Hi guys, i made a discord channel for Kotor 1 and 2 so we have a more convenient place to talk strats and optimization etc. Q2uPRVu <-This invite code should work forever, but if it for whatever reason doesn't work feel free to DM me on twitch or make a post here.

Hi guys, i made a discord channel for Kotor 1 and 2 so we have a more convenient place to talk strats and optimization etc. Q2uPRVu <-This invite code should work forever, but if it for whatever reason doesn't work feel free to DM me on twitch or make a post here.

Hi, i'm goofing around with the game and trying to learn the run, i was wondering if it would be allowed to modify the JadeEmpire.ini to allow the game to run in windowed mode?

Hi, been watching/listening some old GDQ's while playing games lately and absolutely loved the Mass Effect run to the point of considering learning it myself(soon™), somewhat confused about the soldier class though as the run seems to spend alot of time in combat on say the Saren fight or the Thorian battles and i'm wondering if going soldier /w singularity starting off at Therum in the planet order to pick up Liara(i'm asuming biotics are just as broken in the speedrun as in the casual playthrought.) and saving Kaidan on Virmire would make up for the increased cutscene/dialogue length(as far as i understand Liara makes certain post mission stuff slower) with more damage overall due to marksmans long cooldown? As far as i understand it marksman with a pistol beats assault rifles by a small margin. Sorry again, i just couldn't stop thinking about this after watching the 2018 run the second time.

I added this to a new thread of it's own since i believe it's abit more important than virtually anything i've discovered before other than the Brejik skip, i'll continue posting smaller finds on the ''Possibly new skip, quality of life stuff too!'' post as i think it's best not to flood the entire forum board with minor routing finds.(later edit, i have made up my mind on the matter, i'm against using the glitch in runs personally due to the glitch most likely being more effective on certain machines than others to a much higher degree than basic save teleports.)

Pretty sure most people already know some of these, but i'm gonna put them up on here since i didn't know about them before this.

116322821133 at the sith base console in taris prevents a small bug causing the ''Open Elevator.'' option to remain after using, binding ''Return camera to root menu.'' to 3 instead of 2, requiring the use of another key in the remaining menuing that can be avoided untill the 1133 part, probably the smallest thing to mention since it has 0 timesaves, but it's easier on the hands and feels way more natural. Also you get a neato burrito elevator opening on screen while you disable the droid's shield, it's the small things in life that matter.

Not sure if this is common knowledge, but it's possible to prevent a terminal overload killing atleast the party leader if set off, while still wrecking shop on surrounding area, have not tested this fully and i'm not sure if it has any use in some of the non any% categories, but it's there and atleast it can be used in case of horrible life ending fat fingering.

Sunry's trial can be done without Jolee by barrier skipping trough the holding cell door, also works at the visitor's hotel doors leading to the rooms, although i have no idea if either of these are usefull, still neat though.

The run has a few spare credits we could use to buy 2 concussion grenades from Larrim, although teeeechnically this is a time loss rather than a time gain, but then again sith gov is a pain in the butt.

The sub bay door on Manaan can be done with a barrier skip, saving us about 3 seconds.

Not sure if this is important, but i think we might be able to save time by doing the lvl 8 flu in the any% run in the krayt dragon cave, giving us master speed early if the level up is available.(later edit; we don't necesarrily have the xp during the current run, possible solutions could be zaerdra(400xp) or micromanaging the other party members on manaan ie. using the thermal detonator to make it all but garanteed to get the needed experience/buy a few ion grenades from Adum Larp(130 credits each) and blow up a few 950 droids on the way out/during the first force jump where main character is going full Tarzan for 3+ seconds at a time, although that might require a slight route change to pick up some more sell items or credits during the run/not get safety advanced medpacks, but i still think this would be faster since you spend quite a bit of time running on korriban before the second fake level up.)

I bound the options key to the F1 key, by mashing both ESC and F1 at the same time i can get pretty much completely consistent menu glitch first try, not using it during the security flu since the time it takes to open the containers are longer than the rubble in the krayt dragon cave and doing this takes quite a few inputs, not suuper usefull but very easy to pull off.

Removed the previous video as it's not overly relevant anymore. I didn't record voice for this because of the true enemy. The one. The only; Lazyness(or is it laziness?). A few side notes since i didn't actually go over them in the video: The barrier skip doesn't need another party member to set you up, just put on a speed booster(i find it makes it more reliable) and run with the side that the team member you want to push through a door towards said door, return to ebon hawk and ta-da, person hopefully stuck on the other side. The visitor hotel stuff is not needed to be done first, i just did because that was what the saves where ordered as, also there's no need to use an alacrity for the barrier skip, i just used it so that force speed wouldn't run out and cause me to have to reactivate it, as i didn't remember off the top of my head what an actual force speed that has not ended up bugged to hell is like, it's been a while. :p Sunry's trial can most likely be done more effectively than i did, as i just mashed numkey enter along with left clicking, but again, effort is evil and we can't have that in a 2 in the morning video going up for a forum post. The Brejik dupe is easy to do, just do a regular Brejik skip(hard buffer after your handler speaks to you but before Brejik shows up) and speak to the race announcer, do another race, another Brejik skip and poof there he stands. You can speak to any one of the Brejiks to start the regular cutscene, only the one you speak to will turn hostile like regular, howeeeeever the remaining vulkars(exept the ones bastilla usually kick) will now be hostile. Super not usefull. But it's there. For reasons! Stuff! Really useless stuff! But still!

The force jump targetting bug on Kashyyk(and probably other places) caused by taking damage can be avoided by either not getting hit/getting hit at or as a backup you can click on a lootable object and then cancel the running/moving to the container/body/other interactible object you have targetted, this resets the targetting so you don't flail backwards into the space(or a katarn). On a sidenote it might also be possible that taking damage from a frag mine will reset the targetting as well, however i haven't tested this enough to say for sure.

Occasionally doors may do a false opening causing the pathing to see it as open, display it as being open but will still block movement, this can be fixed by saving and loading, i also believe this is what causes the bug, a minor one but pretty irritating, i encountered this at the jedi enclave on Dantooine after the first Belaya skip.

Halloes, can't seem to get the load remover to work once again, been fiddling with the settings for a few days now and i can't really seem to get it to work, can ''someone'' anonymous(wink wink nudge nudge cough cough) to check and see if the load remover works on win10 still or if i just royally bonked some sort of livesplit settings? (i'm sorry, there's no DM on the site i'll delete this post later.)