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[bountyhunter9]

Lol. Excuse my poor grammar.

Also, what do you think of Bendak?

[Jm419]

Did I not comment on him? Huh.

He looks a lot like Boba, BH. I like Disintegration, but that ability is, in itself, flawed.

[bountyhunter9]

Yeah, they are similar. The Big D is flawed, but it's supposed to represent how he only fought in death matches. Also, in case you haven't noticed, he OWNS against the other duelists. Twitch is the only one who has a remote chance of surviving.

[Jm419]

Oh, he's probably the only playable member of that group. They're all...correct for their costs, it's just that there are better options for those costs. I mean, they're good representations of the duelists, and I think they're good characters, they just wouldn't see much play. Does that make sense?

[bountyhunter9]

Yeah. Most of them are good characters that might see some use once in a while, but generally there are better options. The only one I would use other than Bendak is Twitch, because he can demolish swarms and you can give him GMA.

[Jm419]

Yeah, that's true. But Twitch was the only one I had trouble with in the game, because he had those two echani blades, didn't he?

[bountyhunter9]

I don't remember. He might have. He was the last duelist (not counting Bendak), and he started off with two blaster pistols. He did switch to a vibrosword, I remember that. He as the Rodian that would only talk about blowing things up and shooting things.

[Jm419]

Oh. Okay, I remember now. I only played as the Mysterious Stranger once.

[bountyhunter9]

Yeah. I did it to some extent almost every time I played through a game, but unless I was a combat-heavy Soldier, I would stay away from the tougher fights (after Marl), because it you lose it can be very hard to get that health back (not many medpacs on Taris...).

[Jm419]

Yeah, that's for sure. And you only might have a Jedi who has Force Heal.

[bountyhunter9]

Yeah. I remember having to fight with 1 HP and having Carth and my other companions deal with the enemies for a while.

[Jm419]

Lol. That's hilarious. 1 HP?

My first time playing through the game, I ran into Calo Nord on Kashyyyk (the second planet I went to, after Taris then Tatooine), and both Revan and Bastila were killed, and I'm standing in the back with Carth, volleying back and forth with Calo Nord. I get down to like 40 HP, no medpacks with Carth, and I'm not even through Calo's shield yet. So what do I do? Save. Overwrite my save, and the closest save I had to that one was on Taris, in a different save slot. So, I had to either win that fight, with 40 HP and Calo at full health, or go back to Taris, from right after Bastila joined the party. Needless to say, I saved in different slots frequently after that.

[bountyhunter9]

Lol. I've done that a couple of times. I forget to save a lot, because it is extremely rare that I ever die (I usually die only once or twice each time I play through either KotOR). I'm playing through KotOR II again, and when I fought Master Vrook, he killed me quickly (I am a Consular/Sith Lord). My Force powers didn't work, and he just healed everything. I hadn't saved since the beginning of Onderon (the last planet I was on), so I had to rely on the autosave. Thankfully, it saved right before I fought M Vrook. I killed him easily, he failed one of his Insanity saves. I save a lot more now, too.

[Jm419]

I die more frequently at the beginning of the game, but by the end, I don't ever die. It's interesting - the enemies don't get better to match you, which is how it should be.

[bountyhunter9]

Yeah, by the end your character either has a ton of HP, or nobody can resist your Force powers.

I was wondering: have you ever played through KotOR II as a Sith Marauder?