Monthly Archives: May 2014

If you are in the EU and are looking to get access to Orcs Must Die! Unchained then be sure to enter our awesome competition here at REF! We have 10 alpha keys to give-away to lucky winners! Our competition is super easy to enter and has numerous means of entering. The competition will run from 15th May until Saturday 24th May at which point the lucky 10 winners will receive their alpha keys via email.

You can increase your chances of winning by completing as many of entry choices as possible. You can enter once each day to score an extra entry. Follow REF and OMDU on Facebook, Twitter and Twitch bags you a further two entries each. Easy peasy!

Please remember – This competition is for EU alpha access only. It is not open to US users at this time. Also, the alpha access on offer is purely access to the alpha and does not include the founders rewards which you can find at www.orcsmustdie.com. For more information just hit the terms and conditions link below.

Good luck, Orc Slayers!

Tonight’s official OMDU stream featured the ranged support hero Ivy. Ivy is one of the free to play characters that will be available at launch. You can catch Robot’s Mastermind (Justin Moe) playing as Ivy in tonights stream which you can catch up on below.

There is also the community stream hosted by Nananea taking place on Thursday. Be sure to check that out to see more of Ivy! Not only that, but Taroth is also streaming Ivy and Stinkeye gameplay on Wednesday (US) and Thursday (GMT).

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Last week Robot Entertainment briefly switched on the new three lane map for Unchained. The map was online for alpha players for only a short period as a quick preview of what was to come. While the map is sure to be back soon it has currently been taken offline for further development.

If you missed out on it and what an idea of what the three lane map is like, never fear because Nananea comes to the rescue capturing game-play video of the new map on her YouTube channel. Take a look at the video below to see Nananea play the three lane map with other alpha players and some of the bots. You’ll also get to see footage of Blackpaw and Midnight.

Last weeks character focus has been on the powerful melee hero – Hogarth. He is quite different to War Mage and Sorceress as his strengths lie more in up-close combat rather than range attacks. Hogarth is quite a menace on the battlefield and you don’t want to find your self up close and personal defending against him, he has a great deal of armour which means it takes quite alot to bring his health down, its always wise to keep away from Hogarth and battle him at range where possible.

Weapons and Abilities

Hogarth’s passive ability allows him to increase the armour of nearby friendly minions and heroes. Sending Hogarth in surrounded by many minions can be a very good strategic decision.

On the weapons front his primary ability is his big axe which can be swung dealing alot of damage over a very reasonable area thanks to his overall size. His secondary lets him leap forward and stomp on the ground dealing stun and damage to near by enemies.

His abilities allows him to create a shield around himself as his primary which reduces the damage both he takes and nearby friendly minions. His secondary ability allows him to hurl a hatchet which passes through enemies and only stops when it hits a wall or reaches maximum range.

Overall Hogarth is a great addition to the line up and will most appeal to players who prefer up-close melee battles as opposed to range. Whatever your game-play preference, Unchained has a character for you.

Hogarth Streams

If you missed out on the official and community Hogarth streams last week be sure to take a look at them below and see Hogarth in action.

Official Stream

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Community Stream

The community stream features Nananea along with SixOkay and Dlangar (Dusty Monk)

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This weeks spotlight on features RoyalFino. Royal is very active on the early access forums over at OrcsMustDie.com and often makes suggestions for the developers.  So lets find out a little more about RoyalFino!

The Basics

Name: Joe

Questions

• When you’re not busy playing OMDU Alpha, what is your day job?

I work temp jobs when I can get them. Looking for a career currently.

• Is there any particular film you are most looking forward to this year?

2015 is going to be way better but probably X-men off the top of my head. Godzilla comes to mind as well. Maybe that Michael Bay movie that involves Turtles from space or whatever.

• Favourite music?

Film Soundtracks.

• Outside the gaming world – what are your hobbies?

Football (American/NFL) fan. I love surfing Reddit and learning new things from it. It’s a great source of information and given the internet is really like a 21st century library, Reddit is a nice road map for it. I also like looking at pictures of cats. Reddit is great for that.

• Aside from OMD, what other games do you enjoy playing?

Half-Life, Portal, Counter-Strike, Sim City and Age of Empires come to mind. Those are some of my most favourite games ever and those type of games are the ones I usually enjoy. OMD was my first venture into the tower defence genre and while I played others and enjoyed them, OMD is the king. If somebody asked me for my top 5 favourite game franchises, Orcs Must Die would be there. I’m really surprised how much I fell in love with the game given I had no expectations for it when it was released in October of 2011.

• How did you discover OMD?

One of my friends let me try it and I got hooked. I ended up playing it for hours till I beat it. I ended up paying it forward and introducing many others to the game as well. I felt like my eyes were opened to a completely new genre of games I can enjoy.

• Whats the best thing about Unchained?

It’s more Orcs Must Die and it introduces a new take on the franchise.

• Do you consider yourself to be more defensive or more offence in Unchained?

Defensive. I like it when the enemy comes to me. I was like that when playing Age of Empires too.

• Have you met your nemesis on the battlefield? Who stands out to you?

Those fire girls that shoot fire are a pain in the ass. As Smolder, who I mostly play as, it’s hard to kill them.

• Deck building is coming soon, what are the cards that are certain to be in your decks?

Tar. Zappers. Arrow Walls.

Shout Out

• Is there anything you would like to say to all the OMD fans out there right now?

Give the game a chance to win you over if you haven’t already. It’s great fun.

 

Check out the official Orcs Must Die Subreddit at www.reddit.com/r/OrcsMustDie as I am the Admin there currently and want to help grow that community to keep all the Redditors that love killing orcs connected and informed about the games, the community hot spots such as robotentertainmentfans.com and the all upcoming community events. I’d appreciate it if any Orcs Must Die fans who visit Reddit subscribe to the Orcs Must Die subreddit as it will hope grow that community.

Thanks for taking part Joe!

A new patch has been uploaded today for Unchained alpha testers. This patch introduces a key OMDU feature – deck building! This is no doubt something that the early-access community has been excited about for some time. Players can now build their own custom decks to take into battle. Players can create decks based on traps, minions, glyphs and weavers. It looks like this:

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Even in its first alpha released form the deck builder is very simple and easy to use. Players just click on the cards they want to use and they are added to the deck which can be seen towards the top of the screen. Players can mix and match between the Order and the Unchained when it comes to minions with plenty of diverse choices available. Captions for minions are complete with OMD humour!

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The deck building system allows players to have a number of pre-set decks so that players can choose the deck they want to take into battle at the character selection screen. The system is looking brilliant so far and will only get better as development progresses. We’ll be taking a look at some of these cards in the coming weeks here on REF.

In the meanwhile to get a glimpse of the deck builder in action be sure to check out the community twitch stream tonight at 7PM CT (convert your timezone) over at http://www.twitch.tv/orcsmustdie. Nananea and SixOkay will be on hand to demonstrate the system and answer questions in the Twitch chat. See you there!

Its Tuesday! This can only mean one thing – yep, its time for another official OMDU stream from Robot Entertainment. Following on from War Mage and Sorceress, today’s stream will feature the first of the brand new characters playable in Unchained – Hogarth!

Be sure to tune in at 2PM CT / 7PM GMT at http://www.twitch.tv/orcsmustdie. As always the stream will be re-playable afterwards and there will be a character summary right here on REF!