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Combat Talking is a method for temporarily canceling combat, allowing you to talk to NPCs even when combat would normally prevent it. This can allow certain fights to be skipped completely.
To perform Combat Talking, first stand near the NPC with whom you want to talk. Quick Save your game, then Quick Load. As soon as the game loads, pause your game; this pause should happen immediately after the load screen disappears, before the fade-in from black. Click on the NPC to talk to them, then unpause the game. Your conversation should begin soon after unpausing.
Combat Talking works because KotOR assumes you aren’t in combat when a game is first loaded. Thus the Quick Save/Quick Load combination effectively cancels combat, and by pausing the game immediately after the Quick Load, you have enough time to talk set up a Conversation Queue to an NPC or party member before you are attacked again.
Combat Talking is mostly used as a backup strategy when other methods fail. Max Quests Unresticted uses a few:
Combat Talking is used to talk to Xaart on Onderon
Combat Talking can be used to talk to Anda if you enter combat mode on the way to talk to her