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Author Topic: Magicka 2: Learn to spell.....AGAIN. Research before you buy.  (Read 89675 times)

nenjin

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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #270 on: January 27, 2011, 04:31:39 pm »

I'm still waiting to hear "reduced the amount of upstream bandwidth game requires by 75%"

Because that's what is making it impossible to play now. 4 friends, and none of them have a line with a high enough capacity to guarantee MP will run well.
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #271 on: January 27, 2011, 04:35:53 pm »

Well, it's still not a boulder! :p
He said black will cast the boulder (IE, himself o.O) and gave no instructions to blue :P

I assume he meant black mage from FF. Which is what that character looks exactly like. :p

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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #272 on: January 27, 2011, 04:59:22 pm »

I'm still waiting to hear "reduced the amount of upstream bandwidth game requires by 75%"

Because that's what is making it impossible to play now. 4 friends, and none of them have a line with a high enough capacity to guarantee MP will run well.

I dunno, we were running rather well with me hosting, but yeah, reducing upstream bandwidth would be a good thing.
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #273 on: January 27, 2011, 05:07:03 pm »

YOU are the only person we've found with a connection that could support what Magicka is asking for. We tried 4 other hosts, with and without voice chat going, and none of them could support more than 2 players in MP without massive de-sync issues.

Do you have a T1 line or something?
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Cautivo del Milagro seamos, Penitente.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Its kinda silly to complain that a friendly NPC isn't a well designed boss fight.
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How will I cheese now assholes?
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Always spaghetti, never forghetti

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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #274 on: January 27, 2011, 05:25:23 pm »

Not to my knowledge, no. And to me, my Internet line is  bit buggy, but that's mostly router issues. Hell if I know why I'm the best.
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« Reply #275 on: January 27, 2011, 05:27:10 pm »

I THINK the issue with multiplayer is that Steam seems to be redirecting your connections to a completely different IP. I mean, some people tried connecting to me and Steam tried to connect them to the wrong IP.

Also, I can confirm there's a New Game Plus.  8)

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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #276 on: January 27, 2011, 05:28:42 pm »

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Not to my knowledge, no. And to me, my Internet line is  bit buggy, but that's mostly router issues. Hell if I know why I'm the best.

See, and Keldi put his router in DMZ, port-forwarded, all that nonsense. We pretty much isolated router issues, I thought.
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Cautivo del Milagro seamos, Penitente.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Its kinda silly to complain that a friendly NPC isn't a well designed boss fight.
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How will I cheese now assholes?
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Always spaghetti, never forghetti

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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #277 on: January 27, 2011, 05:48:09 pm »

I beat the chapter 6 boss only to have the game immediately close, install updates and lose all progress from that chapter. Oh God.
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« Reply #278 on: January 27, 2011, 05:52:49 pm »

I beat the chapter 6 boss only to have the game immediately close, install updates and lose all progress from that chapter. Oh God.

Wait until you get to Chapter 10 and have it crash on you when the boss is at 1% health. Then you will know true rage.

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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #279 on: January 27, 2011, 05:59:51 pm »

I beat the chapter 6 boss only to have the game immediately close, install updates and lose all progress from that chapter. Oh God.

Wait until you get to Chapter 10 and have it crash on you when the boss is at 1% health. Then you will know true rage.
Thing is I'm not even sure if it crashed or just decided that this was the perfect time to forcefully install updates.
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #280 on: January 27, 2011, 06:00:16 pm »

It's like magick, I tells ya.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Its kinda silly to complain that a friendly NPC isn't a well designed boss fight.
Quote from: Eric Blank
How will I cheese now assholes?
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Always spaghetti, never forghetti

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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #281 on: January 27, 2011, 06:13:55 pm »

Played some of a challenge game (Holy Carp!) and actually stayed in for awhile... until the inevitable crash.
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #282 on: January 27, 2011, 07:36:49 pm »

Magicka: Proof that not all programs are equally likely to crash.
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #283 on: January 27, 2011, 09:03:35 pm »

Sight, was doing good in arena, yetis came out, I charmed them, they killed everything for me...
Then I flubbed the freeze on them 5 times in a row.

Managed to teleport out of their death gib 3 times.
The fourth time I rock+shielded self.  They ate me inside my rock...
Sigh...
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #284 on: January 27, 2011, 09:23:05 pm »

Just got the demo. Pretty fun, although it's choppy and causes overheating. Also, I'm awful at this.

Anyone working on finding the magical configuration settings / console commands to remove all unnecessary gfx like lighting, fog, smoke, bloom, shaders, etc. like the ones everybody uses for tf2 and alien swarm? That'd be a big help.
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