Possible new glitch
6 years ago

Ok I'm gonna be honest I'm personally not a speed runner but I do watch a lot of speed runs on twitch. I was playing kotor on my pc today and had a strange thing happen to me. I was walking into the area where the elevator to the lower city is, like literally walking into that room, when I was teleported into the sith base. I searched around on your guides posted on this site and saw no mention of this glitch, so if this is known disregard this post. Now I did some research and found this steam forum post http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2073656. I'm around the same point in the game as this person was so I'm not the only person it happened to. Now I have no idea how to test glitches so I figured I'd pass this information to you guys and, if this glitch isn't common knowledge, hope it helps you guys out.

South Carolina, USA

I have encountered this glitch a few times in different places (Endar Spire and Taris, mainly). Below is a post I made on SDA where I mentioned it. We still don't know what causes it, and as such we don't have a real name for the glitch -- likely more known as a loading zone glitch. Unfortunately, I don't remember if we have a video of this glitch occurring. [quote=glasnonck]While creating practice/safety saves for the new route, I experienced another example of the Displaced Loading Zone glitch. This is not a new glitch; it's just one that is not understood. The potential of this glitch is unknown but promising, so I'd like to document what I had done prior to the glitch. Unfortunately, I don't have any video proof of this glitch occurring.[/quote] [quote]I was going through Taris along the current route, and rescued Bastila. At this time, I believe the adrenal glitch was active on both Alacrity and Strength. When I was returned to the hideout, I did a save buffer to skip the reunion conversation. I then interacted with the door to leave the hideout, forgetting to make a hard save before doing so. I tried to cancel, but the game wouldn't let me. I proceeded to leave and use the transit warp to skip the conversation outside. I then loaded the quick save that I used to skip the reunion, and saved over the game in slot 5. Once again I left the hideout, and transit warped to the Upper City South.[/quote] [quote]I headed across the way to enter the Cantina. I waited outside the door for a second or two, only half paying attention to the run, and then entered. After talking with Canderous, I left the Cantina and headed to the Upper City North. I then walked to Janice Nall's droid shop, and as I approached it the game loaded me into the sith base, alone. I had not yet purchased T3-M4. I don't remember if I made it far enough to open the door to the shop, either. Once I was inside the base, KotOR's memory usage was 640 MB, which isn't too outlandish.[/quote] [quote]Unfortunately, when I tried it again, nothing happened. I have seen this glitch occur in a few other locations, but most notably is on the Endar Spire. I have seen a few accounts of using this glitch to bypass the majority of Trask's section of the Endar Spire and leave the Endar Spire still at level 1. I have only gotten this to work once, and I didn't restart the game between attempts. It seems it may have something to do with setting up memory values or confusing the game as to your character's or the loading zone's actual location, but that is total speculation on my part.[/quote]

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Michigan, USA

I've had it a couple times as well. Unfortunately I haven't been able to reproduce it no matter how I tried. The same goes for every other runner of the game, AFAIK.

It seems the glitch is always taking place around the same time in the story, or at least most accounts of it happening, around the time after you rescue bastila, and unfortunately I wasn't able to get video of it either. It does seem like it would be really helpful to Crack this bug

Edited by the author 6 years ago