I'm Jeff, a new administrator in the community. I want to revive the community into what it once was, so I'd like your help doing this. I know that many players still play and enjoy Castle Crashers, but not many players can find a decent multiplayer party to play the game with. Our goal is to grow this community as large as possible. If anybody has any friends they can invite who play Castle Crashers so that this community grows large again, I'd highly appreciate it. We all would.

-Jeff

Castle Crashers Steam Update 1.1
posted by The Behemoth Megan @ 09:02PM on October 17, 2012
Today, the first update for Castle Crashers Steam Edition will go live. We have made a few adjustments to the game to increase performance and added a few new visuals tailored for Steam gameplay. Here are some of the changes that are in the first update:

[] We’ve improved performance by correcting a memory leak that appeared to affect certain systems. We found that this was related to how specific computers handled audio, which is why this affected only some players and not all. If this had been affecting you prior to the update and it still affects you after downloading the first update please let us know by going to our support page and filling out a support ticket.

[] We’ve improved overall performance by adding Push-to-Talk support as part of a new Audio Settings menu. This lets the player Enable/Disable Voice Chat, Enable/Disable Push-to-Talk, and set the keyboard key used for Push-to-Talk.

If you have Push-to-Talk enabled, the default PTT key is “T” or pressing L3 on the primary local controller.

[] In order to get to the game quicker, we’ve added the ability for players to move through the logo and legal screens quicker when the game boots up using either the escape key, the enter key, the space key or 'A' button on a controller.

[] To celebrate the Steam edition, Dan has drawn some new artwork for the main menu (Woot!).

[] Checking leaderboards in the game demo will no longer cause the pause menu to break.

[] We’ve reverted to the default keyboard controls that were originally used to design the game back in the Stone Age when Ye Olde Side-Scroller was but a glimmer of a dream:

A - Quick Slash
S - Jump
D - Special Item (ie bow and arrow)
W - Fierce Slash
E - Magic Mode
Q - Shield
C - Toggle Special Item (could do both Z and C for that)

The new keybindings will not affect anyone who purchased and played the game prior to the release of the update. Your keyboard settings are safe!

If you don’t see an issue that was affecting you on this list, don’t worry! Some other issues brought to our attention by the community take longer to identify, fix, test and verify than those listed in the first update. Our second update is hot on the heels of this one, so it won’t be long before we have more performance enhancements (Go Lance!) and other improvements!



P.S.
We’ve also updated our DLC descriptions to include the charities that the proceeds will be benefitting. If you haven’t seen it already, here are this year’s DLC charities:

The Behemoth donates 100% of DLC proceeds to various 501(c)(3) non-profits, including:
[] Doctors without Borders
[] Wikimedia Foundation
[] Heifer International
[] Kiva.org (Flying Spaghetti Monster Team)

XOXO,
The Behemoth Team

So apparently I have come accross some causes of multiplayer lag. One of which can be caused by, the game just does not run very well on someones computer who you are connected to. How Castle Crashers currently works is everyone needs to syncronize to the same speed as everyone your currently connected to over multiplayer.

What this means is for example. Someone has a slow computer. He or she may have a fast internet connection but their computer lacks performance. So this person with a bad computer may play with 20 FPS. So everyone connected to that person in a multiplayer game needs to then slow down to play with that person or else their going to be out of sync.

Megan states that the cause is someone changing their resolution from the native 800x600 to something else thus causing lag.

Now what she recommends if you come to see lag in a multiplayer game. Everyone set their resolution to 800x600 for a quick fix. Should fix the problem for now until they find a solution via a patch.

Game on!

To read the official article related to lag click this link. http://forums.thebehemoth.com/index.php?/topic/12740-solved-cc-steam-online-multiplayer-choppiness/