This variant of the standard 'super wet lightning arcane' spell gives you a significantly larger nova while retaining the damage to splatter goblins and smaller beastmen (~2200-2000 damage). Etch your name into the orc-slaying hall of fame through Weekly Challenges or see how long you can survive in Endless Mode.For lots of small enemies, I tend to use Steam + lightning + arcane 3x (QFSAAA) as an area nova.

It Never Stops – The legions of orcs keep coming long after the story is completed.

Mount your mega boom barrel launcher and unleash pyrotechnic glory. Lay down your mega flip trap and launch dozens of ragdolling orcs. War Machines are traps on an oversized scale.

War Machines – You’re going to need new weapons of death and destruction to handle these hordes.

Thin out waves of orcs hundreds strong before they breach the walls and crash your rift.

War Scenarios – All new War Scenarios deliver on the promise of massive scale first set out in Orcs Must Die 3 Confront overwhelming armies of orcs outside on the battlefields surrounding the castles.

New Story – Play through a brand new story set more than 20 years after Orcs Must Die! 2, where the War Mage and Sorceress have rebuilt the order and trained new young apprentices.

More orcs, more traps, more weapons, more upgrades and even better looking.

More of Everything – Orcs Must Die 3 is everything fans loved about the first two games and more.

Skulls are used to buy improvements to traps and weapons in the player’s spellbook, such as increasing damage, reducing cost, or making them more effective against the orcs. The player is awarded a number of skulls, up to 5 (or on Apprentice difficulty, limited to two), based on their score (reflecting how many Rift points remain) and the time needed to defeat all the waves. Taking it upon himself to defend the human world, he defends the fortresses from the Mob one by one (much to the bewilderment of his teacher, who narrates the storyline). After a surprise attack by the Mob, the player character, known only as the Hero, finds himself as the last living member of the Order, as the Mob appears to have suddenly obtained a surge in both strength and intelligence. In order to protect the human world, they have constructed magic-powered fortresses throughout the Dead World to guard the Rifts, particularly from the adversarial faction known as ‘the Mob’ – Phoenix Point: Year One EditionĪ brutish horde of creatures such as Orcs, Ogres and Gnolls which, despite being unintelligent, would otherwise pose a major threat to the human world due to their vast numbers. Using this power, the Order is able to maintain a perfect world for humanity by using magic to manipulate nature. The story revolves around the Order, an elite faction of wizards and warriors who guard the Rifts, magical openings between the human world and the ‘Dead World’, which provide a source of magical power throughout both worlds. Orcs Must Die! 3 is the long-awaited successor to the award-winning series. Mountable War Machines give players the essential firepower to heave, stab, carbonize, and disarticulate the abominable intruders. All new War Scenarios pit players and their friends against the largest orc armies ever assembled. Orcs Must Die 3 ushers orc-slaying mayhem to a previously unimaginable scale.

The game allows for two-player cooperative multiplayer mode. This mode utilizes oversized traps, referred to as War Machines, to defend a castle and its rift from the larger armies. Unlike its predecessors, it includes a War Scenarios game mode, which tasks a player to defend against armies of orcs at a much larger scale (up to 1,000).

Besides the standard Story game mode, the game includes an Endless mode and Weekly Challenges game mode. The game launched with 18 different levels. The player takes the role of one of two apprentice war mages and is tasked to defend rifts from an onslaught of orc armies by using the characters’ weapons and special abilities, as well as setting traps. Similar to its predecessor and the original game, Orcs Must Die 3 is a variation on a tower defense game. Slice, burn, toss, zap, grind and gib massive hordes of repugnant orcs in this long-awaited successor to the award-winning Orcs Must Die! series. But each level you survive, you collect your own modifiers to fight back with! It is the fourth installment in the Orcs Must Die! series, and the direct sequel to Orcs Must Die! 2. Including terrifying flying enemies, heroic war guardians and of course more tools for orc destruction! Scramble to Survive – The new Scramble Mode pits you against vile orcs who evolve with increasingly difficult and sinister tricks up their chunky sleeves.

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