This question is mostly aimed toward JK fans.

When you first started playing JK, which side of the force did you want to be on?

I remember "I wanna be on the dark side 'cause they got cool powers that doo lotsa damage -- let's kill as many civilians as possible to get there!". Kind of ironic because today, I'm always light side (with a possible few exceptions).

So what is/was/etc your choice? Why?

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Dark side, definitely. In fact, I made sure that I killed every civilian/droid in Baron's Hed just to be sure.

Also, did you know that if you damage weegee enough in JK level 4, it will explode and oyu will immediately fall to the dark side?




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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

I liked Dark Side because you got Force Throw, which was awesome for knowcking Stormies/Jedi around and sometimes blowing them off of cliffs (I was so mad when they too kthat power away in MotS). Personally, I thought the gmae was harder as a Dark Jedi though, and the end cutscene, while cool, I did not find as rewarding after playing the game.

I generally prefer lightside because I like where the story goes more, and persuasion is one of the most helpful powers ever.

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The best was using the red5 cheat code and using the rail det in Barons Hed.

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<Outlaw_Torn> you mean your related to that damned sasquatch, Mech?
<MechWarrior> Lets just say the part of the family tree that does fork has bossy the goat in it.

<ubuu> does hitler have a last name?

:0 whoah, so Pagewizard_YKS, if you go straight ot the Dark side, do you get a whole new set of cutscenes then? what about Jan?

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I gotta try that.

Oh, and it depends. Sometimes I play it in the light side, sometimes not.

On MP though, I always used the dark powers.

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<landfish> FastGamerr > Satan

[This message has been edited by FastGamerr (edited May 25, 2004).]

I take it Mechwarrior like the Extra Crispy side .

Yeah, I like the Lightside story better and the powers.

I'm too lazy to use absorb -- maybe in SP i'd use it, but in MP Force speed is all I need "Holy crap you're fast!"


I tried that and it didn't do anything; Until you posted that, I thought weegee was immortal or something.
/Me runs off to check

Post thread-posting idea:
Post your force power config.

Heh, if there was debris and crap in MotS suitable for throwing, I'd make a force throw mod for it.

Persuasion + Blinding + Force Surge (+ Conc Rifle) = OWNED

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[This message has been edited by Darth Slaw (edited May 24, 2004).]

I was always a Light Sider. I was so good at it, that I could rake up 15-20 kills before being taken down by a Dark Sider. I was accused of hacking of course, so I would let someone kill me to prove them wrong. Then I'd come back and tear them apart again for a little bit

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I love how about 70% of Zoners called you lame for using force protection, and about half of them called you cheap. It was my favorite power in MP..

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

Letting someone kill you doesn't mean anything The flashlight immunity hack was one of the most common ones out there.

Darkie in MP, Lightie in SP. I'd typically zoom past people with force speed, getting a grip lock on them, then turn back, force jump over their heads, throw a destruction at their feet and then finish them off with a lightsaber swing.

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

Lightside (SP & MP). I later beat the game with the Darkside as well. I enjoyed both paths. I eventually became well versed in both sides of the force in MP. I think that my reasons for originally choosing the Lightside had to do with my personality. I relate more to the Lightside of life.



I have far too many to post. I'm well versed in a multitude of Force settings, so just use your imagination.



Sadly this was/is true. It's amazing what you can do with Protection in Valley of the Jedi Tower. Also, I'd say that it's more like 90%. I've been accused of cheating/hacking, and being cheap so many times for playing the game how it was meant to be played that I don't even pay any attention to those people. I either boot them or ignore them, immediately.



Yes, toggle cheats were very popular. Quite sad actually. I think this is one of the main flaws with this game (ability to cheat so easily)...one that caused hundreds of hardcore/competitive gamers to turn away.

Great thread. I enjoy it when people here still talk about JK, since it's still one of the only games that I play.

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I just used to annoy everybody by shooting knees with the pistol and running away, it worked quite well on saber maps.

Apart from that, they both had their good and bad points, I spent most my time waiting to respawn anyway... i dislike games that force yu to respawn after x amount of time, you can't go do something in the meantime.

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Drugs & Stupidity, Tons of it.

Now what are you in real life, a child of the darkside, or someone of the light side........

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"Whats your name"
Cody
"No, whats your real name"
Arkon............
Proud member of the Co-op

Being on the dark side gave me wood. It was great, I was like Emperor Palpatine!!

Dark powers:

Jump
Seeing
Pull
Grip
Throw
LIGHTNING

Light side:

Jump
Speed
Pull
Blinding
Absorb
Healing

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

When I first started playing JK, I *always* went to the dark side. It was problably because of all the droids I killed . . . yeah, that was it... But, after a while, I discovered that the protective powers of the light side gave me a distinct advantage. After that, I *never* went to the dark side.

Besides, I never liked to see Jan die.




Same here, only I used a conc instead of a sabre. They didnt stand a chance..

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When I first started playing JK, I wanted to be lightside. So I tried real hard to stay lightside in Single Player. I thought it'd be far more difficult and challenging to stay true to the light. So, after finishing the game as a lightsider a couple of times, I started out killing everything in order to get to see the darkside cutscenes, etc. However, after a while, I just forgot that I was trying to become dark, lol, and it didn't work out. Then I found out how to enable the cutscenes manually, so I wouldn't have to play all through it again, lol.

In MP, I've always been lightside. Because it's way cooler to just rely on your saber than on 'direct damage' powers. I did try dark out, though, just to see what it's like.

I remember playing Manowars 2 all the time (anyone remember that mod? It was awesome), Force Throw was incredibly cool with that mod. I was in love with Force Throw, so I was dark for some time when playing manowars 2. The great thing is: You see your opponent, and you do a force throw at him, and then he takes off with his jetpack, it will cause all the blocks to fly up high in the air, hitting your opponent in mid-air. I loved that sight. We used to play all those levels that had lots of things to throw, like Hall of Sabers, Coruscant Arena 1, and some of the Manowar levels.

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*There is no death, there is the Force*

Still one of my favorite Mods.

http://www.jediknight.net/jkmag/man2

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I agree with you.

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<landfish> FastGamerr > Satan

Well they can't kill you with the concussion rifle if your using force protect.

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<Outlaw_Torn> you mean your related to that damned sasquatch, Mech?
<MechWarrior> Lets just say the part of the family tree that does fork has bossy the goat in it.

<ubuu> does hitler have a last name?

Damn. That server is slow.

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The Massassi JO/JA Single Player contest info

I'm not sure. It's been awhile since I've done it, but I think the game progresses normally except you can only choose dark side powers once you have all the neutrals.

Basically, when you manage to hurt weegee enough, it explodes and Rahn's voice says "For you the choice is the dark side... "

This is very hard to do. Wegee is magsealed, and the room is too small to use explosive weapons. Generally, get weegee into a corner and just keep hacking away like mad with your saber and you should be able to do it.


I learned this secret when I used a mod that let me shoot force destructs out of the bryar. It's a lame mod that has been done to death, but it's surprisingly effective.


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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited May 25, 2004).]

I like Dark side powers the best

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I go BOTH at the SAME TIME

Actually, it's just level 6 powers, but I havn't played multi in so long that I can't tell you which powers were my fav.

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Jack: "Why not!"

Thats a new one to me. I only knew the flashlight one that allowed you to walk through walls. I used that one in single player. I found a hidden area on level 19 that had a default.mat and a Stormtrooper.

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I've never heard of this. How can I get it?

How do you walk through walls in a negative space engine without falling into a bottomless pit of HOM?




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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

You cant, I remember it. It was HOM after HOM and unless you came back out into the sector you left from, you couldnt get out without hom. Oh and you don't fall because you have the FLY-R_Goggles

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It probably activates fly mode or something. But that wouldn't fix the hom.

But I'll have to check that out.

Haha! I blew up WeeGee today!

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Well, from what I understood, when the game makes you darkside, you get to miss a couple of levels. And yes, the cutscenes for dark are different. For example, as lightside, when you get out of the falling ship, the Moldy Crow crashes, and you have to battle Sariss. In the darkside cutscene, the Moldy crow doesn't crash, and Sariss shows up alive in the final cutscene, as your aid. So that's how I figured that you get to miss some levels when you go dark. Also, some cutscenes don't even have a darkside version, so I'm actually pretty sure, lol.

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*There is no death, there is the Force*

I always played the light side. It made me use skill with lightsaber/guns instead of slinging dark powers around.

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I knew it... the dark side makes you a better pilot.




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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

Flaws? I think it was a great thing when used properly.


Using it to cheat sucked, but however. Man oh man, some of the effect stuff people did was AMAZING! Just look at triscuit's turret and buildgun!

Buildgun was great though, excellent for RP.

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Signature.

*so original*

I always used the light side, using absorb and mind trick, I could always confuse any player long enough to at least get a hit or two in.

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"Just remember -- No matter how bad things get, Northern Minnesota will always be there"
-- Garrison Keeler

One thing I liked about JK was that there were definite consequences to your actions. The dark ending wasn't glorified at all, and was shocking to me how callous he was toward a memory of his father's love, and how he had an empire, yet was simply sitting there alone at the end.

One thing no other game captured was that quote from JK:


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Steal my dreams and sell them back to me.....

1.) When you phase to walk through walls, your feet will stay on the ground. However, if you jump too high or fall too far, you will fall to a bottomless pit. I've done this several times by accident.

2.) It is towards the end. The exact area I can't remember, but what I do remember is that there is a room with a force field wall. The force field isn't visible, but when you shoot at it, nothing goes through. If you walk through this force field wall, the Stormtrooper and default.mat are in there. Also, if you can turn on/off the ghost phase, when you shut it off it transports you there automatically.




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I always cheated to get to Boc and then used the code to get all the force powers. The first time I ever beat it (a couple weeks ago), I was Lightside.

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"I'd rather be hated for who I am rather than loved for who I pretend to be." -Janis Joplin

Against a skilled light player, you fail miserably as they have absorb on, and then blind you and run away with their tail's between their legs ^_^

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"True as toasted toads!"

Do you know if it is possible to assign as few stars as possible and finish the game neutral?

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No, because the grip will still hold them in place even if they are absorbing. And if he has seeing on, the blinding is also useless.

Also, darkside has you fighting Yun a second time after Kyle lands the Crow instead of crashing it. There's also a lot fewer cutscenes than in the light side campaign.

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"Guns don't kill people, I kill people."