DLC #63 - Worms : Ultimate Mayhem Multiplayer Map Pack

More maps, More Mayhem!

The Ultimate Mayhem MP pack throws a handful of new maps into the game, along with 6 trophies specifically for the online portion of the game too.

The sole gold trophy, "Feel the Power of the Darkside", awarded for winning a ranked match with 2 or more Worms remaining on each new map, is the pick of the list, and is quite a solid feat to achieve. It requires alot of tactical nouse to be able to keep 2 worms alive by the time you've beaten your opponent, and power weapons can easily have the capability to wipe out a Worm or two in one go, so you need to be fast in your approach at dispatching the enemy worms. Thankfully, forfeiting opponents will count towards the trophy too, meaning it is possible to beat somebody into an early quit and still get the reward from it, which sometimes turns out to be more effective than straight out winning the game.

There are 5 new maps to win on, but the trophy (and a few others in the package) suffers from poor game design, as you can never have any influence on which map to play on, and therefore, things turn very tedious, very fast when you get to that final map you still need to win on and it just doesn't want to turn up in the map rotation. Even more frustrating when you lose, or don't have 2 worms left when you win, meaning you have to replay the map and go through the motions of waiting for it to appear again. Frustrating.

The "Dedicated Ranker" trophy, awarded for winning a ranked match on every new map, is pretty self explanatory, but will be achieved in tandem with the "Feel the Power of the Darkside" trophy. 

Apart from this, the "I Love New" trophy, awarded for playing each of the new maps 5 times, is thankfully made alot of easier by the fact all modes count, and can therefore be achieved in an offline local game. Imagine trying to play 25 matches across 5 maps with an online component that doesn't even allow you to have any influence on map selection.

The rest of the trophies in the pack will come along the way,  but in all honesty, the toughest thing about this package was trying to find the right games to get into. You don't get the option to create lobbies, and there's no sort of voting process for maps, so you just need to hope you get dealt the maps you need in order to fulfil the trophy requirements. It can add a fair whack of time to overall completion, especially when you consider how baron the online portion of the game can be at times, but when the map rotation is feeling kind, it isn't really too difficult in terms of required skill.