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Corvi
Germany1406 Posts
On February 01 2011 11:12 Bibdy wrote: Oh thank god. They added a filter to remove passworded games! u also have like <10 games left without the passworded? why are there like no not-passworded games? and i still cant host games ... | ||
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Hynda
Sweden2226 Posts
On February 01 2011 22:14 Corvi wrote: u also have like <10 games left without the passworded? why are there like no not-passworded games? and i still cant host games ... Because people want to play with their friends? | ||
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Shockk
Germany2269 Posts
I then tried the multiplayer and it's even more of a sick joke. Joining random games inevitably means you'll be griefed for fun or because the other guys just want your equipment. This may be fun if you actually know people that play as well, but if you don't, it's just a huge waste of time. And there's the connection issues as well. I really enjoyed the game due to it's humor and countless references, but they should have waited another month or two before releasing it, polishing both single and multiplayer and removing the countless bugs that still plague it, even half a dozen patches after release. And some more options (difficulty slider, multiplayer friendly fire on/off) would be cool. | ||
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MidKnight
Lithuania884 Posts
It's not balanced well, but I guess if they continue working on it, it could become unbelievably awesome.They just had to release it early because they ran out of money. | ||
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Bibdy
United States3481 Posts
On February 02 2011 00:22 MidKnight wrote: Concept is great, but once the initial "OMG SO MANY BANELINGS..I mean, SO MANY COMBINATIONS AND SPELLS" wears out, you realise that most of those combinations and magickas (combo spells) are useless and you're simply supposed to use QF(Steam)+A+S+A+S beam to blow everything up. It's not balanced well, but I guess if they continue working on it, it could become unbelievably awesome.They just had to release it early because they ran out of money. Yeah, QFAS is broken. I try to mess around with other stuff, but its just too easy to fall back on as a means to blow up everything in a moment's notice with the beam or AOE versions. | ||
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Corvi
Germany1406 Posts
On February 01 2011 22:23 Hynda wrote: Because people want to play with their friends? dude, we are talking about pretty much only passworded games. you cant tell me everyone has friends playing magicka. also the fact no one ever joins games i host, but public games i join are full within few seconds makes very obvious, that we are talking about poor programming here. | ||
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Bibdy
United States3481 Posts
On February 02 2011 04:46 Corvi wrote: dude, we are talking about pretty much only passworded games. you cant tell me everyone has friends playing magicka. also the fact no one ever joins games i host, but public games i join are full within few seconds makes very obvious, that we are talking about poor programming here. I think its a firewall problem, and probably due to the fact that most people just use the default security settings on their home router or windows firewall settings. If those happen to restrict the ability to host a game, then there won't be a whole lot of hosted games! I'm sure there are some more things I can try to tweak (or just turn the damn thing off entirely!) to get it to work. | ||
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slothtron
United States10 Posts
On February 02 2011 04:51 Bibdy wrote: I think its a firewall problem, and probably due to the fact that most people just use the default security settings on their home router or windows firewall settings. If those happen to restrict the ability to host a game, then there won't be a whole lot of hosted games! I'm sure there are some more things I can try to tweak (or just turn the damn thing off entirely!) to get it to work. Yes, many modern games take care of punching the firewall for you, Magicka probably doesn't. And yes Corvi, as many have said the game is still very buggy. The devs are still working hard on patching, you should have known this before you bought it. | ||
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Wesso
Netherlands1245 Posts
On February 01 2011 23:43 Shockk wrote: I've finished the game's single player campaign and I still believe that some sorry sadist designed the boss battles. Grimnir mind duel, that dragon or the second battle against Grimnir are among the most frustrating boss battles I've ever done in a game. Being blown to pieces or of the screen randomly without having a chance to fight back AND having to listen to the same uninterruptible two minute cutscene again and again and AGAIN each time really strained my nerves (NO, double space bar does not work every time). Damn those fights where hard. I eventually got them due to abusing the M60 and qfas, without those it would have taken me MUCH longer. Even now it wasn't easy. The mind duel wasn't that bad though. On February 01 2011 23:43 Shockk wrote: I then tried the multiplayer and it's even more of a sick joke. Joining random games inevitably means you'll be griefed for fun or because the other guys just want your equipment. This may be fun if you actually know people that play as well, but if you don't, it's just a huge waste of time. And there's the connection issues as well. Multiplayer pwns. But I agree you need friends. I never tried without, but I can see the issues (never had any connection issues though) On February 01 2011 23:43 Shockk wrote: I really enjoyed the game due to it's humor and countless references, but they should have waited another month or two before releasing it, polishing both single and multiplayer and removing the countless bugs that still plague it, even half a dozen patches after release. And some more options (difficulty slider, multiplayer friendly fire on/off) would be cool. the problem is, they wouldn't find bugs because they had only a few developers. The game was never buggy for me, aside from some framerate issues which where neglible. If it worked that good on their pc's I can imagine they released it. I think they did a pretty good job with bugfixing tbh. | ||
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SlapMySalami
United States1060 Posts
On February 02 2011 05:00 slothtron wrote: Yes, many modern games take care of punching the firewall for you, Magicka probably doesn't. And yes Corvi, as many have said the game is still very buggy. The devs are still working hard on patching, you should have known this before you bought it. I had no clue the game was going to be so buggy. There was no disclaimer. I did not peruse the forums of the game before I bought it as I'm sure most people don't. We should have known this before we bought it because they should have told us. They are 100% liable for selling a shitty buggy game the same way it's Microsoft's fault for releasing buggy operating systems and ring of death-prone Xbox's. | ||
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Antifate
United States415 Posts
After "preparing to launch Magicka..." nothing happens. Granted, I did cancel the "installing DirectX" part of the installation (seemed stuck on this part ~1 hour), but I have a more recent version of Direct X than the game requires. I reinstalled and errythangggg. Any tips on what to do? Running the dotnetfx35.exe thing under Magicka/Dependencies gives me a set-up error for some reason... | ||
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Corvi
Germany1406 Posts
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intrigue
Washington, D.C9933 Posts
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Khul Sadukar
Australia1735 Posts
I only got the random client crash. Edit: which could well be due to overheating during our 40°c temp yesterday.. | ||
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Antifate
United States415 Posts
Version: 1.3.3.5 Thread: RenderThread Microsoft.Xna.Framework.NoSuitableGraphicsDeviceException: Could not find a Direct3D device that supports the requested features. at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.FindBestPlatformDevice(Boolean anySuitableDevice) at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.FindBestDevice(Boolean anySuitableDevice) at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.ChangeDevice(Boolean forceCreate) at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.ApplyChanges() at Magicka.Game..ctor() at Magicka.Game.get_Instance() at Magicka.GlobalSettings..ctor() at Magicka.GlobalSettings.get_Instance() at Magicka.Program.Main(String[] args) It's weird, it seems like there's a DirectX problem, and doing "System Information" on Steam tells me I have DirectX 7.5 (the game requires 9.0 right?). But I've had DirectX 10 for as long as I can remember, and I updated it again like 5 times in the last 30 minutes. dxdiag tells me that I have DirectX 10 as well. So... Yeah I don't know why this isn't working. Boooo, | ||
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Bibdy
United States3481 Posts
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Khul Sadukar
Australia1735 Posts
I might just have to redo that lvl and unlock it. | ||
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keeblur
United States826 Posts
On February 02 2011 08:34 Khul Sadukar wrote: Can u imbue the m60 with ice shards? :p I might just have to redo that lvl and unlock it. Pretty sure when you imbue the m60, you just swing it like you would any other melee weapon. | ||
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Shockk
Germany2269 Posts
On February 02 2011 08:34 Khul Sadukar wrote: Can u imbue the m60 with ice shards? :p I might just have to redo that lvl and unlock it. Nope. It performs one melee attack and than resumes auto fire. Nothing too spectacular. I used the M60 until I got the Holy Divider. 1337 damage on hit was just too good, and I actually finished Grimnir with it .). | ||
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Khul Sadukar
Australia1735 Posts
My friends like to spam chaotic aoes while I just frost wall > arcane lighting stuff nice and cleanly. U can imagine how often I die lol. | ||
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