[Game] Magicka

Ralfst3r said:

Red Orchestra's very own Xancerman did the sounds for that game.

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It’s a game designed to be played in co-op, where up to three fellow spell-slingers are at the ready to heal you when you accidentally set yourself on fire. It works the other way too: as the screen fizzes with deadly sorcery, tagging your allies with the occasional meteorite shower is an inevitability. The beta netcode proved too unstable to support the four-player maximum (many hours were spent looking at inexplicably empty server browsers, crashing to desktop, or watching play stutter to a PC-killing stasis), but even with two players, the action was lethally chaotic.

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So here's the deal. The Steam version of the game is ready and shipped (steam will activate it on the 25th or 26th).

The non-steam version is not ready yet, we still have a few network issues to resolve.

I won't get into the technical stuff too much but the steam version uses steamworks (game browser , LAN, and direct IP) and the non-steam has another solution for online play (which supports LAN and direct IP).

We decided we didn't want to release the non-steam unless it was as stable as the steam version). We don't think it's fair to you guys to start selling a game unless the online play works fine.

So we offered our partners a choice, wait for the non-steam version (no ETA atm) or take the steam version. Most opted for the latter since that'd mean they'd can be a part of the release.

We'll get back to you as soon as we can with more info. But this week is steam week if you want to play Magicka.

I know this will piss some people off, I'd be pissed too. But I know that a lot more people would be pissed if there was no release at all.

Regards,

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