StarWars KOTOR

[JRMacumber]

w00t!! I did it!! After 48 hours and 36 minutes, I have beaten it. I served the Light Side, redeemed Bastila, defeated Malek, and saved the day! Dear god, I'm exhausted... The Star Forge was a complete bitch, and I won it by ths skin of my ass.

Anyway, I'm going to take a break for a day or so, and then play again, only this time as a Dark Sider, maybe a female too, just to see how that plays out. But I need some time to soak in the masterpiece I just witnessed. BioWare, you have made one of the greatest games I've ever played, and I will forever be a fan and loyal follower (as though the Baldur's Gate games weren't enough). Thank you for making such a fantastic game.

[Treble]

I'm on what is my final planet now, Manaan. On the Leviathan, I:

Was absolutely kicking Malak's ass. No wonder he wanted to fight Bastilla instead of me. Puff

Oh, and:

I can't believe I'm Revan! That was one twist that was really well concealed

Brilliant game ^_^

[Rag`]

Did anyone else have to:

Kill all the Sith in the academy? It was quite tough - your team is split up and separated, and even though the Sith students aren't a patch on my powers, there are a Heeeeell of a lot of the buggers. I think it may only be necessary if you kill both Uthar and...um...the chick, though.

I've only got one planet left to do now - Manaan - but I've just been captured by the Sith ship with that Saul on it.

Still loving this game.

I did Korriban after the Leviathan, so I killed the inscructor guy and the Twi'lek, and then stopped myself being attacked by the other Sith by saying I was Revan :P

[Treble]

The way I figured it:

I though Manaan would be easier than Korriban (and I bet it will be, as well ), hence not being able to say I was Revan. I wanted to get the tough planet out of the way as early as possible - it was obvious there were going to be loads of anti-Sith battles on Korriban.

Fair do's, though. . . I really was kicking Malak's ass, the bloody coward!

[Rag`]

As I'm playing through again, i'm going all the way to the Dark side now, and I can see why it's so tempting :O

The game's definately easier at points where you can force people to do stuff or whatever, and it's a lot more fun

Thing is though, if you go all Dark, does the Star Forge become easier? Malak says something about the the ark side being stronger in the Star Forge or something...

Also, being a Scoundrel really helps there I found. You know that last room before Malak with all those weird robot things? Well, instead of having to slice all the computers, my security bonus let me unlock the door to get to Malak

[Treble]

Rag':

I've got no real frame of reference, but my guess would be 'no'. Malak wasn't going to go kind on me just because I was a dark sider, and it certainly made no odds at the Sith Academy (they make a big show of saying 'Sith kill Sith to work out who's the master' constantly anyway).

Also, whenever I've been to areas and caves 'strong in the dark side', it's made no difference to my options or my powers. I doubt your dark or light affiliation makes any seciton of the game easier - I think this is down to the second thing you say: character class. I only have one scoundrel type (Mission) in my party, and she's physically very weak, so I can only really use her in specific sections and not for general use.

When/If I play through again, I'll know the importance of building-up the defensive strength of a Scoundrel class.

Do people tend to switch their party around much? I tend to choose, where possible, Bastilla and Carth. Carth is my best all-rounder, I'm a scrapper and Bastilla has a great range of defensive force powers and really knows how to use a saber (oo er).

[Freddo]

when i started again i meant to go darkside but I cant, im just not mean enough

[MartyG]

The darkside/star forge question

Yes it does make it easier, well if you have the life drain power (which is a drak power only), because you can go around draining all the captured Jedi of their life force, stopping Malak from doing it, so you don't have to beat him as much

Regards
Marty

[Treble]

Oh well, that shatters my guess then...

[JRMacumber]

The darkside/star forge question

Yes it does make it easier, well if you have the life drain power (which is a drak power only), because you can go around draining all the captured Jedi of their life force, stopping Malak from doing it, so you don't have to beat him as much

Regards
Marty

Yes, I've read this is correct. But, I also read that...

if you have the Jedi power Destroy Droid, you can knock out the units that hold those Jedi, so Malek can't use them. It's too bad I didn't have that, as I had to fight him after he drained each and every one of them, and I think there are around six or so. By the time I beat him, I'd used every Life Support pack, most of my Advanced Medpacks, and a ****load of Hyper stims. I'd shot up more than a super heroin junky!

[MartyG]

I didn't realise that, in that case I guess it really depends on what powers you choose to develop.

I guess now I could read the FAQs and find out about the stuff I've missed. I'm pretty sure I covered a good 80% of it. Though I didn't do much of the racing or areana fighting and I know I missed out on quite a lot of the bounty stuff.

Now that I've finished reviewing PotC, I can restart KotOR and do the stuff I didn't first time around

Regards
Marty

[Poet]

I've had a few days off as I've been away. And I'm now at the very end. Damn if I'm not pissed off that I auto-levelled up and now don't have a load of the powers I actually want/need now. It's gonna be a lot tougher finishing off this game thanks to my initial laziness in setting up my character along the way.

[JRMacumber]

I've had a few days off as I've been away. And I'm now at the very end. Damn if I'm not pissed off that I auto-levelled up and now don't have a load of the powers I actually want/need now. It's gonna be a lot tougher finishing off this game thanks to my initial laziness in setting up my character along the way.

I didn't auto-level or anything, but I did get some Force powers that in retrospect were not entirely necessary, so you know this next time around the **** is ON. Can't wait to power-gamer my way through it and turn everyone into my bitch.

[2 Point]

My copy arrives tomorrow. Have been following the thread without reading the spoilers. Looks like a few late nights are ahead of me.

[Rag`]

The darkside/star forge question

Yes it does make it easier, well if you have the life drain power (which is a drak power only), because you can go around draining all the captured Jedi of their life force, stopping Malak from doing it, so you don't have to beat him as much

Regards
Marty

Yes, I've read this is correct. But, I also read that...

if you have the Jedi power Destroy Droid, you can knock out the units that hold those Jedi, so Malek can't use them. It's too bad I didn't have that, as I had to fight him after he drained each and every one of them, and I think there are around six or so. By the time I beat him, I'd used every Life Support pack, most of my Advanced Medpacks, and a ****load of Hyper stims. I'd shot up more than a super heroin junky!

You can use Life Drain on those Jedi? Bah, if only I knew, would've made it easier than it was :P I just used Force Lightning on them got rid of them without using much Force power. And as for Malak, if the battle started to go his way, i'd run off for a bit, until it went out of battle mode, get super pumped on those Stim type things and restore health in the inventory screen without having to wait my 'turn'

As for teams, i usually use Bastilla and Juhani