Yesterday, the studio behind the Nintendo Swap port of Knights of the Outdated Republic II: The Sith Lords introduced that it’s lastly fastened a game-breaking bug that had beforehand rendered the sport not possible to complete.
Beforehand, those that purchased the port of the Obsidian Star Wars RPG had been compelled to cheat their well beyond game-crashing cutscenes. This was resolved by way of an in-game cheat menu, nevertheless it was nonetheless a band-aid answer at finest. Kotaku tried to make use of this technique to skip previous a game-breaking cutscene on the finish of a late sport questline, however boarding the ship would simply trigger the sport to crash once more. However rejoice: the buggy cutscenes have lastly been fastened. Form of.
After updating the sport, I used to be lastly in a position to play the beforehand problematic cutscenes with out being ejected to my Swap dwelling display screen. There’s one caveat although. KOTOR 2 has a particular capacity that will increase your motion velocity, and it’s indispensable for a sport that forces you to traverse fairly a little bit of empty area. The commerce off is that the sport forces a blurry filter over your display screen whereas the talent is lively. The brand new patch could have fastened the cutscenes, nevertheless it makes it in order that these blurry filters carry over to stated cutscenes. So that you get gross trying screenshots like this:
KOTOR 2 has loads of cinematic scenes that robotically play while you cross an invisible boundary, so you possibly can’t actually flip off the filter manually once they begin enjoying. The blurriness stops after the talent length has elapsed, nevertheless it has arguably made my expertise a bit bit worse. However hey, no less than I can get round to different planets now!
Did Aspyr knowingly launch an unfinishable sport? Sure. Am I irritated? Additionally sure. However I acknowledge that the vanilla model of KOTOR 2 was additionally launched in a damaged and buggy state. Possibly it’s a kind of video games that’s at all times doomed to imperfection. In any case, I like to recommend preserving a number of save backups simply in case extra horrible bugs await you on the very finish of the sport.
