KOTOR 2 On Switch Is Officially Fixed For Real Now, Kinda Sorta
Screenshot: Aspyr / Obsidian / Nintendo
Yesterday, the studio behind the Nintendo Switch port of Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords introduced that it’s lastly mounted a game-breaking bug that had beforehand rendered the sport inconceivable to complete.
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Previously, those that purchased the port of the Obsidian Star Wars RPG have been pressured to cheat their well beyond game-crashing cutscenes. This was resolved through an in-game cheat menu, nevertheless it was nonetheless a band-aid resolution at greatest. Kotaku tried to make use of this methodology to skip previous a game-breaking cutscene on the finish of a late recreation questline, however boarding the ship would simply trigger the sport to crash once more. But rejoice: the buggy cutscenes have lastly been mounted. Sort of.
After updating the sport, I used to be lastly capable of play the beforehand problematic cutscenes with out being ejected to my Switch residence display screen. There’s one caveat although. KOTOR 2 has a particular means that will increase your motion pace, and it’s indispensable for a recreation 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 new patch might have mounted the cutscenes, nevertheless it makes it in order that these blurry filters carry over to stated cutscenes. So you get gross trying screenshots like this:
Screenshot: Aspyr / Obsidian / KotakuCommercial
KOTOR 2 has a whole lot of cinematic scenes that mechanically play while you cross an invisible boundary, so you’ll be able to’t actually flip off the filter manually once they begin taking part in. The blurriness stops after the talent length has elapsed, nevertheless it has arguably made my expertise somewhat bit worse. But hey, at the least I can get round to different planets now!
Did Aspyr knowingly launch an unfinishable recreation? Yes. Am I irritated? Also sure. But I acknowledge that the vanilla model of KOTOR 2 was additionally launched in a damaged and buggy state. Maybe it’s a kind of video games that’s all the time doomed to imperfection. In any case, I like to recommend conserving a number of save backups simply in case extra horrible bugs await you on the very finish of the sport.