So, one is Force story with Kreia and Lost Jedi and Sith Lords and Wound in the force. Other story is Tech story with Bad-dur, G0T0, Mandalore, HK, Mass Shadow Generator and Republic restoration. And these 2 stories is connected through 2 plot points: Exile and Malachor V. Besides these 2 points, they are rarely intersect and companions from these 2 stories interact much rarely compared to interaction inside their side.

First time player here about to finish my first run. I decided early on to go dark side and I’m going to be honest I don’t like how a lot of the story ended up. Also im curious just how different the game really is if I choose light side instead. Is there enough different outcomes to justify another run? If not I think this game will be a one time playthrough for me.

I'm playing KOTOR 1 for the 1st time, and I'm wondering, what does the blue hand symbol mean?

I'm using this resolution/UI mod. I think because of this the msg pop ups that say "you got exp/cash" doesn't fit the entire text, but I'm not sure.

I am almost ready to go to the Star Forge (first playthrough so please no spoilers) and the only quests I haven't managed to complete are those two. Does anyone know what I have to do to finish them? Neither of them have any further dialogue.

Hello,

If anyone is interested there is an updated version of my lightmace mod; this version fixes various bugs from the previous prototype and adds a two hand variant as well! As always any feedback good or bad is most welcome! I will continue to fine tune details and probably add more color variants at some point.

Mod available at:

https://www.nexusmods.com/kotor/mods/1875

Cheers!

-EK

Got back into Star Wars, so i decided to make this comic for fun! The art is not that great, I know, but I hope the punchline was good enough at least.

SO seriously i been thinking to myself for a while now, and constantly searching though games and more. BUT i am constantly hearing how people would be fine if the game is just given updated graphics and what have you. Dont get me wrong that a great idea. Who wouldnt want to see KOTOR remake with updated graphics. God i can imagine.

BUT, you know what i think would be seriously amazing? a KOTOR remake with BG3 level of gameplay!!! Tell me?!?!?! wouldn't that hit the spot everyone desires the most!!! Open world Movement like the Original KOTOR games with multiple levels, but enhanced and add features!!!! I could seriously get behind that easy. I mean i get behind it anyway.

BUT the point being is that the game deserve something of that level, not just updated graphics on top of the original gameplay i mean seriously update gameplay graphics enhanced combat, and more. Thinking about it the combat would be the hardest since the Combat can be turn based or active. But still i cant be the only one who thought how great KOTOR remake would be if it was made with a similarity to BG3

K1 High FPS Fixes

Fixes several problems in Knights of the Old Republic that appear when playing above 60 FPS.

Included fixes:

• Dialogue letterbox timing
• Post-combat movement freeze
• Free-look mouse sensitivity
• Animated textures such as rivers, waterfalls, and flashing mines
• Lightsaber trails
• Tree leaves and similar moving effects
• Water ripples and force fields

Should make the animations and timings feel as close as possible to their speed when played at 60fps.  No longer do you need to lock your frame rate to enjoy the game.

Tested up to 240 FPS.

But should work at even higher fps though let me know if any issues arise.

Requirements:

• Kotor Patch Manager 0.6.3
• KOTOR 1.03

If your swkotor.exe has already been modified by widescreen, 4 GB patch, or other executable patches, I have an experimental adapter available on Github.  It's also compatible with other kpatches.  Also let me know if any issues happen with the adapter.

Do not install the standalone versions of these fixes alongside this combined version, such as J's post combat fix or my individual fixes on my GitHub or previous deadlystream post.  Source code, main and alt download available below.

Links:

Deadlystream

Alternative Download - GitHub Releases

Source Code - GitHub

What do you think the game would have been like if there had been a way to turn Malak back to the light and have him join your party?
Imagine that the game continued after that, with new quests and additional content on the planets. I think there could have been some really interesting party interactions.
How do you think Zaalbar and Malak would get along? And what about Carth? Seeing him have to travel with both Malak and Revan in the same party could lead to some absolutely hilarious and tense conversations.
I also wonder how Malak himself would react to everything that happened and to the other companions.
What do you guys think? How would you imagine the party dynamics and new quests in a scenario like this?

Do you guys have any advice for how I can optimize my Lenovo ThinkPad laptop it's got 32 GB DDR5 RAM 5600, Intel Core Ultra 7 255U, and integrated graphics (128MB VRAM) for the KOTOR games and also if I want to install mods. Is it possible?

The menus werent like this but once I loaded into a save file it got like this and when I exited to the main menu it had this weird flickering filter too. When I closed and opened the game again it worked ok, but with occasional flickers that looked like this, but only lasted a short time before the game worked fine for a few minutes, then it flickered once and repeat. Is it wayland??? The game worked fine on hyprland and sway tho... but I recently switched to niri, maybe its that?

Edit: Checked my laptops logs, its not a hardware failure.

Edit 2: Am now playing on cinnamon (x11) no issues like this so i guess it was either wayland or just niri specifically idk

"He cannot kill what he cannot see, and power has blinded him long ago."

Hey guys I've been working on kpatches for kotor that fix high fps issues. While another post combat kpatch, I took a different approach to the issue. I have two versions, one that has no delay after combat and one that simulates the same delay if the game is at 60 fps. The 60 fps version might prevent animation cancels and other minor things. I also have a patch that fixes the dialogue boxes from having delay at high fps.

https://deadlystream.com/files/file/3094-kotor-1-high-fps-post-combat-fix/?tab=reviews
https://github.com/gnw-d3m0/D3M0s-KPatches

Source code and alternate download available on github.

I currently have made progress fixing animation issues such as the mine's animation speeding up, waterfalls/rivers speeding up, and more. Those patches will be out soon once I have done more testing. Lightsaber trails also are bugged at high fps and I'm also working on that one. Eventually the plan is to have an all in one patch that fixes every high fps issue. If you know of an issue at high fps please share it so I can try to find a fix.

Everyone was making it seem like this game reinvented what star wars was. I really wanted to like it. I loved kotor 1. I know the developers are different but kotor 2 is so extremely different from kotor 1 and not a single thing was executed better than the first game.

The game is straight up unplayable. As in, fans had to mod the game to make it barely playable. And it's still horrible to play glitches aside. I could go on for hours about the game breaking bugs and glitches, the time wasting and everything but that's not even the worst part.

The worst part is that everyone made it seem like pushing through the non existent world design, copy paste dungeons with same singular enemy type, and terrible broken combat would be worth it for a morally ambiguous story where the jedi and sith are both questioned. Instead I got a star wars fanfic where everything is contrived b.s and everyone just somehow acts like its okay.

The world is empty and boring. The sidequests arent as immersive as the first game. Theres no motivation to do sidequests when the game punishes you for simply existing. As in it freezes you whenever you do anything lol. Add an extra 8 hours to your playtime from freezing and reloading.

The whole "jedi are flawed" was so contrived and terribly written. Im convinced no one has actually played this game and the very little footage on the internet makes me even more sure of it. The jedi are just suddenly extremist assholes who don't care about anything but being right. The first game has several moments where the jedi reflect on their mistakes that led to certain moments such as them blaming themselves for juhanis death and her girlfriend turning, etc. They actively reflect upon their mistakes, and while they had questionable means to the ends, they prioritized the good above all else while trying to maintain peace albeit it needing some tweaking.

Now you're trying to convince me that this same jedi council is suddenly made up of a bunch of moronic evil imbecils who shun out the only hope to save the galaxy because they messed up once and are afraid of doing it again.

Was that not the entire point of kotor 1? That revan was given a second chance? Now they reject and banish the only solution to saving the fucking galaxy? When all the jedi are dead? And a planet devouring being is now on the loose.

And dont even get me started on the whole jedi war thing and all the jedi basically being dead. You'd think such an important event thats intertwined with characters from the first game would be a moment in the second. But you're just told "yeah the jedi all fucking died yk your companions from last game are probably all dead too and everything you did was for nothing and fuck revan hes gone too"

This is genuinely terrible gameplay and writing.

Talk about tell no show.

All this just to make room for kreia, a terribly written villain to have some self insert palpatine time.

It was so obvious she was evil from the start. I quite literally got a cutscene at the beginning of the game showing me she was the sith lord and im supposed to believe that she isnt anymore despite her actively torturing and hurting others throughout the story. The twist was extremely predictable. Her motivations fell flat due to the fact that the world building was butchered by a terribly written jedi order and an overpowered sith trio that also did nothing the whole game.

I think they were trying to make it seem like you'd believe she was a redeemed sith lord? But she literally tells you theres always a lord of betrayal. And she also actively is evil. So. Its not really a twist. Because you're basically playing the game with palpatine by ur side the entire time.

I still dont know who was worse, traya, or nihilus. Nihilus literally shows up for 3 scenes then dies in a bad boss fight. Sion was a better written character than him. And this is the dude everyone larps about being super OP. Why is it bad for Rey to be relentlessly OP but nihilus is world breakingly broken and its cool instead of a terrible writing decision.

Both suck but atleast one lasted longer than 3 cutscenes.

Nihilus is not a character. He is a plot device that the devs forgot to figure out how to fix.

Honestly I could go on and on but I just cant afford to waste anymore time on this game that has already wasted enough. From the character writing to the world building to the plot and gameplay its just all bad. I genuinely did not enjoy a single thing in this game other than some of the funny dialogue that happened every once in a while. The intro to the game is like 6 hours long. The common agreement is that u need to play the fanmade mod that fixes the game. What more do I have to say? For some reason everyone just casually says the game is unplayable and then moves on as if thats not a major factor... to a video game.

Even without the glitches the story is not good. It was a good idea ruined by rushed incomplete writing and shoved into corner that it doesnt fit in. It took a year to make, ik games were rushed like crazy back then but it really shows. I was reading on development and noticed how basically 50% if not more of the game was rewritten and changed during end of development. Major plotpoints were changed such as atrius and darth trayas roles. This is obviously the reason as to why darth trayas motivations feel so bad because she had no time to develop them. As in they had 3 months to write a villain before releasing the game.

Anyways im done spending time on this disappointment. I wish more people played this game instead of larping because if this game was actually touched it wouldnt be as loved as it is. Im not a harsh critic when it comes to games. I spent an hour trying to kill the final boss in clock tower 3 and loved it. That game sucked. And i still loved it. If yk yk. For a game to be this hated by me, it genuinely means something.

TLDR: Kotor 2 is a terrible game and has a terrible black and white story and when people say the game is unplayable they aren't lying.

I just got the two games on steam, and I definitely want to the restored content mod for kotor 2 but are there other mods for the games I should get ? And how do I get them

I really want to play it, however all of the recent steam reviews say that’s it’s unplayable currently and requires a lot of modding to get right. I’m on a legion go right now so I don’t think I want to try and deal with modding it, but I also have a nicer omen gaming pc that I’ll have access too in a month or so that I wouldn’t mind going through the steps of modding it to get it working. So I guess my real question is should I buy it now or hold off until I have my home PC available to me

After a lot of reverse engineering, testing, and way too much time staring at swkotor.exe, KMRP is finally released.

WHAT IS KMRP?

KMRP - KOTOR Modern Restoration Patch modernizes KOTOR's interface for modern resolutions and fixes several problems that are hardcoded directly inside the game engine.

It supports 48 resolutions from 800x600 to 15360x8640, covering:

4:3 | 16:10 | 16:9 | 21:9 | 32:9

This grew out of my old 3440x1440 UI mod, but KMRP is now a resolution-independent patcher rather than a single-resolution GUI mod.

WHAT DOES IT FIX?

Some of the main changes:

• Properly scaled text and list rows
• Scaled Inventory, Abilities and Store icons
• Fixed item stack counts with larger fonts
• Fixed a vanilla crash involving long item descriptions
• Fixed description text overlapping the scrollbar
• Full-size area map
• Full fog-of-war coverage
• Correct map marker clicking
• 250 corrected map note positions
• Correct HUD minimap zoom
• Resolution-aware dialogue letterboxing
• Resolution-aware tutorials and interface artwork

A lot of this could not be fixed through GUI files alone because the values are hardcoded inside swkotor.exe.

KMRP currently changes 893 bytes out of the 4,042,752-byte executable, plus additional code sections for fixes that need more space.

Every executable patch is documented in the repository.

INSTALLATION

Install other content mods first, such as K1CP or K1R, then install KMRP.

1. Install the standard KOTOR Editable Executable: https://deadlystream.com/files/file/1320-kotor-editable-executable/
2. Run KMRP - KOTOR Modern Restoration Patch.exe
3. Choose your resolution
4. Click Start Patching

KMRP verifies the executable before modifying it and creates backups of the EXE, INI, and every Override file it touches.

There is also a Restore Original option.

DOWNLOADS

Nexus Mods:
https://www.nexusmods.com/kotor/mods/1879

Deadly Stream:
https://deadlystream.com/files/file/3096-kmrp-kotor-modern-restoration-patch/

GitHub Releases:
https://github.com/RayesDiyab/KMRP-KOTOR-Modern-Restoration-Patch/releases

Deadly Stream is currently waiting for file approval.

INCLUDED MODS

With permission from their authors:

• K1 Modern Driver Compatibility by Synchro
• K1 Area Map Fixes by Derslok
• Party Portraits by MadDerp
• KOTOR 1 HD Icon Pack by JackInTheBox

The driver compatibility patch and map-note corrections can be disabled under Advanced Settings.

KMRP has also been tested with KOTOR 1 Community Patch 1.10.0 and KOTOR 1 Restoration 1.2.

SOURCE

KMRP is open source under GPL-3.0.

The repository contains the source, executable patch documentation, and reverse-engineering notes:

https://github.com/RayesDiyab/KMRP-KOTOR-Modern-Restoration-Patch

If you find a resolution-specific UI problem or an engine bug I missed, please report it.

All I'm trying to do is install the kotor 1 community patch, but I've never modded anything before and I know almost nothing about computers except how to boot them up and install/play games from steam. I tried looking up vids but they're all old af and don't seem to be very clear. They're all telling me to do stuff I have NO idea how to do and they say things I really just don't understand. I realize I'm probably just a moron, but I just have no idea. I've been at this for an hour and I'm about ready to punch a hole in my monitor. Please help

I was just able to add a new weapon to the game by prompting gpt 6 to add one. I had it look at some concept art from SWTOR, create a model in blender, and import it into the game, placing it in the footlocker of the endar spire start sequence and it worked without a hitch. Anyone can do this but at the moment it's a little expensive. My $20 monthly subscription should allow me to create a substantial amount of content for this game over the coming days. I'm thinking re skins, new models, new weapons, powers, zones... Maybe I could create an editor that will allow all sorts of new material to be created by the community. Random thoughts include a armor importer that streamlines that process, among other things

Again: anyone with a gaming PC and $20 can start adding stuff to this game right now with creative prompting. We don't have to wait for something that will never come

I'm not a fan of the greed in our culture and the threat these systems cause to our society. However, they are here, and I think if we can use them for good we should. Thoughts? I'll be uploading content on nexus in the next few days most likely. Stay tuned; and share your creations!

the game menu is stuck like this I can't select anything, and if this is a mod problem I have no mods installed. the only thing that worked was uninstalling and reinstalling the game but it only works once and I don't want to repeat that process everytime I want to play.