User manual SPEECH BANK WORMS 2

[. . . ] Contents INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Installing Worms 2 . 2 THE CONCEPTS OF PLAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . Randomly-Generated Landscapes Worms And Weapons . . 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 On-Screen Information . [. . . ] 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/HotSeat Play option: · · · · Game Menu Options Weapons Terrain 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. 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. 19 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. N OTE : If you can't think of any names for your Worms, pressing ALT and `R' keys simultaneously when you are entering names, will generate a random Worm name. 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. · 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 rightmouse-button over a team name. N OTE : You need at least two teams on the Play Roster before the Go!Alternatively, add one player and then select the Start Mission button, to play the Single Player Missions. 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 2 3 4 5 6 Worms 1-8 1-6 1-4 1-3 1-3 20 If you are using fewer Worms, you can edit their starting Energy Value to be greater than the normal 100 units. ROUNDS REQUIRED TO WIN You can change the number of rounds required for a team to win the match, from 1 to 9. T I P: Giving each Worm 500 units of energy is not recommended - Worms with a lot of energy can be drowned just as easily as Worms with low energy!In the wrong hands, a 500 unit game could last weeks! Matches can last from 5-10 minutes (1 round, 2 team Challenge), right up to 1-4 hours (9 round, 6 team Campaign game). A six-player heavy-energy campaign is not recommended unless you have a whole day to spare, or are intent on a sponsored Worm-a-thon! ENERGY SETTING Here you can adjust the energy each Worm starts with, normally this is 100. Most weapons deliver 30-75 points of damage, so giving Worms more Energy will mean longer battles. OPTION SET N OTE : Details of the Option sets can be found by clicking the Details button in the Options Menu. If you do not wish to change all of the options, you can select from some predefined option sets. [. . . ] If the error remains the name will change to grey. 36 Troubleshooting If you are experiencing a lack of performance from Worms 2, it may be due to one of the following: 1) Worms 2 uses a large amount of video memory, so video cards with less than a 2Mb video card may suffer serious performance problems, especially systems with 16Mb or less of RAM. The game features a detail level toggle in the game (See Configuration Menu for full details) which allows you to play at a detail level that suits your machine. 2) The speed of the machine also has a bearing on how fast the game runs the faster the machine, the better the performance. 3) Lack of system memory can also slow things down, 16Mb is the minimum you should have, but we recommend 32Mb or above. [. . . ]