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[tHe_silent_H]

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From the website: https://founders.orcsmustdie.com/
"Orcs Must Die! Unchained is a fast-paced Fortress Siege action game in which teams of heroes battle head-to-head to attack and defend ancient strongholds. For the first time in Orcs Must Die!, teams of players are responsible for both sides of the battle -- building traps to stop the enemy assault AND summoning their own armies to lead against the enemy defense."

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDJzk-72ZwA

It's currently in closed beta atm(no NDA) and they are giving out keys every so often( and on the twitch stream that Nananea does as well as long as you say it's for EU or "merica). I don't have any keys spare sorry .


You can get keys from the twitch channel just by asking nicely(and stating region, NA or Europe): http://www.twitch.tv/orcsmustdie/profile

On the PTW(pay to win):You can spend real money on "gold" which can be used to purchase additional card packs(which give random cards guaranteed rare or better, for all card packs), heroes(which can be found in card packs) and Skins(cosmetic only). They have designed the store such that you should have a decent deck to win without paying by the time you hit ranked. you get a card pack every level, + rarer one at 10/20/30 and a guaranteed hero at 40( ranked is unlocked at 39 when it's implemented, you also have a chance to get a hero in a pack, and you can buy more packs with skulls) the only thing money can by exclusively is skins(which have 0 impact on gameplay).

It's reasonably fun, but definitely a WIP.

Images:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warning: some Images are from the alpha, and some content had to be removed as it's too buggy, but they are workng on bring it back, eg physics traps

[Folly]

Because it's still beta there is no in-game configuration settings yet. If you're going to play, I strongly urge you to make a few .ini changes immediately after installing. These make the game so so so much better.

First, OMDU/Engine/Config/BaseSystemSettings.ini
ResX=
ResY=

Change these to your desktop resolution, or whatever the highest resolution your monitor can handle.

Second, OMDU/Engine/Config/BaseInput.ini
LookRightScale=0
LookUpScale=0
MouseSensitivity=30.0
bEnableMouseSmoothing=false


There are probably some other good tweaks in there, but these are the ones I found essential.

Regarding the game, as a fan of MOBA's I'm certainly enjoying OMDU. There's some balance issues, with a few heroes being very OP atm. And the most recent patch caused some snowballing issues which they've yet to comment on. It's slightly frustrating grinding out packs to get a decent deck with the knowledge that it will be wiped in a later stage of beta. But on the whole, I'm still really enjoying the game and recommend it to fans of the genres.

[Sergarr]

This game looks like something actually fun to play. PTW.

[Mookzen]

Anyone got a spare key for this ?

[werty892]

I'd like a key if anyone has one.

[tHe_silent_H]

This game looks like something actually fun to play. PTW.

On the PTW(pay to win): They designed the store such that you should have a decent deck to win without paying by the time you hit ranked. you get a card pack every level, + rarer one at 10/20/30 and a guaranteed hero at 40( ranked is unlocked at 39 when it's implemented, you also have a chance to get a hero in a pack, and you can buy more packs with skulls) the only thing money can by exclusively is skins(which have 0 impact on gameplay).

[EuchreJack]

ptw probably meant post-to-watch, lol

[Sergarr]

It looks fun to play, I couldn't care less about the store shenanigans.

Like, you can accidentally jump off a cliff. And die. Can you jump off a cliff and die in Dota 2? Hell no. And this is why this game will be infinitely more fun to play.

[ragnar119]

I hope this will not be yet another moba type of game, and that it will be more focused on original.

[tHe_silent_H]

ptw probably meant post-to-watch, lol

My bad, still is useful info though, will add to main post now

[Sergarr]

I hope this will not be yet another moba type of game, and that it will be more focused on original.

It is not just another moba.

The main differences:
1) Fortress-like layouts of the maps, with a lot of height changes (so no giant long flat lanes like in Dota)
2) Instead of artifacts boosting player's powers, they set up typical OMD traps. And buy different troops for offense.
3) In normal MOBA, you hide behind creeps (they act as a meat-shield for you), here, you go before creeps (you act as a meatshield).

[Folly]

3-year necro-bump for great justice!

After not playing for a couple years, I reinstalled OMD:U, this time on Steam, to see what progress had been made.
One of the biggest changes, they have added a robust PvE mode since I last played, which feels a lot like the original games except with better matchmaking. I've spent the last week walling off lanes, meticulously laying out killboxes, and then watching the combo-count soar as giblets fly everywhere.

Anyone who tried OMD:U before but was turned off by the MOBA aspects, or those who haven't tried it but like action-tower-defense in general, I definitely recommend giving it a shot.
Edit: Oh yeah, it's free, with cash-shop. The main incentive to spend money is to unlock new heroes, though frugal gamers can unlock them with in-game-currency, requiring about a week of doing dailies for each hero.
Edit 2: The all-heroes bundle is 50% off in the Steam Summer Sale, ending today!

[ZebioLizard2]

You forgot to mention they cut siege mode, pvp in general. It's what killed my desire to play when they went that route.

[Mephansteras]

Huh. I may give this a try, if it is free. I enjoyed the first OMD a good bit.

[Folly]

Not being much of a graphics-whore, I just accepted the default settings after I first installed. But today I finally got around to tweaking the video settings and setting up ReShade, and OMG, it looks so much more prettier.