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Top 10 Helpful Hints for Dungeon Siege Gameplay
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Having troubles making it out of your farm house? Getting owned by the Krugs? Well
then, have no fear, because the ever helpful Dungeon Siege community is here to
help. Featured below are the top 10 most helpful hints for taking the fight to the
many evil denizens of the Kingdom of Ehb, all pulled from the forums of several
of the top Dungeon Siege fan sites.
- Quick purchases.
When buying potions, instead of selecting with the mouse to drag them into the inventory
box, use CTRL+right-click to automatically put potions into your inventory without
having to drag-and-drop.
- Right-click to attack.
Also use right-click to target. That way if you miss clicking directly on your enemy,
you won't go running head-first into harm's way.
- Save often!
The default quick-save key is F9. You can also quick-load by using F11.
- Remap hotkeys.
Remap camera controls and potion hotkeys for ease-of-use. Consider mapping WASD
keys to rotate and raise/lower the camera. Then choose R and F to remap your health
and mana potion hotkeys as well. This allows you to use your mouse to focus on the
battles and leave the camera control to your hotkeys. You'll never have to take
your eyes off the screen to sip a health potion either.
- Plenty of Potions.
The worlds of Dungeon Siege are immense. On your long journeys between towns or
shops, it is critical to have enough mana and health potions. You will not always
be able to find enough potions as you battle the monsters along the way. So make
sure you buy enough health and mana potions to last on the long trip. Also, keep
in mind when buying potions that Rejuvenation Potions can only be used once. You
use the whole rejuvenation potion when you drink it, so you'll need plenty of them.
- Organize your party.
Group your party by using the ctrl+F1-F8 etc. This allows you to group all the skill
typed characters together. When you want to select your group of archers, for example,
press F1 (whatever key you assigned your group to) and you can easily select them.
You can do the same for mages and fighters as well. CTRL +A automatically selects
all party members for you.
- Use quick-slots.
Use the 1-4 keys to quickly select your four hotkey slots. This way you can select
3 or 4 in the heat of battle and use that Healing Hands spell to raise a fallen
party member.
- Slow the game down.
If you're finding things going too fast for you, you can slow the speed down by
using CTRL -. This will give you time to figure out what's going on. You can speed
it back up by simply pressing CTRL +.
- Increase your framerate.
To help get better framerates be sure that you have shadows set to "Simple" or if
you are on a lower-end machine, just turn them off all together. You won't miss
them -- not with all the other eye candy you'll be looking at -- and you might just
gain 3-5 more FPS in the process.
- Right-click to change spells.
Rather then opening up your paper doll, selecting your spell book and then shuffling
spells around, simply right-click on the spell in the main UI and it will bring
up a list of all available spells in your spell book. You can then left-click on
the spell you want and it will change on the fly!
More tips can be found at the following sites:
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