March: Starwind

[TKVNC]

Seems like the modders didn't bother to alter the underlying mesh and wound up duplicating bantha's horns for collision checking as well. I tcl-ed on top of them and indeed you step down the ridges.

If you're looking to fix the bantha, start here:
https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/53021

The mod makes the game lag like crazy, probably stupid high poly or something.

Yeah. 70k triangles, and the texture files are 20mb as well.

70k triangles for a single mesh in morrowind? Lmao what

[Tangerine]

Is Rodian the new dogwhistle that dropped?

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[Statesman]

This reminds me of project kathun, which is a kenshi total overhaul mod that makes it into star wars. It’s actually better than the base game and any other overhaul mod.

How playable is it? Since it is apparently a beta pseudo-abandoned by its creator atm.

[Nooneatall]

This reminds me of project kathun, which is a kenshi total overhaul mod that makes it into star wars. It’s actually better than the base game and any other overhaul mod.

How playable is it? Since it is apparently a beta pseudo-abandoned by its creator atm.

I want to give it a try

[Tangerine]

If I weren't of the superior Chiss race and disgusted by miscegenation, I would propose whatever gay term Star Wars has for marriage.

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[Tangerine]

Completed. I think.

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Even with the foreknowledge of the plot twist from this thread, it still caught me off guard at how completely ******* ******** it was executed.

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A part of me died inside thinking whoever wrote this thought she was somehow reasonable.

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Killed the dumb *****, obviously.

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Tangerine, Chiss Commando

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Overall thoughts: This is very ambitious and quite impressive in scope for a modding team, and I'm a little more lenient than I would be if they were professionals who get paid to make games. I would play through this again before picking up Outlaws.

The good: You can tell the modders really love Star Wars and tried to cram as much as they could into it. I think it's really great that you don't have to be a force user - I always liked the underworld side of Star Wars better.

The bad: The map design isn't great, and it's very easy to get lost due to lack of landmarks. Dantooine and Nar Shaddaa are particularly bad about that. There didn't seem to be a lot of upgrades for weapons - I got the Arkanian blaster early on and I don't think I found a replacement. The voice acting is awful and abundant; it should have stayed unvoiced. In fact, Shade's voice actor changes at the end. Not sure if those were older lines that weren't replaced or lines that were added to fill in the gaps. It's really easy to break quest sequences; I had to use a console command to go to the next step of the main quest when working for the Hutt Cartel, because I killed all the Gamorrean Guards when attacked and then... nothing.

The ugly: There are a lot of in-your-face references and jokes. A few are cute, but when I'm getting Scroobly Snacks for Raggy Roo and Scroobly Roo, you need to stop. There are a few girlbosses, but it comes off as more 90s/2000s liberal sprinkling of them rather than malicious contemporary leftoid placement. Still annoying, though.

Badge please. Also need my Gothic badge.

[J1M]

What's the deep lore behind this project's existence? I assume Disney would want to shut down mods like this.

[Xenich]

It has come to my attention that @WhiteShark is playing as a gay wizard instead of someone who bops people on the head. I suggest playing as a bopper.

It's Star Wars. I'm playing as a Jedi. I expected to be able to Force Lightning and Force Choke, but instead I got Shocking Grasp and Magic Missile.

Did you cast it at the darkness?

[J1M]

Starwind is an accomplishment. It's clear a lot of love and work went into this mod. Is that enough for someone to find a game fun?

The game has massive environments and did a good job "breadcrumbing" the quests. Those are the positives.

Movement speed is slow. Combat is a detriment. Some of the voice lines of main characters are 10x louder/quieter than the others.

I don't understand why they put so much effort into things like artwork and UI treatment for 3 playable droid races, but then in practice it's just a human that is vulnerable to electricity. At the very least make the droid player immune to poison and use repair kits instead of med packs.

I don't think I understood the plot.

The player character appears to be in the republic and escaping from a republic ship in the intro. Then you pair up with a woman who looks sith, but has so many family friends and contacts on various republic worlds she must be republic, but is aligned against sith defectors, who are being blockaded by the sith fleet? Are the sith defectors supposed to be a 4th faction? One would assume they are defecting to the republic.

Also, what the **** is up with that ending? Someone wanted to make a platformer that takes place in the dark but couldn't make a second mod? I had to drastically change my gamma settings. And the 'choice' had a bug where the door wouldn't open for one of the two options. Also raises even bigger questions about allowing the player to play a droid.

I think watching a documentary about this mod would be more fun than playing it. There are probably some interesting people behind this. Also, why Morrowind? How has it avoided being shut down by the IP holder? Is someone on the mod team related to Lucas?

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@Oyster Sauce

[rusty_shackleford]

How has it avoided being shut down by the IP holder? Is someone on the mod team related to Lucas?

Despite being owned by The Mouse, I don't think LucasFilms has ever gone after fan-created content(I'm sure they've probably shut down people trying to make money but that's different)

[Tangerine]

I don't think I understood the plot.

Neither did the writers.