Thank you, dearest War Mages, for your support of Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap. We are listening closely to you, and we are working hard to improve your experience. This latest patch has many changes addressing community feedback.

As always, please continue to send your feedback our way. And don’t forget to join our official Orcs Must Die! Discord. It’s not only a wonderful place to connect with other OMD! fans to party up with, but also where you can report bugs and give feedback directly!

Patch Notes:

Bugs:

• Crash fixes
  
• Fixed an issue with lobbies not showing all games available
  
• Fixed Briar Patch “Death by 1,000 Cuts” Thread chance to Rend
  
• Fixed typo in Kalos ability text
  
• Fixed typo in Minecart Tracks description
  

Quality of Life:

• Difficulty can now be increased without having to defeat the final boss
  
• Damage flyoffs can now be hidden in the Gameplay settings
  
• Moved animation notifies in primary attack animations for Kalos and Sophie to allow next combo swing or movement earlier
  
• Added Open Trap key to in-mission HUD
  
• Barricades near Bartholomew will no longer take damage from nearby enemy attacks
  
• Added lobby setting visibility and social menu button to Order Fortress Mission Select
  
• Added new player notifications to each NPC in the Order Fortress
  
• Added new player experience requiring new profiles to begin Max’s first two videos in the classroom.
  
• Added new player experience requiring new profiles to play Patio as their first Mission
  

Balance:

• Stone Bat petrify duration decreased from 5 seconds to 3 seconds and ability cooldown increased from 2 seconds to 5 seconds.
  
• Difficulty slider enemy health increments increased from 35% to 40%
  
• Buffed trap upgrade levels previously set at 5%, up to 10%.
  
• Buffed trap Cooldown upgrade levels previously set at 2%, up to 5%.
  
• Changed Gamble Forward values from 40% enemy health and damage to 50% health and 25% damage
  
• Increased last combo hit bonus damage of Kalos and Sophie primary attacks to 50% from 25%
  
• Slightly reduced rune coin values for light orc, medium orc, heavy orc, orc archer, balloon orc, drummer orc, light ogre, and light troll
  
• Changed Elite Lane Changer Thread to be available in single player and multiplayer games
  

Xbox Series X and S:

• Changed framerate cap from 30 fps to 60 fps
  
• Various performance improvements and fixes
  

Known Issues (In progress, not in Patch):

• Bosses can occasionally step on breakable props and die
  
• Investigating an issue with solo players getting disconnected and being sent back to the Order Fortress