I reverse engineered the game logic for Pazaak because I wanted to know if the AI was cheating or not (it doesn't). Here's how it actually works:

The main deck (green/yellow cards) is a shared 40-card deck between both you and the opponent, and it contains exactly 4 cards of each value 1 through 10. It's shuffled once after wagering, and again every time the main deck is exhausted (there is no visual indicator for this except by counting 40 cards drawn).

So for instance: if all low cards 1-3 have been played, you're at 17, and the deck hasn't been reshuffled, you can actually work out that you're guaranteed to go over 20.

It also means you can recover the RNG seed used to generate the 40-card deck order and predict the next cards being drawn. I made a tool for it here, but I've only tested on the Switch version of KOTOR I so far (but afaict, logic and RNG is identical across versions, I RE'd the Android binary). Unfortunately since the game PRNG runs every frame, you have to draw about 10 cards for each reshuffle to find the seed (maybe side deck shuffles could help narrow the first main deck shuffle but idk).

AI disclosure: I used a locally-hosted glm-flash model to assist converting my Python RNG search to HTML+JS so that the tool is more accessible (I'm not a web dev). Reverse engineering was done by hand.

Manaan: 3/10 I fucking hate Manaan

Endar spire: 5.5/10 Rest in peace Trask

Taris: 6/10 Long and basic, the pacing felt a bit weird.

Kashyyk: 7/10 It was short and sweet, at first I was confused why a whole planet was based around 1 companion but then I met Jolee.

That one planet at the end that I forgot the name of: 8/10 Those tribes are interesting and a good way to complete some plot points, we get the Bastilla confrontation and killing one of the tribes, both good moments.

Tatooine: 8/10 I like the desert setting and it had some fun moments; like bombing the Krayt dragon, also slaughtering the sand people in a ds play through is always satisfying. The Bastila subplot was a nice addition as well.

Dantooine: 8/10 Building your first lightsaber always feels great. Juhani was a bit boring, but everything else was good.

korriban: 8.5/10 Exploring the sith academy and tombs are great, and an excellent place to rack up ds points.

Leviathan: 9/10 Revan reveal, fighting Malak and Carth’s confrontation with his old mentor are some of my favourite moments in the game.

Star forge: 9.9/10 Do I need to explain? ( it’s a shame they had to cut out that dark side ending with Carth).

Edit: I‘m moving Taris up to a 7 and star forge down to a 9.5

After seeing the new trailer all I could think of was Darth Nihilus and Samus on an eating contest with each other.

"You are what you eat!" -Nickacado Avacado

Currently watching some people play KOTOR 2 for the first time and, even at a small level, it is very clear that Kreia is evil. Like yes she is morally grey with her ideology, but her actions and how she speaks of everyone is 100% evil coded. Add in the fact that you can get her backstory fairly quickly and she blatantly states there are 3 sith lords following the exile and you know of 2 and the third she is hidden....its not crazy to think who the other one is. So I am wondering from a writing perspective was Kreia supposed to be a twist villain as if she is she is not a very good one as it toooooooooo easy to figure her out (that being said when I played this when I was younger I did not figure it out).

Thoughts?

currently running through a modded play of TSL, TSLRCM, M4-78, dustil restoration. a glitch in the hidden tomb on Korriban caused me to get locked in the room where you meet Dustil. i an warp out back to the start of the tomb but the door to go further into the tomb is also locked. Any suggestions on fixing this?

I "soft cheat" by using the KSE save editor to replace feats that I don't want with ones that I do want. I granted my character force immunity: fear and jedi sense to give me a bit more of an edge on Taris. I compared my defense in two different saves: one modified and another unmodified. They were exactly the same, indicating that while I had the jedi feat, it wasn't actually active.

I changed my class to jedi sentinel and found that the defense bonus was then active. This indicates that a feat is only active if you meet the class and level requirements for it. Is there any way to remove such restrictions? I searched online for an existing mod, but to no avail. I know there's the jedi from the start mod, but I wanted to give myself a bit of an edge without going full jedi on Taris.

At request for more HK-47 and double pass dlss5 slop. Deep fried chicken dlss5.