So I downloaded the Maniaplanet.exe from the website instead of steam. When I open the game I still get the optional update but when I click play later it actually launches the game. I guess for now this will work, but hopefully it will work on steam in the future.

The Maniaplanet friends list is really buggy dude. This is one of the few problems that I've experienced with it. Might as well list them off now, seems like this is an appropriate thread to do so. -Friends who are clearly online appear as offline -Friends appear to be playing on a server that they...

Do me a favor and login at http://player.maniaplanet.com with your ManiaPlanet username and password. In the menu-bar, hover over "Account" and then click on the bottom entry "Optional updates" Set "I want optional updates" to "No" and re-install the game. Th...

Okay. Re-downloading now. I will let you know if this works.

Hello. Today when I tried to launch Shootmania it told me that there was an optional update. I clicked restart to update and the download started on Steam. When I relaunched the game it said the same thing, so I clicked update later, but it still would only say restart game now. I tried deleting all...