Talk:Arrow Race

Bow Race on January 2005

I was looking on WMDB and I found this player StarJustice with lots of maps similar to arrow race ones called bow race. Maybe he is the one who invented the concept. I wonder if Bow Race is different in concept than Arrow Race, maybe Bow Race is not cooperative (but that would be strange, since the opponent would benefit from the arrows of the firt player. --FoxHound (talk) 09:04, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Arrow Race was around long before 2005. -Lex (talk) 09:38, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

The replays I found are all competitive, too, so I have a feeling the original arrow / bow race, whenever it came into begin, was probably competitive like all the other race schemes (FoxHound you made this article - do you recall how you know it's co-operative?). Nice find though. Run! (talk) 11:00, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, in the original Arrow Races I played in 2001-2003, each player had their own identical track to use, so they can compete against each other properly. -Lex (talk) 17:12, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

When I was writing this article, I remember that I found two arrow race maps on Blame The Pixel. They were the same two from AmpSux on WMDB. If I'm not mistaken AmpSux uploaded them in BTP. The information of being a cooperative scheme I found on Blame The Pixel (I don't know if it was the scheme description or it was written on a map description. Unfortunately, Blame The Pixel is dead and a lot of information of the Worms History was lost. The archive only supports few pages of the site. I believe the uploads on BTP were earlier than the maps in WMDB, but only a few months or days of difference. Maybe they were earlier than these called "Bow Race". I noticed there are recent arrow race maps on WMDB too.

EDIT: I found the scheme description at the BTP archive, there it is written that the scheme is cooperative. However, maybe other versions of the scheme were played without being cooperative, but these versions weren't at BTP schemes section. --FoxHound (talk) 19:10, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

I believe there are 3 different schemes for the same concept:

1. Arrow Racer - the oldest one, that probably is the one Lex was talking about, and I think Run knows it too. Probably created by Trout.
2. Arrow Race - It is a scheme probably created by Shadey. It's very old, but more recent compared to "arrow racer" and cooperative.
3. TMC's Rubber Arrow Race - created by TheMadCharles in 2016, it uses rubberworm features and is different from the previous ones (it has infinite moles to dig the arrows, and is not cooperative). --FoxHound (talk) 20:59, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

EDIT: And the "Bow Race" by StarJustice might be a different scheme, or maybe it just follows the Arrow Racer logic or Arrow Race logic using "Bow Race" as name. It seems that Bow Race is basically Battle Race with Longbow to create arrows on some parts. --FoxHound (talk) 21:10, 17 December 2023 (UTC)