FINAL FANTASY V news & patch notes

＊The mini-map will now not be displayed under specific circumstances. ＊The Mini-map On/Off setting will now be correctly applied after displaying the map screen and upon loading. ＊Adjusted minor battle behaviours. ＊Some improvements have been made to UI and controls. ＊Adjusted some sounds such as the sound effect for spear attacks. ＊Fixed a bug that can prevent progression of the game and/or corrupt the screen display during the ending. ＊Fixed a bug that can prevent progression of the game after specific control inputs or under specific circumstances. ＊Fixed a bug where "Can be two-handed" and "Can be enchanted" are not displayed in weapon descriptions following a previous update. ＊Fixed a bug where a specific achievement can sometimes not be acquired after fulfilling the requirements. ＊Minor bugs have been fixed.

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The following bugs that started occurring after the previous update have now been fixed.

• On some user environments the game’s processing would become unstable, leading to forced closure of the game application or preventing progress.

We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience that these issues have caused.

■ Major new features

• Assistance features have been added to the config. menu. These new features open up a wide variety of gameplay possibilities. They offer options such as applying a x0 to x4 modifier to the amount of EXP, gil or ABP obtained or turning enemy encounters off. > It is now possible to use holding down the right stick or the F3 key as a shortcut command for switching between encounters
• A “BGM source” option has been added to the config screen. This allows you to select between the special “arrangement” BGM made for this version of the game or the “original” versions in the style of the original game. In addition, both versions of the music can be listened to from the sound player.
• A “Font type” option has been added to the config screen. This allows you to select between the “modern” font made for this version of the game or the “classic” font in the style of the original game.

■ Additions and alterations to game menus

• It is now possible to load saved data from the menu screen.
• It is now possible to open the pause menu while travelling or during battle. You can also return to the title screen or check control settings from the pause menu.
• An option to switch movement speeds has been added to the config. screen. This allows you to switch the default movement speed from walking to running. Holding down the cancel button while moving will move characters at the other speed not set as the default. > It is also possible to switch between movements speeds using the F1 key or holding down the left stick as a short cut.
• It is now possible to view the monster bestiary from the in-game config menu
• It is now possible to select to fight against a monster of your choice from the monster bestiary on the title screen. The game progress from the most recent save data will be applied to decide what monsters the player can select. (It is not possible to select to fight monsters from the monster bestiary on the config. screen)
• A “config.” option has been added to the title menu. Most of the same settings that can be changed in-game can also be changed from here.
• It has been made easier to check which spells you have already learned from the “Magic” menu. Spells are also arranged by level on this menu.
• It has been changed so the current status of ABP obtained for each job is now displayed on the “Job” menu.

■ Other changes and adjustments

• The controls for the battle commands “Defend” and “Row” have been changed. It is now possible to select “Defend” by pushing the right direction or “Row” by pushing the left direction while selecting commands.
• The “auto” icon is no longer shown on the battle screen as standard.
• It is now possible to skip scenes during the ending.
• Some changes and adjustments have been made to game graphics.
• Some changes and adjustments have been made to sound effects.
• Several bugs have been fixed.

Fixes have been made to the following bugs that occurred after the previous update.

• The total percentage of treasure chests found could be checked at a specific location, but the total would stop on 99% and never reach 100%.
• The above issue would sometimes make it impossible to achieve the "Treasure Hunter" achievement.

We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience that these issues may have caused.

Alterations relating to battles

• The weapon “Brave Blade” has been altered so that attack power lost from escaping battle is recovered one point at a time by winning a set number of further battles. In addition, it will not exceed its original attack power.
• The weapon “Chicken Knife” has been altered so that its “Scram” effect is not activated when using “Mug” or “Counter”.
• Weapons that change the effect of “Attack” have been altered so their effects are not activated when using “Counter”. The Chicken Knife’s “Scram” effect is included in this change.
• The message shown when unable to carry a stolen item has been changed from saying “Couldn't Steal!” to say “Stole (Item Name)” instead.
• It has been changed so that the number of a weapon owned is not reduced and only the effect is triggered when using “Mimic” to copy the use of a weapon that is destroyed when used as an item. In addition, a bug where progress became blocked under specific conditions has been fixed.
• It has been changed so that the time magic spell “Speed” is not used when in the “Confuse” state.
• It has been changed so that when a specific elemental “Absorb” effect is applied on top of a “Cancel” effect through mixing, the “Absorb” will always gain priority.
• It has been changed so that event text shown in battle cannot be skipped using button inputs and will only disappear through time elapsing. This is to prevent text from being skipped unintentionally.
• A visual effect was added where the screen flashes if an allied character’s attack scores a critical hit.
• The way HP deductions are shown when being hit by an enemy’s repeated attacks has been changed so the numbers change at a more natural timing.
• The tempo when making repeated attacks in battle has been made faster.
• The time taken when transitioning between screens after escaping from battle has been reduced.

Alterations relating to maps and events

• It has been changed so that the treasure chests and items that can be stolen by Lone Wolf the Pickpocket are counted in the location information on the world map. After being stolen, a chest or item will be counted if the player investigates it. In either case, these will not affect the overall treasure chest completion percentage or achievement unlocks.
• Changes have been made so that the mini map is immediately displayed in the top right of the screen after moving to a new map.
• The default cursor position when selecting to stay at an inn has been changed to the “yes” option.
• The areas that mouse controls are active for have been expanded, now including situations such as when selecting magic in battle etc.
• It has been changed so that the ability “Equip Rods” appears close to the other “Equip” type abilities on the menu screen.
• The point at which the player transitions to the Phantom Village has been altered to make it easier to enter the location.
• The graphics for the edges of water areas on the world map have been adjusted to look more natural.

Bug fixes

The following bugs have been fixed. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience that these issues may have caused.

Battle related issues

• Very rarely, battles would not progress correctly under specific circumstances.
• Sometimes using specific combinations of abilities and equipment would cause unintended behaviour.
• Some enemies would act unnaturally under specific circumstances.
• Sometimes the final action an enemy took when defeated would be different to the intended action under specific circumstances.
• The actions of some bosses would sometimes start earlier than intended.
• Sometimes odd actions would be initiated when using auto-battle under specific circumstances.
• Sometimes a character’s maximum MP would decrease after loading save data if they were being affected by certain abilities that increased maximum MP.
• Sometimes the effects of “Shell” would not function properly against the trigger rate for damage from some enemy magic attacks or detrimental status effects caused by magic etc.
• Sometimes items would not be consumed properly if they were used while the effects of “Quick” were active.
• The effects of ”Haste” and “Slow” would not correctly affect the waiting times until some commands were carried out.
• Actions that were not related to magic would sometimes miss and become unusable while the effects of “Mute” were in play under specific circumstances.
• Sometimes “Mute” or “Return” would not activate while characters have been removed from battle.
• ”Flirt” and “Mute” were effective against some enemies and bosses that they should not work on.
• Sometimes additional effects from attacks would still take effect, even when the physical attack itself has been defended using the summon “Golem”.
• Sometimes “Call” would not activate properly when MP was low.
• While characters levels were increased from using “Hero's Rime” in battle, it became impossible to change these levels any further through other actions.
• The effects of “Spellblade” continued to take effect after changing equipment during battle.
• The effects of “Focus” and “Two-Handed” overlapped and did not trigger.
• The effect of “Shirahadori” would trigger even when the user was afflicted by a status that prevented them from acting.
• Sometimes the effects of attacks would become unnatural if specific weapons were equipped when using “Dual-Wield”.
• The modifier for a character being in a specific rank of the party formation was applied to the damage inflicted with “Throw”.
• The damage from “Zeninage” was reduced when the character using the ability was in the “Toad” or “Mini” state or if the enemy was affected by “Protect”.
• The “Mimic” ability would not be performed correctly under specific circumstances.
• A Red Mage or “Mime” character could not equip the weapons “Flail” and “Morning Star”.
• Sometimes the number of a weapon owned would become incorrect if specific inputs were performed when using a weapon that is destroyed when used as an item.
• Sometimes damage would be inflicted when using “Focus”, “Jump”, “Rapid Fire” or “Sword Dance” while equipping a harp. This has been fixed so that damage is no longer inflicted while a harp is equipped.
• In situations where an equipped item automatically triggers a status effect, that effect would still be triggered when a the character started a battle in the “KO” or “Petrify” state.
• Sometimes an allied character in the “Confuse” state would behave unnaturally when performing certain actions.
• The “Confuse” and “Sleep” states would be removed when a character evaded an attack while in the “Image” state.
• A character’s appearance would not change while in the “Image” state, regardless of the number of remaining uses. This has been fixed so that two images of the character are shown when there are two or more uses remaining and one image is shown when only one use remains.
• Sometimes the countdown for “Doom” would slow down.
• Sometimes the intervals between enemies taking damage from “Poison” would become shorter.
• Sometimes enemy counterattacks would trigger at unnatural timings.
• Sometimes the remaining HP for undead type enemies would become incorrect after using a HP absorb type attack and healing them.
• “Archeoaevis” was able to use “Blaster”. This has been fixed so the enemy uses “Maelstrom” instead.

Map and event related/ other issues

• There were some areas where the submarine was able to float above ground.
• There were some places and instances where the world map screen was not displayed correctly.
• Sometimes some event scenes would not display properly under specific circumstances.
• Sometimes the graphics or screen progression would become unnatural when loading Quick Save files created in specific circumstances.
• It was possible to avoid the pitfalls in some dungeons by using “Float”. This has been fixed so that no pitfalls can be avoided by using “Float”.
• There were situations where the ability “Find Passages” would not work on certain hidden passages or would work in places where no passage existed.
• It was possible to use “Toad” and “Mini” on characters in the “KO” state from the menu screen.
• The valuable item “Splinter” was not able to be obtained at a suitable time. This was only a visual presentation issue and did not affect game progression.
• Some text was not displayed in a suitable manner.
• Some graphics were not displayed in a suitable manner.
• Under specific circumstances character behaviour and graphical presentation would act unnaturally.
• Some BGM and SFX were not played correctly.

Fixes to other minor bugs. Further updates are planned in future.

Bug fixes The following bugs have been fixed. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience that these issues have caused.

• Sometimes characters current HP and MP values would decrease after loading save data while the maximum HP or MP values had been increased using an ability.
• When defeating certain monsters such as “Famed Mimic Gogo” under specific conditions, their information would not be added to the bestiary.
• After using a Gold Needle on specific monsters such as the Stone Golem, it would sometimes lead to strange behaviour that prevented furtherer progress. This issue has been addressed again since previous updates.
• Sometimes enemies would suffer more damage than expected when multiple allied characters used Reflect to bounce back magic.
• Summoning animations would not show when using Dualcast with summon magic.
• If a character used Catch to capture a monster and then left the party, the captured monster would be lost when the character re-joined.
• It was possible to learn “Sinewy Etude” earlier than intended.
• It was possible to receive the same gil that had already been received once before by re-loading an auto save in the Gil Cave.
• Sometimes it became impossible to obtain the World Map if proceeding through the game in a specific way.
• The screen blackout when using Tents or Cottages was longer than necessary.
• Some events would not display properly under specific conditions.
• Some graphics were not displaying in a suitable manner.
• Sounds were not playing correctly in specific scenes.

Other minor issues have also been fixed. Thank you for playing FINAL FANTASY V and the Pixel Remaster series.

Fixed an issue where players may encounter a progression blocker during the ending if characters were set with a certain job. The bug fix from the previous update caused this issue to occur. We sincerely apologize to our customers for the inconvenience caused by this issue.

The main content of the update is as follows:

• Fixed an issue that may block events from triggering or disrupt enemy counter actions if certain attacks such as “3 or more consecutive attacks” were performed. With this, an issue where the player may encounter a progression blocker during the final battle is also fixed.
• Fixed an issue where player attacks may not perform properly if "Dual-Wield" ability was combined with certain abilities and weapons.
• Fixed an issue where time magic spell "Quick" may not work properly if "Quick" was cast during specific situations or combined with certain abilities.
• Fixed an issue where the actual damage output of time magic spell "Meteor" was inconsistent with the damage output shown in the game.
• Fixed an issue where enemies defeated under certain circumstances may not be registered to Bestiary.
• Fixed an issue where a minor error was present with "Chests Discovered" which players can track at a certain location.

We sincerely apologize to our customers for the inconvenience caused by these issues. Thank you for your continued support of FINAL FANTASY V and pixel remaster series.

Nominations open November 24 to December 1

Nominations open November 24 to December 1

The main content of the update is as follows.

Battle Adjustments

• The ability ""Cover"" has been altered so it now activates when in critical condition.
• In battles that cannot be escaped from, the ability ""Hide"" has been changed so it continues, even when all characters other than the hidden character are wiped out.
• The ability ""Barehanded"" has been adjusted to reduce correctly when certain command abilities are used, such as ""Rapid Fire"" and ""Jump"".
• The HP reduction effect of ""Thornlet"" now continues throughout battle.
• A fix has been implemented meaning that when a character wearing an accessory that grants additional effects is KO, Petrify or turned into a zombie, and those effects are ended, the effects will now automatically return after their status is restored to normal.
• The status ailment resistance of some monsters has been decreased.
• The behaviour of certain monsters using non-standard counters when hit by special kinds of attacks, such as multi-hit attacks, has now been fixed.
• For some enemies, the conditions for a special counter occurring, for example, when defeated) have been adjusted, and if there is event, it will trigger correctly without skipping. There is an issue where counter actions and events may no longer occur if three or more consecutive attacks are performed. We plan to fix this issue in future.

Map/Event Adjustments

• Movement speed has been decreased for the ability ""Dash"".
• Black Chocobo movement patterns have been adjusted, making capture easier.

Bug Fixes

The following bugs have been fixed. We apologise profoundly for the inconvenience caused.

Battle

• There were some cases where using the abilities ""Control"", ""Catch"" and ""Release"" in succession would cause the processing to slow down.
• There continue to be some cases where the behaviour of ""Release"" is affected when the selected monster disappears before ""Catch"" is carried out, and a different monster is caught. Additionally, if a character leaves the party while monsters are caught, then they will have lost those monsters when they rejoin the party. We plan to fix these two issues in future.
• The turn order may have performed unusually when using the time magic spell ""Quick"" with the ability ""Dualcast"".
• The game may have performed unusually when the ability ""Mimic"" is used under certain conditions.
• Using the ability ""Lance"" on an enemy whose movements have been stopped would prevent the game from progressing further.
• There were some cases where parameter changes for abilities and equipment may not have been properly reflected.
• There were some cases where the ATB gauge was not correctly maintained when performing a counter action.
• The enemy skill ""Danse Macarbe"" also targeted party members who had temporarily left the battlefield.
• When using a “Gold Needle” against certain monsters like ""Stone Golems"", the game may have performed unusually, preventing the game from progressing further.
• There were some cases where the effect of the ""Gold Hairpin"" that reduces MP consumed by half did not function correctly.
• There were some cases where additional effects on equipped weapons did not occur correctly when afflicted with the ""Zombie"" status ailment, causing the game to perform unusually.
• The motion when using the ability ""Time Magic"" ""Iainuki"" was incorrect."

Map/Events

• There were some cases where the battle with the boss monster, ""Necrophobe"", would not trigger under certain conditions. We have adjusted it so that this battle will trigger again if you load a save from before you entered the final floor, or if you load a completed game save created after this update has been released. If the bug has already occurred for you, then we apologise for the trouble, but ask you to use the above methods to resolve the issue.
• There were some cases where the landmass settings on the world map and the movement speeds for vehicles were not correct.
• The changes to landmass on the world map were not correct at a certain time.
• There was a place on the sea at the beginning of the game where unintended battle encounters would occur.
• There were some cases where you became unable to return to the vehicle that you were previously riding after certain events had occurred.
• After exiting certain dungeons, the teleport destination may have performed unusually when using ""Teleport"" from another location.
• In certain maps including the ""Tower of Walse"", moving whilst afflicted with the ""Toad"" or ""Mini"" status may have prevented the game from progressing further.
• There were some cases where certain conditions during dungeons or battles with a time limit would prevent the game from progressing further.
• There were some cases were certain control inputs would cause events to occur repeatedly.
• Reloading a quick save from certain points caused some battles that should have occured to not trigger.
• Reloading a quick save from certain points prevented the game from progressing further.
• If you recovered to full HP (for example, by using a ""Cottage"") whilst afflicted with the ""Zombie"" status ailment, then you would become unable to cure it with ""Holy Water"".
• In the sound player, some songs had errors in their play time.

We plan to continue performing updates in future, in addition to the content adjusted in this patch. Thank you for your ongoing support of FINAL FANTASY V and the Pixel Remaster series.

Fixed the bug that caused parameters to sometimes display incorrectly when loading a save file with a specific ability set.

Details of the upcoming main updates to the game are listed below.

Adjustments to battle abilities

Changes and fixes to the current behaviour of several actions relating to battles. There are also some sections where specifications will deliberately be changed from the original version of the game and the subsequent remakes.

• When summoning “Golem”, it will not only prevent physical damage, but also additional effects such as abnormal conditions.
• The ability “Cover” will be activated even when on the verge of death .
• Currently, the ability “Hide” automatically ends and the character using it is immediately able to act when all characters other than the one hiding are wiped out in a battle that cannot be escaped from, but this will be updated so the character now continues to hide.
• If an accessory that automatically generates an auxiliary effect is equipped and the effect expires due to "KO", "Petrify" or “Zombie” statuses, the auxiliary effect will return after the character’s state is restored.
• The incorrect behaviour of certain monsters using non-standard counters when hit by special kinds of attacks, such as multi-hit attacks, will be fixed.

Bug fixes

The following bugs have been identified and will be fixed after release.

• When the ability “dual wield” is combined with a specific ability or weapon, it may not make a correct attack.
• If you use the space-time magic “Quick” with the ability “Dualcast,” the order of actions may be incorrect.
• If you use a “Cottage,” etc. and fully recover your HP while in the “Zombie” state, you will not be able to cure with “Holy Water”. However, once in battle and your HP reaches 0, you will be able to use it again.
• When in the “Zombie” state, the additional effect of an equipped weapon may activate correctly.
• The MP consumption halving effect of “Golden Hairpin” may not activate properly.
• Incorrect motions were played when using the abilities “Time Magic” and “Iainuki”.
• If you use Summon magic as the first spell when casting “Dualcast”, the attack effect will not be played.
• The map screen of the world map and the mini map may not display correctly.

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