Walter Discussion

[Mike23Ua]

12 minutes ago, fimmatek said:

I feel that soon I'll have more knowledge about the batman games than about DST, just by reading these forums...

Anyways, "creative" and "to do a very specific thing" are quite contradictory, in my understanding. DST is a game for people who can and want to get creative without being told to.

Yeah sorry about that, but Don’t Starve Togethers Achievements can also be used as a way of helping players do something that unless they go on Wikipedia and look up.. they otherwise would’ve never known.

Did you know that all those cool chairs people put in their bases for the longest time I thought was either Mods or Hacks? But no.. apparently if you throw a very specific amount of ingredients into a very specific location you can get chair blueprints. 
 

who knew?! Am I right? 
 

Spoiler

They can make an achievement like learning forbidden Knowledge from the Ancients- Place X items into Ancient Chest, obtain a blueprint and then craft a Chair! 

 

[Misa22]

Why does everybody hate the idea of Wheeler getting ported to DST because she has a ranged weapon but the moment this guy was announced everybody was clapping with their buttcheeks and saying "wahoo ranged combat"? I don't get it. Anyhow... 

I have always liked ranged stuff in games. Sadly DS is kinda weak in that aspect (too much time to farm for ranged weapons then you blow them up in one go). I hope this guy has something useful for that style of gameplay. 

About the nomadic thing you guys say, I have always felt Wortox fills that role perfectly, he has food/healing everywhere, he doesn't need to cook or anything. Or at least i see him that way. 

I want to see the extra skins for this guy, though! 

[ArubaroBeefalo]

1 minute ago, Misa22 said:

Why does everybody hate the idea of Wheeler getting ported to DST because she has a ranged weapon but the moment this guy was announced everybody was clapping with their buttcheeks and saying "wahoo ranged combat"? I don't get it. Anyhow... 

I have always liked ranged stuff in games. Sadly DS is kinda weak in that aspect (too much time to farm for ranged weapons then you blow them up in one go). I hope this guy has something useful for that style of gameplay. 

About the nomadic thing you guys say, I have always felt Wortox fills that role perfectly, he has food/healing everywhere, he doesn't need to cook or anything. Or at least i see him that way. 

I want to see the extra skins for this guy, though! 

because with few flint(twigs/ insert useless material you can beat everything with no effort

[reverentsatyr]

while reading through the thread, I saw some discussion about boy scouts, so I'll explain a little about them(I'm an Eagle Scout), so that everyone might get a better idea of what they think Walter will do in-game.

Yes, boy scouts(when working towards specific badges) are trained to survive in a situation where you start out with pretty much nothing, even though that would defeat the purpose of the motto: be prepared. But that training teaches them to make tools, fire, shelter, food, etc. So it wouldn't really make sense if Walter refused to make/use tools. It sounds tedious to never allow him to do so.

In fact, maybe Walter will start off with a pocket knife. It could act as stuff like a compass, a low-tier fighting weapon, maybe even a pickaxe, stuff like that. I was taught by one of my Scout Masters to always keep certain small tools in my pocket during backpacking trips, in case I got separated from my backpack in an emergency.

On the topic of the merit badge discussion, I think it could be interesting. Badges wouldn't just be some sort of achievement hunt, but the badges could also give Walter buffs because a badge would prove that he became experienced in whatever activities it took to get that badge. For example, Walter would have to catch a certain number of fish to get his fishing badge, and once he gets that badge, then the maximum amount of time for a fish to be caught would be decreased.

[Mike23Ua]

41 minutes ago, Misa22 said:

Why does everybody hate the idea of Wheeler getting ported to DST because she has a ranged weapon but the moment this guy was announced everybody was clapping with their buttcheeks and saying "wahoo ranged combat"? I don't get it. Anyhow... 

I have always liked ranged stuff in games. Sadly DS is kinda weak in that aspect (too much time to farm for ranged weapons then you blow them up in one go). I hope this guy has something useful for that style of gameplay. 

About the nomadic thing you guys say, I have always felt Wortox fills that role perfectly, he has food/healing everywhere, he doesn't need to cook or anything. Or at least i see him that way. 

I want to see the extra skins for this guy, though! 

As long as he does not also have the Wheeler dodge move thing then he can’t be as broken or Op as her right?

We are assuming it’s a slingshot in his back pocket, but how does anyone outside of Klei know for a fact that’s what that is? Unless there’s some datamined files I have not seen yet.

That could be anything! Like the Venom Tanks that pump through Banes Back, it certainly LOOKS like a Slingshot.. but my point is that at first glance- looks can be deceiving. 
 

Personally I would’ve rather had Wheeler added to the game but ehh who knows, maybe they’ll both be part of it someday?

 

[YesterdaysMindr]

I think it would be pretty cool if his slingshot shot projectiles in an arc, like Winona's catapults.

[Harrowick]

I wonder if we'll get any news/character details tomorrow or in another week?

 

[pedregales]

 

5 hours ago, Misa22 said:

Why does everybody hate the idea of Wheeler getting ported to DST because she has a ranged weapon but the moment this guy was announced everybody was clapping with their buttcheeks and saying "wahoo ranged combat"? I don't get it. Anyhow... 

I have always liked ranged stuff in games. Sadly DS is kinda weak in that aspect (too much time to farm for ranged weapons then you blow them up in one go). I hope this guy has something useful for that style of gameplay. 

About the nomadic thing you guys say, I have always felt Wortox fills that role perfectly, he has food/healing everywhere, he doesn't need to cook or anything. Or at least i see him that way. 

I want to see the extra skins for this guy, though! 

Very few don't want Wheeler because of her ranged weapon alone. It is mostly the combination of permanent extra speed (and how easy it is to circumvent losing speed with a backpack) and a pretty good ranged weapon that does not break and uses stingers (and other useless junk) for damage. I am all for it if she is toned a bit down (she cannot cheat her downside with a backpack), and her weapon breaks. But the biggest perk of Wheeler is her speed that makes fights so much easier and gives her more freedom to do more stuff in less time.

I do agree ranged weapons should be more accessible though.

[mafmafworld]

Anyone knows if klei updates at a certain time? i can't wait to see more about Walter

[Dr. Safety]

On 6/3/2020 at 12:09 PM, Mike23Ua said:

You guys think I’m joking but do you seriously realize how different and unique of a character Walter would be if he could not craft or use items like the Shovel or the Pitchfork? Anytime someone tried to build and pass one to him he would have a refusal animation similar to Warly trying to eat anything that’s not specially cooked or Wigfrid when you try to cram berries in her mouth. (Pun intended) 

He could have a quote like “I can’t use these tools! I’m trying to earn my Wilderness Survival Badge!!”

Officially making Walter the only character in the entire game who has to walk around the wilderness surviving IN the Wilderness instead of digging up everything & bringing the wilderness to his base. 

I mean my knowledge of actual boy scouts is pretty limited so someone correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t they supposed to be trained in the art of surviving in the woods with the barest minimal of supplies?

While I think that downside would be both easy to negate with a team, or be a crippling time waster in solo play, (and just generally unfun and would ruin the character) I do have some Eagle Scout knowledge that could provide some reasoning for it to be in game.

Yes, scouting is learning to survive in the wild with the bare minimum, but we did have a toolbox with a shovel and a handsaw and some other tools. However we would rarely use them for things that aren’t community projects and that’s because of one word: Preservation. 

We had a code to make the campsite look exactly the same when we entered and when we left. We were only allowed to use wood for fire that has already fallen from a tree (couldn’t chop), we could only make fires in one place in the campsite, and we DEFINITELY couldn’t dig up plants. 

Of course these were guidelines when camping with no threat of dying. If it came to it and we somehow got stranded, we would act accordingly. Actually it’s kinda funny but the Wilderness Survival merit badge basically says forget everything about preservation, your objective is to survive 

[ArubaroBeefalo]

he can have less tools durability drain or new tools to get more resources like shears in hamlet for tall grass or he could start with survival knive that allows him to get grass and twigs quickly with no animation like how we pick carrots

[Mike23Ua]

And I’m STILL not convinced he’s even fully human at all.. 3 out of 4 dlc characters have been monsters born inside the constant. Why would the 4th be any different?

[ArubaroBeefalo]

8 minutes ago, Mike23Ua said:

And I’m STILL not convinced he’s even fully human at all.. 3 out of 4 dlc characters have been monsters born inside the constant. Why would the 4th be any different?

[Mike23Ua]

11 minutes ago, ArubaroBeefalo said:

 

[Harrowick]

5 hours ago, Mike23Ua said:

And I’m STILL not convinced he’s even fully human at all.. 3 out of 4 dlc characters have been monsters born inside the constant. Why would the 4th be any different?

Patterns being broken are just a key staple of game speculation. 

[MondayNight]

6 hours ago, Mike23Ua said:

 

Oh, we definitely need more of whatever tf this is in communal base  (Eldritch face-tentacled Catcoon horror ftw!)

[LasseJ]

On 6/4/2020 at 8:43 PM, mafmafworld said:

Anyone knows if klei updates at a certain time? i can't wait to see more about Walter

JoeW said this yesterday: "Walter info next week. Unless something changes, but it's not likely". Didn't specify further, but I would suspect thursday or friday. 

[DaZoul]

Don't take this seriously now, but I was wondering what if he turns out to be an adult, because he got into the Constant a long time ago as a kid, and he was trapped for so long, he grew up. 

4 hours ago, MrLJensen said:

JoeW said this yesterday: "Walter info next week. Unless something changes, but it's not likely". Didn't specify further, but I would suspect thursday or friday. 

As I see it, there are 3 possible scenarios:

1.: info comes early next week (like Monday or Tuesday) and Walter comes on Thursday/Friday

2.: info comes next Thursday/Friday and Walter comes the week after that on Thursday/Friday (even though they said 2 weeks)

3.: info comes next Thursday/Friday and Walter comes early the week after that (again, like Monday or Tuesday, because they did say "A bit over 2 weeks")

[Dunk Mujunk]

1 hour ago, DaZoul said:

I was wondering what if he turns out to be an adult, because he got into the Constant a long time ago as a kid, and he was trapped for so long, he grew up. 

 

[minespatch]

1 hour ago, DaZoul said:

Don't take this seriously now, but I was wondering what if he turns out to be an adult, because he got into the Constant a long time ago as a kid, and he was trapped for so long, he grew up. 

That would be cool. The devs throwing us for a loop.

[Mike23Ua]

So uhhhh the next update we know got delayed into June, but do we know the extent the update will be? Will it be Just Walter or Return of Them Update #5 also?

[ArubaroBeefalo]

1 minute ago, Mike23Ua said:

So uhhhh the next update we know got delayed into June, but do we know the extent the update will be? Will it be Just Walter or Return of Them Update #5 also?

usually we only get the character if my memory isnt failing, as much they add stuff if is related with the character (like the variety of veggies we have now since warly arrives dst). But after walter we should receive more RoT updates as usually

[DaZoul]

3 minutes ago, Mike23Ua said:

So uhhhh the next update we know got delayed into June, but do we know the extent the update will be? Will it be Just Walter or Return of Them Update #5 also?

A new character AND a Return of Them update seems like a lot, I don't think we'll be getting the RoT update too.

[Mike23Ua]

19 minutes ago, DaZoul said:

A new character AND a Return of Them update seems like a lot, I don't think we'll be getting the RoT update too.

I don’t know.. they said that Covid and having to work at home was causing delays in their content schedule which got the May update pushed back into June and we instead got the QoL update- Though that was small and offered up no new content (Save for beards) to ME it was the best update to game yet.

This means that Mays Update has been pushed into June, which ALSO Means that whatever content they had planned for June May also possibly be released right alongside Mays Delayed update.

We don’t know the full extent of Klei’s Update schedule, we do not know if May was meant as the Release of Walter and June was going to be ROT Update 5, the Next Character Rework or something else entirely...

What we DO Know is that they’ve had a little more time to work on the next batch of content, And Whatever they had to delay into June.. could release alongside whatever they already had scheduled for June.

OR it could mean that June’s update has Become July’s update.

No one knows the answer to this except Klei developers.

 

 

[DaZoul]

1 minute ago, Mike23Ua said:

I don’t know.. they said that Covid and having to work at home was causing delays in their content schedule which got the May update pushed back into June and we instead got the QoL update- Though that was small and offered up no new content (Save for beards) to ME it was the best update to game yet.

This means that Mays Update has been pushed into June, which ALSO Means that whatever content they had planned for June May also possibly be released right alongside Mays Delayed update.

We don’t know the full extent of Klei’s Update schedule, we do not know if May was meant as the Release of Walter and June was going to be ROT Update 5, the Next Character Rework or something else entirely...

What we DO Know is that they’ve had a little more time to work on the next batch of content, And Whatever they had to delay into June.. could release alongside whatever they already had scheduled for June.

OR it could mean that June’s update has Become July’s update.

No one knows the answer to this except Klei developers.

 

 

ehh I don't know. If there are delays that usually means delays in everything, so the updates push each other forward.