Let's Play: Knights of the Old Republic II: Update 23: The Dark Side of the Force
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If there's anyone still out there who cares about this podunk little LP, I deeply apologize for the severe lack of updates in a very long time. Things have been difficult for me lately, between moving jobs, and the breaking of my computer. I apologize for the lack of communication, and I can promise a new update sooner rather than later. Again, I apologize for the delay, but, hopefully, we can get going again soon.
[HEADING=2]Update 9: Crash & Burn[/HEADING]
AND WE'RE BACK! But sadly, LucasArts is not. Disney recently shut down the company, for no real good reason, leaving the moderately-decent looking Star Wars 1313, and BATTLEFRONT FUCKING 3 to drown in the mire of cancelled games hell. Although LucasArts was arguably only a shadow of it's former self leading up to it's closure, I owe some of my greatest childhood memories to them, and while they were not without fault (this game being fucked over by LucasArts dickery, for example), I salute them regardless. Goodnight, sweet prince. And a flight of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Let's not waste any more time.
AND WE'RE BACK! But sadly, LucasArts is not. Disney recently shut down the company, for no real good reason, leaving the moderately-decent looking Star Wars 1313, and BATTLEFRONT FUCKING 3 to drown in the mire of cancelled games hell. Although LucasArts was arguably only a shadow of it's former self leading up to it's closure, I owe some of my greatest childhood memories to them, and while they were not without fault (this game being fucked over by LucasArts dickery, for example), I salute them regardless. Goodnight, sweet prince. And a flight of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Let's not waste any more time.
Last time, we invaded the local hideout of a galaxy-spanning organized crime syndicate, stole a protocol droid from a major corporation, used said droid to infiltrate said corporation, stole incriminating files, talked an astromech droid into homicidal insanity, flipped the bird to the local CEO, and fled into the night.
Jana Lorso: "What...the fuck...just...happened?"
Aide: "I believe one of our droids..."
Lorso: "That was rhetorical, fuckwit! How did this happen? How could this have happened? Wait...it must have been those internet nerds. They must have hacked B4-D4. I want them dead."
Aide: "Um...all of them?"
Lorso: "Yes. I want the head of every nerd in the galaxy on my desk."
Aide: "Ma'am, if you may, the Republic has put up with a lot of our bullshit thus far, but I think they draw the line at intergalactic genocide."
Lorso: "Why? It's not like anyone likes nerds."
Aide: "Oh, undoubtedly, but without them, we have no one to work in IT. Civilization will collapse in a matter of days without tech support."
Lorso: "Then what, pray tell, do you suppose we do?"
Aide: "We could always send them flying into an unstoppable rage."
Lorso: "How?"
Aide: "Well, I've heard good things about something called 'always-on DRM'..."
Leaving the Czerka employees to their dastardly schemes, we return to Chodo Habat at the Ithorian Compound.
B4-D4: "Yes. I have transferred them to this datapad. And might I say, not longer having to observe the three laws of robotics is ballin', yo."
Habat: "Mr.Rand, you're not one of those Robophobic freaks, are you?"
Atton: "Look, I have nothing against Droids. But marriage is a sacred bond between an organic organism an another organic organism."
I normally don't post conversation choice screenshots, but this one is just too perfect. The red eyes, the aside glace to the fourth wall...it's wonderful.
B4-D4: "[LIE]I assure you, I will cause no trouble, Mr.Habat."
Meanwhile, twenty minutes into the future...
Habat: "And it certainly has been a while. Where were you three?"
Bob: "We were all exceptionally busy! Doing very important things! I for one, was turned into cyborg to take down a private military contractor that took to kidnapping children's brains to turn into murderous cyborgs. Turns out, Mitt Romney was behind it all. I would say I was surprised...but I really wasn't. It just made too much sense."
Atton: "Pfft. That's nothing. I was hired by mysterious contractors to pay off my gambling debts by rescuing a girl from a flying city of magical racists. Shit got weird."
Kreia: "You truly are a fool if you believe that to be worthy of mentioning. I was shipwrecked on a nondescript island, and hunted by mercenaries and rabid quick-time-events. But the true horror was reserved for those I met upon this path."
Bob: "Why?"
Kreia: "Because I wore a low-cut tank top the whole time."
Atton: "ARRRRRRRRGH"
Bob: "PASS THE BLEACH."
Bob: "Well, I guess we can kiss that evidence goodbye. Knowing the TSF, I think we can expect that the evidence will end up inside a black hole. In the Firefly universe."
Bob: "Well, I'm glad I could help."
Bob: "Bao-Dur? No shit! How's he doing?"
Atton: "You know this guy."
Bob: "Long time ago. Long story. Not a good day."
Bob: "Sounds like he's our best chance."
Bob: "How do I get to him?"
Bob: "Don't worry. Discreet is my middle name."
Atton: "I thought 'Wanton Violence and Anarchy' was your middle name."
Bob: "Semantics."
Bob: "Before I leave, you said you would try and heal me."
Bob: "Yeah, one sounds remarkably easier than the other. Like the equivalent of growing a single flower, against growing an entire garden that stretches across the city."
Bob: "Geez, Kreia, not everyone is as manipulative or as paranoid as you. Remind me to introduce you to my friend Ocelot some time. You two would get along swimmingly. Though, I don't think you're quite his type. Regardless, Chodo, if you can return the force to me, I want you to try."
"Moderately" is the word, as we'll see in a second...
That's right, kids! A whole 5 force points! Basically nothing in the grand scheme of things. Oh sure, it's moderately helpful in the early game, but gain a few levels, and we'll forget we ever had it. And the moral of the story is: never help hippies.
Before we leave the compound, it's time to have a few conversations with our friends. Let's start with Kreia.
Bob: "I want to learn how to build a lightsaber."
Bob: "Partly to easier fell my enemies, partly to protect my allies, partly because it inspires others, but mostly because I feel naked without it."
That's right, fellow Star Wars fanboys. She just implied that the reason we love lightsabers is that we have small gentleman sausages. DEAL WITH IT.
This one little conversation is one of my favorite parts of this game, and it perfectly demonstrates why this game stands out with it's own unique identity in a sea of Star Wars games of varying quality. So many pieces of Star Wars media obsess over and glorify the lightsaber. This game turns that on it's head, and basically gives the Star Wars IP an extended slap for it's overuse of the lightsaber. An ethos that pervades many lesser Expanded Universe works and the Prequel trilogy is that lightsabers=awesome. But, while a lightsaber is cool and all, it doesn't make the character wielding it good by itself. That's what I think Kreia, and by extension, Chris Avellone, is getting at. Giving a shitty character, like Mace Windu (at least in the movies) a lightsaber not only degrades the the character, but the lightsaber by extension. Characters like Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Revan, Kyle Katarn and Darth Bane are not good characters because they wield lightsabers. They were already good characters without the lightsaber, and the lightsaber enhances that existing character because of it's awesome. Basically, I think she's saying "Stop using the lightsaber shittily, Star Wars writers, because it makes the lightsaber and the characters who use them shittier. Use the lightsaber in moderation, and use if for people who were already awesome in the first place. And now the word "lightsaber" should sound really weird.
...where were we?
Bob: "Now that the Narrator is done boring us all to death, how do I make a lightsaber."
Bob: "Y'know, that's ironically the most genuinely useful thing you've said thus far."
Let's talk to Atton.
Bob: "I feel fine. In fact, I haven't felt this good in a long time."
This is a nice little exchange that reacts to your alignment. If we were dark side, he would be saying how we look angry. Also, notice the "it's almost streaming off of you" line. It's a clever bit of subtle foreshadowing for later.
Now, we just have to talk to Chodo one last time before we leave.
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Bob: "Do you anything about a man named Batono?"
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Bob: "I thought you might know him, given his dislike of Czerka."
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Bob: "Are you sure? Lorso mentioned he spent some time here at the compound."
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Bob: "I'm looking for him on behalf of LT.Grenn. If I locate him, it might prove to be the end of Czerka."
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Bob: "All right. I give you my word."
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Bob: "Good to know you would have given up to Czerka goons if they name-dropped Grenn. I'll be going now."
We leave the compound, but no sooner that we are down the Residential Module corridor, we get a transmission on our comlink.
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Bob: "Oh, great. How did this happen, Moza?"
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And so, we turn right back around, back into the Ithorian compound.
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Bob: (cracks knuckles) "All right. Who's first?"
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These Czerka goons aren't too much trouble. As long as we don't let them overwhelm us, we'll be fine.
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After finishing off the goons in the entranceway, we head into the main room, and challenge the enemies there.
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We level up in the midst of the fight, and pick an interesting ability.
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Guess the reason Bastila was so special was because she picked a specific ability at level six.
We enter the vivarium, and are encountered by another group of enemies.
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With the Czerka goons dead, we talk to Moza.
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Bob: "I'm on my way. And you guys should probably hire some security in the future to save me from running back here evry two seconds."
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Bob: "Yeah, just don't make it a habit."
Entering Chodo Habat's room, we trigger this scene.
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Bob: "Yo. Quit picking on the Hammerhead."
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This fight is slightly tougher than the previous one. Yellowjacket here is pretty proficient at dodging attacks, and hits hard.
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GOOD LORD DAT ASS
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Eventually, we pump enough of our newly-acquired lightning powers to fell our foe.
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Bob: "Czerka did this?"
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Bob: "You've given enough, Chodo. But, I have to leave now. After some side-quests, of course."
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Leaving the Ithorian Compound, we head over to Batono's house.
Jana Lorso: "What...the fuck...just...happened?"
Aide: "I believe one of our droids..."
Lorso: "That was rhetorical, fuckwit! How did this happen? How could this have happened? Wait...it must have been those internet nerds. They must have hacked B4-D4. I want them dead."
Aide: "Um...all of them?"
Lorso: "Yes. I want the head of every nerd in the galaxy on my desk."
Aide: "Ma'am, if you may, the Republic has put up with a lot of our bullshit thus far, but I think they draw the line at intergalactic genocide."
Lorso: "Why? It's not like anyone likes nerds."
Aide: "Oh, undoubtedly, but without them, we have no one to work in IT. Civilization will collapse in a matter of days without tech support."
Lorso: "Then what, pray tell, do you suppose we do?"
Aide: "We could always send them flying into an unstoppable rage."
Lorso: "How?"
Aide: "Well, I've heard good things about something called 'always-on DRM'..."
Leaving the Czerka employees to their dastardly schemes, we return to Chodo Habat at the Ithorian Compound.
B4-D4: "Yes. I have transferred them to this datapad. And might I say, not longer having to observe the three laws of robotics is ballin', yo."
Habat: "Mr.Rand, you're not one of those Robophobic freaks, are you?"
Atton: "Look, I have nothing against Droids. But marriage is a sacred bond between an organic organism an another organic organism."
I normally don't post conversation choice screenshots, but this one is just too perfect. The red eyes, the aside glace to the fourth wall...it's wonderful.
B4-D4: "[LIE]I assure you, I will cause no trouble, Mr.Habat."
Meanwhile, twenty minutes into the future...
Habat: "And it certainly has been a while. Where were you three?"
Bob: "We were all exceptionally busy! Doing very important things! I for one, was turned into cyborg to take down a private military contractor that took to kidnapping children's brains to turn into murderous cyborgs. Turns out, Mitt Romney was behind it all. I would say I was surprised...but I really wasn't. It just made too much sense."
Atton: "Pfft. That's nothing. I was hired by mysterious contractors to pay off my gambling debts by rescuing a girl from a flying city of magical racists. Shit got weird."
Kreia: "You truly are a fool if you believe that to be worthy of mentioning. I was shipwrecked on a nondescript island, and hunted by mercenaries and rabid quick-time-events. But the true horror was reserved for those I met upon this path."
Bob: "Why?"
Kreia: "Because I wore a low-cut tank top the whole time."
Atton: "ARRRRRRRRGH"
Bob: "PASS THE BLEACH."
Bob: "Well, I guess we can kiss that evidence goodbye. Knowing the TSF, I think we can expect that the evidence will end up inside a black hole. In the Firefly universe."
Bob: "Well, I'm glad I could help."
Bob: "Bao-Dur? No shit! How's he doing?"
Atton: "You know this guy."
Bob: "Long time ago. Long story. Not a good day."
Bob: "Sounds like he's our best chance."
Bob: "How do I get to him?"
Bob: "Don't worry. Discreet is my middle name."
Atton: "I thought 'Wanton Violence and Anarchy' was your middle name."
Bob: "Semantics."
Bob: "Before I leave, you said you would try and heal me."
Bob: "Yeah, one sounds remarkably easier than the other. Like the equivalent of growing a single flower, against growing an entire garden that stretches across the city."
Bob: "Geez, Kreia, not everyone is as manipulative or as paranoid as you. Remind me to introduce you to my friend Ocelot some time. You two would get along swimmingly. Though, I don't think you're quite his type. Regardless, Chodo, if you can return the force to me, I want you to try."
"Moderately" is the word, as we'll see in a second...
That's right, kids! A whole 5 force points! Basically nothing in the grand scheme of things. Oh sure, it's moderately helpful in the early game, but gain a few levels, and we'll forget we ever had it. And the moral of the story is: never help hippies.
Before we leave the compound, it's time to have a few conversations with our friends. Let's start with Kreia.
Bob: "I want to learn how to build a lightsaber."
Bob: "Partly to easier fell my enemies, partly to protect my allies, partly because it inspires others, but mostly because I feel naked without it."
That's right, fellow Star Wars fanboys. She just implied that the reason we love lightsabers is that we have small gentleman sausages. DEAL WITH IT.
This one little conversation is one of my favorite parts of this game, and it perfectly demonstrates why this game stands out with it's own unique identity in a sea of Star Wars games of varying quality. So many pieces of Star Wars media obsess over and glorify the lightsaber. This game turns that on it's head, and basically gives the Star Wars IP an extended slap for it's overuse of the lightsaber. An ethos that pervades many lesser Expanded Universe works and the Prequel trilogy is that lightsabers=awesome. But, while a lightsaber is cool and all, it doesn't make the character wielding it good by itself. That's what I think Kreia, and by extension, Chris Avellone, is getting at. Giving a shitty character, like Mace Windu (at least in the movies) a lightsaber not only degrades the the character, but the lightsaber by extension. Characters like Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Revan, Kyle Katarn and Darth Bane are not good characters because they wield lightsabers. They were already good characters without the lightsaber, and the lightsaber enhances that existing character because of it's awesome. Basically, I think she's saying "Stop using the lightsaber shittily, Star Wars writers, because it makes the lightsaber and the characters who use them shittier. Use the lightsaber in moderation, and use if for people who were already awesome in the first place. And now the word "lightsaber" should sound really weird.
...where were we?
Bob: "Now that the Narrator is done boring us all to death, how do I make a lightsaber."
Bob: "Y'know, that's ironically the most genuinely useful thing you've said thus far."
Let's talk to Atton.
Bob: "I feel fine. In fact, I haven't felt this good in a long time."
This is a nice little exchange that reacts to your alignment. If we were dark side, he would be saying how we look angry. Also, notice the "it's almost streaming off of you" line. It's a clever bit of subtle foreshadowing for later.
Now, we just have to talk to Chodo one last time before we leave.
Bob: "Do you anything about a man named Batono?"
Bob: "I thought you might know him, given his dislike of Czerka."
Bob: "Are you sure? Lorso mentioned he spent some time here at the compound."
Bob: "I'm looking for him on behalf of LT.Grenn. If I locate him, it might prove to be the end of Czerka."
Bob: "All right. I give you my word."
Bob: "Good to know you would have given up to Czerka goons if they name-dropped Grenn. I'll be going now."
We leave the compound, but no sooner that we are down the Residential Module corridor, we get a transmission on our comlink.
Bob: "Oh, great. How did this happen, Moza?"
And so, we turn right back around, back into the Ithorian compound.
Bob: (cracks knuckles) "All right. Who's first?"
These Czerka goons aren't too much trouble. As long as we don't let them overwhelm us, we'll be fine.
After finishing off the goons in the entranceway, we head into the main room, and challenge the enemies there.
We level up in the midst of the fight, and pick an interesting ability.
Guess the reason Bastila was so special was because she picked a specific ability at level six.
We enter the vivarium, and are encountered by another group of enemies.
With the Czerka goons dead, we talk to Moza.
Bob: "I'm on my way. And you guys should probably hire some security in the future to save me from running back here evry two seconds."
Bob: "Yeah, just don't make it a habit."
Entering Chodo Habat's room, we trigger this scene.
Bob: "Yo. Quit picking on the Hammerhead."
This fight is slightly tougher than the previous one. Yellowjacket here is pretty proficient at dodging attacks, and hits hard.
GOOD LORD DAT ASS
Eventually, we pump enough of our newly-acquired lightning powers to fell our foe.
Bob: "Czerka did this?"
Bob: "You've given enough, Chodo. But, I have to leave now. After some side-quests, of course."
Leaving the Ithorian Compound, we head over to Batono's house.
Bob: "You're Batono, right?"
Bob: "LT.Grenn asked me to look for you."
Bob: "It's the right thing to do. Also, the Ithorians are shitty secret-keepers. Czerka will find you eventually."
Bob: "If it's your safety you're worried about, you shouldn't. After Czerka is exposed, they won't dare to move against you."
Bob: "[Blatant Lies]The TSF can protect you better than you can."
Bob: "I'll protect you."
Bob: "Look pal, I used to be a Jedi. I was in the wars. I destroyed the Exchange on this world with my bear hands. I've stared down Sith and lived to tell the tale. So I think I can handle a little guy crapping his pants, don't you think?"
Bob: "Let's go."
As we go to leave, we are blocked by two mercenaries.
Bob: "And who might you be?"
Bob: "I'm taking him to Grenn, and you're not going to stop me."
MERCENARY used STUBBORN!
It's not very effective...
BOB used LIGHTNING FROM FINGERTIPS!
It's super effective!
Bob: "That might be the one thing the TSF does right. Come on. Let's go."
Bob: "Look, I hate to interrupt this reunion, but if there's nothing else, I need to go."
With that side quest done, we go to do the final quest chain on Telos. As per your decision last time, we're gonna be helping the smugglers out, before ratting them out to the TSF once we're done with them.
Bob: "You mentioned you had more special work for me."
Bob: "As long as I'm well paid."
Bob: "I'll be back with the shield."
And so, we head to the docking bay. However, we come across two familiar faces when we arrive there.
Bob: "What are you doing here?"
Bob: "A ship? To where?"
Bob: "What, you're going to stow away?"
Bob: "All right, well, good luck, I guess."
Bob: "Hey! Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?"
Bob: "Hey, it's not my fault they built you no taller than a refresher bowl."
In a normal game, this would be the last we see of B4-D4 and T1-N1. But keep your eyes peeled: we'll see them again. We head to the Ithorian Docking bay to steal the shield.
Bob: "I need to get in tot he bay."
Bob: "Chodo sent me to pick up some supplies from the docking bay."
Eventually, we find the storage locker. However...
Bob: "I'm, uh, here to collect the prototype shield."
Bob: "Chodo said he would, um, like to inspect it while has the chance."
Bob: "Well, I'm here for the shield anyway."
Bob: "Look pal, I'm here for the shield. I don't think you can stop me."
We knock the Ithorian guard unconscious, and grab the shield from the security locker.
The shield in hand, we head back to our client.
Bob: "I have the prototype shield unit."
Bob: "That doesn't sound reasonable at all! I beat an Ithorian half to death, and the best you can come up with is 900 credits? What if the TSF start asking questions?"
Bob: "Do you have more work for me?"
Bob: "You know me, Dobo. Anything for a good cause."
And so, we head to the entertainment module, waltz into the Clinic...
Atton: "Literally. I don't know why you insisted on us doing that, Bob."
The supplies in hand, we once again turn to leave, but a TSF guard officer accosts us.
TSF: "Hey! What are you doing here?"
Bob: "Me? What are YOU doing here?"
Bob: "Look, surely we can talk about this."
Bob: "You don't get it, do you? I'm not going with you. And that's final."
While Bob goes for non-lethal strikes, Atton and Kreia take a less...subtle approach.
Bob: "GUYS. WHAT THE FUCK."
Atton: "What? It's not my fault you equipped me with two blasters without a backup."
Keeping an eye on the seeming Psychopaths that make up the rest of our party, he head back to Dobo.
Bob: "I have the medical supplies, Dobo."
Bob: "Speaking of business, do you have any work for me?"
Bob: "Let's go now."
Meanwhile at the docking bay, twenty minutes into the future..
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Czerka Goon: "Miss Lorso has ordered a full liquidation of all Czerka properties on Telos. So we don't have time to put up with your crap."
However, before we can get things loaded, a group of TSF officers ambush us from behind.
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Bob: "What? I've never seen these people before in my life. I was just...admiring the view?"
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Bob: "You got it all wrong. I was undercover, gathering information for LT.Grenn."
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This is one part of this quest that bugs me because, honestly, we kinda are undercover for Grenn. It doesn't mesh that the game gives you no way to resolve the situation this way, instead treating the idea as a lie.
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Bob: "Geex, you guys are so unprofessional. We have to use codenames when doing stuff like this! I'm Mr. Blue, for example."
Kreia: "He speaks truly. I am Ms. Brown."
Atton: "Who am I?"
Bob: "You're Mr.Pink."
Atton: "Why am I Mr.Pink?"
Bob: "The reasons should be self evident. Now, let's take out these guys in a strictly non-lethal mann-"
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Bob: "OH, FOR FUCK'S SAKE."
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Bob: "You're telling me!"
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Bob: "One day, I will punch that whiny ************ in the face."
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Bob: "I hope you're not planning on stiffing me on the escort job."
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Atton: "Must be. It's not like we murdered a TSF officer in a clinic, stuffed his body in a wood chipper, and mailed said wood chipper to Mustafar."
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Now, here's where things get a little dicey. See, in the base game, and TSLRCM 1.8, you could report Dobo's actions to the TSF, even though you've already worked for him. But, for some reason, whether it was intentional n the main game or a bug, it has been removed in TSLRCM 1.9. I'm not even sure you can take the TSF side in this quest at all with this version of TSLRCM. However, I can give a fairly accurate representation of how it turns out.
BOB BINDO storms into TSF HQ
DETECTIVE BINDO: COMMISSIONER! GRRR!
COMMISSIONER GRENN: BINDO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? YOU'RE A LOOSE CANNON, BINDO! TURN IN YOUR BADGE! GRRR!
DETECTIVE BINDO: I FOUND THE SMUGGLING RING! GRR!
COMMISSIONER GRENN: HELL OF A JOB, KID. LET'S GO BUST THAT SHIT UP!
DETECTIVE BINDO: HELL YEAH!
(fist bump)
BINDO: GRRR!
GRENN: GRRR!
Cut to DOBO'S MANSION
SEARGEANT RAND: IT'S ALL OVER, DOBO! COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP, AND WE WON'T FILL YOU FULL OF LEAD!
BINDO: WE'LL JUST SHOOT YOU WITH LASERS! A LOT! WHICH WE'LL DO ANYWAY!
Kreia: "This is utterly moronic."
Bob: "GAWD Kreia, why do you always have to ruin all our fun?"
DOBO: YOU BASTARDS! YOU DAMN DIRTY BASTARDS! YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE, COPPERS!
DOBO takes lots of COCAINE. The TSF dress in 80s outfits.
This happens:
There. A wholly accurate recreation of the quest.
Grenn: "Let us never speak of this again."
Bob & Atton: "Agreed."
Grenn: "Now, was there anything else?"
Bob: "I have some information on the bounties."
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Bob: "The escaped criminals made a deal with Jana Lorso to be smuggled to the restoration zones."
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Bob: "I was there when it happened!"
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Bob: "God, you guys become a whole flavor of useless in every scene we see of you. Guess it's time to resort to old-school vigilante justice."
And that's all our business on Citadel Station concluded, for now. We will be back, but now, all that's left to do is board Chodo Habat's shuttle, find the Ebon Hawk, and fly off into the sunset.
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Bob: "Chodo Habat sent me. I'm here to take a shuttle to restoration zone RZ-0031 on Telos."
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It's time to leave this station, and it's grey corridors behind. Next stop: grassy hills, sunny skies.
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Meanwhile, at TSF station...
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Hey, it was the same guy from the holocom back on the Harbinger! The guy who was so invested in us getting to Telos!
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Ha! Even the Republic knows the TSF sucks.
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Bob: "I hope so. The lack of proper seats in this thing is a severe design oversight."
Unfortunately, the local mercenaries don't seem to pleased by our presence, and open fire.
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Bob: "If we survive this, I'm going to kill you."
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Some time later...
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Mysterious Zabrak: "Good to have you back, General."
Bob: "My head...feels like I've just had a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster."
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Bob: "How did y-....have we met?"
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Remote: "Beep-Boop-Brank!"
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Bob: "Sorry, yes. I think I do remember."
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Bob: "What about my friends? Are they all right?"
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Bob: "Looking for my ship."
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Bob: "Agreed."
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Bob: "Or maybe if you took off those stupid goddamn sunglasses, we wouldn't be standing next to a crashed ship in a fenced off area of half-dead planet!"
Atton: "Lay off the shades! Chicks dig the shades."
Bob: "I find that exceptionally hard to believe."
Atton: "Hey, when the Atton Mojo is going, Chicks will dig anything."
Bob: "One of these days, Atton. One of these days. Who shot us down?"
Bao-Dur: "One of the Czerka mercenary defence towers. The only way to disable them is at the mercenary compound. It's the old ithorian research station, turned into a salvage team staging area. It won't be an easy hike."
Bob: "Is there a console at the compound we can use to find my ship?"
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Bob: "Welcome to the team, Bao-Dur. Glad to finally have someone competent on board. Let's get going."
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DUN DUN DUNNNN
And so, Bao-Dur officially joins our party. I like the guy a lot, and though the game eventually just forgets that he was ever there, I still think he's cool. Plus, he has a special ability we can exploit.
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In contrast to the first game, each party member in this game has a special ability that you can use to your advantage. Kreia's buffs affect her and the player character, Atton can't fall in battle unless everyone else already has, and Bao-Dur can use his awesome force-robot arm to disrupt shields, a useful too when going up against a shielded enemy.
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We strip Bao-Dur of his relatively useless starting equipment, hand him Atton's shades...
Atton: "Fucker."
...and give him a decent gun. We'll be trekking across Telos' surface with Kreia and Bao-Dur, and I like having at least one ranged-focused character on my party in early days.
Next Time: We laugh in the face of your so-called restraint.
Czerka Goon: "Miss Lorso has ordered a full liquidation of all Czerka properties on Telos. So we don't have time to put up with your crap."
However, before we can get things loaded, a group of TSF officers ambush us from behind.
Bob: "What? I've never seen these people before in my life. I was just...admiring the view?"
Bob: "You got it all wrong. I was undercover, gathering information for LT.Grenn."
This is one part of this quest that bugs me because, honestly, we kinda are undercover for Grenn. It doesn't mesh that the game gives you no way to resolve the situation this way, instead treating the idea as a lie.
Bob: "Geex, you guys are so unprofessional. We have to use codenames when doing stuff like this! I'm Mr. Blue, for example."
Kreia: "He speaks truly. I am Ms. Brown."
Atton: "Who am I?"
Bob: "You're Mr.Pink."
Atton: "Why am I Mr.Pink?"
Bob: "The reasons should be self evident. Now, let's take out these guys in a strictly non-lethal mann-"
Bob: "OH, FOR FUCK'S SAKE."
Bob: "You're telling me!"
Bob: "One day, I will punch that whiny ************ in the face."
Bob: "I hope you're not planning on stiffing me on the escort job."
Atton: "Must be. It's not like we murdered a TSF officer in a clinic, stuffed his body in a wood chipper, and mailed said wood chipper to Mustafar."
Now, here's where things get a little dicey. See, in the base game, and TSLRCM 1.8, you could report Dobo's actions to the TSF, even though you've already worked for him. But, for some reason, whether it was intentional n the main game or a bug, it has been removed in TSLRCM 1.9. I'm not even sure you can take the TSF side in this quest at all with this version of TSLRCM. However, I can give a fairly accurate representation of how it turns out.
BOB BINDO storms into TSF HQ
DETECTIVE BINDO: COMMISSIONER! GRRR!
COMMISSIONER GRENN: BINDO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? YOU'RE A LOOSE CANNON, BINDO! TURN IN YOUR BADGE! GRRR!
DETECTIVE BINDO: I FOUND THE SMUGGLING RING! GRR!
COMMISSIONER GRENN: HELL OF A JOB, KID. LET'S GO BUST THAT SHIT UP!
DETECTIVE BINDO: HELL YEAH!
(fist bump)
BINDO: GRRR!
GRENN: GRRR!
Cut to DOBO'S MANSION
SEARGEANT RAND: IT'S ALL OVER, DOBO! COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP, AND WE WON'T FILL YOU FULL OF LEAD!
BINDO: WE'LL JUST SHOOT YOU WITH LASERS! A LOT! WHICH WE'LL DO ANYWAY!
Kreia: "This is utterly moronic."
Bob: "GAWD Kreia, why do you always have to ruin all our fun?"
DOBO: YOU BASTARDS! YOU DAMN DIRTY BASTARDS! YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE, COPPERS!
DOBO takes lots of COCAINE. The TSF dress in 80s outfits.
This happens:
There. A wholly accurate recreation of the quest.
Grenn: "Let us never speak of this again."
Bob & Atton: "Agreed."
Grenn: "Now, was there anything else?"
Bob: "I have some information on the bounties."
Bob: "The escaped criminals made a deal with Jana Lorso to be smuggled to the restoration zones."
Bob: "I was there when it happened!"
Bob: "God, you guys become a whole flavor of useless in every scene we see of you. Guess it's time to resort to old-school vigilante justice."
And that's all our business on Citadel Station concluded, for now. We will be back, but now, all that's left to do is board Chodo Habat's shuttle, find the Ebon Hawk, and fly off into the sunset.
Bob: "Chodo Habat sent me. I'm here to take a shuttle to restoration zone RZ-0031 on Telos."
It's time to leave this station, and it's grey corridors behind. Next stop: grassy hills, sunny skies.
Meanwhile, at TSF station...
Hey, it was the same guy from the holocom back on the Harbinger! The guy who was so invested in us getting to Telos!
Ha! Even the Republic knows the TSF sucks.
Bob: "I hope so. The lack of proper seats in this thing is a severe design oversight."
Unfortunately, the local mercenaries don't seem to pleased by our presence, and open fire.
Bob: "If we survive this, I'm going to kill you."
Some time later...
Mysterious Zabrak: "Good to have you back, General."
Bob: "My head...feels like I've just had a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster."
Bob: "How did y-....have we met?"
Remote: "Beep-Boop-Brank!"
Bob: "Sorry, yes. I think I do remember."
Bob: "What about my friends? Are they all right?"
Bob: "Looking for my ship."
Bob: "Agreed."
Bob: "Or maybe if you took off those stupid goddamn sunglasses, we wouldn't be standing next to a crashed ship in a fenced off area of half-dead planet!"
Atton: "Lay off the shades! Chicks dig the shades."
Bob: "I find that exceptionally hard to believe."
Atton: "Hey, when the Atton Mojo is going, Chicks will dig anything."
Bob: "One of these days, Atton. One of these days. Who shot us down?"
Bao-Dur: "One of the Czerka mercenary defence towers. The only way to disable them is at the mercenary compound. It's the old ithorian research station, turned into a salvage team staging area. It won't be an easy hike."
Bob: "Is there a console at the compound we can use to find my ship?"
Bob: "Welcome to the team, Bao-Dur. Glad to finally have someone competent on board. Let's get going."
DUN DUN DUNNNN
And so, Bao-Dur officially joins our party. I like the guy a lot, and though the game eventually just forgets that he was ever there, I still think he's cool. Plus, he has a special ability we can exploit.
In contrast to the first game, each party member in this game has a special ability that you can use to your advantage. Kreia's buffs affect her and the player character, Atton can't fall in battle unless everyone else already has, and Bao-Dur can use his awesome force-robot arm to disrupt shields, a useful too when going up against a shielded enemy.
We strip Bao-Dur of his relatively useless starting equipment, hand him Atton's shades...
Atton: "Fucker."
...and give him a decent gun. We'll be trekking across Telos' surface with Kreia and Bao-Dur, and I like having at least one ranged-focused character on my party in early days.
Next Time: We laugh in the face of your so-called restraint.
As per request, we'll be showing off the stats of our party at the end of each update from now on. So, if you want to check on how our party is progressing, and want to tell me how appalling my builds are, feel free to do so.
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In hindsight, giving Bao-Dur a blaster was a bad move: he's a much better melee character. We'll find out the reason he's specced like this later on.
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In hindsight, giving Bao-Dur a blaster was a bad move: he's a much better melee character. We'll find out the reason he's specced like this later on.
It's been a bumpy ride for this LP so far in 2013, but, touch wood, hopefully we've weathered the storm, and we can get back to a semi-regular schedule. As for today's question, what have you all been playing these past months? I personally haven't had nearly as much gaming time as I would have liked, but I have played both Bioshock Infinite and Metal Gear Rising to completion, and found them to be both absolutely superb games, though for completely different reasons. Been playing a wee bit of Tomb Raider, but it hasn't fully grabbed me yet. What about all of you?
So I get Atton was playing Bioshock Infinite and Kreia was laying Tombraider, but what was Bob playing(nevermind I saw your last post and figured it was Revengence)?
I have been playing The Elderscrolls series and some rts's such as Starcraft and Age of Empires 2 HD.
I have been playing The Elderscrolls series and some rts's such as Starcraft and Age of Empires 2 HD.
I've only played the Revengance demo thanks to a lack of money, but I really liked it. Infinite looks awesome, Tomb Raider looks... kind of crap. I myself am playing LA Noire, XCOM Enemy Unknown and Borderlands 2.
Yeah, Tomb Raider really hasn't grabbed me thus far. I like Lara Croft's new character design, and I like the survival aspect of the gameplay, but there's way too many quick time events for my liking. Maybe it gets better, but I just don't have the motivation to play any more of it at the moment.Gone Rampant said:
Oh, how is AOE2 HD? I loved the game back when I was a kid (though I preferred it's Star Wars reskin, Galactic Battlegrounds), how does the the port fare?The_Lost_King said:
As long as you aren't on vista it is fine. I haven't had any issues with it. Though, when there is a lot of people on screen I get some slowdown. As for the gameplay, I have fun. I enjoy how there is more depth to it than the RTSs I have played. I never played the original and I hear not much has changed, but it is still fun.woodaba said:
Welcome back 
Been pretty short on time myself, and I was never much of a Bioshock fan to start with so I've mostly just been playing reruns of Mass Effect (after the Citadel DLC I'm finally getting around to doing a Renegade run of ME3), online poker and "what'll keep my eight-month-old son amused for more than two minutes"
Been pretty short on time myself, and I was never much of a Bioshock fan to start with so I've mostly just been playing reruns of Mass Effect (after the Citadel DLC I'm finally getting around to doing a Renegade run of ME3), online poker and "what'll keep my eight-month-old son amused for more than two minutes"
Yes! It should be up very soon. Initially, Update 10 was planned as a mega-update that would finish Telos for now, but then chrome crashed. Much rage ensued. So, I'll be spacing it up into a trilogy, and the first should be up very soon!Supertegwyn said:So........
How are we going? Ready for Update 10
Alright, that sounds good. Didn't know if you had been devoured by bears or something and couldn't finish the LP.woodaba said:Yes! It should be up very soon. Initially, Update 10 was planned as a mega-update that would finish Telos for now, but then chrome crashed. Much rage ensued. So, I'll be spacing it up into a trilogy, and the first should be up very soon!Supertegwyn said:So........
How are we going? Ready for Update 10
[HEADING=2]Update 10: Confusion and Cannocks[/HEADING]
Last time, we landed on Telos. And by landed, I mean that Atton sent us crashing to the surface in a fiery inferno.
Atton: "I said I was sorry!"
And we don't care. We met up with and old war buddy, and set off to explore the restored part of Telos' surface.
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Gotta say, it's nice to get out of grey corridor of a space station for the first time in this game. This game generally does have darker, more claustrophobic environments to match the dark and personal tone of the story, but sometimes, it spreads its wings and gives us something different. It's much better than the constant grey and brown war torn environments we see so often in post 2000 video games.
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One thing I don't like the look of is these ugly fuckers. They're called Cannocks, but they look like a cross between a
dog, a toad, and Brian Blessed in The Phantom Menace. Part of me likes to think that these things are the descendants of the Gungans from that movie.
Always on the look out for goodies, we find a secret cache hidden behind the wreckage of the ship.
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This is another instance where the game makes it out that this is some important thing to look out for in this level, but there really are only one or two more.
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We can see the divide between the restored Telos and the devestated one. You can really see just how bad Telos was after the Sith bombardment, it looks like Mustafar out there. This is probably my hippie side breaking out of the chains of cynicism in my black heart, but I'm really glad that we're ensuring that the planet does not end up like this.
We spot some mercenaries off in the distance.
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Bob: "He's literally RIGHT THERE. Like, RIGHT THERE. Seriously, dude. When you're planning to backstab someone, the idea is not to let them know they're about to be backstabbed."
Atton: "Pfft. Don't worry. I'm sure it'll be-"
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Atton: "Fuck."
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Bob: "Atton, is there anything you don't fail at? Oh, wait, you're all right at snapping necks. I guess that's something."
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We charge the enemy forces, fists-a-blazin'.
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Bao-Dur leaps into action with a Vibroblade. Despite his quiet voice and reserved demeanor, Bao-Dur is a badass you do not want to fuck with. He's one of, if not the, best character in the entire game in terms of pure gameplay, especially when he gets an...optional upgrade...later on.
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Bob sticks with ol' reliable: kicking robots in the balls.
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With the mercenaries dead, we attempt to use their swoop bikes.
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Goddammit.
We elect to continue on foot, before Bao-Dur stops us again.
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Thankfully, we now have the ludicrously overpowered Destroy Droid power. Unfortunately, we consistently receive shitty rolls against the enemy's great rolls, but that won't stop us.
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Destroying the droid, we move on, only to encounter these two familiar faces from Citadel Station.
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Bob: "I was just thinking the same thing. How convenient that Atton crashed the shuttle right where you guys were hanging out."
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Bob: "It's a long story, and I'm still trying to figure it out."
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Alright people, place your bets! A rodian and a Devaronian VS a Kung-Fu Jedi, a Zabrak Ninja, and...Atton. Who shall win this most epic of fights?
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Well...that was...fast. And a surprising result, too. I don't think anyone saw that coming.
Atton levels up during the fight, so we pimp him with some addedd skill points.
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Emerging from the valley, we are faced with a rather pretty sight.
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This game very rarely looks as good as it's predecessor, due to the aforementioned murkier pallete, but it still does impress at times, especially for a game that suffers for a rather poor engine for visuals.
However, because Obsidian can't have a single ounce of undiluted happiness in a game, we come across this pleasant sight on the beach.
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Oh...just...lovely.
Trying to ignore the horrors we have just witnessed, we begin making our way across the beach before we come across another monstrous Cannock.
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Dammnable fiends!
After literally shoving his katana into the skull of a demonic dog-frog, Bao-Dur decides this is the perfect time to start waxing philisophical.
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Because I always start espousing on the meaning of life after stepping on a bug.
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Atton: "Hey, you started it!"
Bao-Dur/Bob: "QUIET!"
Atton: "I hate you. With all of my hate."
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Bob: "And pass up all that precious EXP? Pfft. Fuck that noise. Let's just beat the crap outta them."
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After beating up some more Cannocks, we charge the mercenaries. It's a tough fight, as most of the mercenaries are actually Elite Mooks to encourage you to sneak around. Bob, Bao-Dur, and Atton are manly men, who can easily beat up these pansy mercs.
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They have pet Cannocks too! Those fiendish bastards.
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And while Bob and Bao-Dur kick ass among the mercs, Atton performs an extremely effective role in the back.
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Bob decides to start making over the top Kung-Fu poses instead of fighting.
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Finally, the last mercenary falls. However, a far more epic battle is being waged by Atton in the North. A battle that will set the bar for not just battles in this game, but battles for the future of gaming itself. Are you ready?
You aren't ready.
But I'm going to show you anyway.
First, the appropriate music.
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HRRRRGGHHHHHHFLLLLRRRRTdgDJljgoEHIUHUIiohiuEUOIguPOIUOiuwISJFhrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRjrrrrrrrrrrrrrrAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Sorry about that. That scene was so epic it caused three to bears made of pure awesome to spontaneously appear in my living room. It took the combined force of myself, several spoons, 50% of the population of Paraguay, Jesus, Mohammed, and the White Rabbit of Fluffy Doom to bring them down. That might end up delaying this update.
Eventually, no doubt after the Gods themselves have orgasmed, the beast is finally felled.
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Bob and Bao-Dur level up just from watching such an event.
We start off by levelling up some of Bob's skills.
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We're focusing on Treat Injury for it's usefulness in combat to any Jedi, and Persuade + Awareness for dialogue options.
More interestingly, we gain our first Lightsaber form.
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Lightsaber forms are an interesting addition to this game. They are basically passive buffs that either help or hinder you depending on the situation. For example, one Form might give you better stats when fighting many opponents, while others buff you while fighting Jedi and debiff you when fighting non-jedi. They're an interesting addition the game.
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We also pick up Knight Speed, primarily because the final level of that power, Master Speed, literally breaks the game.
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We also up Bao-Dur's stats before moving on.
We explore the north end of the area and find another item cache near a crevice.
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Heading where we're supposed to go, we are stopped by a massive minefield.
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Yeah, that's pretty bug. However, we have a power that can make this a tad easier. Unleashing our destroy droid power, we destroy the majority of the minefield just before the AI takes the chance to run head-long into it.
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After destroying the turrets on the other side, we enter the next area.
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Here's where things get interesting.
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Bob: "Goddammit! You'd think we'd be able to get the jump on these things after two instances."
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We easily take care of the sentry, and continue into the Czerka compound.
Atton: "I said I was sorry!"
And we don't care. We met up with and old war buddy, and set off to explore the restored part of Telos' surface.
Gotta say, it's nice to get out of grey corridor of a space station for the first time in this game. This game generally does have darker, more claustrophobic environments to match the dark and personal tone of the story, but sometimes, it spreads its wings and gives us something different. It's much better than the constant grey and brown war torn environments we see so often in post 2000 video games.
One thing I don't like the look of is these ugly fuckers. They're called Cannocks, but they look like a cross between a
dog, a toad, and Brian Blessed in The Phantom Menace. Part of me likes to think that these things are the descendants of the Gungans from that movie.
Always on the look out for goodies, we find a secret cache hidden behind the wreckage of the ship.
This is another instance where the game makes it out that this is some important thing to look out for in this level, but there really are only one or two more.
We can see the divide between the restored Telos and the devestated one. You can really see just how bad Telos was after the Sith bombardment, it looks like Mustafar out there. This is probably my hippie side breaking out of the chains of cynicism in my black heart, but I'm really glad that we're ensuring that the planet does not end up like this.
We spot some mercenaries off in the distance.
Bob: "He's literally RIGHT THERE. Like, RIGHT THERE. Seriously, dude. When you're planning to backstab someone, the idea is not to let them know they're about to be backstabbed."
Atton: "Pfft. Don't worry. I'm sure it'll be-"
Atton: "Fuck."
Bob: "Atton, is there anything you don't fail at? Oh, wait, you're all right at snapping necks. I guess that's something."
We charge the enemy forces, fists-a-blazin'.
Bao-Dur leaps into action with a Vibroblade. Despite his quiet voice and reserved demeanor, Bao-Dur is a badass you do not want to fuck with. He's one of, if not the, best character in the entire game in terms of pure gameplay, especially when he gets an...optional upgrade...later on.
Bob sticks with ol' reliable: kicking robots in the balls.
With the mercenaries dead, we attempt to use their swoop bikes.
Goddammit.
We elect to continue on foot, before Bao-Dur stops us again.
Thankfully, we now have the ludicrously overpowered Destroy Droid power. Unfortunately, we consistently receive shitty rolls against the enemy's great rolls, but that won't stop us.
Destroying the droid, we move on, only to encounter these two familiar faces from Citadel Station.
Bob: "I was just thinking the same thing. How convenient that Atton crashed the shuttle right where you guys were hanging out."
Bob: "It's a long story, and I'm still trying to figure it out."
Alright people, place your bets! A rodian and a Devaronian VS a Kung-Fu Jedi, a Zabrak Ninja, and...Atton. Who shall win this most epic of fights?
Well...that was...fast. And a surprising result, too. I don't think anyone saw that coming.
Atton levels up during the fight, so we pimp him with some addedd skill points.
Emerging from the valley, we are faced with a rather pretty sight.
This game very rarely looks as good as it's predecessor, due to the aforementioned murkier pallete, but it still does impress at times, especially for a game that suffers for a rather poor engine for visuals.
However, because Obsidian can't have a single ounce of undiluted happiness in a game, we come across this pleasant sight on the beach.
Oh...just...lovely.
Trying to ignore the horrors we have just witnessed, we begin making our way across the beach before we come across another monstrous Cannock.
Dammnable fiends!
After literally shoving his katana into the skull of a demonic dog-frog, Bao-Dur decides this is the perfect time to start waxing philisophical.
Because I always start espousing on the meaning of life after stepping on a bug.
Atton: "Hey, you started it!"
Bao-Dur/Bob: "QUIET!"
Atton: "I hate you. With all of my hate."
Bob: "And pass up all that precious EXP? Pfft. Fuck that noise. Let's just beat the crap outta them."
After beating up some more Cannocks, we charge the mercenaries. It's a tough fight, as most of the mercenaries are actually Elite Mooks to encourage you to sneak around. Bob, Bao-Dur, and Atton are manly men, who can easily beat up these pansy mercs.
They have pet Cannocks too! Those fiendish bastards.
And while Bob and Bao-Dur kick ass among the mercs, Atton performs an extremely effective role in the back.
Bob decides to start making over the top Kung-Fu poses instead of fighting.
Finally, the last mercenary falls. However, a far more epic battle is being waged by Atton in the North. A battle that will set the bar for not just battles in this game, but battles for the future of gaming itself. Are you ready?
You aren't ready.
But I'm going to show you anyway.
First, the appropriate music.
HRRRRGGHHHHHHFLLLLRRRRTdgDJljgoEHIUHUIiohiuEUOIguPOIUOiuwISJFhrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRjrrrrrrrrrrrrrrAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Sorry about that. That scene was so epic it caused three to bears made of pure awesome to spontaneously appear in my living room. It took the combined force of myself, several spoons, 50% of the population of Paraguay, Jesus, Mohammed, and the White Rabbit of Fluffy Doom to bring them down. That might end up delaying this update.
Eventually, no doubt after the Gods themselves have orgasmed, the beast is finally felled.
Bob and Bao-Dur level up just from watching such an event.
We start off by levelling up some of Bob's skills.
We're focusing on Treat Injury for it's usefulness in combat to any Jedi, and Persuade + Awareness for dialogue options.
More interestingly, we gain our first Lightsaber form.
Lightsaber forms are an interesting addition to this game. They are basically passive buffs that either help or hinder you depending on the situation. For example, one Form might give you better stats when fighting many opponents, while others buff you while fighting Jedi and debiff you when fighting non-jedi. They're an interesting addition the game.
We also pick up Knight Speed, primarily because the final level of that power, Master Speed, literally breaks the game.
We also up Bao-Dur's stats before moving on.
We explore the north end of the area and find another item cache near a crevice.
Heading where we're supposed to go, we are stopped by a massive minefield.
Yeah, that's pretty bug. However, we have a power that can make this a tad easier. Unleashing our destroy droid power, we destroy the majority of the minefield just before the AI takes the chance to run head-long into it.
After destroying the turrets on the other side, we enter the next area.
Here's where things get interesting.
Bob: "Goddammit! You'd think we'd be able to get the jump on these things after two instances."
We easily take care of the sentry, and continue into the Czerka compound.
"No, my easily destroyable turrets made of paper mache have failed!"
Because, as we all know, Droids are the most effective things in the Star Wars mythos.
After destroying the mines in front of the robots, we leap into action.
The random mad scientist woman with no backstory dead, we continue into the camp.
AAAAGH! ATTON! YOU'RE MERGING WITH THE REMOTE! IT'S THE SYNTHESIS ENDING! FLEE! FLEE!
Bob: "Sounds like a clever guy."
Once again, we leap into battle. This is another challenging fight, especially since the mercs have access to shields.
Bob finishes the fight by PUNCHING THROUGH A MAN'S CHEST.
Badass.
Up the platform towards the turrets, we run into a couple other Paper Mache turrets.
Some mercenaries join the fun too.
Before we can access the computer, though, Mercenary reinforcements to the east join the fun. Is there anyone on this planet who isn't overcome with a raging bloodlust?
Bob uses FART!
It's Super Effective!
Finally, the mercenaries are destroyed, and we are free to roam the camp at our leisure.
We find a couple doors scattered around the place, but they can't be opened. They were probably originally meant to lead to new areas and explain the backstory of this place more, but they must have been cut at an early stage of development.
We finally access the computer panel Bao-Dur needs.
Bob: "The TSF said the Ebon Hawk didn't land at any sanctioned landing site. How are you gonna find it?"
Bob: "What exactly is it?"
Bob: "So, I take it we're hitchiking to the polar region? Or do you have something else in mind?"
Bob: "So, we don't know if the shuttle is still there, or working?"
Bao-Dur: "Let's head out, General."
Bob: "Really, you don't have to call me 'General'."
Bob: "How'd you end up on Telos?"
Bob: "During my Exile, I did much the same thing."
Bob: "Only too well."
Bob: "Well, it's good you have you around again, regardless."
Player chracters in western RPGs are often blank slates for the player to project themselves or their characters upon.
While they often have some dark secret or something along those lines, most often it's as much a mystery to them as it is to the player. KotOR 2, on the other hand, goes for almost a reverse-dramatic Irony, in that the player knows less about the character they're playing than the player chracter, despite the fact that we're fully in control of them. I mean, up until this point, we've just thought that the Exile was just some Jedi who fought in the Mandalorian Wars, but now we know they were a General? And it's not just that. One of the game's most compelling subplots is finding out just who the Exile is, and how he got into their current situation. (It's arguably the main plot, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.) The Sith stuff almost takes a backseat.
Bob: "What's your opinion on the Telos situation, Bao-Dur?"
Bob: "So, about the elephant in the room."
Bao-Dur: "I don't see any-"
Bob: "Your arm."
Bao-Dur: "Ah."
Bob: "So...how did that happen?"
Bob: "That seems a tad...overzealous."
And so, we head into the old military base.
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And, just as we start getting used to the grass and the sunshine and the fresh air...we're back in a grey corridor.
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Fuck.
Bao-Dur decides to show off his awesome arm.
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This comes in handy maybe, twice, in the entire game. You really get the impression that Obsidian had all these unique mechanics they wanted to incorporate into the game, but just kind of forgot about them later on. Further into the derelict base, we are stopped by four turrets, and a bunch of poison mines. But who's been laying the mines here? Interesting.
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Oh, look! A penny!
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After destroying the turrets, we continue into the facility. It's a standard dungeon crawl, so I'll give you the cliff notes.
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We fight an activated military droid in the hallway. Assuming that this base is from either the Jedi Civil War or the Mandalorian Wars, how the hell is this thing still activate it? Did Czerka accidentally reactivate the defences, like morons? After all, as a good woman once said, scientists are always doing dumb shit. Or is it something more sinister? Note that this question largely went unaswered in the original release of this game: this whole dungeon ended up being one giant ball of what the hell. But with the restored content, we'll finally get to see the truth about this place...
Eventually, just before we reach the hanger, we're ambushed by more robots.
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Bob: "Man, this update is, like, 90% me Kung-Fu fighting people. Not that that's a bad thing, just...y'know, some people might even bet bored of me. I know, impossible sounding, but it could happen."
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Possibly the most unnessecarily flamboyant attack on an enemy since...the last time Bob punches someone.
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We finally dispose of the last of the robots, and enter the hangar.
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Bob: "What? Why?"
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Bob: "Alright: igniton codes and the hangar door. I think we can manage that. Let's go sort it out."
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We find this door in the far end of the hangar. You can practically taste the foreshadowing!
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Apparently, lockpicking a door like this doesn't quite work. Who knew?
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We make our way to the shuttle bay control panel.
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Well, shit. Looks like things aren't going to be as easy as we thought. But then, it never is.
We make our way through the other part of the fortress, heading for the reactor room.
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We fight off a few robots, before finding this guy.
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This.
Mother.
Fucker.
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Bob: "Who the hell are you?"
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Bob: "Wait, what? What? Bao-Dur said Czerka hasn't had a report from this place in months! Months! Are you telling me you've been stuck in here for MONTHS, with nothing to eat or drink, with killer robots on the loose?"
Guy: "...yes?"
Bob: "Fuck you."
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Bob: "All right, follow me. I'll get you out."
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This MOTHER FUCKER. Not only does the guy apparently not require food or water to survive, but he also has the WORST PATHFINDING EVER. And I mean that literally. I have never seen pathfinding as bad as this guy. Ok, I'm sure there is some pathfinding that is functionally worse in that it literally doesn't work, and this guy does, but this guy's pathfinding works in a manner that is so ass-backwards that it's even more frustrating than AI that just flat-out fails to work. And this stems from one major issue: he can only run in a straight line. To get him to turn, you have ton run far enough ahead that he follows you, but he doesn't stop until he reaches a certain point. So you basically have to steer him in an incredibly awkward way to get him to go where you want. And even then, he stops half the time for no reason just to scratch his ass! Despite all this, we do manage to get him out.
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Bob: "Well, I hope he doesn't get too annoyed that we killed all his buddies outside."
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Bob: "If I can help just a little, I will. This world's gone to hell these last couple decades. The least we can do is help pick up the pieces."
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We get a nice influence gain for Bao-Dur for doing that. Bao-Dur is not hard to gain influence with, as the first genuinely good aligned character we've picked up, he likes it when you help people in need, and emphatize with him over the war.
Making our way back to the reactor, we fight a few robots, and level up.
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We level up Bob first.
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Can never have enough Charisma.
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We pick Master Dueling to improve the mach force of our punches.
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We gain another lightsaber form. This one lets us block blaster bolts much better, even with our hands, but leaves us more open to melee attacks. An invaluable form for a gun-wielding build, but we like to get up close and personal.
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Aw yeah. Neo, eat your heart out.
Atton is next.
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We fully ensure that Atton is unmatched in the art of gunslinging.
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Finally, we level Bao-Dur.
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After finishing that, we find something rather interesting.
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Bob: "Well, well, well. Looky what we have here. What are you doing in this neighborhood, guy?"
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Bob: "Ah, what the hell."
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We reactivate the droid, and gain a new companion! Oh man, I can't wait until we have all these adventures with th-
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...what? What? WHAT? WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?
So, yeah. In case you missed that, we found a HK droid, reactivated it, walked forward a bit, and then it exploded.
I don't even know.
Shaking our heads and continuing on, we find this little door.
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As a certain austrian ex governor might say...we'll be back.
After fighting through another group of robots, we finally reach the Reactor control room.
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This opens the way to the ignition codes and lets us open the hangar bay doors, but it also opens another door...
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Well, at least he looks friendly. Let's go say hi.
Searching a nearby sideroom, we find the codes we are looking for, as well as a cool belt.
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We make our way back to the bay controls.
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Now all we gotta do is destroy that droid, and fly on outta here.
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Uh...yeah. This might be a tad easier said than done.
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Ok, so the Tank Droid isn't especially hard, especially considering he is the "combat boss" for Telos (the real boss comes later, and is fought with words, not fists). But if you're complacent, he'll kick your ass.
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Y'know, Bob is doing remarkably well for someone who is currently being BURNED ALIVE.
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We bring the Tank Droid down, at last, and finally board the shuttle to leave this place for good.
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This is when things get interesting.
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Bob: "Now, Atton, want you to know something. If you crash this shuttle, I will kill you. You will die, by my hands. Are we clear?"
Atton: "Crystal."
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We can never escape from the Cannocks. They always watch. They always judge.
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Meanwhile, back at the military base...
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THREE HKs? Holy shit. Things just got awesome.
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Back with the party...
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Wow. Gotta disagree with you here, Atton. That is pretty.
However, a Silver Nemesis stands gleaming in the snow, weapon in hand.
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Bob: "ATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNN!"
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Bob: "Let me kill him! Let me kill him!"
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Bob: "I'm not finished yet, you sons of bitches. Bring it on."
Next time: HK blues, women in white, and old ghosts.
And, just as we start getting used to the grass and the sunshine and the fresh air...we're back in a grey corridor.
Fuck.
Bao-Dur decides to show off his awesome arm.
This comes in handy maybe, twice, in the entire game. You really get the impression that Obsidian had all these unique mechanics they wanted to incorporate into the game, but just kind of forgot about them later on. Further into the derelict base, we are stopped by four turrets, and a bunch of poison mines. But who's been laying the mines here? Interesting.
Oh, look! A penny!
After destroying the turrets, we continue into the facility. It's a standard dungeon crawl, so I'll give you the cliff notes.
We fight an activated military droid in the hallway. Assuming that this base is from either the Jedi Civil War or the Mandalorian Wars, how the hell is this thing still activate it? Did Czerka accidentally reactivate the defences, like morons? After all, as a good woman once said, scientists are always doing dumb shit. Or is it something more sinister? Note that this question largely went unaswered in the original release of this game: this whole dungeon ended up being one giant ball of what the hell. But with the restored content, we'll finally get to see the truth about this place...
Eventually, just before we reach the hanger, we're ambushed by more robots.
Bob: "Man, this update is, like, 90% me Kung-Fu fighting people. Not that that's a bad thing, just...y'know, some people might even bet bored of me. I know, impossible sounding, but it could happen."
Possibly the most unnessecarily flamboyant attack on an enemy since...the last time Bob punches someone.
We finally dispose of the last of the robots, and enter the hangar.
Bob: "What? Why?"
Bob: "Alright: igniton codes and the hangar door. I think we can manage that. Let's go sort it out."
We find this door in the far end of the hangar. You can practically taste the foreshadowing!
Apparently, lockpicking a door like this doesn't quite work. Who knew?
We make our way to the shuttle bay control panel.
Well, shit. Looks like things aren't going to be as easy as we thought. But then, it never is.
We make our way through the other part of the fortress, heading for the reactor room.
We fight off a few robots, before finding this guy.
This.
Mother.
Fucker.
Bob: "Who the hell are you?"
Bob: "Wait, what? What? Bao-Dur said Czerka hasn't had a report from this place in months! Months! Are you telling me you've been stuck in here for MONTHS, with nothing to eat or drink, with killer robots on the loose?"
Guy: "...yes?"
Bob: "Fuck you."
Bob: "All right, follow me. I'll get you out."
This MOTHER FUCKER. Not only does the guy apparently not require food or water to survive, but he also has the WORST PATHFINDING EVER. And I mean that literally. I have never seen pathfinding as bad as this guy. Ok, I'm sure there is some pathfinding that is functionally worse in that it literally doesn't work, and this guy does, but this guy's pathfinding works in a manner that is so ass-backwards that it's even more frustrating than AI that just flat-out fails to work. And this stems from one major issue: he can only run in a straight line. To get him to turn, you have ton run far enough ahead that he follows you, but he doesn't stop until he reaches a certain point. So you basically have to steer him in an incredibly awkward way to get him to go where you want. And even then, he stops half the time for no reason just to scratch his ass! Despite all this, we do manage to get him out.
Bob: "Well, I hope he doesn't get too annoyed that we killed all his buddies outside."
Bob: "If I can help just a little, I will. This world's gone to hell these last couple decades. The least we can do is help pick up the pieces."
We get a nice influence gain for Bao-Dur for doing that. Bao-Dur is not hard to gain influence with, as the first genuinely good aligned character we've picked up, he likes it when you help people in need, and emphatize with him over the war.
Making our way back to the reactor, we fight a few robots, and level up.
We level up Bob first.
Can never have enough Charisma.
We pick Master Dueling to improve the mach force of our punches.
We gain another lightsaber form. This one lets us block blaster bolts much better, even with our hands, but leaves us more open to melee attacks. An invaluable form for a gun-wielding build, but we like to get up close and personal.
Aw yeah. Neo, eat your heart out.
Atton is next.
We fully ensure that Atton is unmatched in the art of gunslinging.
Finally, we level Bao-Dur.
After finishing that, we find something rather interesting.
Bob: "Well, well, well. Looky what we have here. What are you doing in this neighborhood, guy?"
Bob: "Ah, what the hell."
We reactivate the droid, and gain a new companion! Oh man, I can't wait until we have all these adventures with th-
...what? What? WHAT? WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?
So, yeah. In case you missed that, we found a HK droid, reactivated it, walked forward a bit, and then it exploded.
I don't even know.
Shaking our heads and continuing on, we find this little door.
As a certain austrian ex governor might say...we'll be back.
After fighting through another group of robots, we finally reach the Reactor control room.
This opens the way to the ignition codes and lets us open the hangar bay doors, but it also opens another door...
Well, at least he looks friendly. Let's go say hi.
Searching a nearby sideroom, we find the codes we are looking for, as well as a cool belt.
We make our way back to the bay controls.
Now all we gotta do is destroy that droid, and fly on outta here.
Uh...yeah. This might be a tad easier said than done.
Ok, so the Tank Droid isn't especially hard, especially considering he is the "combat boss" for Telos (the real boss comes later, and is fought with words, not fists). But if you're complacent, he'll kick your ass.
Y'know, Bob is doing remarkably well for someone who is currently being BURNED ALIVE.
We bring the Tank Droid down, at last, and finally board the shuttle to leave this place for good.
This is when things get interesting.
Bob: "Now, Atton, want you to know something. If you crash this shuttle, I will kill you. You will die, by my hands. Are we clear?"
Atton: "Crystal."
We can never escape from the Cannocks. They always watch. They always judge.
Meanwhile, back at the military base...
THREE HKs? Holy shit. Things just got awesome.
Back with the party...
Wow. Gotta disagree with you here, Atton. That is pretty.
However, a Silver Nemesis stands gleaming in the snow, weapon in hand.
Bob: "ATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNN!"
Bob: "Let me kill him! Let me kill him!"
Bob: "I'm not finished yet, you sons of bitches. Bring it on."
Next time: HK blues, women in white, and old ghosts.
Question Time! What is, unquestionably, the worst experience you have had with AI in a game? Today's example was pretty bad, but I think the worst example in recent memory was the original Two Worlds. Now, while I thought Two Worlds 2 was a resoundingly ok game, Two Worlds 1 is an aboslutely apalling game that basically does not work. The AI, in particular, barely even fought back, as far as I remember, and sometimes, you could massacre entire enemies without them even noticing you repeatedly whacking them with your battleaxe. It was ridiculous. Aliens: Colonial Marines gets a special mention for moonwalking aliens.
Sorry if this update was a little more boring than usual: next time will certainly make up for it.
Nice update
My go-to answer for your question is usually the exact sequence you've nominated in this update - that damned Twi'lek and his inability to follow even the most basic directions!
Aside from that though I'd probably have to nominate the driver AI in F1:2010. We'd waited forever for a new offical F1 game to be released, it finally comes out, and none of the AI cars will ever leave the racing line: it's left 100% up to the player to avoid collisions, because these retards will just plow right into the side of you and then you'll be penalised for it. Ugh.
Oh, and the opponent AI in Poker Night at the Inventory. Those guys do some stuff that is just straight up dumb... though I can somewhat forgive it on the basis that I'm pretty sure the developers were only trying to make a 30-minute gag reel, not an actual poker game.
My go-to answer for your question is usually the exact sequence you've nominated in this update - that damned Twi'lek and his inability to follow even the most basic directions!
Aside from that though I'd probably have to nominate the driver AI in F1:2010. We'd waited forever for a new offical F1 game to be released, it finally comes out, and none of the AI cars will ever leave the racing line: it's left 100% up to the player to avoid collisions, because these retards will just plow right into the side of you and then you'll be penalised for it. Ugh.
Oh, and the opponent AI in Poker Night at the Inventory. Those guys do some stuff that is just straight up dumb... though I can somewhat forgive it on the basis that I'm pretty sure the developers were only trying to make a 30-minute gag reel, not an actual poker game.