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Beta Update 2025/4/17

This is Beta version, we cannot guarantee compatibility of save data, etc.

before playing the beta version,
Users\username\AppData\LocalLow\59Studio\WizardryFoV2\savedata
You can back up your saved data from above location.

If you agree to the above, right click on "Wizardry: The Five Ordeals" in the Steam library, select properties, and enter the password "IReadAnnounce" in the beta tab. The "publicbeta" version can be selected. This will automatically update the system, and you can also return to the current normal version by selecting no beta from the Beta tab. However, we will not be able to provide support for data corruption caused by version inconsistencies due to the use of this switch.

New
- More Optimizations

Updates
- Adjust the brightness of the lighting in the labyrinth
- Adjust the input state of the buttons after a soft reset
- When a invalid value resistance settings in item, the display will show "Blank" resistance. The game process is the same as before, and there is no effect at all.
- Changed alternate image from “face_d” to ‘face_c’ when portrait “face_i” is not available.


Fixes
- After healing/ressurection at the temple, button mashing could affect the value of the BGM volume
- Unintended random teleportation could occur after the end of a battle at a battle point
- The initial cursor could be in an unintended position at certain pool events
- For riddle (battle) events, the flag was not turned off after the event.
- Portrait “face_l” was not displayed when selecting targets for attack spells, etc.
- Some walls in the distance were not displayed in fast-movement mode.

Relish the risk.


"Wizardry Variants Daphne” is a newest of the "Wizardry" series. The Steam version is finally available! The game is free to play, but its solid RPG gameplay is just “Wizardry”. Fans of 3D dungeon RPGs should check it out, as well as “The Five Ordeals”.

Store page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2379740/Wizardry_Variants_Daphne/

Update 2025/1/29

we have various plans for next year that we hope will continue to be enjoyed by our users. We hope you will continue to support "Wizardry: The Five Ordeals" in the future.

This update includes all of the following patch notes:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1308700/view/4141695629539789542
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1308700/view/4141695629555493023
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1308700/view/4204746659258537862
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1308700/view/587256990569332755
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1308700/view/587257174530457728
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1308700/view/505066838869148647

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Fixes
- In the scenario select, the number of pages had increased when the list was exactly 10.
- In the 3:2 UI, the G.P. display on the status screen was out of alignment. Also, some items were right-aligned.
- Depending on the setting position of the event “Item makes a door” a sound effect may not have sounded when the door was passed through.

[h3]The Price of Deception[/h3]
Fixes
- One of the B1 messages did not show a trailing tail line.

Beta Hotfix 2025/1/27

This is Beta version, we cannot guarantee compatibility of save data, etc.

before playing the beta version,
Users\username\AppData\LocalLow\59Studio\WizardryFoV2\savedata
You can back up your saved data from above location.

If you agree to the above, right click on "Wizardry: The Five Ordeals" in the Steam library, select properties, and enter the password "IReadAnnounce" in the beta tab. The "publicbeta" version can be selected. This will automatically update the system, and you can also return to the current normal version by selecting no beta from the Beta tab. However, we will not be able to provide support for data corruption caused by version inconsistencies due to the use of this switch.

Fixes
- The width of some 2-byte symbol characters in the font was significantly different between the HD and SD/3:2 UI.
As a bug that is not scheduled to be fixed,
✕✔✓☑⏎
When some 2-byte symbols are used in messages, etc., the font size of the corresponding line in the HD-type UI will be different from what is expected. Please avoid using this in user scenarios.
Please use “×” for the 2-byte cross mark.

- Some "languages" items on the options screen could be rewritten to unintended settings.
- When the backward movement was set to “Backward” in the options, the S key could not be used to backward.
- When using the HD UI, it was not possible to exit the screen by right-clicking in the Monster dictionary.
- Some portrait differences were not displayed correctly when only certain images were prepared.
- Some English UI items of certain user scenarios was not displayed correctly.
- Slight spelling correction in English UI.

Beta Hotfix 2025/1/19

This is Beta version, we cannot guarantee compatibility of save data, etc.

before playing the beta version,
Users\username\AppData\LocalLow\59Studio\WizardryFoV2\savedata
You can back up your saved data from above location.

If you agree to the above, right click on "Wizardry: The Five Ordeals" in the Steam library, select properties, and enter the password "IReadAnnounce" in the beta tab. The "publicbeta" version can be selected. This will automatically update the system, and you can also return to the current normal version by selecting no beta from the Beta tab. However, we will not be able to provide support for data corruption caused by version inconsistencies due to the use of this switch.

Updates
- Revert footstep sound change when floating.

Fixes
- After using the conditionally search on scenario selector, the game sometimes softlock.
- Some items had different default values than expected when an older version of the options file was available on the PC.
- Portrait Face_a was not displayed correctly in many scenes in SD/3:2 UI.
- The portrait display did not return to normal when escaping from battle with the spell “teleportation” while suffering from temporary abnormalities.