Yesterday, the studio behind the Nintendo Change port of Knights of the Outdated Republic II: The Sith Lords introduced that it’s lastly fastened a game-breaking bug that had beforehand rendered the sport inconceivable to complete.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 through an in-game cheat menu, nevertheless it was nonetheless a band-aid answer at greatest. Kotaku tried to make use of this methodology 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. Kind 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 Change residence display screen. There’s one caveat although. KOTOR 2 has a particular capability 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 energetic. The brand new patch could have fastened the cutscenes, nevertheless it makes it in order that these blurry filters carry over to mentioned cutscenes. So that you get gross wanting screenshots like this:
KOTOR 2 has a number of cinematic scenes that mechanically play once you cross an invisible boundary, so you’ll be able to’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 slightly bit worse. However hey, not 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. Perhaps it’s a kind of video games that’s at all times doomed to imperfection. In any case, I like to recommend retaining a number of save backups simply in case extra horrible bugs await you on the very finish of the sport.