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Author Topic: Magicka 2: Learn to spell.....AGAIN. Research before you buy.  (Read 89273 times)

Farseer

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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #210 on: January 26, 2011, 12:46:39 pm »

Also, people found the Chapter 6 boss fight hard? ??? He went down easier than Jormungandr did, for me.

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« Reply #211 on: January 26, 2011, 01:18:18 pm »

Jormungandr is easy, just use lightning on him.

That boss fight on 6 is a bit tricky, mostly because of the cronies you have to fight first... But also because you get knocked off the stage a lot. I found thunderbolts to be the most effective attack, you can just hit him and move.
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« Reply #212 on: January 26, 2011, 01:56:28 pm »

That boss fight on 6 is a bit tricky, mostly because of the cronies you have to fight first... But also because you get knocked off the stage a lot. I found thunderbolts to be the most effective attack, you can just hit him and move.
well, we were two players. but just use 5xwater and shove the mobs of the platforms
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #213 on: January 26, 2011, 02:58:17 pm »

Fun fact, ice lightning and shield creates short lived tesla coils made of ice :D
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« Reply #214 on: January 26, 2011, 03:07:18 pm »

I downloaded the demo of this game today and it wouldn't even start up on my laptop.  :( I was mostly looking forward to the freeform magic system. Oh well.
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« Reply #215 on: January 26, 2011, 03:09:07 pm »

I don't know if anyone mentioned this yet but, steam+arcane+lightning (you can add another 2 lightnings/arcane as well) is devastating. It kills bosses in a couple seconds. The steam component gets the enemy wet, which amplifies the damage from the lightning.
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« Reply #216 on: January 26, 2011, 03:09:17 pm »

Also if you kept the Glam from the first mission, I believe the 6th mission is easier (and you get an achievement)
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« Reply #217 on: January 26, 2011, 03:34:25 pm »

My mage got a M60 for saving all the houses in chapter 3.
Apparently their blacksmith built it using a shotgun and a paperclip.
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This game is glourious.
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #218 on: January 26, 2011, 03:41:58 pm »

Also if you kept the Glam from the first mission, I believe the 6th mission is easier (and you get an achievement)

I must have missed that, I don't remember no Glams.
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« Reply #219 on: January 26, 2011, 03:42:13 pm »

Is there a NewGamePlus mode?

Also, is there any way to store inventory?
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #220 on: January 26, 2011, 03:42:41 pm »

Also if you kept the Glam from the first mission, I believe the 6th mission is easier (and you get an achievement)

I must have missed that, I don't remember no Glams.

If you kill the first Troll in the game (or whatever they are called) the Glam is stuck in a tree behind the moose it was eating.
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« Reply #221 on: January 26, 2011, 03:52:02 pm »

It's called "Gram", isn't it? :p

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« Reply #222 on: January 26, 2011, 03:58:32 pm »

It's called "Gram", isn't it? :p

Maybe.
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« Reply #223 on: January 26, 2011, 04:35:19 pm »

So what are people's favorite spell combos so far?

Personally, I like cold and lightning.  Keep enemies frozen with earth + ice missiles and then destroy with lightning + arcane beams. 

If I'm getting swarmed by smaller enemies, I like to lay lightning mines with lightning + arcane + shield.  It sends everything flying.

If I'm having trouble keeping distance and the enemy can't be blown away by mines, I put up freezing walls with ice + earth + shield.

So far, fire seems mostly worthless.  Negligable status effect and damage both.  Earth + fire missiles are great for blowing up bomb carriers, though.

Note:  I've mostly played challenge modes.  I'm saving adventure for coop with my wife.

Also, have you guys noticed you can put spell effects on your sword?  Select your elements, and then shift+left click.  Then swing sword to produce effect.  Do it with shield, and get a taste of tron. :D
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« Reply #224 on: January 26, 2011, 04:43:32 pm »

Has anyone managed to successfully get online multiplayer working? I tried it last night with 2 friends and it worked a bit wrong. Namely:
-Whoever was the server sounded like an automaton on TeamSpeak (it lagged it up somehow).
Multiplayer uses a lot of upstream bandwidth for the server, something like 30-40kb/s per player. They need to fix that, not even TF2 that is a FPS uses that much.
Got the person with the highest up speed to host and it works wonderful! Though we were fortunate, since only he's got 1024kb/s while we're stuck with 50kb/s. Thanks for the tip!
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