DS1 Legendary Mod for DS2 Beta Thread

If you are playing with the succubus characters turned on it can cause problems. I can not remember exactly how I set up the Succubus mod to work with the Legendary Mod, but I had the same issues until I found the correct setup. Been quit some time since I have had time to play any computer game.

Hi, I had the same problem with my first game, without Ely's Succubus Mod.
Glacern and the Droog Village teleporters were concerned. They worked well at the beginning but for some reason, they didn't work anymore since that.
I started a second game and, this time, it was the Fort Kroth teleporter which was concerned.

Finally reporting back in after playing a bit of the DS1 port and the LoA port - so far, a ton of fun! but some of the unexpected changes were a bit confusing (companions being non-humans is a nice, if a bit disorientating, change) and some were fairly disappointing (mostly in LoA) - a few named items being completely missing (I liked collecting them, even if only as mementos), and my boy Kraal Yellowtalon strangely becoming a potion vendor instead of my main tank!

Is there a guide anywhere of all the changes between the Legendary mod and OG DS1? I still prefer this so far over the clunky original engine, but I'd like to be prepared for any more surprises...

Personally I apreciate not knowing what are the differences between the vanilla games and the Dungeon Siege Legendary Mod.
But I must admit that I regret there is no walkthrough to know what I missed.
I played the Dungeon Siege adventure two times, one after the other, and I missed some maps and items each time, and maybe some secrets areas too.
The fact all glittering chests didn't work was perturbing.
I took several screenshots of the Dungeon Siege adventure, to report any secret areas or hidden paths I found, I will share them in the future and maybe other players will be able to help if I missed others.

A few things may have been missed given the size and amount of time involved I have over 1000hrs just playtesting ). Also, Iryan hit the point where fixing one item could break SEVERAL things and the chests are picky abought any changes

Yes I can easily imagine the amount of time you all passed working on this (really legendary) mod : doing or testing it...

There are some things that might not work, but a lot of things that do not work are conflicts with other mods. Iryan and I put together a list of those conflicts. I think it is in one of the read me files. If not I can try to find it on one of my computers.
Never really had problems with chests not opening, except when they are blocked by something like being to close to a wall. The major issues I had (Playing with Cat Mansion Characters) is they where to short to reach some things I think I have at least 3 times the number of hours testing the various versions of the mod than Sigofmugmort1 has. I also have at least two years of converting DS1 weapons and armor for the mod. It took a good deal of work because DS1 armor has only one image file and DS2 has about 23. Also the sizing of the weapons was totally wrong and sometimes how they where held was wrong too, between DS1 and DS2. I could tell you stories of the days and nights I spent trying to fix things only to create other problems

Concerning chests, I don't worry anymore since I understood they don't contain important items. All quests can be achieved without them opening.
The black curtain and the not clickable town teleporters were more annoying but it can be avoided by traveling from another teleporter.
It's worth it for all the pleasure and comfort provided with this mod.

We can play Dungeon Siege, Legends of Aranna and the Utrean Peninsula with the Dungeon Siege II engine, with the same characters, keeping their items and levels.
We don't have to install these old games anymore and we get rid of all instabilities they suffered (Gathering data exception error...)
My characters gained levels they never gained before, I can now enjoy more powerful spells and items.
My wizards follow the same progression than the others characters in terms of levels, I didn't manage to do it with the original games.
I literaly rediscovered Legends of Aranna, I realise I forgot most of the parts of the game and this time I really appreciated it.
The original game crashed too often and my characters were not progressing enough, forcing me to hire all the new characters I encountered.
Many, many, many thanks for all the work put in this mod.

Concerning mods, I don't use them, but as I said before, I'm curious to try the mod on another PC, older than this one, to see if it changes anything.

Anyway, all the people who worked on this mod can be proud, you gave us a wonderful gift.
I started to play at the end of august and I'm still playing...

It's always interesting to read things like that, especialy for us who don't know how mods work.

I have nearly completed a playthrough of the DS1 campaign, and thought I might mention a few things I noticed that irked or confused me.

1: In the Ice Caverns, the Ice Warriors and Ice Archers make a "chomp" sound when aggroed until you reach the final section of the cavers where Merik is located, and which point they switch to a far more appropriate-sounding howling cry.

2: There are almost no single-class mage companions. After Ulora and that Nature Mage guy in Stonebridge, all five mage companions I checked were split between Combat magic and Nature magic, with only a few ranks of difference between the two, and I'm not sure those two wouldn't have done the same thing if I had picked them up at a later level. This means that whichever specialty I want to use them for, they will lag farther behind the rest of the party the later I pick them up. And since rank XP is given based on the active spell equipped, there is no way to actually level both schools simultaneously.

3: There are no GobBot weapon drops. I was looking forward to equipping my archer with a minigun or grenade launcher like I did in the original game, but it was unfortunately not to be.

4: There are almost no straight warriors or archers. Aside from Gyorn and Naidi in Stonebridge and that guy just outside Castle Ehb, they were all either Assassins (two) or Fists of Stone (four). I don't like having to balance two different skill trees, so these did not appeal to me at all.
4.5: even without the Broken World expansion, they are all leveled like Assassins and Fists of Stone, despite that being almost completely useless without the dual-class skilltrees.

5: Fortress Kroth does not have a Necromancer, so if you get a TPK and wind up back there, you'd better hope your corpses are within walking distance. It does, however, have a Skill Resetter, which is present nowhere else in the campaign (I feel as though these two facts may be related...). Combined with the Broken Teleporter glitch (which has hit every single town teleporter since Stonebridge), and you have a recipe for frustration.

6: What are Runes of Mending? I've got a small herd of the things following me around and I can't for the life of me figure out what they do.

7: Direct Connection Teleporters. I'm sure you had a good reason for doing it like that instead of the Teleporter network like the DS2 campaign has, but they are next to useless as anything more than overly complicated Save Points. If you want to backtrack, you have to walk. If you wipe ten feet from the next town, you have to either exit and reload, or walk the whole way again. Couple that with the afore-mentioned Broken Teleporter glitch, and guess what you're going to be doing a lot of?

I did enjoy it overall, and it was a definite improvement over the original game, but not quite as much as I feel it could have been.

Little red and yellow cube sometimes sold at magic shops for thousands of gold. When dropped on the ground, they follow you around. What are they for?

There is an improvement that would be welcome :

Like in Diablo 3, the possibility that some consumable objects like potions and regents could be stacked, so instead of having several objects of the same type taking spaces in the backpack, we will have one stack per type of object and so a way smarter and efficient use of the backpack space...

Do anyone know the meanings of the attack speeds ?

Attack speed is how quickly or slowly a weapon attacks ex. over a 10 sec. period bows will get more attacks then crossbows and while crossbows do more damage per hit. someone did a comparison of attacks while breaking down the avg. damage in a 10 second block. It might still be in the downloads.

LoA shows 10 second average damage as part of weapon stats (same for spells). Makes it easy to compare weapons of different speeds.

I struggle to remember whether "slower" mean "slower than normal" or "slower than slow".

I thing its the slowest...

I think the average damage per 10 seconds formula should be included in the mod !

Hi, gang! I'm new to the community and an old player of DS, though I've never played DS2 before. With this overhaul, I'm really enjoying it. I also generally play highly customized games, as far as camera, regeneration times, etc.. So far, many of my needs have been met, mostly due to this mod collection.

I do have one question I'm having difficulty finding an answer to, though. This suite of mods has some optional settings that are user customizable, such as monster_adjust_difficulty, which can be placed in the DungeonSiege2BrokenWorld ini file.

Does anyone know if there is a all-inclusive list of available customizations for all the included mods? I've tried tracking many of the mods included, but the exact list of mods can be a bit confusing to decipher.

BTW, my Win10 mouse problem was fixed with this mod, am I the only one?

Thanks!

There are several readme files with info on the various mods included. You can also check out Dungeon Siege II - outpost in the project sites area to look into details of the Monster Level Adjustment mod.

Hey Trasd,

Welcome! I'm not sure if a concise list exists but if you'd like to start to publish it, I'm sure other people will dig in and help. We can then publish it somewhere on the site for easy access.

So far, honestly, I've only found the one ini entry (unique to this collection), but I'm still looking.

I do, however, have another question. I'm running a non-standard resolution (except for some business laptops) of 1366 x 786. I want to play on my TV, but I haven't gotten around to testing the font size mod yet (the text is too small for my TV). Anywho, the character control panels on my screen are just too big. It didn't bother me at first, but as I'm up to 5 party members now, the panels take up a good portion of my available screen real estate.

I've seen a lot of screenshots with smaller panels, but I haven't been able to find a mod for this (I don't want anime textures for my toons). I did find a mod that makes much of the panels transparent, and it will work if I cannot find anything else, but I'd like to find a better solution.

Does anyone know where I can find a good mod for making the character panels smaller?

For those interested, I've attached the transparent character panel mod I found, which seems, so far, to work fine. I'd link the site I found it on, but even searching the file's name, I cannot find it again. I did have to use Google translation, if memory serves. I scanned it for viruses and mine says it's clean.

Thanks.

Is there a way to play a campaign (DS1 maps) a second time with the same character ?

I believe there is an elite mode. I know there was a mod floating around that forced Elite mode as well.

If succeeded it may be however - specially if the level of your main hero is not (yet) elite-appropriate - that you have to change the mode of the Level Adjustment mod by pushing the button/lever attached to your tresor vault.

Doesn't work... besides I would like to start veteran mode first.

for the french translation for the new version, I wondered if there is any material I could work on (using the technique imagined by the devs for localised versions)... I assume it will use a single text file containing all the translation...

Regularily, there are regularily peoples (on the french side) who followed my work, who ask me to continue.

Never mind, I am using Broken World so there is no support for veteran and elite modes in custom maps...

Hello, thank you for this amazing mod or should i say new game. I have a few questions and i hope this is the topic to ask them. Did you add any new quests which awards Skill Points as rewards or did you modify any old quests that would award Skill Points? I am asking because Dungeon Siege II does not have retroactive Skill Point reward system which makes later party members automatically worse than those who you can obtain earlier. Another question i have is that is it possible to add more pages to the inn? There are like 60+ characters now(if you count pets and even more if you count your item mules) at the moment you cant even hire third of the people you meet because of the limit of 20(should be 80-100). My only real complaint so far is that the game is too hard to start, it is near impossible to start in Ehb because of lack of potions and other drops, it is not very balanced when a basic Krug can kill my Half-Giant in two hits and it takes dozens of enemies for a single level up at the beginning. This is why it is almost mandatory to start in Diabloish map so you can recruit one or two characters quickly and then return to Ehb. Other than those few things this mod is just wondrous, so thank you for your hard work.

There are a couple of mods that should be in the downloads section that give more points on level up.

Even a melee type should use ranged and spell attacks, draw the krug to you and defeat them in detail

I have a better suggestion :

Why not making the "Provocation" power from the melee class a passive one, or the "Mineral form" from the Stone Fist ?

Or is it impossible to make powers passive with no cooldown of any sort (always active) ?

Ice Shot and all spells using that animation are broken. Instead of waiting the animation the spell is casted immediately when you click the enemy, this also allows the spell to be used at rapid pace and if spammed fast enough the spells do not take away any mana.

Hi all,
I'm a long time player of DS1 and 2, and have been playing both multiplayer with my son (he's 8 and loves it! a great game will always be a great game, no matter how old). However we have come across a strange issue when playing LoA map in DS2 and am hoping someone might be able to help - there are various NPC's, mostly hireables, missing. The icons are floating in the air where they should be but the character is not there.
This hasn't been an issue up till this point as we don't want to hire anyone, but one of the ones missing is Jhermaya so we can't get the door to the under ground city bit open to continue.
The question mark is floating in the air where she should be, but she isn't there

Has anyone come across this before, or is there anyway we are able to carry on and get past the door? is it possible to edit anything anywhere to give us the required quest item or cheat to move us on a bit? Any help will be most gratefully received by my son and myself.
It's the Steam version of the game with Killah's Broken Sword and legendary mod. I've tried reinstalling from steam and putting the full legendary mod on from the link at the beginning of this thread but when loading up the save she's still not there.
Many Thanks in advance,
Dan.