Worms Screenie


Gosu is a term used for a player with exceptional skill at a game. The players that are professional StarCraft players would be called Gosu.
Of all the games I’ve enjoyed playing multiplayer, I’ve never been very good at anything like I was at Worms Armageddon. At one point, I was even dominating Koreans at the game. This is without precedent in the history of all things Korean, online, and gaming. That being said, playing people that don’t have a Worms background and beating them as handily as they crush me at StarCraft is something that never really sat right with me. I wanted to find people that had been playing the game as long as I had and beat them too.

The opportunity arose recently, and I spent today honing my skills. Seems to run Worms Armageddon in Windows XP, you need a patch as well as an update. From there, you need to find players. Since WormNet is awful at trying to find real games, people use the awesome Hamachi to fake a LAN connection instead. You set up a server on Hamachi (it’s painless), and then when people log in, Worms Armageddon thinks they are on a local LAN. This way, no random idiots will join your games, only the people you want to play with can join your games.

I played three rounds, best out of three, with two other people on the Penny-Arcade Forums. I went two for three and only lost due to some bad luck and a few mistakes. It was great to get back into the game, and Worms with a large monitor and bigger screen dimensions absolutely rocks. Playing Worms in 1280×1024 means you hardly have to move your screen to line up shots.

If anyone is up for a good game of Worms, add a comment, get on Hamachi, and start up a game. I’d love to give it a few rounds to sharpen up my skills. (Warning, No Rope games allowed.)