Wizardry The Wizardry Series Thread

[octavius]

But did you also run at an enemy too fast and bounce right the fuck off him like a tennis ball?

Ah yes...that's one of the bloody annoyances that I forgot to mention.

 

[octavius]

Funniest thing in the game was probably RFS-81's dry humour when defeating undead and golems: "Lifeforms exterminated!".

 

[rusty_shackleford]

A really good game leaves you craving for more.

The lack of wiz8 clones is a crime against humanity.

 

[Humbaba]

Funniest thing in the game was probably RFS-81's dry humour when defeating undead and golems: "Lifeforms exterminated!".

No, funniest thing is those treants going EEWUUUHWWGGHHH in different pitches every time you hit them.

 

[octavius]

Some more thoughts:

Wiz8 is definitely the easiest of the Wizardries and should not be hard to play Iron Man. Too much combat and respawns make you overleveled. The only generic enemies I feared after Arnika Road were fishmen, Death Rays and Ensnaring Spiders.
Apart from them the most troublesome enemies were those with Psi attacks, especially Turncoat.

The Valkyries were a liability against these enemies, since they have low resistance to Mental magic. Combined with never finding anything better than Dread Spear, the Valks were often more effective with Bows with a 5-6 Kill chance. The Lord and Samurai were more solid. I dunno, maybe Polearms skill is a trap in Wiz 8.

I never got a Triple Crossbow, since my Gadgeteer never knew how to. And I never robbed the whole Bank, since I wanted to avoid bloodshed, so didn't get that berserker sword. I guess these weapons would have made it even easier.

The AI was weird. Even when a full member of the T'Rang, some areas were still off limits. At the same time you could loot chests from right under their owers' noses. I guess I could have just lock picked the main vault in the bank without Lorrac (I wonder who Carrol was?) or the guard reacting, but I never tried.

 

[The Limper]

I was pissed that the bank didnt have a giant money vault for the obvious super rich plastic surgeon that must live in Arnika. The famished ladies of Arnika all had boob jobs!

 

[Darth Canoli]

And I never robbed the whole Bank, since I wanted to avoid bloodshed, so didn't get that berserker sword. I guess these weapons would have made it even easier.

The whole bank is just the vaults and you can get there discreetly.
That's actually the only way to do it.
The robbery thing is a trap.

Spoiler

Open the chests in the tavern, the shop and the weapon shop to get key cards, use the bank's elevator, it's as simple as that.
You might need high level knock knock/lockpicking for other vaults.

Polearm skills is far from a trap, short range melee weapons are.
You don't hit as hard but you actually use most if not all of you hits and swings which makes up for that.

The Berserker sword sucks, unless you're in over your head and can't manage roaming monsters, in which case the sword will just obliterate things.
Otherwise, you're locked out of ranged weapons and the short range means you won't use a third of your swings, it's lame, except for a rogue since he can't use extended weapons anyway and is not that good with ranged weapons either or a samurai since you can use magic when you get nothing to hit on short range.

As for the T'Rangs, you might be an ally but the locked areas are sensible and don't offer much, it's actually for Umpani quest-line.
There's a trick to use that area as a shortcut though, using the combat mode twice with fast enough reflexes.

 

[octavius]

There are two elevators and I assume two vaults in the bank; the main one where various NPCs have their storage boxes or individual vaults, and the one that is reached from the jail. I only robber the latter.

As for weapons and such, I didn't agonize much about it since the game was not very difficult after the start.

 

[Darth Canoli]

There are two elevators and I assume two vaults in the bank; the main one where various NPCs have their storage boxes or individual vaults, and the one that is reached from the jail. I only robber the latter.

And you can rob both but I guess you'd have to start with the vault ones, the second one might trigger an alarm, I'm not sure.
Anyway, you can "visit" the personnal vaults anytime you like, use the keycards and "train" your lockpicking skills.

And make a new friend...

Spoiler

I'm kidding, don't train you lockpicking skills, it takes forever, just use a high level knock knock.

 

[Desiderius]

There are two elevators and I assume two vaults in the bank; the main one where various NPCs have their storage boxes or individual vaults, and the one that is reached from the jail. I only robber the latter.

As for weapons and such, I didn't agonize much about it since the game was not very difficult after the start.

Give Lorrac a Keycard and she'll let you waltz right in.

 

[Butter]

From the guy who did rebalance mods for Wiz 6, 7, and 8, plus a recreation of 6 in 7's engine:

dfortate - Game Reviews (Yesterday at 11:26 pm)

For those that hate Wizardry 8's "level scaling", I'm working on a mod to remove that. The monster difficulty will be largely based on the area you are in, similar to Wizardry 6 and 7. Particular monsters will not increase in level as you do. Hopefully this will make Wizardry 8 enjoyable for those that don't like level scaling! I am modding the vanilla (unmodified) version so you will be able to experience the game without my other modifications.

 

[Desiderius]

From the guy who did rebalance mods for Wiz 6, 7, and 8, plus a recreation of 6 in 7's engine:

dfortate - Game Reviews (Yesterday at 11:26 pm)

For those that hate Wizardry 8's "level scaling", I'm working on a mod to remove that. The monster difficulty will be largely based on the area you are in, similar to Wizardry 6 and 7. Particular monsters will not increase in level as you do. Hopefully this will make Wizardry 8 enjoyable for those that don't like level scaling! I am modding the vanilla (unmodified) version so you will be able to experience the game without my other modifications.

His main mod lowers resists on random spawns while beefing up bosses and adding a couple. Also adds more throwing weapons, etc...

 

[ResetRPG]

A really good game leaves you craving for more.

The lack of wiz8 clones is a crime against humanity.

2022 blobber revival movement

 

[Humbaba]

Some more thoughts:

Wiz8 is definitely the easiest of the Wizardries

Nope, that's Wiz7 with an imported party from 6 wielding all the endgame weapons that you can bring along.

The Valkyries were a liability against these enemies, since they have low resistance to Mental magic. Combined with never finding anything better than Dread Spear, the Valks were often more effective with Bows with a 5-6 Kill chance. The Lord and Samurai were more solid. I dunno, maybe Polearms skill is a trap in Wiz 8.

That's not true, the stun rod is OP and can even be imported from 7 should you find one.

 

[octavius]

Some more thoughts:

Wiz8 is definitely the easiest of the Wizardries

Nope, that's Wiz7 with an imported party from 6 wielding all the endgame weapons that you can bring along.

Heh, been there, done that. I found Wiz8 significantly much easier. The problem with the Wiz7 scenario is that you need hybrids to wield those weapons, which means your magic skills in particular will suffer due to slower leveling and fewer skill points.

 

[Desiderius]

Some more thoughts:

Wiz8 is definitely the easiest of the Wizardries

Nope, that's Wiz7 with an imported party from 6 wielding all the endgame weapons that you can bring along.

Heh, been there, done that. I found Wiz8 significantly much easier. The problem with the Wiz7 scenario is that you need hybrids to wield those weapons, which means your magic skills in particular will suffer due to slower leveling and fewer skill points.

Uh, have you tried multiclassing lol?

 

[octavius]

Uh, have you tried multiclassing lol?

I did, lol. Funny thing is, that when you go from Samurai to Mage you can't wield the Muramasa blade anymore.

 

[Desiderius]

Uh, have you tried multiclassing lol?

I did, lol. Funny thing is, that when you go from Samurai to Mage you can't wield the Muramasa blade anymore.

That’s why you go back lol. After three or four other classes to really go off. Wiz8 nerfed multiclassing because it was too good in Wiz7.

 

[Gastrick]

Someone sent me this video:

 

[Covenant]

Someone sent me this video:

Her crappy MS paint map is actually pretty endearing.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Evil characters eh? So aliens are evil. And the music is why I put on some mp3 thrash metal. My biggest edit would be changing that god awful music.

 

[LarryTyphoid]

I started playing Wizardry 1 again. This game is still incredibly fun considering it's over 40 years old. It's definitely better than some later games like Dragon Quest. Some of the map design is absolutely devilish, though, considering they expected you to chart your path on graph paper. The one-way secret wall leading into a teleporter on the first level is a real "fuck you" to beginning players. The very first secret wall you find, and it'll confuse you then probably lead you to death.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Apparantly, this dude was a huge Wizardry fan:
https://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~by7n-ysmr/apps/sorcerer.htm

But you can't get all the dungeons now.. :/

 

[gman42]

I started playing Wizardry 1 again. This game is still incredibly fun considering it's over 40 years old. It's definitely better than some later games like Dragon Quest. Some of the map design is absolutely devilish, though, considering they expected you to chart your path on graph paper. The one-way secret wall leading into a teleporter on the first level is a real "fuck you" to beginning players. The very first secret wall you find, and it'll confuse you then probably lead you to death.

I kinda love how that first level is like four little mazes in one with a little hint of everything in it, starting with that My First Dungeon section in the southwest where it's just nice long hallways leading to big obvious rooms. It was probably a smart thing to introduce some of the confusing aspects like dark zones and teleporters on floor 1, where you still have a decent chance of finding your way back before you get in too deep.

 

[myoffice91]

***2022.11.14***
***released- Build 5485***

Wizardry 8 ! Congratulations on your 21st birthday! Thank you, the creators of this game! The game promotes the development of logical, tactical and strategic thinking. And thank you that there are fans and players who continue to develop this game.! All creative success and successful games!

. In honor of the birthday of the original game, a Fan Patch 1.28 is being released, build 5485 Wizardry 8.
You can download

it here https://disk.yandex.ru/d/21W9nYPRV31mtg

Download FLICS.SLF https://disk.yandex.ru/d/cRBWNzN92QcD6A


Download NewDefaultSky.SLF in Mods https://disk.yandex.ru/d/TxYlbrxwS787vA
Fan Patch 1.28 is supported by CFagent+LUA similarly to GoG, steam, which makes it possible to play in Russian fashion, for example from Gray Tiefing.
The "NSF auto-translator" function is disabled by default.

If you install the newest build, then after switching to another location it will be 100% return of the mercenary who previously had the build saved the file with the disappearance of the mercenary, and now there will be a return of the mercenary.


Game improvement optimization, also faster to load the saved game.


Feature:

• The ability to add new portraits - without replacing the original portraits.
• The ability to expand the packages of votes and add "ticks" 3,4,5
• A lot of settings in Win8.ini and ModInfo.ini
• Added hotkeys: to inventory,; to the spell panel; to other game functions.
• Added support for BIK video setup for windowed mode
• The ability to expand the limit of spells studied by the character from 114 to 456
• Increased the limit of monsters in 1 group from 9 to 45
• Improved work with Windows 10
• In battles with a large number of monsters, freezes became approximately 2 times less
• Many other optimizations of the game
• Added the ability for an RPC to put his favorite item in the "Squad Stuff". When the mercenary is fired, he will take away his favorite item.
• Added automatic checking for content mods cfagent.dll ,cfagent.lua, *.cfdat.
• Support for negative elemental resistances for characters, as well as removing restrictions on the maximum value of resistances.
• Monsters are now affected by the magic screen spell.
• The weapon with the "Seize" effect now works correctly (it did not work in the original, but there was no corresponding weapon).
• Fixed a memory leak bug
• Added support for playing with 7 mercenaries!
• Added localization support for all *dbs
• Added support for the "Parallel World" function, which allows you to conveniently switch mods.
• Added automatic calculation of FOV in the real world, now the image will not stretch at widescreen resolution.
• Added 4 settings pages to "general"
• Added the ability to instantly launch the game
• Implemented the option of "Transparent radar and plotting"
• Added hotkey CTRL+F10 to view FPS
• Added 4-bit support in NPC.
• Removing the restriction from Fact.dbs
• The render per second is limited for all interfaces except in the real world to reduce the load on video cards.
• The optimization of the assortment of goods from merchants has been implemented, now only 3 of one type of goods are displayed.
• Fixed an original bug related to the spell "return to the portal": with several teleports in a row, incorrect coordinates were recorded and the party could fall into the floor.
• LUA - new features: 47+2
• LUA - new events: 20+2
• New parameters for modders: 52+4+19
• Optimization implemented: reducing the load from 0% to 1% on the processor, except for the real world.
• The "Parallel World" form is implemented, where when selecting a fashion from the folder list, information about the fashion is displayed.
• Added support for displaying Russian text for the versions "English disk", "GoG", "Steam".
• Option: "Alternative colors in the store"
• Character characteristics Editor 0.5
• Added support for Unicode file names.
• Added support: download all SLF files from the "Mods" folder.
• Added: check in "Items.dbs" on the inclusion of the "cursed" checkmark of the "ammunition" item. If there is a check mark, information about the status of the curse will appear in the window.
• In the inventory, the hotkey "CTRL+Click", "ALT+Click", "CTRL+SHIFT+Click", "CTRL+ALT+Click", "CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+Click" has been added for quick exchange or replenishment of ammunition in the left hand.

Innovations are: 19+1+1+10+75+3+20+(16)=145
Bugs fixed: 25+3+4+18+37+6+21+(29)=143
Miscellaneous changes and improvements: 9+2+7+3+17+0+27+(14)=79
Stability & Performance: 25+0+0+2+12+0+3+(7)=49
Total: 403+66

Thanks to: Max P., Andrey B., Zergs and Ilya M. Denis D., Nomad, evil_bl, Jadefang, for testing.



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