Aspyr acknowledges there’s no way to complete Star Wars KOTOR II on Switch | VGC
The company says it’s working on a patch to address a game-breaking crash…
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Aspyr acknowledges there’s no way to complete Star Wars KOTOR II on Switch
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I was gonna get this since I was wanting to go through the KOTOR games again, but I'll wait until the Restored Content DLC comes out before I buy. Sounds like they rushed this one out, sadly.
That's pretty bad. Hopefully it's patched sooner rather than later. I was considering picking both KOTOR games on Switch up sometime soon. I own them on PC but I mostly played them on Xbox back in the day so I'd prefer native controller support.
I ran into this bug. Super annoying. You can finish it if you're willing to use cheats. There's a cheat menu you can access that allows you to warp into the next section.
Aside from this particular crash there are a million other random crashes. In my play through I would guess I had the game crash at LEAST 10 times. It's brutal.
Aside from this particular crash there are a million other random crashes. In my play through I would guess I had the game crash at LEAST 10 times. It's brutal.
Played it on Xbox in 2004 and I definitely remember it being a buggy mess back then. Obviously the PC version w/ mods has fixed most issues, I wonder if Aspyr used an older build or something, or otherwise re-triggered old spaghetti code bugs in porting it to the Switch.
Oof. Hopefully they get this sorted quickly.
How's the KotOR 1 Switch port? I've been thinking of picking it up to have it on a portable, but if it also has issues maybe I should just stick to the OG Xbox version via BC...
How's the KotOR 1 Switch port? I've been thinking of picking it up to have it on a portable, but if it also has issues maybe I should just stick to the OG Xbox version via BC...
Generally, haven't they been pretty good about using fully patched versions of the games on physical? One of the benefits to their long production periods I suppose.
Did no one play test the game before releasing it? It crashes at a cutscene not due to some weird combination of events. How did that get missed?
And that they will fix it… sometime. Not sure when. They will let you know!
My only two guesses are they they tested in a development/emulation environment that the bug didn't trigger in or... They just completely didn't have people test large swaths of the game.
Did they ever patch the first game to allow you to reduce the size of the combat text taking up a third of the screen like they said they would?
I already decided on holding off on this after they announced the actual Sith Lords patch that restores all the cut content wouldn't be coming out until later AND would require you to restart the game on a new save. Not quite sure what's going on over there at Aspyr but probably best to avoid their stuff until it's vetted
Thought it might be the Ondoran bug. That bug seems really hard to patch, because it can still happen with the restoration mod. KOTOR 2 is just a technical mess.
lol come on, let's not pretend the original games weren't far, far more busted. They absolutely need to get this fixed before continuing to sell it, but I don't think this really means much in regards to them building a game from scratch.
Reminds me of Arkham Origins.
Not sure if it was all versions, but the PC version at least was pretty buggy and they came out with a statement specifically to say they weren't going to do any more bug fixes and instead were just going to focus on dlc.
My first playthrough it autosaved after going through a door that didn't load the geometry of the level properly, so every time I restarted it it loaded me falling though the ground. The game only had the one autosave so I had to start over after about 6-8 hours.
KOTOR 2 I haven't touch in years. Even with the content restoration mod and fan patches, I still hit a game breaking bug 20 hours into it (and by then even my oldest save was after the point that caused the issue), and I wasn't enjoying the game enough to replay all of that again.
Someday I might give the Steam version a try since it seemingly has those mods integrated along with controller support I think.
Not sure if it was all versions, but the PC version at least was pretty buggy and they came out with a statement specifically to say they weren't going to do any more bug fixes and instead were just going to focus on dlc.
My first playthrough it autosaved after going through a door that didn't load the geometry of the level properly, so every time I restarted it it loaded me falling though the ground. The game only had the one autosave so I had to start over after about 6-8 hours.
KOTOR 2 I haven't touch in years. Even with the content restoration mod and fan patches, I still hit a game breaking bug 20 hours into it (and by then even my oldest save was after the point that caused the issue), and I wasn't enjoying the game enough to replay all of that again.
Someday I might give the Steam version a try since it seemingly has those mods integrated along with controller support I think.
It wasn't a buggy mess, but there was one thing people needed to do early in the game to ensure the game didn't lock up right at the end. (Not touch a control panel while cloaked)
I personally got hit with that one. The game was fairly good outside of that.
I finished KOTOR 2 on PC just now and my idea was to play through it on switch as soon as the DLC came out, but damn. Still please do not sleep on this game, it's stupidly good, in fact finishing it made me hate all of star wars for not being as good or daring as this in it's subject matter
How do you access the cheat menu? That sounds neat, I might go for a really quick new playthrough with cheats.
How do you access the cheat menu? That sounds neat, I might go for a really quick new playthrough with cheats.
While true, it's still pretty odd to hand a game as high profile as this to a developer that's seemingly only original product is a single VR game, while everything else they've done is ports.
Yes. But to be fair, they've handled several of the previous ports and the remake is being made with support by Sony. So this isn't Asphyr's first time with Knights of the Old Republic.
Oh thanks, I think I'm starting this game all over again for a maxed out cheat playthrough.
Maybe they pinkie swore that it'd be fixed in the day one patch like CDPR with Cyberpunk.
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It's notably smaller now, but also, still huge. Definitely better, but it's still far too large and they UI elements that they rearranged to make it the original size are still in their rearranged positions. From what I've seen of the port of KoTOR II, it's been reduced in that game to a single line of text at the top of the screen, and while I'd say that's still kind of oversized, it's a lot better there.
It wouldn't be entirely their fault, but "let's wait before putting a launch day version of KoTOR II on a cart" is maybe one of the easiest calls they'll ever have to make.
