my friend has the original wa cd, the newest patch and update is installed. we can play over lan, but when he wants to connect to the wormnet he always gets this message: "Fatal error connecting to the gameserver, disconnecting."
what could be the reason for that? he is not using a proxy or something like that

newest patch and update is installed.
Are you sure? Have you right-clicked the exe, gone to properties, and selected "version"?

Are you sure? Have you right-clicked the exe, gone to properties, and selected "version"?

no, but my friend went into the game, put the cursor onto the "Worms Armageddon" logo and then he told me the version (you can see it at the bottom of the screen then) and it was DEADCODE v3.6.26.5 beta