The useless steam trap.

[Ranger.Danger]

Anyone else feel like the steam trap DOES NOTHING AT ALL? I mean really. A few orcs go in the air and take some damage. Thats it.

[Rawlee]

Yeah, it's definitely not that useful when compared to some of the other traps you can get. Launching the enemy into the air for a few seconds isn't that useful when you could just slow them down with the tar traps or spike traps.

[Omicron]

You can combine them with anti-air towers

[Gunner]

You could use it by adding two wall arrow traps above each other, or any wall traps, which it helpful to get really high combo score.

[Lord Krabman ✘O]

It's great for delaying orcs, because unlike the catapults, it doesnt need a recharge.
I use the steam trap for levels like Chokepoint, very useful there.

[Ranger.Danger]

Why delay them with steam when you can delay em with tar?

[C. C.]

Exactly...I used to think steam traps are more useful than tar traps at the earlier regular levels, but then later I find that the tar traps are actually a lot better since you can trap a bunch of orcs at a time and then explode them all at once

[MarioToast]

I have nothing to add, as I have no experience with those things. I have never used them, and Im not planning to, either.

[RedMage]

I'll use steam traps and double up the traps above my ground level traps. Works really well if you don't have a lot of wall space for traps and want to maximize the amount of damage you deal in a small area. Useful when the ground traps need to reset.

[Wolf_Hastenichgesehn]

Gunner and RedMage hit the nail on the head:
Stack up wall traps, place a ceiling trap overhead, put steam under it. Works wonders if you keep blowing enemies back through the traps with windbelt.

However:
The Slowdown effect is much stronger with tar, I have to agree with the critics here.

So what it boils down to is this:
It depends on the overall setting, your favoured playing style, the money available (takes some time to the build-up sketched aboved, and unless you have both ready, 2nd storey traps AND steam to blow 'em up there, this special steam combo remains useless (while tar always works). On the other hand, the combo can generate a very concentrated trap effect ("kill box") withouth the use of barricades.

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[Wolf_Hastenichgesehn]

Don't know what that has to do with it, as the test is about roleplay rather than strategy gaming, but: trapper here, too. :-)

[Edge]

Never used em.

[Col0bok]

For those who thinks that Steam Trap is useless:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhel5yY7zAY
Welcome to High Scoring Orcs Must Die 2 Universe.

[Ldjstyle]

The steam trap is used to set up combo chains. If you are new to the game you can go without it, but after you 5 skull nightmare, start playing around with it and see how high you can get a combo.