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How is patching a little game every freakin' day good? If your game needs such frequent patching something went wrong.
| Quote: | | We were contacted by Paradox Interactive, who had nice things to say about this story. "I do agree with you that the MP game should have been better on release, probably the SP game as well. I know working on the game after release is a sorry excuse," Fredrik Wester, CEO of Paradox, told Ars. "Our press release had no intention to brag about the numbers—WoW [sold] around 2 million first 24 hours after all—,rather telling the gamers we do not consider the product finished but in need of updates, sorry if it came out the wrong way." |
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/01/pc-indie-magicka-a-hit-hype-obscures-broken-negligent-release.ars
Well atleast they know they fucked up.
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jan 2011 08:18 Post subject: |
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I hate this changelogs. Why SKiDROW don't put all info in nfo file? What's next - readme.txt, look.here ...?
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jan 2011 08:52 Post subject: |
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| Mister_s wrote: | | How is patching a little game every freakin' day good? If your game needs such frequent patching something went wrong. |
How is it not?
Every game we get today is almost always broken in atleast one way. Look at Black Ops. Game was almost unplayable for most at release, and it took them days to get a patch out, and the problem still isn't fully fixed.
Meanwhile, this 7-man team has fixed pretty much all of the major issues already.
This game isn't any more broken than many large-budget games released today.
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jan 2011 12:09 Post subject: |
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Well that's the problem. When it's a big budget game it's "a shit game released in beta stage", but when it's a small dev team its "the guys are thinking of us, we love em!!". It's bullshit. I could understand technical issues being a problem for small teams, but quest problems and such should be as absent as possible in indie games as in big budget game. I'd be totally pissed if I had bought this game.
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barash
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jan 2011 13:01 Post subject: |
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I bought it, and despite the bugs it's great fun. I'd be pissed if I'd paid 50-60€, but for 10€ I can be patient while the tiny dev-studio iron out some bugs.
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jan 2011 16:52 Post subject: |
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Quite frankly, i can't bring myself to play the game since patch #3.
Its the indie curse. Just like elemental, this is yet another game with a great concept plagued by such horrible issues that suck most of the fun out of it.
Maybe in a few more patchs the game will become great, too bad I will lose interest by that time.. :/
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jan 2011 17:22 Post subject: |
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What issues?
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jan 2011 17:30 Post subject: |
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| ScoobyDoh wrote: | | What issues? |
+1
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jan 2011 20:03 Post subject: |
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so its VAC secured, and plays over steam as magicka demo. good idea to be playing this or should we just fork up?
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jan 2011 20:05 Post subject: |
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It's the price of a lunch. Just buy it.
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jan 2011 21:44 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jan 2011 22:32 Post subject: |
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Couldnt disagree more , for an indie title that costs a few £ ill accept that the game may need patching or may have issues, for a big budget company with the ridiculous amount of funds they get thrown at them issues like BO should never occur, its like buying a PC but your keyboard will be delivered next week and the monitor some time in the future possibly when everyone else has figured out its missing and phoned in to complain.
At least these guys are trying to stay on top of things its a shame the same cant be said about the guys getting paid 10x what they are.
Today it is my turn to be AN knobhead
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| Posted: Sun, 30th Jan 2011 22:40 Post subject: |
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| scouse wrote: | Couldnt disagree more , for an indie title that costs a few £ ill accept that the game may need patching or may have issues, for a big budget company with the ridiculous amount of funds they get thrown at them issues like BO should never occur, its like buying a PC but your keyboard will be delivered next week and the monitor some time in the future possibly when everyone else has figured out its missing and phoned in to complain.
At least these guys are trying to stay on top of things its a shame the same cant be said about the guys getting paid 10x what they are. |
+1
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| Posted: Mon, 31st Jan 2011 02:15 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 31st Jan 2011 07:59 Post subject: |
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Bought it and love it. No issues in singleplayer.
Multiplayer on the other hand, with my and my friend's slow upload speed, is often VERY laggy. It takes like 50-150KB/s per1 client connected to server - and our upload speed is about 50KB/s. At least a dev confirmed on the forums they are working on optimizing bandwidth issues in multiplayer
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| Posted: Mon, 31st Jan 2011 20:24 Post subject: |
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Updates to Magicka have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.
Fixes
Fixed save games disappearing when disconnecting from online game. (For real this time)
Fixed crash for alternative character models appearing in cutscenes. (Chapter 7, Chapter 12).
Fixed crash caused by conjuring large quantities of elements.
Fixed crash due to beams merging.
Fixed crash where Chapter 11 boss collided with shield.
Fixed crash where Clients and servers would send old messages when reconnecting.
Fixed high-end machine jitter.
Improved network batching. (should result in serious network performance increase).
Improved startup routine to prevent threading problems.
Improved authentification on connect. (should result in fewer auth-failed)
Fixed a missing file that resulted in french text not appearing correctly.
Fixed immovable objects jittering.
Fixed issue where characters would get stuck during cutscenes.
Fixed issue where scripted player movement would remain after a cutscene.
Fixed missing boss titles.
Steam join through overlay fixed.
Fixed Chapter 1 collision. (behind door)
Fixed Chapter 3 collision. (you can now fall down the well)
Fixed Chapter 7 cutscene lockups and other issues.
Fixed Chapter 8 cutscene lockup.
Fixed Chapter 8 navigation fixed.
Fixed Chapter 9 cutscene lockups.
Fixed Chapter 11 teleport issue.
Fixed Chapter 12 cutscene lockup.
Conflagration is now properly synced over network.
Features/Balance
Chapter 3 now has proper pirates by the picnic.
Chapter 8 now has manual exit at the end of level.
Fire Damage increased from 40 to 60.
Spawned summons now capped at 16 per player.
Goblin Pirate damage reduced from 155 to 72.
Added server list filter option for “Password”.
Removed obsolete port option of game hosting (always hosted on 27016 anyways).
Server list sorting added (click the header).
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| Posted: Mon, 31st Jan 2011 21:41 Post subject: |
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Waiting for the Rowdies, as usual. 
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Dunge
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| Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 02:48 Post subject: |
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Wtf we were playing update 1 with no glitch at all. Tried update 5 today. WHAT THE FUCK?
There was about 8 bugs stacked on the screen. Players de-doubling, jerking, spawning at another place, camera panning, players turning invisible, players get pushed 1000000meters... wtf
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| Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 06:13 Post subject: |
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Found this over on CH page for Magicka by RedWraith:
Hi !
I just found a nice way to speed up casting times.
What you need is a nice little tool named AutoHotKey.
With AutoHotKey you can map different combinations of buttons and mouseclicks to each other. You could, for example, write a script that would emulate pressing 'asf' when you press the '1' key.
The script is rather self-explaining. It starts off with enforcing the use of keyboardhooks (This might strike some AntiVirus as odd, so look out for warnings). After that the delay between each emulated key press and the press-down time is defined.
Then we start defining our Hotkeys in this fashion:
1::SendPlay asf
That means if you press '1' AutoHotKey will emulate pressing 'asf' which will prepare the elements to cast the spell Haste.
Just save the following script as *.ahk and then doubleclick it and the defined hotkeys should become available ingame.
#UseHook ;Script may use Hooks
#InstallKeybdHook ;Force the use of Hooks
SetKeyDelay, 50, 50, Play ;Delay between KeyDown/KeyUp and different Keys
;Now for the Spells:
1::SendPlay qrqrqrqrqr ;xIce, I just like it !
2::SendPlay qfasa ;Thunder Bold
3::SendPlay fdfqdf ;Meteor Storm
4::SendPlay qqf ;Rain
5::SendPlay asf ;Haste
Just D/L Autohotkey from here, its free.
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http://www.autohotkey.com/download/
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the Magicka.ahk file RedWraith uploaded to RS
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;#UseHook ;Script may use Hooks
;#InstallKeybdHook ;Force the use of Hooks
SetKeyDelay, 50, 50, Play ;Delay between KeyDown/KeyUp and different Keys
;Now for the Spells:
1::SendPlay qrqrqrqrqr ;xIce, I just like it !
2::SendPlay qfasa ;Thunder Bold
3::SendPlay fdfqdf ;Meteor Storm
4::SendPlay fqffqffq ;Conflathingy
5::SendPlay qqf ;Rain
6::SendPlay asf ;Haste
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Install the Autohotkey program. Then you can either use the program itself to edit the ahk file or use notepad to set it up for your favorite spells, etc. Then doubleclick the ahk file to start it,
then play Magicka, with your shortcut keys as you want them. Works fine W7X64 no issues yet. I just tried his file as it was. It also has tons of other keys ( F1-24 keys , mouse keys, joystick, etc ) See website for documentation & examples.
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| Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 07:17 Post subject: |
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Game macroing. Welcome to a thousand years ago.
I prefer AutoIt though.
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helvete
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| Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 10:35 Post subject: |
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meh.. borderline cheating. I love the feeling of awesomeness I get from executing a perfect combo in the blink of an eye with no aid but muscle memory.
REPOST
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| Posted: Tue, 1st Feb 2011 11:35 Post subject: |
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I believe you simply have to use the Death magick, and, well, kill him before he kills you.
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