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| − | |<span title="Using a Mexican flip">Lex</span>, <span title="Pausing the turn timer by firing an initial dummy Rope during the pre-jump animation">BarmaN</span>, <span title="Placing a Girder as early as possible to convert a full 3 seconds of turn time to retreat time, removing the need to intentionally collide to end the turn">Deadcode</span>, <span title="Using a backjump or backflip on the left island for the initial rope; using the Girder for roping instead of it being a | + | |<span title="Using a Mexican flip">Lex</span>, <span title="Pausing the turn timer by firing an initial dummy Rope during the pre-jump animation">BarmaN</span>, <span title="Placing a Girder as early as possible to convert a full 3 seconds of turn time to retreat time, removing the need to intentionally collide to end the turn">Deadcode</span>, <span title="Using a backjump or backflip on the left island for the initial rope; using the Girder for roping instead of it being a dummy one">Sycotropic</span> |
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| − | |<span title="Using a Mexican flip">Lex</span>, <span title="Pausing the turn timer by firing an initial dummy Rope during the pre-jump animation">BarmaN</span>, <span title="Placing a Girder as early as possible to convert a full 3 seconds of turn time to retreat time, removing the need to intentionally collide to end the turn">Deadcode</span>, <span title="Using a backjump or backflip on the left island for the initial rope; using the Girder for roping instead of it being a | + | |<span title="Using a Mexican flip">Lex</span>, <span title="Pausing the turn timer by firing an initial dummy Rope during the pre-jump animation">BarmaN</span>, <span title="Placing a Girder as early as possible to convert a full 3 seconds of turn time to retreat time, removing the need to intentionally collide to end the turn">Deadcode</span>, <span title="Using a backjump or backflip on the left island for the initial rope; using the Girder for roping instead of it being a dummy one">Sycotropic</span> |
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| − | |<span title="Using a Mexican flip">Lex</span>, <span title="Placing a Girder as early as possible to convert a full 3 seconds of turn time to retreat time, removing the need to intentionally collide to end the turn">Deadcode</span>, <span title="Using a backjump or backflip on the left island for the initial rope; using the Girder for roping instead of it being a | + | |<span title="Using a Mexican flip">Lex</span>, <span title="Placing a Girder as early as possible to convert a full 3 seconds of turn time to retreat time, removing the need to intentionally collide to end the turn">Deadcode</span>, <span title="Using a backjump or backflip on the left island for the initial rope; using the Girder for roping instead of it being a dummy one">Sycotropic</span> |
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| − | |<span title="Using a Mexican flip">Lex</span>, <span title="Placing a Girder as early as possible to convert a full 3 seconds of turn time to retreat time, removing the need to intentionally collide to end the turn">Deadcode</span>, <span title="Using a backjump or backflip on the left island for the initial rope; using the Girder for roping instead of it being a | + | |<span title="Using a Mexican flip">Lex</span>, <span title="Placing a Girder as early as possible to convert a full 3 seconds of turn time to retreat time, removing the need to intentionally collide to end the turn">Deadcode</span>, <span title="Using a backjump or backflip on the left island for the initial rope; using the Girder for roping instead of it being a dummy one">Sycotropic</span> |
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| − | |<span title="Using a Mexican flip">Lex</span>, <span title="Placing a Girder as early as possible to convert a full 3 seconds of turn time to retreat time, removing the need to intentionally collide to end the turn">Deadcode</span>, <span title="Using a backjump or backflip on the left island for the initial rope; using the Girder for roping instead of it being a | + | |<span title="Using a Mexican flip">Lex</span>, <span title="Placing a Girder as early as possible to convert a full 3 seconds of turn time to retreat time, removing the need to intentionally collide to end the turn">Deadcode</span>, <span title="Using a backjump or backflip on the left island for the initial rope; using the Girder for roping instead of it being a dummy one">Sycotropic</span> |
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| − | |<span title="Using a Mexican flip">Lex</span>, <span title="Pausing the turn timer by firing an initial dummy Rope during the pre-jump animation">BarmaN</span>, <span title="Using a backjump or backflip on the left island for the initial rope; using the Girder for roping instead of it being a | + | |<span title="Using a Mexican flip">Lex</span>, <span title="Pausing the turn timer by firing an initial dummy Rope during the pre-jump animation">BarmaN</span>, <span title="Using a backjump or backflip on the left island for the initial rope; using the Girder for roping instead of it being a dummy one">Sycotropic</span>, <span title="Placing a Girder to hit the worm's head as early and as vertically as possible, making the worm come to a stop sooner">Deadcode</span> |
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Revision as of 23:40, 5 December 2021
Thanks to the Replay feature introduced by the WA Updates, some players are recording their mission attempts to show how some missions can be completed in record times with the use of ingenius methods or mesmerising skill. Below is a table of these "world records". Click the links to download the replays.
If you have a replay in which you completed a mission in a record time or record number of turns, please send it to Deadcode (or a WKB SysOp) with your WormNET nickname so that we can upload it here.
| "replays" directory (contains archived speedruns) |
Unassisted speedruns | Tool-assisted speedruns | ||||||||||
| # | Mission | Medal | Record holder | Method credit | Turns | Time | Date | Record holder | Method credit | Turns | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Pumpkin Problems | Gold | Nonentity | Lex, BarmaN, Deadcode, KINOMAN, Nonentity | 1 | 6.20 | 2016-09-18 | Deadcode | Lex, BarmaN, Deadcode, Sycotropic | 1 | 2.54 | 2021-11-22 |
| Deadcode | lead13013, miguel, nizikawa, Deadcode | 1 + 1  [1]
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0.02 | 2021-12-05 | ||||||||
| 02 | Operation Market Garden | Gold | Mablak (Silver) | c0o1, Mablak | 3 | 5.16 | 2016-01-28 | Lex | Lex | 2 | 0.00 | 2007-04-19 |
| 03 | All Quiet in the Library | Bronze | Mablak | ChuCha, Mablak | 3 | 15.28 | 2016-09-16 | Deadcode | c0o1, Deadcode, Lex | 3 | 4.60 | 2021-11-22 |
| Gold | Mr.Bad (Bronze) | c0o1, Nekton, Mr.Bad | 4 | 17.82 | 2006-12-08 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 3 | 15.94 | 2021-11-11 | ||
| 04 | Cool as Ice[2] | — | ChuCha | Run, Deadcode | 1 | 1.46[3] | 2006-12-15 | Deadcode | Run, Deadcode | 1 | 1.16[3] | 2021-11-23 |
| 05 | Do the Locomotion | Gold | Alex13 | c0o1 | 2 | 30.60 | 2006-12-11 | Deadcode | c0o1, Deadcode | 2 | 20.80 | 2005-09-16 |
| Deadcode | M3ntal, Deadcode, Lex | 2 | 3.48[4] | 2021-11-15 | ||||||||
| 06 | Sand in Your Eye | Gold | ChuCha (Bronze) | c0o1 | 3 | 32.72 | 2007-01-16 | Deadcode | c0o1, Deadcode | 3 | 9.02 | 2021-11-08 |
| 07 | Not Mushroom Out There | Silver | Deadcode | Deadcode, Quasi Qubit | 1 | 6.74 | 2004-04-19 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 1 | 0.54 | 2016-09-16 |
| Gold | Deadcode | Deadcode | 1 | 3.34 | 2021-11-11 | |||||||
| crate-free | Deadcode | Deadcode | 1 | 10.66 | 2021-11-11 | |||||||
| 08 | Big Shot | Gold | SpideR | zippeurfou, SpideR | 2 + 2 CPU | 42.06 | 2005-11-06 | Deadcode | Wyvern | 2 + 1 CPU | 21.74 | 2021-11-19 |
| SpideR | zippeurfou, SpideR | 2 + 1 CPU | 44.96 | 2005-09-30 | ||||||||
| 09 | Water Surprise | Gold | Nekton (Bronze) | Deadcode, Bloopy, Nekton | 3 | 40.36 | 2006-12-09 | Deadcode | Deadcode, Bloopy | 3 | 15.44 | 2005-09-29 |
| Deadcode | Deadcode | 3 | 12.10[5] | 2021-11-26 | ||||||||
| 10 | Jurassic Worm | Gold | Lex | M3ntal, Lex | 1 | 3.72[6] | 2007-01-19 | Deadcode | M3ntal, Deadcode | 1 | 2.62 | 2016-09-16 |
| 11 | Chemical Warfare | Silver | Mablak | Mablak | 4 | 51.58 | 2021-11-07 | Deadcode | Mablak | 4 | 20.82 | 2021-11-09 |
| Gold | Deadcode | Mablak, Deadcode | 5 | 27.80 | 2021-11-21 | |||||||
| 12 | No Substitute | Gold | Lex | c0o1, Lex, Deadcode | 2 | 5.46 | 2006-11-26 | Deadcode | c0o1, Deadcode | 2 | 1.24 | 2021-11-08 |
| 13 | Who Left the Flood-Gates Open | — | Mablak | Mablak | 4 | 45.74 | 2021-11-08 | Deadcode | Mablak, Deadcode | 3 | 3.54 | 2021-11-09 |
| 14 | Super Sheep to the Rescue! | Gold | c0o1 (Bronze) | Deadcode | 1 | 4.16 | 2006-01-28 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 1 | 3.18 | 2005-10-02 |
| 15 | Hot Stuff | Silver | KINOMAN | Lex, Deadcode | 1 | 14.22 | 2007-11-17 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 1 | 2.68 | 2005-10-09 |
| Gold | ||||||||||||
| 16 | Trouble on Mount Wormore | Gold | Mr.Bad (Silver) | Deadcode | 1 | 12.02 | 2006-12-16 | Deadcode | Deadcode, Wyvern | 1 | 7.08 | 2021-11-23 |
| 17 | Chateau Assassin | Bronze | Wyvern | Wyvern, Lex | 2 | 29.00 | 2006-10-31 | Deadcode | Deadcode, Lex | 1 | 14.02 | 2021-11-15 |
| Gold | M3ntal | 5 | 103.94 | 2004-02-23 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 2 | 16.68 | 2021-12-04 | |||
| 18 | Rescue Agent Dennis | Silver | Mr.Bad | Sprek, Djoszee, Lex, Wyvern | 3 | 6.20 | 2006-12-15 | |||||
| Gold | Mablak | Mablak | 3 | 25.56 | 2021-06-20 | Deadcode | Mablak, Deadcode | 2 | 1.40 | 2021-11-13 | ||
| 19 | Horny Nuke | Bronze | Wyvern | Sprek, Lex, Wyvern | 5 | 41.30 | 2006-12-02 | |||||
| Gold | Mablak | Sprek, Mablak | 5 | 49.10 | 2021-10-31 | Deadcode | Sprek, Lex, Deadcode | 4 | 9.38 | 2016-09-16 | ||
| 20 | Rumble in the Farmyard (WA ≤3.6.29.0)[7] | — | Mr.Bad | c0o1 | 4 | 20.84 | 2006-12-11 | Deadcode | c0o1 | 4 | 8.34 | 2021-11-25 |
| Deadcode | Mablak, Deadcode | 3 + 2 CPU[8] | 20.72 | 2021-12-01 | ||||||||
| Rumble in the Farmyard (WA ≥3.6.30.0) | Mablak | Mablak | 3 | 53.60 | 2021-12-01 | Deadcode | Mablak | 3 + 2 CPU | 22.80 | 2021-12-01 | ||
| Deadcode | Mablak, Deadcode | 3 + 3 CPU[9] | 11.58 | 2021-11-30 | ||||||||
| 21 | Wooden Ambush | Bronze | Deadcode | c0o1, Deadcode | 2 | 11.30 | 2005-10-01 | |||||
| Gold | Mablak | c0o1, Mablak | 3 | 16.44 | 2016-02-16 | Deadcode | c0o1, Mablak | 3 | 6.98 | 2021-11-11 | ||
| 22 | Go Bananas | Gold | Lex | Deadcode | 2 | 6.94 | 2007-02-14 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 2 | 5.30 | 2005-09-17 |
| Deadcode | Deadcode, Lex | 2 | 2.32[10] | 2021-11-15 | ||||||||
| 23 | The Drop Zone | Bronze | Mablak | Mablak | 2 | 10.54 | 2016-09-15 | Deadcode | Mablak | 2 + 1 CPU | 3.32 | 2021-11-27 |
| Deadcode | Lex | 2 + 2 CPU | 3.10 | 2016-09-16 | ||||||||
| Gold | Mablak | Mablak | 4 | 74.70 | 2021-10-02 | Deadcode | Mablak & Sycotropic, Deadcode | 3 | 28.16 | 2021-11-11 | ||
| 24 | Countdown to Armageddon | Gold | KINOMAN (Bronze) | c0o1, Lex, Mr.Bad, KINOMAN | 3 + 12 CPU | 1.26 | 2007-11-28 | Deadcode | Lex, Deadcode | 2 + 13 CPU | 3.20 | 2021-11-14 |
| Mablak | Mablak | 4 + 3 CPU | 29.00 | 2021-10-25 | Deadcode | Mablak, Deadcode | 4 + 3 CPU | 4.48 | 2021-11-14 | |||
| Deadcode | Lex | 4 + 4 CPU[11] | 0.00 | 2021-11-14 | ||||||||
| 25 | Mars Star | Gold | KINOMAN (Bronze) | M3ntal, Deadcode, SpideR | 1 | 3.54 | 2007-11-10 | Deadcode | M3ntal, Deadcode, SpideR | 1 | 3.04 | 2007-01-24 |
| Deadcode | Deadcode, Lex | 1 | 1.94[12] | 2021-11-16 | ||||||||
| 26 | Mad Cows | Gold | Deadcode | Deadcode, Lex | 3 | 4.56 | 2021-12-03 | Deadcode | Mablak, Deadcode | 2 | 4.50 | 2021-12-03 |
| Mad Cows (with bug)[13] | c0o1 | c0o1 | 2 | 28.68 | 2004-04-30 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 2 | 0.64 | 2021-12-03 | ||
| 27 | Bazooka on the Rocks | Gold | Mr.Bad | Deadcode, Lex | 2 + 2 CPU | 0.00 | 2007-01-14 | Lex | Deadcode, Lex | 2 + 1 CPU | 0.00 | 2006-12-15 |
| 28 | Stolen Goods | Gold | Mr.Bad (Bronze) | c0o1 | 2 | 12.88 | 2006-12-01 | Deadcode | c0o1, Deadcode, Lex | 2 | 6.16 | 2021-11-28 |
| Deadcode | Deadcode, Lex | 2 | 2.56[14] | 2021-11-27 | ||||||||
| 29 | Sinking Icecap | Gold | Mablak | Mablak | 2 + 1 CPU | 22.88 | 2021-10-20 | Deadcode | Mablak | 2 + 1 CPU | 10.12 | 2021-11-28 |
| Mablak | c0o1, Mablak | 2 + 2 CPU | 13.06 | 2016-09-15 | Deadcode and Lex | c0o1, Deadcode, Lex | 2 + 2 CPU | 6.78 | 2007-01-18 | |||
| 30 | Aim Long, Aim True | Silver | c0o1 | c0o1 | 4 | 12.04 | 2004-04-17 | |||||
| Gold | Mablak | Mablak | 4 | 25.48 | 2021-06-17 | Deadcode | c0o1, Deadcode | 3 | 0.08 | 2021-11-14 | ||
| 31 | Goody Two-Shoes | Gold | Lex | Lex, Deadcode | 3 | 15.70 | 2006-01-27 | Deadcode | Lex, Deadcode | 3 | 7.48 | 2021-11-26 |
| 32 | Trouble in the Toy Store | Silver | Mablak | Face, Mablak | 3 | 81.16 | 2017-04-01 | |||||
| Gold | Sprek (Silver) | Sprek | 4 | 61.32 | 2004-05-09 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 3 | 2.36 | 2021-11-10 | ||
| 33 | Spectral Recovery | Gold | Mablak | Mablak | 6 + 9 [15]
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73.80 | 2021-11-06 | Deadcode | Mablak, Deadcode | 5 + 10 [15]
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26.06 | 2021-11-06 |
Notes
- ↑ Going by the same scoring method as used for Mission #33, the second turn consists of an instantaneous Skip Go with 0.00 s of turn time used (in an unassisted run this can be done by holding F12 and Space before the turn starts). It is thus considered higher-ranking than a 2-turn run in which Skip Go is not used, but lower-ranking than a 1-turn run.
- ↑ Note that in v3.6.30.0, a change was made that inadvertently affected this mission:
• There was an extra 1.26 second delay between turns during Sudden Death with water rising disabled. This is because it took one second to raise the water by zero pixels, and a quarter of a second to linger while the camera savoured the moment.
Missions #4 and #20 start in Sudden Death without water rise. Starting 1.26 s sooner changes the first turn's wind, as the current game time affects the PRNG. In WA ≤3.6.29.0, the first turn wind on Mission #4 was 0.5 blue, but in ≥3.6.30.0 it is 2.5 red. Blue (leftward) wind increases the chances of the crate boom fire drowning the enemy worm.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 In both replays, a parachute is deployed to skip the landing animation, enabling the uzi to be fired 0.36 seconds earlier. The unassisted record beats Deadcode's old tool-assisted record, which had a time of 1.56 seconds.
- ↑ The second tool-assisted replay is thought to be humanly impossible, because it requires a girder to be placed instantly to avoid losing momentum on the bungee.
- ↑ The second replay involves a carefully-timed backflip through a mine's trigger-area (which the mine checks every 0.2 seconds), a task impossible for a human to judge. However, it is possible on luck alone. Also, avoiding this mine without passing through the trigger-area hasn't been ruled out beyond doubt yet.
- ↑ Interesting note: The current unassisted record is faster than Deadcode's first tool-assisted record of 4.22 seconds.
- ↑ In v3.6.30.0, two changes were made that inadvertently changed this mission:
• The CPU AI would sometimes walk through an area, jump back and walk through the same area again.
With this fix, the third turn of c0o1's 4-turn method no longer works.
• There was an extra 1.26 second delay between turns during Sudden Death with water rising disabled. This is because it took one second to raise the water by zero pixels, and a quarter of a second to linger while the camera savoured the moment.
Missions #4 and #20 start in Sudden Death without water rise. Starting 1.26 s sooner changes the first turn's wind, as the current game time affects the PRNG. In WA ≤3.6.29.0, the first turn wind on Mission #20 was 2 red, but in ≥3.6.30.0 it is 2 blue. With the former, a straight-horizontal maximum power Bazooka shot from the first worm's exact initial position was able to inflict 47 hp of mine damage on the enemy's third worm. With the latter, there does not appear to be any Bazooka shot at any power from the first worm's exact initial position that can get the mine to do that, although many shots can get the mine to do 44 hp damage.
- ↑ This method is harder to pull off with ≤3.6.29.0 logic, due to the wind being rightward, thus not pushing Captain to the left (thus making it possible for Artillery to make the necessary Bazooka shot) unless your own worm knocks him.
- ↑ This tool-assisted method is likely to be humanly impossible, due to the precision required in rope-knocking Captain during retreat and in the Cluster Bomb jump and Dynamite jump.
- ↑ The second tool-assisted replay is thought to be humanly impossible.
- ↑ This beats Lex's previous tool-assisted replay, which had a turn time of 0.04 s. The round time of this new replay is longer than that of the older replay, but that is only due to a game logic change in newer versions; compensating for it, the new round time would actually be shorter than the old one.
- ↑ The second tool-assisted replay is thought to be humanly impossible. Note that in the first tool-assisted replay, the player's worm survives, whereas in the current unassisted replay it does not.
- ↑ These records exploit a bug whereby one of the CPU worms is placed randomly.
- ↑ The second tool-assisted replay is thought to be humanly impossible.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Although the mission is not complete until the crate is collected, turns that are instantaneously skipped while waiting for the crate to land have been discounted. The unassisted replay and the tool-assisted replay are therefore considered 6- and 5-turn solutions respectively.
Understanding this table
Method credit
Getting a record is not simply a case of speed and reflexes. Missions can be completed in a large variety of ways, some faster than others, and some less obvious than others. As well as those that achieve records through their skill, so should players who have developed a new method (or part of it) deserve credit for their ideas.
Medal
When a mission attempt fails, the Attempts counter is incremented. The medal awarded for a successful mission depends on the value of the Attempts counter when the mission was started: 0 = Gold; 1-3 = Silver; 4 and higher = Bronze. A successful attempt resets the Attempts counter to 0 (so after any failed attempt, two successful attempts in a row are required to get Gold).
Most missions give some bonus crates at higher Attempts counts, to make those attempts easier. In most cases, the threshold is 1 or 4 Attempts; this makes it straightforward to categorize the bonuses under those medal names. Because the nature of the mission can be altered significantly by the presence of bonus crates, the mission records listing is now categorized by medal, allowing the variants of each mission to be speedrun separately.
When the Medal column is marked "—" it means that mission doesn't have any bonuses. (And in the case of Mission 33, the "bonuses" are just Morse code messages, not crates.)
In some cases the bonus crates (or text messages) conditional on a certain minimum Attempts counter only would have appeared at a turn later that what is contained in the replay file. In these cases, the Medal column contains the effective medal at which the mission was completed, considering the run as self-contained. The actual Attempts counter that constructed the mission script stored in the replay file is not necessarily what is shown in the Medal column. For example, Mission 26: Mad Cows, the bonuses only appear on turn #5 (the player's third turn) and turn #11 (the player's sixth turn). So even though the Attempts counter for c0o1's 2-turn "with bug" replay had a value of at least 5 (Bronze), turn #5 is never reached, and the replay is considered to have been played at Gold.
The ability to adjust a mission's Attempts counter manually after achieving Gold in that mission was only added in WA v3.6.29.0, released 2008-07-28. Many of the mission records are from before that, when there was no easy way to do multiple attempts at the same medal tier level in a row for any tier other than Bronze. So in the case that a mission was played as if it were a higher-tier version, but was actually played at a lower tier, the actual medal tier is placed in parentheses next to the speedrunner's name / replay link. This is because the bonus crates (and even Morse code messages) still have an effect on the game logic, even if they're not collected or used (and in some cases they're blown up, causing even more of an effect).
Turns and Time
The time counted for these speedruns is the human team's total turn time, not including retreat time. The time taken for enemy worms to take their turn, crates to land, health to be deducted, etc, is not counted. An easy way to find this time in a replay of your own is to export a log of your replay by right-clicking it and choosing "Export Log", open the resulting log file (which will be in the same folder with the same file name as a "*.log" file) and check the time displayed after the first instance of "Turn:", which is near the end of the file.
The number of turns used is always considered first when determining the best run of a mission. This is to prevent players from using an indefinite number of 0-second turns to win missions.
Tool-assisted speedruns
These tool-assisted speedruns are similar in nature to tool-assisted speedruns for console games, such as the ones hosted at TASVideos, which archives complete speedruns of various classic console games. However, special tools were developed by Deadcode specifically for Worms Armageddon, because there is no emulation system which runs WA with tools already built in. The tools are still in development, and are not nearly as powerful as they could be yet.
These tool-assisted speedruns are played frame-by-frame, with trajectory mapping, power-angle-scanning, multiple undos (similar to the use of "savestates" in console tool-assisted speedruns) and useful indicators, allowing the player to perform actions and make shots precisely without reliance on reaction speed. These tools will not necessarily tell the player what the quickest way to complete the mission is, but they will allow the player to try out different ideas without having to rely on fast reflexes. There is often room for improvement, so no particular tool-assisted replay should be considered the fastest that is theoretically possible. Sometimes, when a new glitch is found in the game, it can be exploited to improve the time in a tool-assisted speedrun. Tool-assisted players often make use of luck manipulation, which involves a deep understanding of the game's pseudo-random number generator. This luck manipulation can affect many game elements, including the wind on subsequent turns, the trajectories of a clustered explosive, and the falling patterns of flame bits.
Tool-assisted speedruns can sometimes be regarded as goal times for unassisted players to strive for in their attempts.
Further reading about the details of the TAS build can be read on the TASVideos forum, in the Worms Armageddon discussion thread started by Lex.
Highlighted
Highlighted table elements indicate recently added categories. Recently updated speedruns can be found by looking at the Date column. For a list of pre-2009 updates, view this page's source code.
"All Missions" unassisted speedrunning
There is a page on speedrun.com dedicated to leaderboards for unassisted Worms Armageddon speedrunning categories, including the "All Missions" category. To qualify for placement in that category, players must follow the posted rules visible when clicking "View Rules" on that page.
For strategies and tricks used to improve such unassisted speedruns, see Mission speed strategies (Worms Armageddon) and/or the Missions Speed Run forum on TUS.
Record history for each mission
| Unassisted speedruns | Tool-assisted speedruns | |||||||
| Record holder | Method credit | Turns | Time | Record holder | Method credit | Turns | Time | Date & Time (UTC) |
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| Deadcode | Lex, BarmaN, Deadcode, Sycotropic | 1 | 2.54 | 2021-11-22 16:04:11 | ||||
| Deadcode | Lex, Deadcode, Sycotropic | 1 | 3.00 | 2021-11-20 20:05:16 | ||||
| Deadcode | Lex, Deadcode, Sycotropic | 1 | 3.10 | 2021-11-20 04:08:22 | ||||
| Deadcode | Lex, Deadcode, Sycotropic | 1 | 3.34 | 2021-11-20 02:41:41 | ||||
| Sycotropic | Lex, Deadcode, Sycotropic | 1 | 3.44 | 2021-11-20 02:29:44 | ||||
| Deadcode | Lex, BarmaN, Deadcode | 1 | 3.80 | 2021-11-07 21:36:28 | ||||
| Nonentity | Lex, BarmaN, Deadcode, KINOMAN, Nonentity | 1 | 6.20 | 2016-09-18 08:56:38 | ||||
| Nonentity | Lex, BarmaN, Deadcode, KINOMAN, Nonentity | 1 | 6.54 | 2016-09-17 20:52:38 | ||||
| Lex+Deadcode | Lex, BarmaN, Deadcode | 1 | 3.82 | 2008-01-23 22:30:52 | ||||
| KINOMAN | Lex, BarmaN, Deadcode, KINOMAN | 1 | 7.48 | 2007-11-05 16:31:44 | ||||
| Lex | Lex, BarmaN, Deadcode | 1 | 6.86 | 2007-01-11 22:29:04 | ||||
| ChuCha | Lex, BarmaN | 1 | 7.64 | 2006-11-23 10:25:46 | ||||
| Deadcode | Lex, BarmaN, Deadcode | 1 | 7.04 | 2005-09-28 16:22:32 | ||||
| BarmaN | Lex, BarmaN | 1 | 7.80 | 2005-09-28 14:44:32 | ||||
| ICEMAN | Lex | 1 | 10.00 | 2005-09-19 18:03:25 | ||||
| Deadcode | Lex | 1 | 7.10 | 2005-09-15 05:51:53 | ||||
| Lex | Lex | 1 | 11.36 | 2005-09-04 05:13:01 | ||||
| Lex | Lex | 1 | 11.96 | 2004-04-08 20:03:38 | ||||
| Unassisted speedruns | Tool-assisted speedruns | |||||||
| Record holder | Method credit | Turns | Time | Record holder | Method credit | Turns | Time | Date & Time (UTC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deadcode | lead13013, miguel, nizikawa, Deadcode | 1 + 1 [1]
|
0.02 | 2021-12-05 22:29:13 | ||||
| nizikawa | lead13013, miguel, nizikawa | 2 | 0.52 | 2021-07-27 16:58:35 | ||||
| miguel | lead13013, miguel | 2 | 5.42 | 2005-09-19 00:15 | ||||
| lead13013 | lead13013 | 2 | 12.58 | 2004-04-17 04:01:20 | ||||
Round Time
In the table above, the runs are optimized for least number of player turns and shortest total player turn time (where number of CPU turns and round time can be tiebreakers). In this table, the runs are optimized for shortest round time, like most speedruns of other games. This number is the timestamp shown before the message "••• Game Ends - Round Finished" in WA's Export Log output. Number of turns and total player turn time are tiebreakers.
In missions where replays using WA ≤v3.6.29.0 are being compared with those using ≥v3.6.30.0, the round times of the latter are converted to what they would be with the former, by subtracting the extra delays between turns.
| "replays" directory (contains archived speedruns) |
Unassisted speedruns | Tool-assisted speedruns | ||||||||
| # | Mission | Medal | Record holder | Method credit | Time | Date | Record holder | Method credit | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Pumpkin Problems | Gold | KINOMAN | Lex, BarmaN, Deadcode, KINOMAN | 0:12.54 | 2007-11-05 | Deadcode | Lex, BarmaN, Sycotropic, Deadcode | 0:11.10 | 2021-11-22 |
| 02 | Operation Market Garden | Gold | Mablak (Silver) | c0o1, Mablak | 1:28.56 | 2016-01-28 | Lex | Lex | 1:17.16 | 2007-04-19 |
| 03 | All Quiet in the Library | Bronze | Mablak | ChuCha, Mablak | 2:22.80 | 2021-10-31 | Deadcode | c0o1, Deadcode, Lex | 2:02.38 | 2021-11-23 |
| Gold | Wyvern (Bronze) | c0o1 | 3:24.08 | 2006-12-02 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 2:32.22 | 2021-11-11 | ||
| 04 | Cool as Ice (WA ≤3.6.29.0)[2] | — | Deadcode | Run, Deadcode | 0:19.28 | 2005-09-22 | Deadcode | Run, Deadcode | 0:17.82 | 2021-12-01 |
| Cool as Ice (WA ≥3.6.30.0) | Deadcode | Run, Deadcode | 0:18.22 | 2021-11-25 | Deadcode | Run, Deadcode | 0:16.58 | 2021-12-03 | ||
| 05 | Do the Locomotion | Gold | Mablak | c0o1, Deadcode | 1:08.44 | 2021-11-21 | Deadcode | M3ntal, Deadcode, Lex | 0:42.22 | 2021-11-26 |
| 06 | Sand in Your Eye | Gold | Mablak | Mablak | 2:14.12 | 2021-11-21 | Deadcode | c0o1, Deadcode | 1:49.40 | 2021-11-08 |
| 07 | Not Mushroom Out There | Silver | Deadcode | Deadcode, Quasi Qubit | 0:21.24 | 2004-04-19 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 0:09.12 | 2021-12-05 |
| Gold | Deadcode | Deadcode | 0:12.62 | 2021-11-11 | ||||||
| crate-free | Deadcode | Deadcode | 0:16.74 | 2021-11-11 | ||||||
| 08 | Big Shot | Gold | SpideR | zippeurfou, SpideR | 1:48.66 | 2005-09-30 | Deadcode | Wyvern | 1:23.90 | 2021-11-19 |
| 09 | Water Surprise | Gold | Mablak | Deadcode, Bloopy, Mablak | 1:18.60 | 2021-11-21 | Deadcode | Deadcode, Bloopy | 0:58.30 | 2005-09-29 |
| Deadcode | Deadcode | 0:53.04[3] | 2021-11-26 | |||||||
| 10 | Jurassic Worm | Gold | Lex | M3ntal, Lex | 0:31.34 | 2006-05-25 | Deadcode | M3ntal, Deadcode | 0:30.76 | 2007-01-19 |
| 11 | Chemical Warfare | Silver | Mablak | Lex, Mablak | 2:35.46 | 2016-02-06 | Deadcode | Mablak | 2:17.56 | 2021-11-09 |
| Gold | Deadcode | Mablak, Deadcode | 2:43.28 | 2021-11-21 | ||||||
| 12 | No Substitute | Gold | Lex | c0o1, Lex, Deadcode | 1:15.60 | 2006-11-26 | Deadcode | c0o1, Deadcode | 1:11.78 | 2016-09-27 |
| 13 | Who Left the Flood-Gates Open | — | Mablak | Mablak | 3:09.04 | 2021-11-08 | Deadcode | Mablak, Deadcode | 1:43.84 | 2021-11-09 |
| 14 | Super Sheep to the Rescue! | Gold | c0o1 (Bronze) | Deadcode | 0:21.62 | 2006-01-28 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 0:20.50 | 2005-10-02 |
| 15 | Hot Stuff | Silver | Lex | Lex, Deadcode | 0:41.68 | 2006-01-19 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 0:25.68 | 2005-10-09 |
| Gold | ||||||||||
| 16 | Trouble on Mount Wormore | Gold | Lex | Deadcode | 0:31.24[4] | 2006-02-19 | Deadcode | Deadcode, Wyvern | 0:23.58 | 2021-11-23 |
| 17 | Chateau Assassin | Bronze | Wyvern | Wyvern, Lex | 1:02.08 | 2006-10-31 | Deadcode | Deadcode, Lex | 0:33.70 | 2021-11-15 |
| Gold | M3ntal | 2:50.98 | 2004-02-23 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 0:50.10 | 2021-12-04 | |||
| 18 | Rescue Agent Dennis | Silver | Mr.Bad | Sprek, Djoszee, Lex, Wyvern | 1:37.66 | 2006-12-15 | ||||
| Gold | Mablak | Mablak | 2:09.66 | 2021-06-20 | Deadcode | Mablak, Deadcode | 1:08.92 | 2021-11-13 | ||
| 19 | Horny Nuke | Bronze | ||||||||
| Gold | Mablak | Sprek, Mablak | 2:35.32 | 2021-10-31 | Deadcode | Sprek, Lex, Deadcode | 2:09.88 | 2016-09-16 | ||
| 20 | Rumble in the Farmyard (WA ≤3.6.29.0)[5] | — | Mr.Bad | c0o1 | 2:22.86 | 2006-12-11 | Deadcode | c0o1, Deadcode, Mablak | 2:00.94 | 2021-11-29 |
| Rumble in the Farmyard (WA ≥3.6.30.0) | Mablak | c0o1, Deadcode, Mablak | 2:16.24 | 2021-11-28 | Deadcode | Mablak, Deadcode | 1:57.82 | 2021-11-30 | ||
| 21 | Wooden Ambush | Bronze | Deadcode | c0o1, Deadcode | 1:13.90 | 2005-10-01 | ||||
| Gold | Mablak | c0o1, Mablak | 1:38.96 | 2016-02-16 | Deadcode | c0o1, Mablak, Deadcode | 1:18.84 | 2021-11-11 | ||
| 22 | Go Bananas | Gold | Lex | Deadcode | 0:44.34 | 2007-02-14 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 0:43.54 | 2005-09-17 |
| Deadcode | Deadcode, Lex | 0:39.50[6] | 2021-11-27 | |||||||
| 23 | The Drop Zone | Bronze | Mablak | Mablak | 1:08.10 | 2016-09-15 | Deadcode | Mablak | 0:55.52 | 2021-11-27 |
| Gold | Mablak | Mablak | 2:53.70 | 2021-10-02 | Deadcode | Mablak & Sycotropic, Deadcode | 1:42.32 | 2021-11-11 | ||
| 24 | Countdown to Armageddon | Gold | Mablak | Mablak | 2:08.24 | 2021-10-25 | Deadcode | Mablak, Deadcode | 1:50.18 | 2021-11-14 |
| 25 | Mars Star | Gold | KINOMAN (Bronze) | M3ntal, Deadcode, SpideR | 0:27.14 | 2007-11-10 | Deadcode | M3ntal, Deadcode, SpideR | 0:22.80 | 2007-01-24 |
| Deadcode | Deadcode | 0:19.48[7] | 2021-11-27 | |||||||
| 26 | Mad Cows | Gold | Deadcode | Deadcode, Lex | 1:28.88 | 2021-12-03 | Deadcode | Mablak, Deadcode | 1:16.94 | 2021-12-03 |
| Mad Cows (with bug)[8] | c0o1 | c0o1 | 1:39.08 | 2004-04-30 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 0:50.10 | 2021-12-03 | ||
| 27 | Bazooka on the Rocks | Gold | Mr.Bad | Deadcode, Lex | 1:34.90 | 2007-01-14 | Lex | Deadcode, Lex | 1:22.66 | 2006-12-15 |
| 28 | Stolen Goods | Gold | SpideR (Bronze) | c0o1 | 1:18.84 | 2005-09-25 | Deadcode | c0o1, Deadcode, Lex | 0:56.04 | 2021-12-04 |
| 29 | Sinking Icecap | Gold | Mablak | Mablak | 1:25.96 | 2021-10-20 | Deadcode | Mablak | 1:12.76 | 2021-11-28 |
| 30 | Aim Long, Aim True | Silver | c0o1 | c0o1 | 1:29.98 | 2004-04-17 | ||||
| Gold | Mablak | Mablak | 1:56.02 | 2021-06-17 | Deadcode | c0o1, Deadcode | 1:09.32 | 2021-11-14 | ||
| 31 | Goody Two-Shoes | Gold | Lex | Lex, Deadcode | 1:38.42 | 2006-01-27 | Deadcode | Lex, Deadcode | 1:22.52 | 2021-11-26 |
| 32 | Trouble in the Toy Store | Silver | Face | Face | 3:04.98 | 2006-02-25 | ||||
| Gold | Mablak | Mablak | 3:04.66 | 2021-11-21 | Deadcode | Deadcode | 1:54.86 | 2021-11-10 | ||
| 33 | Spectral Recovery | Gold | Mablak | Mablak | 3:21.84 | 2021-11-21 | Deadcode | Mablak, Deadcode | 3:06.70 | 2021-11-06 |
Notes
- ↑ Going by the same scoring method as used for Mission #33, the second turn consists of an instantaneous Skip Go with 0.00 s of turn time used (in an unassisted run this can be done by holding F12 and Space before the turn starts). It is thus considered higher-ranking than a 2-turn run in which Skip Go is not used, but lower-ranking than a 1-turn run.
- ↑ In v3.6.30.0, a change was made that inadvertently affected this mission:
• There was an extra 1.26 second delay between turns during Sudden Death with water rising disabled. This is because it took one second to raise the water by zero pixels, and a quarter of a second to linger while the camera savoured the moment.
Missions #4 and #20 start in Sudden Death without water rise. Starting 1.26 s sooner changes the first turn's wind, as the current game time affects the PRNG. In WA ≤3.6.29.0, the first turn wind on Mission #4 was 0.5 blue, but in ≥3.6.30.0 it is 2.5 red. Blue (leftward) wind increases the chances of the crate boom fire drowning the enemy worm, and of the worm drowning sooner. And all else being equal, the round time of a ≤3.6.29.0 replay will be 1.26 s longer than that of a ≥3.6.30.0 replay, due to the first turn starting 1.26 s later.
- ↑ The second replay involves a carefully-timed backflip through a mine's trigger-area (which the mine checks every 0.2 seconds), a task impossible for a human to judge. However, it is possible on luck alone. Also, avoiding this mine without passing through the trigger-area hasn't been ruled out beyond doubt yet.
- ↑ Note that Lex's replay wins in round time only because Mr.Bad was actually playing the mission at Silver, in which a Morse code message takes 3.20 s and the parachuting in of a Fast Walk crate takes another 4.06 s, adding a combined 7.26 s before the first turn starts. Lex was playing the mission at Gold, in which these extra delays don't take place. Mr.Bad's replay would have a round time of 0:28.94 were it not for the extra delays from playing it at Silver. The feature of adjusting the Attempts counter manually was first available in WA v3.6.29.0, and both Lex and Mr.Bad were using v3.6.26.5, the latest at the time.
- ↑ In v3.6.30.0, two changes were made that inadvertently changed this mission:
• The CPU AI would sometimes walk through an area, jump back and walk through the same area again.
With this fix, the third turn of c0o1's 4-turn method no longer works.
• There was an extra 1.26 second delay between turns during Sudden Death with water rising disabled. This is because it took one second to raise the water by zero pixels, and a quarter of a second to linger while the camera savoured the moment.
Missions #4 and #20 start in Sudden Death without water rise. Starting 1.26 s sooner changes the first turn's wind, as the current game time affects the PRNG. In WA ≤3.6.29.0, the first turn wind on Mission #20 was 2 red, but in ≥3.6.30.0 it is 2 blue. With the former, a straight-horizontal maximum power Bazooka shot from the first worm's exact initial position was able to inflict 47 hp of mine damage on the enemy's third worm. With the latter, there does not appear to be any Bazooka shot at any power from the first worm's exact initial position that can get the mine to do that, although many shots can get the mine to do 44 hp damage.
- ↑ The second tool-assisted replay is thought to be humanly impossible.
- ↑ The second tool-assisted replay is thought to be humanly impossible to do in such a way that is faster than the Petrol Bomb method.
- ↑ These records exploit a bug whereby one of the CPU worms is placed randomly.
Credits
This page was originally maintained by Run, CyberShadow, and Deadcode as a page on Run's website, and was moved to the Worms Knowledge Base in May 2009. All known snapshots on the Internet Archive (only snapshots different than the previous are included; shown dates indicate last edit date, not Internet Archive snapshot date):
- 2004-05-21..2004-06-01 (some time between)
- 2006-02-20
- 2006-06-17
- 2006-06-19
- 2006-10-25
- 2006-10-30
- 2007-02-23
- 2007-03-23
- 2007-07-04
- 2007-11-20 - snapshot was actually taken 2008-12-20, so the page was for some reason reverted to this state, and yet the first revision of this wiki page was copied from this older state
- 2007-12-01
- 2008-01-17
- 2008-01-23
- 2008-04-01
- 2008-07-30 - as revealed by this, we have two missing records, [wa15][1][10.46][KINOMAN].wagame and [wa18][3][2.82][KINOMAN].wagame
We would like to thank:
Run for creating and maintaining this page all these years
Deadcode for introducing the replay feature
Lex and CyberShadow for helping Run with this page
M3ntal for starting the whole thing off with his Jurassic Worm replay
And everyone and anyone who's participated!
