User manual SPEECH BANK WORMS 2

[. . . ] Contents INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Installing Worms 2 . 2 THE CONCEPTS OF PLAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . 10 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 12 12 12 12 12 13 13 13 13 14 14 14 14 15 15 15 16 16 16 16 16 17 17 17 17 17 17 18 MENU SYSTEM . . 42 42 42 42 42 iv Installation To install the game, simply insert the Worms 2 CD into the CD-ROM drive whilst in Windows® 95. [. . . ] Each Cow can do up to 75 points of damage. OLD WOMAN (F11 X2) Press Spacebar to set the old lady wandering around, complaining about the price of tea and mumbling about the good old days, before violently exploding. This old girl causes up to 75 points of damage. SKIP GO (F12) If for some reason you feel that you needn't cause any wilful decimation during your turn, you can skip it by pressing the Spacebar. 17 SURRENDER (F12 X2) If you are unable to face it anymore, you can surrender. The humiliation continues however, as your team remain waving little white flags, for the other teams to pick them off in a totally immoral way!Well you didn't think we'd tell you about every weapon in the game now, did you?So make sure you collect those weapon crates ­ who knows, the fabled Concrete Donkey may even make an appearance. . . 18 Menu System 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). 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. 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. 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. 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. [. . . ] /ex <machine> - This will exclude a machine that you identify from a public message. eg /ex Karl If you don't specify a machine, all machines will be excluded. 35 /inc <machine> - Includes a machine in public message that has been previously excluded eg /inc Karl If you don't specify a machine, all machines will be included. SHORTCUTS The `F' keys provide a quick way of sending private messages to other machines. Which `F' key is assigned to which machine is shown by the names to the right of the Chat Box. Holding CTRL and pressing an `F' key will include/exclude that machine. N OTE : A machine name will turn red if an error occurs. 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. [. . . ]