High Quality Blasters

A KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC MODIFICATION

High Quality Blasters By Sithspecter Description: When Knights of the Old Republic won Game of the Year in 2004, none of the awards were for the blaster models. While the storyline and gameplay are top notch, the default weapons are sadly lacking in quality. Extremely low polygon models combined with 64 px by 64 px textures make them horrendous to look at. On my last playthrough of KotOR, I had enough of the ugly blasters. Who wants to pay thousands of credits for a terrible looking grey-ish blob that's supposed to be a top notch firearm? Nobody, that's who! So I sought out to fix this problem and provide high quality models and textures.

This mod completely replaces the existing blasters with newly modeled firearms, complete with high quality textures. Special care was taken to retain the form and look of the original items, but in a high quality package. Each weapon was carefully textured based on close examination of its default counterpart. It's a much improved package that I hope will be a permanent addition to your KotOR override folder for years to come.

Use: Use of High Quality Blasters is extremely easy. Run the installer, and then play. That's it!

The new models will automatically appear when you load up your last save.

However, this mod does make a couple .uti changes to avoid doubling up on weapon textures. I've applied a new model and texture to a few items that share a model and texture in the default game. The following items are affected:

Baragwin Assault Gun Baragwin Disruptor-X Weapon Baragwin Heavy Repeating Blaster Baragwin Ion-X Weapon Carth's Blaster Genoharadan Blaster

What this means is that if you already have one of these items, it will still show up as high quality, but it will share a texture with another high quality item. If you re-acquire one of these through cheats or KSE, it will appear properly. If you start a new game, everything will appear properly. This will not negatively affect the gameplay in anyway.

A note about the Sith Sniper Rifle:

I discovered that the Sith Sniper Rifle is widely used as a blaster wielded by Sith Troopers. It looks somewhat comical used by them (predominantly fired from the hip). So, I have included something of a patch that allows the Sith Troopers to use a regular looking version of it with the new texture. The Sniper version can only be found at Kebla Yurt's store in the Upper City North of Taris. If you want to cheat more Sith Sniper Rifles that looks like a sniper, use the following code:

giveitem g_w_blstrrfl006

Installation: 1. Run "High Quality Blasters Installer.exe"