Over the past week or so Team 17 has rolled out a couple of new patches for the multiplayer-heavy strategy title Worms Reloaded, now available to download automatically for owners of the game on Steam.

The patches bring a laundry list of bug fixes, multiplayer optimizations and other general improvements to the game.

From the combined change log:

Fixed an issue that meant all players were kicked from a private lobby when the host kicked a player

The game should now once again return to the post game lobby after a Player or Private match

Fixed bug where if clients were viewing schemes or had the “Are you sure you want to leave the lobby” dialogue open when the match started, the game would return to the multiplayer screen instead of the lobby

Fixed a specific “Waiting for players…” hang where if the game was badly out of synch before the game had started it could hang indefinitely

Additional Ready Light fixes

Fixed an issue to prevent the lobby host being kicked due to another player leaving when returning to the lobby after a game

Fixed issues with Hell theme occasionally desynching right at the start of a game

Fixed an issue in the Team Standings menu so that the Back button now responds to mouse input

Additional optimizations to stability of network games.

Prevented the user from entering blank or space filled names in the Intro Wizard

Prevented the player from selecting with the function keys while they are falling. This was the cause of an exploit which meant selecting the girder in mid air would stop a worm from falling

Fixed an issue which caused worms to continuously jump if pause menu was opened while jump button was pressed

Fixed a number of online crashes and made extra stability fixes throughout the game

Changed the player invite screen for Private Games. It now uses a paged list rather than a scrolling list and colours to more closely match those used by the Steam client

Fixed a crash which occurred if more than four players tried to join an online multiplayer lobby simultaneously

Additional improvements to the ready lights

Added file validation check on first run of new versions to ensure that no files are corrupted due to a faulty update download

Worms Reloaded is available for $20 with a demo offered to anyone with a Steam account as well.

[Team 17]