KOTOR 2: The Glitch Lords

[TownKnave]

I'm happy to say I'm on my third character who's been ruined by glitches. I've been marooned on Nar Shadda, and black screened on Telos, and now I've got a more interesting problem. I've just left Telos with my newest character, a male lightsider. Right after I left, I saved my game on the Ebon Hawk and deleted my old saves from Telos, figuring I'd have no need to go back there. Of course I should have known better than to put even the tiniest bit of faith in this beta-quality piece of crap game, as that's right when Bao-Dur decided he'd no longer talk to me. When I click on him, he just turns to face me and looks at me stupidly, saying nothing. In fact, the only way I can get the retard to speak is by leaving the Ebon Hawk, putting him in my party, choosing him as the active character and making him talk to my PC. If this were all that were wrong I wouldn't mind so much, as it would effectively only curtail me from talking to him on the Ebon Hawk, which I could live with. What really bugs me is that since this glitch kicked in, Bao-Dur has no AI whatsoever, to the point where if I put him in my party and run around controlling anyone but him, he won't even follow us. He just stands in the same spot even if we're 500 feet away. In battle, he does absolutely nothing even if his friends are getting their asses kicked 5 feet in front of him. Basically, he is now only a playable character if I control him directly and micromanage his every action in battle. He was one of my favorite characters, but this bug has taken a LOT of the fun out of using him.

 

It's getting to the point where I seriously doubt if I can even do a single playthrough of this game without a huge, game-killing bug rearing its ugly head. I don't even feel up to starting a new game, as I'm getting really sick of Peragus and Citadel. I've tried pretty much everything to try and fix this bug- running around Nar Shaddaa, flying to different planets, loading a bunch of different saves from other characters, even loading up 3 other different games, which is supposed to clear the X-Box's cache or something. Thus far nothing has zapped Bao-Dur out of his catatonic stupor. This forum is my last hope before I decide to give up on this disaster of a game and start using it as a $50 coaster- having all my games completely ruined by bugs makes this more frustrating than fun.

 

If anyone from Obsidian/Lucasarts are reading this: You suck. You've completely ruined one of my favorite franchises by rushing this game out in pursuit of the almighty holiday bucks. Everyone who's dropped fifty bucks on this game is now screwed and has no recourse but to bitch on forums in the empty hope that you'll do a bugfix or recall, which we know you won't because you've already stolen our money. Maybe you should bother to do some QA on your games from now on. Cry me a river about release dates- you bear responsibility for the product you put out, and this is without question the buggiest, most glitch-filled console game EVER produced, and I've been playing console games for 15 years. Multiple broken force powers and feats are annoying, but when the majority of my characters can't get through a game without a game killer popping up, you've really dropped the ball. Most PC games are less buggy. Do better next time- not that it matters, because I sure won't be buying from you again.

 

And before anyone brings it up, no my box is not modded and yes it works perfectly with every other game I own, including a bunch of newers ones like Halo 2, which is known for being finicky on older boxes. If anyone on this forum has experienced this glitch or has some sort of workaround for it, please let me know.

 

Furious, indignant, and just plan gypped,

Town Knave

[Force Reaper]

Sucks to be you.

[LordNihilis]

I'm happy to say I'm on my third character who's been ruined by glitches.  I've been marooned on Nar Shadda, and black screened on Telos, and now I've got a more interesting problem.  I've just left Telos with my newest character, a male lightsider.  Right after I left, I saved my game on the Ebon Hawk and deleted my old saves from Telos, figuring I'd have no need to go back there.  Of course I should have known better than to put even the tiniest bit of faith in this beta-quality piece of crap game, as that's right when Bao-Dur decided he'd no longer talk to me.  When I click on him, he just turns to face me and looks at me stupidly, saying nothing.  In fact, the only way I can get the retard to speak is by leaving the Ebon Hawk, putting him in my party, choosing him as the active character and making him talk to my PC.  If this were all that were wrong I wouldn't mind so much, as it would effectively only curtail me from talking to him on the Ebon Hawk, which I could live with.  What really bugs me is that since this glitch kicked in, Bao-Dur has no AI whatsoever, to the point where if I put him in my party and run around controlling anyone but him, he won't even follow us.  He just stands in the same spot even if we're 500 feet away.  In battle, he does absolutely nothing even if his friends are getting their asses kicked 5 feet in front of him.  Basically, he is now only a playable character if I control him directly and micromanage his every action in battle.  He was one of my favorite characters, but this bug has taken a LOT of the fun out of using him. 

 

It's getting to the point where I seriously doubt if I can even do a single playthrough of this game without a huge, game-killing bug rearing its ugly head.  I don't even feel up to starting a new game, as I'm getting really sick of Peragus and Citadel.  I've tried pretty much everything to try and fix this bug- running around Nar Shaddaa, flying to different planets, loading a bunch of different saves from other characters, even loading up 3 other different games, which is supposed to clear the X-Box's cache or something.  Thus far nothing has zapped Bao-Dur out of his catatonic stupor.  This forum is my last hope before I decide to give up on this disaster of a game and start using it as a $50 coaster-  having all my games completely ruined by bugs makes this more frustrating than fun.

 

If anyone from Obsidian/Lucasarts are reading this:  You suck.  You've completely ruined one of my favorite franchises by rushing this game out in pursuit of the almighty holiday bucks.  Everyone who's dropped fifty bucks on this game is now screwed and has no recourse but to bitch on forums in the empty hope that you'll do a bugfix or recall, which we know you won't because you've already stolen our money.  Maybe you should bother to do some QA on your games from now on.  Cry me a river about release dates-  you bear responsibility for the product you put out, and this is without question the buggiest, most glitch-filled console game EVER produced, and I've been playing console games for 15 years.  Multiple broken force powers and feats are annoying, but when the majority of my characters can't get through a game without a game killer popping up, you've really dropped the ball.  Most PC games are less buggy.  Do better next time-  not that it matters, because I sure won't be buying from you again. 

 

And before anyone brings it up, no my box is not modded and yes it works perfectly with every other game I own, including a bunch of newers ones like Halo 2, which is known for being finicky on older boxes.  If anyone on this forum has experienced this glitch or has some sort of workaround for it, please let me know.

 

Furious, indignant, and just plan gypped,

Town Knave

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

 

I agree with you 100%. I got FOUR of my games bugged and screwed over. I have beaten it twice, though. there has been no problem since those four, but heres what happened.

 

1. black screen on Nar shadaa.

2. Will not load Dantooine.

3. Stuck in Kinrath Caves on Dantooine.

4. Can't get character to move on Korriban.

 

I got one thing to say to Obsidian.

 

GO TO HELL, AND ON YOUR WAY, YELL TO BIOWARE, AND TELL THEM TO MAKE KOTOR 3!

[Epiphany]

GO TO HELL, AND ON YOUR WAY, YELL TO BIOWARE, AND TELL THEM TO MAKE KOTOR 3!

 

the unofficial, "official" word from them is no, they're going to focus on their IP stuff now

[LordNihilis]

GO TO HELL, AND ON YOUR WAY, YELL TO BIOWARE, AND TELL THEM TO MAKE KOTOR 3!

 

the unofficial, "official" word from them is no, they're going to focus on their IP stuff now

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Damn! Bioware did an awesome job with KOTOR I.

 

That's a hell of a shame.