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	W:A replay: An example of a Neocombat final match (round 3) with DumbBongChow and oinky.
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	W:A replay: An example of a Neocombat match (round 1) with DumbBongChow, K4Tsis, oinky, and FoxHound.
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	W:A replay: An example of a Neocombat match (round 2) with DumbBongChow, K4Tsis, oinky, and FoxHound.
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	W:A replay: An example of a Neocombat match (round 3) with DumbBongChow, K4Tsis, oinky, and FoxHound.
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Neocombat was created out of inspiration from Intermediate and Kaos Normal, but it is still a fairly orginal game. There are no rules in this scheme, and it requires both tactical and various weapon skills while using creativities to play this game well. It has these RubberWorm features: sdet, ldet, wdca, antisink, craterate(5), and cratelimit(15). Antisink is a major part of this scheme as it makes it much harder to drown worms. Worms can be still be plopped if worm gets plopped twice without any pause in motion. Even with antisink, there are still many unique ways to plop worms. Getting crate is not a huge part of this game unlike Kaos because players start out with many different kinds of weapons. There are number of delayed weapons for spawn protection, and the mine fuse time is 3 seconds.

Additional Information

Antisink allows surviving from kamikaze, killing a worm with a "sink hole" and playing until the last second of the turn

• Hotseat time is long in this game to allow players to plan a good strategy.
• There are infinite Fast Walks, so it can be used often.
• This scheme has two rounds, and weapons are stockpiled after each game.
• Skunk, Kamakazi, and Mole bomb's power are stronger in this game.
• Grenade, Banana Bomb, and Mad Cow's power are weaker in this game.
• Flamethrower, Petrol Bomb, and Etc. can help plop worms even with antisink. The girder used to plop worms using RubberWorm before v3.8 (and the scheme was designed to make it part of the game strategy). Now it is impossible to do that using the available scheme, the worm will not fall through the land anymore, it will stay inside the girder. This can be fixed in v3.8 by selecting the "painted" stage checkbox (not the "chess board" stage), which will enable the glitch perfectly. You can also download the fixed version for 3.8 at the section below.
• Blow Torch and Pnuematic Drill can be used effectively as both offensive and defensive tool in this game.
• There are limited number of ninja rope and jetpack, and there're no chance of getting these from crates.
• Girder can be used to pass obstacles which can help save ninja rope and/or jet pack.
• Kamakazi can be used without actually suiciding by taking advantage of antisink mechanics.
• There are various ways to effectively use Handgun and Prod.
• Teleport and Select Worm can help players devise time efficient strategies.
• In sudden death, there will be no more weapon crates, and worms cannot be picked freely without using Select Worm from F12 prior to any action at the beginning of turn.
• Banana Bomb, Axe, Minigun, Kamazaki, Napalm Strike, Baseball Bat, Holy Hand Grenade, Flame Thrower, Petrol Bomb, and Mad Cow have 2 delays.
• All other weapons have 1 or 0 delays.

(Note that any weapon that started with zero stock in the game won't have delay upon getting crate player did not have any before.)

Replay Tutorial

	W:A replay: A tutorial of Neocombat game with DumbBongChow and DonBoWa Warning: Having Project X loaded will cause this replay to desynchronize at 5:17.
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Neocombat has Terrain overlap phasing glitch and antisink. With the aid of a simple mine it is possible to kill worms with the girder.

This replay is to demostrate any helpful hints that can help players play well while not making mistakes that can occur in this game. It also contains number of advanced moves.

Updates

June 20, 2011

• Changes are wdca is now on, and there are no more suicide bombs.
• Good number of crate probability are changed to further balance this game. Lastly, replay error that occurs in offline or single player has been fixed.

July 9, 2011

• Changes are crate probability and delay are changed notably.
• Ratio for weapon and health crate have been altered notably, and the mine fuse is now 3 seconds.

July 30, 2011

• Bazooka problem in crate has been solved.
• Crate probability of weapons are changed in very minor amount.

September 11, 2011

• Some minor ammo and probabiliy have been adjusted.
• Turn time is reduced to 40.

September 23, 2011

• Ammo of number of weapons is reduced.
• Power of Mad Cows is further nerfed.

October 1, 2011

• Ammo of Pnuematic Drill and Shotgun is reduced to 1.
• Delay for Pnuematic Drill is raised to 2.

v3.8 gameplay fidelity fix

After v3.8 update, "Terrain Overlap Phasing Glitch" is by standard disabled, even loading old RubberWorm schemes that explored this glitch such as Neocombat. The purpose of this v3.8 scheme version is just to fix this detail, allowing the so called "Girder Glitch" in Neocombat again in v3.8. Note that this scheme version has no other alteration to the original scheme, it is not a real update thinking on the new possibilities of the new features. It is just a fix to the original scheme work properly, with 100% fidelity to the original scheme gameplay.

History

The author of Neocombat is DumbBongChow, who tested the scheme a lot himself, developing it alone meanwhile he was testing and helping FoxHound to develop the Snooker scheme (it is very possible that Anti Sink feature was being tested in Snooker by this time); and only when the Neocombat scheme was practically complete, he tested with FoxHound and maybe other players for balancement punctual details. He decided to release it on this wiki, so FoxHound created this article, releasing the scheme here on 22nd April 2011, knowing that DBC would edit the article and fill it with text in sequence. Here is a TUS post on September 24 of the same year about this scheme in WoSC community.

Since 5th January 2021 Neocombat is supported by HostingBuddy being converted to v3.8's new scheme format.

Competitive events

The scheme has featured in a cup on The Ultimate Site in 2011.