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Author Topic: Magicka 2: Learn to spell.....AGAIN. Research before you buy.  (Read 89603 times)

Falknor

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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #540 on: February 20, 2011, 03:15:48 pm »

I'd be up for a challenge game(s)
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #541 on: February 20, 2011, 03:22:20 pm »

Sent you a frond request.
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #542 on: February 20, 2011, 03:22:36 pm »

Sent you a frond request.
Don't do it! He wants your ferns!
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Falknor

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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #543 on: February 20, 2011, 03:49:01 pm »

Sent you a frond request.
Don't do it! He wants your ferns!

Sadly I don't have any ferns... Anymore. I have a cat  ;D
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I'll use Dwarven Logic. AKA Encrusting the problem with gems, beating an elf to death with it, and then throwing it into the volcano.

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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #544 on: February 20, 2011, 04:26:22 pm »

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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #545 on: February 20, 2011, 05:34:00 pm »

I was wondering whether QFQFQFAS or QFQFAAS is the most powerful beam and it turns out it's the latter.

In my experience QFQFQFAS has a higher DPS.
Well, it doesn't. There's a link in the post, you might wanna check it out. But to save you from having to watch a video, here's the chart.
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QFASSS     35123/15.8 sec = 2222.98 dps

QFAASS     34421/13.8 sec = 2494.28 dps

QFAAAS     31880/11.8 sec = 2701.69 dps

QFQFAAS    32919/11.8 sec = 2789.75 dps

QFQFASS    34763/13.8 sec = 2519.06 dps

QFQFQFAS   32396/11.8 sec = 2745.42 dps

Also, I sent some of you guys friend requests. My steam name is Nixitur, by the way.

Interesting. So, basically, the Arcane element is just there to make it a beam attack, and more than 1 Arcane is a waste of your time. Once you get to the single-Arcane combos, the DPS values are basically the same (there's a ~3.2% improvement from the QFAAAS to the QFQFAAS DPS, with QFQFQFAS almost exactly in the middle).
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #546 on: February 20, 2011, 05:44:49 pm »

I'm pretty sure that extra arcane elements don't add to damage, but they do extend the duration of your beam. As far as I've experienced anyway.
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #547 on: February 20, 2011, 05:46:06 pm »

This looks like quite possibly the most amazing game I've ever seen.

Too bad I'm completely unable to play it. %^*&ing macs.
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #548 on: February 20, 2011, 06:36:45 pm »

It always crashes at set points when I play online...
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #549 on: February 20, 2011, 06:39:33 pm »

Works perfectly for me and my friends. We've done 4 player sessions through the entire game twice now. It gets crazy when you have all of the magick unlocked...

"No don't create a vortex there I'm casting! AGGH!"
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MC Dirty

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« Reply #550 on: February 20, 2011, 07:18:00 pm »

Well, it's a known issue that clients regularly CtD after the last stage of the mind duel against Grimnir. Happened to me three times already, so... yeah.
« Last Edit: February 20, 2011, 07:50:24 pm by MC Dirty »
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #551 on: February 20, 2011, 09:58:30 pm »

Good news.  I can host without Hamachi, and seem to have a good enough connection to host PvP.

Other good news.  PvP is awesome.  With the mixing of elements and the lack of health it's everything wizard dueling should be.
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #552 on: February 20, 2011, 11:05:37 pm »

I'd test the beams against someone which is actually heavily armored, tough, etc, as well. Forest or War Trolls, for instance, might be a good test subject than Vlad. That's what I was testing them on originally.

I attempted to test them against armored goblins, but Magicka did this during my testing. It happens any time I play a video and don't reboot before running Magicka again. Turns out it also happens if I alt-tab away from Magicka to view a video (which I had just recorded in Magicka in this case) and then alt-tab back in.
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Re: Magicka - I don my Wizzard's hat and robe
« Reply #553 on: February 20, 2011, 11:43:14 pm »

Trolls aren't armored, they just have much less HP than Vlad and regenerate, thus distorting the damage numbers.

Vlad is a lot tougher than a Forest Troll. A Forest Troll has 6000 hit points while Vlad has 40 Million. You can't even hold your beam on the troll for the whole duration of it because it'll explode way too early.
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« Reply #554 on: February 20, 2011, 11:53:33 pm »

I was figuring it based on how far the troll walked across the (modified) arena (set up to spawn three trolls from the east gate in a row 10 seconds apart) from a set starting point towards me before exploding. :P

Of course they end up exploding rather near the same spot.
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