User Guide

A dialogue box will appear allowing you to enter new details. Enter your new
team’s name and the names of up to eight Worms.
To select a Speech Bank from the many that are packaged with Worms 2, use
the drop down menu. You can edit or create your own Speech Banks using the
Speech Bank Editor (for further details see Appendix 2).
• Click OK to accept, or Cancel to reject your new team details. Once
created, the team details will be saved. New teams will be added to the
Team Pool.
ADDING TEAMS TO THE PLAY ROSTER
• Double-click a team name in the Team Pool. The team will be moved to the
Play Roster.
EDITING A TEAM
• Click on the team name to edit a team’s details.
• Enter your new details.
• Click OK to accept or Cancel to reject.
Team details cannot be edited once the team has played games and gained
match statistics.
You can view the statistics of a team by pressing (and holding) the right-
mouse-button over a team name.
REMOVING A TEAM FROM THE PLAY ROSTER
• Double-click a team in the Play Roster to remove it to the Team Pool.
To delete a team from the Team Pool, click on it and click Delete from the
bottom of the edit team dialogue box; you will be asked for confirmation.
WORMS IN TEAM
This allows you to set the number of Worms in a team between 1 and 8.
There can only be 18 Worms on the landscape, so this number will change
depending on the number of teams taking part. The following table indicates
how the number of Worms changes depending on the number of teams:
Teams Worms
2 1-8
3 1-6
4 1-4
5 1-3
6 1-3
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From the Worms 2 title screen, you have four options you can select:
• Single Machine/Hot-Seat Play - Click this to start a new single player or
hot-seat game.
• Multi-Player/Network Play - Click this to start a Network or Internet game.
• Worms 2 Configuration - Click this to configure your sound and video
options (for further details see Configuration Menu later in the manual).
• About Worms 2 - Click this for details about Worms 2. From here you can
check the latest documentation, the credits for Worms 2 and link to us via
e-mail and the official Worms 2 web-site.
There are four further menus available if you select the Single Machine/Hot-
Seat Play option:
• Game Menu
• Options
• Weapons
• Terrain
Game Menu
From here you can set-up the Play Roster, create new teams and check-out
the top ranked teams.
PLAY ROSTER
The Play Roster shows the teams currently selected for the next battle.
TEAM POOL
The Team Pool shows all of the teams currently available. You can sort these
according to the following statistics: Rounds Played, Rounds Won, Rounds
Drawn, Rounds Lost, Kills For, Killed Against, Kill Difference and Points.
Simply click on the appropriate statistic tab, to order the Team Pool in that
way.
CREATE NEW TEAM
• Double-click on Create New Team in the Team Pool.
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Menu System
N
OTE
:
Every Option in these
menus has help text
attached. For
information on a
specific option, leave
your mouse pointer
over it and help will
appear at the bottom
of the screen.
N
OTE
:
You need at least two
teams on the Play
Roster before the Go!
button will be
highlighted. Alternatively,
add one player and then
select the Start Mission
button, to play the
Single Player Missions.