Wizardry: The Five Ordeals News

Thank you for supporting "Wizardry: The Five Ordeals".
We are sorry that we have not been able to report anything for a while now.
We will report the overall progress as of March 13, 2024.

[h2]Overall[/h2]
Currently, the development team is working on the game itself, editor, and some ports in parallel. We would like to inform you of the current status of each of them.

[h2]Game[/h2]
Due to the ongoing optimization work that has resulted from the development of the previously announced versions for other devices(A.K.A. console or something), we will not be updating the game for several months, except for the beta update on March 21, which will be described below. The content that will be updated in the optimization work scheduled at a later date will not change much for users(and sometimes a slight adverse effect on boot speed may occur), so we would appreciate your understanding.

We have read through all the requests/suggestions we have received since the early access, and we plan to implement some of them as major updates after the release of the versions for other devices. We will announce the specific details as soon as we have them.

[h3]Update beta on 3/21[/h3]

• Revised some of the names of enchantments
  
• Change of the minimum ease of learning magic on the scenario side settings
  
• Fixed an issue where some grids were not designated as random teleport destinations
  
• Other bug fixes and adjustments
  

[h3]Editors[/h3]
The English version will be released in June or later. Until then, we will continue to polish the functionality in Japanese only.

[h3]Ports[/h3]
We apologize that it has taken much longer than originally anticipated, and we are still unable to provide a specific time schedule. As soon as we have a better developments, we will provide a summary of future developments, along with an update schedule for the main site and editor.

[h2]Recent schedules[/h2]

3/21：Beta updates
Aplil：Development Situation updates
Aplil～May：Polish the Editor (Japanese only)
June or later：English Support for Editor
*If there are any changes to the schedule, we will notify you in the next report.

[h2]Steam Spring Sale is underway![/h2]
Wizardry: The Five Ordeals and the DLC are discounted in the Steam Spring Sale until March 22. We hope that you will purchase the Game and other DLC you missed out on as a show of support.

This is basically the last update for the year. For the time being, there will be no major updates in the next few months/half year as we prepare for future developments, but 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.

Updates
- Added "View Map" to the button guide at the top of the HDUIs.
- Added an indicator for the inventory full for each character in the HDUIs post-battle results.
- The enchantments of "silence resistance" has been increased from increased resistance to prevention.
- Save when an item is obtained as part of an event after a battle, or when some scenario flag is turned on.

Fixes
- The signboard of the castle in Labyrinth 9 in each scenarios was not being processed correctly.
- The silence effect of the prysmic spells was not correctly handled as resistant.
- Color filters were being applied to indeterminate graphics in the HDUI's Monster Book.
- Improved exception handling when an item that cannot be equipped in a user scenario is given as initial equipment.
- Improved exception handling when an incorrect spell is created in a user scenario.
[h3]The Price of Deception V1.1[/h3]
Changes to item names and item magical effects will not be applied to existing acquired items.
Please repurchase items as necessary.
New
- Added messages to the entrance signs of each labyrinth outside of town.
- Added a message to B1 explaining the levels.
- Added a message to B3 explaining the magic prohibited area
- Added message when entering B8 boss room
- Message after the battle of B9 boss added.
- New subweapon for warriors and lords
- New mace-type weapons
- New acccesaries

■調整
- Adjusted the order of spells at each level
- Adjusted the AC and magical effects of cursed items.
- Enhanced the magic effect of Shiny Chain.
- Decrease the performance of mace and decrease their price
- Increases the performance of warhammer and increases their price.
- Increased the base number of attacks of the mace of power to 3

- Adjusted some messages from B1 to B3.
- Hellhounds now appear in B4.
- Adjusted the message of the event to obtain a specific item at B8.
- Bigfoot now appears normally at B9.
- The ring of antivenom drops at B9.

Spoilers:
[expand]- Revised the pre-battle message of the B9 boss.
- Changed the name of the objective item for the first labyrinth.
- Revised messages for congratulations the first labyrinth
- Adjusted item drop and probability in the second labyrinth.
- The boss room system on the 3F/second labyrinth has been readjusted, and the boss can be rematched only by switching floors.
- The ring of antivenom is now dropped on the 3rd floor/second labyrinth.
- Changed some labyrinth structures on 3F/second labyrinth.
- Adjusted drop item probability from special enemies on 3F/second labyrinth.[/expand]

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.
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Updates
- Added "View Map" to the button guide at the top of the HDUIs.
- Added an indicator for the inventory full for each character in the HDUIs post-battle results.
- The enchantments of "silence resistance" has been increased from increased resistance to prevention.
- Save when an item is obtained as part of an event after a battle, or when some scenario flag is turned on.

Fixes
- The signboard of the castle in Labyrinth 9 in each scenarios was not being processed correctly.
- The silence effect of the prysmic spells was not correctly handled as resistant.
- Color filters were being applied to indeterminate graphics in the HDUI's Monster Book.
- Improved exception handling when an item that cannot be equipped in a user scenario is given as initial equipment.
- Improved exception handling when an incorrect spell is created in a user scenario.
[h3]The Price of Deception V1.1[/h3]
Changes to item names and item magical effects will not be applied to existing acquired items.
Please repurchase items as necessary.
New
- Added messages to the entrance signs of each labyrinth outside of town.
- Added a message to B1 explaining the levels.
- Added a message to B3 explaining the magic prohibited area
- Added message when entering B8 boss room
- Message after the battle of B9 boss added.
- New subweapon for warriors and lords
- New mace-type weapons
- New acccesaries

■調整
- Adjusted the order of spells at each level
- Adjusted the AC and magical effects of cursed items.
- Enhanced the magic effect of Shiny Chain.
- Decrease the performance of mace and decrease their price
- Increases the performance of warhammer and increases their price.
- Increased the base number of attacks of the mace of power to 3

- Adjusted some messages from B1 to B3.
- Hellhounds now appear in B4.
- Adjusted the message of the event to obtain a specific item at B8.
- Bigfoot now appears normally at B9.
- The ring of antivenom drops at B9.

Spoilers:
[expand]- Revised the pre-battle message of the B9 boss.
- Changed the name of the objective item for the first labyrinth.
- Revised messages for congratulations the first labyrinth
- Adjusted item drop and probability in the second labyrinth.
- The boss room system on the 3F/second labyrinth has been readjusted, and the boss can be rematched only by switching floors.
- The ring of antivenom is now dropped on the 3rd floor/second labyrinth.
- Changed some labyrinth structures on 3F/second labyrinth.
- Adjusted drop item probability from special enemies on 3F/second labyrinth.[/expand]

Thank you for your continued support of "Wizardry: The Five Ordeals".

Thanks to your support, we is now officially available on Steam, and we are preparing for the next phase of the game's development.
In the meantime, Steam has started voting for nominations for the "Steam Awards" as usual in conjunction with the Autumn Sale.

This year, we hope that you will nominate this hardcore RPG game for the Steam Award "BEST GAME YOU SUCK AT" award, now finally 18 years since its first release.

We are not sure if the nomination itself will help much. but if you have written a review, even a brief one, even after the nomination, it would be a great help in bringing this work to the attention of more potential users, regardless of its content. We would very much appreciate your cooperation in this event.

About next update, we are currently working on back-end modifications for future development and may release a beta version soon. We also plan to make one more major revision to the default scenario "The Price of Deception" including adding messages about the mechanics of some labyrinths and game flow, as well as adjusting the types of items dropped in the latter part of the game.

In addition, the DLC "Prisoner of the Battles" and "The Absence of Misericordia" are discounted in this Autumn Sale. If you have not purchased them yet, please do so.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1309770/Wizardry/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1309771/Wizardry/

Update
- For some environments where the game does not start properly even if press "GAME START" on the title screen, an error message describing how to solve the problem.

This is a response to the case where some files extracted to each scenario folder are incorrect. A drastic solution has not been determined at this time, as it will take a lot of time.

- Changed the correspondence of the relevant key on the keyboard for the option "Forward" item.

The "K" key and the "5" key on the numeric keypad always act as kick down the door.

Fixes
- Displaying map logs that contained specific events caused subsequent map logs to be displayed incorrectly.

In the map log, magic lights status are always shown as "none".

- If the spell slot depleted and did not own the consumables to view the map, the map log also could not be viewed.
- When selling stacked items from the item box, the selling price was very high.
- When attempting to heal or resuscitate a character in a temple without first viewing the character's abilities after "GAME START," some of the screen displays were incorrect.
- Visual handling of some characters on the options screen was incorrect.
- Some scenario-side settings could result in incorrect initial equipment for characters.