Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake update now available, adds traversal improvements, ‘short-cut’ feature, and more
Assign spells and abilities to specific buttons.
Publsher Square Enix and developer Artdink have released the version 1.1.0.0 update for Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and Switch, and the version 1.2.0.0 update on PC, which adds traversal improvements, a new “short-cut button” for spells and abilities, and various battle adjustments.
Here are the patch notes:
Traversal
- The movement speed when travelling by boat or using Ramia has been increased.
- Adjustments have been made to avoid boat travel speed being reset by opening the menu or getting into a battle while travelling by boat.
- A feature has been added whereby pressing the menu button while flying with Ramia allows the player to switch between automatic and manual flight modes.
Vocations
- Critical hit rates for the Hero and Martial Artist have been increased.
- The Hero’s Falcon Slash and Gigaslash abilities have been made more powerful.
- The Warrior’s Cutting Edge ability has been made more powerful.
- The Priest can now equip the Duplic Hat.
- The Monster Wrangler’s Monster Pile-On ability has been changed to have reduced power until all friendly monsters have been found, and to carry out a random number of attacks between 3 and 5.
- The amount of MP used by the Monster Wrangler ability Wild Side has been changed to 30.
Battle
- A limit has been placed on the number of times that some monsters can perform certain actions within one turn.
- Some monsters have been adjusted so that they no longer use Defending Champion in the next turn after they become the last remaining monster.
- The status-ailment resistance of boss monsters has been increased for Draconian Quest difficulty.
- Adjustments have been made to make it more difficult for both enemies and party members to be successively afflicted with the same status ailments.
- Some monsters (Metal Chimaera and Hardy Hand) now yield more experience points when defeated.
- Defense has been lowered for all monsters except for metal monsters.
- Minor adjustments have been made to the way that damage is dealt.
Miscellaneous
- Once the Mini Medal Manor has been visited, it will be added to the list of Zoom destinations.
- A new “short-cut button” feature has been added that allows spells and abilities to be assigned to specific buttons. For more information, please refer to Traveller’s Tips in-game.
- In the Temple of Trials, the number of Elfin Elixirs required to be handed over to the guard has been changed to 10.
- A treasure chest has been added to the Temple of Trials, allowing players to acquire one more Gringham Whip.
- Fixed a bug whereby levelling up after using the Seed of Life or Seed of Magic items would cause the status increase value to be calculated twice.
- Adjustments have been made so that if trophies and achievements have not been acquired correctly, selecting Misc. > Info in the menu allows some of them to be reacquired.
- Miscellaneous fixes for minor bugs.
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is available now for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store.