Official Magicka Status Report (Jan 26th)

[Paradox__rep]

(Follow www.twitter.com/magickagame for up to date info - remember that devs/publisher are in Sweden - Central European Time)

Thanks for playing the game!

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

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ADDITIONAL INFO:

Please follow these general steps and hopefully it'll help most of you.

Make sure you're on a computer that has sufficient juice:

MINIMUM Requirements

• Operating system: Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7
• Processor: Intel® Pentium® IV 2.4 GHz or AMD 3500+
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Hard disk space: 2 GB Available HDD Space
• Video: NVIDIA® GeForce 8800 or equivalent
• Direct X-compatible sound card
• DirectX® 9
• 3-button mouse, keyboard and speakers
• Internet connection for multiplayer

We've seen that a bunch of players are reporting that the game is running poorly on their netbooks/laptops without proper graphics cards. This is the primary reason why their game is acting up.

Make sure you have the latest drivers for your graphics card. Visit www.nvidia.com or www.amd.com.

Make sure your have the following installed (should have autoinstalled)

• XNA Framework (Link to microsofts website)
• Microsoft .net framework 3.5 (dotNetFx35setup.exe) - (Link to Microsofts website)

We (devs and publisher) are still super committed to fix stuff that's broken and make sure you guys can have a great time with the game.

Additionally we've also have a bunch of improvements planned and will be patched in as soon as the major issues are out of the way! These are based directly off your input

Keep letting us know if there's anything else we can do!

Thanks again for playing and watch out for friendly fire!

/ Paradox & Arrowhead Team

Additional info can be found on:

Twitter: www.twitter.com/magickagame
The official Magicka Forum: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...hp?496-Magicka
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Magickagame

Interesting...

[Kilarai]

Originally Posted by akanam

Interesting...

Interesting? More like, "Awe-Mazing."

Mo-suckas be patchin' like crazy.

Here's to a bright comeback in gaming. =]

[Wasser]

Two features that are not on the list but that I would like to see eventually:

• Being able to kick players, especially in the lobby but preferably also from in-game.
• Being able to join a game in progress - if not through the server browser then at least through Steam friends.

Thanks for the work you are putting in, I hope this patch irons out the most severe bugs.

You should allow customization of mouse buttons as well.
On my Logitech MX1000 mouse the middle button is the wheel (as with most mice today), which is very uncomfortable. I can change the configuration from SetPoint, but it is not convenient, since I use all other buttons for something else, more important than game.

I will not buy until this is resolved. Aside from that, the game is on my wish list.

[banished_one]

so no fix for the multiplayer issues ?

[Geoplasmatic]

So far so good Ladies and Gents. I am impressed with your quick action and responsiveness . Don't pull your hair out makng us happy though, The game is a day old. I would rather you take your time and get things done then rush but all is good. I have just had some bad experiences with rush'd content but this game seems above thoes by far. GJ & GL

At some point down the road adding a configuration for 5 mouse buttons or more would be cool. My pinky is lazy on my left hand and doesn't want to press Shift & or CTRL . oh well

Also for thoes who are replying about stuff not being in this patch. There will be more patches soon, so I would recomend saying, " hey this would be cool to have" or " this seems to be an issue". They will get to as much as they can and as quick as they can. we need to be patient and let them work their, well... Magicka !

Originally Posted by Valyar

You should allow customization of mouse buttons as well.
On my Logitech MX1000 mouse the middle button is the wheel (as with most mice today), which is very uncomfortable. I can change the configuration from SetPoint, but it is not convenient, since I use all other buttons for something else, more important than game.

I will not buy until this is resolved. Aside from that, the game is on my wish list.

You mean this one?

• Added keyboard binding for cast self (default middle mouse button)

Also, thanks to the devs for the quick turnaround in some of the major issues. Great job. Hope to enjoy the game tonight with some friends.

[TopHatMan]

Keep up the good work devs, will try hosting a game tonight to see if it is more stable.

[RenegadeShade]

lol i am currently waiting for the patch to apply... GOOO steam!

[nrpBrain]

really amazing how you guys have churned out 2 major patches in 2 days and many devs take months to do just one
thumbs WAY up guys

[Tzekelkan]

Great work, Arrowhead + Paradox!

I haven't bought the game yet, though I plan to. However, I'd really like to have more graphics adaptation options (turning off shadows and antialiasing, for instance) to make it work on my laptop. I don't have an integrated graphics card, but a GeForce 9200M GS, which I'll admit is not ideal but I'd still love to get a slight improvement in framerate in any way I can.

Keep up the good work guys, I can understand why you released the game at the beginning of the week!

[Kilarai]

Originally Posted by Tzekelkan

Great work, Arrowhead + Paradox!

I haven't bought the game yet, though I plan to. However, I'd really like to have more graphics adaptation options (turning off shadows and antialiasing, for instance) to make it work on my laptop. I don't have an integrated graphics card, but a GeForce 9200M GS, which I'll admit is not ideal but I'd still love to get a slight improvement in framerate in any way I can.

Keep up the good work guys, I can understand why you released the game at the beginning of the week!

Nvidia Control Panel is your friend.
You can specify the graphical options you'd like for specific applications.
(Workaround) - Sorry, I'm technical support and we tend to just use workarounds, never actually fix things. =]

[SwedishWarboss]

I have an issue where I crash whenever I get Fafnir down to about 75 % of his starting health. What gives? Is this a known issue?

[Tzekelkan]

Originally Posted by Kilarai

Nvidia Control Panel is your friend.
You can specify the graphical options you'd like for specific applications.
(Workaround) - Sorry, I'm technical support and we tend to just use workarounds, never actually fix things. =]

I tried turning everything down, but I couldn't see any noticeable difference... I'll do more extensive testing (measuring framerate for different settings) in a few days when I've more time, but for the moment it didn't seem to help much, so I assumed it just didn't work.