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Revision as of 13:13, 16 August 2023
Developers | |
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Team17 | |
Publishers | |
Retail, Europe and North America | MicroProse |
Retail, Russia | Russobit-M |
Retail re-release | Sold Out Software |
Digital | Team17 |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 21, 1997 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Turn-based |
Perspectives | Side view |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Artillery, Strategy |
Series | Worms |
⤏ Go to series page | |
Worms | 1995 |
Worms 2 | 1997 |
Worms Pinball | 1998 |
Worms Armageddon | 1999 |
Worms World Party | 2001 |
Worms Blast | 2002 |
Worms 3D | 2003 |
Worms Forts: Under Siege | 2004 |
Worms 4: Mayhem | 2005 |
Worms Reloaded | 2010 |
Worms Crazy Golf | 2011 |
Worms Ultimate Mayhem | 2011 |
Worms Revolution | 2012 |
Worms Clan Wars | 2013 |
Worms 3 | 2014 |
Worms World Party Remastered | 2015 |
Worms W.M.D | 2016 |
Worms Rumble | 2020 |
Worms 2 is a singleplayer and multiplayer side view artillery and strategy game in the Worms series.
Since Windows XP, the game would fail to launch after playing the intro cutscene. The Worms 2 Plus community project fixes the underlying issue, and also restores the multiplayer menu in the GOG.com version, making it a required installation on modern systems.
General information
- Worms Knowledge Base article
- Unofficial Worms Wiki
- Dream17 Softography
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | ||||
GOG.com | Multiplayer menu disabled in this release; can be re-enabled by Worms 2 Plus. |
- A demo is available.
Essential improvements
Official patch
- The latest official patch is 1.005, available from GameFront.
Worms 2 Plus
Worms 2 Plus is a bundle of software and assets by various authors in single installer.
- Compatible with retail and GOG.com versions.
- Makes the game run on modern computers with extra features and content.
- Restores the multiplayer menu entry for the GOG.com version.
Installing Worms 2 Plus |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Team17SoftwareLTD\Worms2 <path-to-game>\Teams\Internet.dat[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\[Note 1] |
- The team file is stored in
<path-to-game>\Teams\W2TEAM.st1
. - Last landscape is stored in
<path-to-game>\Saves\land.dat
. - User levels are stored in
<path-to-game>\Levels\*.lev
. - User weapons are stored in
<path-to-game>\Weapons\*.wep
. - User options are stored in
<path-to-game>\Options\*.opt
.
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | See Widescreen resolution | ||
Multi-monitor | Use the Widescreen resolution and Windowed fixes. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | No letterboxing for open islands, letterboxed to 1916x854 in caverns. | ||
4K Ultra HD | No letterboxing for open islands, letterboxed to 1916x854 in caverns. | ||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | See Windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Through the Windowed hack with Border set to 0 in the .ini file. |
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Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | Through the Windowed hack, as VerticalSync in the .ini file. |
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60 FPS | Capped at 60 FPS | ||
120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) |
Widescreen resolution
- ReSolution plugin
- Supports resolutions up to 32767x32767
- Letterboxing starts at sizes greater than 6012x2902 for open-island maps, and 1916x854 for closed-cavern maps
- Supports multi-monitor setups and zooming with the windowed mode hack (see below) and manually adjusting the total screen resolution in the settings file
- Alt+↵ Enter will optionally switch between borderless fullscreen window fill and a nonfullscreen window.
Windowed
- Windowed mode hack
- Supports both regular and borderless windowed mode
- Performs an external conversion of the 8-bit palette to 32-bit, resolving the color issues and improving performance on modern systems.
- Can be combined with the ReSolution plugin to change the window dimensions, zoom and resize the game
- The "VerticalSync" setting, enabled by default, synchronizes the displayed frame rate with the monitor refresh rate.
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Short of worm responses, there is no speech. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Uses DirectSound defaults. Can be force-disabled using the windowed hack with "UseFGCGetForegroundWindow" set to 1. | |
Royalty free audio | ||
Red Book CD audio | Can be replaced by .ogg files via Worms 2 Plus. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Danish | ||||
Dutch | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Polish | Local retail version only. | |||
Brazilian Portuguese | Language also available in the european version | |||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Swedish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | 6 | Hot seat |
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LAN play | 6 | |||
Online play | 6 | See Worms 2 Plus |
Issues fixed
Black screen after quitting the game (GOG.com version)
Launch the game via the <path-to-game>\frontend.exe [1]
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- If the previous step still does not work, do this next step.
Install Worms 2 Plus and run it from frontend.exe [2]
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Audio/video synchronization issues in intro movies (GOG.com version)
Download the 7-Zip archive found here and extract its content in the game root directory, overriding already present files. |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DirectDraw | 1 | 8-bit |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 95 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium 75 MHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 16 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 50 MB | |
Video card (GPU) | DirectX 7.0 compatible |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details).
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Orzelek303 on 2017-12-15
- ↑ Verified by User:Diegoelcapo1231 on 2021-06-30