Great job with the shotgun and repeatable shots.  However, there's one part between the first and second shotgun shot in which you jump up the slope where poor skip-walking or regular walking would be faster.  Jumping up slopes of that steepness is very slow.

Nice strategy.  It looks like turn 3 will take a bit of practice.

That guy's name, "pppoe", seems like a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-point_protocol_over_Ethernet.

So why is banana added, if no one like it?

Because someone was stupid once and other stupid people decided to follow in the stupid footsteps.  Sensei is exactly right.  If you want a 40-second turn timer, set the turn timer to 40 seconds instead of adding arbitrary retreat time which doesn't show a timer and doesn't start at the same time on each turn.

Thanks for the backup, Wally.  I knew there was at least one other person around when the inlaw was defined. 

Check the guides Korydex linked, which are the older trick guides (IBB's, TonY's, and DarkOne's).  Notice that inlaw is defined in the same way in each one.

Quote from: Lex on August 25, 2016, 05:28 PM

An inlaw ends lower than it starts.

No idea where you got this from

Quote from: Lex on August 25, 2016, 05:28 PM

On that corner, bounce off the top lightly and reattach to the same corner you were attached to or lower down the side.

Then what's the purpose of those red lines at the top?

btw
http://wmdb.org/16271 to the right of LG arch
http://wmdb.org/15819 slightly below start
http://wmdb.org/24374 to the right of start
All these maps have similar inlaws where that "rule" (inlaw ends lower than it starts) clearly doesn't apply. Maybe this rule WAS an actual thing in the past, I don't know, but nowadays it's not.

It is just part of the definition of an inlaw, not only as displayed on IBB's original rope tricks guide, but also practiced by all ropers in ~1998-2002 when the majority of these tricks were invented.  Definitions change, I understand, but I prefer the original definition, in which an inlaw is strictly something meant for descending a vertical wall without using external attachments, as a quicker and trickier alternative to the flagpole.

Both gifs in this thread are incorrect.  An inlaw ends lower than it starts.  On that corner, bounce off the top lightly and reattach to the same corner you were attached to or lower down the side.  This was commonly used at the start of many old rope race maps and it was a common trick practiced while warming.

It was noticed that there was something off about explosions, though.  That's why it was slowed down; to show oblivious devs/testers what they missed that is noticed by the general public.  It's not about "offense".  It's one of many small aesthetic problems that add up to obviously odd-looking, unappealing animations.

It's understandable that devs and testers looking at the same gameplay for a long time will become used to its problems and become unaware of them.  That's why public testing is so helpful.

Edit: I believe a large reason why most 2D Worms games made after the 2nd-generation games have not been as successful is because of the comparatively unappealing aesthetic.  Aside from OnlineWorms and WWP Aqua, Worms games have looked worse after WWP, with their lockjaw mouths, strange backflip animations, screen-shaking explosions, and pointy outlines.  The way they roll matters.  The way they fly through the air matters.  It all adds up in presentation, and it affects impressions of customers.

Side-topic: When I was first playing WA, I wanted to draw worms.  They looked so simultaneously cute and cool.  I can't say that about the later worms.  Look at your avatar, Jonno.  Does that really look good to you, with the giant teeth and the lockjaw non-smile; mouth stretched to the bottom corners so hard it looks painful?  I think that the look for worms was ruined forever since that kind of design.