Magicka now released - Page 2

On January 26 2011 19:17 Acid~ wrote:
I might buy this game just because of this item description :

Sharp Sword (item) - The instruction reads “stick them with the pointy end”. Good to have in a pinch.

On January 27 2011 01:29 Qzy wrote:
Has anyone figured out how to do the wind in a combo? I can't figure it out.

On January 26 2011 21:50 teks wrote:
New "WTF Is.." video from TotalBiscuit is out, where he talks about his first impressions about the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_XP9OBWGKo

My opinion: This is a really fun game. The mechanics work as advertised, and I find myself discovering new spell "recipes" all the time. It's not super easy to get the hang of, but the more skilled you get the more awesome you feel, it's really rewarding.

It's a shame that multiplayer mode struggles with connection issues atm, and the password option hasn't been patched in yet. I played some coop with 3 friends, but whenever someone got a black screen, lost connection or was booted to windows (which did happen from time to time), it didn't seem possible to reconnect to the game without rehosting, which would reset the level progress.

Once the bug fixes are applied, I can see this game having loads of replay value, especially in the challenge modes, where you fight off streams of monsters. The combat system is just pure fun.

On January 27 2011 01:52 TimeOut wrote:


Fire + Water = Steam / Air

Here's the official status of Magicka as of now (26th of Jan).

Short story:
Singleplayer and Multiplayer: Tonights (it's 18:00 in Sweden) patch is going to be fairly big and hopefully it'll adress the majority of the issues you've been experiencing. Right now we've got so many players posting on the steam forums we're having a hard time keeping up answering posts. But we're reading all of them and are adding stuff to our "to-do"-list. This includes fixes and improvements

Here's the changelog

Patch will be delivered to Steam very soon and it's up as soon as Steam pushes the button). We'll monitor your response closely and keep patching the game as often as possible.

Please let us know if the patch helped!

Changelog Patch #26 Jan


Bugs Fixed

* Added keyboard binding for cast self (default middle mouse button)
* Steam usernames longer than 15 characters will now be shortened instead of crashing.
* Fixed a bug when displaying an already disposed server in server listing which caused a crash.
* Multiple move orders with delays will now properly stop during the delay.
* The errorReport in the application directory now also contains a version numbers.
* Server lists can now be properly scrolled.
* Path names are now region safe.
* Chapter 6 Scene 4 (Grimnir mind duel) now spawns the correct amount of spawns.
* Removed VAC option, all online games now use VAC.
* Improved cutscene-skip in Chapter 2 Scene 2.
* Improved cutscene-skip in Chapter 3 Scene 3.
* Checkpoint added in Chapter 6 Scene 5 (Grimnir boss fight).
* Statuseffect desync crash fixed.
* Animation time desync crash fixed.
* Additional small fixes.

Features added

* Cancel button added to gamepad configuration popup.
* Icon added for break free action.
* Icon added for boost action.
* Icon added for magic action.

Known issues:

* No private game/password game option (coming soon)
* Game stutters slightly on some systems despite good performance
* Steam attempts to install XNA framework every time game is launched
* Inexplicable poor performance on some high end machines
* Sometimes campaign progress is wiped due to network disconnect (yeah this one is annoying)