[Steam] Thread XIX: It's a Kritzmas miracle!

[Zeful]

Is the demo better or worse in terms of system reqs? Cuz I played through the demo at 1600x900 (native) and didn't notice that make of an issue. Could be that I don't mind funky graphics if the game play is good though.

Judge for yourself.

[Sammiches]

I'm not sure what to think of Magicka from the demo. The elemental combinations are fun, but there needs to be some kind of 'spell palette' for your more frequent combinations. Spamming the same three spells in succession made my hands hurt after a while.

[Dragero]

Judge for yourself.

Ok, that was great. now I do want Magicka.

[shadow_archmagi]

I'm not sure what to think of Magicka from the demo. The elemental combinations are fun, but there needs to be some kind of 'spell palette' for your more frequent combinations. Spamming the same three spells in succession made my hands hurt after a while.

What, like bind 1 to ASF, sort of thing?

I think that kinda defeats the point of magicka, and removes an opportunity for frantic mistakes that cause explosions.

[Gamerlord]

What, like bind 1 to ASF, sort of thing?

I think that kinda defeats the point of magicka, and removes an opportunity for frantic mistakes that cause explosions.

For example, casting an ice area spell in the water.

[Dragero]

So shadow, will there be any movies involving SPAEC MAHRINES tonight?

[Etcetera]

So shadow, will there be any movies involving SPAEC MAHRINES tonight?

Don't you mean SPESS MEHRENS?

[shadow_archmagi]

So shadow, will there be any movies involving SPAEC MAHRINES tonight?

No. After my horrific failure last time, movie nights have discontinued. I'm busy committing soduku.

...

math is hard

[The Linker]

Hmm. Should I find something? Maybe I should find something.

I don't have anything cool-yet-uncommon like Shadow has in droves, though.

[Gamerlord]

Hmm. Should I find something? Maybe I should find something.

Such as? Examples, we need examples!

[Xefas]

I bought 'On The Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 1 & 2' today for $3.

It's downloading now. Will I find my money well spent?

[The Linker]

Such as? Examples, we need examples!

Ummm...

Best I can find in the humorously eccentric category is the 2001 animated Atlantis movie.

I got all of Dollhouse, the first three seasons of How I Met Your Mother, I could re-run Daredevil w/ (or w/o) Rifftrax... we've got Princess Bride, though that was shown by one of the GitPers not too long ago...

I don't think I have anything interesting. Not many movies in this house.

[Dragero]

Hmm. Should I find something? Maybe I should find something.

I don't have anything cool-yet-uncommon like Shadow has in droves, though.

Hey, as long as it`s good (Or just plain bad) it works!

Monty Python would be a crowd pleaser!

[The Linker]

No Monty Python in this house, unfortunately.

To add to my last post, I remember I have the first three seasons of Buffy, too. I don't know if watching TV shows makes for a good Friday Night session, but throwing it out there nonetheless. And I guess I've still got Final Fantasy: Advent Children, which would be much better quality than last time.

[Gamerlord]

Any star trek or doctor who?

[Dragero]

No Monty Python in this house, unfortunately.

To add to my last post, I remember I have the first three seasons of Buffy, too. I don't know if watching TV shows makes for a good Friday Night session, but throwing it out there nonetheless. And I guess I've still got Final Fantasy: Advent Children, which would be much better quality than last time.

Never saw the FF movie(s?) I`d be interested in seeing it.

[Gamerlord]

Never saw the FF movie(s?) I`d be interested in seeing it.

If it was the one I am thinking of, it is absolute garbage and you should avoid it at all costs.

[The Linker]

This one, just to clarify. Not worth much, save for the neat graphics and utterly ridiculous(ly cool?) fight scenes. I always thought it could be a beautiful movie if only it had good sound design. The music never matches up with the action.

Any star trek or doctor who?

Nope. Never watched much of either.

[Volatar]

How about Serenity? I loved that movie and will watch it again in a heartbeat.

[Dispozition]

Fun fact, I can stream videos (probably) and have a large collection of blurays/movies (not huge, but enough to last a few weeks) and an insane amount of anime (it is actually insane)...But I'm not sure what lag and whatnot would be like for you lot since I'm Australian.

[Volatar]

Fun fact, I can stream videos (probably) and have a large collection of blurays/movies (not huge, but enough to last a few weeks) and an insane amount of anime (it is actually insane)...But I'm not sure what lag and whatnot would be like for you lot since I'm Australian.

Lag is actually not a problem with Livestream as long as you have enough bandwith throughput to Livestream's servers. At least for movie purposes.

[AlterForm]

Fun fact, I can stream videos (probably) and have a large collection of blurays/movies (not huge, but enough to last a few weeks) and an insane amount of anime (it is actually insane)...But I'm not sure what lag and whatnot would be like for you lot since I'm Australian.

If you have the first three episodes of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, I'd love to subject more victims friends to it.

[Dispozition]

If you have the first three episodes of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, I'd love to subject more victims friends to it.

I currently have the first two, can get the next two easily enough.

EDIT: Ok, currently test streaming. Channel~. Gonna be switching things about a bit (: Just come into chat and tell me what needs working on...Mainly frame rate (:

EDIT EDIT: Ok, seems it all in order, even though none of you came in and joined me >:
I'll stream...whenever, ish...Depends on when I'm in over the next week.

[onasuma]

I bought 'On The Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 1 & 2' today for $3.

It's downloading now. Will I find my money well spent?

These are two of my favourite games of all time. I am heart broken they arent making the 3rd and 4th.

On that note, anyone who hasnt got "On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness" go and get it now! Its £2 for a pair of awesome games. Sure, they arent very long, but that just means you have more time to hang out with the multiple partners you will attract by playing them!

[ZeroNumerous]

we've got Princess Bride, though that was shown by one of the GitPers not too long ago...

Ya, Shadow showcased it. I'd love to see it again.

[Xefas]

These are two of my favourite games of all time. I am heart broken they arent making the 3rd and 4th.

They aren't making the 3rd and 4th episodes? Was it just not selling well enough?

Awww, well, I just beat Episode 1. It took me about 6.5 hours (including time to find all the collectibles by hand, some of which were just in stupidly random places), which is pretty good, especially when I think about other things I've spent a buck n' a half on. The gameplay was okay, the dialogue, setting, and atmosphere were all great; the only bad thing I can really say is that I dislike having to hunt around, clicking every pixel at random to get all the content out of a game.

I guess tomorrow I'll see if the other episode is just as good.

[Cogwheel]

So the Dominion proved to be... insufficient. Why?

Because I am getting mauled by five civs at once. Thanks, alliance dominoes. Thank you so much.

In retaliation, I am building an unstoppable attempt to show them all what for. An enhanced version of the Dominion (which Zero named the Peacebringer). It has more HP, certainly. More miniaturization to make use of, too. It has enough armour to ignore any attack in the galaxy at present (except a few 20+ damage mass driver units the Korath have). It moves at a speed of 19 parsecs (tiles) per turn.

And then you have the weapons. A Doom Ray is the strongest laser in the game. One would kill most ships pitted against me, and two will deal with fleets or the especially large ones. This, in total, would deal 44 damage.

After a number of doom rays and some bonuses from weapons skill, this ship deals 357 damage. It also takes ages to build and costs a fortune to buy/maintain, so I can only afford three.

Why do this when it's clearly impractical and in need of scaling down?

Because they assumed that attempting to be peaceful for most of the game and scrapping most of my military to save costs was the same as being defenseless. Because this is not a ship. This is a statement. This is a war crime that flies.



Incidentally, shortly after I put it into production, the leader of the Arceans - the only surviving civ not at war with me - sent me a threat.

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I'm not sure what they're going for here. This is the tech that allows you to start researching missiles.

Kinda behind the times there, Vega.


And yes, technology capacity. He's foreign, you can't fault him for poor English.

Blame the universal translators instead.


Edit: If anyone's wondering why I'm playing the wookies, a combination of the custom race option and being asked to attempt it.

[potatocubed]

So, I bought Magicka. Hit me up for multiplayer if and when it works.

[Silverraptor]

How much is Magicka?

[Zeful]

How much is Magicka?

$10.00

So it's pretty cheap.