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With OMD2 Steam Workshop support having been available for the past month many community modders have been hard at work developing lots of interesting new costumes, weapons, onslaughts and more.

Many mods are now available on the workshop and REF wanted to find out which ones you are enjoying most! Introducing the OMD2 Steam Workshop Awards! Thats right folks – its time to nominate your favourite OMD2 mod and give the author the recognition they deserve!

Why nominate?

The winning mod will be featured on both REF and the official Robot Entertainment website and the author will receive some fantastic Robot Entertainment swag! An OMD T-Shirt, signed copy of the OMD prequel comic, and a hat are all destined for the winning modder. So go ahead and nominate your favourite mod below and make their day! They’ll sure appreciate it 🙂

What’s in it for me?

For everyone that votes for their favourite mod they to will be in for a chance to win some of that special Robot swag. Thats right, if you nominate using the form you two can get your hands on that sweet merchandise!

Rules

The rules are simple – just one vote per person. You need to specify a valid email address. REF will be in-touch with the winners via their email address. The nomination period will be open for two weeks and closes on August 25th.

The Orcs Must Die 2! community has been in full force over the past few weeks with a number of excellent mods being produced by dedicated community modders. We wanted to highlight some of our favourite most ingenious mods that we have come across so far. If you’re not sure which mods to go for check these out!

Hexplosive Chicken Launcher

Nananea’s Hexplosive Chicken Launcher is absolutely brilliant! I mean, blasting chickens at Orcs – what could be more fun!? Seriously, this one has to be top of your download list!

Magic Roulette Spike Trap

Next up is the Magic Roulette Spike Trap by MegadanXzero. This modded version of the spike trap features an additional effect as Orcs wonder across. Not only are they impaled with the spikes as before but now they must face the traps added secondary effect. The secondaries shuffle from fire, ice, acid and more. Check out the full list and download this mod to see it in action!

Troll Guardian reborn

How about some role-reversal? With this mod by Rockinbite Trolls can now be used as a replacement for the Palidin’s. Give it whirl and download Troll Guardian reborn.

Thor’s Hammer

Upgrade the Dwarven Hammer to the mighty hammer wielded by the legendary God, Thor. Naturally this souped up hammer features fearsome lightning. Well worth checking out this mod by Renji Yuki – Thor’s Hammer.

Friendly Flyers

Lets face it, flyers have always been a pain in OMD. Its about time they did something for us once. Well with purebloodpaul‘s Friendly Flyers mod they can finally do something useful and help guard the rift from the pesky Orcs. Download this mod and get them on your side for once!

Hot on the heels of the news that Steam Workshop support was soon to be made available for Orcs Must Die! 2, its great to announce that just a few days later Robot Entertainment have already released this fantastic new tool to the masses! No rest for the hard working Robots it seems!

The Steam Workshop news is very exciting for OMD2 fans who now have the means to customise almost any part of the game by mixing and matching existing assets and onslaught files. In our last post we talked about some of the things that will be possible with this new functionality. Now, after just a few hours of the update being released we already have some brilliant community mods available to download in the workshop!

Some of our favourites…

Face Melter & Tar Trap + Sprayer

Nananea has been very quick on the bandwagon and already has some great mods. The Face Melter is pretty amusing – combining the blunderbuss and the acid bomb for devastating area damage.

If you ever wanted to use the Tar Trap with the Sorceress or the Acid Sprayer with the War Mage, Nananea makes it happen with her Sorceress’ Tar Trap & War Mage’s Sprayer mod!

Paladin’s Fired, Ogres Hired!

DrunkeN WolfeR really shakes things up with his Paladins fired Ogres hired mod. Role reversal now means you can have the ogres on your side for a change and you can plant them on levels as guardians.

Blunderbuss Machine Gun

Juicebags turns the popular Blunderbuss into a menacing machine gun. Spam away and blow those Orcs away with the Blunderbuss Machine Gun!

Mini-Orcs Must Die!

If you want to inject even more amusement into OMD2 then the Mini-Orcs Must Die! This brilliant mod by DrunkeN WolfeR sees all those pesky Orcs turn into Mini Orcs. While you may now be much bigger than them, don’t be fooled in thinking this makes the game easier. Oh no, these small Orcs are even harder to restrain as targetting them is much more difficult. Prepare for a good challenge with this mod!

Exciting news for all Orcs Must Die 2 fans! Robot Entertainment are about to unveil a brand new modding system for the popular Orc slashing game. It won’t be long until OMD2 sees Steam Workshop functionality built in! Modders will no doubt rejoice at this exciting news. Not only will it be possible to mod the onslaught files like in OMD1 but there is a whole lot more which can be modified this time around.

Things that can be modified via Steam Workshop:

• Costumes – you can use an existing costume base and retexture it.
• Traps – You can use existing traps and retexture them and change their properties – damage, vfx, upgrade stats, etc.
• Weapons – You can use existing traps and retexture them and change their properties – damage, vfx, upgrade stats, etc.
• Trinkets – You can use existing traps and retexture them and change their properties – damage, vfx, upgrade stats, etc.
• Onslaughts – You can modify existing onslaught and timing files for OMD2, just like you did for OMD1.

Wow thats great you may be thinking. Indeed it is! The only restriction is that you can’t create your own levels or art from scratch. You can only use existing levels and art which can then be mix and matched to your tastes. Here are some ideas of things you can achieve with this new found power:

Example ideas:

• Create a new Frostbow. Based on the primary crossbow, but instead of a flaming upgrade, it has an ice freeze upgrade, complete with the existing frost effects on the bolts.
• Create an Uber-Nightmare mode where all of the levels are much, much harder.
• Create an evil Skull Ninja costume based on the existing Skull Ninja costume, but with all red accents instead of yellow.
• Create an Ice Arrow Wall that shoots freezing arrows, complete with existing frost effects.

Pretty awesome huh? Its going to be great to see what our expert modders can come up with. But you don’t need to be an expert to get started with modding OMD2 via Steam Workshop. Robot Fans (REF) will be here to help and guide you featuring videos and documentation demonstrating some of the things that you can achieve. Keep a close eye out for more news over the coming weeks!

Today marks the 4th anniversary of Robot Entertainment. Formed back in 2009 following the closure of Ensemble Studios, Robot Entertainment is today a grand 4 years old!

In that time it is fitting that they have worked on / released four whole games, namely Age of Empires Online, Orcs Must Die!, Hero Academy and Orcs Must Die 2!

The Fabulous Four are certainly all fantastic – but which is your favourite? Let us know in our poll!

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To celebrate Robot Entertainment is having a 75% off offer on the official Robot Entertainment store. If you’re missing a game or some DLC you can pick it up at a mammoth 75% normal prices. Age of Empires Online is excluded as it is not a title published by Robot Entertainment. Don’t miss this great chance to complete your Robot Entertainment collection thus far!

Congratulations to all the team at Robot Entertainment as Hero Academy wins the “Best Mobile Game” at the 16th annual DICE awards. This is a prestigious awards for developers and Robot Entertainment was up against 3 other games in the mobile category including Fairway Solitaire, Horn and Rayman Jungle Run. Its fantastic to see Robot’s hard work recognised with this brilliant award.

CEO Patrick Hudson and COO Harter Ryan were on hand at the ceremony to collect the award.

Photo Credit: Jamil Moledina

Celebrations were a plenty this morning at Robot HQ:

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Six answers from SixOkay

In and amongst the celebrations for Hero Academy Justin Korthof, Community Manager has responded to the “Six Questions for SixOkay” feature we ran around Christmas. Reading through the responses we picked out the following six questions to be answered. So without further adue, here we go!

Are there any plans to release detailed statistics about traps?

At the moment, no. We don’t plan to add those into the game or release them in general.

Is there any more DLC coming for OMD2?

We’re giving it some breathing room now. We are really happy with the three booster packs that are out there now, and we’re all hard at work on some new exciting stuff.

Have the way players have completed levels in YouTube videos surprised you compared to how the designers thought the level would be played?

One of the most exciting things about developing both OMD games was knowing that we were designing it in a way that allowed people to complete levels in different ways. We always knew that people would find interesting ways to kill orcs that we never expected. The community hasn’t disappointed us in that regard.

Any news on Hero Academy for Android?

We don’t have a ton of new news here. We are fully committed as a studio to developing our new projects, and we don’t have the internal development resources at the moment to do a full Android port ourselves, but we haven’t stopped pursuing it. We’re currently looking at other options to bring Hero Academy to Android. Until we know more about how that’s going to progress, there won’t be much news. However, if we hit a dead end and decide not to pursue Hero Academy on Android further then we’ll let the community know for certain.

Were there any traps that you liked but didn’t make it into the game?

We have always poured out a TON of ideas when making these games, and there’s always stuff we have to cut out. I just can’t tell you about much of it because some of that stuff could come up again in future games. There were definitely a few things in OMD2 that were revived after not making the cut for OMD1.

Can you shed any light if OMD2 will be receiving custom onslaught and mod support any time in the future?

It’s highly unlikely at the moment.

Although many of the community may be saddened to see there has not been much movement on Hero Academy for Android, we must bear in mind the project is not off the table entirely. Its still something that is being explored and may still happen if an appropriate means can be found to bring Hero Academy to Android. It’s not a “No” folks, but its not a “Yes its coming” either.

In our last poll we asked Whats your favourite Hero Academy Team? The votes are in and we can reveal that the Dark Elves managed to claim victory with 32% of the votes. Trailing last was (my personal favourite) the Council with just 13%. Here is the full round up:

• Dark Elves (32%, 23 Votes)
• Dwarves (22%, 16 Votes)
• Team Fortress 2 (19%, 14 Votes)
• Tribe (14%, 10 Votes)
• Council (13%, 9 Votes)

As one poll closes another begins. This time we’re looking to find out what your favourite Orcs Must Die! 2 DLC is. Could it be the frosty Yeti’s that get your vote? Or the fire and water mix? Or maybe traditional family ties gets your vote.

Whatever the case the polls are now open! Lets find out what your favourite OMD2 DLC is by casting your vote in the poll on the right hand side of this page!