If anyone can shed some light on this issue, I'd be appreciative.

Shortly after I came back from my break, I noticed that I was having some input issues. I'd tap space but the rope wouldn't shoot. At first I thought it was just my timing but I know that it's not because I could FEEL the switch click as well as hear it. My keyboard (Corsair K70 Vengeance) is loud. Very clicky. I can both feel and hear when I strike a key. At first I assumed that my spacebar was just going out as I have had this keyboard for ~10 years now and it's been abused quite a bit.

Another issue, and even more perplexing, is that sometimes when I tap space, the rope will come out but it's delayed by somewhere around half a second to a full second, or longer. This almost always ends up in a turn-ending fail. I ordered a new keyboard (Corsair K100 with optical switches) hoping that my problems would be solved, but nope. I am having the exact same issues as before. People I rope with can clearly see times when I should shoot the rope out but instead nothing happens and I fall- in other words, my inputs are not being registered. It's not all of the time and I don't know what the cause is. I've roped around solo a bunch of see if I can replicate any specific situations in which this issue will occur, but it seems to be pretty much random.

I can have games in which it will only happen maybe once, and I can have games in which my spacebar inputs are missed or delayed for several turns in a row. I know it's not a "skill issue."

My question to all is this: If it is not my keyboard and if it is not human error, what is the likely cause? The only other time I had issues like this was when my previous computer's GPU was going out, but when that was occurring I could see glitchy artifacts, screen tearing, stutters and FPS drops, etc. None of that is happening on my end. I also don't run a lot of stuff in the background while I'm gaming and have a decently powerful PC. If anyone could help troubleshoot this with me, I'd be grateful.

edit: I am using the Steam version of W:A if that matters.

Activity in the game is slowing to a trickle compared to what it once was.

There's hardly any long-time players who are active anymore. Most of the people in AG are snooping (2/3rds at least) and the people who are in there are just random noobs. Clanners are dead. I rarely see any sort of ranked games hosted for any league. I've been busy this summer but I've also tried to make time to play WA when I can and every time I sign on (no matter the time of day) it's a disappointment. I haven't checked TUS in long time and from what I can tell, even this forum is half dead. It looks like the same posts that I saw last time I logged in here are still at the top with hardly any new replies. At this rate it makes me wonder how much longer the servers will even be running.

Merry Christmas all. Thanks for another year of good times and memories.

Up until yesterday my game was working fine.

Last night I had a SSD die on me. I had 3 of them in a RAID 0 array so I basically lost all of my data that wasn't on a mechanical drive.

I pinpointed which SSD was dead and reformatted with a fresh install of Win10. I got my system fully updated and reinstalled Steam. Now when I try to run W:A I get major screen tearing and some micro-lags no matter what graphics settings I use. V-sync on, v-sync off... assisted v-sync, Direct 7, 8, 9, GL, etc etc. I have the same issue no matter what.

Any ideas?

So it looks as though the new Worms title will be crap.

3D, realtime, battle royale. Blech.

I know for a fact that at least one person has true mod access in W:A - Maverick. I know he doesn't play anymore but last time I saw him I learned that he did have some sort of special mod/admin access to various features of WormNET. Does anyone else have this sort of access? And if so, who?

I guess this applies to just about any scheme, really.

Is it 'legal' per se to use that glitch where you can basically drop a zook right on someone's head and it won't go off for a few seconds? My ruling is no, and I don't see why anyone WOULD allow it. It's clearly a glitch and not intended behavior, so why would it be okay to do? I got into an argument with some noob earlier about this and he insisted that it wasn't against the rules. Well, as we all know, the rules are arbitrary inventions made by us and aside from one girder-based scheme from long ago, I can't remember exploiting glitches as being NOT against the rules.

What say you?

I have to leave for work soon so I will keep this as brief as possible. I just wanted to give you guys a checklist of symptoms that I felt while I was sick. (2 weeks.)

-started with an itchy, dry throat and urge to cough a lot
-some sneezing
-once it fully kicked in I had major fatigue and body aches
-fever and chills
-massive phlegm production in lungs and sinuses (SO MUCH)
-frequent / forceful coughing and could barely sleep for more than a few hours at a time due to coughing
-wheezing/crackling when breathing
-could not breathe out of my nose
-major sinus pressure/pain radiating from the center of my face out to my ear canals, just above my eyebrows, and even pain spreading to upper jaws... so much pressure that I could lightly press on my skin below my eyes and feel what felt like a system of balloons in my face expanding and squeezing
-lost sense of smell + taste for a week
-headache
-symptoms would come and go... what I mean is that one day you'll feel much better than the day before, then the day after that you feel like complete shit again

All in all it was kinda like having the flu + a bad sinus infection at the same time. 0/10 would not recommend.

I can't remember when I last asked about 4.0 but I am sure it was many months ago. Is it ever going to see the light of day? At the very least can I beta test?

I finally had the chance to see The Rise of Skywalker and I've been thinking about the films since Lucas sold his empire to Disney.

I will say that all in all TROS wasn't that bad. There were some parts that I thought were stupid but it was a hell of a lot better than the absolute dumpster fire that The Last Jedi was, and The Force Awakens wasn't that great either. I won't post any spoilers (yet) in case people haven't seen the movie.

IMO the newer Star Wars movies don't feel like real Star Wars movies. Sure, they have ships and lightsabers and droids and all of that shit but the spark just isn't there. The magic is gone. People can hate on the prequel trilogy all they want but at least those movies FELT like Star Wars and not fan fiction.

I've been jumping onto Wormnet from time to time these past few weeks and I've barely seen ANYONE online. Last night there were 17 people in AG *including* bots and snoopers. I haven't seen many old school names on in a really long time. Does anyone actually still play W:A anymore?

Not too many games get me excited nowadays but I am a big fan of the Borderlands games and was waiting for this one to drop for a while. I finally got it downloaded and installed today and f@#!...

The first thing that I noticed is that it takes a full minute just to load up the initial splash screen. A FULL MINUTE. What is this, 3DO? The next thing that I noticed is that I was not getting any sound whatsoever. I decided to start up a game so I can see the intro cutscene and make a character, but nope. It went to a blank, black screen and just stayed there. I even waited 3-4 minutes before finally ALT+F4'ing out of the game and restarting. I messed with different video settings and the same thing happened every time.

On the third tab of the video options screen I noticed a benchmark test that I could run, so I did. My settings were on 1080p resolution but everything else was set to low/off and when it loaded the benchmark I saw myself flying through the game for a bit and I was averaging maybe 20 fps. AT MOST I'd hit 40 and at worst it would dip around 12-13. That is absolutely ridiculous. If I can play Monster Hunter World in 1080p with basically maxed out settings sure I can run this game, right?

I checked out some Reddit threads and apparently loads of people are having issues on all platforms. I'm so damn sick of games being released with crippling, game-breaking bugs and lack of optimization. It's kinda sad that we more or less have to expect these days that games in many cases won't be *actually* playable until like 2 weeks after launch.

$60 spent... now I gotta wait for patches. Yay. 

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Are there any 'must have' PC games out nowadays?

I'm always looking for something to play but can never find anything interesting. For the record, I'm not into 'battle arena' type games, the vast majority of first-person shooters, most MMORPG's, sports titles (except racing), etc.

What is good nowadays? I want to play something new but every time someone suggests something to me IRL it looks dumb as f@#!.

So what is the most recent news regarding the new patch? There has been news of 3.8 being released "very soon" for ages now. Can anyone explain what the hold-up is?

I briefly spoke to CS about 2 weeks ago and he said that it should be coming very soon and that he was going to be transferring servers or something.

All I know is that we have been waiting on this update for a ridiculously long time. I made a post similar to this maybe 6 months ago (?) and still nothing has happened. Is it vaporware? Is it ever going to actually happen? Is there some sort of financial hurdle? Is the problem on Team17's end? I just want some clear answers and a clear ETA.

What, precisely, is the problem here?

I have been inactive on W:A lately but in the last couple of days I've jumped on and tried to play some Big RR. During the games I am getting a bunch of screen lag... so much that it's causing me to fall a lot. It's even choppy/laggy when it isn't my turn. None of the other games I play have performance issues like this and before I went inactive I didn't have this problem, and I don't think that I've uninstalled + reinstalled since then. I am really stumped. I've even tried turning off other apps in the background and it made no difference.

FWIW, I am using Windows 10 and my specs are obviously far more than enough to run W:A lol.

This is just my personal opinion and I was just curious if anyone agrees with me.

In my experience I have found that MOST people who have many tattoos and/or piercings pursue those sorts of body modifications for a couple of reasons:

1. It is trendy and a lot of people are trendsters.

2. They have self-worth / self-esteem issues.

3. They want to be visually identified as tougher or even sexier than people without those sorts of modifications.


To me, seeing someone covered in tattoos screams: "PLEASE LIKE ME!" These people so desperately crave attention and validation and other shallow, damaged people give them props on their new ink because they too are shallow and damaged.

I also hate all of the canned, cliche responses that people give when asked about getting tattoos, like: "Oh I just really love art" or "My tattoos have a deep personal meaning" or some other shit like that. Quit lying, people. lol. I can't wait until this shit isn't trendy anymore and everyone is open and vocal about how they regret their decisions. People get PISSED when I talk about why I think tattoos are a stupid waste of money and that they usually signify self-esteem issues because I'm slicing right through their veil of rhetorical bullshit.

I know most people don't care but I've been away from W:A for a while now due to medical issues.

I don't want to get into the exact details but suffice it to say that I have been very sick for a while now. I have some complications going on with Crohn's disease / Ulcerative Colitis and I haven't had much time to play. My stomach constantly feels like I have someone stabbing me with a knife, and on good days I am on the toilet for hours and hours.

I am not quite sure what happened... I think it is an underlying issue that I've had for quite some time but it never got serious until recently. A few months ago I went to the hospital for a week because I couldn't have a bowel movement and since then it has been one issue after the next. I've been in and out of the hospital since so in case anyone has wondered where I've been, there's your answer. I'm rarely on WormNET and when I am. I am in a lot of pain and can't play like my normal self. I just wanted to let people know because right now I'm waiting on biopsy results and I'm hoping that I don't have cancer.

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Quote from: skunk3 on September 06, 2018, 09:39 AM
Everyone is playing their gay ass Rocket League, Fortnite, etc.

This.

It's not our fault, it's the way the world works, the younger generations don't want to copy the same sh*t their predecessors did. Because it's "not cool enough".

So they end up playing easier simple games with no depth like Rocket League, PUBG, Fortnite etc.

I really want to know how gaming got so bad.

Today it sucks. SUCKS!

I'm a life-long gamer and these days there's hardly anything good released. Steam is full of shovelware trash and even the "triple A" games that come out end up sucking balls. The only party that seems to consistently come out with decent games is Nintendo and their platforms, but even Nintendo is slipping a bit. (Breath of the Wild was kinda shit if you ask me.)

IMO Worms is one of the most interesting gaming concepts I've ever come across and for the life of me I cannot figure out why it isn't more popular. I am becoming really disenfranchised with gaming in general because I haven't found ONE single game in a very long time that I consider to be stellar - at least a multiplayer game. All of the MP stuff I come across seems like it MIGHT hold promise at first but I quickly find out it sucks dicks like everything else. At this point I am starting to consider whether gaming is really getting worse or if maybe it is simply losing its appeal as I get older.