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did any of you play "thomas was alone"?
 

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I have a few questions for Magicka,

-for single player, will there eventualy be added a new system to make a NPC mage follow you, who can fight along side you (probrably blast you to pieces more then a player would) and revive you as you die + you being able to revive him if he dies? it would make the single player campain more fun (mainly as i got the game recently and noticed my friends did not buy it as there game would have terrible lags if they did, so i end up playing it alone, strongly reducing the fun, despite the cool idea of the checkpoint fairy)

-Will there be a new addon that alowes the player to keep spells they learned in the campain to be used in other campains? (for example you finish the main story mode, then you start the stars are left with all spells you learned in the main story mode, then after that start the other side of the coin, with also all spells you learned in previous campains, giving the feeling of becoming more powerfull + bosses and special enemy's with vortex immunity to prevent abuse of the spell on strong opponents)

-More spell's like making a tidle wave, blind the enemy, poisoning the enemy, summnoning treas, strong undead, other enemy's, making ghost clones of yourself that shoot magick (basically all spells that exist in the game but the player cant learn yet)

-new combinations like light and darkness to deal more damage or heal (for example darkness + arcane = dark beam that deals very powerful damage but also drains your life slightly, or light + shield + fire, to add absorb fire damage to the player for a short time)

-longer duration of the self shield? it only lasts a very short wile, making it a spell i personal never use course there is no point to use it if it only lasts so short

-Currently i still have lag in some area's, while other area's play very smooth, I read somewhere that when its not a constant lag but only happens in some area's its the game itself having that problem and will be fixed in the near future, is this still the case? as for now i am forced to play at the lowest settings to reduce the lag to a very low level (giving a strange screen shape)
I dont see how my graphic card would be the problem as i have all required things to run the game, even more that a game like Skyrim runs smooth for me.

-Will there be more characters to choose from for the Campaign's? alternative DLC other side of the coin characters (vampire robe, who's magic gauntlet cant be removed, Necromancer robe, with poison blade and summon undead staff, new werewolf robe (basicly a robed mage with a wolf nose sticking out the hood's shadow) with a unremovable werewolf claw melee weapon + stronger weapon enchantments)

-Summon death randomizer, making summon death still go to the weakest enemy/player, but also sometimes appear in the circle of death, and if a boss is in the area, being forced to not use a 1 hit kill, but rather resort to summoning 4 random undead (making the player unable to cheat one hit kill a boss with summoning death and dodging him, making him hit the boss)

-summon limit of 15, being only able to have 15 summons on the field,
as for now i think the game already does that with exeption of staff summons, as summoning a random undead or tree spirit will destroy all other summons you have on the field, (or when summoning a normal summon will destroy the summon made by the staff)

-staff/weapon chooser, if you found a weapon in game already, it would be fun to be able to pick a staff or weapon you erlier found to start the campain (for example if you restart the main campain, and you found the staff of dead the last time, you can now reselect it as start staff. giving you the staff regardless of the main staff of your robe, if you die, you get the main staff of the robe you have)


sorry for the large amount of questions/suggestions, i only have the game 3 days but i keep thinking about what would be cool to have in the game XD
Don't get me wrong, the game is very awesome, its a shame i only discovered the game this late.
 
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As the OP says Jef, this thread is not for questions for specific games.:) Make a thread in the appropriate sub forum.:)
 

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yes i was unsure where to post this, do you know a existing magicka suggestion/question page?
I'm quite new on this forum and as far as i seen this forum does not have seperated game sections, making it hard to find what i look for (as when i typed "magicka" i got this question page as the first)
 

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yes i was unsure where to post this, do you know a existing magicka suggestion/question page?
I'm quite new on this forum and as far as i seen this forum does not have seperated game sections, making it hard to find what i look for (as when i typed "magicka" i got this question page as the first)

Here
 

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yes i was unsure where to post this, do you know a existing magicka suggestion/question page?
I'm quite new on this forum and as far as i seen this forum does not have seperated game sections, making it hard to find what i look for (as when i typed "magicka" i got this question page as the first)
If you go to the main forum page (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forum.php ) you will see the separate game forums.
 

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Is Paradox Interactive having a convention this year? In that case, when?
 

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Thanks. It was just under my very nose :0

OK, so in a month from now we'll have the event (and I hope... annoucements!).

Actually that's the fan gathering - the convention is in Iceland in 1½ week.

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Hey dudes. I have a few questions about the new store.

I would really love to buy Victoria 2, from the videos i've seen it looks really interesting. Now that the Paradox shop is up, it seems like the right time with all the discounts(i'm not the richest of persons :)). I found the base game on the new shop interface but i have not found a "buy from Paradox" for the AHD expansion, just GG, Greenman, Steam etc....

Q1: Are only discounted games can be bought from Paradox now?
Q2: If i buy the base Vicky2, will i get a steam code, or is it a DRM free digital download similar to what i would get if i bought it as a boxed game?
Q3: If i buy the game, and i want the expansion aswell, do i have to buy the expansion from Steam or GG, or what?

I know the store is still in beta but i'm still extremely confused.
Thanks for the help.
 

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