Dungeon Siege and Legends of Aranna

[Gavindale Marchovia]

I've been trying to follow the threads on Dungeon Siege, and am curious... If I purchase Dungeon Siege, is the expansion (LOA) included? Or is it a seperate download?

[Applied Mediocrity]

It is not included and it is not a separate download either. Steam only has the original base game and *none* of the later content. For shame.

However, if you don't mind a bit of yarrrr, check the following group for a guide on how it's possible to run DSLOA as if it were on Steam:
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/DungeonSiegeOfficialGroup
Direct link to the guide:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=384309700

That's the easiest way. However, if the guide ever gets stolen by Shadowjumper or something, I'll describe the manual way: obtain DSLOA from somewhere (yarrr), install it (temporarily), copy over all files to Steam version (including the yarrr part), rename DSLOA.exe to DungeonSiege.exe and... that's it.

[Gavindale Marchovia]

Do I have to download Killah's bonus pack to get Legend of Aranna? The reason I ask is because I want to eventually want to play the expansion, but don't want some of the perks in Killah's Bonus Pack.

[Applied Mediocrity]

Either my browser's screwed up or I'm simply dumb a.f. but I've never even figured out where all that Bonus stuff he talks about actually is.

Anyway, the Download Link right under ENABLING LEGENDS OF ARANNA leads to Dungeon Siege I Killah's Steam Fix and at the moment contains only DSLOA files and two optional maps that do no harm whatsoever, nothing else. Yes, you need that.

[Twobei]

The Bonus pack is literally just a bonus pack adding some goodies, some are just concepts and there's even a map or two for the game.

The essentials are in the LoA download link though.

[Gavindale Marchovia]

I mean, the Bonus Pack has some good features, but I don't want to have the game maps filled in for me - I use the self-filled map to know where I have and have not been in Dungeon Siege. And I am still unclear on how to download the Legend of Arrana expansion files.

[Applied Mediocrity]

Ok, check this one:

https://mega.nz/#F!HoExCKTT!J9VQxG3hbdRNEUMcVarerQ

[Gavindale Marchovia]

With the link you just sent, I was taken to an external website - under the Killah bonus pack, two questions - can I pick which files to download and which ones not too, and how do I download and install those particular files?

[Gavindale Marchovia]

What about the computer virus situation...?

[Applied Mediocrity]

Blimey, for the love of... , what is this wretched bonus pack everyone talks about!? I see *nothing* of the likes! To me there's but two things:

* Dungeon Siege I Killah's Steam Fix <--- select this, then Download as ZIP
* Registry Fix (OPTIONAL) <--- screw this, whatever it is

Then unzip the contents over to the Steam version. There's nothing to pick, all that 1033, yada-yada, mspigs.dll and whatnot, all of it is required for DSLOA to function proper.

True, it's on an external website. That's because THERE IS NO WAY TO GET IT OFICIALLY. None at all! Of what I've heard, Square Enix, the current owner of Dungeon Siege I, II and III, did not acquire the rights to LOA and other expansions, and so it's forever lost (as in, still belongs to Microsoft Games, but good luck getting it from them).

As for the second, the virus thing... let me congratulate that you even remembered that. Most people don't. Alas, none of us can guarantee that those files are clean. It's one's own responsibility (and good practice, I might add) to trust, but verify. You do have an antivirus installed, don't you? Use it! If it then takes a dislike on something you downloaded, delete everything and re-download the Steam version.

I'm sorry, there's nothing more I can do for you, mate. It's either this way or no way.

[Twobei]

Check the activating LoA guide by Killah, it's a huge paragraph in there

[chirulahr]

This made my day! Thank you guys for posting and thanks Killah for enabling the expansion. Playing on Windows 8.1 and it runs like a treat. Pure nostalgia!
I did not notice any virus and installation was as simple as copying everything into the game folder.