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Overview

Dungeon Siege II: Broken World, the official expansion pack, is an action/role-playing game set in a dark, post-apocalyptic fantasy world that concludes the story of Dungeon Siege II. You must hunt down the Dark Wizard in order exact your vengeance and undo the evil brought to the world of Aranna.

Features

• After the shocking betrayal at the end of Dungeon Siege II, play through Act IV to conclude this epic adventure.

Hey all,

Join 2K Games and Gas Powered Games on GameSpy Arcade this Thursday at 4pm PST (7pm EST / midnight GMT), where developers will be on-hand to answer questions about Dungeon Siege II: Broken World, the upcoming expansion to GPG’s hit action-RPG.

Fans that would like to participate will need to download and install GameSpy Arcade and create an online profile. Download it from http://www.gamespyarcade.com/download. On the day of the chat, log into GameSpy Arcade and head to the GameSpy.com lobby (accessible by clicking the GameSpy.com logo under the "My Games" tab on the left hand side of the software). Once the chat starts, you’ll get instructions on how to ask questions and participate.

There are some minor fixes which may or may not be noticed.
The sets that use helms now have a helm for Elves and non Elves. They say on the description which version it is.
The maze area was added back in for something different. It is just sort of there.
You may notice some new monsters are used in both monsters about and monster summons.

During the development of DS2, the "tuning grid" system was created to allow monster to be dynamically generated as nodes streamed into the frustum. This tuning system is composed of a series of weighted blocks created in Siege Editor on a region by region basis. The system takes a list of templates generated by the developer and assigns properties to each creature and their blocks. By doing this a developer is able to create a dynamic combat experience that changes each time a party runs through the region but appears random and is correctly balanced.

So, we all knew there was going to be a Dungeon Siege 2 expansion. Now we know a bit more. This will be one of those "add-on" style expansions, set after the events of the original DS2 game. If DS2 gave you 40 hours of RPG goodness, expect the expansion to give you another 10. Looks for the standard new items, new armor sets, and new monsters. Make sure you look for the news combo classes though: Blood Assassins (Ranged/Combat Magic) and Fist of Stone (Melee/Nature Magic). Potentially the most interesting aspect of the expansion, however, is the new "Brutal" mode, "which features tougher monsters but also rewards players with better loot earlier in the game." This isn't a new difficulty level in the same vein as Veteran and Elite. It simply gives players more of a challenge. Look for more news on this glorious expansion soon!