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Post by Jet on Jan 23, 2011 14:58:11 GMT -5
Happy Birghtday WK... and apparently also TWF. Thats twice the happiness then
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Post by Dhark on Jan 23, 2011 16:27:26 GMT -5
What those people said!
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Post by WildKnight on Jan 23, 2011 17:23:18 GMT -5
Meh. My plumbing is all jacked up. I've spent most of my birthday working with my Dad to try to get my toilet to stop overflowing.
On the bright side... if I ever get that figured out, I'm having my favorite pizza for dinner, and after my kids go to bed, I get to put on my headphones and play several hours of Knights of the Old Republic (thanks to Kai for that one!)
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Post by andyman on Jan 23, 2011 17:27:17 GMT -5
Happy Birthday young man. (Yes, I'm older than even you.)
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Post by raynorn on Jan 23, 2011 18:19:00 GMT -5
Happy BDay
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Post by malice on Jan 23, 2011 22:04:11 GMT -5
Happy Birthday!
Enjoy your time with KOTOR, and as much of your evening as is allowed to you!
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Post by Manah on Feb 2, 2011 1:49:16 GMT -5
KOTOR? You lucky bastards. (Said with affection, of course. LOL.) Hey, happy belated! ^_^ Live long and prosper. Or live long and conquer. Whatever floats your boat.
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Post by WildKnight on Feb 2, 2011 7:53:05 GMT -5
Yeah, I might be playing it a little too much. I'm just getting off of Taris on my 2nd play through...
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Post by dorkknight23 on Feb 2, 2011 11:25:06 GMT -5
Yeah, I might be playing it a little too much. I'm just getting off of Taris on my 2nd play through... I'm pretty sure I played at least once per gender/alignment and a couple different class combinations, so I'm not to judge .
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Post by Manah on Feb 8, 2011 9:56:01 GMT -5
KOTOR is one of my favorites games to be Evil. With capital E. It's nice to be good too... but most games that allows you to be bad usually only allow you to be rather bad. Or only unpleasant, sometimes. KOTOR allows you to be a first class @$$hole who'd corrupt, dismember and murder (though not necessarily in that order) your own relatives if you thought you'd have anything to gain from it... or if you thought it could be fun.
When truly evil, you murder... what, like 5 of your own party members, only to abandon one other on a lone, unknown planet where probably no one will rescue him in the next few millenias if he's lucky?
Oh, and HK-47 for the win.
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Post by WildKnight on Feb 8, 2011 11:10:39 GMT -5
Actually he pretty clearly gets rescued... as he shows up in KotOR 2. But anyway I think most games will let you be pretty psychotic if they're along those lines. Certainly anything by Bioware will let you run around gutting the innocents like fish (typically with almost no consequences whatsoever).
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Post by malice on Feb 8, 2011 11:19:42 GMT -5
Yeah, I might be playing it a little too much. I'm just getting off of Taris on my 2nd play through... I'm pretty sure I played at least once per gender/alignment and a couple different class combinations, so I'm not to judge . Dual pistol Jedi ftw! Also purely by accident I discovered Scoundrel Guardian can be a lot of fun (Force Jump usually covers enough distance that it triggers sneak attack)
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Post by WildKnight on Feb 8, 2011 11:29:13 GMT -5
Forgive my denseness, but whats the benefit of a dual-pistol Jedi?
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Post by malice on Feb 8, 2011 17:07:51 GMT -5
Most importantly it is fun and also funny.
Gunning people down with a dual-pistol Jedi amuses me, because I like the image of a bunch of people preparing themselves for lightsabers and force powers only to meet the Wild Bill Hickok of the Star Wars universe.
I also just really enjoy mowing people down in a hail of gunfire.
Before I go on, it's worth saying that the Jedi just makes dual-blasters work. If you don't like the idea of firing two blasters to shred your enemies, you won't like it any better as a Jedi. If you think it sounds like it could be fun, try it out.
It's actually pretty effective. It's the basic concept of maximizing your attacks so that you get your damage from sneak attack and not necessarily those attacks. The build is as follows:
You go Scoundrel + Consular. You focus your feats on getting more attacks with your pistols. You focus your force powers on inflicting conditions on your enemies that allow for sneak attacks.
It should be clear from there.
Enemies sighted, you use a force power to freeze them all in place, and then Rapid Shot your way to a hilarious victory because each shot gets sneak attack dice (Should be about 4d6).
It's not that different from using flurry with a sneak attacking Jedi, except it has the advantage of not having to run to everyone it wants to hit. You just freeze everyone, and kill from the same spot. Crank your wisdom and dexterity so your force powers are hard to save against and you're good with your pistols (This is the same for a lightsaber wielder since the dex makes lightsabers go).
Tips if you're interested: You do not have to level the moment you can level. If I remember right (I could be remembering wrong because I haven't played KOTOR in years) you leave Taris at level 7-8. It is very important to control which level, 7 or 8, that is.
So you will get enough experience to level to 8, but once you go to the Jedi Enclave any un-assigned levels get turned to Jedi levels. So when you are level 7 and have achieved your final Sneak Attack die (You can't get another because you won't get enough experience) AND you then get enough experience for level 8, you do not level.
You just hold it, complete Taris as a level 7 character who chooses not to level to 8 yet, and when you become a Jedi you have your 8th level as a Jedi rather than a crappy no-sneak-attack Scoundrel level. I believe that would make you a level 7 Scoundrel and a level 2 Jedi Consular, because they give you a free level when you become a Jedi.
Beyond that I assume you're plenty capable within the game to know what nice pistols are, what good force powers are, etc. The holding a level thing is something a lot of people don't think of though, and so that's the only thing I figure I can offer that might have escaped your notice.
In KOTOR you don't get many nice pistols, so you will want to spend some effort getting the best ones (There are only like 3 good ones). You'll want to kill Bendak (Kind of hard as a level 7 Scoundrel, I think I used stun grenades + sneak attack), and I think Calo Nord too, although my memory is really lousy.
You can do it in KOTOR 2 as well, but in that game the guns are actually GOOD, so you end up butchering people whether or not you sneak attack them. I think I shot a Guardian out the air when he was Force Jumping at me, and I promise a force jumping guardian is NOT a candidate for sneak attack. There are just some really friggen good guns in KOTOR 2 (One of the things I enjoyed most about KOTOR 2 was random loot).
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Post by WildKnight on Feb 8, 2011 17:23:58 GMT -5
Oh, don't get me wrong... I'm with you on mowing down people, and two-weapon mojo has a very high cool factor. I was just wondering if there was something about the Jedi specifically that linked up with the twin blasters.
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