UPDATE FEEDBACK

[Happy Pink Pony]

Hello there. Took a long break of Worms WMD after Wormhole update that screwed up the visuals (and even if I was playing Worms WMD, I was actually testing my recently published hats).
Even if it's titled "Small Update", I still wonder why it took almost 6 months to release it.
So I looked at the change list.

• Graphical issues fixed. Good.
  
• Custom hats black box fixed. Cool
  
• Teleport preventing collecting crates fixed. Cool
  
• Sentry Gun firing at worms inside helicopter when stationary. OK
  
• ...

wait that's it?
Before you say my state is hypocritical, I know. It was actually fixing big issues that Wormhole update brought to us. But why we had to wait almost SIX months after Wormhole update, where I consider it as the most buggy update in Worms WMD?
Even if these fixes were top priority, I hoped the update will bring something new - or at least announces something new.
Nothing. It's the same Worms I love, but I counted for more content for this installment (and not just new themes, new customization items, new Workshop features, new weapons, new weapons panel, the Mission Editor (I made up that one :P), etc.)

My problem here is not only what this update doesn't introduce or announce, but also what this update leaves unfixed. For instance, the exploit with Poison and Unwanted Presents is still not fixed (poison still takes more HP based on how many Unwanted Presents are on map), and the Mech collision still wasn't fixed. Graphical issues, like Bazooka/Floppy Disk/Rope in FRONT of worm's hands, and standard Unwanted Present still uses the skin of its upgraded variant (when selected but not thrown)
Another issue are tweaks for weapons that are still unexplained - eg., why Liberty Strike's bomb quantity are reduced from 15 to 9? And the drone, while its 9 second lasting battery is good for Pro matches, feels completely useless on anything else. Instead of tweaking it every update, why not implement a modifier for drone in scheme options?

But the most hurtful thing is that the game still feels abandoned. We were promised for new things in 12 Month Roadmap and all we've got are 5/18 features. No new themes minus Wormhole, no new weapons (still miss Dragonball and Petrol Bomb), no AI in online multiplayer (does anyone really want that?), no deep scheme options, no stage 2 of crafted weapons in scheme, no increased level cap and rewards, no speechbank editor...
And yet, seems Team17 are actually looking for more games to publish than care about this Worms installment. And that makes me sad.

I just hope for a better future of this Worms. If there'd be at least one annoucement, and not sale annoucement or contest, but an annoucement of new features (both from and beyond Roadmap), I'd give this game a chance.



TL;DR: Update gives fixes, but nothing new. And the game feels abandoned.

[Andrey Novikov]

You can say in words like this. The Worms W.M.D game is a very big game, but the graphics itself, the Worms Armageddon game engine, the technique, crafting, 6 updates, patches and the editor, which works as it should, can not really change, it can not load my maps and buildings except the hats. But after all the game is new, only 2 years, and the road map is barely done, or it should not be created at all, if such delays, but for this game you can do a lot of new things and add old things from games like Worms Armageddon, sudden death, solve eventually with a robot and a jam, release a speech bank, update the weapons panel in such a way that you can create as many weapons as possible, both old and new, inside the game editor of landscapes with themes, update the command editor, and make fortress mode with destroying themselves buildings and their lives and not only the defeat of worms and new topics.

[```skunk3```]

I for one am very happy that the drone got nerfed. It was ridiculously OP before and personally I still think that it's slightly OP, even after the nerf. Of course it would be nice to be able to manually set drone 'fuel' amount in some sort of options screen but overall their decision to nerf it was a great one. The drone is still capable of grabbing a crate almost anywhere on the map as long as your initial throw is good. As far as any other major changes to the game, I think that it's mostly a matter of budget. I think that Team17 budgeted a certain amount of money for WMD development and they hit that cap (or got very close) which is why further substantial updates were axed and we are only left with some bug fixes here and there. I'm glad that they are fixing bugs (at least some of them) but WMD could have been substantially better with more time spent on development, beta testing, etc.

[Andrey Novikov]

And I had a plan.

[Andrey Novikov]

New panel weapons&system crafting!
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/958590148165994990/EB653A66A889C1761102B043E4AC5320184781E2/

[Andrey Novikov]

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/958590148166122611/A24C7F3B20956DF5CADA63AE69B7D3F4F496D87C/

[Andrey Novikov]

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/958590148166228117/05B23AD0E7DC126384D8C424825DC591DBCA0202/

[HiTmAn]

its hard to make feeling of armagedon i played hardcore that game and its have special feel... world party i liked too 3d its was been fun to try new stuff remainds me on pigs of war also great game

[Art3mis-PC]

Also the triple bunker buster can still have a perfect hit on a worm but cause zero damage! I played a game last week and used 2 against a really well dug in worm and I got no more than 10 damage out of them despite the worm being hit by 2 of the rockets.

[Schlumi]

I fully agree with you MrKat. The game has been fully abandoned, certainly because of financial reasons. I don't think we will have any major upgrade of the game - if they propose any new update, I assume they won't be free.

[Happy Pink Pony]

Even if Team17 say they support Worms WMD, they don't do ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ anything to this game. I don't want the devs to do the same thing they did to previous Worms games - stealthily end its support.

[Leguminati]

Agreed, it's abandoned just like previous games. :( I wonder if it's really hard making the rope similar to the WA ( it's definitely better than Worms Clan Wars and Worms Revolution tho but still feels off). Team17 don't give a loving thing about their games. I once pointed out the optimisation problems and bugs about Worms Revolution on their FB page, guess what happened they f0cken banned me from the page.
And anyone knows why they didn't include the bungee, petrol bomb, homing missile etc in this game?
There are lots of things to be said about the game but who cares...

[```skunk3```]

They did include homing missile. ^

[AliVe]

Originally posted by MrKat7214:

Even if Team17 say they support Worms WMD, they don't do ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ anything to this game. I don't want the devs to do the same thing they did to previous Worms games - stealthily end its support.

They make a lot of babies, they promise them a long and beautiful life, full of new things to discover... then kill him and try to hide the body.

[Leguminati]

Originally posted by ```skunk3```:

They did include homing missile. ^

I meant the bird homing missile, the one in WA.