Just before I have my little rant I would just like to say that Worms is fantastic and Team17 have done a great job with it. I played with my mates on it last night for 3 hours, not realising how much time had passed!

My slight niggle with the game is the team colours (both the health bars and the names over each worm). I myself am colourblind and the green and yellow colours are practicaly indistinguishable. It makes it sometimes fairly difficult to instinctivly tell the opponents (or even your own team) from each other.

I would very much appreciate it if Team17 were to change either the green or yellow colours to something that is obviously different from the other three if/whenever they plan to patch the game.

I may have a temporarily fix for you, name all your worms the same ^^ Then you can tell them apart from your enemies.

Or wear 3D glasses. They'll pick them apart no problem. Plus you'll look cool. :)

Maybe, but I doubt you'll look as cool as James(TM)...

Unless you strap a computer keyboard to yourself..
(Major Typing of the Dead Reference)

But seriously, names do help a heck of a lot. Naming the worms the same is one way, but if you want variety, give a style to your name Something like.

SP Ringo
SP Paul
SP George
SP John

SP for Seargent Pepper or something. That distinctive form would be easy to pick from a crowd.

Maybe, but I doubt you'll look as cool as James(TM)...

Unless you strap a computer keyboard to yourself..
(Major Typing of the Dead Reference)

But seriously, names do help a heck of a lot. Naming the worms the same is one way, but if you want variety, give a style to your name Something like.

SP Ringo
SP Paul
SP George
SP John

SP for Seargent Pepper or something. That distinctive form would be easy to pick from a crowd.


Yeah, this way is more effective than normal names, giving them a ''clan tag'' as if you call them all 'Bob', you may encounter an enemy worm that is also called Bob :p aka's way is better.

Or wear 3D glasses. They'll pick them apart no problem. Plus you'll look cool. :)
good idea. alternatively, just keep a piece of transparent red plastic/glass nearby. yellow = red+green, and red plastic/glass will block the green channel when you look through it, so the yellow bar/text will look brighter than the green one.

Hehe. Some very amusing solutions here.

I know that having obvious names for my worms is one way around it, but just from the glancing around perspective it's not as easy to notice the difference straight away, if you see what I'm talking about.

It would be really great if Team17 could do something about this as I'm sure I'm not the only one affected by this :)

Using particular names for his own team isn't going to help him distinguish which enemy worms belongs to which team, which is necessary for strategies like going after the leading player and whatnot. Simply using different probably colors wouldn't help the problem since the colors that the colorblind have issues seeing can vary from person to person. Typically games will have the option to overlay a different pattern onto each color to account for colorblindness, but that wouldn't really work in the case of Worms since we're talking about text. They'd probably have to put a different symbol next to each worm name in order to distinguish their team other than by color to solve the problem.

didn't worms armageddon allow for several different color schemes to allow color blind persons to select one that they can tell apart? something like that would probably be optimal. with just four teams, they could have even included a gray-scale option, which would work for everyone, regardless of type of color blindness.

didn't worms armageddon allow for several different color schemes to allow color blind persons to select one that they can tell apart? something like that would probably be optimal. with just four teams, they could have even included a gray-scale option, which would work for everyone, regardless of type of color blindness.

Originally it had a choice of coloured teams and if you couldn't tell the default red from the default blue then you could just switch out one or both of them for a different team. Since then Deadcode has added a completely separate set of colours so colourblind people can tell them all apart anyway.

I think it may also have had an option to display team names above worm names. I don't know; I never really touch the insert key.

I think it may also have had an option to display team names above worm names.
you might be right. i remember something along these lines.

yes this used to be an option