Orcs Must Die! 2

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Orcs Must Die! 2
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Developers
Publishers
Engines
 
Release dates
Windows
July 30, 2012
Orcs Must Die! 2 at Steam Charts
Orcs Must Die! 2 at SteamDB
 Orcs Must Die! 2 at Wikipedia
Orcs Must Die!
Orcs Must Die! 2011
Artifacts of Power
Lost Adventures
Orcs Must Die! 2 2012
Classic levels
Fire and Water Booster Pack
Family Ties Booster Pack
Are We There Yeti?
Orcs Must Die! Unchained 2014

Key points

Disadvantage Performance of the game is good, but there are reports of high CPU/GPU usage and high temperatures.[1]
Advantage Owners of original game get "Classic Levels" DLC for free which containts levels from original games revamped to support CO-OP and new enemy types.

General information

More information Official Forums
More information Steam Community Discussions
More information Steam Users' Forums

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
Humble Store Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg Includes all DLC.
GamersGate Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg
Steam Availability Table Icons - Steam.svg
Information All versions require Steam.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows <path-to-game>\data\startup\user.cfg
Information Must be created by user. For more information see Extra configurations.

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\201790\remote

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud Native
GameSave Manager Native

Video settings[edit]

Video settings menu.
Gameplay settings including options effecting graphical quality.
Graphics option Option Notes
Widescreen resolution Native
Multi-monitor Unknown
Field of view (FOV) Hackable Use Flawless Widescreen.
Windowed Native
Borderless fullscreen windowed Native Native option called "Full Window".
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Impossible
Anti-aliasing (AA) Native
Vertical sync (Vsync) Native
High frame rate Hackable See High frame rate.
Information Only two levels of detail, 'High' and 'Low'.

High frame rate[edit]

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

Fix Create user.cfg with desired FPS lock

  1. Open created user.cfg. Instructions Extra configurations.
  2. Put in ForceFPS=### and change ### with desired value.

Notes

Information 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.
Disadvantage If frame rate jumps too much mouse may behave unexpectedly.

Input settings[edit]

Key rebinding.
Disadvantage Shows 360 HUD if controller is connected even if keyboard and mouse is used.
Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native
Mouse acceleration Impossible No option to disable.[2]
Mouse input in menus Native
Mouse Y-axis inversion Native Under Gameplay options.
Controller
Controller support Native See Controller support.
Full controller support Native The game has to be run in using Steam Big Picture in order to type in a character name.
Controller remapping Impossible
Controller Y-axis inversion Native Shared with mouse.

Audio settings[edit]

Sound settings.
Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Native Master, music, effects and voice.
Surround sound Unknown
Subtitles Impossible
Closed captions Impossible
Mute on focus lost Impossible

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English Native Native Impossible
French Native Unknown Impossible
German Native Unknown Impossible
Italian Native Unknown Impossible
Japanese Native Unknown Impossible
Polish Native Native Impossible
Brazilian Portuguese Native Unknown Impossible
Russian Native Unknown Impossible
Spanish Native Unknown Impossible

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local co-op Native
LAN co-op Impossible
Online co-op Native

Connection types

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

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP (outbound) 3478, 4379, 4380
Advantage This game supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for automatic port configuration.
Information Game uses steamworks for online multiplayer.

Issues fixed[edit]

"Mic in use by game"[edit]

Information Orcs Must Die! 2 uses a native in-game voice chat system.
Disadvantage The voice chat system disables the Steam voice chat. (It's also of lower quality than the Steam voice chat[3])

Fix Create user.cfg

  1. Open created user.cfg. Instructions Extra configurations.
  2. Put in -voice
Information This should disable our voice system entirely.

Fix Disable in-game voice chat

  1. Extract the file game.cfg from data.zip 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 the file, make it read only and put the file back into the data.zip archive.
Information 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.

Game Crashes after playing for a short time[edit]

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

Fix Disable SLI

Open the nVidia Control Panel and disable multi-GPU support (sometimes labeled 'Disable SLI').

Other information[edit]

Extra configurations[edit]

Fix Create user.cfg

Information You can customize some elements of Orcs Must Die! 2 by creating a user.cfg file and adding notes into it. Here are the instructions for how to properly set up a user.cfg file.
  1. Navigate to <path-to-game>\data\startup and create a text file called user.cfg. Ensure you can see file extensions so file isn't user.cfg.txt which doesn't work.
  2. 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.
  3. 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[edit]

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

References

  1. ↑ http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2847363
  2. ↑ http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=31970499&postcount=21
  3. ↑ http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2842105