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Orcs Must Die! 2

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Orcs Must Die! 2
Orcs Must Die! 2 cover
Developers
Robot Entertainment
Publishers
Microsoft Studios
Engines
Vision
Release dates
Windows July 30, 2012
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General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
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Windows
All versions require Steam DRM. A non-Steam version is available in China on Tencent Games Platform.
Owners of Orcs Must Die! get "Classic Levels" DLC for free which containts levels from original games revamped to support CO-OP and new enemy types.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Fire and Water Booster Pack
Windows
Family Ties Booster Pack
Windows
Are We There Yeti?
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Go to <path-to-game>\data\ui\video and delete Robot.usm[1]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\startup\user.cfg[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/201790/pfx/[Note 2]
Must be created by user. For more information see Extra configurations.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\201790\remote
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/201790/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings menu.
Video settings menu.
Gameplay settings including options effecting graphical quality.
Gameplay settings including options effecting graphical quality.

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High frame rate

By default the game is capped at 84 FPS.
Create user.cfg with desired FPS lock[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data\startup and create a file named user.cfg
  2. Write ForceFPS=# and change # with desired FPS.

Notes

Game seems to feature frame rate smoothing to keep frame rate steady. To get best result you should change value little higher than monitors refresh rate.
If frame rate jumps too much mouse may behave unexpectedly.

Input settings

Key rebinding.
Key rebinding.
Shows 360 HUD if controller is connected even if keyboard and mouse is used.

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Audio settings

Sound settings.
Sound settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
2 Co-op
Use Nucleus Coop & Unofficial mod.
LAN play
Online play
2 Co-op

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP 3478, 4379, 4380
This game supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for automatic port configuration.

Issues fixed

"Mic in use by game"

Orcs Must Die! 2 uses a native in-game voice chat system which disables the Steam voice chat and is also of lower quality than the Steam voice chat.[3]
Easy method[4]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data\startup and create a file named user.cfg
  2. Write -voice
  3. Save your changes.

Notes

This disables the voice system.
Disable in-game voice chat[5]
  1. Extract data.zip!\startup\game.cfg located in <path-to-game>
  2. Open the file in your text editor and navigate to the following lines: 
    -PushToTalk
-DuckOnVoiceComm

    and comment out these lines by inputting a double forward slash infront of them like so: 

    //-PushToTalk
//-DuckOnVoiceComm
  3. Save your changes and put the file back into the data.zip archive.

Notes

Once in-game you should notice an 'X' over the microphone icon under your character portrait, this means you are now able to use the Steam voice chat.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio FMOD
Interface Scaleform 3.3.92
Multiplayer Steamworks

Extra configurations

You can customize some elements of Orcs Must Die! 2 by creating a user.cfg file and adding notes into it.
Create user.cfg[6]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\data\startup\
  2. Create a text file called user.cfg.
  3. Edit user.cfg and add options from the list below to change your settings:
    NoAlienFX
    Use this option to turn off the AlienFX lighting effects on Alienware Computers. This may also help with game launch issues that some Alienware users are experiencing.
    –voice
    Be sure the minus sign is included or this command won't work. Use this to completely disable in-game voice chat. Disabling the in-game voice chat will allow players to use the Steam voice chat instead, should they choose to.
    HideCrosshair
    For players that want to play in 3D, this option will turn off the 2D reticule.
    SwapOnBind
    Instead of unbinding a key when you set it in the game menus to a key that's already in use, the game will swap with the key that was previously mapped.
    -sound
    Completely disables game sounds
    DoNotPostToLeaderboards
    Prevents your scores from posting to the leaderboards
    EnableBloodMapToggle
    This allows you to toggle the blood map (at any time) using “L” key in-game or a custom keybind
    ForceFPS=##
    This will force the game to use a desired number of frames per second. Replace ## with the desired number.
  4. Save your user.cfg file (again, ensure that you're not saving it as user.cfg.txt) and relaunch Orcs Must Die! 2

System requirements

Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 2 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 9 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 6800
ATI Radeon x1950
256 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. ↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/201790/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (201790) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References