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I haven't tried, but I've seen some posts in the far past where people were doing that. Far as I know there's no game-plot stopper preventing you from doing so.

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Has anybody beaten the game without a lightsaber? Is that even possible or will somebody eventually say you can't go on, or will they weld one to your hands or something?

There's no compulsion to use one. (There are a couple of members who have completed the game with a female Exile in the dancers outfit, or nude, too.)

 

You could be a blaster or a hand-to-hand combat specialist (I'm pretty sure Darth Frog has done this already, if not all of the above).

 

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I went about 80% of the game without using a saber.

 

I went dual-wield in the first game, which I felt was vastly superior, but everyone swore than Dueling was just as effective, so I decided to try it with the Exile.

 

I had a Sith Tremor Sword that I upgraded on the workbench, and when I beat the game, it was still better than most of the sabers I had.

 

Oddly enough, I beat Peragus/Citadel Station/Telos/Nar Shadda/Yacht/Dxun/Odderon/Korriban and then got halfway through Dantooine before I found my first lightsaber crystal.

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I would love to make a melee character and I might try it with dueling. My only gripe is that you can't sheath the melee weapons like you kind of can with light sabers when they turn off. I hate the waddling type running the character does with swords equipt =/

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I disliked Dueling.

 

Down the stretch I compared Visas and the Exile in combat. the Exile had better stats, and the better saber, but Visas's double saber did far more damage because she got in that extra attack.

 

At the low levels initially, Dueling might help you hit more often with the +1, +2, or +3 to hit.

 

But in the later stages of the game, I'd rather take the extra attack when you're already +30 or so to hit.

 

I also took Dueling and the Jedi Weapon Master, only to realize the feats I opened up where for new and improved Two Weapon Combat.

 

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Defelction will work fine so you dont really need a lightsaber even if your standing in the middle of a pack of blaster troops.

 

Finished it without a weapon which isnt as hard as it sounds.

I have to agree with Volourn.  Bioware is pretty much dead now.  Deals like this kills development studios.

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I don't like that it's so easy to learn two-weapon fighting. It's just as easy as dueling, which makes no sense whatsoever. In the six movies we see one double-bladed saber, and that was wielded by a freakin' stunt man. Then for some reason that I have yet to figure out (fanboi appeasement on Georgie's behalf?), Anakin (and apparently Obi-Wan) believes that he'll have a bigger chance of beating Dooku with two sabers (which ultimately proves false). So why this dual saber and saber staff fetish? It was even worse in Jedi Academy and ruined half of that game.

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hmm I would have thought that going the whole game without a lightsaber pretty hard, but going without any weapons at all is pretty impressive :blink: , it allways seems to me deflection doesnt really do much without a weapon..

 

..but im probably wrong

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hmm I would have thought that going the whole game without a lightsaber pretty hard, but going without any weapons at all is pretty impressive :blink: , it allways seems to me deflection doesnt really do much without a weapon..

 

..but im probably wrong

The beginning of the game can be tricky in parts, although even here most combat can be avoided. But once you get Force Storm/Lightning or whatever it's called at the third level, there's no need for a weapon if you're playing a force-user kind of character. The only reason to carry a lightsaber is for the crystal bonuses to your attributes, which are useful but not essential.

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I don't like that it's so easy to learn two-weapon fighting. It's just as easy as dueling, which makes no sense whatsoever. In the six movies we see one double-bladed saber, and that was wielded by a freakin' stunt man. Then for some reason that I have yet to figure out (fanboi appeasement on Georgie's behalf?), Anakin (and apparently Obi-Wan) believes that he'll have a bigger chance of beating Dooku with two sabers (which ultimately proves false). So why this dual saber and saber staff fetish? It was even worse in Jedi Academy and ruined half of that game.

 

Another thing is that the single is superior the the other styles. When Darth Maul had his saber cut in half he was twice as fast and beat Obi-Wan. He would have lost if he didn't get it cut in half I'm betting. None of the Jedi Masters or Sith Lords (with the exception of Maul) use more than one saber or double bladers.

 

Single is the best. All of the best use them.

 

Anakin (Vader)

Luke

Emperor

Mace Windu

Yoda (of course he's too small to use anything else)

Revan (his scorpion stance only works with single)

Everyone else who r0xx0rs

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Weren't the Jedi of this era better trained in Martial arts, and much less so as time goes on? So duel wielding is much more common?

Fans want 20 colors of crystals, and don't care that this pisses in the face of cannon, but they argue about double-saber wielding 4000-5000 years before the movies?

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Heck, I kept Bao-Dur unarmed, even when he was a Jedi. With his personal feats, and the Unarmed Specialists feats, he did more damage unarmed than with a lightsaber.

 

I imagine the Exile could do fairly well unarmed as well.

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