PC KotOR2 - bugged as expected?

[HaemishM]

Also, wth is up with the light/dark points? I raped, pillaged, and stole and still ended up on the light side for following one story arc? They need to reevaluate that. I don't want to have to kick puppies throughout the entire game just to use my cool skills.

That's like the first one. There are certain decision points in the game that are just SOOOO heavily weighted that you can act like a nun the entire game and make one "wrong" choice and you are all dark side.

[Furiously]

I understand there MIGHT have been another ending intended. Check here. The ending as it was released just left me  asking what all the buildup was for.

[ajax34i]

I still average one crash about every three hours of playtime, and I always quicksave before and after I zone anywhere. That seems to be when my system takes a dump.

If the system dump says something about P16X.dll, that's the SoundBlaster sound card drivers, and you need to turn down sound accelleration from max or "standard directx features only" to the setting below that.  Solves the constant blue screening (and for me it used to happen in many games, EVE, WoW, etc.).

One other trick I noticed, sometimes my rightclick button gets stuck or there are various glitches; do a quicksave followed by a quickload, it forces the game to reload the whole interface, thus resetting whatever the problem was.  Cutscenes also have a tendency to not play properly the first time they're loaded, but play ok if you then reload a point just before and play through again.

Hope this helps.

[sinij]

I found a way around Dantoonie (sp?)  slowdown - if you change your graphic details engine will reload every texture and magically clear up all lag, even if you step-up detail.

[Furiously]

The one good thing about playing this game is it makes Bloodlines look like its very stable.

[Paelos]

Last night I was in Nar Shadda and my ship was invaded. I fought my way through at least 20 guys to get to the leader. When I finally toasted his ass, it tried to flip to a cutscreen and froze up my game. I screamed at my monitor and switched over to WoW. I hate this damn game. I can put it down for a while because of the bugs, but the story keeps bringing me back. It's totally abusive.

[Furiously]

Don't worry it keeps up the abuse with the ending.

[El Gallo]

  I am crashing all the damn time in Nar Shadaar, which is probably misspelt.  However, I keep coming back to the game because I need to know what the hell is going on.  I liked the story and level design in KOTOR1 better, but will save that for the inevitable spoiler thread.  Don't get me wrong, it's better than the overwheling majority of PC games story-wise.

  There's also the fact that this game's treatment of sex is pound-you-over-the-head-with-ginormous-bosoms-covered-only-by-a-skimpy-bra-because-a-character-repeatedly-insists-that-she-wants-to-wrestle-with-you-but-only-if-she-can-do-it-in-her-bra-and-panties-level immature.  I think I'm getting old.

[Paelos]

Yes the Nar Shaada climax is a crashfest. There are like a million cutscenes in a row, any of which can sink my game. It's like russian roulette with a plot.

[Paelos]

NECRO FTW!

They finally issued a patch on the game

Feel free to rejoice in hopes that your game will stop crashing every 30 minutes.

[Sky]

Cool, I need to pick this game up at some point.

[Furiously]

NECRO FTW!

They finally issued a patch on the game

Feel free to rejoice in hopes that your game will stop crashing every 30 minutes.

I don't suppose they patched in a decent ending?

[Paelos]

NECRO FTW!

They finally issued a patch on the game

Feel free to rejoice in hopes that your game will stop crashing every 30 minutes.

I don't suppose they patched in a decent ending?

Nope, but you can play to the suckass ending without major errors.

[Strazos]

X-Box version didn't have any gamebreakers on my play through.

Just saying.

[eldaec]

The X-Box version requires an X-Box (and, for that matter, an additional SCART in the back of my television which is out of slots). That would pretty much count as a gamebreaker.

[Strazos]

Don't they make RCA Y-connectors?

[Trippy]

Don't they make RCA Y-connectors?

SCART is an European audio/video connector standard and yes they do make SCART switch boxes. His main point, though, was he doesn't have an Xbox.

[Strazos]

Don't they make RCA Y-connectors?

SCART is an European audio/video connector standard and yes they do make SCART switch boxes. His main point, though, was he doesn't have an Xbox.

Well whose fault is That?

/facetious

[eldaec]

I blame The Man.

[Tebonas]

There is a fanmade content patch in the working restoring the original ending, so in the end it might work out enduring the PC bugfest version.

[Bunk]

There is a fanmade content patch in the working restoring the original ending, so in the end it might work out enduring the PC bugfest version.

Assuming you mean the one being made at Holowan Labs, I wouldn't get too excited. They make some great mods there, but their record for completing really big projects like that isn't great. You never know though.

[Zane0]

Here's a link to this project- http://magestrix.com/K2End/

I'm not sure if they're related to holowan labs.  To be fair, I will say that this team can create a decent website, and their progress report seems quite promising.  From what I understand however, some more voice work would be needed to really fix the ending; a lot of good stuff only exists in the script.

[TheWalrus]

 So with the patch out, I bought the game. Great story with one minor problem...

 My copy appears to have been shipped without an ending. Nobody seems to be responding to my emails asking if they had a site I could download an ending from or perhaps if they would be willing to ship my ending separately seeing as the original product was sans conclusion.

[eldaec]

Price has now dropped to £19.99, patch is out, time to order. Hurrah.

[Khaldun]

It's not bugged, at least it wasn't for me.

It's just, as others have commented, totally unfinished. I actually have rarely felt so angry about a game: this one was kind of involving, kind of interesting, and then *poof*, the last quarter of the game is disastrously incomplete. It gets really absurd when you get to the conclusion. 

I've rarely felt as cheated. I boycotted Sierra for four years after buying Outpost, and this one warrants a response like that as well. In an industry with low standards, this goes below the bottom floor.

[TheWalrus]

Hm. Honestly I felt pretty good about the game up til the

***SPOILER AND WHAT NOT***








fight with Kreia. Honestly thought you were supposed to kick the bucket or something to preserve the force.  But then you get in your ship, fly away, roll credits. It's almost like it was 4:49 on a friday when they hit the ending portion and just said, "Fuck it, lets go to the bar." Sad really. I thought the story was damn good up till then. Minus the hack lovestory that I attribute entirely to Lucas' lack of a soul.

[Paelos]

The developers were obviously told, OMG STOP HERE SAVE SOMETHING FOR KOTOR III!!! I think the money hats pulled a fast one.

[Sky]

Price has now dropped to £19.99, patch is out, time to order. Hurrah.

Where? I've been waiting for it to bargain bin but it's still $30-40.

Maybe it'll be like Silent Storm and just drop off the big web stores entirely (:( :() before it bargain bins.