The healing is not as rewarding as the hurting!

[Leminnes]

Are you seriously going to bitch at valve because they're a company that wants to make money? You're fighting a losing battle here.

You can start bitching when they start making us pay to buy map packs. Until then, go play Modern Warfare 2 and wallow in your lack of money.

 

[FaTony]

They are selling hats.

 

[drp]

They are selling hats.

and im resetting post counts.

 

[Retroid]

Sooo... *whistles*

Anybody recieved their Worms Solly hat/grenades yet?

 

[A Boojum Snark]

Of course not. TF2 needs to update with the content first.

 

[Retroid]

Of course not. TF2 needs to update with the content first.

Ah there was a very small update for me just as the blog posted - thought that may have been it.

 

[lucky]

Ah there was a very small update for me just as the blog posted - thought that may have been it.

That's what I thought it was too
I rushed on to tf2 once I saw the blog update, but no matter how many times I died I would not get the hat D;



edit: another update ;O
180mb ... maybeeeeeeee

 

[Pocket]

and im resetting post counts.

 

[Leminnes]

They are selling hats.

I wasn't going to reply, but this has been bothering me.

Hats have no implication to gameplay. If you buy the hats, indirectly or otherwise, it does not effect the way the game is played in anyway. Pay-for map packs are completely different. People who buy the map pack can't play those maps with anyone else other than the other people who bought the map pack. That is adding PLAYABLE content at a cost. Playable content that was obviously held back for the intent purpose of charging people for it at a later date.

Valve does not do that, and you should be happy they don't, because TF2 could have cost us $390 + $60 for the original purchase. Instead, for most people it was between $5-$20 (or $50 if bought with the Orange Box, which really came with 5 full games, so like $10 for TF2 really) and 13 free major updates (large or otherwise.)

Count your blessings, seriously.

 

[Retroid]

That's what I thought it was too
I rushed on to tf2 once I saw the blog update, but no matter how many times I died I would not get the hat D;



edit: another update ;O
180mb ... maybeeeeeeee

Yeah that was it, got me hat now and I'm not sure it fits in... I think because it's got a pic of Worms on it, it makes it look like an actual promotional item rather than an item the Solly would use.

 

[Hastur]

Hopefully it's not too off-topic...

Does anybody think that the new hat is butt-ugly?

I'm not talking about it "ruining teh atmosphear!!1!one!" or whatever. I just find it extremely repulsive, at least from a visual standpoint.

 

[lucky]

I think it looks okay :s
Though I don't think they compare to the grenades

 

[EArkham]

The hat isn't bad, but I prefer the stainless pot. Was a little disappointed to find the hat & grenades are one item instead of two, though, since I wanted to wear the grenades but not the hat.

And yah, I bought the game just for the items. I have no shame in this.

Kep

 

[J4CK8]

How could anyone buy it just for the items?! I used to love worms on the Playstation but I'm not gonna spend £15 on a game just for an item and singleplayer. I was terrible at judging the wind/power ratio and don't really see myself having much fun against random palyers online. I'm only going to buy this if I can persuade a couple of friends to get it.

 

[Rea]

I personally aren't bothered by the hat and grenades being one. I think they look cool, but then again I'm not bothered by the immersion factor.

Also, did they add an achievement for killing someone with the Equalizer taunt + the holy hand grenades? I haven't checked yet, and someone got an achievement on my mini-clan's server earlier for what I think is the Equalizer taunt and the grenades.

 

[Psy]

Is worms reloaded any good? And I mean armageddon good

Nope. For a start, the roping is awful. You can't gain any momentum when you bounce of walls and upon releasing the rope you simply fall downwards instead of moving across from side-to-side. This essentially rules out about half the most popular schemes which happen to heavily involve the rope. It's so crippled that you can't perform any of the fun tricks that you could in WA.

The whole game reeks of CONSOLE PORT. Yes, there are good console ports but this game is what people typically associate with a console port; IE, little to no consideration has been taken in order to please PC gamers.

The UI is gigantic and it shows that they didn't bother to change it from the 360 version. For instance, the weapon panel takes up the entire screen unlike in WA where it would take up a small amount of space in the bottom-right corner. The worse thing is that the weapons aren't organised in a logical manner like in WA. You just have rows upon rows of weapons with no f-key grouping at all. So everytime you want to use a weapon which doesn't have an f-key (aka all the new weapons not featured in WA) you have to open up the gigantic behemoth of a menu then move your cursor all around the screen to select what you want.

The menus are equally bad. There are no dropdown boxes. Instead you have to manually scroll left/right through items which makes scheme editing incredibly tedious. Long names scroll from left to right despite there being plenty of screen real-estate to display the full name without scrolling. The element which shows where each team stands in the game only appears between turns. Why? I have no idea.

The controls have been fiddled with. Now there is only the forward jump and the backflip whereas WA had both those as well as a backjump, standing jump and a short backflip. Girder rotation? Think it's still the arrow keys? Nope. It's the enter key to rotate girders now.

In multiplayer you cannot open the chat window between turns. Instead you have to sit and stare at a 'waiting for players...' message until the next person's turn becomes active. You can't look around before you start your turn...

I'll stop now. Basically, keep your money until they update the game. So far, it's got nothing over good old WA.

 

[Retroid]

Send them that in an email, apparently they're going to be constantly updating it so heck why not? (I agree with all your points btw but it's by far the best worms we've had in ages.)