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If you’re looking for a chance to score some sweet alpha access for Orcs Must Die! Unchained be sure to check out the OMDU subreddit! All you need to do is post a comment on the link below naming your favourite map of any previous OMD game and a winner will be chosen randomly from the entries.

Good luck everyone!

Submit your favourite map.

If you’ve just picked up Unchained via one of the Founders Packs you’ll no doubt want to get stuck into the action quickly. There is a basic tutorial section in the game but to get down to the nitty gritty Juicy has kindly stepped up to create an OMDU alpha guide!

Split into chapters Juicy’s guide covers a number of things from the interface, deck building and playing the game. The first three chapters are now available to view online. These are:

1. Interface
2. How to play
3. Playing the game

More chapters will be added soon so keep checking back! You can find the how to guide by expanding the OMDU option in the menu to the left. Checking out the guides is also a great way to learn more about the game in detail if you do not already have alpha access.

RoyalFino has also stepped in to assist, compiling this excellent deck building video. Find out about some of the traps and minions Royal takes into battle. There is a ton of detail in this video and it is well worth watching!

The next hero of the Unchained this week looked at the fiery Smolder. She is a ranged hero with some special abilities. Needless to say all of her attacks are fire based, with her primary attack being Fireball. This is a chargeable attack, clicking the mouse button quickly lets her fire small fireballs which travel fast and with long range. By holding the button she can charge her fireball making it even stronger and more effective against groups of enemies, but the fireball does travel slower with more limited range and can take some practice to land hits. It is worth noting that Smolder cannot run and charge her fireball, only standing still or walking.

Smolders Charged Fireball

Her other secondary attack is called Flame breath which is reasonably self explanatory. Indeed when used Smolder breathes a cone of fire against enemies in front of her. This attack uses mana and is very effective against enemies grouped together such as Orcs.

Smolder demonstrates her Flame Breath

On the abilities front her primary called Fire Form enables Smolder to literally burst into flames and she becomes invincible to all forms of fire damage. In this form any enemy minion or hero that comes close to Smolder takes fire damage. This is a useful ability to use when things are looking bad because should she die whilst in her fire form she will cause a deadly explosion, damaging anyone near by.

Her other ability called Ignite lets her power up anything that is already on fire to cause even more damage. Note that enemies have to already be on fire for this to work.

Finally Smolder enjoys a good passive ability, when she dies she is able to rise from the ashes again quickly so she can re-join the fight albeit with only a small portion of health and mana. Combined with her fire form explosion, killing Smolder can be tricky. Her passive ability has a long cool-down time once used.

Smolder’s abilities and weapons place her squarely in the defender grouping. She is great at taking out minions that are bunched together which is great especially in the early-mid game. Her skills do not take long to master which also makes her a good character to play with for new players.

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Howdy folks! Its Friday and that means its time for another fan-Friday interview! This week we have HowdyDoody taking to the stage. A regular on the early access forums, but what about outside? Here we find out a little bit about “Mr Doody” both in and out of the OMD community!

The Basics

Thanks for taking part Howdy. Good luck with the Hockey coaching!

Last weeks hero focus has been on Blackpaw and is the first hero of the Unchained alignment. He is a powerful melee hero and is best used in the thick of battle, he can be well considered as an attacker. His primary and secondary weapons and abilities are closely aligned to his melee skills.

His primary weapon called “Claw” allows him to swipe his claws at enemy units to damage them and deals 70 damage which is a decent punch. The claws are a fast moving attack and they encourage Blackpaw to get up close and personal during combat.His secondary is “Bite”. When used Blackpaw takes a gnaws on a target in range, he can recover his own health if this attack hits.

Blackpaw using his bite ability

On the abilities front his primary “Sic’Em” allows him to produce two spirit gnolls which fight along side Blackpaw. The spirit gnolls live for a short period of time, or until Blackpaw dies. His secondary “Ignore Pain” increases the armour of all gnolls near by allowing them to stick out the fight longer. (+150 to all types of armour).

Spirit Gnolls come out to play

One final thing that Blackpaw benefits is that he can double jump, unlike other heroes. This double jump lets him cover ground fast to get stuck into the battle.

Blackpaw is a powerful melee hero and is ideal for players who like to get stuck in the action. His skills and abilities do not take long to master which makes him an ideal character to begin playing melee with.

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The results from the OMDU EU Alpha Access raffle are in! There were 796 entries in all, there is lots of interest in alpha access! Below are the lucky winners who will be getting their alpha access keys by email today. If you havnt been so lucky in this competiton, keep checking back on Robot Fans. We’ll be sure to let you know if we’re running any more or if there is anywhere else you can score some keys.

One of the questions we asked to get an entry was “What character are you most looking forward to playing as?”. It turns out the trusty War Mage is ruling the roost.

The War Mage is a popular fellow!

Winners

10x Orcs Must Die! Unchained Alpha Key’s – EU

Today is the last day for EU peeps to be in with a chance of winning one of 10 alpha access codes. Just head over to our competition page to enter. Winners will be announced tomorrow so stay tuned and good luck everyone!

Special event this week!

In other news this week marks a special event.  This weeks Robot Entertainment stream will be taking place Tuesday night at the later time of 8PM to 10PM CST (convert to your timezone). This week however will not be featuring a certain OMDU hero, instead it will be a two hour long stream called “Orcs After Dark” and it is jammed packed with stuff. First and foremost there will be a ton of Robot developers online ready to play matches with alpha players with some of these games being shown on the twitch stream. In addition to this there will also be interviews with some of the developers talking about the studio and Orcs Must Die! development.

Get access

The best way to enjoy Orcs After Dark this Tuesday is to get access to the alpha. Luckily we have some great news on that front too. As of right now anyone purchasing the War Mage level founder pack at www.orcsmustdie.com gets instant alpha access! Thats right, get in the game right now and be ready for Tuesdays event.

This instant access lasts from now right up until the stream for North American players.

Playing means prizes!

Five random players will be chosen from the list of everyone that plays at least one match on Tuesday between 8 and 10pm. These five winners will get a special OMD prize pack including shirts and comics! How about that! Even more reason to make sure you a registered and ready to play Tuesday evening.

There will also be alpha access codes given away on the stream as well.

Everyone that plays and completes a match during the “Orcs After Dark” event will get an email next week with an extra Alpha Access Friend Code. You’ll be able to share it with one of your friends and they can start playing the game with you immediately.

To find out more about this event, just head over to the Robot Entertainment blog.

This Tuesday’s stream is shaping up to be great fun. See you all there!