According to rumors-which were eventually confirmed by interviews with members of the game's development team-LucasArts gave Obsidian a deadline of roughly a year to produce a sequel to Bioware's seminal Knights of the Old Republic. "More or less, once we starting putting together, we found a list of cut content and decided what we could add and started adding content." AdvertisementĪnyone who's played KOTOR II knows that it was a game that often felt incomplete and/or rushed. More people got involved with the project, and a team of nine volunteers found themselves working together on a restoration effort that was much larger than anything they'd tried to accomplish on their own.
As a result, the duo began releasing mods that gradually made the game more complete.Įventually, the team of two began to grow. Stoney began working to bring back other missing pieces from the game and found himself working with another fan of KOTOR II.
I found that it was tied into a lot more content that was cut." The quest in question required players to either condemn or redeem the reputation of the Jedi on the planet, but many gamers have reported that the quest would never resolve itself, no matter what path a player took. "While I was searching through the files. "The whole thing kind of started for me when I wanted to fix the broken 'Redemption' quest on Dantooine," Stoney told Ars. The result? An expanded, refined game that hints at what the original release should have been. According to the project team leader, who goes by the handle "Stoney," the project's completion has been a long time coming. The result was a large-scale project that was aimed at bringing as much missing content as possible back to the game.Īfter years of development, the cut content has been finally restored and the most of the bugs have been fixed, thanks to a project known as known as the "Restored Content Mod." The mod, revealed in The Deadly Stream forum, is in open beta, which means that players can now experience as complete a Jedi adventure as possible, provided they're willing to help the development team by reporting any issues they encounter. From then on, it was like the snowball that gradually turned into an avalanche.
Then, someone else encountered a serious bug in the same title and started using the first person's work to fix the problem. They took it upon themselves to to go into the game's files and restore some of the data on their own. It started a few years ago when someone discovered some missing content in the PC version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords.
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