MrPanic
5 Oct 2011, 05:05
Hello guys, I'm new here and registered because I bought this game on xbla. I'm having quite some fun with it but I noticed a fair amount of glitches that are unnessarily ruining the game experience, so I decided to make a list of problems I've run into.
Glitches
Shotgun incontrolable
This happened to me a lot on the 3d shotgun challenges, as well as during the story mission 'Tin Can Wally' and during versus. After choosing the shotgun and zoom in the aim starts to do one of two things, it starts to spin your crosshair around in circles so you worm starts to spin 360's, or the cross gets a enormous sway. In both cases the control stick doesn't react anymore rendering the shotgun unusable. The only way to regain control back over the first person view is by wasting the two shots. The glitch mostly seems to happen if you try to move the worm or camera while selecting the shotgun, if you don't move the stick while choosing or getting a new shotgun it doesn't seem to happen. Seems likely to happen to the sniper too, but I haven't tested that yet.
Mission 33 in 3d campaign unplayable
A glitch sometimes happens when taking fall damage, it causes the worm to become invincible (game doesn't even end if you jump in the water) and the mines not being counted anymore, effectively causing the mission never to end whatever you do. Also the worm gets stuck in some sort of animation, most occurring one is that every time you jump the worm get stuck in the ground with it's head, but you can still move him around while his head is stuck. It most likely happens when a mine explosion causes you to fall and take fall damage, but it also happened to me after a normal fall. Pretty obvious glitch, I doubt anyone would get past that level without the glitch happening, almost makes the mission unbeatable.
Mission 20 in 3d campaign invincible worm
The enemy worm that spawns closest to the start of the level (called braindead bruce, spawns when you pick up the utility crate) sometimes gets invincible if he respawns after killing him. I'm not too sure what causes but it usually happens when he gets to stand on the gravestone right next to him. He becomes invincible to damage and he actually gets stuck on the gravestone so he won't fly away from any explosion or weapon, that way breaking the level since there is no possible way to kill him anymore. You know the glitch happened if it's his turn and all he does is take a clusternade in his hand and then does nothing until his turn ends. The glitch is avoidable if you take out Dracuworm before taking out any other worm.
Voices of worms disappear
A very random glitch that causes the worms to go mute, you can still see them talking but no sound is coming out. Moving the camera around (up and down) sometimes causes you to hear the worm again, but if you move the a bit down/up again the voice is gone again. It's as if the worm that's talking is too far away from camera to hear, which is obviously not the case while the camera is fixed on a worm. This glitch seems to occur randomly on any gamemode and seems to stick with you in any game you play after that until you reset the game. It happens every so often so I'm sure that other xbla gamer will notice it as well. Sometimes it affects the sound effects too, might have something to do with the action cam
Missing content
Worms 3d multiplayer maps?
I'm pretty sure the maps from the 3d campaign and challenges are supposed to be in the item store too, it's actually one of the main reasons I wanted this after having Worms 4, so please patch that.
No random landscapes online?
I pretty sure this should be available for custom matches. I know they shouldn't appear in ranked but why not in custom? Kinda wasting a nice feature right there.
No 2 player ranked match?
This is something very vital. Ranked matches are supposed to represent skill, but during 4p multiplayer that's a very limited thing, that's because the outcome of a 4p match is mostly decided on the decision others made. Only in a 2p match you can truly decide who's better because it's pretty much decided how well you did against someone who is only focused on you. Splitting ranked up in 2p and (any)p games is a must!
Flaws/other
Team weapon in ranked
The team weapon is a very powerful weapon, therefor I feel like the team weapon should at least have a delay of four turns so someone can't get a very easy multikill because someone had unfortunate worm spawns, everyone should have a chance to move his worms around first. Same reason why airstrikes aren't available from the get-go.
Worm spawns on random maps
I noticed that worms primaraly spawn on the ground on some random maps, which seems very odd, especially on construction maps where you would expect fights on multiple levels. Hopefully this can be changed in the future.
It's a nice game, but I think it's pretty essential that these things get patched if this game wants a nice future. For now, these things should be patched ASAP:
- Shotgun glitch
- Mission 33
- W3D Multiplayer maps
- 1v1 Ranked Match
I really think that these 4 things should be on top of your fixlist team17, fix it and bring out a title update on xbla as soon as possible cause these things really shouldn't be broken at release. Keep up the good work, I'm sure you wont leave us xbla players hanging.:)
Glitches
Shotgun incontrolable
This happened to me a lot on the 3d shotgun challenges, as well as during the story mission 'Tin Can Wally' and during versus. After choosing the shotgun and zoom in the aim starts to do one of two things, it starts to spin your crosshair around in circles so you worm starts to spin 360's, or the cross gets a enormous sway. In both cases the control stick doesn't react anymore rendering the shotgun unusable. The only way to regain control back over the first person view is by wasting the two shots. The glitch mostly seems to happen if you try to move the worm or camera while selecting the shotgun, if you don't move the stick while choosing or getting a new shotgun it doesn't seem to happen. Seems likely to happen to the sniper too, but I haven't tested that yet.
Mission 33 in 3d campaign unplayable
A glitch sometimes happens when taking fall damage, it causes the worm to become invincible (game doesn't even end if you jump in the water) and the mines not being counted anymore, effectively causing the mission never to end whatever you do. Also the worm gets stuck in some sort of animation, most occurring one is that every time you jump the worm get stuck in the ground with it's head, but you can still move him around while his head is stuck. It most likely happens when a mine explosion causes you to fall and take fall damage, but it also happened to me after a normal fall. Pretty obvious glitch, I doubt anyone would get past that level without the glitch happening, almost makes the mission unbeatable.
Mission 20 in 3d campaign invincible worm
The enemy worm that spawns closest to the start of the level (called braindead bruce, spawns when you pick up the utility crate) sometimes gets invincible if he respawns after killing him. I'm not too sure what causes but it usually happens when he gets to stand on the gravestone right next to him. He becomes invincible to damage and he actually gets stuck on the gravestone so he won't fly away from any explosion or weapon, that way breaking the level since there is no possible way to kill him anymore. You know the glitch happened if it's his turn and all he does is take a clusternade in his hand and then does nothing until his turn ends. The glitch is avoidable if you take out Dracuworm before taking out any other worm.
Voices of worms disappear
A very random glitch that causes the worms to go mute, you can still see them talking but no sound is coming out. Moving the camera around (up and down) sometimes causes you to hear the worm again, but if you move the a bit down/up again the voice is gone again. It's as if the worm that's talking is too far away from camera to hear, which is obviously not the case while the camera is fixed on a worm. This glitch seems to occur randomly on any gamemode and seems to stick with you in any game you play after that until you reset the game. It happens every so often so I'm sure that other xbla gamer will notice it as well. Sometimes it affects the sound effects too, might have something to do with the action cam
Missing content
Worms 3d multiplayer maps?
I'm pretty sure the maps from the 3d campaign and challenges are supposed to be in the item store too, it's actually one of the main reasons I wanted this after having Worms 4, so please patch that.
No random landscapes online?
I pretty sure this should be available for custom matches. I know they shouldn't appear in ranked but why not in custom? Kinda wasting a nice feature right there.
No 2 player ranked match?
This is something very vital. Ranked matches are supposed to represent skill, but during 4p multiplayer that's a very limited thing, that's because the outcome of a 4p match is mostly decided on the decision others made. Only in a 2p match you can truly decide who's better because it's pretty much decided how well you did against someone who is only focused on you. Splitting ranked up in 2p and (any)p games is a must!
Flaws/other
Team weapon in ranked
The team weapon is a very powerful weapon, therefor I feel like the team weapon should at least have a delay of four turns so someone can't get a very easy multikill because someone had unfortunate worm spawns, everyone should have a chance to move his worms around first. Same reason why airstrikes aren't available from the get-go.
Worm spawns on random maps
I noticed that worms primaraly spawn on the ground on some random maps, which seems very odd, especially on construction maps where you would expect fights on multiple levels. Hopefully this can be changed in the future.
It's a nice game, but I think it's pretty essential that these things get patched if this game wants a nice future. For now, these things should be patched ASAP:
- Shotgun glitch
- Mission 33
- W3D Multiplayer maps
- 1v1 Ranked Match
I really think that these 4 things should be on top of your fixlist team17, fix it and bring out a title update on xbla as soon as possible cause these things really shouldn't be broken at release. Keep up the good work, I'm sure you wont leave us xbla players hanging.:)