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  • Hear the original OMD! “win” music before it got funkified
    Kenny
    3947

    I noticed a great tweet earlier today from @chrisrickwood. It was a posting of the Orcs Must Die! winning music in an early form. Here is the link to the music.

    Click here to listen to the soundtrack

    Radiokenny Shows the x14 position
    Kenny
    3940

    Want to try to pull of an x14 combo. Here is where you can do it.

    The League opens!
    ArtNJ
    3906

    The Hero Academy League is up and running! To request membership to the League just head over to the “League” link underneath the Hero Academy section from the menu. Then just choose “Request Membership”.  Once membership is granted, head on over to the League’s forums, peruse the rules and start fighting! We’ll be working on cleaning up the appearance and adding features, but the arena is open, the medical team is on stand-bye and we have plenty of soap and water to mop the blood off the floor. May your enemies perish and your crystals live long and prosper!

    Hero Academy League Coming soon!!!
    Kenny
    3866

    Members of REF are working hard to get a Hero Academy league up and running. Want to be a part of it? Just register for this website as a member and we will be sending and invitation and announcement about it as soon as we are in a position to open up membership. So, Welcome to Robot Fans and you better start practicing for the league.

    Watch for further announcements!

    Hero Academy is coming to Android and other news
    Kenny
    3838

    In this week’s MMM blog entry, Robot’s Community Manager Justin Korthof verified that Hero Academy would indeed be coming to Android. He also gave a nod to Robot Fans. Justin even used the term “proper” in referring to us. I guess that means we have some street cred.

     Read the full blog entry here

    A very Hungry Hippo takes over the OMD! leaderboard and reveals tactics
    Kenny
    3825

    Recently the War Mage difficulty high scores have been falling like rocks because of a new tactic used by OMD player and Robot forum member hungryhungryhipp. REfans.com talked to HHH and asked him for some info on the tactic. He supplied us with the following explanation and video to show it.

    The crux of the way to get higher scores is to utilise weapon switching between the XBow and the BladeStaff. By doing this successfully you can get an extra combo on each orc which is a MASSIVE difference in the score. You lose out a little by performing a combat kill instead of letting the traps finish the job but the difference is still worth it.

    Here’s what I try to do:

    1. When the orcs approach the killbox, use the bladestaff. Stand at the back or offset on your trap by the tar, so that the orcs get effected by as many traps as possible.
    2. When the orc steps onto the tar/grinder quickly switch to the Xbow and finish the job.
    3. Switch back onto the bladestaff again for more combo building.

    it’s a dead simple process but i’ve not seen anyone else doing this as a full on strat.

    When the orcs are thicker, you need to spend more time on the Xbow to stop the grinder getting jammed up. you basically need to utilise every moment that you would be uselessly swinging the blade staff to the Xbow instead, back and forth to get the most combo points.

    Before you get all your traps etc setup you will find that the Xbox is generally better. Once all the traps are in place you will spend more time on the Bladestaff as the orcs don’t jam up the grinder as much.

    Using this with the right killbox traps can allow you to score 9x combos on the orcs occasionally, and pretty consistent 7x and 8x combos. Even with the barricades you can still pull off 11x Combos on the ogres with this as well.

    Rogotin’s theorycrafting and Radiokenny’s testing find the x14 position
    Kenny
    3808

    Ok, Get ready for your mind to be blown OMD players. Robot Fans has confirmed with video evidence that the setup for the x14 combo in Orcs Must Die! is  possible. What does this mean? It means that Rogotin and RadioKenny have found a position in the game where 14 traps and other combos can be applied to an Ogre at the same time. The two players asked to keep the video private until further testing can be completed. The duo recently provided video of the worlds first x13 combo, It was also thought to be impossible before it was proven on the Twin Halls map.

    Will they be able to complete the x14 and will the game actually display it? I guess time will tell.