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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
Orcs Must Die! 2 guide on StrategyWiki
Orcs Must Die! 2 on Wikipedia
Orcs Must Die!
Orcs Must Die! 2011
Orcs Must Die! 2 2012
Orcs Must Die! Unchained 2017
Orcs Must Die! 3 2021

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Humble Store
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Includes all DLC.
Windows
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

This does not work with the demo.
Instructions

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/201790/pfx/[Note 1]
Must be created by user. For more information see Extra configurations.

Save game data location

Template:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/201790/pfx/[Note 1]

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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Only two levels of detail, 'High' and 'Low'.

High frame rate

By default games frame rate is capped at 84 FPS and seems to constantly vary.
Instructions

Input settings

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

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Sound settings.
Sound settings.

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

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

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
Online play
2 Co-op

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.
Game uses steamworks for online multiplayer.

Issues fixed

"Mic in use by game"

Orcs Must Die! 2 uses a native in-game voice chat system.
The voice chat system disables the Steam voice chat (it's also of lower quality than the Steam voice chat[1]).
Instructions
Instructions

Game Crashes after playing for a short time

The game will crash on systems with nVidia cards shortly after beginning play.
Instructions

Other information

Extra configurations

Instructions

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. 1.0 1.1 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