Madoka Magica Online

Puella Magi Madoka Magica Online is a multi-player browser-based freemium game based on Puella Magi Madoka Magica settings. It is open for play, with some regional access restrictions. The game is free to play but Platinum coupons for a slim chance to get premium items and Action Point immediate restoration items are purchasable from the cash shop.

• Introduction: Get an overview of the game.
• Getting Started, Troubleshooting: Answers to common questions.
• Co-op Play: Multiplayer guide.
• Story: In-game dialogue (still needs translation).
• Gameplay: Quests, PvP, stats, and mechanics.
• Items: Cute clothes and badass gear.
• Gallery: Screenshots, jokes and art.
• Updates and Events: Details of updates and past events.

Current Events 11/28: Defeat the "new" A-X Charlotte once (once for each difficulty) before 12/4, to receive rewards. A-4-1 stage: Santa hat (recommended ATK to clear 16000 ) A-4-2 stage: Sexy Santarina corset (recommended ATK 26000) A-4-3 stage: Lvl 60 SS Musket (recommended ATK ???) [Distribution 12/7] 11/28: New PvP rewards. See update page for complete list. [Reset 12/11] 2 QB weapon fodder at 1000pts, S-Mami at 3000pts, skill and weapon QB fodder at 5000pts, R-Mami (School Uniform edition) at 8000pts, 3 each of weapon and skill fodder card at 10000pts. [Distribution 12/14] 11/26: The top 5 people to place in the ATK ranking contest will get a special SS weapon called Executioner. 11/26: An event going until the 2nd of December involves taking 'interesting' screenshots in the game and posting them on twitter with a specific hashtag. 100 people's pictures will be selected by the game's PR rep and those selected will receive 1 AP potion as reward. 11/26: A list of rewards was released for opening the Platinum Box a certain number of times between 11/26 and 11/28 maintenance. The rewards stack, so 100 times will net you all of them. 11/22: A list of the PVP rank contest's current values was posted for the first week (11/14 - 11/21). 11/16: Party cumulative ATK event during the coming 11/28 maintenance. Put on your best ATK gears and stat cards together with your most menacing megucas before the start of the 11/28 maintenance. [Distribution 11/30] Ranking deadline: Ended There is rewards for reaching a certain number of total ATK, and also rewards if you got into the ranking in your server. Reward details: update page

News and Announcements Weekly Maintenance : {DAY} days {HOUR} hours {MINUTE} minutes {SECOND} seconds Info on the new Co-op mode added : Co-op Play For details go here: Madoka Magica Online Events 11/27: Co-op play will not be available until mid-December because they are trying to make it less frustrating to play. 11/27: 11/28 Maintenance changes. Refer to the maintenance changes below for details. 11/26: The SS butterfly wings, Dapeng Feller SS Bow, as well as the Madoka and Homura S rank AOE skill cards will be removed from the Purple QB box in the upcoming maintenance. SS Red Fairy Wings and Le Oro SS Musket will be removed from platinum box (my mistake, fixed this part). 11/26: An announcement was made regarding upcoming December updates, which include the ability to wear up to 3 accessory cards on a character (both MC and megucas), as well as an upgrade to the card encyclopedia (with unlockable art for collecting cards?) 11/25: [pay2win] The rates for Queen Sayaka and Cheshire Kyouko cards, as well as other listed SS weapons/skills have been increased for this week (11/21 - 11/28). There are also rewards for buying cash-shop points. 11/22: 4 AP pots were given for a PVP glitch in the game. 11/21: 11/21 Maintenance changes information. See the Maintenance changes box below for info. [Maint 1100 ~ 1800JST] 11/16: Removal of the "Pink rabbit madoka" series, including the SS rabbit madoka, rabbit ear accessories and dress, during the coming 11/21 maintenance. 9/27 update: For buyfags who got their Charlotte mini-nendroid, please make sure you empty your accessories slot before entering your serial-number.

Maintenance Changes: 11/28 Weekly maintenance will be carried out in Tuesdays starting from next week. QB box changes Changes for Platinum and Purple QB box contents. While rolling QB box, the number of cards (weapon/dress/acc/skill) will be displayed on the screen. You will no longer be able to click the "roll" button when you card slot is full. PvP play The health recovery after each battle system is extended until 12/4 maint. PvP point reset. Co-op play Co-op play will not be available until mid-December, because the devs are trying to fix the system. System changes The cards encyclopedia layout update. Madoka SS AoE attack will activate if equipped by the player's OC meguca. Time until the next AP point increase will be shown by default. AP pots storage limits increased to 499. Skipping of animation graphics will be possible: Quest clear result page Quest defeat result page Co-op boss clear result page Level-up animation Door animation before witch battle Quest changes Charlotte's difficulty will be increased for an event When card slot is full, there will be a notice to pick it up from the presents box(?) The witch battle in quests will now be continuous, as in during PvP battle.

Maintenance Changes: 11/21 QB box changes Changes for Platinum and Purple QB box contents. PvP play The health recovery after each battle system is extended until 11/28 maint. Co-op play The reward for co-op play will include S and SS weapons, for a limited time. [11/21 ~ 11/28]

Maintenance Changes: 11/14 Platinum and purple QB box changes. (No changes for brown) Purple box: Increased chance to get the SS bow and SS Homura skill card New SS purple dress and S attack skill cards Platinum box: Increased chance to get Homura and Madoka related cards. SS Homura cosplaying as alice character, stat, dress and hair ribbon card. U gun "Odile" PvP play changes HP team restore after every battle. This applies to the other NPC too, so you will face a full health team even if they reached the center and battled the other 2 NPCs before you. Damage dealt by bombs and trap tiles will not be restored. For 11/14~11/21 only, it seems. Battle point reset, as scheduled. Battle points to get to C rank is lowered to 120. "Equip" button in the PvP lobby is removed. System changes Friend number increased from 30 to 40 The history button will blink when you have unclaimed gifts You can use the AP potion in the item window It will now show which character is equipping any particular item in the item window, rather than only "equipped" The increased parameter of a leveled up card will be shown in blue letters. Improvement of the UI when picking the fodders for leveling up Minor japanese language fix in the character creation window The pop-up when you pick up items and tickets during PvP and quests will have a tick box, that you can use to disable the pop-up from showing up, temporarily(?).

Getting Started

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  How to register.

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  Choose a world/server.

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  Enter your character's name here.

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  How to change your party members and their gear.

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  How to use the friends screen.

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  Top: Retreat. Middle: Recenter camera. Bottom: Inventory picked up in the quest.

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  How to use the achievements screen.

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  How to collect presents.

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  Character profile and how to change appearance.

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  In-game help notes.

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  The co-op UI preview.

The Home/Lobby UI.

• A step by step guide on how to register
• Translations of the help screens, which explain the UI

There are four worlds (servers): ローズ (Rose), シルバー (Silver), ダーク (Dark), and シャドウ (Shadow). Once you choose one, your account will be locked in to it. For a list of players on each world, see the Meguca Online Spreadsheet, which also contains the Suffering Calculator and Weapon Damage Calculator.

Troubleshooting

Unplayability

• If you get an Apache 2/CentOS test page(previous) or a Forbidden 403 error(current), you may need to use a proxy to bypass IP blocks. Certain blocks only apply to the signup and login areas, so some users have been able to log in with proxies and switch to direct connections after world server selection screen.
  • Try using the Nico client to play the game if your IP is blocked: http://app.nicovideo.jp/app/ap110
• The game will load a large cinematic the first time you play. This can cause extended loading times in excess of 5 minutes, and you may need to relaunch the game if your connection to the server fails during loading, causing you to become stuck at the loading screen.
• If the game is freezing when you try to enter pvp or co-op, or when you try to access any feature changed in a recent maintenance, try clearing your browser's cache and restarting the game.
• If you frequently get the "server can't get status" error while using the QB Box or weapon synthesis, try using a different browser. There has been a case where the error persisted after handling the cache and cookies, but was fixed by switching from Chrome to Firefox. It is speculated that in such cases the error can prevent you from receiving some items, so don't ignore these errors.
• If the game will not load after re-logging in after your first time, it might be because of your character name. Try creating a new account with a character name using only 'normal' characters (A-Z, Hiragana, Kanji, Katakana with no spaces, underscores or other funny characters). Might be related to the following point.
• The chat and automessage systems don't allow some common characters such as spaces and periods. You'll get an error message if you try to use them. Some English swearing is also blocked. Note that the double width question mark works, but the normal one doesn't.
  • Allowed: ~`!@#&<>=？
  • Illegal: .$%^*()-,/':"?-- space
  • Also allowed: ´・ω・`：。β★◆●【】※・ー一！）（「」┃○‐

Miscellaneous

• In-game mail from other players will be automatically deleted after 10 days.
• Some presents, such as items found in quests while your inventory was full, will expire after a short time. Make sure to retrieve your presents quickly.
• Presents from special events are often sent some time after maintenance ends, not immediately after the servers come up. Presents can expire before the time listed in the presents window entry.
• The game constantly transfers data through 113.192.241.11/amf/gateway.php and any downloads or uploads to it that take too long will cause you to disconnect. The time limit is believed to be 30 seconds. Prior to the 11/21 maintenance, the limit was only 5 seconds. The change eliminated most of the disconnect issues players were experiencing.
  • When initially entering the game, you must transfer about 167.17KB within the time limit. Before the limit was extended, Cheat Engine was used to reduce the game's speed, tricking it into giving players more than 5 seconds to transfer data, which reduced the number of disconnects.
  • If you are having trouble connecting, make sure that nothing is interfering with your access to the gateway IP.

Performance

• Some users have found that the game runs better in Chrome than Firefox.
  • However, other users have solved errors by using Firefox instead. Try a variety of browsers if you're having trouble playing.
• Reducing the game's graphics quality can dramatically lower CPU load.
• If you're getting disconnected frequently, avoid using flash-based sites in other browser tabs or running P2P applications such as bittorrent in the background.
• High server load can cause issues such as being stuck at a loading screen or getting stuck with a grayed out screen while trying to load a menu.

Errors

• If you get the error pictured below while trying to open a Kyubey BOX, your inventory is full. You can have at most 50 of each type of card (weapons, clothes, accessories, skills). Sell some to make room, and then open the history screen from the lobby (icon: papers with quill pen). Go to the packages tab and collect the card that was withheld due to the inventory being full. After clearing your inventory and packages, Kyubey BOXes should work again.

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  Inventory full. Sell items and clear history packages.

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  How to collect presents.

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  Server can't get status. Enable third-party cookies and restart the game.

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  Connection lost. Restart the game.

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  You were disconnected during a quest. Click the right button to resume where you left off.

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  This present must be retrieved before time runs out.

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  You can't have more than one of the same SS character. Tickets will be refunded.

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  Your present could not be claimed. This may be caused by not having enough inventory space (there may be multiple items in one present, and you can only have 999 tickets) or the expiration of the present.

Teaser site

See also Madoka Secret Project

External links

• Official website (may be region-restricted)
• Nico Client
• Japanese wiki
• Help screen translations
• Madoka Online fan blog
• Meguca Online Spreadsheet

• Closed Beta site
• Strategy Partners official website (game developer's website)
• ANN announcement
• OnlineGamer write-up (Japanese)
• Interview with Producer Fujii, by 4Gamer (Japanese)
• Trailer
• The Victory theme music

• 4chan thread

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