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Final move of the game (00:17:50.00), Mole Squadron is launched; watch the orientation/trajectory of the last mole.

Happy Birthday!

The update got covered in the Completely Unnecessary Podcast, which gets 10k to 20k views per video, plus audio downloads.

Here's the article they reference; like many others, that site seems unaware that Team17 didn't develop the update themselves:

While video game updates are insanely common these days, it's quite strange to see a publisher adding some polish to a game that's been available for more than two decades. Still, the fact that Team 17 was willing to do so says a lot about how the game continues to perform after all these years. If Worms Armageddon weren't performing well on Steam, it seems pretty unlikely that Team 17 would bother with this latest patch. The game clearly has legs, despite the fact that its characters do not!

The update trailer video now has 40,000 views on YouTube with 170 comments, plus nearly 12,000 views on Twitter.

However...Team17 claimed on Twitter that the update was for Steam only:

https://twitter.com/WormsTeam17/status/1284115271830167553

Are they so against linking to a community page that they would outright LIE?? Or is their PR department just hopelessly misinformed?

Just one minor concern:

[DC] Most in-game motion and animations are now rendered at the hardware refresh rate, rather than being locked to 50 Hz as before. The game engine still runs at 50 Hz, so "tweening" is used to accomplish this. As a result, most in-game motion that used to appear somewhat jerky will now look quite smooth. (Note, tweening of animations is still limited by the number of pre-rendered frames in Gfx.dir. The difference is that now, the available frames are used as effectively as possible.)

I think I asked this once before - can this be disabled? If not, will it be possible to have such an option in the future? I ask because people may prefer the old, technically inferior look because they're used to it.

Same questions and reasoning goes for this:

[DC] When loading its water graphics, the game now first tries to load DATA\Gfx\Water.dir, which is a re-rendered version of the original blue water waves – using the same algorithm, but antialiased and animated at a much higher framerate, to make it look good in super-slow-motion playback. If that file is not found, the game falls back to loading the original rendering of blue water waves, Data\Water\Blue\Water.dir (on CD-ROM if running the CD Edition).

This time, they will at least have a beta test.. everybody sign up! https://mailchi.mp/team17/worms-2020-beta-sign-up

They had a beta for Worms Revolution. A bunch of bugs made it through then.

A good new Worms game needs six things:

1. 2D
2. Highly predictable gameplay physics, with a good sense of weight and friction, but also easy to launch objects.
3. A super-simple, super-fast Ninja Rope. Should feel more like a pole than a piece of wet spaghetti.
4. A CLEAN art style. You should NEVER have to guess what you're looking at.
5. LAUNCHES with key features WA players take for granted (fully functional chat, custom maps, lots of scheme settings).
6. Zero dead air - if the player has to wait for even a fraction of a second, it better be for a damn good reason.

Formulas make people comfortable. They sell. Don't reinvent the wheel, just upgrade.