The winners of our 100x closed beta key competition have now been announced. Are you a lucky winner? Check out the winners list using the link below:

Orcs Must Die! Unchained  (EU) 100x closed beta key winners list.

If you are a lucky winner – congratulations! You will be receiving your closed beta key via the email address you used to enter the competition within 48 hours from now. We will try to get these keys out as soon as possible. If you do not receive your key by Friday please contact us.

Didn’t manage to score a key this time? Keep your eyes peeled on REF for more competitions coming soon!

Did you catch the Insider Access stream earlier this week? If you have not had a chance yet you will surely want to watch the VOD. Community Manager SixOkay sat down with our friendly Mother, OMDU’s Design Director to discuss the state of the game. The stream started with Q&A from things posted in the forums and on the stream chat.

As the stream progessed we began to talk about patch 1.7 and “phase 2” of the beta. The 1.7 patch is expected to land pretty soon and it will contain a number of things in similar vein to the kind of things we saw in patch 1.6, though there is no word on any new heroes, maps or specific detail at this time. Though expect Guardians to change a bit. More details will be revealed later next week.

In even bigger news we learned about the projection for OMDU’s development over the next few months. Following patch 1.7 Robot is going to take a break from regular patches over the holiday season. Instead they are going to focus on delivering a much bigger round of content in changes in what is being called “Phase 2” of the closed beta.

There’s been a lot of great discussion going on lately in the meeting rooms and hallways here at Robot. We’ve been digging in deep to review the mountains of detailed feedback we’ve received from Closed Beta players. You guys are really good at this. As we’ve continued to play the game and to watch you play, we’ve come up with a long list of ideas that we think greatly push the game forward. We’re eager to start adding these ideas to the many plans we’ve already outlined to you on the forums, and some of them are pretty big. Like, Mountain Troll big.

Robot are going to be spending time looking closer at the overall game and working on some much bigger core changes to the game. Taking into account both internal feedback and feedback received from the community. Phase 2 of the closed beta is expected to land some time in February 2015.

Whilst we await patch 1.7 to be released and whilst we wait for details on Phase 2 of the closed beta the community will no doubt have a ton of questions. Robot are very keen to keep the community engaged as we enter this longer stretch of content releases. As such the studio has announced five important dates for our diaries.

• December 2, 2014
• December 16, 2014
• January 6, 2015
• January 13, 2015
• January 20, 2015

These dates correspond to the Insider Access streams which take place each Tuesday. Be sure to make a note of these dates as each will contain an exciting announcement about OMDU. In the meanwhile check out this weeks Insider Access VOD below and the forum post on the community forums to read more about what is happening with OMDU over the next few months.

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With thanks to GameForge, REF is excited to run its biggest OMDU closed beta key competition yet! We’ve got a whole 100 instant access closed beta keys up for grabs for people in the EU.

The competition will run for seven days, ending next Tuesday 11th November. This means by taking part in the competition you could find yourself playing OMDU in just a week’s time!

Entering the competition is super easy and we have a number of ways you can enter. Each day you can visit RobotEntFans.com and enter with a daily entry. You can also earn additional entries by visiting us on Facebook, Twitter. Following Orcs Must Die EU also scores you entries too! To get started complete your entries now with our form below!

Win one of 100 Orcs Must Die! Unchained Beta keys! (EU Only)

Starting next week Gameforge are introducing their own regular Twitch stream schedule with community manager FaTeReLLa taking to the new official OMDU EU Twitch channel at www.twitch.tv/orcsmustdieeu.

Programming is complete with four different streams detailed below. All of these streams ave been added to our Twitch Stream calendar, so you can now view all of the Robot, GameForge and community streams all from one place. Head on over to our Twitch calendar to check them out. If you are a Twitch streamer yourself, you can add your streams to our calendar too by submitting them.

GameForge – OMDU EU Twitch Schedule

MONDAY

4PM CET – Hands-On Highlands
Monday is 3-lane map day! Join the Custom Room and enter the Gameforge Room to play the exciting Highlands!

THURSDAY

9PM CET – Pixie Cups or Beat the Bot-Invasion
Pixie Cups
From time to time FaTeReLLa gets challenged. Challenge matches are streamed on Thursdays. Would you like to challenge her? Team up with your friends and throw down the gauntlet here

Beat the Bot-Invasion
On Thursdays when there are no Pixie Cups challenges, join the TeamSpeak Server and help FaTeReLLa to Beat the Bot-Invasion in Co-Op matches.

FRIDAY

4PM CET – YOLO-Solo

Tune in on Fridays for some exciting Orcs Must Die! Unchained matchmaker gameplay. Join FaTeReLLa as she tries not to die too often in public matchmaking games!

Changes Robot’s “Orcs After Dark” stream

There is also scheduling change for Robot’s popular “Orcs After Dark” stream. Following fan feedback the stream will now commence from the earlier time of 6:30pm – 8:30pm CDT. If you havn’t already been to Orcs After Dark stream, be sure to tune in sometime. Its a great stream with chances to win prizes, Free card packs, Beta friend codes, and even instant access Beta Codes. There are reasons to join whether you are in the OMDU beta or not!

REF look forward to seeing you on either the GameForge or Robot streams!

Moltenink has taken a video recording time lapse of his most recent OMDU digital painting. OMDU fans will be well aware of Moltenink’s talents from the many concept hero designs earlier in the year. The time lapse of his latest Orc painting shows just how much time and level of detail goes into his creations, and it really is the finer detail that counts. Check out his awesome time-lapse below:

For those interested in digital art Molten hosts a Twitch art stream each weekday from 9am at twitch.tv/moltenink. Be sure to check it out sometime! If you would like to find out a bit more about the man behind these excellent works of art, check out our interview with Moltenink from earlier this year.

We’re back with Fan Fridays! This week we’re interviewing Warlok of the North American OMDU community. Lets find out a little more about the person behind the username!

The Basics

• Name: Anonymous
• Home Town: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Questions

• Outside of gaming what do you do by day?

Work-wise I execute a menial soul-draining-over-time graveyard-shifting job. Otherwise I read unusual books, exercise intensely, and watch a *ton* of movies. These days lots of documentaries.

• What has been the most exciting thing you have done so far this year?

I pulled almost every muscle in my lower back. Big time.

What? That`s not exciting? I suppose *besides* that (!), I honestly would have to mention a couple of things: simply the slightly expanded realm of gaming cohorts and our recent game experiences – invariably violent! – and then recent science news. No, I haven`t “done” science news, I`ve just observed it. Anyway, NASA`s pursuit & development of the early stages of a warp drive field/engine, ever-advancing discoveries pertaining to Earth-like exo-planets, and compact fusion reactor technology… its an exciting time. Cool stuff.

• Things are getting spooky with OMDU – what are your Halloween plans?

To game my brains out! There may be a slight correlation to my Xmas and New Years plans… which similarly involve ‘brains’ and ‘out’….

The Ancestor has now been added to our OMDU strategies page ready for members to upload their expert strategies. The Ancestor is a brand new hero in the most recent OMDU 1.6 patch. If you think you can provide some tips and tricks on how best to play as him be sure to let us know your thoughts.

We’re running our competition until the end of October. Anyone who uploads a hero strategy will be in with a chance to win 1x set of  OMDU backpack, wrist band, shirt, and button set. Whatsmore if you rate other members strategies one lucky winner will be picked at random to also win those sweet prizes!

Check out the full details and start submitting and rating hero strategies!