Party Combinations

[LordOfSithGods]

I think we should have higher than 10 possible characters in your party/crew

You should also have more than 2 members (i say all members if you want) who join you on your exploration of the world you're in.

Always wanted Atton, HK-47, Bastila, Carth, Mandalore(Canderous) Zalbaar, Hanhaar, Bao Ador, T3-M4, GOTO and Mission all with me when i'm out doing missions... All have skills i may need, and some of the characters are funny, especially HK-47 and Atton.

They have got to be smarter too, most are too easily killed or beaten in their fights, even though i personally picked what their feats, powers and skills were going to be.

[bigredpanda]

I like the idea of more than 2 in the party, but for two things. First, I tihnk you'd need a substantial engine upgrade for the game to handle it - remember how annoying the AI could get when there was just 2 of them in K1 and 2? Trapped in corners by your own team etc.? So with more of them, keeping them all in check would take quite a leap of programming - I'm not syaing its not possible, because K2 was released some time ago, but still.
Second, I do think only allowing 2 members adds to the replayability of the game. Taking missions on with different sets of skills each time is all part of the fun.

[exiled]

Originally Posted by bigredpanda

I like the idea of more than 2 in the party, but for two things. First, I tihnk you'd need a substantial engine upgrade for the game to handle it - remember how annoying the AI could get when there was just 2 of them in K1 and 2? Trapped in corners by your own team etc.? So with more of them, keeping them all in check would take quite a leap of programming - I'm not syaing its not possible, because K2 was released some time ago, but still.

Well, Kotor 3 will probably be released for 360 so mabye technical things will be possible, if you get me.

Anyway here's my list:
Exile or a new character (possibly a force sensitive)
Jolee! (I miss him - wise mentor style character)
HK-47 and TM-34 obviously
Canderous Ordo - as a normal mandalorian soldier (without the mandalore armor) and he has to have a rough beard! :L has to! lol
Carth I'd like back too, he was always good in the storylines
Juhani
A Twi'lek engineer style character (male)
And another female character for romance storyline

[LordOfSithGods]

Originally Posted by bigredpanda

I like the idea of more than 2 in the party, but for two things. First, I tihnk you'd need a substantial engine upgrade for the game to handle it - remember how annoying the AI could get when there was just 2 of them in K1 and 2? Trapped in corners by your own team etc.? So with more of them, keeping them all in check would take quite a leap of programming - I'm not syaing its not possible, because K2 was released some time ago, but still.

Yea that was funny, and some times annoying how your crew traps you in the corner, I really wanted to say something funny to get them to move out my way! But they did improve it slightly in KOTOR 2, when you move close to them they move out your way... But there were still times when they'd trap you in the corner...

Second, I do think only allowing 2 members adds to the replayability of the game. Taking missions on with different sets of skills each time is all part of the fun.

I think it should all be decided by the people who are playing the game...Sure it is fun playing with different crew members every time you replay it, but i want more focus on crew combinations, rather than more replaying the game.

I wanted to work as a team to kill enemies... Hope they improve that because it was crap in KOTOR 1 and 2

Example: Revan force waves all the enemies away stunning them, Bastila force storms all the members and Canderous and HK-47 bombs them with frag/ion grenades while Bastila and Revan continuely force storm them. While the other crew members defend the core attackers...

I found it annoying to set up these attack combinations for the crew manually, it would make my gaming experience so much more enjoyable if the crew followed my commands properly, such as a combo button to automatically perform a crew combination.

As the crew leader, you should be able to send different crew members to do missions for you in which you can take control of those characters, like you could in KOTOR 2... Only you'd decide when, where and how you do the missions... C'mon the crew's in KOTOR 1 & 2 had some of the most powerful characters in that era, why would they all just sit in the Ebon Kawk? They'd all be sent on missions by Revan the Exile and Kriea.

[spartan33227]

maybe im the only one whos read the newer books but i think it'd be pretty fun to throw in a new series about the new universe, possibly including Jacen, Jaina and/or Anakin Solo, the kids of Han and Leia Solo from the movies. Possibly even farther in the future with Ben or Mara Skywalker, and of course luke. You could even go as far as to make your party the group of new Knights, including Jacen and Jaina and some of their friends including Lowbacca, related to chewie somehow i just can't remember. And Tenel Ka from Dathomir. You could make out party out of them and have it go through an accelerated version of the Yuuzhan Vong war. OR...... even farther in the future when Jacen Solo turns evil and becomes a sith lord and kills Lukes wife Mara..... anyone have any comments on how they'd like this new idea for a plot set in the far future????

[bigredpanda]

Originally Posted by LordOfSithGods

[b]I think it should all be decided by the people who are playing the game...Sure it is fun playing with different crew members every time you replay it, but i want more focus on crew combinations, rather than more replaying the game.

I suppose I'm struggling to see how having like 9 people in your party is going to have any variation in combinations in terms of how you approach a mission, whereas having just 3 does - unless there are way more skills to choose from, or you fill up your entire crew with Repair experts or something, surely you going to find simialr types of characters filling each spot. Maybe I'm lacking imagination about this?

[lrmount]

definetly carth, atton, mandalore, revan, and bastilla

[Invisable Man]

ok this would be my selection for kotor 3

• reven (gender will depend on you choice in the begining)
• Exile (gender will be dicided in a dialouge option)
• atton/handmaiden(dempending on characters gender), (this is where you will learn of the exile and choose gender)
• bastila/Canderous (depending on gender), (where you will learn of revans gender)
• HK-47 (just because)
• T3 (see previous reason)
• Bao dur, now an almost complete cyborg with goto merged with his remote
• romance for female
• romance for male
• x3 New characters

you guys may be asking why is there no carth well because he is probebly not a party emember but in this he is a connection to your party within the republic with mission, while zalbaar left with revan or was killed by him.

hanhaar has been granted his death and is one with his clan

[greatone107]

Originally Posted by obrad

Revan
Exile
HK-47
T3-M4
Juhani
Jolee Bindo
Aton
Some friend of yours from academy(see my plot in storylines thread)
Master Vandar

How can you have Master Vandar? If you actually played KOTOR 2 he's dead on Katarr by Darth Nihlus.

[Selty]

I like the idea of having Revan and Exile back, but it would be difficult. The only way to get them perfect and to dot-point is to have the save games loaded up onto the new game.

I think we need to have a fresh start. Perhaps some old comrades come in at the finale or in some quests to help out, but it would be nice to see some new faces.

I have a character I thought up, I spose I'll put him on here for fun :P

Vance Valour, a stoic and calculating pretty boy whose father is one of the head honchos in the Exchange. He gives off a spoiled papa's boy feel at first, but he proves himself an able fighter and good willed person later on. He reluctantly joins with your crew to save zeh galaxy! (For some...reason...)

Iunno, I just like the name and the idea of an exchange thug in your party >.<;

Thoughts?

EDIT:
Also also! I just remembered, when you specify gender of Exile and Revan, we must have a closure for the romances. I always felt like Atton needed some lovin', poor Echani-trained Jedi assasin man.

[Darth Valthri]

Originally Posted by Selty

I like the idea of having Revan and Exile back, but it would be difficult. The only way to get them perfect and to dot-point is to have the save games loaded up onto the new game.

I think we need to have a fresh start. Perhaps some old comrades come in at the finale or in some quests to help out, but it would be nice to see some new faces.

I have a character I thought up, I spose I'll put him on here for fun :P

Vance Valour, a stoic and calculating pretty boy whose father is one of the head honchos in the Exchange. He gives off a spoiled papa's boy feel at first, but he proves himself an able fighter and good willed person later on. He reluctantly joins with your crew to save zeh galaxy! (For some...reason...)

Iunno, I just like the name and the idea of an exchange thug in your party >.<;

Thoughts?

EDIT:
Also also! I just remembered, when you specify gender of Exile and Revan, we must have a closure for the romances. I always felt like Atton needed some lovin', poor Echani-trained Jedi assasin man.

on the subject of getting Revan and the Exile back in, you're right. too difficult without having K3 read the previous games saves. otherwise, they'd have to be masked or given an explanation as to why they look that way (which would in turn nullify your choices in K1 and 2 anyway )

no offense to your character, but that doesn't strike me as the galaxy-saving type. not even conqueror, really... ex-Dark Lord of the Sith, to a wound in the Force, to a crime lord's son? anyway, i've had enough of the selfish-thug routine from Atton. mind you, i guess if they're just an NPC character it wouldn't be too bad. just not as the main character...

closure to the romances... so if Revan was male, choose Bastila or single? or some other love we don't know about. Revan, you sly dog... same with female, although i guess with female Revan, there's a MAYBE chance of romance with Canderous. very slim chance, but hey... then Exiles it would be Atton/Mical/single, or Brianna/Visas/single/Mira changed her mind?

[Lex.mkr]

Originally Posted by Darth Valthri

on the subject of getting Revan and the Exile back in, you're right. too difficult without having K3 read the previous games saves. otherwise, they'd have to be masked or given an explanation as to why they look that way (which would in turn nullify your choices in K1 and 2 anyway )

Or, at the very beginning of the game (= PC creation), the player could choose how Revan and the Exile looked. That would, however, be the spoiler.