homing grenade & homing strike

[faemir]

Why were these two weapons removed in later versions (WA & WWP)?

I'm just wondering what people think, as I liked them both...

[bonz]

Because they are quite imbalanced weapons that can instantly kill a worm if all clusters hit it simultaneously.

One-shot-one-kill weapons generally are a bad thing. Except for the Holy Concrete Donkey of course. :D

[faemir]

I never thought of that, though they could turn the damage down...

[franpa]

people would just abuse the fact that damage can be adjusted so freely and set it up to be roughly what it deals in worms 2 then every game you join that has it would be boring -.-

[Regulator]

I don't know, it could have just been for change.

Homing strikes are only useful near the surface and homing clusters are just awful. The latter only deals 20 more damage on explosion than a regular cluster anyway (and usually it blows up in the air before homing), and the clusters actually hurt less, so it's not a power problem. The majority of secret weapons and banana bombs all do more damage.

So at a stab, it could just have been to make way for more interesting or new weapons, as these were only useful in certain scenarios and fairly mediocre.