[Review] I Did It All for the Wookies

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A Long Time Ago... - A KotOR Retrospective

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I'll be uploading a screenshot gallery for this one too. Was gonna do it today to commemorate May 4th, but I ran out of time.

 

Managed to upload the gallery just in time for the Revenge of the Fifth though.

It does look like I've reached my allotted 200 MB of media with this one, however. Might need to do something about that before my next review.

 

For anyone interested, here's a list of mods I can recommend, based on the last run. I won't be adding links for these. At the time of writing, they're available either on Nexus or Deadly Stream (but not necessarily both).

Fixes and Content

• KotOR 1 Restoration (K1R) or KotOR 1 Community Patch (K1CP): These two are incompatible and cover different things. I'd say pick one and run with it.
• KotOR 1080p 60fps fix: Makes the game 1080p widescreen and updates the UI elements to fit.
• Repair HK-47 with repair parts: If you don't want to invest in the Repair skill.
• Sand People Disguise Drop Fix: This makes it so that sand people that ambush you have a chance to drop the robes (like on Xbox).
• Jedi Choice Dialogue Enhancement: Makes the Jedi class choice a bit more immersive.
• Czerka on Korriban: Makes Czerka on Korriban wear Czerka uniforms instead of Sith uniforms.
• Swoop Bike Upgrades: Add some swoop bike upgrades to make the races easier. I haven't actually tried these, but many people find the races annoying.
• K1 Party Conversations on Ebon Hawk: Makes the inter-party conversations happen on the Ebon Hawk as well, so that you don't miss out on them.
• Force Buffs Duration x2: Increases the buff durations so that you don't need to spam them quite as much.
• Brotherhood of Shadow (with patch): Probably the biggest content mod for K1. It does have a few (mostly graphical) bugs here and there, especially towards the end.

Visuals

• High Quality Skyboxes II: Makes all the skyboxes look good on high-resolution screens.
• Ultimate *** High Resolution: There's 8 of these. One for each major area. Replaces all area textures with high-res ones.
• Ultimate Character Overhaul: Replaces most character textures with high-res ones.
• Widescreen Fade-In and Fade-Out Fix: Fixes fade animation for widescreen resolutions.
• Ebon Hawk's Animated Screen: Makes lights blink inside the Ebon Hawk.
• K1 High Quality Stars and Nebulas: Self-explanatory.
• High Resolution Lightsaber Beams: Self-explanatory.
• LTS Escape Pod HD: Makes the escape pod HD. Thought it was cool, even though you only see it briefly.
• Taris Dueling Arena Adjustment: Fixes the graphical appearance of the Taris arena.
• Higher Resolution FX Effects: Updates almost all FX.
• Star Map Revamp: Fancier star map textures/animations.
• Fire and Ice HD: Better fire and ice textures.
• High Quality Blasters: There's a small issue with a misnamed model file for one of the blasters, but otherwise a great mod.
• Widescreen Cockpit and Racing Track on Manaan: Small HUD fix for widescreen resolutions.
• New Grass: Not sure if this is redundant with the Ultimate High-Res series, but I used it anyway.
• No Speed Blur Fix: Speed blur looks horrible because the blur "texture" gets weirdly upscaled on higher resolutions.
• Revan's Flowing Cape and Belt Fix: Adds hand-made animations for Revan's robe.
• Revan's Hoodless/Maskless Flowing Robes For K1: Replaces Revan's/Star Forge Robes, but I think it's a good upgrade.
• K1 Better Male Twi'lek Heads: Makes twi-lek heads look better.
• Brotherhood of Shadows: Solomon's Revenge Textural Reinterpretation: Updates many textures from BoS:SR.
• Shadow of Revan: Updates Shadow's textures.
• Prequel Robe Replacement: I liked the robe design from the prequels.
• Prequel Style Robes for Brotherhood of Shadow: Updates robes from BoS.

Tools

• KotOR Tool: For fixing things inside the game. I needed it to patch a couple of game-breaking bugs in K1R and BoS:SR.
• KotOR Savegame Editor (KSE): For editing your savegames.

Edit: I also want to add that there are many more mods that I looked at but didn't get around to trying out. Might be worth looking at something like the full mod build: https://kotor.neocities.org/modding/mod_builds/k1/full

 

Oh, nice. I can't see any listed quota on the media page, so I guess I'll let you know with the next batch of screens for KotOR2.