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[Loudninja]

Its F2P.

Greetings, War Mages.

Harmonia here, Community Manager at Robot Entertainment. I have some very exciting news to share: Orcs Must Die Unchained is coming to PS4 on July 18! Finally your orc-smashing, ogre-crushing, and kobold-crunching dreams can become a reality from the comfort of your couch!

After a fantastic showing at last year's PlayStation Experience, we wrapped up our open beta and launched Orcs Must Die Unchained for PC in April. Now we are thrilled to announce that the game will be arriving on PS4 with new content, game modes, and regular updates. All this for the low, low price of... nothing. That's right! Orcs Must Die Unchained is free to play.

For those who are unfamiliar with Orcs Must Die Unchained, it takes the award-winning Orcs Must Die action tower defense gameplay to a whole new level with three-player team-based gameplay. Slay the invading hordes to protect your Rift, but don't get cocky because the stakes are higher, the traps are bloodier, and the invaders are even more ravenous. You'll need to bring your A-game and a couple of the biggest orc-haters you can find to fight off these hordes!

Set in the familiar world of its hilarious predecessors, Unchained introduces a pantheon of powerful new heroes, deadly traps, dynamic maps, and a variety of gameplay modes for players to hack, grind, flatten, gibletize, incinerate, and fling orcs in defense of the Rift. Defeat the invading armies to collect and upgrade traps, traits, and other powerful items. You'll go from apprentice to rift lord in no time!

Survival mode lets players slay their way to the top of the orc pile in 3-player co-op defense gameplay. Sabotage mode puts two teams of three head-to-head; troll the opposing team with powerful spells designed to weaken their defenses and summon enemies to overrun them — but be on guard as they'll be doing the same. Weekly Challenges give players the chance to conquer challenging, inventive scenarios. Endless mode will keep the orcs, ogres, and other uglies comin' until you break.

In celebration of the release, PlayStation Plus players who install Unchained can jump-start their orc-smashing careers with an exclusive package of in-game currency, skins, consumables, and more. Valued at more than $20, this bundle is free for Plus members until August 17!

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2017/06/28/orcs-must-die-unchained-invades-ps4-on-july-18/

 

[MikeHaggar]

Nice! I really enjoyed the first one on Xbox 360. If I have time I may look into checking this out.

 

[delSai]

Cool, i'll give it a try. Might be a fun coop game.

 

[Leezard]

Cool. I enjoyed the first two, even if the second was pretty much only more of the same and the DLC was overpriced as hell for what you got.

 

[Drencrom]

Surprised to see it's F2P, will definitely give it a shot as I really enjoyed OMD2 on PC.

 

[Leezard]

Surprised to see it's F2P, will definitely give it a shot as I really enjoyed OMD2 on PC.

Good timing man, I was just thinking about when we playing OMD1 and 2. It's nice that it's 3 players now!

 

[LukasTaves]

I thought Ms owned them or something like that XD

I never played on pc but I remember getting really excited about the first one 360 and then being left soured on the demo. But perhaps they improved on the sequel and with updates.

 

[Drencrom]

Good timing man, I was just thinking about when we playing OMD1 and 2. It's nice that it's 3 players now!

I'm definitely up to play this when it drops!

I already have a third player in mind lol

 

[VaultBoy101]

But what if I want them to die chained?

 

[Leezard]

I'm definitely up to play this when it drops!

I already have a third player in mind lol

Cool. I think we're thinking of the same person.

 

[Mossybrew]

This looks very promising.

 

[Alavard]

I remember hearing the grind was pretty brutal if you tried to fully go the 'free' route when Unchained was initially released on PC. Can anyone back that up or advise if it ever changed?

 

[PedroLumpy]

I really didn't like it, but obviously it's out there on PC to try.

I remember hearing the grind was pretty brutal if you tried to fully go the 'free' route when Unchained was initially released on PC. Can anyone back that up or advise if it ever changed?

Well I thought it was too grindy and stopped playing. I doubt it's better now. Unfortunately the only people who could tell you what it's like now probably think the grind is fine.

 

[Drencrom]

Is this US only? Can't find it on the EU PSN store.

 

[klier]

Is this US only? Can't find it on the EU PSN store.

No, but certain EU countries are getting it later. Don't know why exactly, but it's not launched in Netherlands (my country ), Poland, Italy and some others.

 

[unknownstranger]

Weird timing being so close to Dungeon Defenders 2, which also went f2p.

 

[Psychoward]

it's out

has some neat ideas but i'd rather just buy the full game then have it be so cluttered with grindy crap

also the framerate is straight up abysmal