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Hotseat multiplayer won't get hotter than this!

Worms 2, the ultimate hotseat party game loaded with wacky action and cartoon violence, is now available on GOG.com for only $5.99.

So, you think that war never changes, huh? Wrong! This war is different. This war is wacky. This war lets you weaponize bananas, sheep, little old ladies, and priceless Ming vases. This war isn't fought to gain territories--in fact, here the terrain very often gets completely obliterated in the course of battle. This war demands that you forget everything you know about tactics and just flip the crazy switch!. This war isn't won by having a stronger moral backbone--in fact, none of the combatants has any sort of backbone to speak of. This is the war of the WORMS.

Worms 2 puts you in command of a small platoon of war-hardened worms with an unspeakable arsenal of deranged, but deadly, weapons at their disposal. Your goal is to eliminate the opposing team (or teams) by any means necessary (this may include the use of the Holy Hand Grenade or Mad Cow launch). The single player campaign provides quite a challenge, but its 45 missions probably won't be enough to prepare you for the unpredictable madness of the hotseat multiplayer, where covering your opponent's eyes becomes a valid way of winning the match. The game comes with a flexible level editor and the ability to customize your team with your very own voice packs, so there's a lot of ways to get even more fun out of wormy warfare. If you're looking for a game to spice up your gaming parties--this is it!

Important notice: this version of Worms 2 aims at improving your social life and encourages you to actually meet people in real life by only supporting hotseat multiplayer mode. That's correct--online multiplayer is disabled, but really: doesn't half the fun in Worms multiplayer come from trolling your opponents by pressing spacebar in the middle of their turn? Sure it does!

Invite some friends over today and blast them into cartoony oblivion in Worms 2, for only $5.99!
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gameon: Agreed. I don't appreciate GOG saying that people who play online games are social rejects.
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htown1980: You shouldn't have any problem with what gog said here then, as they quite clearly didn't say that. I feel bad for you that you can't appreciate such wit, maybe if you got out more and played less online games....

[thats a joke, I play online games sometimes too, just messing with ya. :). ]
Well to be honest i dont play online games. I just cant stand the general online/social push alot of websites seem to do. I cant go 5 minutes without some sort of "get out and meet new friends" kinds of messages.

Personally i don't care.
I love this game! Now only Armageddon and Worms World Party are left of this 2D goodness! Thank you GOG! :D
More Team17 games coming to GOG!
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keeveek: Play by hamachi and shut the hell up already, people.
They don't even say if Hamachi is a possibility. It's just "disabled", not "servers offline". Would've been nice to have actual info regarding MP instead of reimagining of "-My anus is bleeding! - Yaaaay!" cartoon.
Hmm... But why would Team17 disable LAN in old game?
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KhalidYousif: Why would you do that?
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F4LL0UT: Oh my God, people. Don't you get it? Online multiplayer requires the developer/publisher to maintain servers for this. This game is like what, 15 years old (and was "replaced" by its sequels - if you want to play online get the newest Worms game). GOG has no control over whether their classic release still supports online multiplayer.
That's pretty much correct. There was no way we could make it work, so we decided to remove this unsupported feature from the game all together. It would be just annoying to see it in the menus, just pointlessly hanging there and mocking you, now wouldn't it?

If anyone felt offended by the humorous way we presented a lack of feature as an actual feature--we're sorry. But in our defense: this game really ROCKS hotseat mode.
Post edited September 06, 2012 by G-Doc
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keeveek: Hmm... But why would Team17 disable LAN in old game?
To promote their Worms Reloaded which is Armageddon with better graphics.

Armageddon is way more awesome than the new worms anyway (and still played online!)
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G-Doc: That's pretty much correct. There was no way we could make it work, so we decided to remove this unsupported feature from the game all together. It would be just annoying to see it in the menus, just pointlessly hanging there and mocking you, now wouldn't it?

If anyone felt offended by the humorous way we presented a lack of feature as an actual feature--we're sorry. But in our defense: this game really ROCKS hotseat mode.
Did you cut off LAN functionality too? Why?
"Worms 2, the ultimate hotseat party game loaded with wacky action and cartoon violence, is now available on GOG.com for only $5.99."

How is this the 'Ultimate' when Worms Armageddon and Worms World Party are a thing? Unless you are admitting that they are, actually, the same game, or at least co-ultimate!
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keeveek: Did you cut off LAN functionality too? Why?
On a serious note: rest assure we went out of our way trying to make ANY kind of multiplayer mode, save hotsead, working in this game. But even the particular LAN protocols this game uses aren't supported on modern systems. If we're able to somehow make it work in the future (hey, we're open to your suggestions--just email support!), we will surely update the game.
Ok, so LAN wasn't functional too. I get it. Thanks for the info.

Some older games have that problems. I couldn't play GTA1 via LAN with my friend too.

The game is worth $5.99 anyway. But I still hope for Armageddon and WWP.

So, guys... It was cut off because it doesn't work. Does that satisfy you...?
Post edited September 06, 2012 by keeveek
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keeveek: Did you cut off LAN functionality too? Why?
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G-Doc: On a serious note: rest assure we went out of our way trying to make ANY kind of multiplayer mode, save hotsead, working in this game. But even the particular LAN protocols this game uses aren't supported on modern systems. If we're able to somehow make it work in the future (hey, we're open to your suggestions--just email support!), we will surely update the game.
I don't know if it works, but a quick search led me to a project named IPXWrapper.
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grviper: So "some features don't work" is now a positive feature?
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Toast_burner: It's a joke.
I think we all get that it's a joke, but it would be nice if they said in brackets why it's really disabled. Just because you and I know it's probably because the servers aren't being run any more, doesn't mean that other people will work that out. They might just think that GOG are being dicks. :P
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keeveek: Did you cut off LAN functionality too? Why?
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G-Doc: On a serious note: rest assure we went out of our way trying to make ANY kind of multiplayer mode, save hotsead, working in this game. But even the particular LAN protocols this game uses aren't supported on modern systems. If we're able to somehow make it work in the future (hey, we're open to your suggestions--just email support!), we will surely update the game.
Are they disabled in any way that would be difficult for a user with a bit of technical knowledge to reverse? I hope not because the community might be able to get it working.
Post edited September 06, 2012 by SirPrimalform
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keeveek: Bitches whining about everything, oh my, what else is new.
Look, I just don't fancy the Worms series games, okay?!? Nothing you say will change that!
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G-Doc: There was no way we could make it work, so we decided to remove this unsupported feature from the game all together. It would be just annoying to see it in the menus, just pointlessly hanging there and mocking you, now wouldn't it?
Yeah, that's how I feel about this stuff. I'm actually amazed that you went the extra mile of removing a feature that is bound not to work from the interface.

But as for local network multiplayer - I presume that the reason why you didn't get it to work is that the game only supports the IPX protocol which is not available since Vista. It works flawlessly up to XP, though (I know because I played multiple IPX games on XP), and there's wrappers such as this one which are supposed to make IPX work on modern systems. You should leave this option in the interface for users who are either still using XP or are willing to fiddle around and make it work by themselves on modern systems. Who knows, maybe your tech-magicians will even be able to include this kind of wrapper in a future update?
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mk47at: I don't know if it works, but a quick search led me to a project named IPXWrapper.
Oh yeah, that's the one I'm talking about. Didn't notice your post before.
Post edited September 06, 2012 by F4LL0UT