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hey everyone just Steve from gamers Nexus thought night and today we were looking at orcs must die tues newest expansion pack family ties this booster adds no new traps but it does introduce some new levels and a few cool weapon options that can be applied toward your or killing arsenal first let's go over some of the new items in the traditional robot entertainment humor they've added a new stone staff which is a powerful stick resembling object that has the ability to quote-unquote stone orcs despite the teams play on words the staff does not in fact send Oryx scrambling in search of three dozen Mountain Dew no instead it turns them into stone so it's a bit literal in its meaning thus this immobilizes them and makes them seemingly more susceptible to certain attacks I'm not entirely sure if that's true but it did seem like they were more susceptible to explosions for example and the primary attack of the of the staff does not take mana and is ranged and it is an area of effect attack but it is very low power and suboptimal for most situations that I find myself in so do keep that in mind the reign of teleportation is the second item it is a universally applicable item we found in our testing although space the my co-op player and I did not use the rain for its actual teleportation capabilities all that often we did find it very appealing for its explosive capabilities because exploding Oryx is always a good thing in classic telefe ragan fashion a quick dimensional jaunt will explode all those who stand in the area and a freezing upgrade will ensure that the evenly newly added ball and chain orc enemy will stand frozen in place thus making her definitely more susceptible to attacks finally on the items front the last new item of the family ties pack is the jar of ghosts this jar is fairly straightforward if you get hit by an orc its passive ability will temporarily make the orc fear stricken causing it to retreat I found this to be incredibly useful when I got stunned by larger enemies who would then run away for just long enough to let me bunny hop away as manly a fashion as I possibly could the active ability will place down a set of skulls these instill fear in the orcs and we'll send them cowering running all the way back through the traps that they just made it past this was one of the most useful items I found for my loadout in the new set but that's mainly because I tend to enjoy using traps with slower reset times and this Nets more time for those traps the the new pack also added two new organ outfits though I will not talk about them too much they are available for both characters i think they cost 35 schools might be 40 or 30 and they have a pretty cool blue appearance moving on up next we have the new enemies that were added by the booster pack the the aforementioned ball and chain enemy is to quote robot entertainment's website and enormous female orc wielding a powerful mace that's bigger than you are it is a high-powered slugger who seems to shrug off conversion effects from what I've noticed and causes an immense damage with a single swain that leads to my sorceress character and to top that off the other new enemy Hobgoblin healers keeps their health and keep her health excuse me maxed when she starts taking damage so take out those healers very early otherwise you're just going to be wasting your time shooting it because she'll heal immediately now of course what you are all here for is probably the new levels these are for me the most desired addition for the new expansion packs luckily we actually found some very fun levels this time around the eye foundation levels to be a bit more bland than I would have liked but the family ties pack did have more variety and had some incredibly fun choke points for traffic experimentation the first of the levels called rush hour which seems to be using the same naming scheme as the previous pack had the best choke point and made for very fun and explosive gameplay so I definitely recommend that level after rush hour we did have another level called breakneck triad which is the second level of new pack it is also available in endless mode for those who love to play with the new trap combinations endlessly we found this map to enable intense gameplay that was incredibly challenging it was very tiring because it sends endless waves of the high-powered ball and chain org and I don't even know how we survive to be honest I think we got maybe three schools on that level and that was our best run so far it has three angles of attack and no central funnel through which the enemies can feed so it's definitely a challenge and if you like hard maps this is easily one of the hardest I've played yet and the final new map is called triple threat which is primarily based around around a central hold point in a convenient hallway this means you can easily exploit it by placing your death box throughout a contained space but it makes for very fun play and it has some cool stuff you can do with ceilings and steam traps if that's your kind of thin there was also a stairs of doom map which I will briefly mention it is a new endless mode map though it's fairly simple it's really just two sets of stairs going up a hallway with some acid in between there's really not much more to it than that now is it worth buying as the big question here and you can read my full thoughts on the expansion in the short article overview which is linked in the description below so click on more info for that and but to sum things up pretty quickly I'd say it is probably worth it the thing is you're paying five bucks which is a pretty good amount of money really for for the content you're getting for a few new levels and some new weapons it's about an hour of new content in story mode and then however much time you can manage to extract from endless mode if you don't find endless mode any fun it'd be hard to justify the five bucks I'd say the new weapons can be incredibly useful albeit they are certainly not required to enjoy the game you can get away with most of of what you already have they tend to do the same thing except these are a bit more embellished it is ultimately your decision of course if you like endless mode and are the type of player who can't get enough item combinations give it a go if you could care less about three new items and an hour of story mode and really don't care for endless mode well it might be best to pass until the next sale and with that that is all for now guys so I will see you all next time peace