Q. What is Worms?

 

A. Worms is a turn-based strategy game developed by Team17. Teams of four worms battle to the death using crazy weapons and tools. Worms take it in turns to unleash their arsenal of weaponary against the opposing teams. Worms die when they run out of hit points or drown in the water, who ever has worms left standing at the end wins.

 

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Q. How many players does it support?

 

A. Players 1-4 Offline and Players 2-4 Online

 

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Q. Is the Game in 3D or 2D?

 

A. 2D

 

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Q. What are the contents of the single player side of the game?

 

A. Twenty deathmatch levels, With increasing level of difficulty

 

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Q. How many weapons are there?

 

A. 22 weapons and utilities: Bazooka, Homing Missile, Grenade, Cluster Bomb, Banana Bomb, Dynamite, Air Strike, Shotgun, Uzi, Fire Punch, Dragon Ball,Prod, Blowtorch, Land Mine, Sheep, Kamikaze, Ninja Rope, Girder, Jet Pack, Teleport, Skip Go, Surrender.

 

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Q. What game options are available?

 

A. There is a wide range of game options, from the landscape on which to battle on, to turn time, round time, and the starting weapon arsenal of each team. 

 

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Q. What customization features are there?

 

A. Worm and team names can be changed. what the worms say and their gravestones can also be chosen.

 

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Q. Will there be ranked games?

 

A. Yes

 

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Q. Are there leaderboards?

 

A. Yes.

 

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Q. How do the maps work?

 

A. The game comes with three graphical themes. The landscapes are randomly generated so you never play on the same map twice. The landscapes are fully destructible.

 

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Q. How much will it cost?

 

A. Nothing has been confirmed but it is safe to assume it will be 800 points.

 

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Q. What about downloadble content?

 

A. Due to the 50mb limit size not everything could be put into the final version so expect dlc in the form of new themes and voice banks, however extra weapons are very unlikely. Some will be free and others will cost a small amount.

 

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Q. What about gamer pictures and themes?

 

A. Expect them too.

 

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Q. Is there any gameplay footage?

 

A. Yes. Follow me..

 

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Q. Is there any screen shots?

 

A. Yes. Follow me..

 

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Q. When is the release date?

 

A. March 7th

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Q. The game crashes when there are four people in the room, is there a solution?

 

 A. This is a bug and a temporary solution is available until there is a patch. The cause of the crash seems to be people trying to join an already full game thus when the host launches, the game crashes. When the game is full, wait 30 seconds to a minute before starting the game. This stops people trying to join and causing a crash.

 

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Q. What's there to stop people using disrespectful worm and team names?

 

 A. There is a name filter included that stops people using "naughty" words. Also the name filter searches for "naughty" anagrams to further combat the problem. When playing online the filter automatically changes the name of the worm to something along the lines of naughty. 

 

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Q. Can guests play on Live?

 

A. Simple answer is no. The system may be abused by people trying to double their odds of winning by controlling 8 worms instead of 4.

 

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Q. How much does it cost?

 

A. 800 MS points.

 

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Q. What are the achievements like?

 

A. There are twelve in total, which offer 200 GS:

Achievement	Description	Gamerscore
Training	Complete Training	10
Challenges	Complete all twenty single player deathmatch challenges	15
Bronze Damage	Deal 500 points cumulative damage to win this award!	5
Silver Damage	Deal 2,000 points cumulative damage to win this award!	20
Gold Damage	Deal 20,000 points cumulative damage to win this award!	35
Three Bagger	Kill three worms with just one shot to bag this award (includes damage from oil drums and mines)!	15
Body Count	Send a cumulative total of 100 worms to meet their maker and win this award!	20
Greedy Worm	Collect a cumulative total of 50 crates and this award is yours!	15
Barrel Buster	Blow up 25 barrels and receive this award!	15
Hot Foot	Detonate a cumulative total of 25 mines and you'll trigger this award!	15
Shepherd	Kill a cumulative total of 15 worms using just the sheep for this award...baaa-gain!	15
Worm Community	Play a four player Xbox Live Game.	20

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Great FAQ

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I got a quick question:  Will it be possible to have multiple teams on one xbox and still be in an online game with other teams?  Ex: House A has Teams 1 and 2, House B has Team 3, and House C has Team 4.

 xikius wrote:

I got a quick question:  Will it be possible to have multiple teams on one xbox and still be in an online game with other teams?  Ex: House A has Teams 1 and 2, House B has Team 3, and House C has Team 4.

It's not possible, you'll just have to take turns sharing the same team and gamertag.

 Spadge wrote:

No, gamertag stuff gets in the way, sorry.

You can "share" worms of course.

Making a sticky.

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I've never played worms, and honestly hadn't heard about it before all this hoop-lah about release dates and stuff. by turn based, is this game like that tank game on newgrounds.com? not sure if anyone is familiar with that game.

Worms is a brilliant game I've been waiting for this for months.. roll on tomorrow!

Great FAQ btw.

In my PC days I used to play this game religiously and now they are bring it to the xbox 360. I wonder if you will still be able to have custom matches like proper, wxw, holy war, wascar etc, I can't imagine this will be present but if it is excellent! There is still a thriving worms community online, mostly playing PC W:A and WWP, but the game has evolved so much from when Team17 first developed it.

Just a little something that demostrates how far worms has come, forget turn based point and shoot.

Rant over by an old Worms enthusiast!

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 Lankymart wrote:

In my PC days I used to play this game religiously and now they are bring it to the xbox 360. I wonder if you will still be able to have custom matches like proper, wxw, holy war, wascar etc, I can't imagine this will be present but if it is excellent! There is still a thriving worms community online, mostly playing PC W:A and WWP, but the game has evolved so much from when Team17 first developed it.

Just a little something that demostrates how far worms has come, forget turn based point and shoot.

Rant over by an old Worms enthusiast!

Wow I've used some of those before but I had no idea about i'd say 50% of those techniques, I usually prefer to use long rope tricks.

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Does anyone know how to switch worms? In the original I'm pretty sure you could select a worm before your turn but I can't figure it out...

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Does anyone know how to switch worms? In the original I'm pretty sure you could select a worm before your turn but I can't figure it out...

 

You can't is the simple answer.

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This should probably be updated now that the game is out.

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 Smoogle wrote:

This should probably be updated now that the game is out.

 

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 x Turboman x wrote:

 Smoogle wrote:

This should probably be updated now that the game is out.

 

I cant edit the post.

PM a moderator and they could let you edit/update it.

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Just Private Message a moderator and let them know the changes you want to be made and they will fix them for you.

 x Turboman x wrote:

 

I cant edit the post.

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Cool faq.

 x Turboman x wrote:

Q. Is the Game in 3D or 2D?

 

A. 2D

It's actually a mixture of both. If you listen to Major Nelson's blogcast from 4th March, he has an interview with one of the Team 17 guys and they say its actually 3D. I know what you mean though, the gaming field is 2 dimensional, but theres a lot more going on than that.

Great info Turbo!

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 x Turboman x wrote:

 Smoogle wrote:

This should probably be updated now that the game is out.

 

I cant edit the post.

Okay, I am back for a bit. I will check through my private messages and see if there are any details that still need to be edited to this FAQ. And FYI, I make no claims to the reliability and validity of Turboman's FAQ content.

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any info on when a new update is coming out?  This game is great and i finally got the hang of it and beat all 20 single player challenges so started to play on-line and noticed that there are a number of bugs.  In fact, i have only been able to finish 2 matches without being disconnected (not from live but from the game). I read that fix about the 4 player, but it happens all the time even when waiting 2 minutes after the room is full.  Anyone else having problems?

If the host quits the game ends.  How many games have you tried to play?  I've played 100s of successful games, so if there is a problem, it doesn't happen to everyone.

Yeah this game is fethed up.
Ive been trying for well over 2 hours to get into an online player match.  I have not seen one player turn completed yet, due to disconnections ("game is no longer available").  I've not tried to play online before today, and I'm begining to wonder whether I ever will.
Am I missing something?  Is there ports I need to open on my router JUST to play worms?  Do I need to make human sacrifices to dark gods?  What gives?


This is shaping up to be the lamest waste of MS points ever.

There are ports that you should open to make it so you can join more games or allow people behind firewalls to join your game.  It really shouldn't be causing disconnections though, that is likely something else.  Check  XBOX Live Port Settings

Even with the ports closed, I was still able to play many games successfully but perhaps you have an even worse network.  I have the ports open now.  I don't play Player Matches, maybe you would have more luck with Ranked games.

Oh all the standard live ports are open, of course.  I was hoping there was something specific to worms I had missed.
Grasping at straws.
I would bet its got more to do with being in Australia than anything else (I'll spare you all the rant about live needing Australian based servers for now).
Any Aussies out there care to share there experience with worms so I can confirm or refute that theory?