Worms (Team17) Blog!

(she/they) a blog dedicated to the Worms series by Team17!! run by mariepop

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Ok turning point for the blog here

Firstly I'm gonna stop trying to act snarky in posts bc it kinda just comes off as me disliking the games when i don't at all, plus i don't think it's that funny anyways (still gonna make jokes and stuff i just dont want posts to come off as overly negative, i like worms)

Secondly is that i was gonna have it that i covered all the games i could firstly then do normal posts. I'll still do the remaining ones from where we left off but i was originally gonna loop around and cover the ones I've missed but i think I'm just gonna do normal fun facts and stuff after that.

Also posts after that won't be as wordy, sorry for how long posts can be.

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Hello!

Worms the Board Game news recap coming in a bit (plus rest of the game overviews afterwards)

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At least for now posts won't be daily sorry

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BACK IM BACK HI IM BACK

Sooo, sequels? Love em! Worms sequels especially! Worms slot game from 2012 sequels? Now we're talking.

Worms Reloaded (the slot game not the normal game except it uses the same logo despite having no relation at all (with a grenade for some reason)) released in 2016, following up on the other slot game that definitely needed a sequel. It plays the same largely because, yknow, it's a slot machine game, but there are new bonus and visuals.

Random events like the Concrete Donkey falling down and converting symbols and new bonus games such as Super Sheep which if i describe then it'll reveal i have no idea what I'm talking about and am just copying all this info from a casino website.

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Ok I'm gonna stop trying to be professional here but here's some news:

The PS1 version Worms is available on PS4 and PS5 now (via emulation (still neat tho (not sure abt that price tho (worms)))!!

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OH YEAH I SHOULD POST HERE

UH SHIT YEAH SORRY I'VE COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN

ALSO SORRY IF A LOT OF THE PREVIOUS POSTS SOUND LIKE I DONT REALLY LIKE SOME OF THE GAMES I LOVE ALL OF THEM

OK LOVE YOU ALL GONNA START POSTING AGAIN SOOOOOON

ALSO UH THAT NEW TEAM17 PIGEON GAME HAS WORMS IN IT

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NEWS: Team17 has announced Worms: The Board Game!

Hello! Long time no see! Gonna start posting normally soon but that's not what we're here for today. Team17 has announced a tabletop Worms game made in collaboration with Mantic Games!

Not much info is available atm but you can find the Kickstarter page here:

Coming soon: Worms™: The Board Game

Hilarious Worms™ gameplay on your table: grab your friends and unleash classic weapons, sneaky tactics and all-out multiplayer mayhem!

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hello wormy ppl

taking a break for a week

ok byeeee

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Leaving again for a bit since busy with stuff! Idk when I'll be back but soon hopefully

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In September of 2015, Worms 4 released... no not THAT Worms 4. Not to be confused with Worms 4: Mayhem in 2005 (but not your fault if you do), this was the sequel to Worms 3 (the mobile game, not Worms 3D) and was an attempt at making the definitive Worms mobile experience, seeing how Worms 3 didn't really do much to make it more mobile friendly other than improved controls. The game also has a weird sorta polygonal artstyle.

Shorter matches, smaller landscapes and teams of only 3 worms with only 1v1 matches matches available. not the best for a Worms game but understandable for what they were doing. Its definitely meant to be a "pick up and play" sorta deal, with menus being extremely easy to quickly get into a match, unfortunately also meaning a lack of most scheme options which sucks. Asynchronous play was also removed though, which is kinda weird for what they were going for. Classes and Cards were also removed but we all kinda saw that coming.

Most of the weapons & utilities are returning ones from Worms 3, plus the Flamethrower. Alongside those, there were 2 new weapons at launch, being Hailey's Comet, a teddy bear that causes an exploding girl to drop down from the sky and the Dice, which the size of the explosion depended on the number it landed on. Two more were added in updates, being the Voodoo Doll, which if an enemy hurt they'd be delt the damage back to them, and the Cracker Jack, a close range Christmas cracker weapon which exploded.

Due to the more mobile focus, there's a lot more "mobile gamey" elements in it, such as a prize wheel and loot crates that give you items. These can contain cosmetics or one of the games' main additions, Loot Upgrades.

Loot Upgrades are badges you unlock from crates and work as upgrade for cosmetics and weapons that come in 4 tiers. For hats and gravestones it's a case of them starting out simple in design, then with each upgrade more is added on before finally the final upgrade makes them animated. For weapons it increases the power of them and sometimes have visual differences, with the final upgrade making them either poisonous or emit fire.

Another new addition is factions, where you choose to join either the the red or blue faction at the start of the game, with "Faction Battles" occuring where you fight players of the opposite faction to earn Faction Tokens, with the winning faction getting a prize. There is also a campaign, where you fight across 5 islands to claim territory for the faction you picked, unlocking more weapons as you go along.

There are also "World Events", which are events that occur sometimes on the world map. There is one for each island and you fight on a special map as you represent your faction. There are also daily challenges where you complete objectives to get awards. Also forgot to mention this earlier but you're also able to individually customise each worm on your team, same goes for weapon upgrades, neat.

So, is this the definitive Worms mobile game? Well, it is definitely the most mobile friendly but if you're looking for a regular Worms experience on mobile, maybe go to the other ones.

I mean, is this even a sequel to Worms (2007) anymore? Life could've been so much easier if they just called the XBLA version Open Warfare too.

I think this might've been the longest post on the account. How the hell.

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In 2015, Worms World Party: Remastered was released on PC, co-developed by TickTok, no, not that one, these guys worked on Superfrog HD... oh god. It released 8 days later than planned on July 16th due to a "a critical bug buried deep in the game's code", which is already a great sign. So, what does this "remaster" bring to the table?

Well, at first glance the same as the original game with 1080p and 60fps (at max, there are pretty bad framerate issues, not as bad as at launch but still), at least only during actual gameplay until the menus also got the enhancements in a patch. In addition, some of the sounds have been "remastered", as in they ported sounds from later games back to here, but some of them are original here, like a new remix of the main theme which is just bad. Thankfully, you can switch back in options.

Also added is controller support, cloud saves, achievements, Steam trading cards and leaderboard. The downloadable missions are also included, aside from the Christmas one for some reason. Some content has been removed, such as some soundbanks, mostly due to being stereotypes, but they also removed Angry Scots, which is a sin. Most non-weapon entries on the Wormopedia have also been removed for seemingly no reason.

So, should you play this version? Well, if you're not able to run normal World Party on your PC, but at the same time there's a good chance this version won't work either, since it's extremely picky on what it wants to work on.

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In January of 2015, Flockers was released on iOS and Android. Despite visually looking the same, this is basically an entirely different game.

Aside from the game no longer being 2.5D and just being plain 2D, all blood and gore has been completely removed, but that's far from the biggest change.

All levels are completely different, being much shorter and having completely different layouts that lack any physics elements, instead solely relying on the abilities of the sheep, which all still remain here. The amount of levels remain the same, however.

All and all, if you really wanna play Flockers, don't play this version. But if you really liked Flockers and want more... play Lemmings.

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Worms Battlegrounds, clearly sick of being labelled as "just a port of Worms Clan Wars" despite marketing itself oh so much as its own thing, finally received exclusive content in December of 2014 for Xbox One and January of 2015 for PS4 in the form of the Alien Invasion DLC.

As the name implies, it's alien themed (just general aliens, not alien as in Alien Breed which has also crossed over with Worms), with 5 new alien themed cosmetics, 5 gravestones and 2 speechbanks.

Alongside those is the Alien Invasion mode, a deathmatch campaign with 10 missions. You play as a group of alien worms who have crash landed at the museum and are being hunted down by the "FIB". On the other end of the coin is the addition of Body Count mode, which in this game has you play as FIB agents fighting off swarms of alien worms.

In these new modes, you can use 5 "new" "re-imagined" weapons, being the Plasma Blaster, Energy Orb, Ray Gun, Brightsaber and Precision Droid, all replacing and being functionally the same as the Bazooka, Grenade, Shotgun, Baseball Bat and Homing Missile respectively. Some other weapons get some visual differences here too, such as all strike weapons being dropped from a UFO and Boggy B being an alien worm with an Energy Orb.

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(Cartoon) Blood warning just in case

Drew like a dark, fucked up version of the worms sheep haha. Just a glimpse into my dark reality.

Flockers released in September of 2014 on PC, Xbox One, PS4, Linux and MacOS, being a spin-off of Worms starring the sheep as they attempt to escape from the Worms' weapons factory. It plays similarly to Lemmings, only that there's BLOOD AND GORE AND THEY DIE AND THERE'S BLOOOD WOOAAHHHH. They really did try and market this as some super fucked up game but all there really is in that regard is toggelable blood which some Worms games also have anyways.

That aside, though, there is some differences to Lemmings. The game doesn't have any environmental destruction (which is weird because why would you make a Lemmings clone in the Worms franchise and remove the one thing both series are iconic for) and instead relies on more physics based puzzles, with you being able to move around things like crates and trigger contraptions, alongside many death traps. Our friends the Wormius Fisticuffius appear as bosses, too.

Like Lemmings, you can assign the sheep with different tasks and abilities, being the Jumper, which makes them jump, Super Sheep (of course), which flies up walls, Exploder, which makes them explode, as well as different formations which causes them to stop and assemble into things like barriers and staircases by stacking on top of eachother.

There's 60 levels in the game, alongside 6 secret ones. The PC version also includes a level editor called the Meat Maker, as well as Steam Workshop support for the Steam version. There are also 17 skins for the sheep and 6 types of BLOOOD WOAAHAHH.

i can say fuck in this post, the game still got a pegi 16 despite being wayy more tame than the marketing lets on, im simply helping attract the target audience

the game only got a teen rating from the esrb tho, all that for nothing

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Once again cementing Worms as a series that is not good at naming things, Worms 3 released in August of 2014, being a sequel to Worms 2: Armageddon, but specifically the mobile version. It was exclusively available on iOS and Android, but later got a MacOS version too.

The game is sort of like a last-generation Worms Revolution, having the same designs and landscapes from it, but playing like a Gen 3 game. The classes system is featured here, but a lot of the special abilities here are cut outside of Scientist's ability to heal, so they all just play like Solider but with different stats.

None of the other new additions to Revolution are featured, unless you wanna count how it seperates hats, glasses and moustaches. Most of the new weapons aren't featured either, aside from Boggy B. The Homing Pigeon is also featured, alongside 3 new weapons being Canned Heat, Nora's Virus and Black Hole.

The big new addition to the game are Cards. They work similarly to both the Wormpot and the War Room from Battle Islands. Either at the beginning of each turn or after one, you can draw a card which will either affect your turn, the enemies turn, the whole match, or work like a super weapon.

For example, Wind Machine lets you change the direction of the wind during your turn, Stuck Fast causes the enemy to not be able to move, HQ Systems Failure stops crates from appearing and Solar Flare causes a solar flare that damages all enemy worms and causes anything that can explode to explode. They are essentially just weapons & utilities that are used in-between turns, with some weapons & utilities like Flood (called Flash Flood here), Fast Walk (Called Fast Mover here), Low Gravity, Crate Shower and more returning in this game as cards. Cards came in different packs, being ranked as bronze, silver and gold, alongside a special "Joker Card" called "Scrap-a-turn" which lets you undo your turn. There were 41 cards at launch, with more being added in updates.

Speaking of updates, the game recieved numerous content updates, mostly seasonal ones like Halloween, Christmas and the World Cup. They added new cosmetics and also limited time weapon skins, like a Football and Pumpkin over the Grenade and Christmas Pudding over the Mine. The Junkyard landscape theme from Revolution's Customisation Pack was also added in an update. Alongside those, there was a Terraria collaboration update which added Terraria hats and a soundbank.

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Worms Battlegrounds was released in May of 2014 for Xbox One and PS4, a brand new Worms game exclusive to consoles. Nah, I'm lying, it's a port of Worms Clan Wars, but the marketing for this game really did not want you to know that.

Essentially, yeah, it's just Worms Clan Wars, but unfortunately but understandably without the Steam Workshop support. The Clan Wars mode remains, but renamed to "Battlegrounds". The name change was likely just due to the lack of crossplay with PC, just so people don't get the misinterpretation that you can fight or join clans from Clan Wars here.

Battlegrounds does also have the companion app, obviously seperate from Clan Wars and with a different name, but still identical. In addition, the companion app could also be accessed on the Xbox Smartglass mobile app during gameplay on the Xbox One version. Meanwhile on the PS4 version, the game had Lightbar support, having the colour change depending on your worm's status and playing voice clips through the controller.

Aside from that, it was identical to Clan Wars... until the DLC game out. BUT that's a story for another day, exactly 3, to be exact. I'm trying to do these in order if it wasn't obvious.

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In October of 2013, Worms Revolution got ported to PS Vita under the name "Worms Revolution Extreme. As per usual, this version of the game comes with all 3 DLC packs available on consoles.

In addition, there is a new mode called "Treasure Mode", where you can unlock 10 special items by completing tasks to unlock keys for them. How do you use these keys? By buying the game again, of course. You need to link your game to the PS3 version to unlock chests with the corresponding keys you unlocked in Extreme.

Real slick, guys.

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Picture this, you're at the hospital, your wife has just given birth to your firstborn child, is the happiest moment of your life. Suddenly, a worry strikes you and you think to yourself "What is my Worms Clan Wars clan up to?". Fret not, this is where the Worms Clan Wars companion app comes in.

The Worms Clan Wars companion app released alongside the game, being available for web browsers and also advertised for iOS and Android along it (likely just referring to how the web app was available on mobile, still weird how they're listed separately though). It let you keep an eye on your clan while you were out, an example being what i just said before.

You could also view leaderboards, awards and statistics, as well as participate in polls such as "what is your favourite weapon?" and other minor variations of that one question. You could also view news and community events.

I have no idea if the site is still up, actually, as when i try to enter it does that thing when it thinks a site has been hacked and I'm not risking it. Worms Battlegrounds got its own companion app too, being identical to this one, and also i know that one is still up but partially broken.