[kotor] Brotherhood of Shadow: Solomon's Revenge

[lifehole]

That worked, thanks.

[Wedge Suron]

@ Silveredge9

 

As ever a very good mod

 

I have some suggestions

 

Please bring back the Crusader Robe, it was so cool in the original.

 

Korriban wastes needs some name changes, currently they're all named Korriban wastes. Which can get really confusing if you've not memorized the route

 

Finally, a comment about I am not going to ask you how you did that from Kobayashi or Shadow when the character opens the door, a pause and then the other asking how did you do that, with the player saying that he just had a go

 

Overall, good mod

[machievelli]

happened to notice this but megaupload has removed it. PM me and give me a new link if possible

[Wedge Suron]

Here machievelli

 

http://knightsoftheoldrepublic.filefront.com/file/Brotherhood_of_Shadow_Solomons_Revenge;99985

 

Edit: Can someone give me the dialog that the Jedi Masters give in the BoS part on Dantooine? I looked at the supposed walkthrough on Youtube, but it skipped too much and didn't actually have it.

[T-Rex]

I have to say I love this mod so far, and I've only just started it, but I seem to have run into a large bug. I have a few mods and I've toyed with a few things other than my override folder I don't know what the problem could be.

 

After seeing the shadows visions of Taris and being told to find the wastes, I got to Dreshdae as was told look for a person to tell me how to get into the wastes and to my surprise I find a group of Twileks, all identical in skin, clothing, and the same no dialogue feature they all seem to have. When I try reloading the level even MORE twileks are just standing around in a strange triangular shape.

 

 

 

The mods in my override include, WOTOR, Jedi robe booster, revans flowing belt and cape fix, and super skip taris. All my computers standards meet the required fields, not too high and not too low.

 

I have no reward for helping me, but those who've played might understand my want for help on a mod such as this. I've scanned this whole forum, and not a thing about this problem, I've even looked other places.

 

Edit: Any Help Appreciated, It's been three days now, I'm still waiting for a reply. Am I not asking right? Do you see me as an unworthy person? Or are you occupied with something else, all I need is a reply, and help if available.

[Shallow Hal]

First off, I'd like to say that SR is the only original content mod which fits in with vanilla content perfectly, that I can think of. And some of it is even better than Bio's actual work! I had played the original BoS, so I'd been keeping an eye on this baby. I reinstalled KotOR just to play it.

 

Technically, the mod is a marvel. The amount of gorgeous new models and skins, scripting and maps is awesome, and the recycled maps were pretty well done too. Excellent VO overall, but Kobayashi's looks like it was done by a pro. He's my new fave NPC.

 

From a writing standpoint, the mod manages to consistently maintain an atmosphere of suspense and dread during the Korriban phases, and the change of pace during the flashback sequences is very, very nice. The mod seems to integrate seamlessly into the continuity, too. That is is, by itself, worthy of praise, considering the huge mess the SW canon is.

 

Realize this is an old post, but I wanted to agree with all of that. Just absolutely blew all the little mods I had played out of the water with all the original content, textures, voiceovers, new characters. That part was awesome.

 

Now, on to the criticism.

 

My only beef with the mod is NPC (and, to a lesser extent, some battles) design. I wish mods weren't designed assuming that the player is a compulsive grinding powermonger... because that means those of us who aren't are in for a rough ride. I don't have a problem with difficult games, but cheap shortcuts to increase that difficulty are no fun, and it gets worse when stuff isn't even consistent in-game. For instance:

 

 

I can understand that Force choking the incorporeal form of Akirakon Sin is a pretty stupid thing to try, so he's given insane FORT saves. Okay, that makes sense. But why does Mandalore the Ultimate have +13/+10/+13 on top of his standard class saves and on top of the JEDI SENTINEL state immunity effects? If each +1 is an additional 5% chance to save, +13 is +65% (!), again, unexplained, unwarranted, and on top of already unfair immunities... making using the Force against him a waste of time. Unless, that is, you somehow manage to get your WIS to ~40, to offset his bonuses. For comparison, vanilla Malak has similar bonuses to his saves... but he's supposed to be drawing on the power of an ancient Dark Side artifact. Speaking of which, it's odd to find that the Mandalorian Wars version of Malak is murder incarnate... even when compared to his Dark Lord of the Sith self.

 

 

All in all, I think perspective was lost when building NPC character sheets, what with everyone and their dog being level 20 behemoths of destruction boasting ridiculous saves, defense scores, FP totals, etc. This is still supposed to be a d20-based system, isn't it? Han Solo, Obi-Wan, Vader and other "big" characters aren't level 20 characters. Artificially raising the power level of, well, pretty much everyone to "provide a challenge" results in a state of affairs where power means nothing and tactics are pretty much reduced to spamming stims and life support packs... of which there's an overabundance, which in turn nullifies the intended "challenge"! I don't know about you guys, but I don't remember Obi-Wan and Anakin making pauses in their duel to dope up, and Anakin didn't lose because he ran out of hyper-adrenal alacrity. Pretty atmosphere-breaking, if you ask me.

 

I agree with this as well - it was the one thing that took away from the mod. I don't expect every battle to be as easy as the rest of the game, but the battles were so difficult that I had to resort to taking advantage of running to spots in the maps where they wouldn't be able to get past obstacles so I could heal and put about seven effects on me so I could fight the battles. I played without the 1.1 patch, so I'll have to play with that now to see if it's more of what I would consider a "reasonable" challenge.

 

Too bad you're retiring from the modding, but I could see where you'd be a bit burned out after finishing something of this scope.

[none223]

1.1 patch "revises" the difficulty, the battles are actually harder.

 

I would recommend making a "tank" character that specializes in hand-to-hand, and has high health/defense. I have learned that force powers/blasters aren't as useful in this mod....

[Necessary Evil]

I already know how to get the flowing cape and belt fix to work in BoS, but is there a way to change the Revan robes that are used during the cutscenes to something else? Because compared to other models like this, http://knightsoftheoldrepublic.filefront.com/file/Darth_Revans_Robes_Fixed;85122, the BoS Revan model looks particularly shoddy and the mask clips frequently.

[jonathan7]

I already know how to get the flowing cape and belt fix to work in BoS, but is there a way to change the Revan robes that are used during the cutscenes to something else? Because compared to other models like this, http://knightsoftheoldrepublic.filefront.com/file/Darth_Revans_Robes_Fixed;85122, the BoS Revan model looks particularly shoddy and the mask clips frequently.

 

This (click me) post should help both in terms of the best Revan's model, plus in terms of instruction of making compatible with BoS.

[ZimmMaster]

Found another easter egg:

 

 

An ithorian on Tattoine that spawns after you talk to drix, called "Do you have the time". When you speak to it, it asks, yep you guessed it, "Excuse me, but do you have the time?" You say no, and then he says look out behind you, and a party of Dark Jedi Masters spawn. You kill them, and talk to the ithorian again, a little bar of text appears: "This ithorian is speechless because of what he just witnessed."

 

And thats it.

[none223]

Where is that?

[ZimmMaster]

Where is that?

 

If you are refering to the easter egg I found,

 

 

In the Tattoine Docking Bay

 

[MishraArtificer]

If anyone's interested in an easter egg...

After the mod and patches are installed, go into the override and look for the file called pmbj54. Funny ****.

[ZimmMaster]

If anyone's interested in an easter egg...

After the mod and patches are installed, go into the override and look for the file called pmbj54. Funny ****.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that

 

Chuck Noris' head in place of Revan's Mask?

 

[MishraArtificer]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that

 

Chuck Noris' head in place of Revan's Mask?

Indeed it is!

 

...why? Is this one already known? I wasn't able to go back into the thread as far back as I wanted to double check (I was/am at work).

[SlayerOfSith]

can someone help me? I have a bug or something, I'm at the Solomon's Revenge quest and when I go to korriban to look for Solomon and try to find a guide, there are like 50 NPC twilek's there and reloading the game just makes there more of them and I cant speak to none of them.:confused:

[none223]

Umm, are you able to make your way to the cantina? That is where you need to go to "find a guide" if that is what I think it is. If I am correct, you can just go to the cantina and theres a person fighting a twilek. If he doesn't spawn, I have no clue whats wrong... You are the second person with that to happen, but that IS an interesting mess up....

[Daos300]

Found another easter egg:

 

 

An ithorian on Tattoine that spawns after you talk to drix, called "Do you have the time". When you speak to it, it asks, yep you guessed it, "Excuse me, but do you have the time?" You say no, and then he says look out behind you, and a party of Dark Jedi Masters spawn. You kill them, and talk to the ithorian again, a little bar of text appears: "This ithorian is speechless because of what he just witnessed."

 

And thats it.

 

That's not from BoS:SR, that is part of the Lightsaber 7 pack.

[Necessary Evil]

This (click me) post should help both in terms of the best Revan's model, plus in terms of instruction of making compatible with BoS.

 

Thanks for your response, but is it possible to get the better Revan's Robe model and the Flowing Cape Fix to BOTH work in BoS cutscenes? Kind of irritating to have to choose between either a well done Revan robe with a cape that clips, or a poorly done model with a cape that flows.

[jonathan7]

Thanks for your response, but is it possible to get the better Revan's Robe model and the Flowing Cape Fix to BOTH work in BoS cutscenes? Kind of irritating to have to choose between either a well done Revan robe with a cape that clips, or a poorly done model with a cape that flows.

 

The skin is separate from the model; so you can pick and choose which ever skin you want for Revans robe.

 

Otherwise, you have to choose between which model you like, but Sithspectres one is the only one which doesn't have a clipping cape, which is a massive achievement on his part, was like 5,000 frames of editing on his part (took a long time!).

[ZimmMaster]

I've found a solution to the mask clipping problem found when replacing the revan model for the BOS:SR with Sithspecter's. What you need to do is open up the KOTOR tool open your override folder and find the ds1_revan_robe.uti (or something similar to that, cannot remember the exact name). Now go to the properties tab and make a new value. Scroll all the way down to disguise then select Unique_Darth_Revan. And there you go. Mask clipping issues solved.

[SlayerOfSith]

Umm, are you able to make your way to the cantina? That is where you need to go to "find a guide" if that is what I think it is. If I am correct, you can just go to the cantina and theres a person fighting a twilek. If he doesn't spawn, I have no clue whats wrong... You are the second person with that to happen, but that IS an interesting mess up....

 

No, the guide doesnt spawn and the twilek spawns too many times, I'm thinking of reinstalling the game and the mod without any other mods.

[Nick Vader]

No, the guide doesnt spawn and the twilek spawns too many times, I'm thinking of reinstalling the game and the mod without any other mods.

 

Well, that's almost automatic. It is very probable that a mod is messing with it.

[Damian227]

Does anybody know anywhere else I can download this? I've tried the filefront link through KOTOR and it just randomly stops downloading between 150mb - 205mb everytime. If I then try to re-download it, it doesn't carry on, but starts from scratch again.

 

Really want to give it a go too

[jonathan7]

Heya Damian, I checked the link and it worked for me ok, and downloaded fine; have you tryed using a different browser? Or have you tried downloading a download helper?