT for that. The turrets in the room before the audience chamber will take out all the droids for you. You can get the code for the turrets early. I can't quite remember, but it might be on the droid in the first detention cell area near where you start.

Some parts of both games can be harder than the boss fights, for sure. Especially the low-level ones. You don't have much vitality and some bad rolls can mess you up badly. Or sometimes you stupidly handicap yourself. I was doing Nar Shaddaa as my first planet last night and fought the slavers aboard Ebon Hawk ... forgetting that Visa was due to appear. I went straight to the Visas fight with about 10% vitality (I hadn't healed during the slaver boss fight because I "knew" I could afterwards). First time I ever needed to run from Visas. Heh, Bao-Dur joined in and did a good job of beating her down with this fists.

Keen doubles the critical strike range. For example, a double lightsaber normally needs a roll of 20 to get a critical. If keen, it gets a critical on 19-20. Single lightsabers go from 19-20 to 17-20.

I'm sure that works great, but my Consular/Jedi Master only had Force Wave as an offensive power. On reload it didn't resist, however, and it went down quickly. My vote for the Greater Storm Beast was just because it was the only foe that even had the possibility of killing my character.

I had to vote Greater Storm Beast. I finished my second TSL game to the end last night and the Greater Storm Beast fight was the only death my character had. It resisted Force Wave and one-shotted me! None of the other foes got my Exile belowe 80% health. Sion never resisted my Consular/Jedi Master's powers and even Kreia only resisted half of them. She died incidentally as I Force Waved her dancing swords.

*raises hand* Happened to me too. I just wandered around the city, talked to each NPC three or four times, and used up all the Ebon Hawk entry cutscenes. Then it finally gave a message to go back to Dxun and the game was on again. It was pretty frustrating. Don't assume a poster is an idiot just because you didn't experience something.

Thank you, Tarelius, for the excellent post. I don't disagree with anything you wrote. I did, however, have a somewhat different experience with some NPCs because my PC was a LS female. Handmaiden played no part (obviously) and I must have missed a good chunk of Visas' dialogue because of the lack of any romance hook. Speaking of romance, there were no (zero, nada) direct dialogue indications of such with either Disciple or Atton. It was all in cut scenes that didn't include the Exlie -- one of which with Bao-Dur and Atton was very humorous, a true highlight of my game (comic relief is important and all too lacking in most of K2). Kreia mentions Disciple's idealistic love in her visions of the future and answers a direct question about Atton's love with, "he's a fool and that's all the answer you'll ever need with him." (Paraphrase.) So, in my LS female game, I found Bao-Dur to be the most interesting NPC. By far. He chatted quite a bit inside the ship with my PC. And he got what I consider the best cutscene, one that included the Exlie and dialogue interaction: the one where he tells off Mandalore in a most excellent fashion. I cheered. KotOR 2 was a very good 2/3s of a game. A shame about the last third.

Yes, Doom 3 is also OpenGL. But they took extra pains to make it work okay with ATI cards. If you recall the benchmark reviews when Doom 3 came out, nVidia still had a substantial advantage. Which was really my point: all things being pretty equal nowadays on the directX front, why bother buying ATI when they've apparently done nothing to improve their OpenGL driver in the past year, since KotOR? Unless, of course, you have no plans to play KotOR 3 (if it gets made), NWN2, or any other OpenGL game in the future? I swallowed my ATI-arrogance and bought a GeForce 6800 GT. No regrets, now or in the future.

You can extract the OpenGL driver from the Catalyst 4.11s and drop it into your KotOR 2 folder. That way you have the latest Catalyst for everything else. This method worked perfectly for me with KotOR and my 9800 Pro, but I can't check it on KotOR 2 myself because I now have a GeForce 6800 GT. Someone here may know how to do the extraction. Or you can do a Google search. I can't remember if I extracted it myself or downloaded it from someone who had already done the extraction.

Because those other games are direct3D, not OpenGL like KotOR 2. ATI cards had problems on KotOR as well. I had a 9800 Pro at the time and had to revert to drivers three releases out-of-date to prevent game-stopping glitches. NWN and the expansions didn't crash on my ATI cards, to my memory, but took a substantially heftier card to match performance with a nVidia -- GF 5700 Ultra matches a Radeon 9700 kind of thing. It's not the cards, it's the drivers. ATI has admitted that they need to beef up their (almost non-existant) OpenGL team. Of course, that was a year ago and nothing seems to have changed. Fortunately there's a solution now that wasn't available a year or so ago: buy a nVidia card for running both directX and OpenGL games. The new GF cards are at least as good as the new Radeons in directX while still enjoying the vast advantage over Radeons for OpenGL games.