It is important to remember that you have 100 rift points across all five tiers and your score accumulates over your entire run. For instance, choosing between “All wall traps do double damage” and “Double your hit points” may seem like a no brainer, but if debuffs from earlier tiers are “lose 10 rifts points on death” and “Gnoll assassins added to every wave” it may be smart to bolster HP. The buffs are very strong and we’ve found that what we pick is often influenced by the choices that we made on previous tiers. As you beat each tier, you get to choose one of three buffs that stack as you progress which can encourage “builds” as you try to beat all five tiers. You can reroll one debuff per tier, however, rerolling a debuff can be tricky due to the fear that you may get something more threatening than you currently have.īut back to the good news. Choices get more interesting as debuffs stack in later tiers. All these things can influence your decisions. This becomes quite interesting depending on your playstyle, favorite loadout, comfort level with the scenario or whether you chase leaderboards. The first thing you see when you enter Scramble mode is that choice between two scenarios, each with their specific debuffs. One of those things we wanted to revisit was the stacking of buffs and debuffs as you played through the mode. Given the list of goals, there were things from previous Orcs Must Die games that we wanted to keep and simplify because they had their own merits. Most players are able to OR feel ( with practice) they can beat the mode.Time goal is about one hour per gameplay session.Encourage more loadout and play experimentation due to choices made.This list was made before we ever started the design on paper. I thought it might be interesting to show the list of goals we had for a new mode. With Scramble mode, we feel we have hit the mark for later game content. Endless mode and Weekly Challenges have garnered strong audiences, but we believe that our newest mode may pose new and interesting challenges. If you lose all your rift points, you have to start a new run from scratch!Ĭoming up with game modes in the Orcs Must Die franchise has always been a focus of ours. These buffs and debuffs stack across all tiers making the later tiers more challenging. After beating each tier, you choose a buff to aid yourself in future tiers. This increases the challenge and provides interesting choices. At each tier, you choose which scenario you want to play from two choices, each of which comes with a debuff that is applied. In it, you try to beat five tiers of progressively harder scenarios using one rift point pool – meaning, if a bunch of Orcs make it into the rift in the first tier, you won’t have many more rift points to survive later on. We’ve created a new game mode in Orcs Must Die! 3 that we call Scramble.
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