Well, in this remake, there's a few optional improvements, including:
* Option to change how stat growth works. Get 1-3 bonus points per level, assigned as desired. No more stat drops at level up!
* Option to hire characters at the inn. These characters are around your level, but you don't have control over their race/class/stats; you only choose from a list of available recruits.
* Temple of cant can, from what I've read, cure level drain.
* Thieves can hide in shadows, like in Wizardry 5.

There's also an option to turn off bad stuff happening on party wipe.

Sounds nice, thanks for sharing.

But the true question is how hard we can save scum with it, it's gonna be funny as hell seeing streamers trying to play this one if the original difficulty is kept intact, also like having to draw the map on a actual piece of paper if youre going in blind without an online guide, a lot of raging lol.

As I mentioned, you can just copy your save to do what you're referring to as "save scum"-ing. (I *really* dislike that particular term.)

Also, the game has two auto-maps (which can, I believe, be turned off):
* There's a mini map that shows the area near you. The catch is, it's based on what the player would be able to observe, so it won't line up if you hit a spinner or teleporter. (I believe casting DUMAPIC will fix this minimap if needed.)
* There's also a full screen automap that you can call up by casting the DUMAPIC spell; it shows a map of everywhere you've visited, and unlike the minimap, is accurate. Once you've cast this spell, you can press a button to call up the map as it was the last time you cast it (though I believe it won't show your location).

There is going to be a lot of raging. A couple suggestions to try and mitigate that some:
* Make sure that spellcasting in the surprise round is disabled; otherwise, you might get ambushed by a group of mages and have them blast your party to death before you even get a turn. (Worth noting that, to my knowledge, the only historical version that allows spell casting in the surprise round is the Apple 2 version; even other computer versions, and even the Apple 2 version of Wizardry 2, disabled surprise round spellcasting.)
* Turn off bad stuff on party wipe. It's bad enough to have to go through the dungeon with a new party to rescue the old party; it's even worse when a character is permanently lost as a result of this, to the point where that's probably too punishing for most players.

Just noticed the series also inspired the Dark Wizard in Stranger Things. Go figure.

This could be awesome. Really looking forward to it.

Lot of hassle currently, but I hope they will implement multi-save system later on as one of the QoL.
Still, looks as a worthy remaster, I like the graphics and hope the rest of the series will be done as well