Let's play - Wizardry 4: Return of Werdna

[theverybigslayer]

The summonable monsters at the 3rd level pentagram

My stat at 3rd level

I am killing the Arcturus's Avegers team

I am slaughtering the other group, unfortunately the boss thief has stolen something and has run off so you can't see him

 

[Binary]

Hmmmmm number crunching RPGs... yummy

Few questions for you:

1) Are you doing any kind of save management (copy/paste etc)?

2) Are you following any map/faq/whatever?

3) Any particular configuration you needed to do on DOSBox?

 

[sqeecoo]

Um, could you explain the game a bit as you go along? I don't get much, having never played it. But I'm very interested! You could perhaps explain the mechanics, your choices, and why the game is so hard.

 

[Binary]

Um, could you explain the game a bit as you go along? I don't get much, having never played it. But I'm very interested! You could perhaps explain the mechanics, your choices, and why the game is so hard.

Werdna was an evil wizard defeated in Wizardry 1. In Wizardry 4, you play Werdna, starting from the bottom of the dungeon, all they way up to get his amulet back. On the way he fights hordes of heroes.

The game is a 3d mostly b&w game dungeon crawler, in which party members are monsters and enemies are heroes!

The game is hard... because puzzles and combat are hard

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

Yeah, to someone who's never played the game, this is coming across as less of a "Let's Play" and more "look at random screenshots of me playing". It's interesting, but more explanation/rambling monologues would be nice.

 

[Fat Dragon]

GODDAMN, I hated that fucking minefield! One of the hardest parts in the game.

 

[theverybigslayer]

The game is hard because I can't see farther than my nose

The game hardest feature (so far) for me that I cannot save. I can only quit&save.
When you load the game the level resets so you have to fight again the wandering good parties.

There are 2 six-member strong parties and a lots of small (1-2-3 members).
Fortunately sometimes a member of the big parties go alone and I can kill him. Later the party find the body and want to carry it to the temple to resurrect so I have to fight only 5 man + 1 dead.

Anyway if I kill every good enemy of the level I can wandering on that level freely, only Trebor's ghost can kill me. But the ghost kill me immediately so fast as I can't make a screenshot.

I have never used the 'run' option in battle playing Wiz6+Wiz7, but here I am getting used to do it.

I save only at the beginning of a new level or at a pentagram.

In the game there are 8 save slot, it's enough for me so far.

There is no need for special Dosbox tuning, I can set the delay in the game and I am using the space key for speeding up messages.

I have already played the first 2 level in the past so that was easier.

 

[HanoverF]

I predict this "let's play" thread will have the shortest TTL ever.

Why? I don't play in ironman mode.

You should make it more interesting by running a death count at least.

 

[Elwro]

What's with the zillions of keys?

 

[theverybigslayer]

What's with the zillions of keys?

The 'zillions of keys' is not and exact number because if I map out the minefield with 1 million keystrokes and I die eventually, after the load game I go through the now mapped out minefield with 50 keystrokes and this 50 keys will be seen on the character status.

From now I will count my deaths

 

[sqeecoo]

Ok, thanks for the explanations! One more thing you could do (if you care to ) is explain what's happening in a particular screenshot- for instance what the invisible minefield entails, how you pick which creatures to summon, how a battle goes, why a particular battle is hard etc.

 

[Elwro]

Whoa, that's a limit of keystrokes? :shock: I thougth that maybe you start with a huge number of keys and use them up while passing through doors.

 

[Fat Dragon]

Since you haven't been counting until now, can you give us an estimate of how many times you've died?

 

[HanoverF]

I think he means under gold there's keys at (last ss) 998232

 

[mirrorshades]

A quick FYI for dosbox. You can do CTL-F5 to take a screenshot; this will give you the game screen, without the extra Windows title bar and such on it. In the dosbox.conf file, you specify the output folder for the screenshots, and they get saved/named automatically. (You can then go back and view/rename them all later.)

Nice thread so far. I was also wondering about the 900,000+ "keys" in Werdna's stat screen. Hax!

 

[theverybigslayer]

I've managed to cut across the minefield and I here I can see the entry of the 4th level in the ceiling I don't know what I have forgotten.

But before the 4th level I have to kill this frog ninja.

I found the black box on the body of the ninja! I can put 20 item into the black box and equipping the box the thiefs can't steal it! Great!

And here is the pentagram of the 4th level. I always summon priests. They very important because of the light spell (to see hidden doors) and of the healing. Once on the minefield I had only 4 h.p., I could go nowhere because of the surrounding mines. I had to wait for a combat and in combat the priests healed me.
I like summoning mages (witchs etc.), paralyzing monsters (ashers) and drain level monsters like mummies. Now I don't know which monster what to do so I have to try out.

My stats on level 4.

This may be foggy weather. It would look better on my Radeon card but I didn't switch on the 3D option in the menu

One of the adventure parties on level 4.

I think I am going to die Anyway on this level a mage had cast a Makanito(Deadly Air), I and my party were suffocated. And we are on level 4!

I go back to the lower levels, now I stronger and I have a stronger party, that levels will be easier. On the minefield I found this

I jumped in!

I found the witching rod!

Using the witching rod I can locate someone.

Oooops! In wizardry 4 the rod knows about the Dark Savant!

I went back to level 2, now I could kill the tower guards and I found a stone

I went to the hellpuppy again, killed it and I found the Hell itself! I think I will bribe myself into. Werdna, the ultimate evil will be king in hell!

WTF?

 

[Elwro]

That's a great LP thread, keep it up!

 

[theverybigslayer]

Do you think I have to equip this **USE ME** Cape?

Of course don't, it's cursed. I don't know how to remove a cursed item
I made this screenshot with the DosBox Ctrl-F5.


Big battle on level4, I won this but during the next encounter with a lonely mage I was killed

Death counter: 12

 

[Destroid]

The previous way you were taking screenshots is a bit easier on the eyes, dosbox seems to muck up the text.

Also, great thread, I have never played a wizardry game!

 

[theverybigslayer]

I am going to climb onto this ziggurat

Not so easy

Temple of the Dreampainter

I like cokatrices whatever they are!

A new hint from the oracle

Electric mage

Next screenshots will be made by the original method.

 

[mirrorshades]

Oh please god don't let the thread die.

 

[theverybigslayer]

Death, again. Death count: 14

A new oracle's hint. Yes I have met Glum the ninja and I killed him. What secret? I've found only the Black Box there.

This room is the exit on level4.
When I went to this hole, I couldn't come back! It's for emergency it' sure!

An altar, I have to use 3 items here but I haven't been able to figure out yet which ones.

Lol

This is Level 5!

 

[theverybigslayer]

Level 5 Pentagram. Best monster is the wight, it drains 2 levels.I sadly recognize the monsters have an annoying habbit, they like escape from battle and abandon me

Werdna is Level 5 mage

Battle on the 5th level. This level was the most annoying so far. It was full of spinners. I always had to use the Dumapic spell or an Amulet to locate where I was. And the thiefs always stole my amulets.

?

I've just won an incredible hard battle and immediately after that I was attacked again

The other full party on this level, You can see Blackstone is here again.

Oracle's hint. Will ever somebody decrypt these? Qabalah-blah-blah!

Hmmmm. Oracle's hint.

I know, every temple holds.

But there is no Jump spell and I do not know which key is used to jump

I have to kill this smith to get to level 6.

This smith had some interesting item.

 

[theverybigslayer]

After the death of smith I was teleported to the 6th level

Level 6 pentagram. Ghasts are the best. Unfortunately the monsters using direct damage are not so effective. The Komodo Dragons breathe fire 3-6 damage only. A fireball spell is better.

This level was checked light and dark fields and there were a lots of fix encounter like this

Werdna is Level 6 mage

So I have to find a rabbit

Yes we were in temple of the dreampainter,that was the ziggurat.

 

[theverybigslayer]

Level 7! Watch your step he-he. The walls are moving on this level

Level 7 pentagram

Werdna is level 7 mage!

And here is my FULL spellbook. Tiltowait spell = Nuclear Blast! I can't wait to use it!

Oracle's hint

I met a witch. Unbeliveable, there is an NPC in this game. Yes, I am enjoying my travel

Witch said

I have 3 things , but which ones? Tannic Acid=Witching rod because I found it an acid pool. Everything has more names. I found a furred hat, in the inventory it's name is magician hat and witch says rabbit's fur. FeS2=pyrite, that's iron sulfide in chemistry

Damned moving walls! Feck off!