Comments on: Worms developer admits AI and online problems

By: Leon

Leon — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:08:05 +0000

Spadge: Any idea if the 4 custom team limit per Xbox is going to be upped?

By: 8bitninja

8bitninja — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:01:39 +0000

Besides the comment I made above, I think the game is great. I’m glad to see it back in all its 2D glory and like in the days of the Dreamcast, my friends and I can’t get enough.

By: Spadge

Spadge — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:47:11 +0000

Strictly speaking that’s not a bug that needs “fixing” but we appreciate your point. This feature wasn’t requested by XBLA and as such wasn’t supported given the offline social multiplayer play.

By: 8bitninja

8bitninja — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:21:41 +0000

The biggest problem I have with Worms is the fact that my wife and I cant play online games against our friends without her haveing a gold account. This is shit and needs to be fixed.

By: Levesque7

Levesque7 — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:21:40 +0000

Very impressed that the Dev’s for Team17 not only admit their problems but then go on to surf community websites and answer questions and update us with what’s going on. Some of you guys should go work for Volition….lol…What a disaster that was.

By: Spadge

Spadge — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:25:41 +0000

A ton of DLC is on the way, hopefully starting soon with new themes and tons of voices, but additional weapons are unlikely for a gamut of good reasons (all explained on our forum).

None of the problems with the game right now are “show stoppers” as such, but we’re keen to ensure that the game plays as smoothly as possible on Live.

We haven’t managed to reliably recreate a situation where the replay didn’t synchronise properly and that hadn’t been spotted in test for half a year. Given the amount of games going on, it’s a very very rare occurance.

By: DouggyD

DouggyD — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:12:55 +0000

Also, what is up with the replay not matching what actually happened in the game? Sorry, so many questions, I’m just excited to finally have Worms. Oh man, that sounded just wrong…

By: DouggyD

DouggyD — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:10:29 +0000

Thanks for the update on the ..err.. update…
Glad to hear that this may be included, but for me the slow AI is by no means a deal breaker, small annoyance maybe. Personally, I would be more happy to see the obvious bugs fixed and all the rest of you time spent on giving us more maps and weapons. Would you be able to tell us if there is anything like that expected in future updates or downloadable content?

By: Spadge

Spadge — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:49:41 +0000

An update is underway.

There’s a few things being sorted out, the AI speed is one of them - this was simply an ommission as the people doing the testing just didn’t think anything was wrong as there were no actual bugs as such found. Oh hum.

Other things like the CPU teleporting above the border have been found and fixed as well as about half a dozen small things here and there.

We’ll work with Microsoft to get this through test and certification as soon as we can.

As ever, once a game is live and being played by many thousands of players, it’s massively multiplies the chances of finding obscure problems with the game & logic/mechanics. Some things may seem obvious when they’re focused upon but along side all the other complexities of the game, it’s akin to finding a needle in a haystack. Once we can easily recreate the problem, we can usually fix it.

By: DouggyD

DouggyD — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:00:21 +0000

I have also noticed this on several occassions, very strange indeed. And to think that it took months of quality testing to get this game out to us…

By: DouggyD

DouggyD — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:56:57 +0000

Hey, I’m famous! Cheers guys, you kept me up to date with all of the Worms news before launch, so I just wanted to return the favour….

By: BTex

BTex — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:33:30 +0000

Thing is, it wasn’t rushed. Have you forgotten the wait we just had?
They better fix it. That is lame

By: J1980

J1980 — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:29:52 +0000

yeah I agree - it’s not boring, but I do want to see different backgrounds and perhaps map layouts now!!!

By: Jasonic

Jasonic — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:44:35 +0000

I find worms to be a lot of things. But boring just isn’t one of them.

By: Darkhosis

Darkhosis — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:02:25 +0000

the game is all around boring,

By: SechoDB

SechoDB — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:37:03 +0000

Kudos to them for admitting their mistakes and for trying to fix it rather soon. It’s very painful to see how games go months and months without getting fixed, ala Small Arms…

By: ghostdog

ghostdog — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:36:07 +0000

i think its comin down to a lack of communication between microsoft and developer.developers are given the tools to make xbla games then they hand it over for microsoft to test.microsoft find a problem and hand it back to developers to fix it.the game gets delayed while developers struggle to fix the problem.microsoft sit on there asses waiting for a developer who’s inexperienced with xboxlive to fix a problem that microsoft could probably fix in no time.

By: mass9

mass9 — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:05:56 +0000

well, I guess this is what happens when things get rushed out the the market.
Problems with a rush job? Big surprise!

By: Jmel

Jmel — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:18:40 +0000

Yes, its good that they “finally” came around… but what happened to testing? how do you ship your game, and you are so certain of something NOT being a problem, and then it turns out you were wrong? do these guys even play the game before it goes on live?

I’m not trying to be a jerk, but the last few years of xbox gaming have been DOMINATED by lack of testing.

By: worm fan

worm fan — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:20:06 +0000

we still want worms! Yeah it pisses me off too but come on….still one of the best games ever. And big props for not blaming something other than human error.

By: Denko

Denko — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:01:31 +0000

i blame worm man for rushing them

By: x El Scorpio x

x El Scorpio x — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:26:18 +0000

Worms needed more development time

By: DSK UK

DSK UK — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:19:29 +0000

I’ve noticed that the replays don’t always show what just happened - one of my replays played out a completely different senario

By: J1980

J1980 — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:09:23 +0000

I hate ranked match. When all your worms are dead, you still have to stay in the game and watch other people which seems to take ages. If you leave it ends the game for everyone and you get a negative ranked match score. They need an update which lets you quit out of a ranked match once all your worms are dead.

By: TRIGGER M4N

TRIGGER M4N — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:03:38 +0000

Did you know, sometimes the enemy will teleport above the map making it impossible to kill.