Knights of the Old Republic features several actions that your character can perform both in and out of combat. Understanding these basic actions is fundamental to navigating the game world, interacting with its inhabitants, and engaging in combat effectively. These actions form the core of your character's capabilities.
Movement and Exploration
- Walking/Running: Standard movement around the game world.
- Sprinting: A faster mode of movement, useful for traversing larger areas quickly.
- Jumping: Used to overcome small obstacles or reach slightly elevated areas.
- Interacting: The primary action for engaging with objects, NPCs, terminals, and doors. This is context-sensitive and will prompt different actions based on what you are targeting.
- Using Items: Accessing your inventory to use consumables like Medpacs, grenades, or stimulants.
Combat Actions
During combat, a range of actions become available:
- Attack: Your standard melee or ranged attack.
- Use Force Power: Activating one of your learned Force abilities, consuming Force Points.
- Use Item: Employing grenades, stimpacks, or other combat consumables.
- Use Special Ability: Executing class-specific or feat-based abilities like 'Flurry,' 'Power Attack,' or 'Sneak Attack.'
- Defend: A stance that increases your Defense score, making you harder to hit, but often at the cost of offensive capability.
- Switch Target: Changing your focus to a different enemy in combat.
- Move: Repositioning your character or companions on the battlefield.
- Wait: Allowing your character or companions to hold their position and take no action for a turn.
Dialogue and Interaction Actions
- Speak: Initiating conversations with NPCs.
- Choose Dialogue Option: Selecting from a branching list of responses during conversations, which can influence the story and your alment.
- Use Skill in Dialogue: Some dialogue options may require a specific skill level (e.g., Persuade, Computer Use) to be available or successful.
Other Actions
- Pazaak: Engaging in the popular card game found in cantinas and other social hubs.
- Resting: While not a direct action, resting at your base (the Ebon Hawk) or in desated safe areas can restore your health and Force Points.
- Saving/Loading: Essential actions for managing your game progress.
Mastering these basic actions will allow you to fully engage with all aspects of Knights of the Old Republic, from its intricate storytelling to its challenging combat encounters.