KOTOR Continues: Day 5

By fwylo January 21, 2010 2 Comments

Day 5

Damn, unproductive and frustrating session. I was planning on clearing Manaan yesterday....Not.

As I posted in the Day 4 description.  I mentioned that I would be running around to pick up some side quests and such which happened with no problems.  Guess some random Selkath was kidnapped or something by the Sith and I assume is somewhere in the base.  The other one is trying to find the reason that the Republic is trying to hire so many Mercenaries.
 
I couldn't find the guy to talk to about the Mercenary issue but I figured I'd do that later because I wanted to get into that Sith base and kill some dudes.  Everything was going fine in the base, I found the droid with the information for the Republic, and found the missing Selkath who was with a bunch of other Selkath that are apparently being trained in the way of the Force by the Sith.  I quickly let them know that the Sith are messing with them and will end up betraying them so I got some light points there.  
 
I then decided to explore the rest of the base just to not miss any sweet loot of course.  Bad decision.

 
In the final room there are two Selkath Apprentices and A Dark Jedi Apprentice, and damn they are tough.  I highly underestimated them the first time and wad 3/4 health going in with all 3 characters. Bang! Dead in about 10 seconds.  This resulted in my jaw hitting the floor before I could catch it.  Kind of mad because I didn't expect a big battle like that so I didn't save before going into the room.  I ran through the Sith base again because it auto-saved as I went in which I thank the LORD for auto-save.  Did everything the same but of course a bit faster due to it being the second time.
 

This time I let myself heal up.  Used a bunch of stimulants and put my shields on. And opened the do... wait. Save Game.  Opened the door.  The fight lasted about 30 seconds this time.  Alright, I'm totally fine with games that have a bit of a challenge to them as the rest of the game has been pretty easy so far.  
 
Fast forward 8 game loads later.  What the fuck.  These guys are hard!  I've tried stunning the Selkath, and attacking the Jedi, that seems like the worst possible decision.  So far the strategy that has worked the best is to take out the Selkath first to focus the Jedi after.  I've gotten down to about 2 hits left on the Jedi and died.  At this point I tried to play one more time, in which the whole game froze up as the Jedi killed me.  As if you to say. "You aren't going to do this, go play a different game."
 
So I did. 
 
Respect.

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