Playing this for the first time I'm really struggling to get into it...

Playing this for the first time I'm really struggling to get into it. The atmosphere/sound/music is pretty good but so far (few hours in) the gameplay and world is just fucking boring. Am I missing something? Does it get good once you have your lightsaber and some force powers?

Well, you get force powers 10 minutes into the game.

As for the game itself just keep Kreia on you at all times and listen to everything, regardless of if you agree with it. She's not the greatest character of all time like some people would try to convince you, but she's enough to carry the game if you let her. Once you get off Telos things start picking up; I find Peragus II and Telos both a chore.

To en extent, yes, it does get better, especially when you get more crafting items. Until then, experiment with grenades or, I dunno, try playing as your party members.
The gameplay at its core will stay about the same at all times, though.

yeah the first ~1.5 planets are quite weak, once you get to the telos jedi academy the game gets much better and you can explore different planets and shit

where are you currently? have you left peragus yet?

also have you played the first game? it makes it easier to understand/get invested in whats going on

Thanks for input anons. I'll give it a good go this weekend and see if I change my mind about it.
Nah I've just got this one. Had a few $s in my wallet and always heard this was the better so I bought it. Could always buy the first though its cheap

The gameplay is love it or hate it, things speed up drastically as time goes on, as you level up and get your lightsaber and such. KOTOR and KOTOR 2 both suffer from severel railroading, locking you to two planets for the first ten or so hours of the game before you finally get some actual freedom. It's worth sticking out.

are you playing with the restored content mod?
it won't fix the tediousness of Peragus and Telos but it's mandatory for later planets

Yes i am

>all this hate for peragus
but why? It's the most tense and atmospheric part of the game save for maybe the final area

like other anons said, just try to get to Telos Academy
also, don't pick Nar Shadaa as your first planet, just don't

it's okay the first time you play it, but after that you already know everything what's going on and all you'll be doing is whacking boring mining droids with a vibroblade for a few hours in a boring space mining facility

kotor 2 is a more interesting story but FAR less polished version than the first. It's rushed and unfinished, on top of the game being kind of an awkward to play rpg. Jumping straight into the sequel will feel very weird. You should have started with the first for a smoother experience.

>also, don't pick Nar Shadaa as your first planet, just don't
Doing that actually gives you most of your party and a very useful thing that you can do to your companions. I'd recommend it, even though NS can be pretty fucking hard at times.

it outstays its welcome and the atmosphere is hampered by having so many characters and comic relief moments

First time I played kotor2 Nar Shadda was my first planet and just when I was going to leave my save got corrupted and I lost 20 hours of gameplay

same here
I got a bug where the Red Eclipse thugs keep seizing your ship even after you defeated them so it went like on an infinite loop with no way to get past it.

I love peragus but I agree, by the time I get to the harbinger I've had enough.

>Does it get good once you have your lightsaber and some force powers?
It never really gets good. It gets okay, and then the climax happens and the game ends abruptly. Nar Shaddaa is probably the high point of the game, but it's also a massive clusterfuck. Dxun/Onderon are okay, but unmemorable. Dantooine and Korriban are recycled from the first game, but much, much less interesting. If you're not enjoying it by the time you've reached the Jedi Academy on Telos, you probably won't enjoy the rest of the game.

Just wandering, did you play the first one

>Nar Shadda

I like Peragus too, it's Telos that gets on my nerves

dxun/onderon part 2 are top tier

The start of that game is a fucking chore.
Quintessential “Go to replay a game, remember THAT part” core

Yeah, if you’re minmaxing on a subsequent play through, not the first time

>part 2
I didn't enjoy it that much. It was better than your first visit, but not by much. It really just feels like an extended dungeon, and never really plays to the game's strengths.
>Send a party member to fight trash mobs while infiltrating the Sith base
>Fight trash mobs while infiltrating the palace
Nothing interesting happens except for Kreia reviving the captain dude to go fetch Nihilus, and the gameplay is so mindnumbing that you could play through the whole sequence with your eyes closed.

i often do onderon/dxun first or second and by the time i arrive for part 2 it feels like the game has completely broken in terms of difficulty and you just become unstoppable, but at the same time the game sort of validates this by having lot of guards run away scared when they see you and throwing entire platoons at you that you can wipe out in seconds so it feels kind of fun

it feels like a really well paced segment of the game, there's lots of short cutscenes, lots of good loot, some optional exploration/puzzles, large scale battles etc. it just feels fun

You aren't missing anything. The world (or zones rather) are barren as fuck and the gameplay only gets worse the further you get as it degenerates to spamming one or two abilities over and over again every fight. The restoration mod also adds a few areas that are so fucking tedious that you start wondering if it's even worth continuing (the HK factory for example). Honestly the best advice I can give as someone who has played through both kotors is to set the difficulty to easy to ger through the combat parts as fast as possible.

You might've heard of "THAT part in a game". Well, in kotor(s) the entire game is THAT part.

>tfw reading the lets play of kotor 2 is more entertaining than playing the game yourself

>I want EVERYTHING NOW

I felt so happy after all that questing and finding junk, and could finally ask Bao-Dur to help craft my very first lightsaber.

Can anyone explain to me how the combat works in this game. I bought it on a whim to pass a few hours while it was on sale just oer a year ago. And a lot of the abilities just didn't seem to work properly or do what they say they did. I recall one ability saying it would stun for a few seconds but it never fucking worked.

Care to elaborate?

If it says it has a percentage to stun, obviously it will not work all of the time. Same reason it will not work.

I haven't played in a coon's age, so you'll have to remind me.

I can't remember exactly now and like I say I only put about 2 hours in. But it just seemed like stuff just never did what they said they did. At the time i was thinking it was because they were droids I was fighting and that they were immune to a lot of effects. But it didn't really leave a good impression and i normally like rpg's like this.

Best planet order?

there are two stun powers in the game, one for biological enemies (force stun) and one for droids (force stun droid). you might have picked up the normal stun which wont do you much good in the first planet since you're mostly fighting drids there. you also need decent wisdom/charisma to reliably hit with your offensive forcepowers, otherwise you're better relying on buff spells (like force speed, force heal etc)

Well obviously droids cannot be stunned the same way as humans, but the T3-M4 zap thing should work on both droids and humans.

Thanks, these threads have been giving me an urge to try it again but the thought of the combat was putting me off. Now that I know that I probably made a mistake I might gie it a go tonight.

It's super worth it

nar shaddaa first, you can get the most lightsaber parts and HK droid parts there. Korriban last, its got an optional dungeon that works best if you play it towards the end of your playthrough.

If you're playing a female character you may want to do Dantooine first to get your gender exclusive party member.

I personally don't understand the Peragus hate because it's followed by FUCKING CITADEL AND TELOS.

Peragus is long but it's way more enjoyable.

>if you ask Kreia about her past she straight up tells/shows you that she was a Sith lord

>if you assume Revan was a Sith Lord she tells you to not make assumptions just because he killed some people

>made Handmaiden a Jedi only when she reached level 19
Did I fuck up? Does the whole "wait with leveling until becoming a jedi" shit apply to Kotor 2 as well?

gameplay doesn't change at all at any point, lightsaber just makes it visually more appealing. same with force powers.
peragus is mainly boring because of essentially no interraction with anyone. gets better though, but it's not as great as Sup Forums has started to think

is that something that was added in the restored content mod?
It doesn't seem to fit with her character to just show you that and at the end of the game you can express shock that Kreia turns out to be a sith lord.

I mean, she will have a shit ton of physical stats, so she won't be awful. Just get her Lightsaber Finesse and Force Speed.

But yeah, should have done it at Level 6 or 10, she has more than enough Feats even in Guardian.

you need to be level 18 to even make her a jedi so I wouldn't worry about it.
It's not like guardians are force power focused anyway.

Dantooine and Nar Shadaa sidequests for some lightsabers and changing Atton's class, I hope you didn't give Atton too many levels yet.

>not switching atton at level 19 so you can max out his sneak attack

She speaks very vaguely about it but there's a pre-rendered cutscene playing where Sion beats her up while Nihlus watches

It depends, Soldier doesn't need many Jedi levels, but Scout benefits from going to Sentinel at 4 or 5 because you got your Uncanny Dodge and Implant Level 2 and you can then put points into Persuade, plus more force points.

Just play KOTOR 1. Better game my dude.

right, but I'm asking if that was included in the game as it was sold or just something the modders found in their files and decided they should add back in.

yes and no. i've played through the game a few times, once i didn't even switch any of my npc's to jedis,once i made them jedi right at the end and once i left them really low lvl.
the only difference worth mentioning is nar shaddaa encounter with the twins while having npc's super lowlvl.
also that not leveling meme is straight up bullshit, at least if you're minmaxing. can't remember the specifics but even in kotor 1, you should be getting around roughly 4-8 levels of base class before switching to jedi. this is ofcourse assuming you don't want to RP as a "pure jedi"

Peragus is miles better than Telos, which is empty as fuck and leaves you entangled in a web of such griping narratives as "these awful, corporate cunts and hippie, space.. things want to exclusively make money while fucking the opposition", or "a security officer is incompetent and needs your help killing a few Rodians".

The only reason why people really dislike replaying 2 is Telos, and that's precisely why the game gets 90% better once you get to Bao-Dur and the Atris academy shit. That said, KOTOR 2 is horribly unfinished and it unfortunately shows, even with all the mods.

Eh, it's way too overkill for me personally, nothing will ever need that much damage done on something.

Level 6 gives him Scoundrel's Luck 2 and Sneak Attack 3 which is pretty good.

It's in base. It realistically wouldn't take the Exile long to work it out. She's hardly altruistic nor espousing pure Jedi teachings despite her clear mastery of the Force.

Why is Mical so boring compared to the rest of the cast?

You have the big dick Exile who was on the frontlines of the Mandalorian war, Atton who was a Sith assassin, Brianna who might be Kreia's daughter.

And then you have Mical.

honestly, i'd prolly rank them pretty much equal, although telos wins just because it has the secret academy.
then again, can't blame peragus all too much since it serves a purpose as both sort of tutorial and gets the story going. telos just feels out of place and empty. can't even really remember anything else to do there except the TSA quests, merchant quests and the restoration project quest. not sure if there even is anything else to do.
also people dislike peragus too so i'd say it's false to say "only reason people dislike replaying is telos". especially keeping in mind atris academy is infact on telos

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Should the handmaiden fight unarmed?

>the gameplay and world is just fucking boring.
It's a western RPG. If your idea of fun isn't doing somebody's laundry for an experience point reward then you're on the wrong side of the pond.

Whats so bad about Nar Shasana?

Shadaa*

>Does it get good once you have your lightsaber and some force powers?
Why are you lying about playing it? You start as a fucking jedi on level 1 and get force powers immediately.

Yes, if only because it's boring if everyone uses lightsabres. She can punch well, let her punch well.

Nar Shadaa has some tough fights. If you know what you are doing, Nar Shadaa is great for lightsaber parts and making one of your allies a jedi.