Steam News announces the availability of a new patch to automatically update Magicka to address some of the issues with the just released action/adventure game. This comes shortly after Paradox informed Rock, Paper, Shotgun that such a patch was in the works and that the game would be receiving new patches approximately every 24 hours to address any other problems that crop up. The change list follows.

• Characters will now clear any crossfading previously in progress when initializing.
• Character network performance has been improved.
• Servers will now properly clear pending clients when starting a game.
• Some grapical improvement has been made to the tutorial level.
• Burning grease is now working properly over network.
• Grease network performance has been improved.
• PhysicsObjects now update their orientations correctly over network.
• DamageableObjects status effects now work properly over network.
• Character status effects now work properly over network.
• Fixed a dialog problem which prevented cutscenes from ending properly.
• Wizard castle collision mesh has been adjusted.
• Havindr Arena's collision mesh has been adjusted.
• Glade's collision mesh has been adjusted.
• Hyphen (-) has been added and other fixes have been made to the fonts.
• Ruins script has been modified.
• Ruins textures has been improved.
• A few missing NPC name tags have been added.
• A glitch when characters performed multiple move orders in sequence has been fixed.
• Picking up items over network has been fixed.
• Random teleport over network has been fixed.
• Music will reset properly when restarting from checkpoints now.
• NPC wizards now use the correct coloring for network clients.