Orcs Must Die! 3 is multiplayer-only, free-to-play

[Kingder3.]

Part 3 is called Orcs Must Die! Unchained. It's a free-to-play multiplayer game with lanes, minions, heroes and all that stuff from Dota and LoL. There will be booster packs to buy and a founder's program - 150 euros gets you instant alpha access. German website PC Games has the scoop including some pictures and a first trailer.

http://www.pcgames.de/Orcs-Must-Die-Unchained-PC-258497/News/Orcs-Must-Die-Unchained-angekuendigt-1117091/

What do you think?

[Max]

As we say in France : "C'était mieux avant."

[Cougarific]

@masked.menace thanks for posting the news.

I'm reserving judgment for now, looks pretty different from what we've seen so far. Robot is involved but it looks like Gameforge is taking the lead.

Here's the pitch:

Quick, strategic, relentless

PvP for real heroes

Orcs Must Die! Unchained is a high-octane PvP action game for PC in which you storm the opposing fortress together with your friends and defend your own base.

Blast-a-thon vs. Bastion

Unleash your rowdy hordes and penetrate through to the heart of your enemy's defences! But don't forget your enemies will also be sending their bloodthirsty minions to your rift. Construct a maze of traps and beat back everything they send at you.

Grinding, roasting, slashing or good old-fashioned thumping - every dirty trick is at your disposal when both attacking and defending.

Heroes new and old

Dozens of unique characters and an abundance of skills give you a multitude of ways to run riot. Old friends like the War Mage and the Sorceress return, and put themselves up against new heroes such as Blackpaw, Midnight and Bloodspike.

Whether cunning, magical, gallant, or just plain brutal - there's something here to suit everybody's tastes!

Collect and upgrade

Mighty heroes, deadly weapons, savage traps and powerful minions - get them all and upgrade them! Pick your favourites from an enormous arsenal and devise the perfect strategy for every match.

Your deadly collection will keep growing as the game is updated regularly with new heroes, weapons, creatures and traps.

From what I can make out it's 4 players, 2x2, one team defending the other team attacking.

Says to sign up for beta access here: http://en.omd.gameforge.com/#/

But also says you have to buy your way into Closed Beta here: http://en.omd.gameforge.com/founderspack.html#/

At first whiff this reeks of over-the-top monetizing but let's wait and see.

[Foxhack]

It's a Moba.

No thanks.

[Cougarific]

Yeah I actually had to look up MOBA 'cause I've never played one before (Mulitplayer Online Battle Arena). Can you explain why that's a turn-off for you?

What other MOBA-type games did you try and not like, and why?

[Warlok]

I`m worried.

Any time a developer embraces this 'me too' team-versus stuff, all other designs suffer for it. I *wouldn`t* be worried if we had word of a robust enemy A.I. mode, or better yet a full-fledged OMD 3.

Besides, imagine if all this wonderful effort was in the direction of actual campaigns/regular play, instead of a diversion.

[Cougarific]

Anyway I call dibs on Wyatan and Smeggit as teammates!

[Pekmez Pita]

Talk about lazy and joining the bandwagon way too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ late. Not that they should be pursuing it in the first place. "We gots to make a quick buck!" Seriously. What disappointing news.

Super Monday Night Combat comes to mind. Good luck not alienating your original fanbase.

[Smeggit]

I'll also be reserving judgement on this one. I've never liked the DOTA style games, maybe this will be the game to change my opinion...

[Wyatan]

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Anyway I call dibs on Wyatan and Smeggit as teammates!

Thanks for the thought... :)
Unfortunately, it won't happen. :(

I simply no longer have fun with multiplayer (coop in OMD2 accounts for less than 1% of my playing time...), and that's especially the case with anything remotely DOTA-like.
So I'll pass on that one.

[Tschilumbu]

really bad news...
multiplayer only, free2play probably pay2win, MOBA...
theres almost nothing left from what i loved on the OmD series.
lets hope this is really just a side game and a real OmD 3 will come!

[Joshua Kurayami]

This looks entertaining. Not a fan of MOBA, but a big fan of OmD to at least try it out. Plus, it looks a lot like the other two games, just two sided.

..However MOBA is getting overused pretty fast..

[Perrywinkle]

at least is not on early acces or worse on ios or android
as a fan of the saga i give a oportunity but im really hope i dont see 99 skull pack for $9.99
or advanced traps pack for $4.99 or stuff like that

[Deltatash]

Check this link out http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/04/10/other-players-must-die-in-orcs-must-die-unchained Apparently it wont be a "pay to win" they will try and make it as fair as possible...still not feeling confident about this "f2p" crap though... :/ IT also states "None will be locked behind a paywall" so I'm guessing by that it won't be "Impossible" to unlock paid things without paying? just means if your lazy and dont wanna earn anything...buy it..I guess? Although I guess that could still translate to "Pay to win" as whoever has the most money could just buy up everything isntantly and in their first ever game roflstomping every player they face just beucase they didnt buy anything. Hmm..I'm not liking the sound of this new game so far :/ it looks great but Im not so convinced on the "free to play" model. I read though you can have co-op vs AI and single player mode! I hope the AI is quite smart maybe this way I can still play with friends against AI and the pay to win thing won't matter as I expect the AI won't be buying up all the best things and roflstomping you into the ground with their paid gear lol, probably will just be given gear to match your gear depending on if you choose easy, medium or hard etc.

[Warlok]

I just read about the co-op versus bots and the solo play as well. I guess it all depends how much effort they put into the A.I. there. And not just from a 'difficulty' perspective. If the bots and solo mode only serve as a tutorial for player-on-player versus, I`ll be mightily underwhelmed.

I am very curious about how this game will feel, yet also still disheartened at the team-versus angle.

[Rukhar]

we allready have enough moba games on the market (dota 2, LoL, Heroes of the Storm are the most popular currently) they are all f2p (except Heroes of the Storm i think) with no p2w options so why making another one? I dont see the point, its just waste of time where they could invest it in better ideas and projects.