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General information
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
- All versions require Steam DRM. A non-Steam version is available in China on Tencent Games Platform.
- Owners of Orcs Must Die! get the Classic Levels DLC for free, which contains levels from original game revamped to support co-op and new enemy types.
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
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Fire and Water Booster Pack |
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Family Ties Booster Pack |
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Are We There Yeti? |
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Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
- Must be created by user. For more information see Extra configurations.
Save game data location
Video
Gameplay settings including options effecting graphical quality.
Create user.cfg with desired FPS lock[3]
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\data\startup and create a file named user.cfg .
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ForceFPS=# and change # to the desired frame rate.
Notes
- Game seems to feature frame rate smoothing to keep frame rate steady. To get best results, change value little higher than the monitor's refresh rate.
- If the frame rate jumps too much, the mouse may behave unexpectedly (set mouse polling rate to 125). To solve the mouse sensitivity issue, use the following command line argument:
sudo chmod o-r /dev/input/js* [citation needed]
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Input
- Shows the Xbox 360 prompts if the controller is connected even if keyboard and mouse is used.
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Master, music, effects and voice. |
Surround sound |
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Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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French |
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German |
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Italian |
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Japanese |
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Polish |
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Brazilian Portuguese |
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Network
Multiplayer types
Connection types
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.
VR support
3D modes |
State |
Notes |
vorpX |
| G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction. |
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.[4]
Easy method[5]
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\data\startup and create a file named user.cfg
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-voice
- Save the changes.
Notes
- This disables the voice system.
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Disable in-game voice chat[6]
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- Extract
data.zip!\startup\game.cfg located in {{folderw<path-to-game>}}
- Open the file in a text editor and navigate to the following lines:
-PushToTalk
-DuckOnVoiceComm
- Comment out these lines by entering a double forward slash in front of them, like so:
//-PushToTalk
//-DuckOnVoiceComm
- Save the changes and put the file back into the
data.zip archive.
Notes
- Once in-game, an 'X' over the microphone icon under the character portrait will be shown, allowing Steam voice chat to be used.
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
9.0c |
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Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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Middleware
- Some elements of the game can be customized by creating a
user.cfg file
and adding notes into it.
Create user.cfg[7]
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- Go to
<path-to-game>\data\startup and create a text file called user.cfg .
- Edit
user.cfg and add options from the list below to change the 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.
- Save the file and launch the game.
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System requirements
Windows |
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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 DirectX 9.0c compatible |
Notes
References